English Lower Division Requirements
Students complete any two 100-division English courses. Such courses may include:
ENGL 111W - Literary Classics in English (3) *
ENGL 112W - Literature Now (3) *
ENGL 113W - Literature and Performance (3) *
ENGL 114W - Language and Purpose (3) *
ENGL 115W - Literature and Culture (3) *
ENGL 199W - Writing to Persuade (3) *
Students also complete any four 200-division English courses. Such courses may include:
ENGL 202 - The Environmental Imagination (3) **
ENGL 204 - Reading Sexuality and Gender (3) **
ENGL 209 - Race, Borders, Empire (3) **
ENGL 210 - Reading and Writing Identities (3) **
ENGL 211 - The Place of the Past (3) **
ENGL 213 - Reading Across Media (3) **
ENGL 214 - History and Principles of Rhetoric (3) **
ENGL 216 - History and Principles of Literary Criticism (3) ***
ENGL 234 - Metrics and Prosody (3) **
ENGL 272 - Creative Reading (3)
Students wishing to major in English are strongly advised to submit a formal declaration to this effect to the undergraduate advisor upon completing all lower division requirements.
* any one, but not more than one, of these courses may be replaced by any three unspecified transfer units in English or in ENGL-Writing
** no more than one of these courses may be replaced by any three unspecified 200 division transfer units in English
*** recommended and any one, but not more than one, of these courses may be replaced by any three unspecified 200 division transfer units in English
History Lower Division Requirements
Students complete 18 units of 100 and 200 division history courses.
Students must complete at least six lower division history units before enrolling in 300 division work and nine lower division history units before enrolling in 400 division work.
English Upper Division Requirements
Students complete 20 units of upper division English courses. A minimum of four of these units must be at the 400-level, excluding directed studies courses (ENGL 490, 491); a minimum of four units must be from the following group of courses, focused on Canadian and/or Indigenous Literatures:
ENGL 355 - Canadian Literatures (4)
ENGL 360 - Popular Writing by Indigenous Authors (4)
ENGL 431W - Seminar in Indigenous Literatures (4)
ENGL 432W - Seminar in Canadian Literature (4)
With permission of the department, other English courses of equivalent content may be substituted for those required in this group.
History Upper Division Requirements
Students complete 24 units of 300 and 400 level history courses, of which 12 must be in 400 level. Students must complete at least one course from each group shown below. Global/Comparative courses that are also included in another group may only be counted towards fulfilling the upper division course requirements for one group.
Group 1 - Europe
Group 2 - The Americas
Group 3 - Africa, Middle East, Asia
Group 4 - Global/Comparative
Students in history joint major programs have the option of taking concentrations to enhance their programs.
Concentration in British History and Irish History
Concentration in Early Modern World History
Concentration in Middle Eastern and Islamic History
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Degree Requirements
For all bachelor of arts (BA) programs, students complete 120 units, which includes
at least 60 units that must be completed at Simon Fraser University
at least 45 upper division units, of which at least 30 upper division units must be completed at Simon Fraser University
at least 60 units (including 21 upper division units) in Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences courses
satisfaction of the writing, quantitative, and breadth requirements
an overall cumulative grade point average (CGPA) and upper division overall CGPA of at least 2.0, and program CGPA and upper division program CGPA of at least 2.0 on the course work used to satisfy the minimum program requirements. FASS departments may define additional GPA requirements for their respective programs.
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