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Table of Contents: We have designed it so that English majors have a core of historically based courses and a series of electives. There is a balance between what is required of all majors, and what each student can select following her or his own interests. In general, the following requirements apply to students admitted to Cal Poly under the 2007-2009 catalogue. If you were admitted on an earlier catalogue, earlier requirements may apply to you.English majors at Cal Poly are required to take six historically based CORE courses in British and American literature, in order, beginning with medieval and ending with modern and contemporary. English majors must also take:
All English majors must complete the following G.E.&B. courses during their first year at Cal Poly:
ENGL 145, Reasoning, Argumentation, and Writing
They must also complete ENGL 251, Great Books I, The Ancient and Classical World: From Myth to Reason, either concurrently with ENGL 145 or following it, but PRIOR TO or CONCURRENT WITH the beginning course in the CORE. (Please refer to the plan below.) ENGL 290, Introduction to Linguistics: Optimally, English majors will take ENGL 290 sometime during their sophomore year.
Normally, students will begin the CORE sequence during the fall or winter quarter of their sophomore year. These courses are offered sequentially and MUST be taken in order. One half of the readings in each CORE class have been determined by the English department and do not vary. The other half is determined by the individual instructor. ENGL 203, CORE I: Old English/Medieval. Required texts: Beowulf, Dante, Medieval Drama, Chaucer, the Pearl Poet. Prerequisite: ENGL 145 or ENGL 148, and ENGL 251. ENGL 204, CORE II: Renaissance. Required texts: Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, Jonson, Milton. Prerequisite: ENGL 203 ENGL 205, CORE III: 1660-1798. Required texts: Pope, Swift, Austen, select American Colonial writers, one playwright. Prerequisite: ENGL 204 ENGL 303, CORE IV: 1798-1865 Required texts: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Emerson, Hawthorne. Prerequisite: ENGL 205 ENGL 304, CORE V: 1865-1914. Required texts: Dickinson, Whitman, Arnold, James, Hardy. Prerequisite: ENGL 303 ENGL 305, CORE VI: 1914-Present. Required texts: Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Faulkner. Prerequisite: ENGL 304 The sample
plan below details how an entering freshman might complete the
major in four years.
*optimally, ENGL 290 will be taken sometime during the sophomore year. **8 units of 300-level English electives may be taken as soon as the student has completed the appropriate course in the CORE ***During one quarter of senior year NOTE: As the major matures, our plan is to offer each of the CORE courses twice a year, back to back. That is, ENGL 203 will be offered every fall and winter; ENGL 204 every winter and spring; ENGL 205 every spring and fall; and so on, so that if a student should fall behind in the sequence, he/she could "catch up" by taking the missed course the following quarter. PLEASE ALSO NOTE: The four-year sequencing plan sketched above includes major courses only. You will also need to incorporate G.E.&B. requirements and elective courses into your plans as you proceed. Generally speaking, it is best to spread your lower division G.E.&B. requirements over the several quarters of your freshman and sophomore years, linking courses, as your time constraints and their availability allow, to provide for a balanced and interesting conjunction of courses. Your advisor can help you with these selections if necessary. Your advisor can also help with your selection of a minor, if you wish to complete one, as well as with selection of free electives independent of a minor. Please feel free to take advantage of his/her expertise in these areas.
Presently, we are offering two areas of concentrated study at the upper division level: Creative Writing and Literature. These 16-unit packages may be taken as part of the student’s 28-unit 300- and 400-level elective requirement. They are optional. Creative Writing:
Two of ENGL 487, ENGL 488, or ENGL 489 ENGL 439, ENGL 449, or ENGL 459 in modern or contemporary genre Senior Project Adjunct in Creative Writing Literature:
One 300-level literature (not CORE) Two 400-level literature Senior Project Adjunct in LIterature
Students will sign up for a one-unit adjunct course (ENGL 461) to be taken concurrently with one of the designated 400-level English courses during one of the last two quarters of their senior year. For additional information about the Senior Project and to download other related forms, click here.
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