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 additional hours of math/science/logic/computer science courses, six hours of 2000-level modern language courses, and a minor. For this program, the additional literature course may be satisfied by selecting a sophomore literature course for the 040 component of the core curriculum.
- Students must select a minor from the approved list of Undergraduate Minors.
- Students 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. Within the 36 hours, students are required to complete six hours of early literature, three hours of literature focused on the work of a single author, and three hours of 4000-level literature. To satisfy the group requirements, students must select one course from 4 of the 5 groups. ENG 1310 and ENG 1320 or ENG 1321 are recommended 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.
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For transfer students, 12 semester credit hours in English (or equivalents) may be transferred from a Texas public institution of higher education for the English Language and Literature Field of Study and be applied to the Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in English at Texas State University. More information about the Field of Study is available in the Academic Policies section of this catalog. The transferable Texas Common Course Number (TCCN) is listed below the Texas State University course number in the following course list.
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| ENG 1310 | College Writing I | 3 |
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| ENG 1320 | College Writing II | 3 |
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| 6 |
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| Total Hours | 12 |
Course Requirements
| Freshman |
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| First Semester | Hours | Second Semester | Hours |
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| ENG 1310 (Communication Component Code 010 [TCCN ENGL 1301]) | 3 | ENG 1320 or 1321 (Communication Component Code 010 [TCCN ENGL 1302]) | 3 |
| Mathematics Component Code 020 | 3 | Life and Physical Sciences Component Code 030 | 3 |
| Government/Political Science Component Code 070 | 3 | American History Component Code 060 | 3 |
| Modern Language 1410 | 4 | Government/Political Science Component Code 070 | 3 |
| US 1100 | 1 | Modern Language 1420 | 4 |
| | 14 | | 16 |
| Sophomore |
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| First Semester | Hours | Second Semester | Hours |
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| Life and Physical Sciences Component Code 030 | 3 | Social and Behavioral Sciences Component Code 080 | 3 |
| ENG Literature (Language, Philosophy, and Culture Component 040)3 | 3 | ENG Literature (Component Area Option Code 090/094)1, 3 | 3 |
| Creative Arts Component Code 050 [HUMA 1315] | 3 | ENG 3301 | 3 |
| American History Component Code 060 | 3 | Modern Language 2320 | 3 |
| Modern Language 2310 | 3 | Minor | 3 |
| | 15 | | 15 |
| Junior |
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| First Semester | Hours | Second Semester | Hours |
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| Component Area Option 090 | 3 | ENG 3303, 3304, 3311, or 3342 | 3 |
| ENG 3318 | 3 | ENG Advanced Group Elective | 3 |
| ENG Advanced Group Elective | 3 | Minor | 3 |
| Minor | 3 | Electives (as needed) | 6 |
| Elective (as needed) | 3 | |
| | 15 | | 15 |
| Senior |
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| First Semester | Hours | Second Semester | Hours |
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| ENG 3303, 3304, 3311, 3318, or 3342 | 3 | BA Science, Math, Computer Science, or Logic | 3 |
| ENG Advanced Group Elective | 3 | ENG Advanced Group Elective | 3 |
| Minor | 3 | Minor | 6 |
| Electives (as needed) | 6 | Elective (as needed) | 3 |
| | 15 | | 15 |
| Total Hours: 120 |
Advanced English Courses
Students are required to take ENG 3301, preferably immediately after completing the sophomore literature requirement. Students must also take two courses focusing on early literature at either the sophomore or advanced level. In addition to ENG 3301, students must complete seven advanced courses, one of which must be a 4000-level course. Students must take one advanced course from three of the four non-writing groups (Groups A, B, C, and D) plus nine hours of electives in writing and rhetoric. In choosing their nine hours of electives in writing and rhetoric, majors with the emphasis in writing and rhetoric must take three hours of theory (ENG 3318, repeatable); three hours of practice (ENG 3303, ENG 3304, ENG 3305, ENG 3311, or ENG 3342); and three hours of theory or practice. They also select one three-hour elective from any group. 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.
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| ENG 3351 | Early Medieval Literature of the British Isles | 3 |
| ENG 3352 | Medieval English Literature | 3 |
| ENG 3353 | British Poetry and Prose of the Sixteenth Century | 3 |
| ENG 3354 | Shakespeare | 3 |
| ENG 3356 | British Poetry and Prose of the Seventeenth Century | 3 |
| ENG 3357 | British Literature, 1688-1750 | 3 |
| ENG 3359 | British Literature, 1750-1800 | 3 |
| ENG 3362 | The British Romantics | 3 |
| ENG 3365 | Victorian Literature | 3 |
| ENG 3368 | The British Novel | 3 |
| ENG 3370 | Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century British Literature | 3 |
| ENG 4343 | Approaches to a British Author | 3 |
| ENG 4351 | Chaucer and His Time | 3 |
| ENG 4355 | The Later Shakespeare | 3 |
| ENG 4358 | Milton | 3 |
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| ENG 3302 | Film and Video Theory and Production | 3 |
| ENG 3307 | Introduction to the Study of Film | 3 |
| ENG 3308 | Advanced Topics in Film | 3 |
| ENG 3309 | The Southwest in Film | 3 |
| ENG 3316 | Film Adaptation Studies | 3 |
| ENG 3320 | Studies in Theory and Criticism | 3 |
| ENG 3321 | The Short Story | 3 |
| ENG 3323 | Modern Poetry | 3 |
| ENG 3326 | US Drama on Film | 3 |
| ENG 3340 | Special Topics in Language and Literature 1 | 3 |
| ENG 3343 | The Interdisciplinary Approach to Literature 1 | 3 |
| ENG 3371 | Queer and Trans Texts 1 | 3 |
| ENG 3372 | Race and Ethnicity in Texts 1 | 3 |
| ENG 3373 | Gender and Sexualities in Texts 1 | 3 |
| ENG 3390 | Independent Study in Language and Literature 1 | 3 |
| ENG 4323 | Studies in Autobiography and Biography | 3 |
| ENG 4350 | Senior Seminar in Film | 3 |
