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English Minor

English
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Program Type: Undergraduate minor related to major
  • Requirements for this program are current for Spring 2018
  • Required credits in this minor: 20
The English minor introduces students to a wide range of American, British, and world literatures.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Minor Requirements
English Core (4 cr)
Take the following course:
ENGL 1582 - Introduction to World Literatures [LE CAT, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
English Survey Course (4 cr)
Only one additional survey course may be applicable to an elective area.
Take no more than 1 course(s) from the following:
· ENGL 3501 - British Literature I [HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3502 - British Literature II [HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3563 - American Literature I [HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3564 - American Literature II [HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
English Electives at the 2xxx-3xxx level (4 cr)
Most ENGL 2xxx-3xxx level courses apply here.
Take no more than 1 course(s) from the following:
· ENGL 2571 - Contemporary Literature [LE CAT, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 2581 {Inactive} [LE CAT, LECD C, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 2922 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3115 - Writing Fiction (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3121 - Writing Poetry (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3223 - Shakespeare [LE CAT, HUMANITIES] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3333 - Children's Literature: Texts and Contexts (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3411 - The Modern Short Story (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3573 - Survey of African American Literature [HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY] (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3574 - Reconstituting the Past in African Diaspora Literature (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 3906 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
English Electives at the 4xxx-5xxx level (8 cr)
Most ENGL 4xxx-5xxx level courses apply here. This excludes ENGL 4097/5097-Internship and ENGL 4931-Practicum.
Take 8 or more credit(s) from the following:
· ENGL 4292 - Literature into Film (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 4375 - Drama (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 4802 - English Language for Educators (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 4902 - Teaching Writing (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 4909 - Senior Portfolio (1.0 cr)
· ENGL 4922 - Teaching Communication Arts and Literature (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5116 - Advanced Writing of Fiction (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5122 - Advanced Writing of Poetry (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5222 - Shakespeare (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5312 - Chaucer (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5331 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5375 - Modern Poetry (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5444 - Childhood in Literature, History and Culture (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5471 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5533 - Studies in English Literature before 1800 (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5541 - Restoration and 18th-Century Literature (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5561 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5562 - Studies in 19th-Century British Literature (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5566 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5572 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5574 - Studies in American Literature to 1914 (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5575 - Studies in American Literature after 1914 (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5577 - Major American Authors (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5581 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5582 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5583 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5584 - Mapping Postcolonial Literature (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5591 - Independent Study (1.0-4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5595 - Special Topics in English (various titles to be assigned) (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5661 - Publishing the Middle Ages (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5662 - The Making of a Major Author: The Scholarly Edition in 17th- and 18th-Century England (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5663 - Readers and the History of Books (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5664 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5665 - The American Literary Marketplace (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5802 - English Language for Educators (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5821 - History of the English Language (4.0 cr)
· ENGL 5902 - Teaching Writing (4.0 cr)
 
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ENGL 1582 - Introduction to World Literatures (LE CAT, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Sampling of literary works mainly from Middle East, Africa, Far East, and South America.
ENGL 3501 - British Literature I (HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Chronological study of English literature from beginnings to late-18th century, emphasizing major works, authors, and important literary forms, styles, themes, and movements. prereq: Engl major or minor or teach comm art/lit major or minor or elem-middle educ comart/lit specialization
ENGL 3502 - British Literature II (HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Chronological study of English literature from late-18th to late-20th century, emphasizing major works, authors, and important literary forms, styles, themes, and movements. prereq: Engl major and minor
ENGL 3563 - American Literature I (HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Historical survey of important authors, movements, conventions, genres, and themes: origins to Civil War.
ENGL 3564 - American Literature II (HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Historical survey of important authors, movements, conventions, genres, and themes: Civil War to present.
ENGL 2571 - Contemporary Literature (LE CAT, HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Readings in world literature since 1945. Close attention to literary texts from Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia in their various aesthetic, historical, and cultural contexts. Topics of discussion might include the literary/aesthetic implications of post-colonialism, globalization, the Cold War and its aftermath, and technological developments.
ENGL 3115 - Writing Fiction
Credits: 4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Writing of original fiction, with emphasis on the short story; structure and techniques learned from critical reading and classroom analysis. prereq: WRIT 1120, minimum 60 credits (6 credits literature) or instructor consent
ENGL 3121 - Writing Poetry
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Writing of poetry, with emphasis on techniques learned through critical reading and classroom analysis.
ENGL 3223 - Shakespeare (LE CAT, HUMANITIES)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Introduction to Shakespeare. Selected plays from the histories, comedies, tragedies, and dramatic romances. Aspects of drama, such as structure, language, characterization, theme, and dramatic conventions examined in study of individual plays.
ENGL 3333 - Children's Literature: Texts and Contexts
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Forms of children's literature, from folk and fairy tales to contemporary stories, poems, and novels for children; major historical, literary and critical issues affecting the production and reception of literature for children.
ENGL 3411 - The Modern Short Story
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Study of the genre, emphasizing close reading and interpretation of the elements of short fiction in selected works. prereq: Minimum 60 credits (6 credits literature) or instructor consent
ENGL 3573 - Survey of African American Literature (HUMANITIES, CDIVERSITY)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
Survey of African American literatures with an emphasis on cultural and historical contexts. Acritical reading, writing, and discussion of major themes such as slavery, freedom, race, gender, sexuality, class, violence, literacy, home, family, community, double-consciousness, Christianity, and language. Consideration of narrative strategies, literary tradition, and major genres such as songs, sermons, pamphlets, folktales, poetry, novels, drama, life writing, and film.
ENGL 3574 - Reconstituting the Past in African Diaspora Literature
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Predicated on the value of a more heterogeneous world, the course celebrates obliterated legacies, cultures, and traditions with an aim of rewriting history, remaking the present, and re-imagining the future of African Diaspora Literature. The course advances credibility, diversity, and social justice by giving voice to the suppressed past muted narratives, forgotten traditions, marginalized indigenous cultures, trivialized revolutions, distorted epistemologies, and lost lives. Draws on various disciplines such as literature, history, cultural studies, film, and music to show the cultural and political imperative of negotiating the past.
ENGL 4292 - Literature into Film
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Comparative study of novels and their film adaptations. prereq: Minimum 60 credits (6 credits literature) or instructor consent
ENGL 4375 - Drama
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Selected playwrights, plays, types, traditions, or periods; relevant theoretical and critical writings. Authors and topics vary.
ENGL 4802 - English Language for Educators
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Application of linguistic and language learning theories to the teaching of communication arts, with emphasis on preparation of secondary school English teachers. Includes a focus on first and second language acquisition, approaches to language and grammar instruction, and the roles of language and dialect in culture and youth development. Note: credit will not be granted if already received for ENGL 5802
ENGL 4902 - Teaching Writing
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Theory and practice of teaching composition. Includes cognitive theories of the composition process, teaching, and writing across genres and purposes, and assessment of writing. For prospective teachers, grade 5 to community college level. prereq: Teaching Comm Art & Lit major or instructor consent, no grad credit; credit will not be granted if already received for ENGL 5902
ENGL 4909 - Senior Portfolio
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: S-N or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Required portfolio and research project undertaken for senior seminar. prereq: English major, senior, instructor consent
ENGL 4922 - Teaching Communication Arts and Literature
Credits: 4.0 [max 5.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Theory and applications in teaching reading, writing, literature, speaking, listening and non-print media, grades 5 - 12. Synthesizes work in previous Teaching Communication Arts and Literature courses with special attention to reflective pedagogy, curriculum design, and the transition into the teaching profession. prereq: Teaching Comm Arts & Lit major or instructor consent, no grad credit
ENGL 5116 - Advanced Writing of Fiction
Credits: 4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Writing of original fiction beyond the beginning stages; some experience required. prereq: graduate student repeatable: Allow up to 2 repetitions totalling up to 8 credits.
ENGL 5122 - Advanced Writing of Poetry
Credits: 4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Study of poetics and poetry, with emphasis on student poems. prereq: graduate student or instructor consent
ENGL 5222 - Shakespeare
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Concentrated study of selected plays, with attention to Shakespearean criticism and scholarship. Recommended as the second course in Shakespeare. prereq: 6 credits literature
ENGL 5312 - Chaucer
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Introduction to Middle English. Reading and analysis of Chaucer's works, primarily Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. prereq: graduate student or instructor consent
ENGL 5375 - Modern Poetry
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Study of modern poetry written in English. prereq: graduate student
ENGL 5444 - Childhood in Literature, History and Culture
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Examines traditional kinds of children's literary texts, as well as literary and pedagogical theory, advertising, movies, and television to consider childhood as an historical, aesthetic and social construct in Western culture from the eighteenth century to the present. prereq: graduate student
ENGL 5533 - Studies in English Literature before 1800
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Intensive study of a theme, literary school or circle, literary genre in historical and cultural context. Themes vary. prereq: graduate student
ENGL 5541 - Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Study of controversies and cultural change evident in English literature, 1660-1800. Such authors as Dryden, Behn, Pope, Fielding, Johnson prereq: graduate student
ENGL 5562 - Studies in 19th-Century British Literature
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Advanced study of British literature and culture of the Romantic and Victorian periods. Authors and historical focus will vary according to instructor interest. prereq: graduate student
ENGL 5574 - Studies in American Literature to 1914
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Study of selected North American authors from the Colonial Era to the end of WWI. Literature studied will vary in relation to what kind of literary or cultural study instructor intends or what kind of critical approach to literature is used. prereq: graduate student
ENGL 5575 - Studies in American Literature after 1914
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Study of selected North American authors after 1914. Literature studied will vary in relation to what kind of literary or cultural study instructor intends or what kind of critical approach to literature is used. prereq: graduate student or instructor consent
ENGL 5577 - Major American Authors
Credits: 4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Concentrated study in one to three authors, who are announced before course is offered. prereq: graduate student repeatable: Allow up to 2 repetitions totalling up to 8 credits.
ENGL 5584 - Mapping Postcolonial Literature
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Interdisciplinary study of postcolonial literatures of Africa, Asia, and Latin America in their cultural and historical contexts. Critical examination of the postcolonial condition, including colonial constructions of knowledge and power and anti-colonial struggles against subordination. Exploration of key concepts, geography, history, theory, and future of postcolonial studies. prereq: graduate student
ENGL 5591 - Independent Study
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 8.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Students choose projects in consultation with their instructor. prereq: instructor consent; maximum 6 credits may be applied to grad program
ENGL 5595 - Special Topics in English (various titles to be assigned)
Credits: 4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Topics not included in regular English curriculum. prereq: graduate student repeatable: Allow up to 2 repetitions totalling up to 8 credits.
ENGL 5661 - Publishing the Middle Ages
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Study of the ways in which the middle ages were defined and canonized in print culture. Instruction on the processes of medieval manuscript production and editing, followed by analysis of rhetorical framework within which "medievalism" was constructed in the 19th century. prereq: graduate student
ENGL 5662 - The Making of a Major Author: The Scholarly Edition in 17th- and 18th-Century England
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Study of the ways in which writers such as Shakespeare and Milton were transformed into "major authors" and "national poets" through the publication of scholarly editions of their works subsequent to their deaths. Textual analysis of the editions is combined with study of their publication histories, including the roles of editors and publishers who produced them. prereq: graduate student
ENGL 5663 - Readers and the History of Books
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
History of reading, primarily in the United States and England. Study of factors affecting literacy in late 18th through early 20th centuries, including technological advances, educational reform and changes in authorship and literature. prereq: grad student or instructor consent
ENGL 5665 - The American Literary Marketplace
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Study of the making, marketing, and selling of American literature. Close attention to history of American publishing industry, emergence of popular genres such as the romance and popular forms such as the dime novel, and material and technological changes in book production. prereq: graduate student
ENGL 5802 - English Language for Educators
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Application of linguistic and language learning theories to the teaching of communication arts, with emphasis on preparation of secondary school English teachers. Includes a focus on first and second language acquisition, approaches to language and grammar instruction, and the roles of language and dialect in culture and youth development. prereq: graduate student; credit will not be granted if already received for ENGL 4802
ENGL 5821 - History of the English Language
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
History of sounds, word stock, and structures of English language from earliest records to present. prereq: graduate student
ENGL 5902 - Teaching Writing
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Theory and practice of teaching composition. Includes cognitive theories of the composition process, teaching, and writing across genres and purposes, and assessment of writing. For prospective teachers, grade 5 to community college level. prereq: graduate student or instructor consent; credit will not be granted if already received for ENGL 4902