Hartwick college

Requirements for the major
Minimum of 13 courses, distributed as follows:

One gateway course
190 Introduction to Literature and Criticism
English majors must take this course within one semester of declaring their major.

Nine courses at the 300/400 level, including one Approaches course, distributed as follows:

• Two foundational courses in literary antecedents:
  329 British Literature: Beginnings through Milton
  370 American Literature: Beginnings through the Civil War

• Two courses in literature before 1800, selected from:
  320 Classical Theatre and Drama
  321 Drama to 1850
  325 The British Novel I
  330 Old English Literature
  331 Chaucer
  333 Middle English Literature
  335 English Renaissance
  336 and 337 Shakespeare I and II
  340 17th Century British Literature
  345 18th Century British Literature
  350 Selected Topics in Literature Before 1800
  367 British Authors Before 1800
  368 Issues in British Literature and Culture Before 1800
  369 Studies in British Poetry Before 1800
  450 Seminar in Literature Before 1800

• Two additional courses in literature at the 300 level.

• Three 400-level courses:
  450 Seminar in Selected Topics
  489 Senior Project Methods (1 credit)
  490 Senior Project

Three elective literature courses, at least two at or above the 200-level.

In the major in literature, one creative writing course is allowed, but expository writing and public speaking courses are not, with the exceptions that student teachers and students with an Emphasis in Writing may substitute English 210, Advanced College Writing, for one literature elective.