English Minor, Literature Emphasis

College of Arts and Sciences

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)

An introductory literature course:

An introductory literature course is strongly recommended for students as they begin to pursue the literature emphasis of the minor.

EN 2740 - World Literature Through the 16th Century (3) or
EN 2760 - World Literature Since the 16th Century (3) or
EN 2900-2989 - Studies in World Literature (3)

Upper Division Requirements:

Upper-division requirements in one of two areas of emphasis: literature or writing. Within the literature emphasis, students must take any four of the English Department’s upper-division literature course offerings, such as those in period, genre, figure, theory, or interpretation.

EN 3000 - Major Figures of British Literature (3)
EN 3115 - Reading and Writing Fiction (3)
EN 3200 - Exploring the Self in Reading and Writing (3)
EN 3220 - Chaucer and His World (3)
EN 3240 - Fearless Girls in Adolescent Literature (3)
EN 3350 - Shakespeare Seminar I (3)
EN 3360 - Shakespeare Seminar II (3)
EN 3370 - Shakespeare on Screen (3)
EN 3380 - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama (3)
EN 3400 - British Literature: 17th and 18th Centuries (3)
EN 3500 - Studies in the English Novel (3)
EN 3520 - Jane Austen (3)
EN 3530 - The Romantic Period (3)
EN 3550 - Victorian Literature (3)
EN 3560 - Unruly Victorian Women (3)
EN 3600 - Early American Literature (3)
EN 3610 - American Literature 1865-1945 (3)
EN 3620 - American Literature since 1945 (3)
EN 3670 - Studies in the American Novel (3)
EN 3680 - Twentieth Century U.S. Drama (3)
EN 3810 - Detective Fiction (3)
EN 3820 - American Literature and the Environment (3)
EN 3830 - Utopian and Anti-Utopian Literature (3)
EN 3840 - Honors Literature and Art (3)
EN 3850 - Literature and Film (3)
EN 3855 - American Literature and Film (3)
EN 3870 - Irish Literature (3)
EN 3880 - The Gothic Novel as Genre (3)
EN 3885 - The Contemporary Novel (3)
EN 3887 - Climate Fiction (3)
EN 3890 - Women and Literature (3)
EN 3896 - The Literature of Catholicism and Christian Spirituality (3)
EN 4001 - Contest and Sexuality in Early English and Modern Literature (3)
EN 4600 - Twentieth Century British and American Poetry (3)
EN 4610 - African American Literature (3)
EN 4620 - The Novels of Faulkner (3)
EN 4640 - Americans in Paris (3)
EN 4810 - Mythology: Literature and Criticism (3)
EN 4820 - Literary Theory: Text and Context (3)
EN 4830 - Honors Classic to Romantic (3)
EN 4845 - Short Fiction and Metaphor: 19th Century America (3)
EN 4850 - Modern Drama (3)
EN 4855 - Colonialism and Literature (3)
EN 4860 - The Empire Writes Back (3)
EN 4880 - Poetry of Ecstasy (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.)

Search

RESOURCES