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Degree Plan

Please refer to the undergraduate catalog for the most up-to-date information.


Major in English

Thirty-six semester hours including the following:

  • ENG 2301 and 2310
  • Twelve semester hours from: ENG 3311, 3331, 3351, 3380, 3390
    • English majors should take the required junior level surveys before taking 4000-level classes.
  • Nine semester hours of "4000" level Literature including the following:
    • Three semester hours of "4000" level Early English literature selected from: ENG 4310, 4313, 4314, 4316, 4320, 4322, 4324, 4330, 4332
    • Three semester hours of "4000" level Late British literature selected from: ENG 4340, 4342, 4344, 4347, 4354, 4355, 4360, 4362, 4364, 4368, 4369, 4371, 4372
    • Three semester hours of "4000" level American literature selected from: ENG 4380, 4381, 4383, 4386, 4387, 4389, 4390, 4391, 4394
  • Nine semester hours of additional "3000-4000" level English electives (may include creative writing, linguistics, literature, or professional writing and rhetoric courses)
  • A grade of "C" or better in courses used for the major

Secondary Major in English

Thirty-six semester hours including the following:

  • ENG 2301 and 2310
  • Twelve semester hours from: ENG 3311, 3331, 3351, 3380, 3390
    • English majors should take the required junior level surveys before taking 4000-level classes.
  • Nine semester hours of "4000" level Literature including the following:
    • Three semester hours of "4000" level Early English literature selected from: ENG 4310, 4313, 4314, 4316, 4320, 4322, 4324, 4330, 4332
    • Three semester hours of "4000" level Late British literature selected from: ENG 4340, 4342, 4344, 4347, 4354, 4355, 4360, 4362, 4364, 4368, 4369, 4371, 4372
    • Three semester hours of "4000" level American literature selected from: ENG 4380, 4381, 4383, 4386, 4387, 4389, 4390, 4391, 4394
  • Nine semester hours of additional "3000-4000" level English electives (may include creative writing, linguistics, literature, or professional writing and rhetoric courses)
  • A grade of "C" or better in courses used for the Secondary Major

Minor in English

Eighteen semester hours including the following:

  • ENG 2301 and 2310
  • Six semester hours of "3000" or "4000" level Literature courses, one course of which must be British and one of which must be American
  • Six semester hours of "3000" or "4000" level English electives (may include creative writing, linguistics, literature, or professional writing and rhetoric courses)
  • A grade of "C" or better in courses used for the minor

*If a student takes PWR 3300 rather than 1304 or 1310 to fulfill the general education requirements, the course will not count toward either the B.A. in English major or the English minor.


    Joint B.A./M.A.T. in English (with teaching certification)

    To earn the joint Bachelor of Arts/Master of Arts in Teaching in English, a student must complete all basic requirements for the B.A. degree and a major in English, as well as additional coursework at the graduate level. (See Graduate Catalog for details of graduate requirements, including eligibility and admission).

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        • Literacy in a Long Blues Note
        • Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama
        • A Fire to Light Our Tongues
        • Hollow Palaces
        • Haunted Property
        • American Literary Cultures
        • Sacred Rhetorical Education in 19th Century America
        • Modernism in the Green
        • A Long, Long Way
        • Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature
        • The Courage to See
        • The Evil Twins of American Television
        • Harvest Bells
        • Letters of a Long Name
        • Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
        • Reforming Women
        • Thomas Hoccleve
        • Mark Twain Under Fire
        • Building Natures
        • Understanding Marilynne Robinson
        • Living with the Living Dead
        • The Life Group
        • Then Winter
        • Building Jerusalem
        • The Divine Face in Four Writers
        • Seamus Heaney: An Introduction
        • Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain's Age of Print
        • Housework and Gender in American Television
        • The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes
        • Entertaining Judgment
        • Seamus Heaney's Regions
        • Elegy on Kinderklavier
        • Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
        • Mapping Christian Rhetorics
        • The Tulip-Flame
        • The Glyph and the Gramophone
        • The Prodigal
        • Beyond the Pulpit
        • The Reconstruction of Mark Twain
        • Sylvia Plath's Fiction
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