Minor Before Fall 2009

Five semester courses:

A. ENG 11a

B. Four Elective Courses

English, American and Anglophone Literature

Five courses are required, including the following:

A. ENG 1a (Introduction to Literary Studies). This is the gateway course for all students contemplating a major in English; it is a writing-intensive course. It is a first encounter with the theories, critical methods, and forms of close attention to texts that the English major has to offer. Authors generally include Shakespeare, Keats, and Rushdie.

If you are considering the minor in English, and successfully completed ENG 11a before the fall 2009, you may substitute it for the ENG 1a requirement; please speak with the Undergraduate Advising Head to file the correct paperwork.

B. Any four additional ENG courses, with the following exception: only one creative writing workshop may count toward the minor.

C. Transfer credits, Advance Placement credit, and cross-listed courses do not 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 in the Age of Lincoln)
  • ENG 16a (Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature)
  • ENG 7a (American Literature from 1900-2000)
  • ENG 8a (Twenty-First-Century American Literature)

Alternatively, students might elect to take a sequence of courses in a single genre: for example,

  • ENG 63a (Renaissance Poetry)
  • ENG 125a (Romanticism I)
  • ENG 157a (Contemporary Poetry)
  • 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 107a (Caribbean Women Writers)
  • ENG 114b (Gender and the Rise of the Novel in England and France)
  • 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.