The Four-Plus-One Program

The English Program’s Four-Plus-One Program option offers a unique opportunity to qualified undergraduates in English who wish to pursue their Masters at an accelerated pace. If they meet the admissions criteria for the Master’s Program in English, including a 3.0 GPA, they apply in the first semester of their junior year to the Master of Arts in English at Mercy College. For further information, see Four-Plus-One Program under Master of Arts in English Literature of the Graduate Catalog.

Students who choose the major concentration in English must complete:

• ENGL 200 - Poetics: Introduction to Literary Texts (cc)
• ENGL 205 - Survey of English Literature I
• ENGL 206 - Survey of English Literature II
• ENGL 400 - Seminar in Literary Research and Writing (only for students entering the major from Fall 2012)

Majors must take at least one course from each of the following four categories:

Majors must take at least one course from each of the following four categories: Classical Texts, Social and Cultural Contexts, Literary Genres, and Historical Periods. The remaining 12 credits may be taken from any of these aforementioned categories or from the fifth category, Language and Writing. Students who choose the Language and Writing Option* must take all of the remaining 12 credits from the fifth category. In addition, English majors must complete six credits of Foreign Language.

** It is recommended that the six credits in foreign language be in the same language.

* Only English majors who choose the Language and Writing Option (12 credits in Language and Writing category plus the ENGL 400  as the capstone course) can take the MEDA courses for English credit.

**Three credits of this 6-credit Foreign Language requirement may count toward the general education foreign language requirement.

There is an 18-credit residency requirement in the major concentration of English.