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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

English, Self-Design/Interdisciplinary Track (BA) Sample Plan


Year One

Fall Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I   3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II   3
PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6) 3 PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6) 3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience   3 Expanded Literacies (3/6)  3
EN - 115 An Introduction to Fiction  
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies:Literary Analysis - 2/6)
3 EN - 110 An Introduction to Poetry  or EN - 112 An Introduction to Drama   3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Two

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3
Expanded Literacies (5/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (5/6) or Free Elective 3
EN - 255 British Romanticism  or EN - 260 The Victorian Age    3 EN - 250 American Romanticism   3
EN - 265 American Realism and Naturalism  or EN - 375 Topics in American Literature   3 Track Selection* 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1 UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 16

Year Three

Fall Spring  
EN - 358 Shakespeare I  or EN - 359 Shakespeare II  
(Satisfies Lens 1 - 1/3)
3 Lens 2 or 3 (2/3) 3
Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3
Track Selection* 3 EN - 345 Literature of the Middle Ages   3
Track Selection* 3 EN - 372 Literary Monsters  or EN 373  or EN 386  or EN 388   3
Free Elective 3 Track Selection* 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Four

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 2 or 3 (3/3) 3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 2 or 3 (3/3) 3
EN - 350 Topics in English Renaissance Literature   or EN 365  or EN 370   3 EN - 285 Contemporary Literature  or EN 376W  or EN 380   3
EN - 382 Women Writers  or EN - 384 African American Literature   3 Free Elective 3
EN - 485 Research Seminar   4 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3    
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 12

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

*Track Selections: For the Self-Designed track, choose any four courses from a related discipline, in consultation with an academic advisor

For more information about the requirements in our general education Connections Curriculum, which are included in the sample plan above, please see I. General Education (Connections Curriculum), which can be found in The Undergraduate Program