The Literature minor emphasizes reading and writing in multiple genres across diverse cultural, historical, and national traditions. Courses address a wide range of periods, authors, genres, and themes. Students develop both an expansive ethical imagination and broadly applicable and transferable skills in writing, textual analysis, and creative thinking that can provide the foundation for a wide range of personal and professional goals. Students may also take one class in creative writing, professional writing, or rhetoric and composition.

Minor in Literature

The minor in literature consists of 18 credit hours, divided between Groups I and II, as listed below:

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Group I: Foundational course		3
ENGL 3000	Introduction to Literary Studies
Group II: Electives - Choose any five courses, no more than one of which may be a writing course and no more than one of which may be a 2000-level course:		15
ENGL 2001	Ways of Knowing
ENGL 2010	Literature and Genre
ENGL 2011	Books that Matter
ENGL 2012	Well Versed
ENGL 2020	Texts, Social Systems and Values
ENGL 2030	Global Literatures
ENGL 3140	Sociolinguistics
ENGL 3210	Writing Practices and Processes
ENGL 3220	Writing for Workplaces
ENGL 3221	Technical Writing
ENGL 3222	Writing for Health and Medicine
ENGL 3241	Crafting the Short Story
ENGL 3242	Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
ENGL 3245	Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 3249	Creativity and Community
ENGL 3250	Life-Writing, Creativity and Community
ENGL 3261	Poetry and Community
ENGL 3301	Here Be Monsters
ENGL 3302	Crossing Over
ENGL 3410	Drama
ENGL 3462	Introduction to Gothic Fiction
ENGL 3513	Modern Irish Literature
ENGL 3514	Contemporary Irish Literature
ENGL 3517	Memory and Forgetting in Contemporary Historical Fiction
ENGL 3611	Jane Austen
ENGL 3740	Film Studies
ENGL 3751	The Art of War
ENGL 3761	Medicine and Literature
ENGL 3762	Disability and Literature
ENGL 3775	Literature and Place
ENGL 3780	Water Is Life: Indigenous Art and Activism in Changing Climates
ENGL 3785	LGBTQ+ Narratives: Literature, Film, Theory
ENGL 3841	Global Hip Hop
ENGL 3860	The Russian Novel and the Search for Meaning
ENGL 4110	Exploring the English Language
ENGL 4120	Anatomy of English
ENGL 4130	History of the English Language
ENGL 4170	Studies in Language
ENGL 4220	Rhetorical Theories and Practices
ENGL 4220H	Honors Rhetorical Theories and Practices
ENGL 4221	The Rhetoric of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
ENGL 4301	Medieval Literature and Chaucer
ENGL 4301H	Honors Medieval Literature and Chaucer
ENGL 4303	Studies in the Medieval Imagination
ENGL 4311	Themes in Medieval Literature
ENGL 4321	British Literature of the 16th Century
ENGL 4331	Shakespeare
ENGL 4341	British Literature of the 17th Century
ENGL 4351	Milton
ENGL 4361	Literatures of Pre-Colonial and Colonial America
ENGL 4402	The Novel to 1900
ENGL 4412	Transatlantic Literature, 1700-1900
ENGL 4422	British Literature of the Long 18th Century
ENGL 4423	Legal Fictions of the Enlightenment
ENGL 4432	US Literatures of the Revolution and New Republic
ENGL 4442	US Literature from the Constitution to the Civil War
ENGL 4452	British Literature of the Romantic Period, 1790-1837
ENGL 4453	Romanticism and Nature
ENGL 4472	British Literature of the Victorian Period, 1837-1900
ENGL 4482	US Literature from the Civil War to the Early 20th Century
ENGL 4503	British Literature since 1900
ENGL 4523	Modernism
ENGL 4533	US Literature: 20th-Century Beginnings to World War II
ENGL 4543	British Literature of the Postmodernist Period
ENGL 4553	US Literature after World War II
ENGL 4563	Literatures of the 21st Century
ENGL 4610	Individual Authors
ENGL 4612	J. R. R. Tolkien
ENGL 4615	Text in Context
ENGL 4616	Moby-Dick
ENGL 4617	James Joyce's Ulysses
ENGL 4631	Toni Morrison
ENGL 4710	Studies in Genre
ENGL 4715	Children's Literature
ENGL 4716	Science Fiction/Fantasy
ENGL 4717	Comics and Graphic Narrative
ENGL 4720	Literary Criticism and Cultural Studies
ENGL 4730	What Is a Book?
ENGL 4734	The Epic
ENGL 4736	Fiction
ENGL 4737	Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 4738	Poetry
ENGL 4739	Words to Worlds
ENGL 4745	Digital Literacies
ENGL 4755	Law and Literature
ENGL 4762	Neuroscience and Literature
ENGL 4765	Material Cultures
ENGL 4770	Studies in Literature and Culture
ENGL 4785	Gender, Sexuality, Literature
ENGL 4786	Women Writers
ENGL 4810	Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies
ENGL 4820	Studies in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
ENGL 4825	Native American / Indigenous Literatures
ENGL 4826	Global Indigenous Literatures
ENGL 4830	Africana Literatures
ENGL 4840	Postcolonial Literatures
ENGL 4850	Global Literatures
ENGL 4931	Topics in Literature
ENGL 4995	Independent Study in English
ENGL 4997	Capstone
ENGL 4999	Senior Thesis
Writing Courses (no more than one):
ENGL 3210	Writing Practices and Processes
ENGL 3220	Writing for Workplaces
ENGL 3222	Writing for Health and Medicine
ENGL 3240	Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 3241	Crafting the Short Story
ENGL 3249	Creativity and Community
ENGL 4210	Writing, Literacy, and Rhetoric Studies
ENGL 4220	Rhetorical Theories and Practices
ENGL 4221	The Rhetoric of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
ENGL 4222	Feminist Rhetorics
ENGL 4223	The Rhetoric of Black Protest
ENGL 4224	Radical Writing: An Invitation to the Self
ENGL 4230	Writing Center Theory, Practice and Research
ENGL 4250	Creative Writing: Fiction
ENGL 4260	Creative Writing: Poetry
ENGL 4932	Topics in Writing
ENGL 4954	Seminar in Creative Writing
ENGL 4986	Writing Internship
ENGL 4987	Internship in Publishing
Total Credit Hours:		18

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