Requirements for the Major

Major Core Requirements (22 units)

Upper Division Required Courses (22 units)

• ENGL 3000 - English Tutorial: Reading and Writing in the Major (3)
• ENGL 3100 - Readings on the English Language (3)
• ENGL 3200 - Readings in Theory (3)
• ENGL 3300 - Readings in Ancient World and Medieval British Literatures (3)
• ENGL 3400 - Readings in British Literature: Renaissance to Modern (3)
• ENGL 3600 - Readings in American Literature(s) (3)
• ENGL 3700 - Readings in Modern and Contemporary World Literatures (3)
• ENGL 4950 - Senior Capstone (1)

Directed Elective (12 units)

Select four of the following courses. Substitutions require advisor approval.

• ENGL 3010 - Advanced College Writing (3)
• ENGL 3030 - Professional and Technical Writing (3)
• ENGL 3050 - Issues in Writing Pedagogy (3)
• ENGL 3060 - Discourse Analysis for Language Studies (3)
• ENGL 3900 - Research Tutorial and Symposium (3)
• ENGL 4020 - Evolving Literacies, Cultures, and Writing Technologies (3)
• ENGL 4060 - Writing Nonfiction (3)
• ENGL 4070 - Writing Fiction (3)
• ENGL 4080 - Writing Poetry (3)
• ENGL 4100 - Introduction to Linguistics (3)
• ENGL 4101 - Introduction to English Linguistics (3)
• ENGL 4110 - History of the English Language (3)
• ENGL 4111 - Topics in the History of the English Language (3)
• ENGL 4120 - Language in Space and Time (3)
• ENGL 4130 - Language and Culture (3)
• ENGL 4170 - Modern English Grammar (3)
• ENGL 4180 - Issues in English Language Teaching (3)
• ENGL 4200 - Topics in Theory (3)
• ENGL 4205 - Signs, Texts, Meaning: An Introduction to Semiotics (3)
• ENGL 4210 - Cultural Studies and Literature (3)
• ENGL 4260 - Film and Literature (3)
• ENGL 4303 - The Bible as Literature: Old and New Testaments (3)
• ENGL 4305 - The Medieval Amatory Tradition (3)
• ENGL 4306 - The Arthurian Tradition (3)
• ENGL 4320 - Anglo-American Modernism (3)
• ENGL 4330 - Transnational Women Writers (3)
• ENGL 4340 - Diasporic Literatures (3)
• ENGL 4370 - Greek and Roman Drama in Translation (3)
• ENGL 4371 - Medieval Drama (3)
• ENGL 4379 - Modern and Contemporary Poetry (3)
• ENGL 4401 - Medieval English Literature (3)
• ENGL 4402 - Dramatic Literature of the English Renaissance (3)
• ENGL 4403 - The English Renaissance (3)
• ENGL 4404 - Seventeenth-Century Literature (3)
• ENGL 4405 - The Augustan Age (3)
• ENGL 4406 - The Romantic Age (3)
• ENGL 4407 - The Victorian Age (3)
• ENGL 4408 - Modern British Literature (3)
• ENGL 4409 - Contemporary British Literature (3)
• ENGL 4421 - Chaucer (3)
• ENGL 4422 - Piers Plowman (3)
• ENGL 4423 - Shakespeare I: Poetry and Performance (3)
• ENGL 4424 - Shakespeare II (3)
• ENGL 4425 - Milton (3)
• ENGL 4460 - The British Novel: The Eighteenth Century (3)
• ENGL 4461 - The British Novel: The Nineteenth Century (3)
• ENGL 4462 - The British Novel: The Twentieth Century (3)
• ENGL 4510 - Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Plays (3)
• ENGL 4540 - Selected Topics in Literature and Language (3)
• ENGL 4601 - American Literary History Before 1877 (3)
• ENGL 4602 - American Literary History After 1877 (3)
• ENGL 4630 - American Women Writers (3)
• ENGL 4660 - The American Novel I (3)
• ENGL 4661 - The American Novel II (3)
• ENGL 4680 - The Politics of American Literature (3)
• ENGL 4690 - Ethnic Literature in the U.S. (3)
• ENGL 4691 - Black American Literature (3)
• ENGL 4692 - U.S. Latino/a Literature (3)
• ENGL 4693 - Asian American Literature (3)
• ENGL 4760 - Major Continental Fiction: Cervantes to Balzac (3)
• ENGL 4761 - Major Continental Fiction: Stendhal to Tolstoy (3)
• ENGL 4762 - Twentieth Century Continental Fiction (3)
• ENGL 4778 - Contemporary Drama: Continental, English, and American (3)
• ENGL 4780 - Latin American Literature in Translation (3)
• ENGL 4785 - Postcolonial Literature and Criticism (3)
• ENGL 4801 - The English Court in Literature, Art, and Culture (3)
• ENGL 4840 - Environment, Ecology, and Literature (3)
• ENGL 4860 - Fictions of Finance: Economic Criticism (3)
• ENGL 4880 - Children’s Literature (3)

Requirements for the Major:

In addition to the Core Requirements for the major, select one of the following options:
General Option (15 units)
Single Subject Credential Teaching Option (17 units)
 

General Option (15 units)

General Option Senior-Level Culminating Course (3 units)

Students must pass one of the following with a grade of C or better in order to satisfy the Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement.

Select one of the following (senior standing required):

• ENGL 4910 - Practicum in the Teaching of Literature (3)
• ENGL 4920 - Seminar in Literature and Language (3)
• ENGL 4925 - Practicum in Literature and Language (3)

Suggested General Option Program Tracks

Students can focus their undergraduate course of study by choosing some or all of their electives from one of several defined program tracks. Consult a departmental adviser for a current list of program tracks and associated courses.

Use of a program track is optional, though students seeking certification of subject area competency in English for the Single Subject Credential must complete all the requirements listed under the Single Subject Credential Teaching Option described below.

Single Subject Credential Teaching Option (17 units)

Refer to the Charter College of Education for regulations governing all teaching credential programs.

Students seeking certification of subject area competency in English for the Single Subject Credential must take the following:

Lower Division Prerequisite

•    General Education Block A1 (Oral Communication) Course (3)

Upper Division Required Courses (17 units)

• ENGL 3050 Issues in Writing Pedagogy (3)   and
• ENGL 3980 Cooperative Education (1-6)  
• ENGL 4180 Issues in English Language Teaching (3)  
• ENGL 4423 Shakespeare I: Poetry and Performance (3)  

   Select one of the following:

• ENGL 4690 Ethnic Literature in the U.S. (3)  
• ENGL 4691 Black American Literature (3)  
• ENGL 4692 U.S. Latino/a Literature (3)  
• ENGL 4693 Asian American Literature (3)  

• ENGL 4910 Practicum in the Teaching of Literature (3)  
  (Students must pass ENGL 4910 with a grade of C or better in order to satisfy the Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement).
  and
• ENGL 3980 Cooperative Education (1-6)