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.
University-Wide Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the University-Wide Requirements.
NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.
Experiential Liberal Arts
All undergraduate students in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities are required to complete the Experiential Liberal Arts Requirement.
NUpath attributes Natural and Designed World (ND), Creative Expression and Innovation (EI), Interpreting Culture (IC), Societies and Institutions (SI), and Difference 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
| 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 1320 | 4 | |
| ARCH 1450 | Understanding Design | 4 |
| ARCH 2130 | Site, Space, and Program | 6 |
| ARCH 2240 | Architectonic Systems | 4 |
| ARCH 2330 | Architecture and the City in the Nineteenth Century | 4 |
| Electives | ||
| Complete two of the following courses: | 8 | |
| Advanced Topics in Architectural History | ||
| Advanced Architectural Communication | ||
| Design Tactics and Operations | ||
English Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| English Course-Level Requirement | ||
| In addition to the capstone, two of the courses chosen from the lists below must be numbered 3000–4999. | ||
| Introduction to College | ||
| ENGL 1000 | English at Northeastern | 1 |
| Foundational Courses | ||
| ENGL 1400 | Introduction to Literary Studies | 4 |
| ENGL 1160 | Introduction to Rhetoric | 4 |
| or ENGL 1410 | Introduction to Research on Writing | |
| Diversity | ||
| Complete one of the following courses. This course may also be used to fulfill an additional English requirement below: | 4 | |
| Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
| Early African-American Literature | ||
ENGL 2450 | ||
| Postcolonial Women Writers | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
ENGL 2460 | ||
| Writing in Global Contexts | ||
| The African American Novel | ||
ENGL 3676 | ||
| Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
| Pre-Nineteenth-Century Literature | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Introduction to Shakespeare | ||
| Global Literatures 1 | ||
ENGL 2240 | ||
| Early African-American Literature | ||
| Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
ENGL 4000 | ||
ENGL 4020 | ||
| Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century Literature | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| The American Renaissance | ||
| 19th-Century Major Figure | ||
ENGL 4040 | ||
| The Graphic Novel | ||
| The Modern Bestseller | ||
| Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | ||
| Contemporary Israeli Literature and Art (Abroad) | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
| 20th- and 21st-Century Major Figure | ||
| Theories and Methods | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Grammar: The Architecture of English | ||
| Introduction to Rhetoric | ||
| Introduction to Research on Writing | ||
| Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
| Rhetoric of Law | ||
| Technologies of Text | ||
| Writing Cultures | ||
| The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing | ||
| Narrative Medicine | ||
ENGL 4400 | ||
| Research in Rhetoric and Writing | ||
| Introduction to Language and Linguistics | ||
| Linguistic Analysis | ||
| Syntax | ||
| Semantics | ||
| History of English | ||
| Language and Gender | ||
| Topics in Linguistics | ||
| Comparative Literature | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Reading and Writing in the Digital Age | ||
| American Literature to 1865 | ||
ENGL 1503 | ||
| Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
ENGL 2380 | ||
| Contemporary Poetry | ||
| Contemporary Fiction | ||
ENGL 2450 | ||
| Postcolonial Women Writers | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
ENGL 2460 | ||
| Horror Fiction | ||
| Science Fiction | ||
| Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | ||
| What Is Nature? | ||
| Boston in Literature | ||
| Film and Text (Abroad) | ||
ENGL 3582 | ||
| The African American Novel | ||
ENGL 3676 | ||
| Writing | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Creative Writing | ||
| Style and Editing | ||
| Writing and Community Engagement | ||
| Writing in Global Contexts | ||
| Writing to Heal | ||
| Visual Writing: Writing Visuals | ||
| Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice | ||
| Writing Boston | ||
| Creative Nonfiction | ||
| Poetry Workshop | ||
| Fiction Workshop | ||
| Writing Seminar | ||
| Publishing in the 21st Century | ||
| The Writer’s Marketplace | ||
| Capstone | ||
| ENGL 4710 | Capstone Seminar | 4 |
| or ENGL 4720 | Capstone Project | |
| English Electives | ||
| Complete two additional ENGL electives. | 8 | |
Integrative Requirement
| 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