Required upper-division courses are:
One course chosen from:
- ENGL 3430 - British Literature to 1780
- ENGL 3830 - American Literature to 1870
Plus one course chosen from:
- ENGL 3440 - British Anglophone Literature 1780 to the Present
- ENGL 3840 - American Literature 1870 to the Present
Plus one course chosen from:
- ENGL 4410 - Chaucer
- ENGL 4430 - Shakespeare
- ENGL 4440 - Milton
- ENGL 4450 - Special Studies in a Single or Dual Author(s)
Plus one course chosen from:
- ENGL 3200 - Rhetorical History and Historiography
- ENGL 4150 - Literary Criticism
- ENGL 4160 - Advanced Expository Writing
- ENGL 4185 - Advanced Academic Writing
- ENGL 4200 - Studies in Modern Rhetoric
Plus one course each in four out of the five historical periods
