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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

English Major: Creative and Professional Writing Concentration

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

Write and compose original texts
Apply key concepts writing analytically, creatively, and professionally across multiple genres and modes based on audience needs and information design principles
Identify and summarize foundational concepts in creative writing, literary studies, and rhetorical studies
Understand and apply concepts and ideas related to issues of diversity such as race, class, sexuality, gender, ethnicity and others to texts across multiple genres and modes
Analyze the compositional and rhetorical strategies used in texts across multiple genres and modes
Synthesize primary and secondary sources, using appropriate research and writing methods across genres and modes
Evaluate the appropriateness of compositional and rhetorical strategies used in texts

Requirements

Students must earn a C- or better for courses to count toward the English major degree. English majors are encouraged to take some of their electives in additional English courses.

Foundation (9 credits)

ENL 258 - Literary Studies Credits: 3
ENL 258 is prerequisite for 300-level literature courses
Plus any 200-level creative writing course (3 credits):
ENL 254 - Autobiographical Writing Credits: 3
ENL 257 - Rhetoric I: Introduction to Rhetoric Credits: 3
ENL 262 - Introduction to Journalism Credits: 3
ENL 268 - Creative Writing: Fiction Credits: 3

Writing Courses (18 credits)

Any six writing courses from the list below, with at least four taken at the 300+ level.

ENL 260 - Intermediate Composition Credits: 3
ENL 267 - Creative Writing: Poetry Credits: 3
ENL 269 - Creative Writing: Drama Credits: 3
ENL 341 - Copywriting Credits: 3
ENL 350 - Report and Proposal Writing Credits: 3
ENL 351 - Comedy Writing Credits: 3
ENL 352 - Public Relations Writing Credits: 3
ENL 353 - Sports Writing Credits: 3
ENL 354 - Usability Studies Credits: 3
ENL 359 - Tutoring Writing Credits: 3
ENL 360 - Special Topics in Writing and Communications Credits: 3
ENL 361 - Techniques of Critical Writing and Communications Credits: 3
ENL 362 - Writing Reviews Credits: 3
ENL 363 - Topics in Journalism Credits: 3
ENL 364 - Feature Story and Article Writing Credits: 3
ENL 366 - Creative Writing: Forms of Fiction Credits: 3
ENL 367 - Multimodal Writing: Theory and Practice Credits: 3
ENL 368 - Internet Communications and Culture Credits: 3
ENL 369 - Document Design Credits: 3
ENL 370 - Women, Writing, and the Media Credits: 3
ENL 372 - Writing about Popular Culture Credits: 3
ENL 376 - Digital Filmmaking I Credits: 3
ENL 378 - Screenwriting Credits: 3
ENL 379 - Playwriting Credits: 3
ENL 380 - Magazine Writing Credits: 3

Literature Electives (6 credits)

Any two Literature Courses at the 300+ level.

ENL 305 - Topics in Medieval Literature and Culture Credits: 3
ENL 307 - Topics in Early Modern Literature Credits: 3
ENL 308 - The Enlightenment Credits: 3
ENL 309 - Romantic Age Credits: 3
ENL 310 - Victorian Age Credits: 3
ENL 311 - Western Literature I Credits: 3
ENL 314 - Colonial American Lit Credits: 3
ENL 315 - American Renaissance Credits: 3
ENL 316 - The 19th Century American Novel Credits: 3
ENL 317 - 19 Cent American Poetry Credits: 3
ENL 318 - Chaucer Credits: 3
ENL 319 - Shakespeare Credits: 3
ENL 321 - Golden Age of Drama Credits: 3
ENL 323 - Postcolonial Theory & Criticism Credits: 3
ENL 326 - Studies in Modern Irish Literature and Culture I Credits: 3
ENL 328 - Survey of African American Literature I Credits: 3
ENL 329 - Survey of African American Literature II Credits: 3
ENL 331 - Postcolonial Literature Credits: 3
ENL 333 - Modern British Poetry Credits: 3
ENL 334 - The Victorian Novel Credits: 3
ENL 335 - 20th Century American Fiction Credits: 3
ENL 336 - 20th Century American Fiction - 1945 to the Present Credits: 3
ENL 337 - 20th Century American Poetry Credits: 3
ENL 338 - Modern Drama Credits: 3
ENL 339 - American Drama Credits: 3
ENL 340 - Literature & Psychology Credits: 3
ENL 345 - Literary Theory Credits: 3
ENL 373 - World Cinema I: Origins to New Wave Credits: 3
ENL 374 - World Cinema II: New Wave to the Present Credits: 3
ENL 377 - Topics:Film & Video Credits: 3
ENL 385 - Topics in Multicultural Literature Credits: 3
ENL 390 - Topics in Literary Studies Credits: 3
ENL 400 - Seminar in American Literature Credits: 3
ENL 415 - Seminar in a British Author Credits: 3
ENL 425 - Seminar in Comparative Literature Credits: 3

Capstone Course (3 credits)

ENL 450 - Advanced Poetry Workshop Credits: 3
ENL 451 - Advanced Fiction Workshop Credits: 3
ENL 452 - Playwriting Workshop Credits: 3
ENL 453 - Advanced Writing Workshop Credits: 3

Theory Course

One course (3 credits) required. May be applied to requirement area listed above that best suits student needs.

ENL 355 - Rhetoric II: Advanced Rhetoric Credits: 3
ENL 356 - Language and Culture Credits: 3
ENL 259 - Critical Methods: Theory and Practice Credits: 3
ENL 323 - Postcolonial Theory & Criticism Credits: 3
ENL 345 - Literary Theory Credits: 3
ENL 357 - Special Topics in Rhetorical Studies Credits: 3

Total Credits: 36