Minor Requirements: English
English Minor Requirements
The Undergraduate College: Traditional, On Campus
The Undergraduate College English program offers a minor that requires 18 credits (6 courses) available with the Major of your choice:
Minor Courses: 6 credits (2 courses). Choose courses from among the 2 tracks below. Tracks are intended solely to highlight courses that may be relevant to a student’s specific interest in communication and to facilitate faculty advising. Tracks are not formally recognized on student transcripts. Discuss with your advisor.
• American: 0-6 credits (0-2 courses).
• British: 0-6 credits (0-2 courses).
Minor Elective Courses: 12 credits (4 courses).
Under certain conditions, a student may have a minor field designated on their Rosemont transcript. Candidates for the minor must select 21-24 credits above the introductory level in a discipline. These courses are chosen from the Academic Offerings section of the catalog for approved minors. A minimum grade point average of 2.00 in the minor is required. Discuss with your advisor.
English Minor Courses (6 Credits)
Tracks are intended solely to highlight courses that may be relevant to a student’s specific interest in communication and to facilitate faculty advising. Tracks are not formally recognized on student transcripts. Discuss with your advisor.
Choose 1 of the Following 2 Tracks:
American Track (6 Credits)
ENG 0222: Major American Writers to 1890
Prerequisite: None
A survey of Colonial, Romantic, and Regional American writing with an emphasis on Franklin, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Jewett, Freeman among others.
Offered every third year. (3 Credits)
ENG 0223: Major American Writers 1890-1940
Prerequisite: None
A survey of Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism in fiction, especially James, Gilman, Chopin, Stephen Crane, Robinson, Fitzgerald, and Eliot.
Offered every third year. (3 Credits)
British Track (6 Credits)
ENG 0204: Survey of British Literature Medieval to 1798
Prerequisite: None
An examination of significant literary works from Beowulf to early Romanticism.
Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)
ENG 0205: Survey of British Literature 1798-1920
Prerequisite: None
An examination of significant literary works from the Romantic poets through James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)
English Minor Elective Courses (12 Credits)
Choose 4 of the Following Courses:
ENG 0100+ English Elective
Prerequisite: None
Course description coming soon
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
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