English Minor

Requirements for the Minor:

English minors take six courses - three required and three elective - including the required courses below:

One Introductory Course * between 100-199 including “Confronting the Canon”

• 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 115 -  Black Lives Matter Poetry
• EGL 116 -  Poetry of People and Places
• EGL 117 -  Queer Poetry
• EGL 119 -  Decolonial Poetries
• EGL 120 -  Fictional Forms
• EGL 140 -  Introduction to Digital Studies: Digitizing the Past
• EGL 150 -  Film Form and Analysis
• EGL 188 -  Cyborgs!
• EGL 190 -  Confronting the Canon: Reimagining 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
• EGL 194 -  Confronting the Canon: Confronting Dido’s Many Faces
• 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.

One course focused predominately on literature by authors who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC) from the following:

• EGL 213 -  Circum-Atlantic Revolutions
• EGL 233 -  18-19th Century Early Literature of African Diaspora
• EGL 237 -  Reclamation & Renaissance: Black Literary Arts 1900 to 1960, “Dark Like Me - That is my Dream!”
• EGL 248 -  Introduction to Black Poetry
• EGL 252 -  The Islamic World and Global Literary Culture
• EGL 253 -  Narratives of Haunting in US Ethnic Literature
• EGL 254 -  Discourses on the Viet Nam/American War
• EGL 255 -  Asian American Literature and Film
• EGL 256 -  Southeast Asian-American Experience
• EGL 262 -  Global Modernisms
• EGL 266 -  Black Women Writers
• EGL 268 -  Staging Black Feminisms
• EGL 269 -  New Women around the World

One course from Shakespeare (200-201), pre-1700 (202-215), or a Seminar (300):

• 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 207 -  White Columns, White Narratives: Archi[text]ure and Race in the Middle Ages
• EGL 208 -  Renaissance Drama
• EGL 210 -  British Literature: Seventeenth-Century Literature
• EGL 211 -  Milton
• EGL 212 -  The Restoration
• EGL 213 -  Circum-Atlantic Revolutions
• *Like EGL 213, EGL 190 Reimaging Beowulf may be used to fulfill the pre-1700 requirement - but one course may fulfill only one requirement.
• 300-level** seminar:
• EGL 300 -  Jr. Seminar: Poetry Workshop
• EGL 301 -  Jr. Seminar: Fiction Workshop: Writing Activist Fiction
• EGL 302 -  Jr. Seminar: Literary Theory (Winter)
• EGL 304 -  Jr. Seminar (Fall):
• EGL 305 -  Jr. Seminar (Winter): Global Ulysses
• EGL 306 -  Jr. Seminar (Spring): The Beatles, Motown, and Taylor Swift
• **Pre-req: Students must take three courses-an Introductory-level course (unless exempt) and at least two 200-level courses-before enrolling in a 300-level seminar.

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

• EGL 200 -  Shakespeare to 1600
• EGL 201 -  Shakespeare after 1600
• 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 207 -  White Columns, White Narratives: Archi[text]ure and Race in the Middle Ages
• EGL 210 -  British Literature: Seventeenth-Century Literature
• EGL 211 -  Milton
• EGL 212 -  The Restoration
• EGL 213 -  Circum-Atlantic Revolutions
• EGL 217 -  Enlightenment and Romanticism
• EGL 220 -  The Romantic Revolution
• EGL 222 -  Gendered Ecologies in the Long-Nineteenth Century
• EGL 223 -  Jane Austen
• EGL 224 -  19th-Century Novel
• EGL 230 -  Seduction in Early American Republic
• EGL 231 -  Nineteenth-Century American Literature
• EGL 233 -  18-19th Century Early Literature of African Diaspora
• EGL 236 -  Trans-Atlantic Realism and Naturalism
• EGL 237 -  Reclamation & Renaissance: Black Literary Arts 1900 to 1960, “Dark Like Me - That is my Dream!”
• EGL 242 -  Experimental Writing Workshop
• EGL 243 -  The Poetic Object Workshop: Experimental Book Forms
• EGL 244 -  The Contemporary British Imagination
• EGL 247 -  Studies in Modern Poets: Bob Dylan and Gary Snyder
• EGL 248 -  Introduction to Black Poetry
• EGL 249 -  Contemporary Poetry
• EGL 250 -  The Beats and Contemporary Culture
• EGL 251 -  World Literatures in English
• EGL 252 -  The Islamic World and Global Literary Culture
• EGL 253 -  Narratives of Haunting in US Ethnic Literature
• EGL 254 -  Discourses on the Viet Nam/American War
• EGL 255 -  Asian American Literature and Film
• EGL 256 -  Southeast Asian-American Experience
• EGL 257 -  Irish American Literature: Race, Gender, Sexuality
• EGL 258 -  Changing Ireland
• EGL 259 -  Irish Literature and Film
• EGL 260 -  James Joyce
• EGL 261 -  Modernism and Modernity
• EGL 262 -  Global Modernisms
• EGL 263 -  Literature and Sexuality
• EGL 266 -  Black Women Writers
• EGL 267 -  The Virginia Woolf
• EGL 268 -  Staging Black Feminisms
• EGL 269 -  New Women around the World
• EGL 270 -  Imagining the Nation(s): Ireland/India
• EGL 271 -  Dark Deeds: Crime in the Adirondacks
• EGL 272 -  Indigenous Sovereignty: Indigiqueer and Two-Spirit Voices
• EGL 273 -  Disability, Literature, and Society
• EGL 274 -  Uncanny Texts: Literature and Psychoanalysis
• EGL 275 -  Autobiography
• EGL 276 -  Literature of the Manor House
• EGL 277 -  Philosophical Fiction
• EGL 279 -  Literature and Science
• EGL 280 -  Nature and Environmental Writing
• EGL 281 -  Environmental Psychology and the American Literary Landscape
• EGL 282 -  The Theory of Things: Objects, Emotions, Ideas
• EGL 283 -  Pilgrims, Flâneurs, & Pranksters: The Walk in Literature
• EGL 284 -  Interactive Fiction Workshop
• EGL 285 -  Nabokov
• EGL 286 -  Transnational Literature, Film, and Theory
• EGL 287 -  Gender and Sexuality in Film
• EGL 288 -  Film as Fictive Art
• EGL 289 -  The Essay Film Workshop
• EGL 290 -  Studies in Film Genre/Style: Film Noir
• EGL 291 -  From the Drama Desk: Performance, Culture & Creativity Drama Criticism Workshop
• EGL 292 -  Contemporary American Theater and Drama
• EGL 293 -  Workshop in Poetry
• EGL 294 -  Workshop in Fiction
• EGL 295 -  Workshop in Creative Non-Fiction
• EGL 296 -  Screenwriting Workshop
• EGL 296H -  English Honors Independent Project 2
• EGL 297 -  Literary Research Practicum 1
• EGL 298 -  Literary Research Practicum 2
• EGL 299 -  Literary Research Practicum 3