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Minor in English, 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,
  • 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: https://liberalarts.iupui.edu/admissions/update-major-form.html

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