Writing, Literature & Publishing :: Undergraduate: BA Degree

Bachelor of Arts in Writing, Literature, and Publishing

Students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in writing, literature and publishing must complete 40 credit hours as described. Students must take one 4-credit writing course at the 200-level, and two of the following courses:

Course Code	Course Information
LI201	Literary Foundations 4.00 Credits A survey of some foundational works of Western literature in poetry, nonfiction, fiction and drama, designed to familiarize students with literary history as well as the history of our notions of the afterlife, love, duty, virtue and vice. Authors studied may include Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Boccaccio, the Beowulf poet, and Chaucer. Prerequisite: WP 121 or HS 101. Fullfills the Literary Perspective of the General Education requirements.
LI202	American Literature 4.00 Credits An introduction to representative works of American literature in several genres from the colonial period to the modern by writers such as Bradstreet, Franklin, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Douglass, Melville, Dickinson, Whitman, Chopin, Twain, Crane, Hurston, Faulkner, Williams, and Moore. Prerequisite: WP 121 or HS 101. Fullfills the Literary Perspective of the General Education requirements.
LI203	British Literature 4.00 Credits An historical overview and introduction to several genres of British Literature from the Renaissance to the 20th Century, focusing on writers such as More, Spenser, Milton, Defoe, Bronte, Eliot, Joyce, and Beckett. Prerequisite: WP 121 or HS 101. Fullfills the Literary Perspective of the General Education requirements.

In addition students must complete a total of 28 credit hours numbered 300 and above, in a combination of LI (literature) and WP (writing or publishing) courses. The 28 credits must include 12 credits in one area (LI or WP) and 16 credits in the other (LI or WP). No more than 4 credits of internship may be used toward the 40 credits required for the BA degree.

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