English, B.A. - Professional Writing

The program course outline and graduation requirements for this catalog year are listed below. To graduate, a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 must be achieved, and a total of 120 credits is required. This total includes both the required courses for the program and any free electives selected. The department website provides an overview of the program, admission requirements for the major (when applicable), faculty biographies, learning outcomes, and careers: https://www.southernct.edu/academics/english/programs.

GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS (46 Credits)

All bachelor’s degree programs include liberal education (LEP) and writing (W) course requirements. To review more detailed information, please visit General Education (LEP) Degree Requirements.   

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (43 Credits)

Up to three courses in the major/cognate may also satisfy LEP requirements and will be indicated below; no more than two courses in the same subject may be used towards LEP Explorations.  

Major GPA 2.0 required; C or better in all major courses; no more than 1/3 credits in major may be transfer credit. All English majors are expected to take at least one course in American literature and at least one course in British literature.

ENG 307 – Literary Analysis for English Majors (must be taken at SCSU)
ENG 308 – English Studies: Critical Theories (must be taken at SCSU)
ENG 490 – Advanced Seminar in Literature (must be taken at SCSU)
ENG 491– Career Preparation in English (must be taken at SCSU)

Writing in Practice (Select one):
ENG 202 – Introduction to Poetry Writing
ENG 203 – Introduction to Fiction Writing
ENG 302 – Intermediate Poetry Writing
ENG 306 – Intermediate Fiction Writing
ENG 309 – Rhetorical Strategies in Writing and Communication
ENG 402 – Advanced Poetry Writing
ENG 406 – Advanced Fiction Writing
ENG 407 – Writing the Novel I
ENG 408 – Writing the Novel II

Early and Colonial Literature (Select two):
ENG 321 – British Literature through History I
ENG 342 – Shakespeare I: 1564-1601
ENG 343 – Shakespeare II: 1601-1616
ENG 344 – Shakespeare’s Contemporaries
ENG 360 – Early American Writers
ENG 380 – Chaucer
ENG 385 – English Medieval Literature
ENG 431 – Colonial American Literature
ENG 452 – Renaissance in England
ENG 453 – British Women Writers: 1600-1750
ENG 454 – 17th-Century British Literature
ENG 484 – Milton
LIT 300 – Hebrew Bible as Literature
LIT 302 – Literature of the New Testament
LIT 310 – Mythology
LIT 311 – Norse and Celtic Mythology
LIT 406 – Classical Drama: Greek and Roman

Eighteenth- and Long Nineteenth-Century Literature (Select one):
ENG 322 – British Literature through History II
ENG 323 – American Literature through History
ENG 331 – British Novel to 1900
ENG 361 – American Renaissance
ENG 362 – American Realism
ENG 365 – Literature: The American West
ENG 427 – Victorian Poetry
ENG 428 – Victorian Age Literature
ENG 444 – 18th-Century British Literature
ENG 455 – 19th-Century British Literature: 1837-1900
ENG 458 – Romantic Poets
ENG 466 – Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick

Modern and Contemporary Literature (Select one):
ENG 327 – Modern Comedy
ENG 329 – Modern British Literature
ENG 339 – Modern British Novel
ENG 367 – Contemporary American Free Verse
ENG 371 – Literature into Film
ENG 372 – Young Adult Literature
ENG 423 – Contemporary African–American Novelists
ENG 424 – The Harlem Renaissance
ENG 461 – The Beat Movement
ENG 463 – 20th-Century American Novel
ENG 464 – Major American Modernists

Multicultural Literatures (Select one):
ENG 317 – Cross-Cultural Literatures and Contexts
ENG 421 – Feminist Theory and Literary Criticism
ENG 423 – Contemporary African-American Novelists
ENG 424 – The Harlem Renaissance
ENG 460 – Queer Theory
ENG 462 – Gay and Lesbian Film and Literature
ENG 465 – Postcolonial Literature
LIT 382 – Contemporary Latin American Literature

Professional Writing (Select five): 
ENG 200 – Intermediate Composition
ENG 240 – Professional Writing: Theory and Practice
ENG 280 – Writing for Nonprofit Organization
ENG 304 –Technical Writing and Communication
ENG 313 –The Study of Words
ENG 316 – Writing for Business and Industry
ENG 318 – Writing for Web
ENG 350 – Environmental Writing
ENG 352 – Medical and Health Writing
ENG 405 –Techniques of Teaching Composition
ENG 410 – Writing for Audio-Visual Media
ENG 412 – Soundwriting
ENG 498 – Professional Writing Internship
JRN 200 – Basics of Journalism
JRN 230 – Fundamentals of Public Relations
JRN 305 – Precision Editing
JRN 306 – Digital News Design
JRN 320 – Writing Magazine Articles I

ACCELERATED PATHWAY OPTION (9 Credits)

Students with an overall 3.5 GPA may be approved to complete an accelerated pathway. Graduate courses may be completed during their senior year when a student has earned at least 90 credits. Courses successfully completed with a grade of 'C' or higher will earn dual credit to be applied to both the undergraduate and graduate transcript. Approval to start graduate coursework does not guarantee admission to the graduate program.

Accelerated Pathway to Graduate Program
In consultation with their advisor, students may select up to 9 credits of graduate level coursework (500-level or higher) appropriate to their intended graduate program of study.