NAME______
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
(For students entering Fall 2001 and after)
CORE REQUIREMENTS
STAGE 1: Academic Foundations (9 crs.)
ENGL 120 Composition 3______
MATH ______Quantitative Reasoning 3______
HIST151/2 or
POLSC110 U.S. History 3______
STAGE 2: Broad Exposure (22 crs.)
ENGL 220 Intro. To Literature 3______
Social Sciences (6 crs.) 3______
3______
Humanities (3 crs.) 3______
Visual & Performing Arts (3 crs.) 3______
Natural Science [with lab] (7 crs.) 7______
STAGE 3: Focused Exposure (6 crs.)
Humanities and/or Visual or Performing
Arts (beyond introductory Level) 3______
Social Sci. or Natural Sci./Math 3______
FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS (12 crs.)
______3______
______3______
______3______
______3______
PLURALISM & DIVERSITY REQUIREMENT (12 crs.)
One course from each group, dealing primarily with:
A. Non-European societies, particularly
those of Africa, Asia, Latin America,
or those indigenous to the Americas 3______
B. One or more of the following groups
in the United States: African Americans,
Asian Americans, Latino Americans,
and Native Americans 3______
C. Women and/or issues of gender or
sexual orientation 3______
D. Europe, including the ways in which
Pluralism and diversity have been
addressed 3______
(Courses from the Major, Minor & GER may be used for P&D.)
SIGNIFICANT WRITING REQUIREMENT (9 crs.)
All students must take three “W” designated courses. For transfer students, the number of “W” courses depends on the number of credits at time of admission to Hunter. (ENGL 120 does not count as “W” designation.)
______3______
______3______
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LINGUISTICS AND RHETORIC
CONCENTRATION CHECKLIST
MAJOR REQUIREMENTS - 30 CREDITS/10 COURSES (All 300-level and above)
Required before taking any 300-level English course:
ENGL 220 Introduction to Literature
or approved equivalent ______
CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (30 CREDITS)
Linguistics and Rhetoric Courses (18 credits)
ENGL 301 Theory and Practice
of Expository Writing 3______
ENGL 331 Structures of Modern English 3______
Two linguistics courses chosen from the following:
ENGL 330 Sociolinguistics 3______
ENGL 332 History of the English Language 3______
ENGL 333* Topics in Language and Linguistics* 3______
ENGL 346 Discourse Analysis 3______
ENGL 347 Language and Ethnicity 3______
ENGL 348 English Across the World 3______
Two rhetoric courses chosen from the following:
ENGL 340 History of Rhetoric 3______
ENGL 341 Rhetorical Principles of
Expository Writing 3______
ENGL 342* Topics in Rhetoric* 3______
Literature Courses (9 credits)
ENGL 338 Survey of British Literature I:
Early Texts to the 18th Century 3______
One literature course chosen from the following:
ENGL 395 Survey of American Literature:
From Origins to the Civil War 3______
ENGL 396 American Prose from
Reconstruction to World War I 3______
ENGL 397 Pre-Twentieth Century American Prose 3______
One literature course chosen from the following:
ENGL 317 Topics in Non-European
Literary Traditions 3______
ENGL 318 Topics in Literature of
Non-European Americans 3______
ENGL 320 Multi-Ethnic American Literature 3______
ENGL 321 Topics in African American Literature 3______
ENGL 323 Topics in Asian American Literature 3______
ENGL 324 Topics in Native American Literature 3______
ENGL 325 Post-Colonial Literature in English 3______
ENGL 326 Topics in US Latino/a Literature 3______
ENGL 327 Topics in Caribbean Literature 3______
ENGL 329 Topics in Cross-Cultural
Literature in English 3______
Elective Course (3 credits)
Students may select an elective from any 300- or 400-level English courses (ENGL 306 Literary Theory is strongly recommended); or from courses related to linguistics or rhetoric offered in other departments, such as Anthropology (e.g., ANTH 151 Introduction to Linguistics; ANTH 320 Language, Sex, and Gender; ANTH 351 Language in Culture and Society), Classics (e.g., CLA 110 Greek and Latin Roots of English), and Philosophy (e.g., PHILO 103 Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking); or from courses in foreign language study that are beyond those taken in fulfillment of the foreign language requirement (e.g., advanced courses in a second language, beginning courses in a third language).
*ENGL 333 and ENGL 342 may be taken multiple times in different topics to fulfill both required and elective courses.