Department of English - State University College at Oneonta
English Major - Program Requirements
For students accepted prior to Fall 2006 &
for all Education Division students.
The English Major consists of 30 semester hours (s.h.) of courses offered by the
English Department or accepted by the English Department as substitutions.
COMP 200: Advanced Composition
[Required].............................................3 s.h.
LITR 200: Critical Approaches to Literature
[Required]..................................3 s.h.
Coursework selected from each of the following categories:
Pre-19th-Century Literature............................................................................3 s.h.
Pre-20th-Century Literature............................................................................3 s.h.
Major Author(s)..............................................................................................3 s.h.
Multicultural/Non-Traditional Literature(s).......................................................3 s.h.
Upper division selections from English Department courses.............................12 s.h.
| 1. | COMP 200 and LITR 200 must be successfully completed no more than one semester after a student's declaration of a major in English, until which time a student will be a probationary major. |
| 2. | Only courses at the 200 (or higher) level may be counted toward the major. |
| 3. | Courses are listed below by categories they satisfy; no course may be applied toward the major in more than one category. |
| 4. | Various prerequisites and College regulations apply; see current College Catalogue. |
MAJOR AUTHOR(S) [select one]
ALIT 370: Hemingway & Faulkner
ALIT 371: Cooper & His Country
ELIT 270: Shakespeare
ELIT 271: Shakespeare II
ELIT 273: Milton
ELIT 370: Chaucer
ELIT 373: Jane Austen
UPPER-DIVISION COURSES
[select four]
ALIT 200: American Literature I
ALIT 201: American Literature II
ALIT 210: American Poetry
ALIT 215: 19th-Century American Novel
ALIT 216: Modern American Fiction
ALIT 217: Contemporary American Fiction
ALIT 225: Modern American Drama
ALIT 226: Contemporary American Poetry
ALIT 234: Literature of the Jazz Age
ALIT 240: The American Renaissance
ALIT 241: Realism and Naturalism
ALIT 250: Black American Literature
ALIT 255: 20th-Century Irish-American Literature
ALIT 286: African American Women Writers
ALIT 351: Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
ALIT 370: Hemingway and Faulkner
ALIT 371: Cooper and His Country
ALIT 373: Upstate New York Writers
COMP 260: Poetry Workshop
COMP 270: Fiction Workshop
ELIT 200: English Literature I
ELIT 201: English Literature II
ELIT 202: English Literature III
ELIT 215: The English Novel
ELIT 240: Medieval English Literature
ELIT 241: The English Renaissance
ELIT 243: Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
ELIT 245: English Writers of the Romantic Age
ELIT 246: Victorian Literature
ELIT 247: 20th-Century English Writers
ELIT 270: Shakespeare I
ELIT 271: Shakespeare II
ELIT 272: 17th-Century English Literature
ELIT 273: Milton
ELIT 370: Chaucer
ELIT 373: Jane Austen
LING 200: Introduction to Linguistic Theories & Analysis
LING 201: Language and Society
LING 210: Traditional Grammar: English
LING 215: English Grammar: Modern Approaches
LING 320: History of the English Language
LITR 200: Critical Approaches to Literature
LITR 220: Short Fiction
LITR 226: Modern Drama
LITR 228: Tragedy and Comedy
LITR 244: Contemporary Literature
LITR 283: Women in Literature
LITR 284: Nature and the Self in Literature
LITR 285: Autobiography, Gender, and Culture
LITR 286: Women and Nature
LITR 315: Contemporary Novel
WLIT 200: World Literature I
WLIT 201: World Literature II
WLIT 202: World Literature III
WLIT 215: Great World Novels
WLIT 225: The Greek Dramatists
WLIT 231: Mythology
WLIT 253: Contemporary Irish Writers
WLIT 257: Modern Black Literature
WLIT 260: The Bible as Literature
WLIT 270: Postcolonial Literature and Culture
WLIT 271: Postcolonial Literature and Culture II
WLIT 280: The Catholic Imagination
WLIT 285: Portraits of the Artist
WLIT 380: Writing and Violence
Last updated October 2003