English Minor

Minor - English (Minor)

College Humanities & Sciences

Catalog Year: 2015-2016

Degree Specific Credits: 27

Required Cumulative GPA: 2.0

Note: English minors must earn at least 27 credits within the English Department (excluding WRIT 101).

Foundational courses

Rule: Complete four courses (12 credits).

Note: English minors are expected to have completed 9 credits in lower-division English courses and earned a grade of C or better in those courses prior to enrolling in LIT 300-level courses.

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Show Description LIT 110L - Intro to Lit
Offered every term. Study of how readers make meaning of texts and how texts influence readers. Emphasis on interpreting literary texts: close reading, critical analysis and effective writing.
 3 Credits
Show Description LIT 120L - Poetry
Offered every term. An introduction to the techniques of reading and writing about poetry with emphasis on the lyric and other shorter forms.
 3 Credits
Show Description LIT 201 - Intro to Literary Studies
Offered every term. Introduction to the field of literary studies, to the conventions of literary analysis, and to the literature option for English majors. Reading, writing, and research skills will be stressed, along with interpretative approaches to major genres within the field.
 3 Credits
Show Description LIT 210L - American Lit I
Offered every term. Representative texts from the pre-colonial period through the Civil War.
 3 Credits
Show Description LIT 211L - American Lit II
Offered every term. Representative texts from the Civil War to the present.
 3 Credits
Show Description LIT 220L - Brit Lit: Med to Renaissance
Offered every term. Representative texts from the Anglo-Saxon period through the Renaissance.
 3 Credits
Show Description LIT 221L - Brit Lit: Enlightenment to Rom
Offered every term. Representative texts from the seventeenth through the eighteenth century.
 3 Credits
Show Description LIT 222L - Brit Lit: Victorian to Contemp
Offered every term. Representative texts from the early nineteenth century to the present.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 12 Total Credits Required

Foundational courses (upper-division)

Rule: Complete two courses (6 credits).

Note: English minors may substitute FILM 320 Shakespeare and Film for LIT 327.

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Show Description LIT 300 - Literary Criticism
Offered every term. Prereq. or coreq., 12 credits of lower-division English courses. Study of various literary theories and their application to literary texts.
 3 Credits
Show Description LIT 327 - Shakespeare
Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., LIT 300 or consent of instr. A survey of selected Shakespeare plays emphasizing close reading of the texts and consideration of their dramatic possibilities.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 6 Total Credits Required

Focus courses

Rule: Complete three upper-division English elective courses (9 credits).

Note: Students must complete three upper-division English elective courses. Any 300+level courses with the prefixes LIT, ENIR, FILM, CRWR, and LING qualify. Most of these upper-division courses carry pre-requisites.

Students wishing to enroll in 300- or 400-level CRWR workshops (CRWR 310/311/312/410/411/412) must complete the 200-level CRWR pre-requisite. CRWR 410/411/412 also require a writing submission for consent of instrutor.

Minimum Required Grade: C-
9 Total Credits Required