Learning Objectives

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1. Students will learn how to situate diverse literary, cinematic, and cultural texts within social, historical, and aesthetic contexts, including the history of literary periods and genres as well as the history of English as a global language.

2. Students will cultivate close reading skills, including the ability to recognize and analyze literary language, forms, and conventions, as well as a sensitivity to language itself as a medium of communication and expression.

3. Student will develop writing skills, including the ability to construct a thesis-driven argument supported by textual evidence and research, as well as facility with using or adapting the conventions of literary genres to argumentative or artistic purposes. 

4. Students will come to appreciate the manifold ways in which literary, cinematic, and cultural texts enrich human experience, contributing to a person’s ability to understand the world and self in new ways.

Major Requirements

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ENG 150  is required for all English majors, and prospective and declared majors are strongly encouraged to take ENG 150  in their first or second year, before enrolling in upper-level courses. However, if a Junior or Senior English major has not yet taken ENG 150  and has successfully completed several upper-level English courses, then the student may petition to the Department chair to substitute ENG 380  for ENG 150 . Unless this petition is approved by the chair, ENG 150  will be required to complete the major. Students are encouraged to plan ahead with regard to required seminars and advanced workshops.

 

English for Educators Concentration:

The English for Educators Concentration is 10 units.

Please note: Courses taken to fulfill requirement 1 - V may not overlap (i.e., the same course cannot be used to fulfill more than one requirement). However, courses taken for requirement VI may overlap with those taken for requirements 1 - V.

I. Foundation Course: ENG 150  - Introduction to Literary Study (1 unit)

II. Literature courses in the following categories

• British Literature (choose 2 units):
  • ​ENG 330  - ENG 356) - Studies in Medieval Literature
  • ENG 334  - Chaucer and his Contemporaries
  • ENG 336  - Studies in Shakespeare
  • ENG 338  - Shakespeare: This Great Stage
  • ENG 340  - The Renaissance Author
  • ENG 342  - Drama and Theatre to 1700
  • ENG 344  - Drama, 1700-1900: The Development of “Realism”
  • ENG 346  - Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
  • ENG 348  - The British Romantics
  • ENG 350  - The Victorians
  • ENG 352  - Modern British Literature
  • ENG 354  - Contemporary British Literature
• American Literature (choose 2 units):
  • ENG 268  - Black Women’s Literary Traditions
  • ENG 273  - Approaches to African American Literature
  • ENG 278  - Native American Literature
  • ENG 360  - Early American Literature
  • ENG 362  - Nineteenth-Century American Literature
  • ENG 369  - Genre Studies in African-American Literature
  • ENG 372  - Modern American Literature
  • ENG 374  - Contemporary American Literature
• Transnational Literature (choose 1 unit):
  • ENG 145  - Reading the Global Kitchen
  • ENG 145  - Reading Indigenous Oceania
  • ENG 145  - Reading Native Literature: The Reservation and the City
  • ENG 176  - Utopia
  • ENG 190 16 - Honors Tutorial: Queering the Canon: Global LGBTQ+ Literature
  • ENG 226  - Images of American Indians
  • ENG 228  - Re-Placing Great Britain
  • ENG 266  - Caribbean Women Writers
  • ENG 273  - The Black Novel Transnationally
  • ENG 278  - Native American Literature
  • ENG 300 7  - The Literary Politics of Ireland
  • ENG 356  - Race, Power, and Identity in Postcolonial Literature
  • ENG 484  - Art & Aesthetics in the Postcolonial Novel 
  • ENG 486  - Native American Women Writers

III. Multimedia Narratives (choose 1 unit):

• ENG 100 5  - Graphic Literature
• ENG 224  - Black Feminist Readings of Visual Texts
• ENG 224  - Black Women Filmmakers
• ENG 254  - Introduction to Film 
• ENG 369  - Narratives of Slavery in Literature and Film

IV. Language/Linguistics (choose 1 unit):

• ENG 334  - Chaucer and his Contemporaries (with instructor permission)
• ENG 391  - Issues in English Linguistics
• ENG 395  - History of the English Language

V. Writing courses in the following categories:

• Nonfiction Writing (choose 1 unit):
  • ENG 215  - Nonfiction I
  • ENG 265  - Elements of Style and Rhetoric
  • ENG 300 9  - Magazine Writing
  • ENG 310  - Writing for the Workplace
  • ENG 312  - Science Writing
• Writing Elective not already taken above (choose 1 unit):
  • ENG 100 7  - Exploring Creative Writing
  • ENG 200 3  - Fiction I
  • ENG 215  - Nonfiction I
  • ENG 216  - Poetry I
  • ENG 265  - Elements of Style and Rhetoric
  • ENG 300 9  - Magazine Writing
  • ENG 310  - Writing for the Workplace
  • ENG 312  - Science Writing
  • ENG 314  - Fiction II
  • ENG 315  - Nonfiction II
  • ENG 316  - Poetry II
  • ENG 318  - Playwriting
  • ENG 319  - Screenwriting
  • ENG 480  - Advanced Creative Writing Workshop

VI. Overlap Requirements

Of the above courses:

• At least four (4) must be upper-level (numbered 250 or above).
• One (1) must be on literature written prior to 1800 (ENG 330 - 346 or ENG 360).
• One (1) must be on Ethnic American Literature:
  • ENG 145  - Reading Jewish American Literature
  • ENG 145  - Reading Native Literature: The Reservation and The City
  • ENG 226  - African-American Images
  • ENG 268  - Black Women’s Literary Traditions
  • ENG 273  - Approaches to African-American Literature
  • ENG 278  - Native American Literature
  • ENG 369  - Genre Studies in African-American Literature