| Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ | Bulletin: 2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin Program: English Major, Creative Writing Emphasis, B.A./B.S. Minimum Credits Required:__________________ | |||
English Major, Creative Writing Emphasis, B.A./B.S.College of Liberal Arts >> English 42 hours; 2.0 major GPA required Creative writing programs at the University of Southern Indiana provide focused coursework for students interested in writing poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, pllaywriting and screen writing. Creative writing faculty are published writers committed to undergraduate writing excellence and their craft. Creative writing students and faculty form an exciting leterary community, which offers many opportunities to get involved, like the Student Writers Union, FishHook (a student literary magazine), Southern Indiana Review (a national bi-annual literary journal) and the Southern Indiana Reading Series. The English department offers a major in English with a creative writing emphasis as well as a minor in Creative Writing. |
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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 | |||
Creative Writing Emphasis (21 hours) | ||||
Required Courses (9 hours) | ||||
| Course Name | Credits: | Term Taken | Grade | Gen Ed |
| ENG 302 - Creative Writing USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Creative and Aesthetic Expression Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 402 - Advanced Creative Writing Term(s) Offered: Fall | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 491 - The Writer at Work Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
Directed Electives (12 hours)At the 300- and 400-level as follows: | ||||
Choose One of the Following (3 hours) | ||||
| Course Name | Credits: | Term Taken | Grade | Gen Ed |
| ENG 303 - Poetry Workshop Term(s) Offered: Spring | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 304 - Fiction Workshop Term(s) Offered: Fall | Credits: 3 | |||
Choose One of the Following (3 hours) | ||||
| Course Name | Credits: | Term Taken | Grade | Gen Ed |
| ENG 305 - Creative Non-Fiction Workshop Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 307 - Screenwriting Workshop Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 361 - Playwriting USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Creative and Aesthetic Expression Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
Choose One of the Following (3 hours) | ||||
| Course Name | Credits: | Term Taken | Grade | Gen Ed |
| ENG 432 - Twentieth-Century Poetry Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
| ENG 437 - Contemporary Fiction Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered | Credits: 3 | |||
Choose One of the Following (3 hours) | ||||
| Course Name | Credits: | Term Taken | Grade | Gen Ed |
| 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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