Offered by Department of English:

English Major

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 including:
Personal Development minimum = 2
BA Language requirement = a minimum of 5
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 = 110
Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 15
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 311, Advanced Writing I: Writing Processes - 3 hours
ENG 312, Writing in the Professions - 3 hours
ENG 314, Beginning Fiction Writing - 3 hours
ENG 415, Advanced Fiction Writing - 3 hours (Prereq: ENG 314)
ENG 317, Beginning Poetry Writing - 3 hours
ENG 320, Creative Play/Script Writing - 3 hours
ENG 411, Advanced Writing II: Writing as a Social Act - 3 hours
ENG 419, Advanced Poetry Writing - 3 hours (Prereq: ENG 317)
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 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
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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