Requirements for Major in
English
Concentration in Business
and Technical Writing
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CORE SEQUENCE
All majors must complete five of the following six courses:
ENGL 202--
Biblical and Classical Literature
ENGL 205--British
Literature I
ENGL 206--British
Literature II
ENGL 300--Texts
and Contexts
ENGL 324--
Shakespeare
ENGL 340--
American Literature to the Civil War
OR
ENGL
341--American Literature: Civil War to World War II
LITERATAURE COURSES
In addition to the core sequence, English majors
concentrating in Business and Technical Writing will take one course at the
300- level or above from each of the following groups (2 courses total):
Medieval and Renaissance literature
(excluding ENGL 324)
OR
Literature between 1700 and 1900
Modern literature
OR
Cultural and
theoretical studies
One other literature course is required. This course may be
at the 200-, 300-, or 400-level if one of the courses taken in the above two
groups is a 480 seminar. Otherwise, this additional course must be a 480
seminar.
BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING COURSES
Students concentrating in business and technical writing
must also take the following technical writing courses:
One of the following three courses:
ENGL 312--Written
Communications in Business
ENGL
410--Technical Writing
ENGL 415-
-Writing in the Professions
Each of the following courses:
ENGL 411--
Rhetorical for Business and Technical Writers
ENGL 412-- Technical
Publication
ENGL 414--
Technical Editing
ENGL 464--
Technical Writing Internship
Optional:
ENGL 413--Topics
in Technical Writing
IMPORTANT NOTES: ENGL 307, 308, 309, 310, 407, 409 count
toward the English major only as part of the concentration in Journalism. ENGL 200, 204, 210, 301, 365 do not count
toward the English major.