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
English Program Requirements
Complete the following:
LS F101XLibrary Information and Research1
Or successful completion of the Library Competency Exam
WRTG F111XWriting Across Contexts3
WRTG F211XWriting and the Humanities3
or WRTG F212X Writing and the Professions
or WRTG F213X Writing and the Sciences
or WRTG F214X Arguing Across Contexts
COM F121XIntroduction to Interpersonal Communication3
or COM F131X Fundamentals of Oral Communication: Group Context
or COM F141X Fundamentals of Oral Communication: Public Context
MATH F113XNumbers and Society3-4
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 list3
Complete one course from the Humanities list3-5
Complete two courses from the Social Sciences list6
Complete one additional course from the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences lists3-5
Complete two courses from the Natural Sciences list8
18 credits of F100 or above in humanities or social science, with a minimum of 6 credits in humanities and 6 credits in social sciences18
Alaska Native-themed CourseDuring the completion of coursework, 3 credits of Alaska Native-themed course(s) must be completed.0-3
BA F323XBusiness Ethics3
or COM F300X Communicating Ethics
or JUST F300X Ethics and Justice
or NRM F303X Environmental Ethics and Actions
or PHIL F322X Ethics
ENGL F310Ways of Reading3
ENGL F400Capstone Portfolio0
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 Minor15
Electives
General Electives7-12
Total Credits120-123