English, BA (New York)

Undergraduatemajor2027 catalogSocial Sciences HumanitiesNew York128 semester hours totalunverified parse — check the source

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BA Language Requirements

12 semester hours.

From the catalog
All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.

Foundation Courses

ENGL 1000 — English at Northeastern
One of:
- ENGL 1160 — Introduction to Rhetoric
- ENGL 1410 — Introduction to Research on Writing
ENGL 1400 — Introduction to Literary Studies
One of:
- ENGL 1700 — Global Literatures 1
- ENGL 1701 — Global Literatures 2

Literary Periods

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Pre-1850
Complete two of the following:

Choose 8 semester hours from:
- ENGL 1600 — Introduction to Shakespeare
- One of:
  - ENGL 2296 — Early African-American Literature
  - AFCS 2296 — Early African-American Literature
- ENGL 3160 — Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century British Literatures
- ENGL 3190 — Topics in 19th-Century American Literature
- ENGL 3619 — Emerson and Thoreau
- ENGL 3678 — Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
From the catalog
Post-1850
Complete one of the following:
One of:
- ENGL 2430 — Contemporary Fiction
- ENGL 2451 — Postcolonial Women Writers
- ENGL 2455 — American Women Writers

Theories and Methods

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- ENGL 1160 — Introduction to Rhetoric
- ENGL 1410 — Introduction to Research on Writing
- ENGL 1450 — Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
- ENGL 2520 — Science Fiction
- ENGL 3325 — Rhetoric of Law
- ENGL 3340 — Technologies of Text
- ENGL 3381 — The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing
- ENGL 3400 — Opening the Archive
- ENGL 3700 — Narrative Medicine

Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

ENGW 3315 — Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

Writing

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Complete two of the following:

Choose 8 semester hours from:
- ENGL 2695 — Travel and Place-Based Writing
- ENGL 2700 — Creative Writing
- ENGL 2710 — Style and Editing
- ENGL 2770 — Writing to Heal
- ENGL 3375 — Writing Boston
- ENGL 3376 — Creative Nonfiction
- ENGL 3377 — Poetry Workshop
- ENGL 3378 — Fiction Workshop
- ENGL 3380 — Writing Seminar

Major Seminar

ENGL 3710 — Major Seminar

Capstone

ENGL 4710 — Capstone Seminar

Diversity

From the catalog
Complete one of the following, which can also count toward another requirement in the major:

One of:
- One of:
  - ENGL 2455 — American Women Writers
  - AFCS 2455 — American Women Writers
  - WMNS 2455 — American Women Writers
- ENGL 2460 — Multiethnic Literatures of the U.S.
- ENGL 2760 — Writing in Global Contexts

Electives

8 semester hours.

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Complete any two ENGL courses, except for First-Year Writing and Advanced Writing in the Disciplines, that have not already been used to fulfill another requirement.

Experiential Learning Coursework

One of:
- ENGL 3340 — Technologies of Text
- ENGL 3375 — Writing Boston
- ENGL 3381 — The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing
- ENGL 3382 — Publishing in the 21st Century
- ENGL 3400 — Opening the Archive

Experiential Liberal Arts Requirement

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- ANTH 3410 — Ethnographic Field Experience
- ECON 2350 — Statistics for Economists
- ENGL 3340 — Technologies of Text
- ENGL 3381 — The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing
- ENGL 3382 — Publishing in the 21st Century
- ENGL 3400 — Opening the Archive
- HIST 1120 — Public History, Public Memory
- HIST 2311 — Colonialism/Imperialism
- HUSV 1101 — Social Change and Human Services
- SOCL 2485 — Environment, Technology, and Society

Optional Co-op

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Successful completion of EXED 2000 is required for participation in co-op.

EXED 2000 — Professional Development for Co-op
One of:
- COOP 3945 — Co-op Work Experience
- COOP 3946 — Co-op Work Experience--Half Time
- COOP 3947 — Co-op Work Experience Abroad--Half Time
- COOP 3948 — Co-op Work Experience Abroad

Substitutions

Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

AFCS 2296 ↔ ENGL 2296 (tier B)
AFCS 2455 ↔ ENGL 2455 (tier B)

What the tiers mean

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under english-ba-new-york, and the official page is the authority.