Minor: English Language and Literature

Student Learning Outcomes

Students graduating from this program will:

  • Create coherent academic arguments that are built upon multi-leveled textual analysis.
  • Integrate close reading of primary texts.
  • Engage in critical conversations.
  • Present an essay in ways that reflect a sense of professional rules and conventions.

Program Requirements

The Minor in English Language and Literature is designed for students desiring a general background in literature written in English.

To graduate with a Minor in English Language and Literature, students must achieve a grade-point average of at least 2.0 in the 18-hour program described below, but no credit will be given for courses in which the grade is below C-. Students must take 12 of the 18 hours required at the 300- or 400-level. No course may fulfill more than one requirement. No courses in journalism or in expository writing may be counted toward the Minor in English. No more than one course in Creative Writing may be counted toward the Minor in English Literature. In addition to the following approved courses, students may petition to have other considered by the Director of Undergraduate Studies in English.

Program of Study

Select six of the following:18
Myth and Literature
Foundations Of Ancient World Literature I
Classical Literature In Translation
Ancient World in Cinema
Literary Monstrosities
Writing About Literature
Popular Literature
World Literature in English
Introduction To Fiction
Introduction To Poetry
The Craft of Creative Writing
Women Writing/Women Reading
Science Fiction
Asian American Literature
Introduction To Linguistics/Language Science
American Literature I
British Literature I
Bible As Literature
Structure Of English
American Literature II
Shakespeare
Arthurian Legends
Modern Irish Literature
British Literature II
History Of The English Language
African American Literature I
Race and Literature
African American Literature II
Introduction to American Studies
Special Readings
The Novel Before 1900
Studies in Poetry
The Modern Novel
The Novel After 1900
Old English
Histories Of Writing, Reading, And Publishing
Girls, Literacies, and Print Culture
Special Readings
Paleography
Classical Studies
Studies in Digital Humanities
Early Modern Studies
18th-Century Studies
Medieval Studies
19th-Century Studies
Studies in Rhetoric and Composition
Studies in Authorship
Studies in Genre
20th- and 21st-Century Studies
Concepts of the Hero in Ancient Literature and World Cinema
Total Credits18