Dear cris,

This makes good sense to me. I'm not personally enamored of 123-4 AND 311-2, but most seem to be. 231 and 283 trump 100 level for me, and I'm still not sure 2 genre courses are necessary to require. I see that if one must take a 420 or 430 one must take a 320 or 330 and only one other 321, 323, 422 elective counts toward the major., I consider these options more valuable than 123-4 for majors. I'd allow 4 courses from that group toward the major--the real core of interest, I think, for CW students. Otherwise, I like your proposal as is. Of course,m these opinions of mine are merely opinions and your suggestion may be the best for everyone who'll still be teaching after I'm gone...

David 

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Subject: major revision thoughts

Hi everyone,

i'm cutting and pasting Andrew Hebard's proposal to revise the Lit major. It's one of several on the Lit major revising wiki. It represents a fair summary of the thinking in Lit though. All of the six proposals posted are written to 36 Credit hours. They all specify 298 and the majority split at the 1800 time frame.


36 Credit hours
1)    Eng 298

2)    At least 2 Pre-1800 courses.

3)    At least 2 Post-1800 courses.

4)    At least 2 400 level courses.

5)    Capstone

6)    Students are allowed to count 3 courses from Creative Writing or Professional Writing towards the major.

7)    No more than 2 100 level course can count toward the major


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CW could be rewritten along such lines:

36 Credit Hours

Eng 226 (3 credit hours)

CONTEMPORARY WRITING
One of these:

Eng 123
Eng 124

One of these:

        • ENG 311 Contemporary Fiction (3)
        • ENG 312 Contemporary Poetry (3)

ENGLISH CAPSTONE

One of these:

        • ENG 460 Issues in Creative Writing (3)
        • ENG 495 Capstone in Literature (3)

NINE ADDITIONAL HOURS OF CREATIVE WRITING AT 300- AND 400-LEVELS
From these courses:

        • ENG 320 Creative Writing: Short Story (3)
        • ENG 321 Creative Writing: Literary Marketplace (3)
        • ENG 323 Creative Non-Fiction (3)
        • ENG 330 Creative Writing: Poetry (3)
        • ENG 420 Advanced Undergraduate Fiction Workshop (3)
        • ENG 422 Creative Writing: Screenwriting (3)
        • ENG 430 Advanced Undergraduate Poetry Workshop (3)
Note: (1) ENG 320 is the prerequisite for ENG 420; ENG 330 is the prerequisite for ENG 430. Students must take an intermediate and advanced course in the same genre, poetry or fiction. (2) Courses may be taken a second time. Repeat credits WILL NOT count toward the major requirement of nine (9) hours of creative writing courses, but will count toward the 128 hours required for a degree.


Eng 298

At least 2 Pre-1800 Literature Classes

At least 2 Post-1800 courses.