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Curriculum

Course Number Course Name Credit
ENGL 202W Introduction to Critical Reading 3
ENGL 245W Introduction to Creative Writing 3
ENGL 216 American Literature II 3
ENGL 312 Shakespeare 3
ENGL 422 Research Seminar (Literature) 3
  Additional Literature Core Courses:  
ENGL 205 Survey of British Literature I 3
ENGL 206 Survey of British Literature II 3
ENGL 215 American Literature I 3
ENGL 310 Literary Criticism and Theory 3
  SUBTOTAL 12
  General Electives:
3 Credits from menu that substitute for any of the other elective categories
 
ENGL 207 Studies in Drama 3
ENGL 208 Studies in Poetry 3
ENGL 220 Studies in the Novel and Short Fiction 3
ENGL 225 Post-Colonial Women's Novels 3
ENGL 299 Seminar by the Sea: Gender Studies 3
  SUBTOTAL (if chosen in substitution for another elective below) 3
  Regional Literature Elective: 3 Credits from Menu  
ENGL 204 Masterpieces of European Literature 3
ENGL 235 Global Fiction 3
ENGL 315 Irish Fiction 3
ENGL 316 Scottish Literature 3
ENGL 336 Russian Literature in Translation 3
ENGL 337 Modern Greek Literature in Translation 3
  SUBTOTAL 3
  Time Period Literature Elective: 3 Credits from Menu  
ENGL 314 Chaucer & Medieval Literature 3
ENGL 326 Renaissance Studies 3
ENGL 328 English Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century 3
ENGL 329 Nineteenth Century British Literature 3
ENGL 415 Twentieth Century British Literature 3
  SUBTOTAL 3
  Major Authors Literature Elective: 3 Credits from Menu  
ENGL 210 The Literature of Women 3
ENGL 236 Young Adult Literature 3
ENGL 299 Seminar by the Sea: Gender Studies 3
ENGL 327 Milton and 17th Century 3
ENGL 415 James Joyce Seminar 3
  SUBTOTAL 3
  TOTAL PROGRAM CREDITS 36