Degree Requirements

English: Creative Writing Concentration (BA)

64 Credits Minimum, Including 30 Upper Division (UD)

Major Core

ENG 2225 Literary Interpretation

W

5

ENG 2251 Eng Lit:Beginning Thru Milton

-

5

ENG 2252 Eng Lit: Restoration-Victorian

-

5

ENG 2253 Amer Lit:Beginnings to 1900

-

5

ENG 4445 Shakespeare

UD

5

ENG 4899 Senior Capstone in English

UD, W

3

Section Credits Required

28

Creative Writing Core

ENG 2215 Imaginative Writing

-

3

Section Credits Required

3

Creative Writing Core (choose two)

ENG 3150 The Sentence (3)
ENG 3180 Advanced Grammar (3)
ENG 4601 History of English (3)

UD, W
UD
UD

6

Section Credits Required

6

Genre Studies Requirement (ENG 4824 can sub for ENG 4822)

ENG 3310 Elements of Prosody (3)
ENG 3316 Workshop in Writing Poetry (3)
ENG 4316 Advanced Poetry Writing (3)
ENG 4823 The Poem (5)

UD
UD
UD
UD, W

14

ENG 3311 Elements of Narrative (3)
ENG 3317 Workshop in Writing Fiction (3)
ENG 4317 Advanced Fiction Writing (3)
ENG 4822 The Novel (5)

UD
UD
UD
UD, W

14

ENG 3311 Elements of Narrative (3)
ENG 3318 Creative Nonfiction (3)
ENG 4318 Advanced Creative Nonfiction (3)
ENG 4825 The Essay (5)

UD
UD, W
UD
UD, W

14

Section Credits Required

14

Second Genre Requirement

ENG 3316 Workshop in Writing Poetry (3)
ENG 3317 Workshop in Writing Fiction (3)
ENG 3318 Creative Nonfiction (3)

UD
UD
UD, W

3

Section Credits Required

3

Advanced Literary Studies

ENG 3003 Literature and Medicine (5)
ENG 3325 Film and Story (5)
ENG 3332 African-American Literature (5)
ENG 3334 American Ethnic Literature (5)
ENG 3339 Latino/Latina Literature (5)
ENG 3345 Medieval English Literature (5)
ENG 3346 English Renaissance Literature (5)
ENG 3347 Lit: Enlightenment&Revolution (5)
ENG 3348 Romantic Poetry and Fiction (5)
ENG 3351 Victorian Literature (5)
ENG 3380 African Literature (5)
ENG 3381 Middle Eastern Literature (5)
ENG 3382 South African Lit & Theater (5)
ENG 3383 Arab Spring:Writng & Resistnce (5)
ENG 3384 Empires of Asia (5)
ENG 3385 Japanese Literature (5)
ENG 3386 The Eternal City (5)
ENG 3710 19th Century American Lit (5)
ENG 3715 20th Century American Lit (5)
ENG 3840 Lewis and Tolkien (5)
ENG 4152 Modernist Literature (5)
ENG 4162 Postmodern Literature (5)
ENG 4440 Geoffrey Chaucer (5)
ENG 4442 John Milton (5)
ENG 4449 Jane Austen (5)
ENG 4450 Emily Dickinson (5)
ENG 4451 Toni Morrison (5)
ENG 4452 Major American Authors (5)
ENG 4455 Major British Authors (5)
ENG 4458 Major World Authors (5)
ENG 4950 Special Topics (1-5)

10

Section Credits Required

10

Minimum Total Credits Required

64

Additional Requirements and Information

ENG 3302 may be substituted for ENG 2215 or genre writg crse
ENG 2221/2223/2234/2248 Ok for Adv Lit Studies (1 Only)

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