Department of English and Creative Writing

For more information about degree offerings by the faculty of English, visit the Department of English and Creative Writing webpage. 

The aim of the undergraduate program in English and creative writing is to educate students in literature and language and in the practice of writing, and to enhance their understanding of the tradition of liberal arts. The major develops the ability to understand and appreciate literature in its historical and cultural contexts, to read closely and analytically in a broad range of texts, and to write about language and literature with clarity and precision.

The English core emphasizes basic experiences of the literary tradition in England and America and introduces students to critical methods and theoretical approaches to literary study. On this foundation, English electives focus on literary periods, major literary figures, the several genres of literature, and the nature and history of the English language. Work in related areas such as foreign languages, philosophy, history, film studies, and creative writing is encouraged. The overall aim of the program is flexible, yet directive and cumulative, and provides broad opportunities for professional as well as personal post-graduate application.

Undergraduate Academic Programs

The faculty of English offer courses leading to the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in English and creative writing . The interdisciplinary character of the creative writing specialization is reflected through cross-listings with the faculty of media studies  and film studies .

Program Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the English & Creative Writing degree will:

1. Progress toward Critical Perspective: gain and demonstrate knowledge of an historically varied range of Anglophone literary texts by reading them and writing about them;

2. Progress toward Creative Knowledge and Practice: Write and present in public creative work in different creative writing genres.

3. Progress toward Professionalization: participate in a larger creative community through activities such as peer critiques, writers groups, meetings with professional writers, attendance at public events, submitting work to publications, and presenting work in public.

4. Progress toward Self-actualization: a) articulate goals through formal written statements, informal journal entries, oral questions and answers, or other reporting methods and b) assess their own progress towards those goals through self-reflection artifacts.

Teacher Education Program

Students seeking secondary teacher certification in English must declare education as a second major. This double major leads to teacher certification in Oklahoma (and preparation for certification in other states). In order to qualify, students must complete all the tasks listed on the Department of Education page of this Bulletin, including acceptance into the Teacher Education Program and to the Student Teaching Semester.

In addition, English education majors must include the following courses as part of their major:

• ENGL 2313 Reading Major American Writers  
• ENGL 2513 Reading Major British Writers I  
• ENGL 2523 Reading Major British Writers II  
• ENGL 3213 Fiction Writing  
   
• ANTH 2023 Foundations of Linguistics  or
• LANG 2023 Foundations of Linguistics  
   
• EDUC 3143 Adolescent Literacy and Literature  
• Fifteen hours of English electives as follows:
  • American literature (3 hours)
  • Literature before 1800 (6 hours)
  • Literature after 1800 (3 hours)
  • Elective (3 hours)

English education majors are assigned two faculty advisors, one in the Department of English and one in the Department of Education.

Faculty

Programs

• English and Creative Writing, B.A.

• English Minor

Courses

• ENGL 1004 Introduction to College Writing
• ENGL 1033 Exposition and Argumentation
• ENGL 1043 Poetry and the Modern World
• ENGL 1093 Reading Narrative: The World in the Book
• ENGL 2013 Shakespeare
• ENGL 2043 Literary Constructions of the Self
• ENGL 2083 African-American Autobiography
• ENGL 2173 Reading American Culture
• ENGL 2193 Literary Genders
• ENGL 2243 Literature Across Time
• ENGL 2313 Reading Major American Writers
• ENGL 2323 Environment and Literature
• ENGL 2353 Masterpieces of Russian Literature
• ENGL 2393 Introduction to Digital Humanities
• ENGL 2403 Introduction to Creative Writing
• ENGL 2413 Indigenous Literatures: An Introduction
• ENGL 2463 Doing Things with Words
• ENGL 2513 Reading Major British Writers I
• ENGL 2523 Reading Major British Writers II
• ENGL 2803 Special Topics
• ENGL 2923 Beyond Bella: 21st Century Girls’ Adventure
• ENGL 2933 American Culture and Organizations
• ENGL 2992-3 Independent Study
• ENGL 3003 Writing for the Professions
• ENGL 3053 Literature and Film
• ENGL 3103 TV Writing
• ENGL 3193 Black American Women Writers
• ENGL 3213 Fiction Writing
• ENGL 3223 Poetry Writing
• ENGL 3243 African American Literature
• ENGL 3283 The Lyric
• ENGL 3313 19th-Century American Literature
• ENGL 3323 20th-Century American Literature
• ENGL 3333 Contemporary American Literature
• ENGL 3343 African American Novel
• ENGL 3353 Contemporary British Literature
• ENGL 3403 Bob Dylan
• ENGL 3413 King Arthur
• ENGL 3423 Medieval British Literature
• ENGL 3433 16th-Century British Literature
• ENGL 3443 17th-Century British Literature
• ENGL 3453 Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
• ENGL 3463 The Romantic Period in British Literature
• ENGL 3473 The Victorian Period in British Literature
• ENGL 3483 Early 20th-Century British and Irish Literature
• ENGL 3503 Modern Comparative Fiction
• ENGL 3513 Modern Women Writers
• ENGL 3523 Gender in Modernism and Postmodernism
• ENGL 3653 History and Literature
• ENGL 3703 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3713 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3723 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3733 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3743 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3763 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3783 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3793 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3803 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3813 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3823 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3833 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3843 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3863 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3873 Digital Humanities and Literary Studies
• ENGL 3893 Special Topics in Literature and Language I
• ENGL 3981 Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Tutorial
• ENGL 3983 Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Tutorial
• ENGL 4003 Scholarly Writing
• ENGL 4013 London in the Age of Queen Anne: Church, Crown, Conflict, and Culture
• ENGL 4113 History of Literary Criticism and Theory
• ENGL 4123 Modern Literary Theory
• ENGL 4163 Film Genres
• ENGL 4243 Advanced Fiction Writing
• ENGL 4263 Advanced Poetry Writing
• ENGL 4393 The American Novel
• ENGL 4483 The British Novel I: Defoe to the Brontës
• ENGL 4493 The British Novel II: Dickens to Woolf
• ENGL 4513 Chaucer
• ENGL 4543 Shakespeare
• ENGL 4563 Milton
• ENGL 4593 Internship
• ENGL 4703 Major Figures
• ENGL 4713 Major Figures
• ENGL 4783 James Joyce
• ENGL 4803 Special Topics in Literature and Language II
• ENGL 4813 Special Topics in Literature and Language II
• ENGL 4823 Special Topics in Literature and Language II
• ENGL 4863 Special Topics in Literature and Language II
• ENGL 4873 Special Topics in Literature and Language II
• ENGL 4893 Special Topics in Literature and Language II
• ENGL 4973 Senior Project
• ENGL 4981 Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Tutorial
• ENGL 4983 Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Tutorial
• ENGL 4993 Independent Study