(To declare a minor in English, please call Loretta Williams at 898-7343, or stop by her office in Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 127.)

Who Should Minor?
The English Minor is an especially attractive option either for students who reside in other schools in the university, or for students whose majors will not allow them to take the requisite number of courses for the English Major.

How to Go about It?
As English offers several interdisciplinary courses each semester -- from courses in Science and Literature and Law and Literature to seminars in African-American, Asian-American, Latina/o, Caribbean, Celtic, South African literary culture -- students will often find the English Minor a meaningful way of supplementing their chosen majors in other departments. Before deciding against the English Major, however, we strongly urge students to explore whether our generous policy of allowing up to outside the department might not make majoring in English possible.

What Are the Requirements?
Minoring in English is simple. Of your six total courses, we ask only that you take at least one research seminar (any course numbered above 200) and either English 20 or English 40. Otherwise, we strongly encourage you to use your courses to pursue an individualized course of study based in your own interests -- either by exploring in depth a special area of focus or by conducting a broad survey of literary history and theory.

With prior approval of the Undergraduate Chair, you may count either one introductory critical writing course in English (ENGL001-009, 012, or 125) OR one literature course from another department, but not both.