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Major in English / Literature Option
Bachelor of Arts Degree
CIP 23.0101
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University Studies Requirements -
49-52 Hours
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Required Courses - 25 Hours
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ENG 099
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Freshman Orientation
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ENG 221
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Introduction to English Studies
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ENG 302
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Major American Authors
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ENG 334
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Shakespeare1
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ENG 404
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Advanced Composition
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and one of the following surveys:
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ENG 303
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English Literature to 1760
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ENG 304
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English Literature, 1760 to the Present
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and one of the following surveys:
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ENG 305
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Survey of World Literature
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ENG 306
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Contemporary Literature
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and one of the following writing courses:
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ENG 214
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Introduction to Creative Writing
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ENG 224
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Writing in the Professions
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and one of the following:
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ENG 309
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History of the English Language
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ENG 310
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Linguistics and English Grammars
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Required Limited Electives - 12 Hours
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ENG 509
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Literary Criticism
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and one of the following:
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ENG 303
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English Literature to 1760
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ENG 426
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Classical Literature
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ENG 427
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Medieval Literature
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ENG 428
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Renaissance Literature
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ENG 500
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Chaucer
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ENG 501
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Milton
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ENG 502
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Early English Literature
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ENG 504
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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature
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ENG 511
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Non-Shakespearean Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama
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ENG 535
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Sixteenth-Century English Literature
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ENG 536
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Seventeenth-Century English Literature
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ENG 541
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American Literature, 1607 to 1820
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and two 300-500 level English courses
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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).
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Required Minor - 21 to 24 hours
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Electives - 15 to 21 hours
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Total Curriculum Requirements - 128 hours
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1 ENG 534 may be substituted for ENG 334.
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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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