Suggested 4-year Plan
- We encourage you to select your General Education (GE) and minor/second major/Themed Inquiry/Honors program around the plan below. Once you fill your GE classes around your major classes, you will have a better idea of space remaining each semester when choosing your Exploration Focus.
- To be enrolled full time, you must take at least 12 credits a semester.
- In order to graduate within 4 years, we recommend you take 30 credits a year.
Year 1
Fall Semester (6 credits for major)
- ENG 256 - Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism or ENG 270 - Foundations of Rhetorical Studies (3 credits)
- ENG 221 - Literature I (Antiquity to 1400 CE) or ENG 222 - Literature II (1400-1800 CE) or ENG 223 - Literature III (1800 CE-present) (3 credits) *
* Lit I, Lit II, and Lit III can be taken in any order.
Spring Semester (6 credits for major)
- ENG 256 - Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism or ENG 270 - Foundations of Rhetorical Studies (3 credits)
- ENG 221 - Literature I (Antiquity to 1400 CE) or ENG 222 - Literature II (1400-1800 CE) or ENG 223 - Literature III (1800 CE-present) (3 credits)
Year 2
Fall Semester (6 credits for major)
- ENG 221 - Literature I (Antiquity to 1400 CE) or ENG 222 - Literature II (1400-1800 CE) or ENG 223 - Literature III (1800 CE-present) (3 credits) **
- ENG Diversity, Literature Before 1850 Elective Group or Literature after 1850 Elective Group (3 credits) ***
** You complete the English Core classes you have not already taken.
*** You take 2 or 3 English electives in the Diversity, Literature Before 1850 or Literature after 1850 elective groups. (You can take 300-level literature courses once you have completed ENG 256 and at least 60 credits.)
Spring Semester (6 credits for major)
- ENG Diversity, Literature Before 1850 Elective Group or Literature after 1850 Elective Group (3 credits)
- ENG Diversity, Literature Before 1850 Elective Group or Literature after 1850 Elective Group (3 credits)
Year 3
If you are interested in earning an MA in English with one additional year of coursework, you can apply for an Integrated BA/MA in English during your junior year.
Fall Semester (9 credits for major)
- ENG Diversity, Literature Before 1850 Elective Group or Literature after 1850 Elective Group (3 credits)
- ENG Diversity, Literature Before 1850 Elective Group or Literature after 1850 Elective Group (300- or 400-level) (3 credits)
- ENG Additional Elective upper-division course (3 credits)
Spring Semester (9 credits for major)
- ENG Diversity, Literature Before 1850 Elective Group or Literature after 1850 Elective Group (300- or 400-level) (3 credits)
- ENG 398 - The Scholar’s Workshop (3 credits) ****
- ENG Additional Elective Upper-division Course (3 Credits)
**** Scholar’s Workshop must be taken in the spring of your junior year to begin to preparing for you thesis project, which you will write in your senior year.
Year 4
Fall Semester (6 credits for major)
- ENG 498A - Senior Seminar in Literature and Rhetoric or ENG Additional Elective 400-level if needed (3 credits)
- ENG 400-level if needed or Second Major, Minor, Honors Course (3 credits)
Spring Semester (6 credits for major)
- ENG 498A - Senior Seminar in Literature and Rhetoric or ENG Additional Elective 400-level if needed (3 credits)
- ENG 400-level if needed (3 credits)
