Description
The English degree program provides students with a variety of literature courses for preparation in careers such as business, communication and media arts, law, the teaching of English, and all careers that require excellent communication and writing skills. The curriculum balances liberal art studies with a heavy concentration on literature, as well as more current theme-based courses, providing analytical and critical thinking skills in order to examine literature as the human experience.

Program Learning Outcomes
1. Analyze verbal texts from a number of genres.
2. Analyze visual texts from a number of genres.
3. Analyze verbal texts from a variety of historical periods.
4. Analyze visual texts from a variety of historical periods.
5. Read texts critically and with sensitivity to the historical or cultural conditions within which they are produced.
6. Produce effective writing in a variety of critical modes, using the conventions of standard American English.
7. Employ varieties of theoretical approaches in critical analyses.
8. Incorporate secondary sources into the analysis of texts using correct MLA style.
9. Incorporate traditional and nontraditional research material into the analysis of texts using correct MLA style.

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Requirements for Program Entrance
Algebra or placement into Level 4 Math at MCC. Placement into ENG 101 or ENG 200.

Distribution Requirements	Credit Hours
FIRST SEMESTER: 15-16 Credit Hours
ENG 101 College Composition OR ENG 200 Advanced Composition	3
FOREIGN LANGUAGE ELECTIVE	3
HMN 101 Humanities: Experiencing Culture	3
SUNY GENERAL EDUCATION - AMERICAN HISTORY ELECTIVE*	3
SUNY GENERAL EDUCATION - MATHEMATICS ELECTIVE MTH 150 Survey of Mathematics or higher	3-4
Total	15-16
SECOND SEMESTER: 16 Credit Hours
ENG 218 Introduction to Shakespeare	3
HMN 220 Western Humanities I	4
LITERATURE ELECTIVE (100 level)	3
PHYSICAL/HEALTH EDUCATION ELECTIVE	2
SUNY GENERAL EDUCATION - NATURAL SCIENCES ELECTIVE	4
Total	16
THIRD SEMESTER: 16 Credit Hours
ANT 102 Cultural Anthropology	3
ENG 201 Early British Literature OR ENG 202 Modern British Literature	3
HMN 221 Western Humanities II	4
MATHEMATICS OR NATURAL SCIENCE ELECTIVE	3
PROGRAM ELECTIVE**	3
Total	16
FOURTH SEMESTER: 15 Credit Hours
ART 121 Perspectives of Art History III: Non-Western Art OR HIS 153 Traditional East Asian History OR HIS 154 Modern East Asian History OR MUS 119 Music in World Cultures	3
ENG 203 American Literature to 1865 OR ENG 204 American Literature since 1865	3
LITERATURE ELECTIVE (200 level) PROGRAM ELECTIVE** SOCIAL SCIENCE ELECTIVE	3
	3
	3
Total	15
TOTAL CREDITS	62-63

*If below 85 on U.S. History Regents Exam, choose from HIS 111, HIS 112. If 85 or above on U.S. History Regents Exam, choose from: HIS 103, HIS 104, HIS 111, HIS 112, HIS 200, HIS 211, HIS 240, HSM 103, POS 102.

**ENG 201, ENG 202, ENG 203 ENG 204, ENG 217, ENG 220, ENG 225