# Architecture and English, BS (Boston)
**Source**: https://catalog.northeastern.edu/undergraduate/arts-media-design/architecture/architecture-english-bs/
**Parent**: https://catalog.northeastern.edu/undergraduate/arts-media-design/architecture/
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](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/undergraduate/university-academics/university-wide-requirements/).
## NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the [NUpath Requirements](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/undergraduate/university-academics/nupath/).
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](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%201110 "ARCH 1110") | Fundamental Architectural Representation | 4 |
| [ARCH 1120](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%201120 "ARCH 1120") | Fundamental Architectural Design | 6 |
| [ARCH 1310](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%201310 "ARCH 1310") | Buildings and Cities, A Global History | 4 |
| [ARCH 1450](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%201450 "ARCH 1450") | Understanding Design | 4 |
| [ARCH 2130](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%202130 "ARCH 2130") | Site, Space, Program | 6 |
| [ARCH 2240](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%202240 "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](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%203370 "ARCH 3370") | Advanced Topics in Architectural History | |
| [ARCH 3450](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%203450 "ARCH 3450") | Advanced Architectural Communication | |
| [ARCH 5310](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%205310 "ARCH 5310") | Design Tactics and Operations | |
## English Requirements
Course List
| Code | Title | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Foundational Courses | | |
| [ENGL 1400](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201400 "ENGL 1400") | Introduction to Literary Studies | 4 |
| [ENGL 1160](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201160 "ENGL 1160") | Introduction to Rhetoric | 4 |
| or [ENGL 1410](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201410 "ENGL 1410") | Introduction to Research on Writing | |
| [ENGL 1700](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201700 "ENGL 1700") | Global Literatures 1 | 4 |
| or [ENGL 1701](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201701 "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](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202296 "ENGL 2296") | Early African-American Literature | |
| [ENGL 2450](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202450 "ENGL 2450") | Postcolonial Literature | |
| [ENGL 2455](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202455 "ENGL 2455") | American Women Writers | |
| [ENGL 2470](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202470 "ENGL 2470") | Asian-American Literature | |
| [ENGL 2760](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202760 "ENGL 2760") | Writing in Global Contexts | |
| [ENGL 3678](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203678 "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](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201502 "ENGL 1502") | American Literature to 1865 | |
| [ENGL 1600](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201600 "ENGL 1600") | Introduction to Shakespeare | |
| [ENGL 2296](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202296 "ENGL 2296") | Early African-American Literature | |
| [ENGL 2330](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202330 "ENGL 2330") | The American Renaissance | |
| [ENGL 3101](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203101 "ENGL 3101") | Early Literatures | |
| [ENGL 3120](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203120 "ENGL 3120") | 17th- and 18th-Century Literatures | |
| [ENGL 3160](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203160 "ENGL 3160") | Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century British Literatures | |
| [ENGL 3619](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203619 "ENGL 3619") | Emerson and Thoreau | |
| [ENGL 3678](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203678 "ENGL 3678") | Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | |
| or [JWSS 3678](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=JWSS%203678 "JWSS 3678") | Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | |
| [ENGL 4010](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%204010 "ENGL 4010") | Topics in Shakespeare | |
| *Post-1850* | | |
| Complete one of the following courses: | | 4 |
| [ENGL 2301](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202301 "ENGL 2301") | The Graphic Novel | |
| [ENGL 2420](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202420 "ENGL 2420") | Contemporary Poetry | |
| [ENGL 2430](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202430 "ENGL 2430") | Contemporary Fiction | |
| [ENGL 2440](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202440 "ENGL 2440") | The Modern Bestseller | |
| [ENGL 2450](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202450 "ENGL 2450") | Postcolonial Literature | |
| [ENGL 2451](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202451 "ENGL 2451") | Postcolonial Women Writers | |
| [ENGL 2455](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202455 "ENGL 2455") | American Women Writers | |
| [ENGL 2470](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202470 "ENGL 2470") | Asian-American Literature | |
| [ENGL 2600](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202600 "ENGL 2600") | Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | |
| [ENGL 3161](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203161 "ENGL 3161") | 20th- and 21st-Century Literatures | |
| Theories and Methods | | |
| Complete one of the following: | | 4 |
| [ENGL 1140](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201140 "ENGL 1140") | Grammar: The Architecture of English | |
| [ENGL 1160](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201160 "ENGL 1160") | Introduction to Rhetoric | |
| [ENGL 1410](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201410 "ENGL 1410") | Introduction to Research on Writing | |
| [ENGL 1450](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201450 "ENGL 1450") | Reading and Writing in the Digital Age | |
| [ENGL 2520](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202520 "ENGL 2520") | Science Fiction | |
| [ENGL 2620](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202620 "ENGL 2620") | What Is Nature? | |
| [ENGL 3070](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203070 "ENGL 3070") | Literary Genres | |
| [ENGL 3325](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203325 "ENGL 3325") | Rhetoric of Law | |
| [ENGL 3381](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203381 "ENGL 3381") | The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing | |
| [ENGL 3400](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203400 "ENGL 3400") | Opening the Archive | |
| [ENGL 3487](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203487 "ENGL 3487") | Film and Text (Abroad) | |
| [ENGL 3700](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203700 "ENGL 3700") | Narrative Medicine | |
| [LING 1150](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=LING%201150 "LING 1150") | Introduction to Linguistics | |
| [LING 2350](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=LING%202350 "LING 2350") | Linguistic Analysis | |
| [LING 3450](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=LING%203450 "LING 3450") | Syntax | |
| [LING 3452](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=LING%203452 "LING 3452") | Semantics | |
| [LING 3454](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=LING%203454 "LING 3454") | History of English | |
| [LING 3456](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=LING%203456 "LING 3456") | Language and Gender | |
| Major Seminar | | |
| [ENGL 3710](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203710 "ENGL 3710") | Major Seminar | 4 |
| Writing | | |
| Complete one of the following: | | 4 |
| [ENGL 2700](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202700 "ENGL 2700") | Creative Writing | |
| [ENGL 2710](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202710 "ENGL 2710") | Style and Editing | |
| [ENGL 2730](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202730 "ENGL 2730") | Digital Writing | |
| [ENGL 2760](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202760 "ENGL 2760") | Writing in Global Contexts | |
| [ENGL 2770](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202770 "ENGL 2770") | Writing to Heal | |
| [ENGL 2850](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%202850 "ENGL 2850") | Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice | |
| [ENGL 3375](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203375 "ENGL 3375") | Writing Boston | |
| [ENGL 3376](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203376 "ENGL 3376") | Creative Nonfiction | |
| [ENGL 3377](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203377 "ENGL 3377") | Poetry Workshop | |
| [ENGL 3378](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203378 "ENGL 3378") | Fiction Workshop | |
| [ENGL 3380](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203380 "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](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%202330 "ARCH 2330") | Architecture and the City in the Nineteenth Century | 4 |
| or [ARCH 2340](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%202340 "ARCH 2340") | Modern Architecture | |
| [ENGL 3375](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203375 "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](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%201000 "ARCH 1000") or [ENGL 1000](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201000 "ENGL 1000") | 1 | [ARCH 1110](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%201110 "ARCH 1110") | 4 | Vacation | | Vacation | |
| [ENGW 1111](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGW%201111 "ENGW 1111") | 4 | [ARCH 1120](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%201120 "ARCH 1120") | 6 | | | | |
| [ARCH 1310](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%201310 "ARCH 1310") | 4 | [ENGL 1160](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201160 "ENGL 1160") or [1410](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201410 "ENGL 1410") | 4 | | | | |
| [ARCH 1450](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%201450 "ARCH 1450") | 4 | Elective | 4 | | | | |
| [ENGL 1400](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%201400 "ENGL 1400") | 4 | | | | | | |
| | 17 | | 18 | | 0 | | 0 |
| Year 2 | | | | | | | |
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| [ARCH 2130](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%202130 "ARCH 2130") | 6 | Architecture history elective 2 | 4 | Vacation | | Vacation | |
| [ARCH 2240](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ARCH%202240 "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](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGW%203309 "ENGW 3309") or [3314](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGW%203314 "ENGW 3314") | 4 | | | | |
| English theories and methods requirement | 4 | [ENGL 3710](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203710 "ENGL 3710") | 4 | | | | |
| English writing requirement | 4 | Elective | 4 | | | | |
| | 16 | | 16 | | 0 | | 0 |
| Year 4 | | | | | | | |
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | | | | |
| [ENGL 4710](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%204710 "ENGL 4710") | 4 | English elective 2 | 4 | | | | |
| English elective 1 | 4 | [ENGL 3375](https://catalog.northeastern.edu/search/?P=ENGL%203375 "ENGL 3375") | 4 | | | | |
| Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | | | | |
| Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | | | | |
| | 16 | | 16 | | | | |
| Total Hours: 133 | | | | | | | |