Sep 29, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

English, B.A. (Literature, Rhetoric and Cultural Studies Emphasis) Suggested 4 Year-Plan


How to use your 4-Year Plan


  • This is a suggested 4-year plan for your major and not meant to replace regular academic advising.
  • The plan is flexible and can be changed to accommodate studying abroad, a second major/minor(s) or AP/IB credits.
  • You should work with an academic advisor to develop a plan that meets your interests and goals.
  • You must earn a minimum of 120 credits to graduate and 45 major-specific credits to earn a B.A. in English, Literature, Rhetoric and Cultural Studies.
  • Transfer students and those looking to add B.A. in English, Literature, Rhetoric and Cultural Studies as a second major should contact the program advisor for degree planning.

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


Year 2


  • Complete the English Core classes you have not taken.  Take 2 or 3 English electives in the Diversity, Literature Before 1850 or Literature after 1850 catagories.  (You can take 300-level literature courses once you have completed ENG 256.)

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  • Fall Semester (6 credits for major)

  • One of the following:

  • 3 credits
  • 3 credits
  • 3 credits
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  • ENG Diversity, Literature Before 1850 Elective Group or Literature after 1850 Elective Group (3 credits)
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  • 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.

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  • 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)
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  • Spring Semester (9 credits for major)

  • 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)
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  • ****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)

  • 3 credits
  • OR

  • ENG Additional Elective (400 level if needed)
  • ENG 400-level if needed or Second Major, Minor, Honors Course (3 credits)
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  • 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)