English, B.A.

Required: 15 s.h.

• LITR 150 - Introduction to Literary Studies  3 s.h.
• COMP 290 - Writing About Literature  3 s.h.
• LITR 250 - Critical Approaches to Literature  3 s.h.
• ELIT 270 - Shakespeare  3 s.h.
• COMP 390 - Capstone in English  3 s.h.

One Multicultural Literature Course: 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 285 - Writing Lives: Gender and Memoir  3 s.h.
• LITR 283 - Women’s Literature  3 s.h.
• LITR 286 - Gender and Geography: Women’s Environmental Writing  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.

Three Period Courses: 9 s.h.

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

One Additional Period: 3 s.h.

• ALIT 200 - American Literature to 1865  3 s.h.
• 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 225 - Modern American Drama  3 s.h.
• ALIT 226 - Contemporary American Poetry  3 s.h.
• ALIT 240 - The American Renaissance  3 s.h.
• ALIT 241 - Realism and Naturalism  3 s.h.
• ALIT 245 - Literature of the American Civil War  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 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.
• COMP 315 - Early Literary Criticism  3 s.h.
• ELIT 200 - English Literature – Beginnings to Early Renaissance  3 s.h.
• ELIT 201 - English Literature – Renaissance to 18th Century  3 s.h.
• ELIT 202 - English Literature – 18th Century to Present  3 s.h.
• ELIT 240 - Medieval English Literature  3 s.h.
• ELIT 241 - The English Renaissance  3 s.h.
• ELIT 243 - 18th-Century English Literature  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 272 - 17th-Century English Literature  3 s.h.
• ELIT 273 - Milton  3 s.h.
• ELIT 274 - Modern British Poets  3 s.h.
• ELIT 275 - Jane Austen  3 s.h.
• ELIT 287 - From Romance to Gothic  3 s.h.
• ELIT 364 - Dickens  3 s.h.
• ELIT 370 - Chaucer  3 s.h.
• ELIT 371 - Shakespeare and Culture  3 s.h.
• LITR 215 - Contemporary Novel  3 s.h.
• LITR 220 - Short Fiction  3 s.h.
• LITR 222 - Science Fiction  3 s.h.
• LITR 237 - Fantasy  3 s.h.
• LITR 244 - Contemporary Literature  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 286 - Gender and Geography: Women’s Environmental Writing  3 s.h.
• LITR 306 - Children’s Literature  3 s.h.
• LITR 345 - Native American Literatures  3 s.h.
• LITR 350 - Contemporary Critical Theory  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 212 - The Western Tradition: Survey of Greek and Roman Literature  3 s.h.
• WLIT 215 - Great World Novels  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 235 - Comedy and Satire in Greece and Rome  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 253 - Contemporary Irish Writers  3 s.h.
• WLIT 257 - Modern Black Literature  3 s.h.
• WLIT 260 - The Bible as Literature: Old Testament  3 s.h.
• WLIT 268 - Readings in James Joyce  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 280 - The Catholic Imagination  3 s.h.
• WLIT 281 - The Chinese Novel  3 s.h.
• WLIT 285 - Portraits of the Artist  3 s.h.
• WLIT 315 - Ancient Religious Writings  3 s.h.
• WLIT 317 - Yeats  3 s.h.
• WLIT 380 - Writing and Violence  3 s.h.

Three 300-level English Electives: 9 s.h.