Program Overview

Undergraduate Programs

Bachelor of Arts in English Literature

The BA in English Literature seeks to help students develop linguistic and cultural fluency in literatures in English, the current global language, as well as competence in core and advanced critical thinking, analysis, communication, and research. The program aims at producing graduates who will contribute to the cultural, commercial, and intellectual welfare of their home country, and who will foster cultural exchange and understanding regionally and globally. The BA in English Literature prepares students for professional careers in education, research, publishing, business, and many other fields.

Program Objectives

• Read and discuss a substantial number of complex works of literature and criticism in English.
• Write a substantial number of analytical as well as informal assignments in English.
• Interrogate the relationships between literary works and their historical and cultural contexts.
• Investigate the connections made by literature between individuals, across boundaries of time and space.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

• Use appropriate terminology to identify key features of literary texts, genres, periods, techniques or devices.
• Analyze literary texts with reference to formal or aesthetic properties as well as to socio-historical rootedness and function.
• Communicate appropriately and successfully, orally and in writing, on specialist as well as non-specialist subject matter, in a variety of academic or non-academic contexts.
• Demonstrate willingness and ability to undertake further studies in literature or related disciplines, or to assume positions of responsibility in the world of work or civic engagement.
• Apply generic skills and competences developed in the course of the program, such as critical thinking, problem solving or teamwork, in the world of work or civic engagement.
• Undertake research with competent and proper use of printed as well as electronic resources, and of quantitative as well as qualitative methods.

Degree Requirements

Required Credit Hours: minimum 120 hours

General Education (Req. CH: 21)

• Theme 1: UAE National Identity (3 hours)
  • GEEM110: Contemporary Emirati Studies (3 hours)
• Theme 2: Academic Language Proficiency (3 hours)
  • GEAE101: Academic English for Humanities and STEM (3 hours)
• Theme 3: Innovation (3 hours)
  • GEIT113: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (3 hours)
• Theme 4: Entrepreneurship (3 hours)
  • GEIE222: Fundamentals of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (3 hours)
• Theme 5: Sustainability (3 hours)
  • GESU121: Sustainability (3 hours)

Students shall register 6 CH from the 6 following themes (a maximum of 3 CH from each theme)

• Theme 6: Quantitative Reasoning and Critical Thinking (3 hours)
  • PHI180: Critical Thinking (3 hours)
  • MATH120: Contemporary Applications of Math (3 hours)
  • STAT101: Statistics in the Modern World (3 hours)
  • ECON110: Principles of Economics (3 hours)
• Theme 7: Humanities (3 hours)
  • GEIS100: Islamic Culture (3 hours)
  • GEIS101: Biography of the Prophet "Sira" (3 hours)
  • HSR120: Introduction to Heritage & Culture (3 hours)
  • HSR130: Introduction to Language & Communication (3 hours)
  • MSC200: Introduction to Mass Media (3 hours)
  • PHI101: Introduction to Philosophy (3 hours)
  • TRS200: Introduction to Translation (3 hours)
• Theme 8: Behavioral and Social Sciences (3 hours)
  • AGRB210: Introduction to Agribusiness (3 hours)
  • CURR103: Early Childhood Development & Learning (3 hours)
  • GEBS280: Future Workforce Skills (3 hours)
  • GEO200: World Regional Geography (3 hours)
  • FOED102: Professional Ethics in Education (3 hours)
  • HSR140: Introduction to Society & Behavior (3 hours)
  • HSR150: Introduction to Government Policy & Urban Structures (3 hours)
  • PHI226: Human Rights Theory (3 hours)
  • PHIL120: Principles of Professional Ethics (3 hours)
  • PSYC100: Introduction to Psychology (3 hours)
• Theme 9: Natural Sciences (3 hours)
  • ARAG205: Introduction to Fish and Animal Science (3 hours)
  • ARAG220: Natural Resources (3 hours)
  • CHEM181: Chemistry in the Modern World (3 hours)
  • GEOL110: Planet Earth (3 hours)
  • PHYS100: Astronomy (3 hours)
  • PHYS101: Conceptual Physics (3 hours)
• Theme 10: Health and Wellness (3 hours)
  • FDSC250: Contemporary Food Science & Nutrition (3 hours)
  • GEHP111: Happiness and Wellbeing (3 hours)
  • NUTR100: Nutrition and Well-being (3 hours)
  • PHED201: Physical Fitness and Wellness (3 hours)
  • PHED211: Health and Movement (3 hours)
  • SLP101: Language Development and Impairment (3 hours)
  • SPED101: Education of Exceptional Children (3 hours)

College Requirements

• Required Courses (6 hours)
  • HSSR101: Fundamentals of Humanities and Social Sciences (3 hours)
  • HSSR103: People, Places, and Society (3 hours)

Compulsory Courses

• Required Courses (57 hours)
  • LIT150: Introduction to Literature (3 hours)
  • LIT220: Survey of British Literature (3 hours)
  • LIT240: Survey of American Literature (3 hours)
  • LIT300: Methods of Research in Literary Study (3 hours)
  • LIT320: Elizabethan & 17th Century Literature (3 hours)
  • LIT335: 20th Century British Literature (3 hours)
  • LIT345: 20th Century American Literature (3 hours)
  • LIT355: Digital Humanities Basics (3 hours)
  • LIT365: Modern World Literature (3 hours)
  • LIT370: Anglophone Literature Outside UK & US (3 hours)
  • LIT385: Children's Literature (3 hours)
  • LIT410: Criticism and Theory (3 hours)
  • LIT420: Senior Seminar Major writer (3 hours)
  • ENG250: English Grammar & Usage (3 hours)
  • ENG310: Writing for Research (3 hours)
  • ENG450: Public Speaking and Debate (3 hours)
  • ENG489: Integrated Capstone (3 hours)
  • FIL240: Introduction to Film & Visual Studies TA (3 hours)
  • DRA265: Approaches to Drama TA (3 hours)

Supporting Required Courses (Req. Ch:6)

• Language Courses Level 1 (Student should select one course from the list below:) (3 hours)
  • KOR101: Korean 1 for Beginners (3 hours)
  • GER101: German 1 for Beginners (3 hours)
  • SPN101: Spanish 1 for Beginners (3 hours)
  • CHIN101: Chinese 1 for Beginners (3 hours)
  • FCH101: French 1 for Beginners (3 hours)
• Language Courses Level 2 (Student should select one course from the list below:) (3 hours)
  • KOR102: Korean 2 for Beginners (3 hours)
  • GER102: German 2 for Beginners (3 hours)
  • SPN102: Spanish 2 for Beginners (3 hours)
  • CHIN102: Chinese 2 for Beginners (3 hours)
  • FCH102: French 2 for Beginners (3 hours)

Internship

• Required Courses (6 hours)
  • LIT490: Internship 1 (6 hours)
  • Note: The internship is conducted in the last semester. No courses can be registered during this semester.

Elective Courses

• Students Should select four courses from the list below (12 hours)
  • ENG300: Critical Reading in the Disciplines (3 hours)
  • ENG354: Writing for the Workplace (3 hours)
  • EWR380: Creative Writing Non-fiction (3 hours)
  • EWR390: Creative Writing Fiction (3 hours)
  • LIT330: Romantic & Victorian Literature (3 hours)
  • FIL312: Animation Filmmaking (3 hours)
  • FIL340: Developing Ideas for Film (3 hours)
  • DRA360: Fundamentals of Stage Prod TA (3 hours)
  • DRA365: Drama in Education TA (3 hours)

Free Elective

• Student can choose any 4 courses (12 hours)