Just a note to say that the plan for cw described below would also require
rewriting the writing in the major scaffolded curriculum. For what that's
worth....

On 12/10/12 9:45 PM, "Cheek, Christopher F. Dr." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>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
>
>
>________________________________________________
>
>
>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.