English, Minor
The Minor in English is for students who wish to enhance their major program of study with an intensive study of the English language and its literature, including improvements in their critical thinking, reading, and writing skills.
Student Learning Outcomes
Graduates with a Minor in English will be able to:
- Write effectively on a variety of professional and social settings.
- Explain how the formal elements of language and genre shape meaning.
- Describe the major traditions of literatures written in English including the diversity of literary and social voices within those traditions.
- Read texts in relation to their historical and cultural contexts and relate individual texts or literary works to broader historical, cultural, philosophical, and theoretical contexts.
- Judge the aesthetic and ethical value of literary texts and articulate the standards behind their judgments.
Minor Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| CENG 210 | Literary Forms | 3 |
| CENG 313 | Survey Major British Writers I | 3 |
| CENG 314 | Survey Major British Writer II | 3 |
| or CENG 409 | Shakespeare | |
| CENG 315 | Survey of Major US Writers I | 3 |
| or CENG 316 | Survey of Major US Writers II | |
| CENG 418 | History of the English Lang. | 3 |
| CENG 460 | African-Amer Literature II | 3 |
| CENG 311 | Adv Grammar & Composition | 3 |
| CENG XXX | Elective in English | 3 |
| Total Hours | 24 | |