Pre-English Major Requirements

To be admitted to any option of the English major, a student must complete a total of 24 credits overall with a minimum 2.5 GPA. These credits must include:

1. Completion of at least nine credits in English (excluding ENEX-composition courses) with a minimum GPA of 2.5 and no grade lower than a C.

2. Completion of 15 additional credits with a minimum of a 2.5 GPA (may include ENEX).

Students who intend to major in English, but who have not yet met the above requirements are admitted to the program as Pre-English majors. Pre-English majors will be assigned an English department advisor.

All transfer students are admitted as Pre-English majors and must meet with an English advisor for review of their transcripts before being admitted to the program.

Before a student can graduate with a major in English, she/he must meet the requirements to become an English major.

Students can pick up Pre-English and English major option advising checklists in the English Department Office, LA 133. New students and transfer students meet with our Advising Director, Laura Wright. Her office is LA 133-C and her phone is (406) 243-6976.

Literature Option Degree Requirements

All English majors with literature or creative writing options must complete a minimum of 42 credits in English.

In addition, all English majors who select literature or creative writing options must complete four semesters of the same foreign language, through the 202-level, or demonstrate equivalent competency on a Foreign Language Placement Exam.

The English Department requires the following courses for majors with a literature option: ENLT 222L, 223L, 224L, 225L; ENLT 301; ENLT 320; three 300-level ENLT courses; either ENLT 420 or 421 and one other course from ENLT 420, 421, 430, 431, or ENLI 470; three English electives; two years of a foreign language.

Sample Schedule: Literature option

First Year	Autumn	Spring
ENEX 101 Composition	3	(3)
ENLT 222L - 223L British Literature	3	3
ENLT 224L American Literature	-	3
Foreign language	5	5
Electives or General Education	4	4
Total	15	15

Second Year	Autumn	Spring
ENLT 225L American Literature	3	-
ENLT 301 Applied Literary Criticism	-	3
English Elective	3	-
Foreign language	4	4
Electives or General Education	5	8
Total	15	15

Third Year	Autumn	Spring
ENLT 320 Shakespeare	3	-
Two 300-level ENLT courses	3	3
English elective	3	3
Electives & General Education	6	9
Total	15	15

Fourth Year	Autumn	Spring
One 300-level ENLT course	3	-
ENLT 420 or 421	3	-
One course from ENLT 420,421,430,431 or ENLI 470	-	3
English elective	-	3
Electives & General Education	9	9
Total	15	15

Courses

U = for undergraduate credit only, UG = for undergraduate or graduate credit, G = for graduate credit. R after the credit indicates the course may be repeated for credit to the maximum indicated after the R.

Literature

U 120L Introduction to Critical Interpretation 3 cr. Offered every term. Study of how readers make meaning of texts and how texts influence readers. Emphasis on interpreting literary texts: close reading, critical analysis and effective writing.

U 121L Introduction to Poetry 3 cr. Offered every term. An introduction to the techniques of reading and writing about poetry with emphasis on the lyric and other shorter forms.

U 195 Special Topics Variable cr. (R-6) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

U 222L British Literature Through the 18th Century 3 cr. Offered every term. Representative texts from the Anglo-Saxon period through the Enlightenment.

U 223L British Literature in the 19th and 20th Centuries 3 cr. Offered every term. Representative texts from Romanticism to the present.

U 224L American Literature to 1865 3 cr. Offered every term. Representative texts from the pre-colonial period through the Civil War.

U 225L American Literature Since 1865 3 cr. Offered every term. Representative texts from the Civil War to the present.

U 301 Applied Literary Criticism 3 cr. Offered every term. Prereq. or coreq., 12 credits of lower-division ENLT courses. A study of various literary theories and their application to literary texts.

UG 320 Shakespeare 3 cr. Offered autumn and spring. Prereq. ENLT 301 or consent of instr. A survey of selected Shakespeare plays emphasizing close reading of the texts and consideration of their dramatic possibilities.

UG 321 Studies in a Major Author 3 cr. (R-9) Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., ENLT 301 or consent of instr. Intensive study of the life and works of one author writing in English (every two years, Chaucer, Milton, Faulkner, Joyce, Twain; less frequently, Conrad, Hemingway, Blake, Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Welty).

UG 322 Studies in Literary History 3 cr. (R-9) Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., ENLT 301 or consent of instr. Study of influences on and innovations in the works of various authors within a particular literary historical period in England or America (every two years, British Renaissance, Age of Johnson, Romantic, Victorian, British Modern, American Puritanism to Transcendentalism, American Realism and Naturalism, American Romanticism; less frequently, Medieval, 17th century).

UG 323 Studies in Literary Forms 3 cr. (R-9) Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., ENLT 301 or consent of instr. Same as LS 323. Reading of various authors from different literary periods and cultures working in the same mode of composition (every two years, Literature of Place, Modern Drama, 19th Century Fiction, 20th Century Fiction, Lyric Poetry, Science Fiction, Autobiography; less frequently, Travel Literature, Popular Fiction, Epic, Tragedy, Satire, Romance, Comedy).

UG 324 Studies in Literature and Society 3 cr. (R-9) Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., ENLT 301 or consent of instr. Reading devoted to a single topic of contemporary social concern (every two years, Women's Writing, Montana Writers; less frequently, Regionalism, American Indian Literature, Contemporary Women's Writing).

UG 325 Studies in Literature and Other Disciplines 3 cr. (R-9) Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., nine credits in ENLT or LS or consent of instr. Same as LS 356. Selected works of literature studied in conjunction with works of art, music, religion, philosophy, or another discipline (every two years, Psychology and Literature, Film and Literature, The Poetry of Meditation; less frequently, British Art and Literature, Modernism, Literature and Science, Bible as Literature, Song).

UG 327E Bioethical Issues in Literature 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Prereq., lower-division course in Perspective 5 or consent of instr. An examination of specific bioethical issues raised in selected literary texts, e.g. medical intervention in the creation, alteration or termination of life; use and abuse of medical authority or procedures; public health issues in conflict with economic development.

UG 329 Native American Literature 3 cr. Offered autumn. Prereq., three credits of lower-division ENLT courses and NAS 100H or 202L. Same as NAS 329. Selected readings from Native American literature with special emphasis on the literature of writers from the Rocky Mountain west.

U 395 Special Topics Variable cr. (R-9) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

U 398 Cooperative Education Experience Variable cr. (R-12) Offered intermittently. Prereq., consent of department. Extended classroom experience which provides practical application of classroom learning during placements off campus. Prior approval must be obtained from the faculty supervisor and the Cooperative Education Office.

UG 420 History of Criticism and Theory 3 cr. Offered autumn. Prereq., ENLT 301 and six credits in literature courses numbered 300 or higher or consent of instr. Same as LS 460. Survey of the historical development of critical theories which shaped ways of reading and writing from Plato and Aristotle to the present.

UG 421 Topics in Critical Theory 3 cr. (R-9) Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., ENLT 301 and six credits in literature courses numbered 300 or higher or consent of instr. Same as LS 461. Study and application of one or more theoretical approaches to interpreting texts (e.g., aesthetic poststructural, new historicist, classical, renaissance, romantic, narrative, psychoanalytic, formalist, neo-marxist, feminist, gender, cultural studies and reader-response theory).

UG 430 Studies in Comparative Literature 3 cr. (R-9) Offered intermittently. Prereq., Consent of instr. Same as FLLG 440 and LS 455. The study of important literary ideas, genres, trends and movements. Credit not allowed for the same topic in more than one course numbered 430, FLLG 440, FLLG 494, or LS 455.

UG 431 Senior Seminar in Literature 3 cr. (R-9) Offered intermittently. Prereq., ENLT 301 and six credits in literature courses numbered 300 or higher or consent of instr. Advanced studies in literary figures and topics.

UG 495 Special Topics 1-6 cr. (R-6) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

U 496 Independent Study 1-3 cr. (R-9) Offered every term. Prereq., Consent of instr. and chair, and junior or senior standing. Special projects in literature. Only one 496 may be taken per semester. Consent must be obtained prior to enrollment.

U 499 Honors Thesis Variable cr. (R-9) Offered intermittently. Prereq., Consent of chair. G 520 Seminar in British Literature 3 cr. (R-9) Offered every term. Prereq., Consent of instructor. Topics will vary.

G 521 Seminar in America Literature 3 cr. (R-9) Offered every term. Prereq., Consent of instr. Topics will vary.

G 522 Seminar in Comparative Literature 3 cr. (R-9) Same as FLLG 522. Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., Consent of instructor. Topics will vary.

G 523 The Literature of Natural History 3 cr. Offered autumn. Same as EVST 505. Study of the literary history of natural history from its classical origins to the present with an emphasis on the American tradition of nature writing and its relationship to conservation biology, and the practice of natural history.

G 524 Nature, Language and Politics 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Same as EVST and PHIL 506. Investigation of environmental, social and political thought from the perspective of contemporary language theory.

G 595 Special Topics Variable cr. (R-9) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

G 596 Graduate Independent Study Variable cr. (R-9) Offered every term. Prereq., Consent of instr. And chair. Special projects in literature. Only one 596 permitted per semester. Consent must be obtained prior to enrollment.

G 598 Cooperative Education Experience Variable cr. (R-9) Offered intermittently. Prereq., Consent of department. Extended classroom experience which provides practical application of classroom learning during placements off campus. Prior approval must be obtained from the faculty supervisor and the Cooperative Education Office.

G 599 Thesis Variable cr. (R-6) Offered every term.