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. At least two courses must be at the 3000 level or higher.

Beginnings Through Medieval

Select one:

• COMP 3015 - Early Literary Criticism 3 s.h.
• ELIT 2000 - English Literature – Beginnings to Early Renaissance 3 s.h.
• ELIT 3040 - Medieval English Literature 3 s.h.
• ELIT 4074 - Chaucer 3 s.h.
• WLIT 2000 - World Literature – Ancient to Medieval 3 s.h.
• WLIT 2012 - Survey of Greek Literature 3 s.h.
• WLIT 2013 - Roman Literature 3 s.h.
• WLIT 3015 - Ancient Religious Writings 3 s.h.
• WLIT 3025 - The Greek Dramatists 3 s.h.
• WLIT 3027 - Sex and Gender in Greek Literature 3 s.h.
• WLIT 3031 - Mythology 3 s.h.
• WLIT 3083 - Homer 3 s.h.

Renaissance to 1800

Select one:

• ALIT 2000 - American Literature to 1865 3 s.h.
• ELIT 2001 - English Literature – Renaissance to 18th Century 3 s.h.
• ELIT 2070 - Shakespeare 3 s.h.
• ELIT 2087 - From Romance to Gothic 3 s.h.
• ELIT 3041 - The English Renaissance 3 s.h.
• ELIT 3043 - 18th Century English Literature 3 s.h.
• ELIT 3072 - 17th Century English Literature 3 s.h.
• ELIT 3073 - Milton 3 s.h.
• ELIT 4071 - Shakespeare and Culture 3 s.h.
• WLIT 2001 - World Literature – Renaissance to 18th Century 3 s.h.
• WLIT 3081 - The Chinese Novel 3 s.h.

1800 to Present

Select one:

• ALIT 2001 - American Literature 1865 – Present 3 s.h.
• ALIT 2007 - Survey of Environmental Literature 3 s.h.
• ALIT 2050 - African-American Literature 3 s.h.
• ALIT 3010 - American Poetry 3 s.h.
• ALIT 3016 - Modern American Fiction 3 s.h.
• ALIT 3017 - Contemporary American Fiction 3 s.h.
• ALIT 3026 - Contemporary American Poetry 3 s.h.
• ALIT 3040 - The American Renaissance 3 s.h.
• ALIT 3051 - Literature of the Harlem Renaissance 3 s.h.
• ALIT 3080 - Jack London 3 s.h.
• ALIT 3086 - African-American Women Writers 3 s.h.
• ALIT 4003 - The Literature of Imprisonment 3 s.h.
• ALIT 4065 - Race and the American South 3 s.h.
• ALIT 4069 - Rachel Carson 3 s.h.
• ALIT 4071 - Cooper and His Country 3 s.h.
• ALIT 4072 - Mark Twain 3 s.h.
• ALIT 4073 - Upstate New York Writers 3 s.h.
• ALIT 4074 - Hawthorne and Melville 3 s.h.
• ALIT 4075 - Burroughs and Nature Writing 3 s.h.
• ELIT 2002 - English Literature – 18th Century to Present 3 s.h.
• ELIT 2046 - Victorian Literature 3 s.h.
• ELIT 2047 - 20th Century English Writers 3 s.h.
• ELIT 2075 - Jane Austen 3 s.h.
• ELIT 3017 - 19th Century English Novel 3 s.h.
• ELIT 3045 - British Writers of the Romantic Age 3 s.h.
• ELIT 3074 - Modern British Poets 3 s.h.
• ELIT 4064 - Dickens 3 s.h.
• WLIT 2002 - World Literature – 18th Century to the Present 3 s.h.
• WLIT 2042 - Muslim Women Writers 3 s.h.
• WLIT 2070 - Postcolonial Literature and Culture: Africa 3 s.h.
• WLIT 2071 - Postcolonial Literature and Culture: The Americas 3 s.h.
• WLIT 3041 - Literatures of the Middle East 3 s.h.
• WLIT 3050 - European Literature and Culture 3 s.h.
• WLIT 3057 - Modern Black Literature 3 s.h.
• WLIT 4080 - Writing and Violence 3 s.h.

Additional Period Requirement

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

• LITR 2020 - Short Fiction 3 s.h.
• LITR 2083 - Women’s Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 2084 - Writing the Land: Literature of Place 3 s.h.
• LITR 2085 - Writing Lives: Gender and Memoir 3 s.h.
• LITR 3008 - Queer Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 3022 - Science Fiction 3 s.h.
• LITR 3034 - The Folktale Tradition 3 s.h.
• LITR 3037 - Fantasy 3 s.h.
• LITR 3043 - Major Author in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 3044 - Contemporary Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 3045 - Native American Literatures 3 s.h.
• LITR 3470 - Environmental Humanities 3 s.h.
• LITR 4006 - Children’s Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 4007 - Madness in Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 4051 - Contemporary Critical Theory 3 s.h.
• LITR 4055 - Postmodernism 3 s.h.
• LITR 4060 - Poetics 3 s.h.

Identity and Difference: 3 s.h.

Select one:

• ALIT 2050 - African-American Literature 3 s.h.
• ALIT 3051 - Literature of the Harlem Renaissance 3 s.h.
• ALIT 3086 - African-American Women Writers 3 s.h.
• ALIT 4003 - The Literature of Imprisonment 3 s.h.
• LITR 2083 - Women’s Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 2085 - Writing Lives: Gender and Memoir 3 s.h.
• LITR 3008 - Queer Literature 3 s.h.
• LITR 3045 - Native American Literatures 3 s.h.
• WLIT 2000 - World Literature – Ancient to Medieval 3 s.h.
• WLIT 2001 - World Literature – Renaissance to 18th Century 3 s.h.
• WLIT 2002 - World Literature – 18th Century to the Present 3 s.h.
• WLIT 2042 - Muslim Women Writers 3 s.h.
• WLIT 2070 - Postcolonial Literature and Culture: Africa 3 s.h.
• WLIT 2071 - Postcolonial Literature and Culture: The Americas 3 s.h.
• WLIT 3015 - Ancient Religious Writings 3 s.h.
• WLIT 3041 - Literatures of the Middle East 3 s.h.
• WLIT 3057 - Modern Black Literature 3 s.h.
• WLIT 3081 - The Chinese Novel 3 s.h.