All undergraduates at Florida State University must demonstrate basic computer skills competency prior to graduation. As necessary computer competency skills vary from discipline to discipline, each major determines the courses needed to satisfy this requirement. Undergraduate majors in English satisfy this requirement by earning a grade of "C–" or higher in CGS 2060, CGS 2064, CGS 2100, or EME 2040.

The State of Florida has identified common program prerequisites for this University degree program. Specific prerequisites are required for admission into the upper-division program and must be completed by the student at either a community college or a state university prior to being admitted to this program. Students may be admitted into the University without completing the prerequisites, but may not be admitted into the program.

At the time this document was published, some common program prerequisites were undergoing revision. Please visit http://facts23.facts.org/navigation/detail_ext/cpp_intro.do?pageId=060304 for a current list of state-approved prerequisites.

The following lists the common program prerequisites or their substitutions necessary for admission into this upper-division degree program:

1. ENC X101 and ENC X102 or XXX XXXX: six (6) credit hours of courses taught in the Department of English each with 6,000 words of evaluated writing for a total of 12,000 words

Please review all college-wide degree requirements summarized in the "College of Arts and Sciences" chapter of this General Bulletin.

In order to satisfy prerequisites for the English major, students must accomplish the following:

1. Completion of at least fifty-two semester hours of acceptable college credit with an overall GPA of at least 2.0
2. Satisfactory completion ("C–" or better) of all courses necessary for the Gordon rule (State Board of Education Rule 6A-10.030).

General Requirements: Thirty-three semester hours of English in courses numbered above 1999. At least twenty-one semester hours must be in courses at the 3000 and 4000 levels, including at least nine semester hours at the 4000 level. Honors thesis hours may be applied toward the Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, but only three semester hours will be accepted for major credit. Majors who complete teacher certification requirements may count three semester hours of internship elective credit at the 3000 level. One English course used to satisfy the humanities requirement for liberal studies may be counted as part of the major. All courses counted toward the major must carry the grade of "C–"or better. A minor in another department is also required; all courses counted toward the minor also must carry the grade of "C–" or better.

Each student will choose one of the following areas:

1. Concentration in Literature
   1. Three semester hours in ENG 3014 Critical Issues in Literary Studies (must be taken before student reaches ninety semester hours)
   2. Literature Courses: At least eighteen semester hours of literature courses beyond the 2000 level. Specifically required are:
      1. Three semester hours in United States literature at the 3000 or 4000 level
      2. Six semester hours in British literature before 1800, including at least three semester hours before 1660, at the 3000 or 4000 level
      3. Three semester hours in British literature after 1800 at the 3000 or 4000 level
      4. Three semester hours in ENG 4934 Senior Seminar in English (must be taken after student reaches ninety semester hours)
      5. Three semester hours in other literature courses at the 3000 or 4000 level
   3. Electives: Twelve semester hours in other English courses
2. Concentration in Writing
   1. Writing Courses: Fifteen semester hours in at least two of the following categories, of which at least six semester hours shall be in 4000-level workshop courses. Workshop courses with the "r" designation are repeatable with the instructor's permission.
      1. Article and Essay: ENC 3310, ENC 4311r; ENG 4020; ENC 4212, ENC 4500, ENC 4942r
      2. Fiction: CRW 3110, CRW 4120r
      3. Poetry: CRW 3311, CRW 4320r
      4. Drama: CRW 3410, CRW 4420r
   2. Literature Courses: Fifteen semester hours of literature, of which at least three semester hours shall be in English literature before 1900
   3. Electives: Three semester hours in other English courses
3. Concentration in English Studies

Students desiring to structure their own concentrations may propose a coherent program emphasizing, for example, a period, a genre, a theme, theory and criticism, or a combination of areas such as popular culture and film. The proposal, formulated in close consultation with and approved by the student's adviser, should include a total of at least twenty-four semester hours at the 3000 and 4000 levels (nine of these twenty-four semester hours must be at the 4000 level in English and nine may be in relevant courses outside the department). The proposal must be submitted to the faculty undergraduate committee for approval before midterm in the last semester of the student's junior year. To be eligible for the concentration in English studies, students must have at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA.

The Department of English offers honors in the major to encourage talented students to undertake independent research through two special seminars and two semesters of thesis work. For requirements and other information, see the "University Honors Office and Honor Societies" chapter of this General Bulletin and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in English.

This program is designed for those students who are interested in a liberal education that will at the same time give them maximum preparation for a business career. The curriculum combines extensive training in the broad field of the liberal arts with specialized training in the field of business. At the end of four years the student graduates with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree with a major in English and an emphasis in business. Students pursuing this program will meet the requirements of the English major and take a specified number of hours in business, normally thirty semester hours. For a list of the business courses required and other information concerning the program, the student should contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies in English or the departmental academic advisers. This program, emphasis in business, is in contrast to the eighteen semester hours that constitute a minor in business for arts and sciences majors.

Minor: At least twelve semester hours in English courses numbered above 1999. Students must have at least a "C–" average in the minor.

AML—American Literature

CRW—Creative Writing

ENC—English Composition

ENG—English: General

ENL—English Literature

LAE—Language Arts and English Education

LIN—Linguistics

LIT—Literature

REA—Reading

AML 2010. American Authors to 1875 (3). Important writings by representative American authors from the colonial period through the post Civil War era. Typically included are Franklin, Irving, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Douglass, and Emily Dickinson.

AML 2600. The African-American Literary Tradition (3). A survey of the canonical works of African-Americans, typically including Douglass, Chesnutt, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Morrison, and Walker.

AML 3041. American Authors Since 1875 (3). Significant works by representative Realists, Literary Naturalists, Modernists, and contemporary writers. Authors typically covered include Twain, James, Crane, Chopin, Eliot, Hemingway, Frost, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Wright, Baldwin, Morrison, and O'Connor.

AML 3311. Major Figures in American Literature (3). Examination of selected works of major American writers.

AML 3630. Latino/a Literature in English (3). Introduction to landmark Latino/a works written in English.

AML 3673. Asian American Literature (3). This course introduces students to selected works of Asian American literature, focusing on Asian Indian, Pacific Islander, Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, Cambodian, and Vietnamese American writers. Common topics include issues of diaspora, dislocation, and cross-culturality.

AML 3682. American Multi-Ethnic Literature (3). Introduction to cross-cultural literary traditions, looking at historical rationales and interconnections among communities as well as vital differences.

AML 4111. The 19th-Century American Novel (3). From Brown and Cooper to Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and Crane.

AML 4121. The 20th-Century American Novel (3). Typically Dreiser, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Bellow, and Wright.

AML 4213. Early American Literature and Culture before 1800 (3). Suggested Prerequisite: AML 2010. This course focuses on varying topics in pre-1800 American literature and culture, such as exploration and captivity narratives, Native American literature, the Puritan tradition, the enlightenment and revolutionary eras in America, the trans- and circum-Atlantic world, the slave trade, early-American print culture (including the novel), gender studies, and/or selected authors.

AML 4261. Literature of the South (3). Survey from Colonial times to the present, including Byrd, Poe, Simms, Cable, Faulkner, Warren, O'Connor, and others.

AML 4604. The African-American Literary Tradition (3). An examination of selected works by major African-American writers.

AML 4680r. Studies in Ethnic Literature (3). Advanced study offering a survey of a particular ethnic literary tradition and adopting a cultural studies model. May be repeated up to a maximum of twenty-four (24) semester hours.

CRW 3110. Fiction Technique (3). Analysis of and exercises in the elements of fiction: point of view, conflict, characterization, tone, and image.

CRW 3311. Poetic Technique (3). For aspiring poets and critics. Study of the elements of poetry, some practice in writing poetry.

CRW 3410. Dramatic Technique (3). An introduction to playwriting, with emphasis on the relation of the written drama to production. Both published plays and student work will be analyzed.

CRW 4120r. Fiction Workshop (3). Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Practice in short story, novella, or novel. Students will be expected to work toward submission and publication of manuscripts. May be repeated for a total of twenty-four (24) hours credit.

CRW 4320r. Poetry Workshop (3). Prerequisite: Instructor permission. For poets who approach excellence and aspire toward publication. May be repeated for a total of twenty-four (24) hours credit.

CRW 4420r. Drama Workshop (3). Prerequisite: Instructor permissin. Students will write, revise, and prepare for submission a one to three-act play; playing time: not less than one hour. May be repeated to a maximum of twenty-four (24) semester hours.

ENC 1101. Freshman Composition and Rhetoric (3). Drafting and writing of expository essays and a journal for a total of 7,000 words. May not be taken by students with credit in ENC 1149. No auditors.

ENC 1102. Freshman Writing, Reading, and Research (3). Prerequisite: ENC 1101 or ENC 1149. Reading, research, drafting, and writing of essays and a journal for a total of 7,000 words. No auditors.

ENC 1121. Freshman Composition and Rhetoric: Honors (3). This accelerated course is designed for honors students. Therefore, their level of performance will be expected to exceed the level attained by students in ENC 1101. Enrollment through the honors program.

ENC 1122. Freshman Writing About Literature: Honors (3). As a literature-based composition course, essay topics will be drawn from selected short stories, drama, and poetry. This accelerated course is designed for honors students; thus, their level of performance will be expected to exceed the level attained by students in ENC 1102. Enrollment through the honors program.

ENC 1142. Freshman Imaginative Writing Workshop (3). Prerequisite: ENC 1101 or ENC 1149. Freshman-level creative writing with some critical analysis of literature; emphasizes workshop atmosphere with class participation. Workshops offered in both poetry and fiction. Written work will total 7,000 words. Should not be taken by students with final grades below C in ENC 1101. No auditors.

ENC 1144. Freshman Article and Essay Workshop (3). Prerequisite: ENC 1101 or ENC 1149. Designed to help students attain a level of competency in nonfiction prose beyond that attained in ENC 1101. Emphasizes workshop atmosphere with class participation. Written work will total 7,000 words. No auditors.

ENC 1145. Freshman Special Topics in Composition (3). Prerequisite: ENC 1101 or ENC 1149. Freshman-level nonfiction prose writing on selected subjects for a total of 7,000 words. Topics vary. No auditors.

ENC 1905r. Improving College-Level Writing (1–3). (S/U grade only.) Individualized program of instruction in writing, including CLAST skills. Open to students from all levels and major areas. May be repeated for a maximum of three (3) semester hours.

ENC 3310. Article and Essay Technique (3). This course introduces students to the study and writing of nonfiction prose in a variety of modes, with emphasis on studying the elements of nonfiction prose and practice in the craft of writing.

ENC 4212. Editing: Manuscripts, Documents, Reports (3). Actual editing of another's work, synthesizing another's ideas and data, structuring and clarifying.

ENC 4311r. Advanced Article and Essay Workshop (3). Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Writer-editor relationship between student and instructor. For writers who aspire toward publication. May be repeated to a maximum of twenty-four (24) semester hours.

ENC 4500. Theories of Composition (3). Prerequisites: ENC 3310 and Instructor permission. An examination of topics in the teaching of composition, including theories of the composing process, invention, revision, assigning, and evaluating student writing, and the relationship between writing and reading.

ENC 4942r. Internship in Editing (0–3). (S/U grade only.) Practical experience in editing, public relations, and other forms of written communications. ENC 4212 recommended as a prerequisite. May be repeated to a maximum of three (3) semester hours.

ENG 3014. Critical Issues in Literary Studies (3). Introduction to the issues and debates that inform contemporary literary studies. Required of all literature track majors.

ENG 3310. Film Genres (3). Film as a means of exploring the problems of genre studies: relationship to literary genres, historical continuity, transformation of genre in the film medium.

ENG 3600. Hollywood Cinema (3). This course surveys central problems in the study of mainstream U.S. cinema. Topics include major historical developments, arguments over social and aesthetic value, and close examination of critically important films.

ENG 3931r. Topics in English (1–3). May be repeated to a maximum of twenty-four (24) semester hours.

ENG 4013. Literary Criticism (3). An historical overview of critical texts that consider the nature of literature from antiquity to the early 20th century. Typically includes readings from Plato, Aristotle, Wroth, Dryden, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Arnold, Eliot, Woolf.

ENG 4020. Rhetorical Theory and Practice (3). Prerequisites: ENC 3310 and instructor permission. Emphasis on contemporary developments in rhetoric and their applicability to writing. For upper-division students who intend to teach English composition.

ENG 4043. Contemporary Critical Theory (3). Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Advanced study of crosscurrents in later 20th-century critical theory.

ENG 4115. Film Theory (3). This course considers centrally important theories of film from the 1920s work of Eisenstein through the 1970s "gaze" theories of Metz and Mulvey, to the present. The course emphasizes what distinguishes film from other arts as well as its socio-historical causes and consequences.

ENG 4905r. Directed Individual Study (1–3). Topic to be approved by the director of undergraduate English studies. May be repeated to a maximum of twenty-four (24) semester hours.

ENG 4932r. Studies in English (1–3). Topics vary. For senior majors and qualified students. May be repeated to a maximum of twenty-four (24) semester hours.

ENG 4934. Senior Seminar in Literature (3). Prerequisites: Ninety (90) semester hours of college work. Topics vary. Required for senior English majors concentrating in literature. Does not count toward the major for concentration in writing.

ENG 4936r. Honors Thesis (1–6). Prerequisites: Instructor permission and admission to the department's honors-in-the-major program. The honors student takes two semesters of thesis work. May be repeated to a maximum of nine (9) semester hours.

ENG 4938. Advanced Seminar in English (3). Prerequisite: Admission to the department's honors-in-the-major program. The honors student takes two seminars. Permission required. May be repeated to a maximum of six (6) semester hours.

ENL 2012. British Authors: Beginnings to 1790 (3). Survey of English masterworks intended for students in liberal studies and those exploring a literature major. Among the authors typically considered are Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton.

ENL 2022. British Authors: Early Romantics to the Present (3). Survey of English masterworks intended for students in liberal studies and those exploring a literature major. Among the authors typically considered are Wordsworth, Dickens, and Conrad.

ENL 3184. British Drama: History, Text and Criticism (3). This course is an introduction to the history of the British drama and its current representation on the London stage. Students read and attend performances of plays from the major periods of British literary and dramatic history, from the Renaissance to the modern period.

ENL 3210. Medieval Literature in Translation (3). Literature of the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman periods: Beowulf, Romance of the Rose, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and others.

ENL 3334. Introduction to Shakespeare (3). An introduction to the study of Shakespeare at the college level. Consideration of representative works of comedy, history, tragedy, tragi-comedy drawn from throughout the playwright's career.

ENL 4112. The 18th-Century British Novel (3). Typically includes Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, and Radcliffe.

ENL 4122. The 19th-Century British Novel (3). Typically includes Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, and Hardy.

ENL 4132. The Modern British Novel (3). Typically includes Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Greene, Spark, and Lessing.

ENL 4161. Renaissance Drama (3). English drama by Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors from Marlowe until the closing of the theatres in 1642.

ENL 4171. Restoration and 18th-Century Drama (3). Representative plays of the period 1660—1800. May include plays by Dryden, Etherege, Wycherley, Otway, Congreve, Farquhar, Steele, Rowe, Gay, Fielding, Goldsmith, and Sheridan.

ENL 4218. Middle English Romance (3). An introduction to the Medieval English romance tradition from its beginning with Geoffrey of Monmouth to Malory's Morte d'Arthur.

ENL 4220. Renaissance Poetry and Prose (3). Lyric poetry and prose from Wyatt and Spenser to Shakespeare and the metaphysicals: Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and Vaughan.

ENL 4230. Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature (3). Studies in British poetry and prose from 1660 to 1800.

ENL 4240. British Romantic Literature (3). Studies in poetry and prose from 1785 to 1832.

ENL 4251. Victorian British Literature (3). Studies in poetry and prose from 1830 to 1900.

ENL 4273. Modern British Literature (3). British poetry, fiction, and essays since 1900. Typically includes Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Yeats, Lawrence, Woolf, Auden, and Lessing.

ENL 4311. Chaucer (3). The High Middle Ages in England seen through the perspective of the Canterbury Tales read in Middle English.

ENL 4333. Shakespeare (3). Study of representative Shakespearean dramas and their relationship to the Renaissance. Typically may include attention to relevant contemporary intellectual, historical, and political movements.

ENL 4341. Milton (3). Milton's life and works; emphasis on Lycidas, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and Milton's important libertarian prose.

LIN 3010. Introduction to Language Study (3). The relationship between meaning, form, and sound in language, including language acquisition, dialects, and grammar.

LIT 2010. Introduction to Fiction (3). This course introduces students to such narrative elements as point of view, characterization, setting, theme, and symbolism in the works of longer prose fiction and provides an introduction to the basic interpretive skills necessary to conduct literary analysis.

LIT 2020. Introduction to the Short Story (3). Tone, narration, form, and theme in representative short stories.

LIT 2030. Introduction to Poetry (3). This course engages students in the art of understanding and analyzing poetry as a genre by looking closely and critically at the forms, themes, techniques, and devices in selected poems from a variety of historical periods.

LIT 2081. Contemporary Literature (3). Poetry, fiction, drama from WWI to the present. For beginning students.

LIT 2230. Introduction to Global Literature in English (3). Introduction to English-language literature from countries that were former British colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.

LIT 3043. Modern Drama (3). From O'Neill, Pirandello, Miller, and Theatre of the Absurd to the present.

LIT 3383. Women in Literature (3). An examination of the representation of women in literature.

LIT 4033. Modern Poetry (3). Introductory analysis of techniques and meanings. Typically includes Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Eliot, Auden, Thomas, and Plath.

LIT 4034. Postmodern and Contemporary Poetry (3). Prerequisites: ENC 1102 and ENC 1122 or equivalents. In this course, students analyze themes and techniques associated with poetry in English from the end of World War II to the present. Poets studied typically include Olson, Ginsberg, Baraka, Clifton, Bishop, Lowell, Plath, Heaney, and Rich.

LIT 4044r. Readings in Dramatic Literature (3–6). Specific topics in the study of British, American, or Continental drama. May be repeated to a maximum of six (6) hours credit.

LIT 4093. Currents in Contemporary Literature (3). Diverse, resurgent, and oppositional trends in literature since 1945; Mailer, Brautigan, Bellow, and others.

LIT 4184. Irish Literature (3). Synge, Yeats, Shaw, O'Casey, Joyce, Beckett, and others.

LIT 4205. Literature of Human Rights (3). This course is a study of literature in English and related materials relevant to the issue of human rights.

LIT 4233. Anglophone Postcolonial Literature (3). This course is an advanced study of literature written in English in former colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.

LIT 4304. The Literary Expression of American Popular Culture (3). An introductory course treating the wide variety of literary manifestations of American popular culture as reflections and symptoms of the concerns of modern American society.

LIT 4322. Folklore (3). Introduction to myth, legend, tale, song, ballad, beliefs, and customs.

LIT 4329. African-American Folklore (3). This course provides an overview of the major forms of cultural expression developed by African-Americans. The focus will be on African-American folklore as a living tradition to be understood and interpreted.

LIT 4385. Major Women Writers (3). An examination of selected works by significant women writers.

LIT 4514. Postcolonial Literatures and Feminisms (3). Prerequisites: ENC 1102 and ENC 1142 or equivalent. This course focuses upon literature and criticism about the status of women in former colonies.

LIT 4533. Feminisms: The Long 19th Century (3).This course introduces students to some of the key concepts of what is known as the "First Wave" of Feminist Theory in the 19th century.

LIT 4534. Early Feminisms (3). This course introduces students to key concepts, issues, and debates that shaped societal attitudes toward women prior to the emergence of "first wave feminism" in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Topics may include women's education, rights to participate in the public sphere, roles in marriage, the nature of women's work, and women's right to citizenship.

LIT 4554. Feminist Theory (3). This course introduces students to the basic concepts and issues in feminist thought through reading some of the major feminist theorists.

LIT 4652. Middle Eastern Literature and Translation (3). This course explores English translations of various genres of literature written in the Middle East and offers a Middle Eastern perspective of the religious, cultural, economic, territorial, and geopolitical conflicts of the region. The course covers the use of theoretical languages and concepts from a broad spectrum of literary fields such as postcolonialism, religious studies, feminism, globalization studies, and area studies.

REA 1905r. Improving College-Level Reading (1–3). (S/U grade only.) Individualized program of instruction in critical and comprehensive reading, including CLAST skills. Open to students from all levels and major areas. May be repeated for a maximum of three (3) semester hours.

AML 5017r. Studies in U.S. Literature to 1875 (3).

AML 5027r. Studies in U.S. Literature Since 1875 (3).

AML 5267r. Studies in Literature of the American South (3).

AML 5296r. Studies in Multi-Ethnic Literature (3).

AML 5608r. Studies in the African-American Literary Tradition (3).

AML 5637r. Studies in Latino/a Literature in English (3).

CRW 5130r. Fiction Workshop (3).

CRW 5331r. Poetry Workshop (3).

CRW 5430r. Drama Workshop (3).

ENC 5216. Introduction to Editing and Publishing (3).

ENC 5217. Topics in Editing (3–6).

ENC 5317r. Article and Essay Workshop (3).

ENC 5700. Theories of Composition (3).

ENC 5720. Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition (3).

ENC 5945r. Internship in Editing (0–3). (S/U grade only.)

ENG 5009. Introduction to Advanced Studies in English (3).

ENG 5028. Rhetorical Theory and Practice (3).

ENG 5049r. Studies in Critical Theory (3).

ENG 5068r. Studies in Language and Linguistics (3).

ENG 5138r. Studies in Film (3).

ENG 5835r. Topics in Publishing (3–6).

ENG 5906r. Directed Individual Study (1–3). (S/U grade only.)

ENG 5933r. Topics in English (1–3).

ENG 5935r. Speakers in English Studies (1–3). (S/U grade only.)

ENG 5998r. Tutorial in English (1–3). (S/U grade only.)

ENG 6907r. Directed Readings (1–6).(S/U grade only.)

ENG 6939r. Seminar in English (3).

ENL 5206r. Studies in Old English Language and Literature (3).

ENL 5216r. Studies in Middle English Language and Literature (3).

ENL 5227r. Studies in Renaissance Literature (3).

ENL 5236r. Studies in Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature (3).

ENL 5246r. Studies in British Romantic Literature (3).

ENL 5256r. Studies in Victorian Literature (3).

ENL 5276r. Studies in 20th-Century British Literature (3).

LAE 5370. Teaching English in College (3).

LAE 5946. Teaching English as a Guided Study (3).

LAE 5948r. Supervised Teaching (0–5). (S/U grade only.)

LIT 5017r. Studies in Fiction (3).

LIT 5038r. Studies in Poetry (3).

LIT 5047r. Studies in Drama (3).

LIT 5186r. Studies in Irish and/or Scottish Literature (3).

LIT 5235r. Studies in Post-Colonial Literature in English (3).

LIT 5309r. Studies in Popular Culture (3).

LIT 5327r. Studies in Folklore (3).

LIT 5388r. Studies in Women's Writing (3).

LIT 5517r. Studies in Gender in Literature (3).

For listings relating to graduate course work for thesis, dissertation, and master's and doctoral examinations and defense, consult the Graduate Bulletin.