English (BA)
The Department of English embraces the integration of faith and learning as a life-long experience. The department strives to equip students who major or minor in English and those who take English classes as a general studies requirement with essential knowledge and skills in language, literature, and communication.
Goals of the English Major
The Department of English desires to give its learners competencies in English studies and strives to produce graduates with the ability to apply these competencies in their chosen careers. It also strives to produce graduates who integrate their own personal faith with these competencies. The following list delineates the traits we hope our students will demonstrate:
Students will demonstrate an understanding of humanity and culture through critical reading and response to literary texts.
Students will possess the ability to write proficiently using a variety of approaches and rhetorical devices.
Students will demonstrate skills in literary interpretation.
Students will conduct and document scholarly research.
Students will understand the application of a Christian worldview to the study of literature.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
courses | credit hours (ba) |
|---|---|
DBUE 1301 - Foundations for the DBU Experience | 3 |
Developing A Christian Mind | 3 |
English | 9-10 |
ENGL 1301/1401 - Composition and Rhetoric I ENGL 1302 - Composition and Rhetoric II and ENGL 2301 - World Literature I | |
Fine Arts | 3 |
History Lower Level (LL) | 3 |
Choose one 3-hour course from HIST LL Course List. | |
Kinesiology | 1 |
KNES 1101 - Fitness for Living | |
Mathematics (3-4 hour LL course) | 3-4 |
Choose one 3-4 hour course from Math LL Course List. | |
Natural Science (3-4 hour LL course) | 3-4 |
Choose one 3-4-hour course from Nat. Lab Science LL Course List. | |
Religion | 9 |
RELI 1301 - Old Testament Survey RELI 1302 - New Testament Survey and one additional RELI course from RELI Course List. | |
Social Science | 3 |
POLS 2301 - American National Government | |
Total Core Experience | 40-43 |
Additional Program General Education Hours | 12 |
Choose two 3-hour 2000-level courses in the same language from LANG/BL Language Course List. Choose one 3-hour course from HIST LL Course List (Must be different from what was chosen above). Choose one 3-hour FA or SS course from HIST/FA/SS Course List. | |
Major Core | 30 |
ENGL 2302 - World Literature II | |
ENGL 3301 - American Literature I or ENGL 3302 - American Literature II | |
ENGL 3305 - Advanced Written Communication (S-L) | |
ENGL 3306 - Advanced Rhetoric | |
ENGL 3313 - British Literature I or ENGL 3314 - British Literature II | |
ENGL 4301 - Introduction to Linguistics or ENGL 4319 - Introduction to Literary Theory | |
ENGL (4000-level) Please select three additional upper level English elective courses. | |
Electives | |
Upper-Level Lower or Upper-Level | 6 29-32 |
TOTAL CREDIT HOURS REQUIRED | 120 |
A 120-credit-hour minimum for a bachelor's degree is required, including 36 upper-level credit hours.
At least 12 credit hours in the major program must be completed at Dallas Baptist University, including nine upper-level course hours.
Minimum GPA Required for Graduation from Dallas Baptist University: DBU requires a minimum institutional cumulative, major, and minor GPA of 2.0.
(S-L) = Course(s) with field-based service-learning component.
Refer to individual course descriptions for course requisites.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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