The baccalaureate degree program at Mesa State College requires a minimum of 123 credit hours. For the literature concentration in English, these hours are distributed as follows:

General Education				34
BA Degree Distinction (Foreign Language)				6
Human Performance and Wellness				3
English Core				21
	ENGL 254	Survey of English Literature I	3
	ENGL 255	Survey of English Literature II	3
	ENGL 261	Survey of American Literature I	3
	ENGL 262	Survey of American Literature II	3
	ENGL 355	Shakespeare	3
	ENGL 421	History of Literary Criticism	3
	ENGL 494	Senior Seminar	3
Concentration in Literature				27
English Literature (Select 6 hours)
	ENGL 311	English Medieval Literature	3
	ENGL 313	English Renaissance Literature	3
	ENGL 470	18th Century British Literature	3
	ENGL 471	British Romanticism	3
	ENGL 475	Victorian Literature	3
	ENGL 478	20th Century British Literature	3
American Literature (Select 6 hours)
	ENGL 314	American Literature before 1835	3
	ENGL 315	American Romanticism	3
	ENGL 316	American Realism	3
	ENGL 435	20th Century American Literature	3
	ENGL 438	U.S. Minority Literature	3
World Literature (Select 3 hours)
	ENGL 301	Classical Greek and Latin Literature	3
	ENGL 330	Women in World Thought and Literature	3
	ENGL 335	The Bible as Literature	3
Required (6 hours)
	ENGL 370	Major Authors	3
	ENGL 440	History of the English Language or	3
	ENGL 452	Structure of the English Language	3
English Electives (at least 1 must be upper division)			6
General Electives				33