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Undergraduate Literature Option
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.
All English majors with literature or creative writing options must complete a minimum of 42 credits in English.
The English Department requires the following for majors with a literature option:
NOTE: These seven electives must include at least one course from each of the following designations: A (Medieval through early modern British literature); B (Enlightenment through Romantic British Literature, or pre-1865 American Literature); C (theory); D) (diversity). Designations A and B can be satisfied fully or in part at the 200-level. When this occurs, students must enroll in additional upper division electives to ensure completion of 42 credits. Designations of course offerings for each semester will be posted in the English Department.
| First Year | Autumn | Spring |
| ENEX 101 Composition | 3 | (3) |
| LIT 201 Introduction to Literary Studies | 3 | - |
| LIT 220 British Lit Medieval through Early Modern | - | 3 |
| LIT 211 American Lit I | - | 3 |
| Foreign language | 5 | 5 |
| Electives or General Education | 4 | 4 |
| Total | 15 | 15 |
| Second Year | Autumn | Spring |
| LIT 222 British Lit Victorian through Contemporary | 3 | - |
| LIT 300 Literary Criticism | - | 3 |
| LIT 327 Shakespeare | - | 3 |
| Foreign language | 4 | 4 |
| Electives or General Education | 8+ | 5+ |
| Total | 15 | 15 |
| Third Year | Autumn | Spring |
| 300- or 400- level English courses | 3 | 3 |
| 300- or 400- level English courses | 3 | 3 |
| Electives & General Education | 9 | 9 |
| Total | 15 | 15 |
| Fourth Year | Autumn | Spring |
| 300- or 400-level English courses | 3 | 3 |
| 300- or 400-level English courses | 3 | - |
| LIT 494 Senior Seminar | - | 3 |
| Electives & General Education | 9 | 9 |
| Total | 15 | 15 |
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.
U 110L Introduction to Literature, 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 120L 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 191 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 199 Lower-division elective, 3 cr.
U 201 Intro to Literary Studies, 3 cr.
U 210L American Literature I, 3 cr. Offered every term. Representative texts from the pre-colonial period through the Civil War.
U 211L American Literature II, 3 cr. Offered every term. Representative texts from the Civil War to the present.
U 220L British Literature: Medieval to Renaissance, 3 cr. 2-4 sections per year. Representative texts from the Anglo-Saxon period through the Renaissance.
U 221L British Literature: Enlightenment to Romantic, 3 cr. 2-4 sections per year. Representative texts from Enlightenment through the Romantic periods.
U 222: British Literature: Victorian to Contemporary, 3 cr. 2-4 sections per year. Representative texts from Victorian through Contemporary periods.
U 270L Film & Literature, 3 cr.
U 300 Literary Criticism, 3 cr. Offered every term. Prereq. or coreq., 12 credits of lower-division LIT courses. A study of various literary theories and their application to literary texts.
UG 301 Studies in Literary Forms, 3 cr. (R-9) Offered intermittently. Prereq., LIT 300 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 304 U.S. Writers of Color, 3 cr. Offered intermittently.
UG 305 Literature By & About Native Americans, 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Prereq., three credits of lower-division LIT 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.
UG 327 Shakespeare, 3 cr. Offered autumn and spring. Prereq. LIT 300 or consent of instr. A survey of selected Shakespeare plays emphasizing close reading of the texts and consideration of their dramatic possibilities.
UG 331 Major Author/s, 3 cr. (R-9) Offered intermittently. Prereq., LIT 300 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 336 Doctor's Stories, 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Prereq., LIT 300 or consent of instr.
UG 375 Literary History, 3 cr. (R-9) Offered intermittently. Prereq., LIT 300 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 376 Literature & Other Disciplines, 3 cr. (R-9) Offered intermittently. Prereq., nine credits in LIT 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).
U 391 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 Internship, 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 Critical Theory, 3 cr. (R-9) Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., LIT 300 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 421 History of Criticism and Theory, 3 cr. Offered autumn. Prereq., LIT 300 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 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., LIT 300 and six credits in literature courses numbered 300 or higher or consent of instr. Advanced studies in literary figures and topics.
UG 491 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 492 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.
UG 494 Seminar: Literature Capstone, 3 cr. Offered every autumn or spring.
U 499 Thesis/capstone: Honors, 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 500 Introduction to Graduate Studies, 3 cr. Offered every autumn. Recommended for all new graduate students in literature.
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.
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