English Minor

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Requirements for the Minor:

Class of 2025

English minors take seven courses, including the required courses below:

One Introductory Course

EGL 100 - The Study of Literature: Poetry
EGL 101 - The Study of Literature: Fiction
EGL 102 - The Study of Literature: Drama
EGL 110 - The Poetic Process
EGL 150 - Film Form, and Analysis
Note: These courses emphasize close reading of primary texts and help students acquire the vocabulary to speak and write clearly and intelligently about literature. The texts are chosen by the instructor of each section.

Detailed descriptions of the various sections are available the week before pre-enrollment each term on the English Department website.

Take any two courses from the following:

One Confronting the Canon course (between 190-199)
EGL 190 - Confronting Canon: Beowulf
Shakespeare course:
EGL 200 - Shakespeare to 1600
EGL 201 - Shakespeare after 1600
Pre-1700 course:
EGL 202 - Amazons, Saints and Scholars: Women’s Writing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
EGL 203 - The Age of Heroes
EGL 204 - Plague, Revolt, Religion, and Nation: The Fourteenth Century
EGL 205 - The Road to Canterbury
EGL 210 - British Literature: Seventeenth-Century Literature
EGL 211 - Milton
EGL 212 - The Restoration
EGL 213 - American Literature in Historical Context: Beginnings to 1800
*Given their subject matter, in 2021-22, either EGL 190 Beowulf and EGL 304 The Faerie Queene may be used to fulfill the pre-1700 requirement - but not more than one requirement (not both pre-17 and Constructing the Canon or pre-17 and Jr. seminar).

One course focused predominantly on literature by authors who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC) from the following (200, 300, or 400 levels):

Two other intermediate courses of choice (all 200-levels are the same difficulty):

One 300-level Junior Seminar (topics vary each year):

Classes of ‘22, ‘23, and ‘24

English minors take seven courses, including the required courses below:

One introductory course:

EGL 100 - The Study of Literature: Poetry
EGL 101 - The Study of Literature: Fiction
EGL 102 - The Study of Literature: Drama
EGL 110 - The Poetic Process
EGL 150 - Film Form, and Analysis
Note: These courses emphasize close reading of primary texts and help students acquire the vocabulary to speak and write clearly and intelligently about literature. The texts are chosen by the instructor of each section.

Detailed descriptions of the various sections are available the week before pre-enrollment each term on the English Department website.

One Shakespeare course:

One pre-1700 course:

*The pre-1700 and the Shakespeare requirements must be fulfilled with two separate courses. A second course in Shakespeare may count as an elective, but the department wishes to clarify that this practice should not substitute for taking a pre-1700 course.

EGL 202 - Amazons, Saints and Scholars: Women’s Writing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
EGL 203 - The Age of Heroes
EGL 204 - Plague, Revolt, Religion, and Nation: The Fourteenth Century
EGL 205 - The Road to Canterbury
EGL 210 - British Literature: Seventeenth-Century Literature
EGL 211 - Milton
EGL 212 - The Restoration
EGL 213 - American Literature in Historical Context: Beginnings to 1800
*Given their subject matter, in 2021-22, either EGL 190 Beowulf and EGL 304 The Faerie Queene may be used to fulfill the pre-1700 requirement - but not more than one requirement (not both pre-17 and Intro or pre-17 and Jr. seminar).