1. Complete the prerequisites to the major (12 units):

a. Complete two survey courses in British Literature:

• ENGL 2100 British Lit. to 1800, 3 units, or
• ENGL 2110 British Lit. after 1800, 3 units

b. Complete two survey courses in American Literature

• ENGL 2200 American Lit. to 1865, 3 units
• ENGL 2210 American Lit. after 1865, 3 units

2. Complete the following required courses in literature (12 units):

• ENGL 3100 Literary Genres, 3 units (WP)
• ENGL 3101 Critical Approaches to Literature, 3 units
• ENGL 4300 Shakespeare, 3 units
• ENGL 4990 Senior Seminar, 3 units

3. Select one of the following elective courses in British literature (3 units):

• ENGL 3209 Medieval Literature, 3 units
• ENGL 3210 English Renaissance Literature, 3 units
• ENGL 3215 Seventeenth Century English Literature, 3 units
• ENGL 3220 Eighteenth Century English Literature, 3 units
• ENGL 3225 English Romantic Literature, 3 units
• ENGL 3230 English Victorian Literature, 3 units
• ENGL 3235 Modern British Literature, 3 units
• ENGL 4105 English Novel I, 3 units
• ENGL 4106 English Novel II, 3 units
• ENGL 4115 20th-Century English Novel, 3 units
• ENGL 4305 Chaucer, 3 units
• ENGL 4310 Milton, 3 units
• ENGL 4510 British Women Authors, 3 units
• ENGL 4950 Special Studies in English Literature, 3 units

4. Select one of the following elective courses in American literature (3 units):

• ENGL 3400 Early American Literature, 3 units
• ENGL 3410 Romanticism and Transcendentalism, 3 units
• ENGL 3420 Realism and Naturalism, 3 units
• ENGL 3940 Multicultural American Literature, 3 units
• ENGL 4107 American Novel I, 3 units
• ENGL 4108 American Novel II, 3 units
• ENGL 4110 American Short Story, 3 units
• ENGL 4120 American Poetry, 3 units
• ENGL 4140 American Drama, 3 units
• ENGL 4150 20th Century American Literature, 3 units
• ENGL 4520 American Women Authors, 3 units
• ENGL 4930 Special Studies in American Literature, 3 units

5. Select 15 units of upper-division electives (15 units):

The possibilities include, but are not limited to, world literature, creative writing, film, and linguistics. for example:

• ENGL 3010 Creative Writing Workshop, 4 units
• ENGL 3011 Introduction to Rhetoric: A Semester at the Institution, 4 units
• ENGL 3500-3520 Studies in Film. 3-4 units
• ENGL 3750 Introduction to Linguistic Theory, 4 units
• ENGL 3920 Masterpieces of World Literature, 3 units
• ENGL 3950 International NonEuropean Women Authors, 3 units
• ENGL 4011 Script Writing, 3 units
• ENGL 4012 Fiction Writing, 4 units
• ENGL 4020 Literature of the Classical World, 3 units
• ENGL 4109 Contemporary Novel, 3 units
• ENGL 4130 Dramatic Literature I; also
• ENGL 4135 II, 3 units each
• ENGL 4925 Studies in World Literature, 3 units