English Literature and Communications Major

English Library Resources
Communications Library Resources 

Major in English Literature and Communications – 45 credits
Required in the Major:  

Choice of:

• COMM-110: Introduction to Communications (WOK: Behavioral)
  OR
• COMM-141: Introduction to Journalism

Five courses (15 credits) chosen from the following, which may not be offered every semester:

• COMM-102: Newspaper Workshop (1 credit course may be taken up to three times)
• COMM-112: Television Workshop (1 credit course may be taken up to three times)
• COMM-201: Introduction to Film Analysis
• COMM-203: Visual Literacy
• COMM-210: Interpersonal Communication (WOK: Behavioral)
• COMM-221: Video Design and Production I
• COMM-230: Audio Production
• COMM-251: Mass Media and Society (WOK: Behavioral)
• COMM-252: Writing for Electronic Media (Writing Intensive)
• COMM-253: Advanced Public Speaking Applications
• COMM-255: Public Relations (WOK: Behavioral)
• COMM-258: Scriptwriting (Writing Intensive)
• COMM-260: Public Relations Writing (Writing Intensive)
• COMM-265: Writing and Editing for Magazines (Writing Intensive)
• COMM-275: Persuasive Methods
• COMM-281: Special Topics in Communications/Topics vary by semester (Repeatable for credit.)
• COMM-310: Theories and Research Methods
• COMM-325: Video Design and Production II
• COMM-401: Internship in Communications
• COMM-481: Advanced Special Topics in Communications/Topics vary by semester (Repeatable for credit.)
• COMM-498: Senior Seminar in Communications

Two courses (6 credits) in American Literature at the 200-level or above chosen from the following, which may not be offered every semester:

• ENGL-205: American Poetry (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-245: The American Theater (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-251: African-American Writers (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-264: Early American Literature, contact-1820 (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-265: American Romanticism, 1820-1865 (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-266: Modern American Literature, 1865-1945 (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-267: Contemporary American Literature, 1940-present (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-280: American Literature of the 1920s: The Lost Generation (WOK: Literary and Writing Intensive)
• ENGL-301: American Novel (WOK: Literary and Writing Intensive)
• ENGL-340: American Literature Seminar

Two courses (6 credits) in British Literature at the 200-level or above chosen from the following, which may not be offered every semester:

• ENGL-206: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary British Poetry (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-225: Eighteenth-Century British Literature (WOK: Literary
• ENGL-233: British Romanticism (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-238: Victorian Literature (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-248: Irish Literature I: The Celtic Era to the Gaelic Movement (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-249: Irish Literature II: 20th Century Irish Renaissance to the Present (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-300: James Joyce and Ulysses (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-308: British Novel (WOK: Literary and Writing Intensive)
• ENGL-338: Age of Chaucer (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-342: British Literature Seminar

Choice of:

• ENGL-201: Shakespeare's Heroes and Heroines (WOK: Literary)
  OR
• ENGL-202: Shakespeare in Love and War (WOK: Literary)

ENGL-488: Research Writing

ENGL-498: Senior Seminar in English Literature

Two courses (6 credits) chosen from the following, which may not be offered every semester

• ENGL-104: Introduction to Literature (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-110: Literature into Film (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-175: The Short Story (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-190: Modern Japanese Literature
• ENGL-227: Drama: Classical to Modern (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-228: Modern Drama (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-240: The Comic Spirit
• ENGL-241: Gender and Literature (WOK: Literary and Writing Intensive)
• ENGL-250: Creative Writing
• ENGL-260: Ethnic Voices (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-271: Gothic Tradition in Literature (WOK: Literary)
• ENGL-281: Special Topics in English/Topics vary by semester (Repeatable for credit)
• ENGL-401: Internship in English Literature
• ENGL-410: A Sense of Place (Intersession course)
• ENGL-481: Advanced Special Topics in English/Topics vary by semester (Repeatable for credit.)

Sample Bachelor of Arts: English Literature Major/selected minor (declaration of minor not required for graduation):
Please note that this is a suggested academic plan only, it is not meant to address each student’s individual requirements or interests. Students will develop a personalized academic plan with a faculty advisor; however, it is the student’s responsibility to be aware of, register for, and successfully complete all of the requirements for graduation in the major.

*Non-academic credit - these courses do not apply towards the minimum required for graduation.

Minimum Academic Credits required for graduation: 120