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Bachelor of Arts: English

To graduate with a major in English, students must achieve a grade-point average of at least 2.0 in the 36-hour program, but no credit will be given for courses in which the grade is below C-.

Students may pursue a general program in English leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree (focusing  on British & American or Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern literatures or taking the track in language and rhetoric), or they may choose an emphasis area in creative writing or secondary English education.

The Bachelor of Arts in English program is recommended for students interested in a broad general background in the humanities with a concentration in literature and language and for those interested in obtaining a firm foundation for further study in graduate school. English majors planning to attend graduate school are strongly urged to take two years of a foreign language.

Requirements for the B.A. in English

The Bachelor of Arts in English is designed for students desiring a broad general background in English and American literature (a). To receive a B.A. in English, students must complete the following 36-hour program (b). At least 18 of the 36 required credit hours listed below must be taken within the English Department at UMKC (c):

All of the following (15 credits):
ENGLISH 311 American Literature I
ENGLISH 317 British Literature I
ENGLISH 321 American Literature II
ENGLISH 323 Shakespeare
ENGLISH 327 British Literature II

One of the following (3 credits):
ENGLISH 310 Introduction to Linguistics Language Science
ENGLISH 320 Structure of English
ENGLISH 330 History of the English Language

One of the following (3 credits):
ENGLISH 305WI Theory and Practice of Composition
ENGLISH 307WI Language, Literacy, Power
ENGLISH 308 Rhetorics of New Media
ENGLISH 309WI Rhetorics of Public Memory
ENGLISH 342WI Women and Rhetoric
ENGLISH 445 History and Principles of Rhetoric

FOUR additional courses in Language or Literature; at least two of which must be at the 400 level and two of which must cover periods prior to 1900 (12 credits):
ENGLISH 300 Cluster Course: Clio & Other Muses

ENGLISH 300CD Cluster Course: American Social Film: Silver Screen American Dream
ENGLISH 300CE Cluster Course: Radical Changes Since 1945
ENGLISH 300CQ Cluster Course: Race in American Film
ENGLISH 300CW Cluster Course: Critical Issues in Women's & Gender Studies
ENGLISH 300CY Cluster Course: Ancient World/Cinema
ENGLISH 318 Bible as Literature
ENGLISH 319 Myth and Literature
ENGLISH 325 Arthurian Legends
ENGLISH 340A Classical Literature in Translation
ENGLISH 350 The 18th Century Novel
ENGLISH 355 The Novel Before 1900
ENGLISH 356 Studies in Poetry
ENGLISH 400CA Cluster Course:Images of the Human Body in Renaissance
ENGLISH 400CB Cluster Course:England King's and Shakespeare's
ENGLISH 400CF Cluster Course:Courts and Culture in the Middle Ages
ENGLISH 400CQ Cluster Course:Sinai & Olympus:Views of Man and God
ENGLISH 404 Old English
ENGLISH 412 Chaucer
ENGLISH 413 Renaissance Literature I
ENGLISH 414 Milton
ENGLISH 415 Restoration and Early 18th-Century British Literature
ENGLISH 416 The Romantic Period
ENGLISH 418 19th-Century American Literature
ENGLISH 422 Medieval Literature
ENGLISH 423 Renaissance Literature II
ENGLISH 425 18th-Century British Literature II
ENGLISH 426 The Victorian Period
ENGLISH 431 Late 18th-Century British Literature
ENGLISH 433 Histories of Reading, Writing, and Publishing (if content is appropriate)
ENGLISH 451 Shakespeare Comedies and Histories
ENGLISH 452 Early English Drama
ENGLISH 455 Studies in the Novel 1740-1900
ENGLISH 461 Shakespeare Tragedies and Romances
ENGLISH 462 Restoration and 18th-Century Drama

Capstone experience--one of the following (3 credits):
ENGLISH 499 Senior Tutorial (d)
Any 400 level English course in literature or linguistics that is cross-listed with a graduate level course in English (e). Capstone contract required (f).

 

Course Requirements for the Classical, Medieval, & Early Modern Literature Track

I. LITERARY SURVEYS: ALL OF THE FOLLOWING (9 credits)
ENGLISH 340A / CLASSICS 340A Classical Literature in Translations (3)
ENGLISH 317 British Literature I (3)
ENGLISH 323 Shakespeare (3)


II. ANCIENT LITERATURE: ONE OF THE FOLLOWING (3 credits)
CLASSICS 318 / ENGLISH 318 Bible as Literature (3)
CLASSICS 319 / ENGLISH 319 Myth and Literature (3)
CLASSICS 300CB Women in the Ancient World (3)
CLASSICS 300CS / ENGLISH 300CS Clio and the Other Muses: History and Culture in 5th Century Athens (3)
CLASSICS 300CR Roman Revolution: History and Culture from the Gracchi to Augustus (3)

III. MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: ONE OF THE FOLLOWING (3 credits)
ENGLISH 325 Arthurian Legends (3)
ENGLISH 400CF Courts and Culture (3)
ENGLISH 412 Chaucer (3)
ENGLISH 422 Medieval Literature (3)
ENGLISH 464 Medieval Methods/Paleography (3)

IV. EARLY MODERN LITERATURE: ONE OF THE FOLLOWING (3 credits)
ENGLISH 414 Milton (3)
ENGLISH 413 Renaissance Literature I (3)
ENGLISH 423 Renaissance Literature II (3)

V. RECEPTION: ONE OF THE FOLLOWING (3 credits)
ENGLISH 300CY / CLASSICS 300CY Ancient World in film (3)
ENGLISH 376 / CLASSICS 376 Ancient Concepts of the Hero (3)
ENGLISH 439 Shakespeare and Film (3)

VI. LANGUAGE/LINGUISTICS/RHETORIC CLASS: ONE OF THE FOLLOWING (3 credits
ENGLISH 330 History of the English Language (3)
ENGLISH 404 Old English (3)
ENGLISH 445 History/Principles of Rhetoric (3)
Any three-credit course with the curricular deisgnation GREEK or LATIN

VII. ELECTIVES (9 credits)
Any three courses from the list above, which have not already been used to satisfy a requirement, or any of the courses listed below.
ART-HIST 253 History of the Designed Environment, Ancient and Medieval (3)
CLASSICS 301 / ART-HIST 301 Survey of Western Art I (3)
ART-HIST 445 Northern European Art: 15th and 16th Centuries (3)
ART-HIST 450 15th Century Italian Art and Architecture (3)
ART-HIST 452 Greek Art and Arechitecture (3)
ART-HIST 497A Special Studies in Medieval/Renaissance Art (3)
ART-HIST 497I Special Studies in Ancient Art (3)
CLASSICS 210 Ancient World Literature (3)
CLASSICS 300CZ / GEOLOGY 326CZ Archaeology of Ancient Disasters (3)
CLASSICS 369 Introduction to Prehistoric and Classical Archaeology (3)
CLASSICS 370 Archaeology as Anthropology (3) PHILOS 430 / CLASSICS 430 Plato (3)
PHILOS 431 / CLASSICS 431 Aristotle (3)
CLASSICS 467 Myth and Ritual (3)
CLASSICS 469 Archaeology and the Biblical History (3)
HISTORY 470 / CLASSICS 470 Ancient Egypt (3)
CLASSICS 470P Ancient World: Social History of the Ancient World (3)
HISTORY 471 / CLASSICS 471 Ancient Greece (3)
CLASSICS 471P Ancient World: Political History of the Ancient World (3)
HISTORY 472 / CLASSICS 472 Ancient Rome (3)
CLASSICS 472P Ancient World: Cultural & Intellectual Dimensions of Ancient Civlization (3)
HISTORY 475WI / CLASSICS 471WI History of Ancient Israel (3)
ART-HIST 479 / CLASSICS 479 From the Parthenon to the Altar of Peace (3)
HISTORY 306A History of Christianity to the Middle Ages (3)
HISTORY 411A Medieval Civlization I (3)
HISTORY 411B Medieval Civilization II (3)
HISTORY 412A Medieval Women and Children (3)
HISTORY 412B The Black Death and Late Medieval Society (3)
HISTORY 413 Renaissance (3)
HISTORY 414 Reformation (3)
HISTORY 431R Medieval England 1066-1485 (3)
HISTORY 432R Tudor England 1485-1603 (3)
HISTORY 444R Islam and the Arabs: The Formative Period (3)
HISTORY 468R Archaeology and the Hitsory of Antiquity (3)
HISTORY 476 Medieval Jewish History (3)
PHILOS 310WI Ancient Philosophy (3)
PHILOS 328 Philosophy in the Middle Ages (3)
THEATRE 350 Theatre History I (3)

VIII. CAPSTSONE EXPERIENCE (3 credits): ENGLISH 499 or CLASSICS 499. Students must sign a Capstone contract.

Students must complete the 36 hours in required above, and of those at lest 18 credits must be taken with he English Department at UMKC. English courses in which students receive a grade below C- will not count toward fulfilling these requirements.

**No course can satisfy more than one requirement.


Course Requirements for the Language and Rhetoric Track

I. Literature: All of the following (15 credits):
ENGLISH 311 American Literature I
ENGLISH 317 British Literature I
ENGLISH 321 American Literature II
ENGLISH 323 Shakespeare
ENGLISH 327 British Literature II

II. Language: One of the following (3 credits):
ENGLISH 310 Introduction to Linguistics/Language Science
ENGLISH 320 Structure of English
ENGLISH 330 History of the English Language

III. Rhetoric: One of the following (3 credits):

ENGLISH 305WI Theory and Practice of Composition
ENGLISH 307WI Language, Literacy, Power
ENGLISH 308 Rhetorics of New Media
ENGLISH 309WI Rhetorics of Public Memory
ENGLISH 342WI Women and Rhetoric
ENGLISH 445 History and Principles of Rhetoric

IV. Language/Rhetoric/Theory: Two of the following (6 credits):

ENGLISH 305WI Theory and Practice of Composition
ENGLISH 307WI Language, Literacy, Power
ENGLISH 308 Rhetorics of New Media
ENGLISH 309WI Rhetorics of Public Memory
ENGLISH 310 Introduction to Linguistics/Language Science
ENGLISH 320 Structure of English
ENGLISH 330 History of the English Language
ENGLISH 342WI Women and Rhetoric
ENGLISH 433 Histories of Writing, Reading, and Publishing
ENGLISH 441 Girls and Print Culture
ENGLISH 445 History and Principles of Rhetoric
ENGLISH 447 Introduction to Literary Criticism
ENGLISH 470 Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics

V. Electives: Two 300/400 level language, rhetoric, creative writing, or literature courses (6 credits) (c):

VI. Capstone experience--one of the following (3 credits):
ENGLISH 499 Senior Tutorial (d)

Any 400 level English course in literature or linguistics that is cross-listed with a graduate level course in English (e).

Capstone contract required (f).
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