Minor in Creative Writing (as of Fall 2004)
Five semester courses are required, including the following:
- Three semester courses in directed writing (poetry, prose, or both): ENG 19a, ENG 19b, ENG 109a, ENG 109b, ENG 119a, ENG 119b, ENG 129a, ENG 129b, THA 104a. Such courses facilitate writing under direction in a creative and critical community, and are offered exclusively on a Credit/No Credit basis with the exception of THA 104a.
- Two electives in the Department of English and American Literature.
Transfer credits and croslisted courses do not count toward the minor.
Minor in English, American and Anglophone Literature
(As of Fall 2003)
Five semester courses are required, including the following:
- ENG 11a: Introduction to Literary Methods.
- Any four additional courses in the Department of English and American Literature, with the following exception: only one Creative Writing workshop may count toward the minor.
- Students are encouraged to take courses on related
topics; the Undergraduate Advising Head can assist students in grouping
courses appropriately. For instance, students may wish to take courses
in one national literature: ENG 6a: American Literature from 1832 to
1900; ENG 16a: Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature; ENG 7a:
American Literature, 1900-2000; ENG 8a: 21st-Century American Literature.
Alternatively, students might elect to take a sequence of courses in
a single genre: e.g., ENG 63a: Renaissance Poetry, ENG 25a Romanticism
I: Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, ENG 157a Contemporary Poetry, and
ENG 109a: Directed Writing: Poetry. Or, students might take courses
clustered around a particular topic, such as gender: ENG 46a: Nineteenth-Century
American Women Writers, ENG 107: Caribbean Women Writers, ENG 114b:
Gender and the Rise of the Novel in England and France, and ENG 131b:
Feminist Theory. Students may also wish to select courses that concentrate
on a particular historical period (such as the eighteenth century) or
a methodological approach (such as postcolonial studies). These options
are not exhaustive.
No course with a final grade below C- can count toward the requirements for the minor.
Advanced placement credits do not count toward the minor.
Transfer credits and crosslisted courses do not count toward the minor.
this page updated March 16, 2005