English, BA

Introduction

The program in literature provides a course of study in those authors who best exemplify the capacity of imagination to grasp truth. Teachers and students seek to learn what the best of the poets understand of nature and human experience.

B.A. Degree Requirements

ENG 1301, 1302, 2311, 2312 (Literary Tradition I-IV)
ENG 3323 (Medieval Literature)
ENG 3324 (Literary Study I: Lyric)
ENG 3326 (Early Modern Literature)
ENG 3327 (Romantic and Victorian Literature)
ENG 4360 (American Literature)
ENG 4362 (Twentieth-Century Literature)
ENG 4363 (Literary Study II: Prose Fiction)
and one upper-level English elective.

Students who must perform student teaching fall of senior year may substitute for ENG 4362 some other course in twentieth-century literature, provided it covers a range of major writers in the first half of the twentieth-century and that it covers both poetry and fiction.  Students must obtain permission of the Chair for this substitution.

Suggested Courses

Year 1

Term Course: Hours Course: Hours Course: Hours Course: Hours Course: Hours Total Hours
Semester 1 English 1301: 3 History 1311: 3 Art, Drama, Music, or Math: 3 Language 1301 (or 2311): 3 Philosophy 1301: 3 15
Semester 2 English 1302: 3 History 1312: 3 Art, Drama, Music, or Math: 3 Language 1302 (or 2312): 3 Theology 1310: 3  

Year 2

Term Course: Hours Course: Hours Course: Hours Course: Hours Course: Hours Course: Hours Course:Hours Total Hrs.
Semester 1 & 2 English 2311-2312: 6 History 2301-2302: 6 Philosophy 2323: 3 Theology 2311: 3 Economics 1311: 3 Language (or Science): 6 Politics 1311: 3 30

Year 3

Term Course: Hours Course: Hours Course: Hours Course: Hours Course: Hours Total Hours
Semester 1 English 3323: 3 English 3324: 3 Arts or Math: 3 Science or Elective: 3 Elective: 3 15
Semester 2 English 3326: 3 English 3327: 3 Philosophy 3311: 3 Science or Elective: 3 Elective: 3 15

 

Year 4

Term Course: Hours Course: Hours Course: Hours Course: Hours Total Hours
Semester 1 English 4360: 3 English 4362: 3 Philosophy Elective: 3 Electives: 6 15
Semester 2 English 4363: 3 Required English Elective: 3 Electives: 9   15

Suggested Electives

  • Language: Greek, Latin, French, or German
  • Philosophy: Epistemology, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Language, Ethics
  • History: History of England I and II
  • Politics: Politics 3311, 3312, and other appropriate electives.
  • Art: Art History I, II, and other appropriate electives.
  • Psychology: Foundations of Psychology as a Human Science