Undergraduate Program
Majors
Literature
Literature majors complete 39 hours, beginning with two introductory courses and a course in literary and cultural studies. After this introduction, majors complete 30 hours of advanced courses: eight literature courses, chosen according to the distribution requirements outlined below and including two senior seminars; a course in literary, cultural, or other theory; and a capstone.
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ENG 111-112 or equivalent are the prerequisites for all advanced literature courses taken by non-majors (including minors in literature). ENG 298 and two 100-level literature courses are the prerequisites for all literature courses taken by majors who entered the program in August 1999 or after.
Major Requirements
(39 semester hours)
Prerequisite literature courses. Two of these:
- ENG 121 Introduction to Comedy or Tragedy (3)
- ENG 122 Popular Literature (3)
- ENG 123 Introduction to Poetry (3)
- ENG 124 Introduction to Fiction (3)
- ENG 125 Introduction to Drama (3)
- ENG 131 Life and Thought in English Literature, to 1660 (3)
- ENG 132 Life and Thought in English Literature, 1660-1901 (3)
- ENG 133 Life and Thought in English Literature, 1901-Present (3)
- ENG 134 Introduction to Shakespeare (3)
- ENG 141 Life and Thought in American Literature, to 1865 (3)
- ENG 142 Life and Thought in American Literature, 1865-1945 (3)
- ENG 143 Life and Thought in American Literature, 1945-Present (3)
- ENG 144 Major American Writers (3)
- ENG 161 Literature and Politics (3)
- ENG 162 Literature and Identity (3)
- ENG 163 Literature and Travel (3)
- ENG 165 Literature and Sexuality (3)
Prerequisite introductory course. This one:*
- ENG 298 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (3)
* Completed first semester of sophomore year at Miami or first semester after declaring the literature major, whichever is later.
Eight literature courses, including:
No more than three of these:
- ENG 220 Literature and Film (3)
- ENG 221 Shakespeare and Film (3)
- ENG 231 The Short Story (3)
- ENG 232 American Women Writers (3)
- ENG 233 British Women Writers (3)
- ENG 237 Gay and Lesbian Literature (3)
- ENG 248 Asian American Literature (3)
- ENG 251 Life and Thought in European Literature, to 1800 (3)
- ENG 252 Life and Thought in European Literature, 1800-Present (3)
- ENG 254 Latino/a Literature and the Americas (3)
- ENG 259 The Modern Novel (3)
- ENG 261 Modern Drama (3)
- ENG 262 Children’s Literature (3)
- ENG 271 Cultures and Literature of the American South (3)
- ENG 281 The English Novel (3)
- ENG 282 American Fiction (3)
- ENG 283 Modern Poetry (3)
- ENG 284 English Drama, 1660-1800 (3)
- ENG 293 Contemporary American Fiction (3)
And no more than six of these:
- ENG 327 Medieval Literature (3)
- ENG 328 The Renaissance: Non-Dramatic Literature (3)
- ENG 331 17th-Century Poetry and Prose (3)
- ENG 334 English Literature of the Restoration (3)
- ENG 335 English Literature of the 18th Century (3)
- ENG 336 African American Writing, 1746-1877 (3)
- ENG 337 African American Writing, 1878-1945 (3)
- ENG 338 African American Writing, 1946-Present (3)
- ENG 339 Writers of the Early Romantic Period (3)
- ENG 342 Writers of the Later Romantic Period (3)
- ENG 343 Literature of the Early Victorian Period (3)
- ENG 344 Literature of the Later Victorian Period (3)
- ENG 345 British Modernism (3)
- ENG 346 Modern English and American Drama (3)
- ENG 347 Postwar/Postcolonial British Literature (3)
- ENG 348 Ethnic American Literatures (3)
- ENG 349 Colonial and Early National American Literature, to 1810 (3)
- ENG 352 American Literature, 1810-1865 (3)
- ENG 353 American Literature, 1865-1914 (3)
- ENG 354 American Literature, 1914-1945 (3)
- ENG 355 American Literature, 1945- Present (3)
- ENG 372 Shakespeare's Principal Plays: The Early Period (3)
- ENG 373 Shakespeare's Principal Plays: The Later Period (3)
- ENG 390 Studies in American Regionalism (3)
- ENG 468 Gender and Genre (3)
And at least two of these:
- ENG 440 Major English and American Writers (3)
- ENG 450 Studies in Genre (3)
- ENG 480 English Honors (3)
- ENG 490 Special Topics in Literary Study (3)
Literary, cultural, or other theory.
One of these:
- ENG 368 Feminist Literary Theory (3)
- ENG 370 Literary and Cultural Theory (3)
- ENG 435, Queer Theory (3)
- ENG 470 Topics in Literary Theory (3)
Senior Capstone.
This one:
- ENG 495 Capstone in Literature (3)
Distribution Requirements
Choose literature courses above to also meet the following group requirements. A course may count in more than one requirement (e.g., ENG 337 meets American, ethnic/minority/women’s, and 1660-1900 requirements).
British literature.
Five of these:
- ENG 131, 132, 133, 134, 221, 233, 281, 284, 327, 328, 331, 334, 335, 339, 342, 343, 344, 345, 347, 372, 373.
American literature.
Three of these:
- ENG 141, 142, 143, 144, 232, 248, 254, 271, 282, 293, 336, 337, 338, 349, 352, 353, 354, 355, 390.
Ethnic, minority, or women’s literature.
One of these:
- ENG 232, 233, 237, 248, 254, 336, 337, 338, 348, 468.
Literature before 1660.
Two of these:
Literature between 1660 and 1900.
Three of these:
- ENG 141, 284, 334, 335, 336, 337, 339, 342, 343, 344, 349, 352, 353.
Literature from 1900 to the present.
One of these:
- ENG 133, 143, 259, 261, 282, 284, 293, 338, 345, 346, 347, 354, 355.