English/Literature Option

Bachelor of Arts Degree
CIP 23.0101

University Studies Requirements	44-47 hours

Required Courses	25 hours
ENG 099 Transitions
ENG 221 Introduction to English Studies
ENG 303 British Literature to 1760
ENG 304 British Literature, 1760 to the Present
ENG 311 American Literature to 1890
ENG 312 American Literature, 1890 to the Present
ENG 321 Research in Literary Studies
ENG 334 Shakespeare
and one of the following:
ENG 309 History of the English Language
ENG 310 Introduction to English Linguistics

Required Limited Electives	12 hours
ENG 470 Literary Criticism
and one of the following:
ENG 316 The Bible as Literature
ENG 402 Early English Literature
ENG 403 Medieval Drama
ENG 411 Non-Shakespearean Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama
ENG 418 Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Literature
ENG 426 Classical Literature
ENG 427 Medieval Literature
ENG 428 Renaissance Literature
ENG 431 American Literature, 1607 to 1820
ENG 436 Seventeenth-Century English Literature
and one 300-500 level literature course
and one 400-500 level literature course

Required Minor	21-24 hours

Electives	12-15 hours

Total Curriculum Requirements	120 hours

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Murray State University undergraduate Shraddha Chakradhar was one of a dozen students nationwide chosen for the 2009 Rutgers English Diversity Institute.

Contact

Dr. Laura Dawkins

7C Faculty Hall

Murray State University

Murray KY 42071-3341

270-809-3418 phone

270-809-4545 fax

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