Undergraduate FAQs
As a English major or minor, you will have a few questions regarding the requirements to graduate.
The following will help guide you in your decisions when choosing course and plans for graduation.
- Do I need to take a foreign language?
- Must I take a Tier II Information Technology Literacy course?
- Must I take an "O" (gen ed oral presentation req.) in the English Department?
- If I get a D in an English course, does it still count?
- Can I take a 200-level literature course and have it count toward my major?
- Do I need to take a foreign language?
- YES
To satisfy your foreign language requirement, you may
- test out (see the Foreign Language Department)
- take and pass 101, 102, 201, and 202 of the same foreign language (12 credits)
- take and pass the 202 course of a foreign language of your choice (3 credits)
- Must I take a Tier II Information Technology Literacy course?
- YES
If you are Writing, Communications, and Rhetoric student, you must take one of the computer intensive courses (ENL 361, ENL 368, ENL 369).
If you are a Literature and Criticism student, you must ENL 259 Critical Methods, which has a Tier II requirement.
- Must I take an "O" (gen ed oral presentation req.) in the English Department?
- YES
English majors can satisfy their Gen Ed O requirement by taking any of the ENL courses that satisfy the "O" requirement, including ENL 258 — Literary Studies
- If I get a D in an English course, does it still count?
- NO
You must get a C- or better in each of your English courses for them to count toward your degree.
If your concentration is in Writing, Communications, and Rhetoric, you must also earn a B- or better in ENL 260 Intermediate Composition to continue on in that concentration.
- Can I take a 200-level literature course and have it count toward my major?
- NO
We encourage you to take as many literature courses as possible.
Only 300 and 400-level literature count toward the 36 credits in the English major.
200 level courses in literature will count as electives in your overall program of study.
