30 credits (Total does not include First-Year Seminar, ENG-100, or foreign language courses)
Major Requirements
Complete the following:
| ENG-280 | Theory and Methods of the Study of
Literature | 3 credits |
Note: ENG-280 should be taken before enrolling in 300-level literature seminars.
Complete 6 credits from the following:
ENG-
| 200-Level Introduction to Literary Studies Courses | 6 credits |
Note: 6 credits of 200-level Introduction to Literary Studies Courses are to be completed by no later than end of sophomore year. Ideally students majoring or minoring in Literature in English or Creative Writing majors will have taken two Introduction to Literary Study courses at the 200-level before enrolling in 300-level literature seminars.
Complete 18 credits in 300-level literature seminars with at least 3 credits in each of the following areas:
American Literature
Complete at least 1 course from the following:
| ENG-329 | Inventing America | 3 credits |
| ENG-330 | African American Literature | 3 credits |
| ENG-331 | Gardens of American Literature | 3 credits |
| ENG-332 | Adrienne Rich | 3 credits |
| ENG-333 | Hemingway and Faulkner | 3 credits |
| ENG-334 | Ecopoetics | 3 credits |
| ENG-335 | American Renaissance | 3 credits |
| ENG-337 | American Poetry and Poetics | 3 credits |
English Literature before 1789
Complete at least 1 course from the following:
| ENG-306 | The Seventeenth Century Lyric | 3 credits |
| ENG-307 | Origins and Traditions of English
Literature | 3 credits |
| ENG-308 | Rival Playwrights: Marlowe,
Shakespeare, Johnson | 3 credits |
| ENG-309 | The Epic Tradition | 3 credits |
| ENG-310 | English Renaissance Literature | 3 credits |
| ENG-311 | Drama of Early Modern Europe | 3 credits |
English Literature after 1789
Complete at least 1 course from the following:
| ENG-315 | Ghosties and Ghoulies and Long-Leggedy
Beasties: the Supernatural in British
Literature | 3 credits |
| ENG-316 | The Brontes | 3 credits |
| ENG-317 | Nineteenth-Century British Fiction | 3 credits |
| ENG-318 | Prize Books | 3 credits |
| ENG-319 | Nineteenth-Century Literature of the
British Isles | 3 credits |
| ENG-320 | Twentieth-Century Literature of the
British Isles | 3 credits |
Postcolonial Literature
Complete at least 1 course from the following:
| ENG-322 | V. S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie | 3 credits |
| ENG-323 | Postcolonial Studies | 3 credits |
| ENG-324 | Narratives Against Oppression | 3 credits |
| ENG-325 | Constructing World Literatures | 3 credits |
Literature in English Capstone
| ENG-498 | Literature in English Capstone | 3 credits |
Foreign Language Courses
Complete 1 first-year sequence from the following languages:
Spanish
| SPA-101 | Spanish Language & Culture I | 4 credits |
| SPA-102 | Spanish Language & Culture II | 4 credits |
French
| FRE-101 | French Language and Culture I | 4 credits |
| FRE-102 | French Language and Culture II | 4 credits |
Note: Latin, Greek and other modern foreign languages may fulfill this requirement. Interested students should consult the chair of the department of English.
Students who wish to be certified to teach English at the secondary level should consult with a faculty member in the Education Department to learn the current requirements for certification.