English Option
Writing Emphasis
Bachelor of Arts
FAH BA 3309
- Minimum General Studies = 45
- English Language minimum = 9
- Humanities minimum = 9
- Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science minimum = 3
- Natural Sciences minimum = 7
- Social and Behavioral Sciences minimum = 9
- Personal Development minimum = 2
- BA Language requirement = a minimum of 6
- The BA requires completion of two intermediate or advanced courses in a single modern
language. Students coming to campus having met the admission requirements taking effect in
1997 will typically have a 5-6 hour requirement. Students without two years of high school
language study will typically take 10 hours of first year language before completing this
requirement for intermediate or advanced courses.
- Major Option = 36
- Minor or 2nd Major, minimum = 24
- Minors are 24 hours; 18 must be unduplicated. Electing a second major may add as many as
18 required hours. Should 6 hours of the minor also meet other requirements, the
unrestricted electives will be greater.
- Minimum total hours required coursework = 111
- Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 14
- Minimum total hours required for BA in English Option - Writing Emphasis = 125
- All UNK degrees require a minimum of 125 hours. Forty (40) of the hours required for
all UNK degrees must be upper division hours, which are courses numbered 300 or above
taken at a 4-year college or university.
- A. Core Requirements (33 hours required)
- Take one course:
- ENG 234, Reading and Writing about Literature - 3 hours
- Take all the following Literature courses:
- ENG 352A, Survey of U.S. Literature I - 3 hours
- ENG 352B, Survey of U.S. Literature II - 3 hours
- ENG 362A, Survey of British and Commonwealth Literature
I - 3 hours
- ENG 362B, Survey of British and Commonwealth Literature
II - 3 hours
- Take 15 hours from the following Writing/Composition courses:
- ENG 214, Beginning Fiction Writing - 3 hours
- ENG 217, Beginning Poetry Writing - 3 hours
- ENG 311, Advanced Writing I: Writing Processes - 3 hours
- ENG 312, Writing in the Professions - 3 hours
- ENG 320, Creative Play/Script Writing - 3 hours
- ENG 411, Advanced Writing II: Writing as a Social Act -
3 hours
- ENG 415, Advanced Fiction Writing - 3 hours (Prereq: ENG 214)
- ENG 419, Advanced Poetry Writing - 3 hours (Prereq: ENG 217)
- ENG 471, Seminar in Rhetoric - 3 hours
- Take 3 hours from the following Language courses:
- ENG 303, Introduction to Linguistics - 3 hours
- ENG 304, Grammar I - 3 hours
- ENG 404, History of the English Language - 3 hours
- ENG 422, Language for the Elementary Teacher - 3 hours
- B. Literature Electives (3 hours required)
- Take 3 hours from any of the following:
- Honors Courses
- ENG 235HGS, American Studies - 3 hours
- ENG 240HGS, Literary Classics of the Western
World-Honors - 3 hours
- ENG 280HGS, Special Topics - 3 hours
- Literature Courses
- ENG 330, European Literature in Translation - 3 hours
- ENG 333, Non-Western Literature in Translation - 3 hours
- ENG 336, Bible as Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 337, Popular Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 338, Studies in a Literary Genre - 3 hours
- ENG 358, Literature of the American West - 3 hours
- ENG 359, Contemporary American Multicultural Literature
- 3 hours
- ENG 373, Film as Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 374, History of the Motion Picture - 3 hours
- ENG 406, Principles of Literary Criticism - 3 hours
- ENG 425, Children's Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 426, Literature for Adolescents - 3 hours
- ENG 442, Colonial/Early American Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 443, Seminar in the American Renaissance - 3 hours
- ENG 444, Seminar in Realism - 3 hours
- ENG 445, Seminar in Early 20th Century American
Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 447, Seminar in Post-World War II American
Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 462, Early/Middle English Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 450, Seminar in World Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 463, Seminar in Shakespeare - 3 hours
- ENG 464, Seminar in the Renaissance - 3 hours
- ENG 466, Literature of the English Restoration and
Eighteenth Century - 3 hours
- ENG 467, Seminar in Romanticism - 3 hours
- ENG 468, Seminar in Victorian Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 469, Seminar in Modernism - 3 hours
- ENG 474, Postmodern/Contemporary British Literature - 3
hours
- Institutes, Workshops, Special Topics, Independent Studies Courses
- ENG 480, Ft. Kearny Writers' Workshop - 1-3 hours
- ENG 481, Plains Literature Institute - 1-3 hours
- ENG 482, North American Studies - 1-3 hours
- ENG 490, Special Topics - 1-3 hours
- ENG 499, Individual Research - 3 hours
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