English Undergraduate Minor
Program Requirements
- Minimum of 18 credit hours.
- 3 credits can be taken at 100-level.
- 15 credits must be taken at 200-level or above.
In this 18 credit minor, students take 12 credits (4 courses) from the 4 categories below. The remaining 6 credits leave room for students to pursue elective courses in a range of topics in literature, rhetoric, and creative writing.
For information on licensure toward a high school English endorsement, fulfilling the English minor requirements, see the Director of English Education.
The courses listed below satisfy foundational general education requirements and do not, therefore, count as part of the credit hours for an English minor.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Big Questions | 3 | |
These courses explore how the study of literature and rhetoric addresses significant philosophical, historical, and social issues. Each course will have its own question that will vary depending on the instructor. | ||
Select one of the following: | ||
| Big Questions in the Humanities and Fine Arts | ||
| Big Questions in Health and Wellness | ||
| Big Questions in Diversity and Equity | ||
| Big Questions in Global Engagement and Intercultural Learning | ||
| Historical Depth and Context | 3 | |
These courses consider authors, rhetors, and texts in relation to the historical dynamics of their time. Classes may focus on earlier writers and writings, longer spans of time, or offer an in-depth analysis of a particular historical moment. | ||
Select one of the following: | ||
| Postcolonial Literatures | ||
| Dante in English | ||
| Introduction to Chaucer | ||
| English Literature to 1500 | ||
| Shakespeare: Early Plays and Sonnets | ||
| Shakespeare: Later Plays | ||
| The Seventeenth Century | ||
| Topics in Pre-1800 Literature | ||
| The Romantic Period | ||
| The Victorian Period | ||
| English Literature from Victorian to Modern | ||
| The American Novel through World War I | ||
| The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century | ||
| Literary Study of the Bible | ||
| Early American Literature | ||
| American Romanticism | ||
| American Realism and Naturalism | ||
| English Drama to 1800 | ||
| Marginalized and Minoritized Writers | 3 | |
These courses focus on writers and rhetors from groups that have been marginalized, historically and in the present. | ||
Select one of the following: | ||
| Studies in Human Rights and Literature | ||
| Women in Literature | ||
| English Women Writers before 1800 | ||
| Early African American Writers | ||
| Topics in Native American and Indigenous Studies | ||
| African American Writers after the 1920s | ||
| American Women's Writing | ||
| Topics in Queer and Trans Studies | ||
| Feminist Theory and Women Writers | ||
| Theories and Methods | 3 | |
In these courses, students develop facility with critical tools for analysis, inquiry, interpretation, and research that they can use to approach many different types of texts. | ||
Select one of the following: | ||
| Topics in Theory and Method | ||
| Literary Theory | ||
| History and Theory of Rhetoric | ||
| Contemporary Rhetoric | ||
| Digital Rhetoric | ||
| English Elective Requirements | 6 | |
Select 6 additional credits of ENG electives.* | ||
- *
Courses not used to fulfill Minor requirements above. 3 credits can be taken at the 100-level, the other 3 must be at the 200-level or above.