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Composition & Rhetoric

Program Requirements: Writing Track

A 36-Hour Thesis Program

Students following the literature track may choose either a thesis or a nonthesis program. Those who choose not to complete a thesis will take 6 hours of additional coursework. Students in this track must complete the 36-hour program outlined below:

 

Core: 6 hours

ENGL 613: Intersections: Literary Theory and Faith

ENGL 652: Rhetoric and Composition: Intersections of Theory and Praxis

Writing: 12-15 hours

ENGL 520: Creative Nonfiction Workshop

ENGL 522: Fiction Workshop

ENGL 523: Poetry Workshop

ENGL 525: Advanced Composition

ENGL 526: Business & Professional Writing

ENGL 540: Playwriting

Language: 0-9 hours

ENGL 529: Rhetoric as a Written Discourse 

ENGL 530: Advanced English Grammar

ENGL 532: Introduction to Linguistics

ENGL 558: Teaching ESL

Literature: 0-9 hours

ENGL 551: Literature for Young Adults

ENGL 562: American Literature to 1860

ENGL 563: American Literature after 1860

ENGL 564: American Novel

ENGL 570: Multicultural Literature
ENGL 571: Literature and Belief
ENGL 572: Film and Belief
ENGL 576: Fiction
ENGL 577: Drama
ENGL 578: Poetry
ENGL 581: Medieval British Literature
ENGL 583: Shakespeare
ENGL 584: 17th Century British Literature
ENGL 595: 18th Century British Literature
ENGL 596: 19th Century British Literature
ENGL 597: 20th Century British Literature

ENGL 610: Studies in American Literature

ENGL 612: Studies in British Literature (may be repeated up to 9 hours)

Support field: 0-6 hours
Thesis credits: 0-6 hours
Guided study : comprehensive exams: 0-3 hours


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