Academic Catalog 2023-2024

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Academic Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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: Dramatic Literature and Social Justice
EGL 110 - The Poetic Process
EGL 111 - Introduction to Creative Writing
EGL 113 - Disability Poetry
EGL 114 - Puerto Rican Poetry
EGL 115 - Black Lives Matter Poetry
EGL 116 - Poetry of People and Places
EGL 117 - Queer Poetry
EGL 118 - Trans/gressive Poetry
EGL 119 - Decolonial Poetries
EGL 120 - Fictional Forms
EGL 140 - Introduction to Digital Studies
EGL 150 - Film Form and Analysis
EGL 188 - Cyborgs!
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 are available before pre-enrollment each term.

*See explanation of credit and placement for students who receive a 5 on their AP exams in English literature or English language.

Take any two courses from the following (190-215):

One Confronting the Canon course (between 190-199)
EGL 190 - Confronting the Canon: Beowulf
EGL 191 - Confronting the Canon: The Modernist Edition
EGL 192 - Confronting the Canon: What is an Empire?
EGL 193 - Confronting the Canon: Confronting the Hero’s Journey
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 206 - Gender in Renaissance Literature
EGL 208 - Renaissance Drama
EGL 210 - British Literature: Seventeenth-Century Literature
EGL 211 - Milton
EGL 212 - The Restoration
EGL 213 - Circum-Atlantic Revolutions
*A second Shakespeare course may count as an elective. bt this practice does not substiture for pre-1700 course. Given their subject matter, 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.

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):

Class of ‘24

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

One introductory course (100-199):

One Shakespeare course:

One pre-1700 course:

EGL 190 - Confronting the Canon: Beowulf
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 206 - Gender in Renaissance Literature
EGL 208 - Renaissance Drama
EGL 210 - British Literature: Seventeenth-Century Literature
EGL 211 - Milton
EGL 212 - The Restoration
EGL 213 - Circum-Atlantic Revolutions
* A second Shakespeare course may count as an elective, but this practice does not substitute for a pre-1700 course. Given their subject matter, EGL 190 Beowulf or EGL Jr. Seminar: The Faerie Queene may be used to fulfill the pre-1700 requirement - but not to fulfill more than one requirement.

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

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

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