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English Concentrations

Students may concentrate their studies in one or more of the following concentrations or career paths:

    Creative Studies Concentration | 9-12 hours

    Course Number Course Title
    CS 250  Creative Writing Workshop I
    CS 350 Creative Writing Workshop II
    Choose Two From:
    COM 242/EN 399/EN 499
    Script Writing
    Creative Writing Independent Study
    Creative Writing Independent Study
    EN 489 Internship

    Drama Concentration | 9-12 hours

    Course Number Course Title
    CS 320 Theory and Methods of Play Production
    CS 357 A History of the American Cinema
    CS 365 Great Directors of Modern America Cinema 
    EN 303/304  Shakespeare I & II 
    EN 318  History of Theater 
    EN 360 Film and Literature 
    EN 489
    Internship 
    COM 151  Public Speaking 
    EN 340  Professional and Technical Communications 
    EN 489  Internship (teaching assistant) 
    Senior Year Two Graduate Education Courses
     

    Graduate School Preparation Concentration | 12-15 hours
    (in literature courses such as the following)

    Course Number Course Title
    EN 303/304 Shakespeare I & II
    EN 312 Modernism
    EN 315 Mythology
    EN 345 The City in Literature
    EN 400 Chaucer and Medieval Literature
    EN 418 Romanticism
    EN 419 Victorian Literature
    EN 440 Major Literary Figure
    EN 450 Introduction to Critical Theory
    EN 460 Postmodernism
    EN 490 Senior Honors Thesis

    Professional Communications Concentration | 12-15 hours

    Course Number Course Title
     COM 121  Introduction to PowerPoint
     COM 131  Introduction to Communication Theory
     COM 151  Public Speaking
     COM 160  Introduction to Desktop Publishing/Quark Express
     COM 290  Media and Mass Media
     COM/MIS 310  Interactive Web Design
     COM 343  Journalism
     COM 347  Public Relations and Advertising
     COM 351  Speaking for the Professions
     EN 340  Professional and Technical Writing
     EN 489  Internship

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Have a question for English? Contact us.

Anthony Hughes, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Call: (716) 926-8856
Bogel Hall 111
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