Undergraduate
Minors
Minor in Literature
The minor in literature introduces students to the skills of interpretation and critical thinking and provides some familiarity with a broad spectrum of literature in English.
A minor in Literature (ENG) requires satisfactory completion of the following requirements:
- completion of properly distributed credit hour requirements for the baccalaureate degree in effect when the student was admitted to their home school,
- completion of 15 credit hours, with a minimum grade of C in each course,
- completion of 6 credits at IU Indianapolis.
- 9 credit hours must be at the 300 level or above.
- one course may be shared between the English minor and the English major.
- to declare the minor, complete the School of Liberal Arts online declaration form here.
Select 15 credit hours (15 cr.) from the following:
- ENG-L 202: Literary Interpretation
- ENG-L 203: Introduction to Drama
- ENG-L 204: Introduction to Fiction
- ENG-L 205: Introduction to Poetry
- ENG-L 207: Women and Literature
- ENG-L 213: Literary Masterpieces I
- ENG-L 214: Literary Masterpieces II
- ENG-L 220: Introduction to Shakespeare
- ENG-L 245: Introduction to Caribbean Literature
- ENG-L 301: Critical and Historical Survey of English Literature I
- ENG-L 302: Critical and Historical Survey of English Literature II
- ENG-L 315: Major Plays of Shakespeare
- ENG-L 348: Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
- ENG-L 351: Critical and Historical Study of American Literature, 1800-1865
- ENG-L 352: Critical and Historical Study of American Literature, 1870-1920
- ENG-L 354: Critical and Historical Study of American Literature since 1914
- ENG-L 357: Twentieth-Century American Poetry
- ENG-L 358: Twentieth-Century American Fiction
- ENG-L 364: Native American Literature
- ENG-L 370: Recent Black American Writing
- ENG-L 372: Contemporary American Fiction
- ENG-L 373: Interdisciplinary Approaches to English and American Literature (Variable Topics)
- ENG-L 376: Literature for Adolescents
- ENG-L 378: Studies in Women and Literature
- ENG-L 379: American Ethic and Minority Literature
- ENG-L 381: Recent Writing: Indiana Authors
- ENG-L 382: Fiction of the Non-Western World: 20th-Century African Fiction
- ENG-L 384: Studies in American Culture (Variable Topics)
- ENG-L 385: Science Fiction
- ENG-L 390: Children’s Literature
- ENG-L 406: Topics in African American Literature
- ENG-L 411: Literature and Society (Variable Topics)
- ENG-L 431: Topics in Literary Study
- ENG-L 433: Conversations with Shakespeare
- ENG-L 440: Senior Seminar in English and American Literature
