majoring in english at edinboro university

Majoring in English at

Edinboro University

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Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

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Perhaps you love to read and write. Maybe you want to hone your writing skills so you can emulate your favorite authors. Or, maybe your imagination requires the kind of nurturing that can only be cultivat-ed by reading the great books others have written. Whatever motivates you, a de-gree in English will enrich your life, teach you how to think clearly and write well, and prepare you for a variety of careers. .

If you love to read, a major in English literature or English secondary education will lead you down paths of discovery and into worlds beyond even your wildest imagina-tion. Exploring the works of classic authors, or those more contemporary authors such as Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and Joyce Carol Oates, will invigorate your imagination in ways you might not expect. As you study these authors in surveys or seminar classes, you will likely find that your imagination breaks free and allows you better to put to words what is on your mind. As Edinboro Professor John Repp suggests, students should “major in English because their imaginations won’t let them follow any other path, aca-demic or otherwise.”

Many of us who love to write wish we could write well enough to see our works in print. The Edinboro creative writing curric-ulum helps students realize those ambitions. The creative writing program includes be-ginning, intermediate, and advanced courses in fiction, poetry, the non-fiction essay, and screenwriting. These workshop-based cours-

es not only provide writing majors with an apprenticeship in the major forms and tech-niques of each genre but also create com-munities for like-minded student authors to share and discuss each others’ work.

Such rigorous, multi-tiered writing and literature programs, taught by writers and scholars who have published widely, pre-pares students for the exacting demands of graduate school or for professional writing careers.

Beyond learning how to read and write, the English degree cultivates two particular habits of mind that are crucial to success in any intellectual or professional endeavor: analysis and synthesis. Analysis asks one to break down reality into its parts so to better understand the essential nature of things and ideas. By reading texts closely, and by under-

standing the context of their production, En-glish majors learn how to analyze carefully and make better sense of their lives.

English majors also synthesize reality into new structures. Edinboro Professor Rob-ert Bernard Hass suggests that “training in Literature or Creative Writing demands that students exercise their creative capacities by synthesizing metaphors into ideas, ideas into arguments, and arguments into entire systems of thought.” Such thoughtful synthesis leads to insight, which in turn leads to good writing that serves communities and facilitates prog-ress.Without doubt, poets and writers impact our lives in many ways, and learning about them and what motivates them only enhances our understanding of the world around us.

Finally, a degree in English prepares graduates for a variety of careers. In addition

to fulfilling teaching careers, Edinboro’s En-glish majors have enjoyed successful careers in such diverse fields as law, journalism, sci-ence, and business. Employers in these pro-fessions look forward to hiring English ma-jors because those who have studied English possess premium communication skills (see chart on page 12 for verbal placement of En-glish literature majors), a clear understanding of the English language, and the ability to analyze complex ideas (see chart on page 13 for analytical writing placement of English literature majors).

English majors are ideal job candidates. As small business guru Steve Strauss sug-gests, English major are used to “getting a tough assignment, figuring it out, and get-ting it done, usually on time.” According to a recent study conducted by the George-town University Center on Education and the Workforce, even during these tough econom-ic times, an astonishing 93% of English ma-jors are gainfully employed, with a median salary of $49,000 a year. Thus, one should not be deterred by doom and gloom prognos-tications for success in the liberal arts. The facts clearly indicate that the job market is right for English majors, so students should make the most of their educations by pursu-ing their passions and interests.

Students should “major in English because their imaginations won’t let them follow any other path, academic or otherwise.”

—Edinboro Professor John Repp

“Training in Literature or Creative Writing demands that students exercise their creative capacities by synthesizing metaphors into ideas, ideas into arguments, and arguments into entire systems of thought.”

—Edinboro Professor Dr. Robert Hass

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Why Major in English?

“Students studying English develop, not only verbal and written skills, but critical and analytical ones. A major in this field prepares people for futures as wide-ranging as law, teaching and nonprofit organizations.”

—Edinboro Professor Dr. Elisabeth Joyce

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Work showcased in Chimera, Vol. 1, Copyright 2004. Zoloft,by artist Kelly Grzasko

The curriculum structure at Edinboro University prepares students to pursue a ma-jor in Literature, Creative Writing, or Sec-ondary Education. The core courses are the same for Literature and Creative Writing, allowing students the opportunity to decide which program they would rather follow. This flexibility eliminates the frustration of choosing a program of study before one has completed his/her first semester.

Literature courses offer students the opportunity to explore classic and contem-porary authors in an exciting way. Students read and analyze lierature in ways made in-teresting by professors who have dedicated their lives to sharing their knowledge of how these authors have impacted society. During their freshman year, literature majors typical-ly enroll in broad survey courses that intro-duce students to the canon.Then, as juniors or seniors, students enroll in small seminar

“author” or “topics” courses that explore par-ticular subjects and authors in depth. Recent seminar courses have focused on such diverse authors and topics as Toni Morrison and Wil-liam Faulkner, American Nature Writing, and the poetry of Edmund Spencer. In the final semester of their study, students enroll in a “capstone” seminar that asks students to con-duct original research on an author or topic and then publish that work to a peer group in the form of an oral presentation.

Creative Writing introduces students to a variety of genres. Professors help students understand how fiction is used to influence individuals and society. Students learn to express their thoughts in insightful ways by modeling the creative writing of contempo-rary authors such as Joan Didion, Maxine Hong Kingston, James Baldwin, David Fos-ter Wallace, and Ishmael Reed. Students are introduced to these authors and their writing styles in multi-tiered curriculum through be-ginning, intermediate, and advanced writing seminars.

A number of creative writing students have seen their work in print, something which professors encourage their students to pursue. Two recent English graduates, Caid-en Feldmiller and Zach Owen, have had their first books published within the past year.

The pursuit of a Secondary Education in English prepares students to teach English in a classroom setting from the 7th through the 12th grades. Professional education and specialized English courses help prepare students for a rewarding teaching career by offering a well-rounded course load, ranging from Literature to Composition Theory.

English Department FacultyEdinboro University boasts a world-

class English department faculty of top-notch professors from universities such as Virgin-

ia, Penn State, and Purdue, as well as from other respectable universities. In addition, Edinboro University’s English and Liberal Studies Department is proud to lay claim to the most widely-published faculty in the uni-versity, acheiving the highest recognition in their various disciplines.

Extracurricular ActivitiesThrough various literary works, students

have special opportunities to showcase their writing abilities by joining the editorial staff of the Edinboro University student newspa-per, the Spectator, or by participating in Chi-mera, Edinboro’s undergraduate journal of Literature and Art. The staff of the Spectator gathers stories of interest to the student body, then edits and prints these stories on campus. This process teaches students what it’s like to work on a professional newspaper as writ-ers, editors, and print staff, as they write copy

under a deadline and manage advertising.Chimera: A Journal of Art and Litera-

ture is a student-produced journal that show-cases the best art and literature created by Ed-inboro’s students. Students who participate in this organization conceive, design, jury, edit, produce, and market one of the nation’s most prestigious student journals. The journal in-vites submissions in two- and three-dimen-sional art in all genres; fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction; and animation and film. The journal does not place limitations on subject, style, or form and strives to be eclec-tic in its tastes. Students see their time with the journal as a necessary apprenticeship that prepares them for a variety of professional endeavors related to the arts. Now over a de-cade in the making and serving as a wonder-ful archive of Edinboro student achievement, Chimera has won 31 national and interna-tional awards, including three How Interna-tional Design Awards, an Associated Writing

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A great place to study English

Programs Directors Cup Prize, and numer-ous “best of show” awards from the Amer-ican Institute of Graphic Arts and the Uni-versity and College Designers Association. EUP Writing Center

The Edinboro University Writing Center offers help with writing assignments to all students. Staff and students with exceptional grades in English are hired to help students negotiate the difficulties of the writing pro-cess. Paid tutoring opportunities are available to students who excel in helping their peers and who have proven themselves proficient in the Writing Center.

Many professors recommend that stu-dents utilize the services offered at the Writ-ing Center to improve their grades on any writing assignment in which they are having trouble. Though Writing Center tutors will not write papers for students, they will help students with grammar, sentence structure, and even writer’s block. Many students who take advantage of this service find that their grades on writing assignments improve dra-matically. The Writing Center is open seven days a week.

Other opportunities available to English majors are the National English Honor So-

ciety, the English and Humanities Club, and opportunities to participate in outings to vari-ous plays and author readings. Both organiza-tions offer exciting opportunities to exchange ideas with others who share an enthusiasm for literature and for the English language.

Visiting WritersTo enhance the educational experience

of the student, Edinboro University recogniz-es the need for interaction with professional writers. This interaction enables students to gain insight into the writing process and al-lows students to glean invaluable techniques from writers whom have mastered their art and wish to share with others what they have learned throughout their writing careers.

Recent visiting writers include: PoetsChristopher BakkenMei-Mei Bressenbrugge Daniel DonaghyDiana Hume George Samuel HazoHarry HumesDavid Keplinger Ruth-Ellen Kocher Berwyn Moore Phillip Terman

Fiction WritersWayson ChoiAllister McLeodChuck Palahniuk

What Can You Do With an English Degree?

Teaching opportunities abound for Second-ary Education majors from Edinboro Universi-ty. These English majors boast a 100% success rate on the PRAXIS exam and an excellent em-ployment record, both locally and nationally.

A rewarding career in teaching, however, is no longer the only career opportunity for English majors. Times have changed, and so have business and the economy. Only fifteen years ago, business-es were finding a shortage of high-tech-minded employees. Today, many are expressing difficulty in finding prospective employees who are capable writers and communicators. A study quoted in an ar-ticle written by Phyllis Korkki and posted on www.nytimes.com stated: “The problem now is more basic. Nearly half the executives said that entry-lev-el workers lacked writing skills, and 27% said that they were deficient in critical thinking.” English ma-jors possess both of these skills, which makes them more marketable in a broader array of career paths.

Also invaluable to companies are English ma-jors who have minors in other disciplines. In these difficult economic times, employers prefer to hire employees with multiple skill sets. These minors may include one of the computer sciences, busi-ness, or science or engineering. Adding a minor to an English degree, or adding an English minor to a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math-ematics) degree, will open up an array of career choices in which strong communication, critical thinking, and a specialty are expected or desired.

Writing Center staff member Kelsey Jordan (right) helps student Emily Bond (left) fine tune one of her assignments.

ScholarshipsThere are a number of scholarships

available to Edinboro University stu-dents. Two, in particular, are offered to students enrolled as English majors. In-formation about all scholarships can be obtained from the Financial Aid Office.

Dr. Robert L. Carothers English Scholarship

This scholarship was established for students majoring in literature, writ-ing, or journalism. Students must main-tain a cumulative QPA of 3.0 or better and be enrolled on a full-time basis for both the fall and spring semesters of a given school year. This scholar-ship was established to encourage the same commitment to higher education and community involvement as Dr. Carothers exemplified during his life.

Dr. Armendia P Dixon Family Scholarship

The Dr. Armendia P. Dixon Fami-ly Scholarship was established to offer financial aid to minority students who excel in the area of writing. Dr. Dix-on encourages not only a commitment to education, but the support and mo-tivation of a student’s creative writing potential. Preference will be given to qualified minority students from Erie or Crawford County. The student must have completed a minimum of one col-lege writing course, earning a minimum “B” letter grade and demonstrating ex-cellence in potential writing ability.


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Edinboro’s Easy Admissions Procedure

Students may make application for admission as early as July 1, after com-pleting the junior year of high school. Requests for application may be made by calling the Admissions Office at 814-732-2761/888-8GO-BORO/TTY: 814-732-2420. Students may also visit www.edinboro.edu.

EdinboroFaculty

Jeffery Bartone, Ph.D., Assistant Pro-fessor; M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1994; Ph.D., Indi-ana University of Pennsylvania, 2004.Selected publications:

Marude X. New York: Vineyard Press, 2003. Print.

Luciana Bohne, Assistant Professor; B.A., New York University, 1965; M.A., Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 1972. Mary Carden, Ph.D., Professor; A.A., Broome Community College, 1984;

Deborah DuBartell, Ph.D., Professor; B.A., University of Rochester, 1982; M.A., Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo, 1985, 1990.

Bonnie Gaarden, Ph.D., Associate Professor; B.A., M.A., Ohio University, 1975, 1978; M.A., Ashland Theological Seminary, 1984; Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo, 1995. Selected publications:

The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald. Lanham: Fairleigh Dickin-son University Press, 2011. Print.“”Twilight”: Fairy Tale and Feminine Development.” Extrapolation 53.2 (2012): 205-32. Print.“Cosmic and Psychological Redemption in Lilith.” Lilith in a New Light: Essays on the MacDonald Fantasy Novel. Ed. Lucas Harriman. Jefferson: McFarland, 2008. N. pag. Print.

Robert Bernard Hass, Ph.D., Profes-sor; B.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1985, 1993, 1999; M.A., University of Florida, 1987.

Selected publications:

Counting Thunder: Poems. Cincinnati: David Robert Brooks, 2008. Print.Going by Contraries: Robert Frost’s Conflict with Science. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002. Print. Under the Sign of Nature. “Athenians in Athens: On the Failure of the American Ceremonial Poem.” Con-temporary Poetry Review,[ http://www.cprw.com/praising-athenians-in-ath-ens-on-the-failures-of-the-american-cer-emonial-poem], May, 2013.“Measuring Myself Against all Creation: Robert Frost and Pastoral” in Robert Frost in Context, ed., Mark Richardson, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013 (in press).“The Need of Being Versed in Natural Things: Robert Frost and Nature” in Critical Insights: Nature and the Envi-ronment, ed., Scott Slovic. New York: Salem Press, 2012.“Bruce Weigl,” in Scribners’ American Writers (Supplement 19) ed., Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner’s & Sons, 2010.

Robert Hellstrom, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; B.A., University of Oregon, 1970; M.A., University of Oregon, 1975; Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1979.

Robert Holderer, Ph.D., Associate Professor; B.A., Houghton College, 1972; M.A., Middlebury College, 1976; M.E.P.D., University of Wisconsin, 1986;

Dr. Robert Holderer instructing students in Baron-Forness Library classroom

B.A., SUNY-Geneseo, 1986; M.A., Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton, 1992, 1997.Selected publications:

Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men: Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature. Lewisburg: Buck-nell University Press, 2010. Print.“’Kingdom by the Sea’: Romantic Histories, Vacant Futures, and Alice McDermott’s Post-September 11th Lament.” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 37.2 (2008): 239-59. Print.Rev. of Re-Forming the Past: History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative, by A. Timothy Spauld-ing. American Literature 79.4 (2007): 845-47. Print.Rev. of Remembering the Past in Con-temporary African American Fiction, by Kieth Byerman. American Literature 79.4 (2007): 845-47. Print.

John Cussen, Ph.D., Associate Profes-sor; B.A., Don Bosco College, 1977; M.A., Boston College, 1983; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1993. Selected publications:

“Pilgrim of an Earlier Faith.” Rev. of Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples, by V.S. Naipaul. The Missouri Review 23.1 (2000): 191-97. Print.“The Lowest Form of Symbiosis: Deadbeat Friendships in Yeats, Gregory, Synge, Beckett.” The Yeats Journal of Korea 9.1 (1999): 95-115. Print.

Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 1992.

William Hunter, Ph.D., Professor; B.A., DePauw University, 1985; M.A., Ph.D., Purdue University, 1988, 1993.

Elisabeth Joyce, Ph.D., Professor; B.A., University of Chicago, 1980; M.A., University of Delaware, 1984; Ph.D., Temple University, 1991. Selected publications:

‘The Small Space of a Pause’: TheSpaces Between in Susan Howe’s Poetry. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2010. Print.Cultural Critique and Abstraction: Marianne Moore and the Avant-Garde. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1999. Print.Joyce, Elisabeth and Robert Kraut. “Commitment: Predicting Continued Participation in Newsgroups.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 11.3 (2006): n. pag. Print.

Janet Kinch, Ph.D., Professor; B.A., Kenyon College, 1976; M.A., Ph.D.,

Bowling Green State University, 1981, 1982, 1986. Selected publications:

Mark Twain’s German Critical Recep-tion, 1875-1986: An Annotated Bibli-ography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. Print.

Thomas Lipinski, Assistant Professor; B.A., M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1978, 1991. Selected publications:

Death in the Steel City. New York: Avon, 2000. Print. A Carroll Dorsey Mystery. The Fall Down Artist. 1st. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. Print. A Carroll Dorsey Mystery.

Caroline Nobile, Ph.D., Associate Pro-fessor; B.A., Kean College, 1972; M.A., North Carolina State University, 1977; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1988. Selected publications:

Nobile, Caroline, and Roger L. Solberg. Real Life as Literature. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2007. Print.

John Repp, Professor; B.A., Franconia College, 1977; M.A., Central Michigan University, 1980; M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1985. Selected publications:

Fat Jersey Blues. Akron: Akron Press, 2014. Print.

The Fertile Crescent: Poems. Cincinnati: Cherry Grove Collections, 2004. Print.Repp, John, ed. How We Live Now: Contemporary Multicultural Literature. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 1992. Print.

Paul Rovang, Ph.D., Professor; B.A., M.A., North Dakota State University, 1985, 1987; Ph.D., Michigan State Uni-versity, 1991. Selected publications:

Refashioning “Knights and Ladies Gen-tle Deeds”: The Intertextuality of Spen-cer’s Faerie Queene and Malory’s Morte Darthur. Lanham: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996. Print.

Donald Sheehy, Ph.D., Professor; B.A., SUNY-Albany, 1975; M.A., Uni-versity of Kansas, 1977; Ph.D., Univer-sity of Virginia, 1986. Selected publications:

Sheehy, Donald G., Mark Richardson, and Robert Faggen, eds. The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1, 1886-1920.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. Print.“’Not Quite All, My Dear’: Gender and Voice in Frost.” Texas Studies in liter-ature and Language (1994): 403-30. Print.

Roger Solberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor; B.A., Upsala College, 1975; M.S. Ed., Indiana University (Bloom-ington), 1977; M.A., University of Iowa, 1985; Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1999. Selected publications:

Solberg, Roger L., and Caroline Nobile. Real Life as Literature. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2007. Print.

Sharon Taylor, Assistant Professor; B.A., Hiram College, 1977; M.F.A., Ohio University, 1980.

Adjunct ProfessorsAndrea Barone, Instructor; B.A., St. Bonaventure University 1976; A.A., Jamestown Community College, 1975; M.A., SUNY at Buffalo, Summa cum Laude 1986; M.A., SUNY College at Fredonia 1990 – Summa cum Laude..

Amy Doty, Instructor; B.A., Grove City College, 2003; M.A., Gannon Uni-versity, 2007.

Caroline Hohmann, Instructor; B.A., Allegheny College, 2007; M.F.A., New York University, 2010.

Dr. Roger Solberg engaging students in his Essay Workshop

Dr. Elisabeth Joyce leading her Literary Theory students in discussion.


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Alumni SuccessGraduates of Edinboro University

have various reasons for having attended one of the finest liberal arts universities in the state. Some say that it is the prox-imity to home or the affordability of an education at Edinboro. Others agree that it is the top-notch professors who teach at Edinboro. Another factor that draws stu-dents to Edinboro is the student-to-facul-ty ratio. Whatever the reason, Edinboro alumni have positive reasons for having attended the university.

Says recent graduate Taylor Aniela Birk: “The professors really care about their students. In the English department, I had several professors who were great about providing their students with in-formation on skills we would need upon graduation to find a job (i.e. writing query letters, tips on getting published, etc.). I even had a professor who put me in contact with an alumnus who helped me obtain my current job.” Taylor now works as a freelance writer and editor.

When asked about a particular expe-

rience that stood out during his time at Edinboro University, Caiden Feldmiller responded positively to the scholarships and awards available. Caiden took ad-vantage of having won the Chautauqua Writer’s Festival Scholarship in 2011, which led to the opportunity to work with poet Frank X. Gaspar. This in turn led to the publication of his first chapbook of

poems, Pig, Smoking (2013), published by Saddle Road Press. Caiden recalls, “I was one of two Dr. Robert C. Weber Honors students awarded a summer fel-lowship to study in Oxford, England.” During his senior year, he co-managed the tenth volume of Chimera and was chosen as Edinboro’s Outstanding En-glish major. After graduation, he was accepted into a program called Compass

AmeriCorps, where he teaches English as a second language.

Another recent graduate, Brandon Lewis, is proud to say that “My time at Edinboro was the best four years of my life, but the most prominent of experi-ences would be a life-changing epiphany in which I found the courage to pursue the arts—particularly the art of writing. It came after dedicating myself to the study of psychology, where objectifying and simplifying human beings in hopes of better understanding them became so depressing that I chose instead to cele-brate human complexity through litera-ture.” Brandon plans to return to gradu-ate school in the fall of 2014.

Graduate Steven Breyak claims that the professor’s attitudes toward their stu-dents impressed him greatly during his time at Edinboro. He says, “My profes-sors knew me by name when they would see me on campus, and they were always

“My time at Edinboro was the best four years of my life.”

—Brandon Lewis

“My professors knew me by my name when they would see me on campus, and they were always willing to chat with me or answer my questions and aid me in my studies.”

—Steven Breyak

“In the English depart-ment, I had several pro-fessors who were great about providing their students with informa-tion on skills we would need upon graduation . . .”

—Taylor Aniela Birk

willing to chat with me or answer my questions and aid me in my studies. If you are a serious student, you will stand out to your professors and they will give you an opportunity to learn that [which] many students in ivy-league schools will never know.” Steven is currently living in Osaka, Japan, where he started an En-glish-language school after working the past six years in the national education system.

These are but a few of the many suc-cessful graduates from Edinboro Uni-versity’s English department. Each year, more graduates are leaving the university with the tools to succeed in a competitive marketplace. These graduates carry with them a positive attitude, an unsurpassed education, and real life experiences from four years of learning side-by-side with their peers and from professors whose goal is to transform lives and prepare stu-dents for a lifetime of learning.

Edinboro University of PennsylvaniaCURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor of ArtsMajor: English with Literature Concentration (0333)

EducationalRequirements

GENERAL EDUCATION (42SH)

Skills 12SH ENGL101: College Writing Skills ENGL102: Writing/Research MATH104: Finite Math or Higher CSCI104: Essentials Computing I or discipline-specific computer competency course

Core Requirements 21SH Artistic Expression World Civilizations American Civilizations Human Behavior Cultural Diversity/Social Pluralism Ethics Natural Science

Distribution 9SH Humanities and Fine Arts Social and Behavioral Sciences Science and Math MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (39SH)

Concentration in Literature

Foundation Course ENGL209: Foundation for Literary Study

Cluster “A” courses (choose two; at least one 200-level) ENGL260: Literature of Ancient/Classic Worlds ENGL261: Medieval/Renaissance Literature

ENGL325: Literature of the Bible I ENGL326: Literature of the Bible II ENGL332, 333, 334: Topics in Medieval/ Renaissance Literature ENGL388: Mythology ENGL389: World Mythologies ENGL411, 412: Medieval/Renaissance Authors

Cluster “B” courses (choose two; at least one 200-level) ENGL241: English Literature Chaucer to Milton ENGL242: English Literature Swift to Moderns ENGL335-357: Topics in British Literature ENGL413, 414: British Authors

Cluster “C” courses (choose two; at least one 200-level) ENGL201: American Literature Survey I ENGL202: American Literature Survey II ENGL309: African-American Literature I ENGL310: African-American Literature II ENGL338, 339, 340: Topics in American Literature ENGL415, 416: American Authors

Literature electives (choose four additional literature courses at 300 or 400 level)

Capstone courses ENGL489: Modern Critical Theory ENGL499: Thesis Seminar in Literature

FREE ELECTIVES (39SH)

TOTAL (120SH)


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Bachelor of ArtsMajor: English with Writing Concentration (0334)


Bachelor of ScienceMajor: Secondary Education/Comprehensive English (0220)


Skills 12SH ENGL101: College Writing Skills ENGL102: Writing/Research MATH104: Finite Math or Higher CSCI104: Essentials Computing I or discipline-specific computer competency course

Core Requirements 21SH Artistic Expression World Civilizations American Civilizations Human Behavior Cultural Diversity/Social Pluralism Ethics Natural Science

Distribution 9SH Humanities and Fine Arts Social and Behavioral Sciences Science and Math

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (39SH)

Concentration in Writing

Literature Survey Courses (choose four) ENGL201: American Literature Survey I ENGL202: American Literature Survey II ENGL241: English Literature Chaucer to Milton ENGL242: English Literature Swift to Modern ENGL260: Literature of Ancient/Classical Worlds ENGL261: Medieval/Renaissance Literature

Writing Core ENGL301: Creative Writing ENGL385: Advanced Composition

Intermediate Writing Courses (choose four) ENGL322: Screenwriting ENGL370: Business Writing ENGL402: Fiction Workshop ENGL403: Poetry Workshop ENGL404: Technical Writing ENGL440: Essay Workshop THEA351: Playwriting

Advanced Writing Courses (choose two) ENGL410: Advanced Technical Writing ENGL441: Advanced Fiction Writing ENGL422: Advanced Poetry ENGL443: Advanced Creative Nonfiction ENGL444: Advanced Screenwriting

Capstone Course ENGL498: Thesis Seminar in Writing

FREE ELECTIVES (39SH)

TOTAL (120SH)

1. In addition to the above requirements for English-Writing majors, the Department STRONGLY RECOMMENDS the successful completion of at least two additional writing or journalism courses, and at least two literature courses at the 300 or 400 level.


Skills 12SH ENGL101: College Writing Skills

ENGL102:Writing/ResearchMATH104: Finite Math or HigherSEDU183: Tech for Teach/Learn

Core Requirements 21SH Artistic Expression THEA218: Intro to Theater World Civilizations American Civilizations Human Behavior PSYC101: General Psychology Cultural Diversity/Social Pluralism SEDU271: Multi- cultural American Schools Ethics Natural Science

Distribution 12SH Humanities and Fine Arts ENGL201: American Literature Survey I ENGL202: American Literature Survey II Social and Behavioral Sciences Science and Math

Health and Physical Education 3SH Health lecture and activity

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION (33SH)

SEDU306: Content Literacy Mid/Sec. Sch. SEDU381: Assessment Mid/Secondary SEDU465: Instruction Techniques for English SEDU475: Sec. Ed. Field Experience SEDU491: Classroom Mgmt. 7-12 Class SEDU495: Student Teaching (12SH) SEDU210: Intro. to Exceptional and Special Education SEDU370: Adapt. and Accom. Inclu. Classroom

SPECIALIZATION IN ENGLISH (42SH)

Core Courses 27SH COMM107: Fundamentals of Speech ENGL205: Multi-Ethnic American Literature ENGL209: Foundations of Literary Study ENGL211: Traditional Grammar ENGL489: Literature Criticism: Theory ENGL499: Thesis Seminar in English ENGL521: History of the English Language ENGL525: Composition Theory ENGL545: Adolescent Literature

Ancient/Classical/Renaissance 6SH ENGL260: Literature of Ancient/Classical World or ENGL261: Medieval and Renaissance Literature ENGL315: Shakespeare I or ENGL319: Shakespeare II

British Literature 6SH ENGL241: British Literature Survey I ENGL242: British Literature Survey II

Topic Author Course 3SH Choose one: ENGL332, ENGL333, ENGL334, ENGL335, ENGL336, ENGL337, ENGL338, ENGL339, ENGL340, ENGL341, ENGL342, ENGL343, ENGL411, ENGL412, ENGL413, ENGL414, ENGL415, ENGL416 TOTAL (123SH)


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