Program: Certificate in Literary Studies - Southern Oregon University

Jul 07, 2025

2024-2025 Catalog

The 32-credit Certificate in Literary Studies provides a thorough grounding in literary analysis across a range of genres, time periods, and theoretical lenses.

Lower-division courses

8 credits of lower-division English classes in literature, grammar, or rhetoric. Choose from:

ENG 104 - Introduction to Literature 4 credits
ENG 105 - Introduction to Literature 4 credits
ENG 200 - Shakespeare: Innovations (The Early Plays) 4 credits
ENG 201 - Shakespeare: Explorations (The Middle Plays) 4 credits
ENG 202 - Shakespeare: Consummations (The Late Plays) 4 credits
ENG 208 - Explorations in Literary Genres 4 credits
ENG 208A - Coming of Age Narratives 4 credits
ENG 208B - Drama and its Revisions 4 credits
ENG 208C - Bible as Literature 4 credits
ENG 209 - Literature in the Modern World 4 credits
ENG 209A - Animal in Literature 4 credits
ENG 209B - Dis/Ability in Literature 4 credits
ENG 209C - Literature of Invisibility 4 credits
ENG 209D - Memoirs of Difference 4 credits
ENG 209E - Literatures of Place 4 credits
ENG 239 - Native American Myth and Culture 4 credits
ENG 240 - Native American Narratives, Fiction, and Poetry 4 credits
ENG 245 - Introduction to U.S. Ethnic Literature 4 credits
ENG 280 - Introductory Topics in Rhetoric: Public Reasoning 4 credits
ENG 295 - Grammar in Context 4 credits

Core Course

ENG 301 - Introduction to Literary Analysis and Theory 4 credits (must earn a C- or better)

Electives

20 credits of upper-division (300- or 400-level) literature electives. Choose from:

ENG 315 - Life Writing: Studies in Autobiographical Texts 4 credits
ENG 341 - Class, Culture, and Feminism in Victorian and Edwardian England 4 credits
ENG 367 - British Women Writers 4 credits
ENG 368 - Women Writers in the U.S. 4 credits
ENG 381 - Topics in U.S. Literature Before 1865 4 credits
ENG 381A - Narratives of Captivity 4 credits
ENG 381B - Slave Narratives 4 credits
ENG 381C - Early American Nature Writing 4 credits
ENG 382 - Topics in U.S. Literature After 1865 4 credits
ENG 382A - Literature after the Civil War 4 credits
ENG 382B - Literature of the Wild West 4 credits
ENG 382C - Modernism 4 credits
ENG 382D - Western American Literature 4 credits
ENG 417 - Birth of the British Novel to 1850 4 credits
ENG 418 - The British Novel after 1850 4 credits
ENG 436 - Topics in Shakespeare 4 credits
ENG 443 - Chicanx Literature 4 credits
ENG 447 - Major Forces in Literature 4 credits
ENG 447A - Irish Literature 4 credits
ENG 447B - Race in Britain: Literature after 1945 4 credits
ENG 447C - The Decadent 1890s 4 credits
ENG 447D - Trans Literature 4 credits
ENG 447E - The Harlem Renaissance 4 credits
ENG 447F - African American Literature: Urban Realism 4 credits
ENG 447G - African American Women and Unknowability 4 credits
ENG 447H - Poetry of Witness 4 credits
ENG 447I - Utopian Literature 4 credits
ENG 447J - Literature of the American Indian Movement 4 credits
ENG 448 - Major Figures in Literature 4 credits
ENG 448A - James Baldwin 4 credits
ENG 448B - Ernest Hemingway and Constructions of Masculinity 4 credits
ENG 454 - U.S. Ethnic Literature 4 credits
ENG 454A - U.S. Ethnic Literature: Racialized Bodies 4 credits
ENG 457 - Decolonization: Literature and Theory 4 credits
ENG 470 - Topics in Poetry 4 credits
ENG 481 - The Novel in the U.S. to 1900 4 credits
ENG 482 - The Novel in the U.S.: 1900 and Beyond 4 credits
ENG 489 - Young Adult Novel 4 credits
ENG 498 - Topics in Women’s Writing 4 credits