English, B.A, with a Writing Concentration

Required Courses (15 credit hours)

• ENGL 115 - Rhetoric
• ENGL 210 - Methods Workshop
• ENGL 305 - Professional Writing
• ENGL 337 - Theories & Research in Writing
• ENGL 499 - Senior Seminar

Writing Electives (12 credit hours)

Note: At least two of the four courses must be from the ENGL courses below.  The remaining two Writing Electives may be from the list below or any university courses with a Writing Flag.

• ENGL 202 - Intro to Creative Writing
• ENGL 301 - Expos/Research Writing
• ENGL 305 - Professional Writing
• ENGL 307 - Humanities Internship
• ENGL 309 - Creative Writing: Poetry
• ENGL 310 - Creative Writing: Fiction
• ENGL 311 - Popular Writing
• ENGL 312 - Technical Writing
• ENGL 313 - Novel Writing
• ENGL 314 - Writing Journals&Autobiography
• ENGL 315 - Composition Tutoring
• ENGL 318 - Creative Nonfiction
• ENGL 319 - Writing as Social Action
• ENGL 337 - Theories & Research in Writing
• ENGL 339 - Digital Writing
• ENGL 377 - Rhetoric and Art in Europe

Literature / Linguistics Electives (9 credit hours)

• ENGL 221 - Poetry
• ENGL 320 - Topics in Linguistics
• ENGL 321 - Hist of the English Language
• ENGL 322 - Ethnolinguistics
• ENGL 323 - Media and Its Discourses
• ENGL 328 - Gender, Religion and Violence
• ENGL 348 - Lit & the Environment
• ENGL 351 - Jewish American Literature
• ENGL 352 - African Literature
• ENGL 358 - Black America Since 1865
• ENGL 364 - Jane Austen: Then & Now
• ENGL 368 - British Women Writers
• ENGL 370 - Writings by Sexual Minorities
• ENGL 375 - Literature & Arts in Ireland
• ENGL 376 - Lit and the Arts In Britain
• ENGL 410 - Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
• ENGL 411 - Medieval Women’s Writing
• ENGL 414 - Tolkien
• ENGL 415 - Early English Literature
• ENGL 425 - Shakespeare
• ENGL 429 - Renaissance Drama
• ENGL 430 - 17th Century Literature
• ENGL 441 - 18th Cent British Literature
• ENGL 450 - British Romantic Literature
• ENGL 460 - Love, Sex, Gender: Vict Poetry
• ENGL 462 - Victorian Writing
• ENGL 463 - Victorian Poetry and Poetics
• ENGL 464 - Engl Novel: Dickens to Conrad
• ENGL 465 - 18th C Novel: Behn to Austen
• ENGL 468 - Transatlantic Literature
• ENGL 470 - Modern British Literature
• ENGL 472 - Modern Drama
• ENGL 475 - Modern Irish Literature
• ENGL 479 - Literature of the America West
• ENGL 480 - Amer Renaissance: 1830-1865
• ENGL 481 - American Realism: 1865-1915
• ENGL 482 - Modern American Fiction
• ENGL 483 - Modern American Poetry
• ENGL 484 - African-American Literature
• ENGL 485 - American Gothic Literature
• ENGL 487 - Contemp American Poetry
• ENGL 488 - Humor in American Literature
• ENGL 489 - American Minority Literature

Fall Semester

• ENGL 115 - Rhetoric
• THEO 111 - Theological Foundations or CORE 100 - First Year Seminar
• PHIL 100 - Ethics as Intro to Philosophy
• Second Language
• Mathematical Perspectives
• CORE101

Spring Semester

• THEO 111 - Theological Foundations or CORE 100 - First Year Seminar
• PHIL 200 - Philosophical Perspectives
• Literature and the Moral Imagination
• Second Language
• Historical Perspectives
• CORE 102

Fall Semester

• ENGL 210
• Scientific Perspectives
• Creative Perspectives†
• Theological Perspectives (200+ level)
• ENGL 305 (Oral Communications Flag)*

Spring Semester

• Theories and Research in Writing (ENGL 337; Quantitative Reasoning Flag)*
• Natural Science
• Humanities Elective*
• Social Science
• E/RS Elective†

Fall Semester

• Literature / Linguistics Electives
• ENGL Writing Elective (Writing Flag)*
• General Electives (9 hours)

Spring Semester

• Diversity Flag†
• Literature / Linguistics Elective
• Writing Elective (any Writing-flagged course)
• General Electives (6 hours)

Fall Semester

• ENGL Writing Elective
• Writing Elective (any Writing-flagged course)
• General Electives (9 hours)

Spring Semester

• Senior Seminar (ENGL 499) 
• Literature / Linguistics Elective 
• General Electives (9 hours)
• CORE 499