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2013-2014 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
English, B.A.
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In addition to adhering to the UC Merced and School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts requirements, the English major requires 56 units. Courses in the major must be taken for a letter grade and may not be taken on a pass/no pass basis unless the course is only offered on a pass/no pass basis. Students must complete all major course prerequisites with a C- or better.
To be awarded a baccalaureate degree in English, students must successfully complete at least 56 units as follows:
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Lower Division English Major Requirements [20 Units]
- Complete one lower division seminar course chosen from ENG 050-089 [4 units]
- Complete one additional lower division course chose from ENG 010-089 [4 units]
Complete one lower division writing course focused on writing in the humanities: [4 units]
Upper Division English Major Requirements [36 Units]
- ENG 100: Engaging Texts: Introduction to Critical Practice [4 units]
- ENG 101: Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Culture, 800-1660 [4 units]
- ENG 102: Restoration, Early Colonial, & Early Romantic Literature and Culture: 1660-1837 [4 units]
- ENG 103: Victorian, Fin de siècle, and Early Twentieth Century Literature and Culture: 1837-1945 [4 units]
- ENG 104: Postwar, Postcolonial, Postmodern Literature and Culture: 1945 to the present [4 units]
- Three upper division electives [12 units]. Students may substitute one of these English courses with a cognate upper-division course from another major, such as an upper-division course in History, Spanish, GASP, Writing, etc. Consult a SSHA Advisor, the SSHA Advising website (ssha-advising.ucmerced.edu) or MyAudit for the most updated list.
- ENG 190: Senior Thesis [4 units]
Transfer Students
Transfer students who wish to major in English should complete the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) at their community college. Transfer students may not be admitted to the English major without specific major preparation. Please contact the Office of Admissions for current information. English Program Learning Outcomes
The proposed program learning outcomes of the major seek to articulate, in specific ways, how the successful student majoring in English will be able participate in this larger intellectual, historical, and esthetic conversation. Students will demonstrate the ability to:
- Interpret texts with due sensitivity to both textual and contextual cues.
- Articulate an appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of texts by the standards of their times and places.
- Demonstrate historical, geographic, and cultural empathy by reading texts written in other times, places, and cultures.
- Apply interpretive strategies developed in literary study to other academic and professional contexts.
- Write cogently and with sensitivity to audience.
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