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Major in English / Literature Option
Bachelor of Arts Degree
CIP 23.0101
 
University Studies Requirements - 49-52 Hours
 
Required Courses - 25 Hours
 
  ENG 099   Freshman Orientation
  ENG 221   Introduction to English Studies
  ENG 302   Major American Authors
  ENG 334   Shakespeare1
  ENG 404   Advanced Composition
 
  and one of the following surveys:
 
  ENG 303   English Literature to 1760
  ENG 304   English Literature, 1760 to the Present
 
  and one of the following surveys:
 
  ENG 305   Survey of World Literature
  ENG 306   Contemporary Literature
 
  and one of the following writing courses:
 
  ENG 214   Introduction to Creative Writing
  ENG 224   Writing in the Professions
 
  and one of the following:
 
  ENG 309   History of the English Language
  ENG 310   Linguistics and English Grammars
 
Required Limited Electives - 12 Hours
 
  ENG 509   Literary Criticism
 
  and one of the following:
 
  ENG 303   English Literature to 1760
  ENG 426   Classical Literature
  ENG 427   Medieval Literature
  ENG 428   Renaissance Literature
  ENG 500   Chaucer
  ENG 501   Milton
  ENG 502   Early English Literature
  ENG 504   Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature
  ENG 511   Non-Shakespearean Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama
  ENG 535   Sixteenth-Century English Literature
  ENG 536   Seventeenth-Century English Literature
  ENG 541   American Literature, 1607 to 1820
 
  and two 300-500 level English courses
 
 
  Note:  Students are encouraged to take at least one course in a genre other than prose fiction (e.g., ENG 316, 413, 511, 537, or 550), and one course with a larger focus than just British and American literature (e.g., ENG 305, 306, 318, 426, 427, or 428).
 
Required Minor - 21 to 24 hours
 
Electives - 15 to 21 hours
 
Total Curriculum Requirements - 128 hours
 
1  ENG 534 may be substituted for ENG 334.
 
 
The requirements listed above are an example of what is applicable to most students entering Murray State University at the present time. Criteria as they may relate to individual students may vary. The primary source is the Undergraduate Bulletin applicable at the time of the student enrollment.
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