English Minor, Writing Emphasis

Lower Division Requirements:

The minor in English consists of the lower-division prerequisite choices of:

• EN 1110 - College Composition I (3) and
• EN 1120 - College Composition II (3)

• or

• EN 1140 - English Composition (3)

• or

• EN 1150 - Honors Composition (3)

Upper-Division Requirements

Upper-division requirements in one of two areas of emphasis: literature or writing. Within the writing emphasis, students must take any four of the English Department’s upper-division writing course offerings.

Student may choose any four courses from the writing track of the English major in upper-division English offerings:

Within the writing area of emphasis, the student may choose any four courses from the writing track of the English major in upper-division English offerings. Current offerings in this area include:

• EN 3110 - Introduction to Creative Writing (3)
• EN 3130 - Writing for the Environment: Advanced Composition (3)
• EN 3140 - Playwriting (3)
• EN 3150 - Writing the Essay: Advanced Composition (3)
• EN 3160 - Writing for the Marketplace (3)
• EN 3170 - Practical Stylistics (3)
• EN 3180 - Business Writing (3)
• EN 3190 - Technowriting: the Technologies of Written Communication from the Alphabet to the World Wide Web (3)
• EN 3200 - Exploring the Self in Reading and Writing (3)
• EN 3805 - Writing About Film (3)
• EN 4120 - Screenwriting (3)
• EN 4150 - The Tradition of Rhetoric: Principles and Practices (3)
• EN 4170 - Teaching of Writing (3)
• EN 4180 - Report Writing (3)
• EN 4190 - Literature and Orality (3)
• EN 4920 - Report Project (3)

Note(s):

A grade of C or better is required in each upper-division course of the minor. (A grade of C- will not satisfy the requirement.)