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Architecture and English, BS (Boston)

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Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.

Universitywide Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.

NUpath Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.

NUpath attributes Natural and Designed World (ND), Creative Expression and Innovation (EI), Interpreting Culture (IC), Societies and Institutions (SI), and Differences and Diversity (DD) are met through the major course requirements.

In order to graduate, students must complete Formal and Quantitative Reasoning (FQ), Analyzing and Using Data (AD), and Ethical Reasoning (ER) in their electives.

Architecture Requirements

Course List

 | Code | Title | Hours |

| --- | --- | --- | | Required Courses | | | | ARCH 1110 | Fundamental Architectural Representation | 4 | | ARCH 1120 | Fundamental Architectural Design | 6 | | ARCH 1310 | Buildings and Cities, A Global History | 4 | | ARCH 1450 | Understanding Design | 4 | | ARCH 2130 | Site, Space, Program | 6 | | ARCH 2240 | Architectonic Systems | 4 | | Architecure History Electives | | 8 | | Complete any two courses in the range of ARCH 2300–ARCH 2399. | | | | Electives | | | | Complete two of the following: | | 8 | | ARCH 3370 | Advanced Topics in Architectural History | | | ARCH 3450 | Advanced Architectural Communication | | | ARCH 5310 | Design Tactics and Operations | |

English Requirements

Course List

 | Code | Title | Hours |

| --- | --- | --- | | Foundational Courses | | | | ENGL 1400 | Introduction to Literary Studies | 4 | | ENGL 1160 | Introduction to Rhetoric | 4 | | or ENGL 1410 | Introduction to Research on Writing | | | ENGL 1700 | Global Literatures 1 | 4 | | or ENGL 1701 | Global Literatures 2 | |

English Electives

Two of the courses chosen from the lists below must be at the 3000 or 4000 level.

Course List

 | Code | Title | Hours |

| --- | --- | --- | | Diversity | | | | Complete one course from the following. You may reuse this course to fulfill an additional English requirement below: | | 4 | | ENGL 2296 | Early African-American Literature | | | ENGL 2450 | Postcolonial Literature | | | ENGL 2455 | American Women Writers | | | ENGL 2470 | Asian-American Literature | | | ENGL 2760 | Writing in Global Contexts | | | ENGL 3678 | Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | | | Literary Periods | | | | Pre-1850 | | | | Complete one course from the following: | | 4 | | ENGL 1502 | American Literature to 1865 | | | ENGL 1600 | Introduction to Shakespeare | | | ENGL 2296 | Early African-American Literature | | | ENGL 2330 | The American Renaissance | | | ENGL 3101 | Early Literatures | | | ENGL 3120 | 17th- and 18th-Century Literatures | | | ENGL 3160 | Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century British Literatures | | | ENGL 3619 | Emerson and Thoreau | | | ENGL 3678 | Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | | | or JWSS 3678 | Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | | | ENGL 4010 | Topics in Shakespeare | | | Post-1850 | | | | Complete one of the following courses: | | 4 | | ENGL 2301 | The Graphic Novel | | | ENGL 2420 | Contemporary Poetry | | | ENGL 2430 | Contemporary Fiction | | | ENGL 2440 | The Modern Bestseller | | | ENGL 2450 | Postcolonial Literature | | | ENGL 2451 | Postcolonial Women Writers | | | ENGL 2455 | American Women Writers | | | ENGL 2470 | Asian-American Literature | | | ENGL 2600 | Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | | | ENGL 3161 | 20th- and 21st-Century Literatures | | | Theories and Methods | | | | Complete one of the following: | | 4 | | ENGL 1140 | Grammar: The Architecture of English | | | ENGL 1160 | Introduction to Rhetoric | | | ENGL 1410 | Introduction to Research on Writing | | | ENGL 1450 | Reading and Writing in the Digital Age | | | ENGL 2520 | Science Fiction | | | ENGL 2620 | What Is Nature? | | | ENGL 3070 | Literary Genres | | | ENGL 3325 | Rhetoric of Law | | | ENGL 3381 | The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing | | | ENGL 3400 | Opening the Archive | | | ENGL 3487 | Film and Text (Abroad) | | | ENGL 3700 | Narrative Medicine | | | LING 1150 | Introduction to Linguistics | | | LING 2350 | Linguistic Analysis | | | LING 3450 | Syntax | | | LING 3452 | Semantics | | | LING 3454 | History of English | | | LING 3456 | Language and Gender | | | Major Seminar | | | | ENGL 3710 | Major Seminar | 4 | | Writing | | | | Complete one of the following: | | 4 | | ENGL 2700 | Creative Writing | | | ENGL 2710 | Style and Editing | | | ENGL 2730 | Digital Writing | | | ENGL 2760 | Writing in Global Contexts | | | ENGL 2770 | Writing to Heal | | | ENGL 2850 | Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice | | | ENGL 3375 | Writing Boston | | | ENGL 3376 | Creative Nonfiction | | | ENGL 3377 | Poetry Workshop | | | ENGL 3378 | Fiction Workshop | | | ENGL 3380 | Writing Seminar | | | English Electives | | | | Complete any two ENGL courses that have not already been used to fulfill another requirement. | | 8 |

Integrative Requirement

Course List

 | Code | Title | Hours |

| --- | --- | --- | | ARCH 2330 | Architecture and the City in the Nineteenth Century | 4 | | or ARCH 2340 | Modern Architecture | | | ENGL 3375 | Writing Boston | 4 |

Program Requirement

128 total semester hours required

Sample Plan of Study

Four Years, No Co-ops

Year 1
Fall Hours Spring Hours Summer 1 Hours Summer 2 Hours
ARCH 1000 or ENGL 1000 1 ARCH 1110 4 Vacation Vacation
ENGW 1111 4 ARCH 1120 6
ARCH 1310 4 ENGL 1160 or 1410 4
ARCH 1450 4 Elective 4
ENGL 1400 4
17 18 0 0
Year 2
Fall Hours Spring Hours Summer 1 Hours Summer 2 Hours
ARCH 2130 6 Architecture history elective 2 4 Vacation Vacation
ARCH 2240 4 Pre–1850 literature 4
English diversity requirement 4 Elective 4
Architecture history elective 1 4 Elective 4
18 16 0 0
Year 3
Fall Hours Spring Hours Summer 1 Hours Summer 2 Hours
Architecture elective 1 4 Architecture elective 2 4 Vacation Vacation
Post-1850 literature 4 ENGW 3309 or 3314 4
English theories and methods requirement 4 ENGL 3710 4
English writing requirement 4 Elective 4
16 16 0 0
Year 4
Fall Hours Spring Hours
ENGL 4710 4 English elective 2 4
English elective 1 4 ENGL 3375 4
Elective 4 Elective 4
Elective 4 Elective 4
16 16
Total Hours: 133