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English, BA

36 credit hours

The Bachelor of Arts in English prepares you to use language both persuasively and creatively and to read, think, and write critically in any setting. Graduates pursue a variety of professional objectives and career paths, including graduate school in literature and creative writing, law school, teaching at the secondary level, journalism, technical and business writing, copywriting, editing, and proofreading.

A major in English requires 36 credit hours of coursework through the English program plus the foreign language requirement listed below.

The major is structured to provide you with a broad expertise in British and American literature while also allowing you the opportunity to study literatures of other regions and of traditionally underrepresented cultures and populations, and to conduct in-depth explorations of topics of your choosing.

Requirements

Major Coursework

6 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

ENGL 30100Methods of Literary Study

3
ENGL 45400Senior Capstone in English

3

British Literature Coursework

6 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

ENGL 33200Chaucer

3
ENGL 33300Shakespeare

3
ENGL 33800Medieval Literature

3
ENGL 33900Early Modern Literature

3
ENGL 34101London in the Eighteenth Century

3
ENGL 34200Politics, Passion, Poetry and Problems: The Romantic Movement

3
ENGL 34300Victorians: Vile or Virtuous?

3
ENGL 35700-35799Topics in British Literature

3

American Literature Coursework

6 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

ENGL 34400/SPA 34400LatinX Literature

3
ENGL 34700-34799Topics in American Literature

3
ENGL 35200Early American Literature

3
ENGL 35300Twentieth-Century American Literature

3
ENGL 35400Finding Home: Space, Place, and Identity in American Literature

3
ENGL 37600African American Literature

3

Additional Literature Coursework

6 credit hours of coursework from the following options and/or from the options in British literature or American Literature above:

Note that students pursing 9-12 English teaching certification must complete ENGL 37100; additionally, students pursuing 9-12 English teaching certification may not satisfy this coursework distribution with “Topics” courses.

ENGL 30900The Novel

3
ENGL 35500Literary Modernism: Experiment, Method, and Mystery

3
ENGL 36200Translation and Literature

3
ENGL 37100Reading and Writing of the Young Adult Novel

3
ENGL 38000-38099Topics in Literature

3

Language, Linguistics, and Communication Coursework

6 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

Note that students pursing 9-12 English teaching certification must complete ENGL 30700 and another approved writing course (consult with your ENGL and EDU advisors to select).

CINE 35000Screenwriting

3
COM 24200Basic Reporting

3
COM 38200Feature Writing

3
DCS 35000Personal Branding and Content Creation

3
ENGL 20800Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric

3
ENGL 20900Writing for Game Design

3
ENGL 21100Introduction to Creative Writing

3
ENGL 22200Writing about Reality

3
ENGL 23000Business Communications

3
ENGL 25000/SPA 25000Multiculturalism and Multilingualism

3
ENGL 30700The Teaching of Writing

3
ENGL 31200Technical Writing

3
ENGL 31500Arrow Rock Literary Journal

3
ENGL 36300Philosophy of Language: Secrets, Symbols, and the Literary Mind

3
ENGL 36500Digital Humanities

3
ENGL 37200Grammar and Writing

3
ENGL 38200-38299Topics in English

3
ENGL 40400History of the English Language

3
MGMT 36015International Business and Cross-Cultural Communications

3
MRKT 35040Advertising and Promotional Strategy

3
NPA 37100Grantwriting

3

Elective Coursework

6 credit hours of coursework from any of the above listed ENGL courses, or any other 30000- or 40000-level ENGL course.

Note that students pursing 9-12 English teaching certification must satisfy this elective coursework by completing ENGL 37200 and ENGL 40400.

No duplication of coursework is permitted within the program.

At least two of the courses taken for the degree must be marked as GE-Human Diversity courses. 

ENG courses may satisfy program requirements at the discretion of the advisor.

English majors must demonstrate proficiency in one foreign language equivalent to Lindenwood University’s Elementary II level. Students who transfer in at least six college credit hours in such a language or who have a sufficient AP exam score in such a language are considered to have demonstrated proficiency. Students who have studied a language offered by Lindenwood University but who do not have sufficient college course credit in the language may consult with the program about having their proficiency tested by the faculty in our non-English language programs to determine which courses, if any, they must take to fulfill the requirement. Students who have studied a language not offered by Lindenwood University and who do not have sufficient college course credit in the language may consult with the program about taking an online proficiency test to determine whether they will need to undertake further language study at Lindenwood. (Note: Not all languages are available for testing.)

English majors should take ENGL 30100 as soon as possible after completing ENGL 17000.