Degree Requirements
1. Required LAC — 40 credits
Required Major Credits - 15 credits
| ENG 195 | Introduction to the Discipline of English | 3 |
| ENG 201 | Writing as a Job | 3 |
| ENG 295 | Approaches to Literary and Cultural Analysis | 3 |
| ENG 345 | Literary Theory and Criticism | 3 |
| | Choose one of the following courses: | |
| ENG 218 | Introduction to Linguistics | 3 |
| | or | |
| ENG 219 | Language and Society | 3 |
Elective Major Credits - 12 credits
200-300 Level Electives - Choose one from each category and a fourth from any category:
Category A (British Literature)
| ENG 380 | Medieval Literature | 3 |
| ENG 381 | Renaissance Literature | 3 |
| ENG 382 | Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature | 3 |
| ENG 383 | Romanticism | 3 |
| ENG 384 | Victorian Literature and Culture | 3 |
| ENG 385 | Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature | 3 |
Category B (American Literature)
| ENG 236 | Ethnic American Literature | 3 |
| ENG 337 | Chicana/o Literature and Theory | 3 |
| ENG 370 | Colonial American Literature, 1492-1800 | 3 |
| ENG 371 | Antebellum American Literature, 1800-1865 | 3 |
| ENG 372 | American Realism and the Making of America | 3 |
| ENG 373 | American Modernism and the Crisis of Representation | 3 |
| ENG 374 | American Diaspora and Globalization | 3 |
Category C (World Literature)
| ENG 205 | World Mythology and Folklore | 3 |
| ENG 262 | Masterpieces of World Literature | 3 |
| ENG 263 | Western World Literature I | 3 |
| ENG 264 | Western World Literature II | 3 |
| ENG 325 | Studies in Fantasy and Science Fiction | 3 |
| ENG 338 | Sacred Texts as Lit | 3 |
| ENG 375 | Literature and the Environment | 3 |
Professionalization Module - 6 credits
| ENG 227 | Technical Writing | 3 |
| ENG 229 | Professional Writing and Digital Video | 3 |
| ENG 327 | Editing | 3 |
| ENG 328 | Professional Writing and Desktop Publishing | 3 |
| ENG 427 | E-Editing: from Text to Scholarly Edition | 3 |
| ENG 429 | Digital Self-Publishing | 3 |
| ENG 492 | Writing Internship | 1- 3 |
| FILM 340 | Producing the Short Film | 3 |
Upper-Level Electives - 6 credits
3 credits from any 300 or 400 level ENG or FILM courses and
3 credits from one of the courses below:
| ENG 400 | Special Topics in Literary and Cultural Theory | 3 |
| ENG 441 | Colloquium in Literature | 3 |
| ENG 495 | Advanced Cultural Studies | 3 |
3. Required Minor — 18 credits
4. University-Wide Credits — 23 credits
Complete additional credits to achieve the minimum credits needed for this degree at UNC; for this degree, that will typically be 23 credits.
Accelerated (4 +1) English Liberal Arts B.A. and English M.A.
Motivated and high-achieving students may seek to complete the requirements for the B.A. and M.A. in English in five years. To obtain both degrees, students must complete all the requirements for the B.A. described above (120 credit hours) and all of the requirements for the standard M.A. described in the Graduate Catalog (33 credit hours). However, the accelerated B.A./M.A. program involves 9 credit hours that are shared between the Bachelor's and Master's programs, so the total number of credit hours to complete the accelerated Master’s program is 144. Completing the requirements for both degrees is made possible by taking the 9 double-counted B.A./M.A. credits in the Senior year (paid for at the undergraduate tuition rate) and 6 graduate-level credits (online – graduate-level tuition rate) in the summer following the Senior year and completion of the undergraduate program. Students remain eligible for financial aid as an undergraduate; any Graduate School aid is not available until students are admitted as a Graduate student.
Due to its necessarily streamlined path of progression, admission to the Accelerated B.A. and M.A. in English occurs in the Fall semester only. Students interested in transferring into the accelerated program must:
- Have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 to take graduate-level courses as a Senior.
- Meet with the English M.A. Director of Graduate Studies in the fall semester of the Junior year and apply during the spring semester of the Junior year (following the same procedure and meeting the same requirements as other M.A. applicants). Full admission is dependent on completing the B.A. requirements in the senior year while maintaining a minimum 3.0 GPA. The program application will be signed and forwarded to the Graduate School with signatures of the program advisor indicating the approval of graduate course transfer.
- Complete ENG 500 Introduction to Graduate Studies in the fall semester of their Senior year, followed by ENG 538 Literary Criticism and Theory and a second 500-level elective in the spring semester of that year. These are the 9 credits that are double counted within the accelerated program only.
- Fulfill the requirement of taking at least one graduate-level course from each of the three course categories: British Literature before 1800 (ENG623, ENG624, ENG625, ENG626), British Literature after 1800 (ENG627, ENG628, ENG629), and American Literature (ENG630, ENG631, ENG632).
- Students must apply for completion of their UG degree the semester before completing UG degree (i.e. in the fall semester of their Senior Year). To apply, students must be registered for all remaining courses in their final UG semester, that is, the spring semester of their Senior Year.
Outline for degree completion of the Accelerated B.A. and M.A. in English Liberal Arts
Meet with faculty advisor or Director of Graduate Studies and apply for the program in the fall semester, Junior Year.
- Fall Semester, Senior year
ENG 500 Introduction to Graduate Studies (3) [double-counted]
- Spring Semester, Senior year
ENG 538 Literary Criticism and Theory (3) [double-counted]
One 500 level ENG-coded Elective (3) [double counted]
Note: Students must complete the Petition to Count Work Toward the Next Higher Degree form with the Graduate School.
Two online 8-week 500-level courses (6) [please note that only two of these courses will be offered each summer]:
ENG 523 - Advanced Studies in the Teaching of Writing (3)
ENG 525 - Studies in the Moving Image (3)
ENG 547 - Visual Rhetoric and Multimodal Literacies (3)
ENG 561 - Genre Study: Poetry (3)
ENG 562 - Genre Study: Fiction (3)
ENG 563 - Genre Study: Drama (3)
ENG 601 - Advanced Research Methods (3)
- Fall Semester, fifth year
Three 600-level ENG-coded courses (9)
- Spring Semester, fifth year
Three 600-level ENG-coded courses (9)
MA comprehensive examination
33 Credits