This program
requires the completion of forty-eight (48 units), as follows:
Level One: (4 units)
- ENGL - 192 Introduction to Literary Study
Level Two: Period Courses (12 units
- ENGL - 310 Literature 1: (1100-1700 or ENGL - 340 Shakespeare (4)
- ENGL - 320 Literature 2: (1700-1900) (4)
- ENGL - 330 Literature 3: (1900-Present) (4)
Level Three: Minority Issue Requirement (4 units)
Students must complete ENGL 203, 204, 205, 208, 209, 211, 212, 230 or approved 300 or 400 level course (4)
Level Four: Introductory Writing (8 units)
Students must complete two (2) courses at the 300 level (8 units)
- ENGL- 3xx Introduction to Writing Nonfiction (360) OR
- Introduction to Writing Fiction (361) OR
- Introduction to Writing Poetry (362) (4)
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- ENGL- 3xx Introduction to Writing Nonfiction (360) OR
- Introduction to Writing Fiction (361) OR
- Introduction to Writing Poetry (362) (4)
Level Five: Advanced Writing: (16 units) Four (4) 400 level writing courses, including two (2) Writing Workshops
- ENGL- 400 Special Topics in Writing
- ENGL - 400 Special Topics in Writing
- ENGL - 4xx Writing Workshop (450: Fiction; 460: Poetry; 470: Nonfiction)
- ENGL - 4xx Writing Workshop (450: Fiction; 460: Poetry; 470: Nonfiction)
Level Six: Senior Seminar (4 units)
- ENGL - 491 Senior Seminar in Writing
Learning Goals/Outcomes for the B.A. in English
- Students will have acquired a basic understanding of
the literary, historical, social, or cultural influences that inform
literary works.
- Regardless of the language of the texts or the
language of instruction, students will have articulated in writing and
discussion their responses to literary texts.
- Students will have developed a basic critical ability
to identify, interpret, and evaluate the ideas and formal features of
an integrated body of literary texts.
- Students will have developed a sensitivity to the
plurality of meanings within a literary text.
