Requirements
Overview
Forty semester hours (ten courses) in English, which must be taken for a letter grade and incorporate the following plan:
• English 205
• Four 300- or 400-level English courses (sixteen hours) in an area of concentration developed by the student with guidance from a faculty adviser
• One course in British literature before 1660, one course in British literature after 1660, one course in American literature, and one course having a theoretical or interdisciplinary component. Two of these four courses must be at the 300 or 400 level.
Any of them may also count toward the area of concentration.
Important: The following courses do not count towards the major: 101, 181 and 496R. No more than eight hours of creative writing may count toward the major