About the Program
The English B.A. program in literature offers a liberal arts English major, the enhancement of writing skills, and electives to satisfy Intellectual Foundations requirements.
About the English Department
208 Ketchum Hall
1300 Elmwood Ave
Buffalo, NY 14222
Phone: (716) 878-5417
Fax:
https://english.buffalostate.edu/
Admission Requirements
Any matriculated student in good academic standing may declare this program.
Learning Outcomes
Students will:
1. utilize literary terminology and the conventions of the field (including MLA-style citation) appropriately and effectively in describing and explicating texts from different genres, periods, and movements.
2. discuss historical developments in literature, including the development of different literary forms/ genres and of critical and theoretical methods for exploring texts, and be able to explicate in oral discussions and in critical essays a variety of forms and genres using these perspectives.
3. evaluate movements, periods, and representative figures in literature, and to make connections across and within genre, gender, racial, ethnic, and national border lines.
Program Requirements
General Education 23 Requirements
33 credit hours 33
English Major Requirements (42 credit hours)
(27 credit hours must be upper-division)
Required Courses (18 credit hours)
ENG 190 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE 1
ENG 250 LITERARY MOVEMENTS
ENG 390 LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY
ENG 490 SENIOR SEMINAR IN LITERATURE
Select one of the following Major Figure courses:
ENG 315 SHAKESPEARE
ENG 322 REPRESENTATIVE WRITERS
Pre-1900 options (9 credit hours)
If ENG 315 or ENG 322 is used to satisfy the Major Figures requirement, it cannot be used to satisfy the pre-1900 requirements. Other courses (including ENG 210, ENG 220) may count toward this requirement, based on the course topic.
ENG 130 BIBLICAL AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE
ENG 131 MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
ENG 315 SHAKESPEARE
ENG 416 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
ENG 442 THE AMERICAN NOVEL TO 1900
Electives (18 credit hours)
Select six ENG literature courses by advisement. Courses listed above that were not used to satisfy one of the above requirements can be used as an elective.
ENG 147 INTRODUCTION TO DIVERSE LITERATURES
ENG 151 INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
ENG 210 TOPICS IN BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE
ENG 220 TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
ENG 221 FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
ENG 230 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
ENG 231 WOMEN IN LITERATURE
ENG 240 AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1940
ENG 241 AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1940
ENG 243 INTRODUCTION TO LATINX LITERATURE
ENG 255 THE SHORT STORY
ENG 260 CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
ENG 337 LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
ENG 345 MODERN WORLD LITERATURE
ENG 353 AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE
ENG 354 ETHNIC AMERICAN MINORITY LITERATURES
ENG 356 SPECULATIVE FICTION
ENG 361 CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
ENG 362 CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
ENG 370 FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE
ENG 380 THE HISTORY OF THE PRINTED BOOK
ENG 385 GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN LITERATURE
ENG 447 SELECTED TOPICS IN DIVERSE LITERATURE
ENG 450 STUDIES IN POETRY
ENG 451 STUDIES IN FICTION
ENG 452 STUDIES IN DRAMA
ENG 461 YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
All College Electives
45 credit hours of electives 45
Total Credit Hours 120
1 Must be taken immediately after completion of basic communication requirement or within first year of transfer to English Department.
2 If students use ENG 313 or ENG 315 to satisfy their Major Figure requirement (see above), they cannot use it to satisfy their pre-1900 requirement.