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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.



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