2023-2024 University Catalog 
    
    Oct 31, 2024  
2023-2024 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

English, B.A.


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The Bachelor of Arts in English degree program is designed for students who want to develop critical practices in reading, writing, and thinking—practices that lead not only to creative and academic fulfillment but also to career success. No matter what your personal and professional goals are, the English major can provide you with the skills to reach them.

English majors complement a core curriculum focused on methods, rhetoric, and theory with courses in literature and writing. Working with an English faculty adviser, each student creates a personalized curriculum tailored to their interests and goals.

Students who wish to earn secondary certification to teach English are encouraged to pursue a double major in education (B.S.E.) and English (B.A.).

Requirements For: B.A. Major – 42 Hours, 2.0 GPA


English majors develop critical practices in reading, writing, and thinking, in order to promote creative and humanist responses to literature, life, and intellectual endeavor. The English program encourages students to explore many facets of human nature and culture through the study of literature, development of analytical reading and reasoning skills, and the articulate use of oral and written language. English majors complement a core curriculum focused on methods, rhetoric, and theory with courses in literature and writing. Working with an English adviser, each student creates a personalized curriculum, tailored to his or her interests and goals.

Students who wish to earn secondary certification to teach English should pursue a double major in education (B.S.E.) and English (B.A.).

Electives 9 CR.


Complete nine additional hours from any English courses (six hours must be 300-level or above)

Note:


**For those students wishing to teach English: See also Bachelor of Science in Education

Liberal Education Requirements 40 CR.


Writing Seminar 6 cr.


EN105  and EN106   

Math Requirement 3 cr.


Select one of the following:

MA120 MA135 , or higher math course excluding MA208   

Science with a lab Requirement 4 cr.


Select one of the following:

BI101 , BI111 , BI211 , BI212 , BI223 , BIO221 , BIO225 , BIO325 , BIO327 , BIO330 , BIO337L  and BIO337 , BIO350 , BIO400 , BIO410 , BIO411 , BIO417 , CH101 , CH105 , CH107L  and CH107 , CH108L  and CH108 , CH317L  and CH317 , CH318L  and CH318 , CH328 , CH329 , CH337L  and CH337 , CH440 , GGP115 , GGP205 , GO130 , GO141 , GO151 , GO200 , GO310 , GO320 , GO330 , PY155 , PY156 , PY205 , or PY206  

Ethics Requirement 3 cr.


Select one of the following:

AC435 , CA302 , CS300 , EDU310 , MG495 , NS306 , PA380 , PH102 , PH221 , PH224 , PH308 , PS220 , SO220 , SW492 

Communications Requirement 3 cr.


Select one of the following:

CA103 CA105  

Citizenship Requirement 3 cr.


Select one of the following:

PO200 PO210 HIS111 HIS112 , or HIS113   

Humanities Requirement 6 cr.


Select one of the following Art or English: 

AR115 , AR215 , AR216 , EN201 , EN221 , EN232 , EN234  

And one of the following:

AR115 , AR215 , AR216 , EN201 , EN221 , EN232 , EN234 , CA104 , CA116 , CA235 , ML235 , ML251 , PH101 , PC202 , PH205 , RE109 , SP110 , SP201 , SP202 , TH100 , TH101 

Natural Science Requirement 3 cr.


Select one of the following:

BI214 , CH101 , CH102 , CH105 , CH107  CH107L , CH108  CH108L , GGP115 , GGP120 , GGP205 , GO125 , GO130 , GO141 , GO151 , GO200 , NS220 , PY101 , PY155 , PY156 , PY205 , or PY206  

*Computer Science and PE courses excluded.

Social Science Requirement 6 cr.


Select two of the following:

AN100 , CJ100 , CJ200 , EC141 , EC142 , EDU210 , FI201 , GGH110 , GGH200 , HIS104 , HIS105 , PO216 , PS101 , PS125 , PS205 , SO141 , SO206 , or SW205 

Seminar: Integrative & Interdisciplinary Learning 3 cr.


Select one of the topics for LE300*   

Graduation Requirements


Student Seminar 3 CR.


FYE100 First-Year Seminar  (required for all incoming first-time freshman and highly encouraged for transfer students)

Upper Division Requirements 36 cr.


36 hours of upper division (300 - 400 level) course work

Writing Across the Curriculum 9 cr.


3 credit hours of Professional Writing (EN306*  or equivalent from the list below) plus 6 credit hours of Writing Intensive coursework are required.

EN306A , EN306B , EN306C , EN307 , EDU300 , CJ450 , HIS455 , MG306 , NS306 , PA430 , PO405 , PS300 , PS406 , or SO310  

 

6 credit hours to fulfill the Writing Intensive requirement must be chosen from among the courses designated in the catalog as “WI” (Writing Intensive ), composed as follows:

  • 3 of the credit hours must come from a WI course outside the student’s major(s); that is, the course must be offered by a program other than the one(s) that house(s) the student’s major area of study at the time the course is taken.
  • 3 of the credit hours must come from a WI course that is offered by the student’s major program; that is, the course must be offered by the same program that houses the student’s major at the time the course is taken.

AR316 , AR498 , BIO498 , CA218 , CH342 , CJ221 , CS300 , EDU310 , EN201 , EN221 , EN232 , EN234 , EN490 , FW190 , HC 263 HIS261 , HIS453 , IDS410 , MA301 , ML251 , MG495 , NUR460 , PA432 , PS315 , SO141 , SP320 , SW325  

Modern Language Requirement


Completion of two, 3-hour elementary level modern language courses (103 and 104); or the second 3-hour elementary level modern language course (104) and one, 3-hour intermediate course (201); or one, 3-hour intermediate course (201).  Placement will be determined through a Modern Language Placement test.

Elementary Level 6 cr.


FR103  and FR104  or SP103  and SP104 ; or transfer equivalent

Or

Secondary Level 6 cr.


FR104  ; SP104  and SP201  or transfer equivalent 

Or

Intermediate Level 3 cr.


SP201  or transfer equivalent 

Additional Requirements


Park University confers the Bachelor of Arts degree at selected locations when a candidate has satisfied the following conditions:

  • Completion of a minimum of 120 semester hours with a cumulative 2.0 GPA (or higher dependent on major).
  • A minor is required (some may be discipline specific as noted in the major).

  • Satisfaction of all requirements for a major.

  • Completion of the Liberal Education requirements.

  • Completion of the degree specific requirements.

  • Completion of residency requirement, 30 hours of earned and graded (A, B, C, D) college hours at Park University. At least 15 of these 30 hours must be in the major.

  • Submission of an Application for Graduation.