Requirements for a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English: 36 Credits
Required Courses
English majors must take the following 4 courses:
EL 202 - Intermediate Writing (taken after the freshman year)
EL 325 - Literary Criticism I (offered only in the fall)
EL 326 - Literary Criticism II (offered only in the spring)
Taken after the freshman year, these two Literary Criticism classes are not sequential.
EL 400 - Senior Project - Taken during the fall semester of the senior year, this course engages you in the completion of your capstone project. Capstone projects may range from twenty-five page literary analyses to collections of poetry. These projects should spring from your concentrations and may be extensions or elaborations of a paper that you completed in another English course.
Electronic Portfolio
Your English portfolio is a collection of four term papers or projects, written throughout your time at SVC, that help you touch base with your intended concentration, organize your interest, and collect work that you are most proud of within the context of useful courses. You must complete at least two researched literary analyses and two term projects. As you finish each term paper/project, complete a survey (found on Schoology English Course) after submitting each portfolio requirement. Papers completed in the Common Courses, including your senior capstone project, DO NOT satisfy the term project requirement. During your final semester, to fulfill requirements for your Exit Interview grade, you will upload a Senior Reflection paper that assesses your work as an English major throughout your college career.
English Concentration
By the end of your freshman year, you should choose one (1) of the following twenty (20) concentrations. Advisers will work with you to create term projects and a senior project that spring from your concentration. If you seek any exceptions for the courses required for the concentration, please see the department chair.
American Studies
Choose four of the following:
EL 113 - Women's Literature
EL 133 - American Literature: Beginnings to Present
EL 137 - American Short Story
EL 138 - Multiethnic Literature of the US
EL 139 - African American Literature
EL 143 - The Beat Generation
EL 242- American Renaissance
EL 256 - Sentimental Fictions: 19th Century Women's Literature
EL 258 - American Modernism
Classicism and Romanticism:
Required classes:
EL 115 - British Literature: Neoclassicism to Modernism
EL 131 - American Literature: Exploration to Civil War
EL 210 - Classical Greek Poetry & Drama
EL 224 - The Romantic Age
EL 242 - American Renaissance
Creative Writing:
Choose four of the following:
EL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
EL 142 - Literary Magazine Internship
EL 203 - Poetry Workshop
EL 204 - Fiction Workshop
EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
EL 252 - Literary Translation Workshop
Drama and Performance:
Choose four of the following:
EL 114 - British Literature: Middle Ages to Restoration
EL 126 - Rock 'n' Roll Criticism
EL 127 - Shakespeare on Film
EL 210 - Classical Greek Poetry & Drama
EL 213 - Shakespeare's Histories
EL 214 - Shakespeare's Comedies/Tragedies
EL 236 - Modern European Literature
Interdisciplinary Studies:
Choose four of the following:
EL 111 - Environmental Literature
EL 127 - Shakespeare on Film
EL 128 - Children's Literature: Fables - 1900
EL 138 - Multiethnic Literature of the US
EL 147 - Arthurian Literature
EL 149 - J.R.R. Tolkien
EL 211 - Medieval Studies
EL 224 - The Romantic Age
Literary Publishing:
Take these three courses:
EL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
EL 142 - Literary Magazine Internship
EL 230 - Small Press Publishing
Take one of the following:
EL 203 - Poetry Workshop
EL 204 - Fiction Workshop
EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
EL 252 - Literary Translation Workshop
Literary Translation:
Required courses:
EL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
EL 252 - Creative Writing: Literary Translation
Choose one of the following:
EL 203 - Poetry Workshop
EL 204 - Fiction Workshop
EL 244 - Creative Writing Workshop
Choose one of the following:
EL 230 - Small Press Publishing
EL 236 - Modern European Literature
EL 250 - Contemporary World Literatures in Translation
Literature and Politics:
Choose four of the following:
EL 111 - Environmental Literature
EL 113 - Women's Literature
EL 138 - Multiethnic Literature of the US
EL 139 - African American Literature
EL 143 - The Beat Generation
EL 179 - The Literature of Protest
EL 256 - Sentimental Fictions: 19th-Century Women's Literature
Literature and Spirituality:
Choose four of the following:
EL 124 - Literature and the Bible
EL 143 - The Beat Generation
EL 148 - Modern Catholic Literature
EL 211 - Medieval Studies
EL 216 - British Renaissance Literature
Literature and the Family:
Choose four of the following:
EL 113 - Women's Literature
EL 128 - Children's Literature: Fables - 1900
EL 138 - Multiethnic Literature in the US
EL 216 - British Renaissance Literature
EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
EL 256 - Sentimental Fictions: 19th-Century Women's Literature
EL 273 - Representations of Childhood in Young Adult Literature
Literature of Dissent:
Choose four of the following:
EL 126 - Rock 'n' Roll Criticism
EL 139 - African American Literature
EL 143 - The Beat Generation
EL 179 - The Literature of Protest
EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
Medieval and Renaissance Studies:
Choose four of the following:
EL 114 - British Literature: Middle Ages to Restoration
EL 127 - Shakespeare on Film
EL 147 - Arthurian Literature
EL 211 - Medieval Studies
EL 212 - Chaucer
EL 213 - Shakespeare's Histories
EL 214 - Shakespeare's Comedies/Tragedies
EL 216 - British Renaissance Literature
Modernism and Postmodernism:
Choose four of the following:
EL 126 - Rock 'n' Roll Criticism
EL 138 - Multiethnic Literature of the US
EL 143 - The Beat Generation
EL 236 - Modern European Literature
EL 258 - American Modernism
One of the following may substituted:
EL 203 - Poetry Workshop
EL 204 - Fiction Workshop
EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
EL 252 - Literary Translation Workshop
Narrative:
Required courses:
EL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
EL 204 - Fiction Workshop
Choose two of the following:
EL 137 - American Short Story
EL 236 - Modern European Literature
EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
EL 256 - Sentimental Fictions: 19th-Century Women's Literature
EL 258 - American Modernism
Poetry:
Required courses:
EL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
EL 203 - Poetry Workshop
Choose two of the following:
EL 114 - British Literature: Middle Ages to Restoration
EL 115 - British Literature: Neoclassicism to Modernism
EL 143 - The Beat Generation
EL 210 - Classical Greek Poetry & Drama
EL 212 - Chaucer
EL 216 - British Renaissance Literature
Pop Culture Studies:
Choose three of the following:
EL 111 - Environmental Literature
EL 125 - History and Development of Science Fiction
EL 126 - Rock 'n' Roll Criticism
EL 127 - Shakespeare on Film
EL 149 - J.R.R. Tolkien
EL 256 - Sentimental Fictions: 19th-Century Women's Literature
Shakespeare:
Choose four of the following:
EL 114 - British Literature: Middle Ages to Restoration
EL 127 - Shakespeare on Film
EL 213 - Shakespeare's Histories
EL 214 - Shakespeare's Comedies/Tragedies
EL 216 - British Renaissance Literature
Women’s Literature:
Choose four of the following:
EL 113 - Women's Literature
EL 138 - Multiethnic Literature of the US
EL 148 - Modern Catholic Literature
EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
EL 250 - Contemporary World Literatures in Translation
EL 256 - Sentimental Fictions: 19th-Century Women's Literature
World Literature:
Choose four of the following:
EL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
EL 111 - Environmental Literature
EL 138 - Multiethnic Literature of the US
EL 210 - Classical Greek Poetry & Drama
EL 236 - Modern European Literature
EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
EL 252 - Literary Translation Workshop
Writing:
Required courses:
EL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
EL 107 - News Writing
EL 108 - Technical Writing
Choose one of the following:
EL 142 - Literary Magazine Internship
EL 203 - Poetry Workshop
EL 204 - Fiction Workshop
EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
EL 252 - Literary Translation Workshop
Secondary Education Certification
If you are pursuing Secondary Education Certification, you must take the following courses, which may serve as elective or concentration credits:
- EL 119 - History of the English Language (offered only in the fall)
- CL 129 - Young Adult Fiction or EL 273 - Representations of Children in Young Adult Literature
- EL 127 - Shakespeare on Film (offered only in the summer), EL 213 - Shakespeare’s Histories (spring semesters only), EL 214 - Shakespeare’s Comedies and Tragedies (spring semesters only), or EL 265 - Shakespeare in London (study abroad)
- EL 133 - American Literature: Beginnings to Present
Choose four courses offered by the department, but keep the term project requirement in mind.
Term Projects
Term projects are heavily weighted requirements of certain courses listed below. The nature of these projects may vary, but two of your term projects must be researched literary analyses. You must file evidence of completed Term Projects in your electronic portfolio in the English Majors Schoology site.
The following courses require Term Projects:
- EL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
- EL 125 - History and Development of Science Fiction
- EL 126 - Rock 'n' Roll Criticism
- EL 128 - Children's Literature: Fables to 1900
- EL 143 - The Beat Generation
- EL 147 - Arthurian Literature
- EL 148 - Modern Catholic Literature
- EL 149 - J.R.R. Tolkien
- EL 203 - Poetry Workshop
- EL 204 - Fiction Workshop
- EL 224 - The Romantic Age
- EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
- EL 252 - Literary Translation Workshop
- EL 203 - Poetry Workshop
- EL 210 - Classical Greek Poetry & Drama
- EL 211 - Medieval Studies
- EL 212 - Chaucer
- EL 213 - Shakespeare's Histories
- EL 214 - Shakespeare's Comedies/Tragedies
- EL 216 - British Renaissance Literature
- EL 236 - Modern European Literature
- EL 242 - American Renaissance
- EL 242H - Honors American Renaissance
- EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
- EL 250 - Contemporary World Literatures in Translation
- EL 256 - Sentimental Fictions: 19th-Century Women's Literature
- EL 256H - Honors Sentimental Fictions: 19th-Century Women's Literature
- EL 258 - American Modernism
- EL 258H - Honors American Modernism
- EL 273 - Representations of Childhood in Young Adult Literature