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English and Creative Writing Major

38 semester hours required

Choose any 200-level literature course

offered by the department, with the exception or ENGL 237.

Senior Exercises:

ENGL 452 (1) – Senior Exercise

English

In one of her last two terms a senior major must choose a literature course offered by the department at the 300-level (or, if justified, at the 200-level), excluding creative writing courses and special studies, and do her senior exercise in conjunction with this course. The senior exercise will include a substantial paper as a culmination of an individual research project and an oral presentation. Students may fulfill this requirement by completing an honors thesis in English. A senior exercise in the teaching of writing is also offered with the permission of the chair. Any of these options must be taken at Sweet Briar College.

ENGL 454 (1) – Portfolio Preparation

Creative Writing

During one semester of her senior year, a major must enroll in a creative writing workshop and in portfolio preparation. While completing the assignments in the workshop, she will meet with her professor to create a portfolio of her work. Both courses must be taken at Sweet Briar College.

Choose 5 courses

(15 semester hours) in creative writing.

Choose 1 of the following courses:

Medieval and Renaissance Literature
ENGL 313 (3) – Studies in Medieval Literature
ENGL 317 (3) – History of the English Language
ENGL 319 (3) – Chaucer
ENGL 322 (3) – Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama
ENGL 324 (3) – Shakespeare and Jacobean/Caroline Drama
ENGL 325 (3) – Shakespeare: Ten Plays
ENGL 340 (3) – The English Renaissance

Choose 1 of the following courses:

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature
ENGL 329 (3) – American Romanticism
ENGL 331 (3) – The 19th-Century American Novel
ENGL 367 (3) – The Age of Romanticism
ENGL 368 (3) – Topics in 19th-Century British Literature and Culture
ENGL 374 (3) – Great 19th-Century British Novels

Choose 1 of the following courses:

Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature
ENGL 302 (3) – Special Topics (when material is appropriate)
ENGL 330 (3) – African-American Literature
ENGL 332 (3) – Modern and Contemporary Women Writers
ENGL 380 (3) – Classics of Modern Drama
ENGL 393 (3) – Modern Poetry
ENGL 394 (3) – Contemporary Poetry
ENGL 397 (3) – Modern Fiction
ENGL 398 (3) – Contemporary Fiction

Choose 2 additional courses

in English at the 300-level. One of these courses must be literature or criticism and the second may be an internship sponsored by the department.

Choose 1 additional course

in English at the 200- or 300-level (with the exception of ENGL 205 and ENGL 206). This course may be a 200- or 300-level film studies course offered by the department.

Notes: Five courses (15 semester hours) in English must be taken at Sweet Briar College. With the exception of internships, no course used to fulfill major requirements may be taken on a P/CR/NC grading option. No course below the 200-level may be counted toward the major.

Majors must pass at least one 200- or 300-level course in which a significant amount of the reading is in translation or in literatures in English other than U.S. or British. Courses from other departments may satisfy this requirement with the chair's approval.

•A maximum of three credit hours of internship sponsored by the department may be counted toward the English and Creative Writing major.