| Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ | Bulletin: 2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin Program: English Major, Literature Emphasis, B.A./B.S. Minimum Credits Required:__________________ | |||
English Major, Literature Emphasis, B.A./B.S.College of Liberal Arts >> English 42 hours; 2.0 major GPA required For lovers of reading, literature programs at the University of Southern Indiana provide a chance to study fiction, poetry and drama from a range of historical periods. Whether you’d like to improve your ability to understand what you read, learn to analyze and interpret any text, or improve your sense of history through literature and writing, the literature program will take you to imagined places that will enlarge your intellectual world. English majors with a literature emphasis are encouraged to apply for Endeavor Awards for Research and Creativity, which may provide funding to do advanced research at other major libraries around the country. If you are interested in learning to be an editor, or you have creative writing skills, there are internships available at Southern Indiana Review as well as opportunities to work on student publications. The English department offers a major in English with a literature emphasis and a minor in Literature. |
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English MajorNote: ENG 101 - Rhetoric and Composition I: Literacy and the Self and ENG 201 - Rhetoric and Composition II: Literacy and the World do not fulfill any requirements for any major or minor in English or English Teaching. | ||||
English Courses (21 hours) | ||||
Shared English Core (12 hours)All English and English Teaching majors are required to complete a 12-hour shared core of courses: | ||||
| Course Name | Credits: | Term Taken | Grade | Gen Ed |
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| ENG 205 - Introduction to English Studies and Ways of Reading Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 255 - Introduction to British Literary History Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 265 - Introduction to American Literary History Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 301 - Advanced Composition USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer | Credits: 3 | |||
Shared English Electives (9 hours)All English and English Teaching majors are required to complete 9 hours of shared electives at the 300- and 400-level: | ||||
English Language (3 hours) Selected From | ||||
| Course Name | Credits: | Term Taken | Grade | Gen Ed |
| ENG 314 - Approaches to Grammar Term(s) Offered: Spring (even-numbered years) | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 417 - History of English Languages Term(s) Offered: Fall | Credits: 3 | |||
Theory (3 hours) Selected From | ||||
| Course Name | Credits: | Term Taken | Grade | Gen Ed |
| ENG 387 - Women’s Literature and Gender Issues: 19th- and 20th-Century Theory Term(s) Offered: Fall | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 415 - History of Rhetoric Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 416 - Contemporary Issues in Rhetoric Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 448 - Literary Criticism and Theory Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
World and Multicultural Literature (3 hours) Selected From | ||||
| Course Name | Credits: | Term Taken | Grade | Gen Ed |
| ENG 330 - Ethnic Literature in America USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 331 - African American Literature USI Core 39: Embedded experience - Diversity Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 371 - Non-Western World Literature USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global Term(s) Offered: Fall | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 372 - Western World Literature USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 375 - Modern Canadian Literature Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 386 - World Mythology USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture Term(s) Offered: Fall | Credits: 3 | |||
Literature Emphasis (21 hours) | ||||
Upper-Level Pre-1900 Literature (3 hours) | ||||
| Course Name | Credits: | Term Taken | Grade | Gen Ed |
| ENG 424 - Chaucer Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 426 - The Literature of the Renaissance Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 427 - Neo-Classical and Eighteenth-Century Literature Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 431 - Nineteenth-Century Literature Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 435 - The Novel to the Twentieth Century Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 449 - Major Author (topic must be approved) Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 451 - Shakespeare’s Histories and Tragedies Term(s) Offered: Fall | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 453 - Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 459 - Special Studies in English (topic must be approved) Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 1-6 | |||
Upper-Level British Literature (3 hours) | ||||
| Course Name | Credits: | Term Taken | Grade | Gen Ed |
| ENG 424 - Chaucer Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 426 - The Literature of the Renaissance Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 427 - Neo-Classical and Eighteenth-Century Literature Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 431 - Nineteenth-Century Literature Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 436 - The Novel of the Twentieth Century Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 449 - Major Author (topic must be approved) Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 451 - Shakespeare’s Histories and Tragedies Term(s) Offered: Fall | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 453 - Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 459 - Special Studies in English (topic must be approved) Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 1-6 | |||
Upper-Level U.S. Literature (3 hours) | ||||
| Course Name | Credits: | Term Taken | Grade | Gen Ed |
| ENG 330 - Ethnic Literature in America USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 331 - African American Literature USI Core 39: Embedded experience - Diversity Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 431 - Nineteenth-Century Literature Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 432 - Twentieth-Century Poetry Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 437 - Contemporary Fiction Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 449 - Major Author (topic must be approved) Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 459 - Special Studies in English (topic must be approved) Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 1-6 | |||
Upper-Level World Literature (3 hours) | ||||
| Course Name | Credits: | Term Taken | Grade | Gen Ed |
| ENG 371 - Non-Western World Literature USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global Term(s) Offered: Fall | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 372 - Western World Literature USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 373 - Introduction to African Literatures Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 375 - Modern Canadian Literature Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 386 - World Mythology USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture Term(s) Offered: Fall | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 449 - Major Author (topic must be approved) Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 459 - Special Studies in English (topic must be approved) Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 1-6 | |||
Literature Electives (9 hours)At least six (6) hours must be upper-level. | ||||
| Course Name | Credits: | Term Taken | Grade | Gen Ed |
| ENG 222 - Concepts of Good and Evil in Literature USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Moral and Ethical Reasoning; Embedded Experience - Diversity Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 224 - Social Change in American Culture USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Moral and Ethical Reasoning Term(s) Offered: Fall | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 227 - Literature and Popular Culture USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Creative and Aesthetic Expression; Embedded Experience-Writing Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 286 - Classical Mythology USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 288 - Introduction to Women in Literature USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 299 - Special topics of Literature Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 344 - Adolescent and Young Adult Literature USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Creative and Aesthetic Expression; Embedded Experience-Writing Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 373 - Introduction to African Literatures Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 386 - World Mythology USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture Term(s) Offered: Fall | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 387 - Women’s Literature and Gender Issues: 19th- and 20th-Century Theory Term(s) Offered: Fall | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 424 - Chaucer Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 426 - The Literature of the Renaissance Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 427 - Neo-Classical and Eighteenth-Century Literature Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 431 - Nineteenth-Century Literature Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 432 - Twentieth-Century Poetry Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 435 - The Novel to the Twentieth Century Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 437 - Contemporary Fiction Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 448 - Literary Criticism and Theory Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 449 - Major Author Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 451 - Shakespeare’s Histories and Tragedies Term(s) Offered: Fall | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 453 - Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
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