Minimum required: 120 semester credit hours
General Requirements
- The general education core curriculum courses are listed in the degree plan below along with the statewide component code number. See the General Education Core Curriculum section of this catalog for the Texas State requirements and options in the core curriculum, including Honors courses.
- In addition to the general education core curriculum requirements, the Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) requires three additional hours of English literature, three hours of math/science/logic/computer science courses, six hours of 2000-level modern language courses and a minor.
- Majors must select a minor from the approved list of Undergraduate Minors.
- Majors must complete a minimum of 36 advanced hours (3000 or 4000 level courses).
- Nine hours of writing intensive (WI) courses are required for graduation.
- This major requires 36 semester credit hours of English courses. ENG 1310 and ENG 1320 are prerequisites to all other English courses.
- The minimum number of hours required for this degree program is 120. The number of free elective hours a student will complete depends on the number of hours a student may need to achieve the required 120 total or 36 advanced hours.
Course Requirements
| Freshman |
|---|
| First Semester | Hours | Second Semester | Hours |
|---|
| COMM 1310 (Component Area Option Code 090/091) | 3 | HIST 1310 (American History Component Code 060) | 3 |
| ENG 1310 (Communication Component Code 010) | 3 | ENG 1320 (Communication Component Code 010) | 3 |
| US 1100 | 1 | Modern Language 1420 | 4 |
| Modern Language 1410 | 4 | Life & Physical Sciences Component Code 030 | 3 |
| Life & Physical Sciences Component Code 030 | 3 | POSI 2310 (Government/Political Science Component Code 070) | 3 |
| | 14 | | 16 |
| Sophomore |
|---|
| First Semester | Hours | Second Semester | Hours |
|---|
| ENG Literature (Component Area Option Code 090/094)1 | 3 | POSI 2320 (Government/Political Science Component Code 070) | 3 |
| HIST 1320 (American History Component Code 060) | 3 | BA ENG Literature1 | 3 |
| Modern Language 2310 | 3 | BA Computer Science, Logic, Mathematics or science | 3 |
| PHIL 1305 or 1320 (Language, Philosophy & Culture Component Code 040) | 3 | Social & Behavioral Sciences Component Code 080 | 3 |
| Mathematics Component Code 020 | 3 | Modern Language 2320 | 3 |
| | 15 | | 15 |
| Junior |
|---|
| First Semester | Hours | Second Semester | Hours |
|---|
| ENG 33013 | 3 | ENG 3348 or 3349 | 3 |
| ART 2313, DAN 2313, MU 2313, or TH 2313 (Creative Arts Component Code 050) | 3 | ENG Advanced Elective | 3 |
| ENG 3315 | 3 | Electives (as needed) | 6 |
| Minor | 6 | Minor | 3 |
| | 15 | | 15 |
| Senior |
|---|
| First Semester | Hours | Second Semester | Hours |
|---|
| ENG Advanced Electives | 9 | ENG 4348 or 4349 | 3 |
| Minor | 6 | Minor | 6 |
| | Electives (as needed) | 6 |
| | 15 | | 15 |
| Total Hours: 120 |
Advanced English Courses
In addition to ENG 3301, majors must complete seven advanced courses. Majors must take one advanced course from Groups A, B, and C, and three specified courses from Group D: ENG 3315 and either ENG 3348 and ENG 4348 (fiction track) or ENG 3349 and ENG 4349 (poetry track). They also select one three-hour elective from one or more groups. In selecting from groups or in choosing electives, students are encouraged to take at least two courses that center on genre, theme, or theory. One of the advanced courses must focus on the works of a single author and is recommended to be taken at the end of the major:
Group A - British Literature
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
|---|
| ENG 3351 | Anglo-Saxon Language, Literature, and Culture 1 | 3 |
| ENG 3352 | Medieval English Literature 1 | 3 |
| ENG 3353 | British Poetry and Prose of the Sixteenth Century 1 | 3 |
| ENG 3354 | Shakespeare 1 | 3 |
| ENG 3356 | British Poetry and Prose of the Seventeenth Century 1 | 3 |
| ENG 3357 | British Literature of the Restoration and Augustan Periods, 1660-1750 1 | 3 |
| ENG 3359 | British Literature, 1750-1800 1 | 3 |
| ENG 3362 | The British Romantics | 3 |
| ENG 3365 | The British Victorian Period | 3 |
| ENG 3368 | The British Novel | 3 |
| ENG 3370 | Twentieth-Century British Literature | 3 |
| ENG 4351 | Chaucer and His Time 1 | 3 |
| ENG 4355 | The Later Shakespeare 1 | 3 |
| ENG 4358 | Milton 1 | 3 |
Group B - American Literature
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
|---|
| ENG 3309 | The Southwest in Film | 3 |
| ENG 3326 | American Drama on Film | 3 |
| ENG 3331 | Literature of Black America | 3 |
| ENG 3333 | Early US Literature 1 | 3 |
| ENG 3335 | US Literature 1865-1930: The Rise of Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism | 3 |
| ENG 3336 | US Literature, 1930 to the Present: From Modernism to Contemporary Forms | 3 |
| ENG 3338 | The American Novel | 3 |
| ENG 3344 | Chicano/a Narrative and Social History | 3 |
| ENG 3345 | Southwestern Studies I: Defining the Region | 3 |
| ENG 3346 | Southwestern Studies II: Consequences of Region | 3 |
| ENG 3347 | American Poetry | 3 |
| ENG 4325 | Literature of the Southwest | 3 |
| ENG 4334 | US Romanticism | 3 |
Group C - World Literature
Group D - Forms, Language, and Writing
