Course Requirements

Four-Year Plan

The following represents one of many paths students can take to complete a major in literature.

Note that students typically take four courses per semester for a total of eight each year. Check the Coe catalog to review all of your options.

First Year

• FRE-215 Intermediate French I
• FRE-225 Intermediate French II
• ENG-187 Gender and Literature: United States Pluralism
• ENG-101 Introduction to Literary Studies: The Art of Reading and Writing
• FRE-145 French Literature in Translation

Second  Year

• FRE-315 French Composition and Conversation
• FRE-335 Introduction to French Literature 
• ENG-246 Global Anglophone Literature

Third Year

• ENG-301 The Art of Literary Research
• ENG-415 Studies in European Literature

Fourth Year

• LIT-705 Seminar in World Literature
• FRE-495 Topics in French/Francophone Literature and Culture