English, Literature Concentration, B.A.

Period Courses: 12 s.h.

Select one course from each of the following periods to include one ELIT, ALIT, & WLIT.

Beginnings Through Medieval

• COMP 315 - Early Literary Criticism 3 s.h.
• ELIT 200 - English Literature – Beginnings to Early Renaissance 3 s.h.
• ELIT 240 - Medieval English Literature 3 s.h.
• ELIT 370 - Chaucer 3 s.h.
• WLIT 200 - World Literature – Ancient to Medieval 3 s.h.
• WLIT 212 - Survey of Greek Literature 3 s.h.
• WLIT 213 - Roman Literature 3 s.h.
• WLIT 225 - The Greek Dramatists 3 s.h.
• WLIT 227 - Sex and Gender in Greek Literature 3 s.h.
• WLIT 231 - Mythology 3 s.h.
• WLIT 283 - Homer 3 s.h.
• WLIT 315 - Ancient Religious Writings 3 s.h.

Renaissance to 1800

• ALIT 200 - American Literature to 1865 3 s.h.
• ELIT 201 - English Literature – Renaissance to 18th Century 3 s.h.
• ELIT 241 - The English Renaissance 3 s.h.
• ELIT 243 - 18th-Century English Literature 3 s.h.
• ELIT 270 - Shakespeare 3 s.h.
• ELIT 272 - 17th-Century English Literature 3 s.h.
• ELIT 273 - Milton 3 s.h.
• ELIT 287 - From Romance to Gothic 3 s.h.
• ELIT 371 - Shakespeare and Culture 3 s.h.
• WLIT 201 - World Literature – Renaissance to 18th Century 3 s.h.
• WLIT 281 - The Chinese Novel 3 s.h.

1800 to Present

• ALIT 201 - American Literature 1865 – Present 3 s.h.
• ALIT 207 - Survey of Environmental Literature 3 s.h.
• ALIT 210 - American Poetry 3 s.h.
• ALIT 216 - Modern American Fiction 3 s.h.
• ALIT 217 - Contemporary American Fiction 3 s.h.
• ALIT 226 - Contemporary American Poetry 3 s.h.
• ALIT 240 - The American Renaissance 3 s.h.
• ALIT 250 - African-American Literature 3 s.h.
• ALIT 280 - Jack London 3 s.h.
• ALIT 286 - African-American Women Writers 3 s.h.
• ALIT 303 - Literature of Imprisonment 3 s.h.
• ALIT 351 - Literature of the Harlem Renaissance 3 s.h.
• ALIT 365 - Race and the American South 3 s.h.
• ALIT 369 - Rachel Carson 3 s.h.
• ALIT 371 - Cooper and His Country 3 s.h.
• ALIT 372 - Mark Twain 3 s.h.
• ALIT 373 - Upstate New York Writers 3 s.h.
• ALIT 374 - Hawthorne and Melville 3 s.h.
• ALIT 375 - Burroughs and Nature Writing 3 s.h.
• ELIT 202 - English Literature – 18th Century to Present 3 s.h.
• ELIT 217 - 19th Century English Novel 3 s.h.
• ELIT 245 - British Writers of the Romantic Age 3 s.h.
• ELIT 246 - Victorian Literature 3 s.h.
• ELIT 247 - 20th-Century English Writers 3 s.h.
• ELIT 274 - Modern British Poets 3 s.h.
• ELIT 275 - Jane Austen 3 s.h.
• ELIT 364 - Dickens 3 s.h.
• WLIT 202 - World Literature – 18th Century to the Present 3 s.h.
• WLIT 241 - Literatures of The Middle East 3 s.h.
• WLIT 242 - Muslim Women Writers 3 s.h.
• WLIT 250 - European Literature and Culture 3 s.h.
• WLIT 257 - Modern Black Literature 3 s.h.
• WLIT 270 - Postcolonial Literature and Culture: Africa 3 s.h.
• WLIT 271 - Postcolonial Literature and Culture: The Americas 3 s.h.
• WLIT 380 - Writing and Violence 3 s.h.

Additional Period Requirement

Select any course from the list below, or from the other periods listed above.

• LITR 220 - Short Fiction 3 s.h.
• LITR 222 - Science Fiction 3 s.h.
• LITR 234 - The Folktale Tradition 3 s.h.
• LITR 237 - Fantasy 3 s.h.
• LITR 243 - Major Author in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 244 - Contemporary Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 247 - Environmental Humanities 3 s.h.
• LITR 283 - Women’s Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 284 - Writing the Land: Literature of Place 3 s.h.
• LITR 285 - Writing Lives: Gender and Memoir 3 s.h.
• LITR 306 - Children’s Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 307 - Madness in Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 308 - Queer Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 345 - Native American Literatures 3 s.h.
• LITR 350 - Contemporary Critical Theory 3 s.h.
• LITR 355 - Postmodernism 3 s.h.
• LITR 360 - Poetics 3 s.h.

Identity and Difference: 3 s.h.

• ALIT 250 - African-American Literature 3 s.h.
• ALIT 286 - African-American Women Writers 3 s.h.
• ALIT 303 - Literature of Imprisonment 3 s.h.
• ALIT 351 - Literature of the Harlem Renaissance 3 s.h.
• LITR 283 - Women’s Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 285 - Writing Lives: Gender and Memoir 3 s.h.
• LITR 308 - Queer Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 345 - Native American Literatures 3 s.h.
• WLIT 200 - World Literature – Ancient to Medieval 3 s.h.
• WLIT 201 - World Literature – Renaissance to 18th Century 3 s.h.
• WLIT 202 - World Literature – 18th Century to the Present 3 s.h.
• WLIT 241 - Literatures of The Middle East 3 s.h.
• WLIT 242 - Muslim Women Writers 3 s.h.
• WLIT 257 - Modern Black Literature 3 s.h.
• WLIT 270 - Postcolonial Literature and Culture: Africa 3 s.h.
• WLIT 271 - Postcolonial Literature and Culture: The Americas 3 s.h.
• WLIT 281 - The Chinese Novel 3 s.h.
• WLIT 315 - Ancient Religious Writings 3 s.h.