Program: English Major – B.A. Degree - State University of New York at Oswego - Modern Campus Catalog™

Apr 24, 2025

2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog

English Major (36-39 cr)

A. Core Requirements* (30 cr)

ENG 204 - Writing About Literature credit: 3
ENG 265 - Sophomore Seminar: Studies in Genre credit: 3
ENG 304 - Literary Criticism credit: 3
ENG 365 - Junior Seminar: Author credit: 3
ENG 465 - Seminar in Advanced Literary Study credit: 3
- OR -
ENG 485 - Words in the World credit: 3

Select two TEXT courses

Select two CONTEXT courses

Select one THEORIES course

B. Elective Requirements (6 cr)

Two ENG—OR—CRW courses, one of which must be at the 300- or 400-level.

C. Cognate Requirements (0-3 cr)

Any approved computer and information literacy course
— OR —
passing the computer and information literacy competency exam.

*At least 21 credits of the core requirements must be 300- or 400-level courses.

English TEXT, CONTEXT, and THEORIES Courses

TEXT COURSES

ENG 150 - Principles of Literary Representation credit: 3
ENG 220 - Modern Culture and Media credit: 3
ENG 319 - Shakespeare: An Introduction credit: 3
ENG 321 - The Eighteenth-Century English Novel credit: 3
ENG 322 - Nineteenth-Century English Novel credit: 3
ENG 323 - Twentieth-Century British Fiction credit: 3
ENG 324 - 20th Century British Poetry credit: 3
ENG 325 - Chaucer credit: 3
ENG 326 - English Drama: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy credit: 3
ENG 328 - Milton credit: 3
ENG 340 - Modern American Drama credit: 3
ENG 342 - The Nineteenth-Century American Novel credit: 3
ENG 343 - The Twentieth-Century American Novel credit: 3
ENG 350 - Modern Drama credit: 3
ENG 351 - American Poetry Since 1945 credit: 3
ENG 363 - Short Story Masterpieces credit: 3
ENG 385 - Children’s Literature credit: 3

CONTEXT COURSES

ENG 210 - Western Heritage I: Literature credit: 3
ENG 211 - Western Heritage II: Literature credit: 3
ENG 225 - British Literature From the Beginning to 1800 credit: 3
ENG 235 - American Literature from the Beginning to the Civil War credit: 3
ENG 236 - American Literature from the Civil War to the Present credit: 3
ENG 237 - Ethnicity and Cultural Difference in Literature credit: 3
ENG 286 - Introduction to Cinema and Screen Studies credit: 3
ENG 310 - Literature of Medieval England credit: 3
ENG 312 - Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetry credit: 3
ENG 313 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature credit: 3
ENG 315 - British Romantic Writers credit: 3
ENG 316 - British Victorian Writers credit: 3
ENG 327 - English Drama: Satire and Empire credit: 3
ENG 331 - American Romanticism credit: 3
ENG 332 - The Development of Realism and Naturalism in American Literature credit: 3
ENG 333 - Twentieth-Century American Literature credit: 3
ENG 337 - Topics in American Ethnic Literature credit: 3
ENG 347 - Contemporary Native American Literature credit: 3
ENG 349 - Writers of the Beat Generation credit: 3
ENG 357 - Black Women Writers credit: 3
ENG 360 - Literature in a Global Context credit: 3
ENG 370 - Women in Literature credit: 3
ENG 376 - Science Fiction credit: 3
ENG 380 - Narratives of Identity credit: 3
ENG 383 - Caribbean Literature credit: 3
ENG 390 - Images of Native Americans in Film credit: 3
ENG 426 - Shakespearean Contexts credit: 3
ENG 486 - World Cinema credit: 3

THEORIES COURSES

ENG 160 - General Folklore credit: 3
ENG 367 - Literature and Psychology credit: 3
ENG 371 - Postmodernism credit: 3
ENG 373 - Theories of Language credit: 3
ENG 375 - Theories of Diverse Sexuality credit: 3
ENG 381 - Narrative Theory credit: 3
ENG 382 - Modern African Literature credit: 3
ENG 386 - The Cinema credit: 3
ENG 387 - Vision and Textuality credit: 3
ENG 388 - Film Genre credit: 3
ENG 427 - Shakespeare and Interpretive Theories credit: 3
ENG 443 - Critical Response/Critical Reputation: William Faulkner credit: 3
ENG 470 - Feminist Theory credit: 3