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The Concentration in English Language Arts is designed to provide students with experience in the study of literature, linguistics, rhetoric, and writing. While it is designed and intended primarily for prospective elementary school teachers, the concentration is open to all students. All Majors in this concentration take two Introductory Courses (6 credits): ENGL 22000 Introduction to Writing about Literature (3 cr), which is a pre-requisite for all other courses in the major, and ENGL 25200 Introduction to Literary studies (3 cr.), which must be taken within a semester of declaring the major. Students take four required literature courses (12 cr): two surveys (ENGL 30400 Survey of British and Irish Literature, ENGL 30700 Survey of American Literature), one course in Postcolonial literature, African American literature, Native American literature, Asian American literature, Latina/o American literature, multi-ethnic American literature, or literatures from non-European traditions (ENGL 31700, ENGL 31800, ENGL 32000, ENGL 32100, ENGL 32300, ENGL 32400, ENGL 32500, ENGL 32600, ENGL 32700, or ENGL 32900), and one course in either Western Literary Backgrounds (ENGL 30300), Children’s Literature (ENGL 30500), Introduction to Literary Theory (ENGL 30600), or Shakespeare (ENGL 35200, 35300, 35400). All majors in this concentration are required to take two courses in Linguistics and/or Rhetoric (including ENGL 28000: The Structure of Modern English) and two writing courses (including ENGL 30100: Composition Theory and Practice). The remaining three courses (9 cr.) are electives, one of which is a 400-level advanced seminar, which will involve a substantial research or creative project. Students have the option of taking one course (3 credits) outside the English department from a menu of options (see below), an independent study with a full-time faculty member, an internship, and/or an Honors seminar if they qualify.
