Program Requirements
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching Field Requirements | ||
| Requirement Categories | ||
| Complete the following seven requirements for 30 credits (one course may fill more than one category): | 30 | |
| Critical Theory | ||
Select 3-4 credits from the following: | ||
| Critical Approaches to English | ||
| Seminar in Comparative Literature | ||
| Literary Criticism from 1800 to the Present | ||
| Theoretical Approaches to Literature | ||
| British Literature | ||
Select 6 credits from the following: | ||
| English Literature I: Beginnings to 1660 | ||
| English Literature II: 1660 to Present | ||
| Special Topics in English or American Literature | ||
| English Novel to 1900 | ||
| Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century | ||
| From Sensibility to Romanticism | ||
| Milton | ||
| Chaucer | ||
| Medieval English Literature | ||
| 19th Century English Romantic Literature | ||
| Victorian Poetry | ||
| Renaissance Literature | ||
| English Drama: Beginnings to 1642 | ||
| Shakespeare: Comedies-Histories | ||
| Shakespeare: Tragedies-Romances | ||
| Modern British Fiction 1900-1945 | ||
| Postwar British Fiction 1946-1990 | ||
| Recent British Fiction 1990-Present | ||
| Old English Language and Literature | ||
| 17th Century English Poetry | ||
| Restoration and 18th Century Drama | ||
| 20th Century English Novel | ||
| Seminar in English Literature | ||
| Chaucer | ||
| Shakespeare Studies: Tragedies | ||
| Shakespeare Studies: Comedies | ||
| Shakespeare Studies: Histories | ||
| Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama | ||
| Seventeenth Century Literature: Poetry | ||
| Milton | ||
| The Augustan Age | ||
| British Romanticism I: Wordsworth and Coleridge | ||
| British Romanticism II: Byron, Shelley, and Keats | ||
| Victorian Studies II: Novel | ||
| Victorian Studies III: Poetry | ||
| Turn-of-the-Century British Writers | ||
| The Modern British Novel | ||
| The Irish Renaissance | ||
| Independent Study in British Literature | ||
ENGL 600 | ||
| American Literature | ||
Select 6 credits of the following: | ||
| American Drama | ||
| Black Writers in the United States: A Survey | ||
| Social Protest Literature in America | ||
| Special Topics in English or American Literature | ||
| Vietnam War and American Culture | ||
| The Novels of Toni Morrison | ||
| American Poetry to 1940 | ||
| American Poetry: World War II to Present | ||
| Early American Literature | ||
| Literature of American Renaissance | ||
| American Literary Realism | ||
| Modern American Fiction | ||
| Recent American Fiction 1990 to Present | ||
| Seminar in American Literature | ||
| Studies in Early American Literature | ||
| American Romanticism | ||
| Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville | ||
| American Realism | ||
| Modern American Fiction | ||
| Modern American Poetry | ||
| Recent American Fiction | ||
| American Drama | ||
| Black American Women Writers | ||
| Independent Study in American Literature | ||
ENGL 601 | ||
| Writing | ||
Select 3 credits from the following: | ||
| Creative Nonfiction | ||
| Teaching Writing in the Public Schools | ||
ENGL 603 | ||
ENGL 604 | ||
| Genre Study | ||
Select 9 credits from the following: | ||
| American Drama | ||
| English Novel to 1900 | ||
| Art of Poetry | ||
| Art of Fiction | ||
| Art of Drama | ||
| Women Poets | ||
| American Poetry to 1940 | ||
| American Poetry: World War II to Present | ||
| English Drama: Beginnings to 1642 | ||
| Shakespeare: Comedies-Histories | ||
| Shakespeare: Tragedies-Romances | ||
| Modern British Fiction 1900-1945 | ||
| Postwar British Fiction 1946-1990 | ||
| Recent British Fiction 1990-Present | ||
| Contemporary Poetry | ||
| 17th Century English Poetry | ||
| Restoration and 18th Century Drama | ||
| 20th Century English Novel | ||
| Shakespeare Studies: Tragedies | ||
| Shakespeare Studies: Comedies | ||
| Shakespeare Studies: Histories | ||
| Seventeenth Century Literature: Poetry | ||
| The English Novel from Defoe to Austen | ||
| Victorian Studies II: Novel | ||
| Victorian Studies III: Poetry | ||
| The Modern British Novel | ||
| Modern American Fiction | ||
| Modern American Poetry | ||
| Recent American Fiction | ||
| American Drama | ||
| Modern Poetry to T.S. Eliot | ||
| Contemporary European Drama | ||
| Modern Drama: Ibsen to O'Neill | ||
| Modern European Novel | ||
| Speculative Fiction: Fantasy | ||
| Science Fiction | ||
| Ancient Tragedy | ||
| Ancient Comedy | ||
| Ancient Epic | ||
| Ibsen, Strindberg, and Shaw | ||
| The Modern Novel | ||
| Trends in the Contemporary Novel | ||
| Film Studies | ||
| Sociocultural Lenses | ||
Select 6 credits from the following: | ||
| World Literature: The Coming of Age Theme | ||
| World Literature: Voices of Tradition and Challenge | ||
| Myth and Literature | ||
| Images of Muslim Women in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture | ||
| Contemporary Chinese Women's Literature | ||
| Black Writers in the United States: A Survey | ||
| Social Protest Literature in America | ||
| Special Topics in English or American Literature | ||
| Special Topics in Comparative Literature | ||
| Contemporary U.S. Literature of Immigration | ||
| Vietnam War and American Culture | ||
| Women Poets | ||
| The Novels of Toni Morrison | ||
| American Indian Themes | ||
| African, Asian and Caribbean Literature in English | ||
| Contemporary Irish Literature | ||
| Irish Literary Revival: 1890-1939 | ||
| African Myth and Literature | ||
| Contemporary African Literature | ||
| Women Prose Writers | ||
| Contemporary European Drama | ||
| Modern European Novel | ||
| Seminar in Comparative Literature | ||
| The Irish Renaissance | ||
| Black American Women Writers | ||
| Ancient Tragedy | ||
| Ancient Comedy | ||
| Ancient Epic | ||
| The Enlightenment in Europe | ||
| The Modern Novel | ||
| Trends in the Contemporary Novel | ||
| Independent Study: International Literature | ||
ENLT 602 | ||
| Language Study | ||
Select 3 credits from the following: | ||
| The English Language | ||
| The Grammars of English | ||
| Structure of American English | ||
| History of the English Language | ||
| Teaching Methods | ||
| ENGL 571 | Teaching Methods (Secondary English) | 4 |
| Total Credits | 34 | |