Bachelor of Arts: English – Professional Writing & Rhetoric Concentration

General Education Requirements*	42 credits
Major Concentration	36 credits
Open Electives	42 credits
Total Credits	120 credits

*Per New York State Education Department requirements, all students enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts program must successfully complete 90 credits of Liberal Arts and Sciences coursework. If needed, students should use Open Elective credits to fulfill these requirements, beyond their General Education courses, and look for courses with the “LA” attribute when registering.

The concentration in Professional Writing & Rhetoric is for students interested in devoting a portion of their studies (12 credits) to courses that develop their writing for personal, academic, and professional goals, and that explore how rhetoric, literacy, and languages shape our lived experiences.

Students who choose the major concentration in English Writing & Rhetoric must complete the following two core courses (6 credits):

course - Intro to English Studies
course - English Capstone

Students must also complete one course (3 credits) from the following category:

Building Foundations: Literary Surveys

course - Survey English Lit I
course - Survey English Lit II
course - American Lit Survey I
course - Amer Lit Sur II 1865-Present

Students must complete four courses (12 credits) from the following group to meet the concentration requirement:*

Developing Your Voice: Writing, Rhetoric, & Style

course - Writing for the Professions
course - Cultural Rhetorics
course - Creative Writing: Nonfiction
course - Mod Engl Writing with Style
course - Secret Life Words & Sentences
*Up to two of these courses can apply to the concentration:
course - The Feature Article I
course - Promotional Writing
course - Writing for Digital Media
course - Persuasion & Consumer Culture

Students must take one course (3 credits) from the following group:

Expanding Foundations: Literary Histories

course - Classical Literature
course - Modern American Fiction
course - Contemporary American Lit
course - Renaissance Poetry & Prose
course - Shakespeare
course - Shakespeare’s Tragedies
course - Explorers and Exiles in Paris
course - The 17th Century: Poetry/Prose
course - The Eighteenth Century
course - The Major English Romantics
course - The Major Victorians
course - African-American Literature
course - American Romanticism
course - American Realism
course - Masterpieces of European Lit

And students must take one course (3 credits) from the following group:

Gaining Perspective: Culture, Identity, & Difference

Exploring Further: Genre Studies & Textual Transformations

Crossing Borders & Disciplines

Developing Your Voice: Creative Writing

course - Creative Writing: Fiction
course - Creative Writing: Poetry
course - Introduction to Playwriting
course - Advanced Creative Writing

Foreign language requirement: English majors must complete 6 credits of a foreign language. The 6 credits do not have to be in the same language, but it is recommended that they be. 3 of these credits will come from the student’s Gen Ed Language & Cultural Perspectives disciplinary group requirement; the other 3 will be drawn from either the student’s Gen Ed Liberal Arts Electives or from Open Electives.

English, B.A.

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