Literature Concentration (18 credits)

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The Literature concentration consists of 18 credits of literature courses across six categories. Students may not count courses in the major core for concentration requirements.

British Literature, Pre-1660 3 credits

Students will take a 300- or 400-level course in Pre-1660 British Literature. Variable topics courses will fulfill this requirement only when the title of a particular section of the course indicates that a majority of the term will be spent studying authors from this particular literary period. Courses satisfying this requirement include:

ENGL 325 - British Literature: Medieval to Renaissance 3 credits
ENGL 365 - Shakespeare 3 credits
ENGL 425 - Studies in Shakespeare 3 credits
ENGL 431 - Arthurian Literature 3 credits

British Literature, Post-1660 3 credits

Students will take a 300- or 400-level course in Post-1660 British Literature. Variable topics courses will fulfill this requirement only when the title of a particular section of the course indicates that a majority of the term will be spent studying authors from this particular literary period. Courses satisfying this requirement include:

ENGL 326 - British Literature: Restoration to Romanticism 3 credits
ENGL 327 - British Literature: Victorian to Contemporary 3 credits

American Literature, Pre-1865 3 credits

Students will take a 300- or 400-level course in Pre-1865 American Literature. Variable topics courses will fulfill this requirement only when the title of a particular section of the course indicates that a majority of the term will be spent studying authors from this particular literary period. Courses satisfying this requirement include:

ENGL 335 - American Literature: Contact to Romanticism 3 credits

American Literature, Post-1865 3 credits

Students will take a 300- or 400-level course in Post-1865 American Literature. Variable topics courses will fulfill this requirement only when the title of a particular section of the course indicates that a majority of the term will be spent studying authors from this particular literary period. Courses satisfying this requirement include:

ENGL 336 - American Literature: Realism to Contemporary 3 credits

World Literature 3 credits

Students will take a 300- or 400-level course in a world literature outside the British and American tradition. Variable topics courses will fulfill this requirement only when the title of a particular section of the course indicates that a majority of the term will be spent studying authors from a world literature outside the British and American Tradition. Courses satisfying this requirement include:

ENGL 345 - World Literature I 3 credits
ENGL 346 - World Literature II 3 credits
ENGL 416 - The Bible as Literature 3 credits
ENGL 438 - Studies in World Literature 3 credits

Literature Elective 3 credits

Students will take a 300-level or 400-level literature elective (a Perspectives course may be used here). Courses satisfying this requirement include ENGL 310, 325-346, 351, 358-373, 377-379, 395, 411-444, or 495 not taken elsewhere in core or concentration.