• Concentrations and course offerings may vary by campus and/or by program modality.  Please consult with your advisor or admissions coach for the course availability each term at your campus or within your program modality. 
  • Certain options within the program may be required at certain campuses or for certain program modalities.  Please consult with your advisor or admissions coach for requirements at your campus or for your program modality. 

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.

BA Language Requirements

All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.

NUpath Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.

English Requirements

Foundational Courses
ENGL 1400Introduction to Literary Studies4
ENGL 1160Introduction to Rhetoric4
or ENGL 1410 Introduction to Research on Writing
ENGL 1700Global Literatures 14
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.

Diversity
Complete one course from the following. You may reuse this course to fulfill an additional English requirement below:4
Early African-American Literature
Postcolonial Literature
American Women Writers
Asian-American Literature
Writing in Global Contexts
Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature
Literary Periods
Pre-1850
Complete one course from the following:4
British Literature to 1800
American Literature to 1865
Introduction to Shakespeare
Early African-American Literature
The American Renaissance
Early Literatures
17th- and 18th-Century Literatures
Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century British Literatures
Emerson and Thoreau
Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
Topics in Shakespeare
Post-1850
Complete one of the following courses:4
The Graphic Novel
Contemporary Poetry
Contemporary Fiction
The Modern Bestseller
Postcolonial Literature
Postcolonial Women Writers
American Women Writers
Asian-American Literature
Irish Literary Culture (Abroad)
20th- and 21st-Century Literatures
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature
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
Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
Horror Fiction
Science Fiction
What Is Nature?
Boston in Literature
Literary Genres
Rhetoric of Law
The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing
Opening the Archive
Film and Text (Abroad)
Narrative Medicine
Topics in Literary Criticism (reactivating for Fall 24)
Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Linguistic Analysis
Syntax
Semantics
History of English
Language and Gender
Topics in Linguistics
Major Seminar
ENGL 3710Major Seminar4
Writing
Complete one of the following:4
Creative Writing
Style and Editing
Digital Writing
Writing and Community Engagement
Writing in Global Contexts
Writing to Heal
Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice
Writing Boston
Creative Nonfiction
Poetry Workshop
Fiction Workshop
Writing Seminar
The Writer’s Marketplace
English Electives
Complete any two ENGL courses that have not already been used to fulfill another requirement.8

Cultural Anthropology Requirements

Foundation Courses
ANTH 1101Peoples and Cultures4
ANTH 2305Global Markets and Local Culture4
ANTH 3410Ethnographic Field Experience4
ANTH 3421Foundations of Anthropological Theory4
Area Courses
Additional "area courses" taken may count as anthropology electives.
Complete two of the following:8
Ethnography of Southeast Asia
Latin American Society and Development
Anthropology of Africa
Culture and Politics in Modern India
Anthropology Electives
Complete three 4-semester-hour courses in addition to the above requirements. One study-abroad course may also count toward this requirement with prior permission from the department.12

Capstone Requirement

Capstone Requirements8
Senior Seminar
Capstone Seminar

Integrative Requirements

One integrative course is required for each discipline. Courses taken as electives above may not be used as integrative courses.
English Integrative Course
Complete one of the following:4
Postcolonial Literature
What Is Nature?
Boston in Literature
Cultural Anthropology Integrative Courses
Complete one of the following:4
Foundations of Anthropological Theory

Cultural Anthropology Major Grade Requirement

A GPA of 2.000 for major courses is required.

English and Cultural Anthropology Combined Major Credit Requirement

Complete 92 semester hours in the major.

Experiential Liberal Arts

All students in this College of Social Sciences and Humanities program are required to complete the Experiential Liberal Arts Requirement.

Program Requirement

128 total semester hours required

Year 1
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1HoursSummer 2Hours
ENGL 10001ENGL 11604Elective4Elective4
ENGL 14004ENGW 11114Elective4Elective4
English elective4ANTH 34104  
ANTH 11014Anthropology elective4  
ANTH 23054   
 17 16 8 8
Year 2
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1HoursSummer 2Hours
Pre-1850 period course4Co-op0Co-op0English Diversity course4
Area Course4  Writing course4
Anthropology elective4   
Theories & Methods course4   
 16 0 0 8
Year 3
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1HoursSummer 2Hours
ANTH 34214Co-op0Co-op0English elective4
ENGL 37104  Advanced Writing in the Disciplines4
Area course4   
Elective4   
 16 0 0 8
Year 4
FallHoursSpringHours  
ENGL Integrative course4ENGL 47104  
Post-1850 period course4Anthropology elective4  
ANTH 46004Elective4  
Elective4Elective4  
 16 16  
Total Hours: 129