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

Apr 08, 2025

2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog

English Major (36-42 cr)

A. Core Requirements (30 cr)

Reading and Critical Methods (12 cr)

ENG 204 - Writing About Literature Credit: 3
ENG 265 - Sophomore Seminar: Studies in Genre Credit: 3
ENG 304 - Literary Criticism Credit: 3
Select one READING AND CRITICAL METHODS course

Literary Histories, Cultural Aesthetics and Transformations of Power (12 cr)

At least 9 credits must be 300 or 400 level courses.

ENG 365 - Junior Seminar: Author Credit: 3
Select one BEFORE 1700 course
Select one 1700-1900 course
Select one AFTER 1900 course

Advanced Research, Argumentative Writing, and Revision (6-9 cr)

Select one:
ENG 391 - Writing Portfolio Credit: 3
ADO 420 - Student Teaching Grades 7-12 Credit: 6 **
**This option for Adolescence Education/English double majors only
Select one:
ENG 465 - Seminar in Advanced Literary Study Credit: 3
ENG 485 - Words in the World Credit: 3

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 and at least 9 credits of LITERARY HISTORIES, CULTURAL AESTHETICS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF POWER must be at the 300- or 400-level.

English READING & CRITICAL METHODS, and LITERARY HISTORIES, CULTURAL AESTHETICS & TRANSFORMATIONS OF POWER Courses

READING AND CRITICAL METHODS COURSES

ENG 309 - Digital Literary Studies Credit: 3
ENG 356 - Latina Writings and Theories Credit: 3
ENG 362 - Genre - History - Theory Credit: 3
ENG 372 - Decolonial Thought and Literature Credit: 3
ENG 373 - Theories of Language Credit: 3
ENG 375 - Theories of Diverse Sexuality Credit: 3
ENG 381 - Narrative Theory Credit: 3
ENG 387 - Vision and Textuality Credit: 3
ENG 420 - Critical Race Theory Credit: 3
ENG 470 - Feminist Theory Credit: 3

LITERARY HISTORIES, CULTURAL AESTHETICS & TRANSFORMATIONS OF POWER COURSES

Before 1700
ENG 212 - Literary Histories I Credit: 3
ENG 310 - Literature of Medieval England Credit: 3
ENG 319 - Shakespeare: An Introduction Credit: 3
ENG 320 - Historical Drama & Society Credit: 3
ENG 325 - Chaucer Credit: 3
ENG 326 - English Drama: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy Credit: 3
ENG 393 - Topics in Literary History I Credit: 3
ENG 427 - Shakespeare and Interpretive Theories Credit: 3
1700-1900 COURSES
ENG 213 - Literary Histories II 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 315 - British Romantic Writers Credit: 3
ENG 322 - Nineteenth-Century English Novel Credit: 3
ENG 327 - English Drama: Satire and Empire Credit: 3
ENG 342 - The Nineteenth-Century American Novel Credit: 3
ENG 394 - Topics in Literary History II Credit: 3
AFTER 1900 COURSES
ENG 237 - Ethnicity and Cultural Difference in Literature Credit: 3
ENG 238 - Introduction to Latina/o/x Cultural Expressions Credit: 3
ENG 323 - Twentieth-Century British Fiction Credit: 3
ENG 333 - Twentieth-Century American Literature Credit: 3
ENG 337 - Topics in American Ethnic Literature Credit: 3
ENG 343 - The Twentieth-Century American Novel Credit: 3
ENG 347 - Contemporary Native American Literature Credit: 3
ENG 350 - Modern Drama Credit: 3
ENG 351 - American Poetry Since 1945 Credit: 3
ENG 357 - Black Women Writers Credit: 3
ENG 360 - Literature in a Global Context Credit: 3
ENG 361 - Literature of Travel, Migration, Diaspora Credit: 3
ENG 370 - Women in Literature Credit: 3
ENG 376 - Science Fiction Credit: 3
ENG 382 - Modern African Literature Credit: 3
ENG 384 - Young Adult Literature Credit: 3
ENG 390 - Images of Native Americans in Film Credit: 3
ENG 486 - World Cinema Credit: 3