English B.A., Literature Concentration

Degree Requirements

Areas A - E (See Core section of the Catalog) (42 semester hours)

Area F (18 semester hours)

All of the following (15 hours)

ENGL 2120	Intro to British Literature	3
ENGL 2130	American Literature	3
ENGL 2150	Shakespeare	3
ENGL 2160	Studies in International Lit	3
ENGL 2200	Writing About Literature	3

One of the following (3 hours):

FREN 2002	Intermediate French Readings	3
GRMN 2002	Intermediate German Readings	3
ITAL 2002	Intermediate Italian Readings	3
SPAN 2002	Intermediate Spanish Readings	3

If a student places out of any language at the 2002 level, area F.2 may be replaced by any 1000-2000 level AFST, ARTS, BLST, COMM, HIST, IDST, LING, MSCM, MUSC, PHIL, RELI, THEA, or WMST course not used to fulfill areas B, C, & E (3 hours).

(Any transfer student who has not completed the courses in Area F, or their equivalents, must take these remaining courses at GC.)

Major Requirements (27 semester hours)

Historical periods: One course from each of the following three groups (9 hours):

Group 1

ENGL 4220	Medieval English Literature	3
ENGL 4225	English Renaissance Literature	3
ENGL 4330	Restoration & 18th Cent Lit	3
ENGL 4550	American Literature to 1865	3

Group 2

ENGL 4335	English Romanticism	3
ENGL 4337	Victorian Literature	3
ENGL 4555	Am Literature 1865 to 1920	3
ENGL 4665	American Lit from 1920-Present	3

Group 3

ENGL 4228	Development of English Drama	3
ENGL 4331	Eighteenth-Cent English Novel	3
ENGL 4338	19th-Century English Novel	3
ENGL 4440	Modern Drama	3
ENGL 4441	20th-Century British Fiction	3
ENGL 4446	Modern Poetry	3

Theoretical approaches: One course from the following (3 hours):

ENGL 4110	Literary Criticism	3
ENGL 4112	Theories of Comp. and Lit.	3
ENGL 4115	History of the English Languag	3
ENGL 4116	Structure of Present-Day Eng	3

Single author: One course from the following (3 hours):

ENGL 4223	Chaucer	3
ENGL 4226	Topics in Shakespeare	3
ENGL 4227	Milton	3
ENGL 4664	Flannery O'Connor	3
ENGL 4850	Special Topics: Single Author	3

Thematic or conceptual: One course from the following (3 hours):

ENGL 4445	Literary Women	3
ENGL 4447	Comparative Literature	3
ENGL 4448	Adolescent Literature	3
ENGL 4449	Great Books of the Western Wrl	3
ENGL 4662	Southern Literature	3
ENGL 4667	African-American Literature	3
ENGL 4669	Multicultural Amer Literature	3
ENGL 4671	Studies in Native American Lit	3
ENGL 4770	Studies in Folklore	3
ENGL 4950	Special Topics	1 - 4

International: One course from the following (3 hours):

ENGL 4451	African Literature	3
ENGL 4452	African Women Writers	3
ENGL 4955	Special Topics in Intern'l Lit	3

The following courses are also required:

ENGL 3900	Critical Approaches to Lit	3
ENGL 4900	Seminar of Lang & Literature	3

Electives (18-30 semester hours)

English majors who need more than one language course to meet the University B.A. requirements may have a lower number of elective hours.

Total Credit Hours: 120

Senior Capstone Experience (3 semester hours)

English majors in the Literature concentration may meet the GC Senior Capstone Experience requirement in any of the following ways:

1. Completion of a Senior Research/Thesis Experience scholarly project (ENGL 4970), completed during the semester in which the student is enrolled in ENGL 4900, Seminar on Language and Literature. All students in ENGL 4900 are required to revise and substantially extend a research essay from a previous upper-level English course. In order to receive Capstone credit for a Senior Research thesis, however, students must register for 3 hours of ENGL 4970, supervised by a faculty member with whom the student will work on the thesis project. To receive credit for the Senior Thesis, students must revise and extend their essay beyond the requirements for ENGL 4900; a general rule would be a 40-page essay with a substantial scholarly bibliography. Students pursuing the Thesis option will be required to defend their thesis in a 30-minute public presentation during which they will discuss their work and answer questions. The supervising faculty member, in consultation with the instructor of ENGL 4900, will assign a grade to the Thesis project, which will become the grade for ENGL 4970. The Senior Thesis requirement may also be met through completion of a Scholars Project, as outlined in the Honors and Scholars Program section of the Catalog;
2. Study abroad undertaken after completion of at least 72 hours of coursework, met through ENGL 4980. Students who seek Capstone credit for study abroad must register for a 3-hour section of ENGL 4980 in the semester subsequent to their participation in any study abroad program approved by the Department Chair (full-year, semester, or summer). While abroad, students will write a journal or a blog in order to have a timely record of their impressions and experiences. Following their return to Georgia College, they will write a reflective essay of no fewer than 3,000 words, exploring what they have learned from their travel. The instructor of record for ENGL 4980 will award a letter grade for this essay, and it will be the grade for the course. Failure to complete ENGL 4980 by the end of the semester following study abroad will result in a failing grade in the course, and Capstone credit will not be granted;
3. Completion of a 3-hour internship in a placement appropriate personally and professionally for the student's interests, as determined in consultation with the student's selected supervising faculty member and the Department Chair. To receive Capstone credit for an internship, students must register for 3 hours of ENGL 4960 simultaneously with undertaking the internship. ENGL 4960 will be supervised by a faculty member with the appropriate expertise in the area of the internship, selected by the student, with input from other appropriate faculty members as needed. In addition to the actual work of the internship, students will be required to compile a portfolio, essay, or other appropriate documentation reflecting their learning and experiences in their placement, which will be evaluated by the supervising faculty member. In addition, the field supervisor must provide an evaluation of the student's work in the internship. The student will receive a grade of “I” (incomplete) in ENGL 4960 until all material, including the field supervisor's evaluation, is submitted to the supervising faculty member. Failure to submit this material by the end of the semester following completion of the internship will result in a failing grade for ENGL 4960, and Capstone credit will not be granted;
4. Completion of an approved Senior Service Learning Experience project in an area chosen with a faculty advisor or group of advisors and the Office of Academic Engagement, and approved through a competitive application process through the Office of Academic Engagement. This option requires registration for ENGL 3005, Service Learning (1 hour) in the semester the project is undertaken (usually the Fall semester of the senior year), and for ENGL 4970, Thesis (2 hours) in the following semester to write a scholarly and reflective paper placing the service-learning project into a disciplinary and interdisciplinary context, and/or to compile a documentary portfolio of the experience. Both the paper option and the portfolio option require presentation of the project's results at either the Student Research Day, a Service Learning Symposium, or an appropriate professional meeting or conference;
5. Completion of any approved IDST 4999 Senior Capstone course.

Other Requirements

• Completion of the First-Year Academic Seminar with a passing grade. Students who transfer to GC after the first term are exempt from the requirement.
• A grade of C or better is required in all English courses; more than one grade of D or below may disqualify a student from continuing in the major.
• A minimum of 39 semester hours overall must be at the 3000-4000 level.
• Fulfillment of University-wide Senior Capstone Experience requirement, as explained above.