Requirements for a Major in Professional Writing and Rhetoric

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Thirty-six semester hours including the following:
Required Courses
ENG 1310	Research Writing: Writing and Academic Inquiry Seminars	3
ENG 2301	British Literature	3
PWR 2314	Introduction to Professional Writing and Rhetoric	3
PWR 3318	Professional & Workplace Writing	3
PWR 4377	Writing Internship	3
Six semester hours of Seminar courses:		6
PWR 3313	Literacy Studies
PWR 3316	Women's Writing and Rhetoric
PWR 3317	Rhetoric of Race
PWR 3326	Studies in Public and Civic Writing
PWR 4323	Editing and Publishing
PWR 4331	Legal Writing
PWR 4375	Special Topics Lecture in Writing and Rhetoric
PWR 4382	Teaching Writing
Nine semester hours of Workshop or Project-based courses:		9
PWR 3300	Technical Writing
PWR 3303	Persuasive and Argumentative Writing
PWR 3309	Creative Nonfiction
PWR 3321	Tutoring Writing
PWR 3381	Food Writing and Foodways
PWR 3385	Special Topics in Writing Workshop
PWR 4309	Undergraduate Research and Publication
PWR 4311	Writing for Social Change
PWR 4321	New Media Writing and Rhetoric
PWR 4348	Religious Rhetoric and Spiritual Writing
PWR 4349	Advanced Creative Nonfiction
Three semester hours of Literature courses from the following:		3
ENG 3311	English Literature through the Sixteenth Century
ENG 3331	English Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
ENG 3351	British Literature from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
ENG 3370	Religion and Literature
ENG 3371	History of Critical Theory
ENG 3372	The Oxford Christians
ENG 3374	Short Fiction: A Reading Course
ENG 3375	Post-Colonial Literature
ENG 3376	African American Literature
ENG 3377	The Art of Film
ENG 3378	Topics in Literature
ENG 3380	American Literature through Whitman
ENG 3390	American Literature from Whitman
ENG 4310	Old and Early Middle English Literature
ENG 4313	Later Middle English Literature Excluding Chaucer
ENG 4314	Chaucer
ENG 4316	Special Topics in Medieval Literature
ENG 4320	English Drama to 1642
ENG 4322	Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose
ENG 4324	Shakespeare: Selected Plays
ENG 4330	Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose
ENG 4332	Milton
ENG 4340	English Poetry and Prose from 1660 to 1745
ENG 4342	English Poetry and Prose from 1745 to 1798
ENG 4344	English Drama from 1660 to 1800
ENG 4347	Eighteenth-Century British Novel
ENG 4354	Romantic Poetry
ENG 4360	Victorian Prose
ENG 4364	The Brownings
ENG 4368	Nineteenth-Century British Novel
ENG 4369	Modern British Novel
ENG 4370	Women Writers
ENG 4371	Modern British Poetry
ENG 4372	Modern British and Continental Drama
ENG 4374	Special Topics in Literature
ENG 4378	Contemporary Novel
ENG 4379	Great Books of the Western World
ENG 4380	American Renaissance
ENG 4381	Early American Literature
ENG 4382	Major Authors
ENG 4383	American Realism and Naturalism
ENG 4384	Contemporary Critical Theory
ENG 4385	Contemporary Poetry
ENG 4386	Postmodern American Novel
ENG 4387	Modern American Novel
ENG 4388	Christian Literary Classics
ENG 4389	Postmodern American Poetry
ENG 4390	Literature of the South
ENG 4391	Modern American Poetry
ENGL 3300	Special Topics: Historical Period Up to 1700
ENGL 3301	Major Authors: Up to 1700
ENGL 3307	Topics in Early American Literature
ENGL 3330	Special Topics: 1700-1900
ENGL 3331	Major Authors: 1700-1900
ENGL 3341	Writers of Color and their Allies
ENGL 3342	Global Romantic Literature, 1770–1865
ENGL 3343	Traversing the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660–1840
ENGL 3345	Novel Adventures
ENGL 3346	Literary Networks from 1700-1900
ENGL 3347	Writing the Self: Memoir and Autobiography 1700-1900
ENGL 3360	Special Topics: 1900-present
ENGL 3361	Major Authors: 1900-present
ENGL 3363	War Literature, 1900-Present
ENGL 3372	Readings in English Country House Fiction and Poetry
ENGL 3380	Twentieth-Century American Drama
ENGL 3381	Modern and Contemporary Southern Literature
ENGL 4300	Special Topics: Diverse Perspectives
ENGL 4301	Major Authors: Diverse Perspectives
ENGL 4305	Women Writers
ENGL 4307	Introduction to Asian-American Literature
ENGL 4310	Shakespeare in Our World
ENGL 4311	The U.S. Through Immigrant Eyes
ENGL 4314	Urban Space and the American Literary Imagination
ENGL 4318	Great Authors: James Baldwin
ENGL 4320	How Poetry Changes the World
ENGL 4330	Special Topics: Career Exploration
ENGL 4331	Major Authors: Career Exploration
ENGL 4333	Literature and Law
ENGL 4334	Literature, Medicine, & Public Health
ENGL 4350	How We Read: Understanding Narrative Forms
ENGL 4360	Special Topics: Electives
ENGL 4361	Major Authors: Electives
ENGL 4365	“Literature and Environmental Justice”
ENGL 4366	Ecogothic Literature
ENGL 4372	Oceanic Literature
ENGL 4375	The Bible as Literature
ENGL 4381	Theory and Practice of Satire from the Classical Period to the Present
ENGL 4384	American Gothic Literature
ENGL 4385	Short Fiction
ENGL 4386	Literary Retellings: Untold Stories of the Classics You Thought You Knew
Three semester hours of additional 3000-4000 level ENG, ENGL, CW, or LING courses		3
A grade of "C" or better in courses used for the major
Total Hours		36