Concentration A: Major in Literary Studies
The Literary Studies concentration offers students a deep engagement with literary history and an understanding of literature as a form of cultural production. Many of our literary studies courses take a new central focus each semester; the list at right provides a sampling of some of the special topics that students have studied in these courses in recent years.
- Take All Four Core Courses
English 120: Introduction to the Major
English 220: Literature, Identity, Representation
English 225: Introduction to Language Analysis
English 320: Practical Criticism*
*English 320 a pre-requisite for most upper division literature major requirements
- Take Sixteen Units from the Following Courses, Twelve of Which Must Be Upper-Division Units
English 230 or 231: Survey of British Literature
English 240: World Literature
English 325: History of the English Language
English 330: Topics in American Literature
English 342: Topics in Shakespeare
English 350: Topics in British Literature
English 360: Topics in Literature/Language
English 370: Literature of Power and Place
English 420: Advanced Topics in Critical Theory
English 465: Multicultural Issues in Language and Literature
English 480: Special Topics (with a literature topic)
- Take One of the Following Courses from the Writing Practices Concentration (B)
English 211: Introduction to Creative Writing
English 311: Environmental Writing
English 314: Creative Writing: Nonfiction*
English 315: Creative Writing: Fiction*
English 316: Creative Writing: Poetry*
English 422: Advanced Research Writing
English 450: Tutoring Developing Writers
English 460: Literary Editing and Publishing
English 461: Professional Concerns in Writing and Editing
English 480: Special Topics (with a writing topic)
*ENGL 211 a pre-requisite
- Take One of the Following Courses from the Teaching Language Arts Concentration (C)
English 328: Structure of American English
English 336: American Ethnic Literature
English 344: Young Adult Literature
English 406: Theory of Composition
English 426: Communication in Writing II
English 435: Introduction to English as a Second/Foreign Language
English 436: Integrating Language & Content in English
- Take One Year of a Language Other Than English Taken at the College Level
- Take English 490: Senior Portfolio Seminar Capstone Course
- Submit a Passing Senior Portfolio