31-33 credits (Total does not include First-Year Seminar, ENG-100)
Major Requirements (9 credits):
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:
Complete 6 credits (2 courses) from ENG-200-Level Introduction to Literary Studies courses
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.
300-level literature seminars (18 credits):
Take one course from each of the four areas below (12 credits):
and
Complete two additional 300-level Literature Seminars (6 credits)
or
Complete one additional 300-level Literature Seminar and ENG-490 (6 credits)
American Literature
Complete at least 1 course from the following:
| ENG-329 | Inventing America | 3 credits |
| ENG-330 | African American Literature | 3 credits |
| ENG-332 | Adrienne Rich | 3 credits |
| ENG-333 | Hemingway and Faulkner | 3 credits |
| ENG-335 | American Renaissance | 3 credits |
| ENG-337 | American Poetry and Poetics | 3 credits |
| ENG-344 | Author Seminar: Henry David Thoreau | 3 credits |
English Literature before 1789
Complete at least 1 course from the following:
| ENG-307 | Origins and Traditions of English
Literature | 3 credits |
| ENG-308 | Rival Playwrights: Marlowe,
Shakespeare, Johnson | 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-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-323 | Postcolonial Studies | 3 credits |
| ENG-324 | Narratives Against Oppression | 3 credits |
| ENG-325 | Constructing World Literatures | 3 credits |
Literature in English Capstone (3 credits):
| ENG-498 | Literature in English Capstone | 3 credits |
Creative Activity (1-3 credits)
Complete a creative activity course from the approved list (1–3 credits).