English, Minor

The English minor at Saint Louis University is student-centered with small, writing-intensive courses that emphasize discussion, close reading and critical thinking.

English minors take courses in traditional literary fields (including American, British and world literatures), as well as innovative and emergent areas of English studies (such as new media, rhetoric and creative writing). Throughout their coursework, English minors develop imaginative engagements with different time periods and cultures as well as effective analytical thinking and writing skills.

The English minor requires 18 credits from the following areas:

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
Introductory Course
Any 2000-level English course with the Core Literature attribute may serve for both CAS core requirements and English minor requirements. BS students may substitute any 3000 or 4000-level English course with the Core Literature attribute for English minor introductory course credit.
Select one of the following:		3
ENGL 2250	Conflict, Social Justice and Literature
ENGL 2350	Faith, Doubt and Literature
ENGL 2450	Nature, Ecology & Literature
ENGL 2550	Gender, Identity & Literature
ENGL 2650	Technology, Media & Literature
ENGL 2750	Film, Culture and Literature
ENGL 2850	Nation, Identity and Literature
3000-level Courses
Three credits may serve for both CAS core requirements and minor area requirements. Students must take one course from three of the following four areas, for a total of nine hours at the 3000 level.
Select three of the following:		9
Form and Genre Course
History and Context Course
Culture and Critique Course
Rhetoric and Argument Course
4000-level Courses
Two 4000-level English elective courses must be taken to complete the English minor. Any Engilsh course offered at the 4000 level may count, such as:		6
ENGL 4000	Business and Professional Writing
ENGL 4010	New Media Writing
ENGL 4176	Queer Cinema: History, Aesthetics and Activism
ENGL 4240	Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
ENGL 4300	Age of Elizabeth
ENGL 4310	Early Shakespeare
ENGL 4320	Topics in Shakespeare
ENGL 4350	17th Century Literature
ENGL 4360	Milton
ENGL 4500	The Age of Romanticism
ENGL 4530	Medicine, Mind, and Victorian Fiction
ENGL 4580	Major Victorian Authors and Movements
ENGL 4590	Topics in 19th Century Literature
ENGL 4605	Major Modernist Writers and Movements
ENGL 4640	Irish Modernism
ENGL 4670	Contemporary Postcolonial Literature and Culture
ENGL 4680	Major Post-Colonial Writers
ENGL 4690	Topics in 20th/21st Century British, Irish, & Postcolonial Literature & Culture
ENGL 4720	Contemporary American Literature
ENGL 4760	20th Century American Literature
ENGL 4810	Major American Authors
ENGL 4830	Post-1900 African American Literature
ENGL 4840	Representations of Native Americans in Text & Film
ENGL 4890	Special Topics: American Literature & Culture
ENGL 4910	Internship
Total Credits		18

Form and Genre

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
ENGL 3030	The Writer as Reader
ENGL 3040	Writing Literacy Narratives
ENGL 3050	Creative Writing: Poetry
ENGL 3060	Creative Writing: Fiction
ENGL 3080	Creative Writing: Non-Fiction
ENGL 3090	Creative Writing: Poetry and Translation
ENGL 3100	Topics in Creative Writing
ENGL 3110	American Short Story
ENGL 3140	Poetry
ENGL 3170	European Drama
ENGL 3180	Film
ENGL 3190	Literature of Ridicule and Satire
ENGL 3210	Fantasy and Literature
ENGL 3220	Film and Literature
ENGL 3240	Reading the Female Bildungsroman
ENGL 3241	Young Adult Literature
ENGL 3380	The Classics and Literature

History and Context

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
ENGL 3250	British Literary Traditions to 1800
ENGL 3260	British Literary Traditions after 1800
ENGL 3270	American Literary Traditions to 1865
ENGL 3280	American Literatures after 1865
ENGL 3310	World Literary Traditions I
ENGL 3330	World Literary Traditions III
ENGL 3470	Introduction to Shakespeare
ENGL 3490	19th Century British Literature

Culture and Critique

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
ENGL 3500	Literature of the Postcolonial World
ENGL 3520	African American Literary Traditions II: After 1900
ENGL 3530	Topics in African American Literary Traditions
ENGL 3540	Literature of the African Diaspora
ENGL 3550	Native American Literature
ENGL 3560	Ethnic American Literature
ENGL 3570	Writing Sex in the Middle Ages
ENGL 3580	Literature of the Natural World
ENGL 3590	Nature and Literature
ENGL 3591	Monsters of Europe: Nature and Monstrosity in European Literature
ENGL 3600	Women in Literature
ENGL 3610	The City and Literature
ENGL 3620	Topics in Spirituality and Literature
ENGL 3630	Disaster Narratives
ENGL 3640	British Culture and Travel
ENGL 3650	Science Fiction
ENGL 3660	LGBTQ Literature and Culture
ENGL 3700	The Bible & Literature
ENGL 3730	Introduction to Medical Humanities, Literature
ENGL 3740	Medicine and Literature

Rhetoric and Argument

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
ENGL 3750	Writing about Literature
ENGL 3760	Topics in Rhetorical Analysis
ENGL 3850	Foundations Rhetoric & Writing
ENGL 3854	Teaching the Writing Life
ENGL 3859	Writing Consulting: Forms, Theories, Practice
ENGL 3860	Public Rhetoric
ENGL 3880	Writing Personal Narratives and Memoirs

Continuation Standards

All English courses must be completed with a grade of C or higher in order to count for English minor requirements and for the student to continue in the minor.

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