English - Creative Writing, BA

Select One Math Course:

• MATH 1101 - College Algebra 3 hours
• MATH 1110 - Math Modeling 3 hours

Select One Communication Course:

• COMM 1000 - Introduction to Human Communication 3 hours
• COMM 1100 - Introduction to Public Speaking 3 hours

Select Two Literature Courses:

• ENGL 2110 - Survey of British Literature to 1700 3 hours
• ENGL 2120 - Survey of British Literature since 1700 3 hours
• ENGL 2210 - Survey of American Literature to 1865 3 hours
• ENGL 2220 - Survey of American Literature since 1865 3 hours
• ENGL 2310 - Survey of World Literature through Renaissance 3 hours
• ENGL 2320 - Survey of World Literature since the Enlightenment 3 hours

Select One Fine Arts Appreciation Course:

• ARTS 1100 - Art Appreciation 3 hours
• MUSI 1100 - Music Appreciation 3 hours
• THEA 1100 - Theatre Appreciation 3 hours

Select One Philosophy or Religion Course:

• PHIL 1100 - Introduction to Philosophy 3 hours
• PHIL 2200 - Introduction to Ethics 3 hours
• RELI 1100 - Old Testament 3 hours
• RELI 1200 - World Religions 3 hours
• RELI 2100 - The New Testament 3 hours

Select Two History Courses:

• HIST 1111 - Survey of Civilization I 3 hours
• HIST 1112 - Survey of Civilization II 3 hours
• HIST 2111 - American History I 3 hours
• HIST 2112 - American History II 3 hours

Select One Course Not Taken in Area II: *

• ENGL 2110 - Survey of British Literature to 1700 3 hours
• ENGL 2120 - Survey of British Literature since 1700 3 hours
• ENGL 2210 - Survey of American Literature to 1865 3 hours
• ENGL 2220 - Survey of American Literature since 1865 3 hours
• ENGL 2310 - Survey of World Literature through Renaissance 3 hours
• ENGL 2320 - Survey of World Literature since the Enlightenment 3 hours

• * Students may substitute any 3000/4000-level English course with the exception of ENGL 3950 and 3951 for the required 2000-level course in this section.

Select Three Creative Writing Courses (repeatable with professor’s permission):

• ENGL 2601 - Creative Writing across the Genres 3 hours
• ENGL 3601 - Creative Writing in Prose 3 hours
• ENGL 3602 - Creative Writing in Poetry 3 hours
• ENGL 3603 - Creative Writing in Drama 3 hours

Select One British Literature Course (3000-3199):

• ENGL 3002 - Chaucer and Medieval British Literature 3 hours
• ENGL 3004 - Spencer and Sixteenth-Century Brit Lit 3 hours
• ENGL 3006 - Shakespeare 3 hours
• ENGL 3008 - Milton and Seventeenth Century Brit Lit 3 hours
• ENGL 3101 - Brit Lit of Restoration and 18th Century 3 hours
• ENGL 3102 - British Romanticism 3 hours
• ENGL 3104 - Victorian Poetry and Prose 3 hours
• ENGL 3105 - 19th Century British Novel 3 hours
• ENGL 3109 - Twentieth-Century British Literature 3 hours

Select One American Literature Course (3200-3299):

• ENGL 3202 - American Romanticism 3 hours
• ENGL 3204 - American Realism and Naturalism 3 hours
• ENGL 3206 - American Modernism and Post-Modernism 3 hours
• ENGL 3208 - American Ethnic Literatures 3 hours
• ENGL 3215 - Wilderness Literature 3 hours
• ENGL 3216 - Southern Literature 3 hours
• ENGL 3217 - Appalachian Literature 3 hours

Select One Additional Course (3300-3599):

• ENGL 3308 - Postcolonial Literature 3 hours
• ENGL 3301 - Non-European World Literature, Special Topics 3 hours
• ENGL 3401 - History of the English Language 3 hours
• ENGL 3405 - Women in Literature 3 hours
• ENGL 3503 - Contemporary Literature 3 hours
• ENGL 3505 - Intro to Literary Criticism and Theory 3 hours

Select Two (repeatable with professor’s permission):

• ENGL 4101 - Seminar: Special Topics in Brit Lit 3 hours
• ENGL 4201 - Seminar: Special Topics in American Lit 3 hours
• ENGL 4301 - Seminar: Special Topics in World Lit 3 hours

Upper Division Electives in the Major (9 semester hours)

Select three additional 3000-4000 level English courses. With departmental approval, one of these three courses may be ENGL 3950 or ENGL 3951 (academic credit earned for an internship). Students wishing to pursue this option must receive departmental approval as well as follow the college’s application process for internships. Only an internship deemed equivalent to three hours of academic credit can be used as an upper-level elective in the major.