TEST1 Sharing - English B.A.
General Bachelor's Degrees Policies
For a UAF bachelor’s degree, a student must earn at least 120 semester credits, including transfer credits, at the 100 level or above. Unless otherwise specified, a course may be used more than once toward fulfilling degree, certificate, major and minor requirements. Credit hours for these courses count only once toward the total credits required for the degree or certificate.
Minimum number of credits | 120 credits |
Credits earned at UAF (residence credit) | 30 credits |
Upper-division credit (courses with numbers between F300 and F499) | 39 credits total (some degrees require more); 24 of the 39 must be earned at UA and 15 at UAF |
Additional UAF credit that must be earned by transfer students | 12 credits in the major; 3 credits in the minor |
Grade point average | 2.0 cumulative and 2.0 in both the major and minor |
Minimum grades for major | No grade lower than C- in courses required for the major. Some majors require higher GPAs for major coursework. |
Catalog year that can be used to determine requirements | May use any catalog in effect when enrolled as a degree student, regardless of major; seven-year limit on catalog year |
Second degree | 24 credits beyond the first bachelor’s degree and all requirements for the second degree must be met |
Minimum Requirements for English B.A.: 120 credits
Students must earn a C- grade or better in each course.
Credits | ||
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English Program Requirements | ||
Complete the following: | ||
LS F101X | Library Information and Research | 1 |
Or successful completion of the Library Competency Exam | ||
WRTG F111X | Writing Across Contexts | 3 |
WRTG F211X | Writing and the Humanities | 3 |
or WRTG F212X | Writing and the Professions | |
or WRTG F213X | Writing and the Sciences | |
or WRTG F214X | Arguing Across Contexts | |
COM F121X | Introduction to Interpersonal Communication | 3 |
or COM F131X | Fundamentals of Oral Communication: Group Context | |
or COM F141X | Fundamentals of Oral Communication: Public Context | |
MATH F113X | Numbers and Society | 3-4 |
or MATH F122X | Essential Precalculus with Applications | |
or MATH F151X | College Algebra for Calculus | |
or MATH F152X | Trigonometry | |
or MATH F156X | Precalculus | |
or MATH F230X | Essential Calculus with Applications in the Life Sciences | |
or MATH F251X | Calculus I | |
or MATH F252X | Calculus II | |
or MATH F253X | Calculus III | |
or STAT F200X | Elementary Statistics | |
Complete one course from the Arts list | 3 | |
Complete one course from the Humanities list | 3-5 | |
Complete two courses from the Social Sciences list | 6 | |
Complete one additional course from the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences lists | 3-5 | |
Complete two courses from the Natural Sciences list | 8 | |
18 credits of F100 or above in humanities or social science, with a minimum of 6 credits in humanities and 6 credits in social sciences | 18 | |
Alaska Native-themed Course | During the completion of coursework, 3 credits of Alaska Native-themed course(s) must be completed. | 0-3 |
BA F323X | Business Ethics | 3 |
or COM F300X | Communicating Ethics | |
or JUST F300X | Ethics and Justice | |
or NRM F303X | Environmental Ethics and Actions | |
or PHIL F322X | Ethics | |
ENGL F310 | Ways of Reading | 3 |
ENGL F400 | Capstone Portfolio | 0 |
Complete three of the following: | 9 | |
Literature of the Ancient World | ||
Medieval and Early Modern European Literature | ||
Survey of American Literature: Beginnings to the Civil War | ||
Survey of American Literature: Civil War to the Present | ||
Survey of British Literature: Beowulf to the Romantic Period | ||
Survey of British Literature: Romantic Period to the Present | ||
Complete one of the following: | 3 | |
Shakespeare: History Plays and Tragedies | ||
Shakespeare: Comedies and Nondramatic Poetry | ||
Complete one of the following: | 3 | |
Traditional English Grammar | ||
Modern English Grammar | ||
Applied English Linguistics | ||
History of the English Language | ||
Complete one of the following: | 3 | |
Women's Literature | ||
Contemporary Indigenous Literature in North America | ||
Contemporary Alaska Native Literature | ||
Voices of Native American Peoples | ||
Narrative Art of Alaska Native Peoples (in English translation) | ||
Multiethnic American Literature | ||
Topics in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature | ||
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in Language, Literature, and Culture | ||
Northern and Environmental Literature | ||
Complete one of the following: | 3 | |
Studies in American Literature to 1900 | ||
Studies in 17th- and 18th-Century British Literature | ||
Studies in Medieval and 16th-Century British Literature | ||
Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century British Literature | ||
Studies in 19th-Century British Literature | ||
Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature | ||
Studies in Comparative/World Literature | ||
Complete one of the following: | 3 | |
Topics in Film Studies | ||
Authors | ||
Genre Literacies | ||
Topics in Language and Literature | ||
Teaching Composition in the Schools | ||
Complete three ENGL F300- and F400-level courses (at least one at the F400 level) | 9 | |
Complete a Minor | 15 | |
Electives | ||
General Electives | 7-12 | |
Total Credits | 120-123 |