English Checklist


Literature (ENLT) Major Requirements (28 semester hours above the 100 level)

Credits Course # Requirements/Choices
  1. LT 301 Introduction to Literary Studies
  2. Choose one course: LT 375 Am. Lit to 1865 / LT 376 Am. Lit 1865-1945 / LT 377 Am. Lit 1945-Present or other courses as indicated in course description booklet
  3.

4.

Choose two courses: LT 378 Medieval Lit / LT 379 Renaissance Writers / LT 380 The 18th Century or other courses as indicated in course description booklet
  5.

6.

Choose two courses: LT 381 Romantic Movement / LT 382 Victorian Lit / Any 20th Century literature course or other courses as indicated in course description booklet
  7. LT 413 Shakespeare
  8. 400-level seminar
  9. Free elective in literature or writing
  10. LT 495 Senior Seminar

 

Writing (ENWR) Major Requirements (28 semester hours above the 100 level)

Credits Course # Requirements/Choices
  1. WR 302 Introduction to Writing
  2. WR 311 Creative Writing
  3. Choice of one: WR 317 Expository Writing or WR 319 Classical Rhetoric
  4.

5.

Choice of two ENWR electives
  6. Choose one course: LT 376 Am. Lit 1865-1945 / or any 20th Century literature course.
  7. Choose one course: LT 378 Medieval Lit / LT 379 Renaissance Writers /
LT 380 The 18th Century or other courses as indicated in course description booklet
  8. Choice of one: LT 381 Romantic Movement or LT 382 Victorian Lit or other courses as indicated in course description booklet
  9. LT 413 Shakespeare
  10. WR 495 Senior Writing Project

 

Double English Literature and Writing Major Requirements (49 semester hours above the 100 level)

Credits Course # Requirements/Choices
  1. Choice of either: LT 301 Intro to Lit Studies or WR 302 Intro to Writing
  2.

3.

Choose two courses: LT 378 Medieval Lit / LT 379 Renaissance Writers /
LT 380 The 18th Century or other courses as indicated in course description booklet
  4.

5.

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All three: LT 381 Romantic Movement /LT 382 Victorian Lit / Any 20th Century literature course or other courses as indicated in course description booklet
  7. One course in American Literature
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9.

Choice of two courses dealing with modernism or successive movements
(20th century literature courses, or--with department approval--a course in film, art or aesthetics)
  10. LT 413 Shakespeare
  11. WR 311 Creative Writing
  12. WR 315 Prose Genres
  13. WR 319 Classical Rhetoric
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15.

16.

Choice of three writing electives
  17. WR 495 Senior Writing Project

 

Minor in Literature (16 semester hours above the 100 level)

Credits Course # Requirements/Choices
  1. LT 301 Introduction to Literary Studies
  2. LT 413 Shakespeare
  3. Choose one course: LT 378 Medieval Lit / LT 379 Renaissance / LT 380 The 18th Century
  4. Choose one course): LT 381 Romantic Movement / LT 382 Victorian Lit / Any 20th Century literature course
  5.

6.

Choice of two literature electives

 

Minor in Professional Writing (15 semester hours above the 100 level)

Credits Course # Requirements/Choices
  1. 311 Creative Writing
  2. 313 Journalism
  3. Choice of one: 317 Expository Writing or 319 Classical Rhetoric
  4. Art course in design, photography or art history
  5. Elective in writing or art areas specified above