English Minor

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Department of Literature and Language

English Minor: 24 Credit Hours

A minor is a secondary area of study outside of the major program of study with a structured curriculum composed of at least 18 semester credit hours of which at least 9 hours must be at the 3000-level or above.

English Minor Program Information

Department of Literature & Language
PO Box 70683
Johnson City, TN 37614
423-439-4339 | Fax 423-439-7193
email: Literature & Language

Dr. Katherine Weiss
208 Burleson Hall
423-439-6626

The English minor consists of twenty-four (24) credit hours above the freshman level (except for ENGL 2030, not offered for credit applied toward a minor), at least eighteen (18) of which must be at the 3000 or 4000 level, with a minimum of nine (9) hours at the 4000 level.

ENGL 2010 - Introduction to Literature I: Fiction (RODP) (3 credits)
ENGL 2110 - American Literature I (3 credits)
ENGL 2116 - Writing for the Web (RODP) (3 credits)
ENGL 2120 - American Literature II (3 credits)
ENGL 2210 - British Literature I (3 credits)
ENGL 2220 - British Literature II (3 credits)
ENGL 2300 - Creative Writing (RODP) (3 credits)
ENGL 2330 - World Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 2410 - Western World Literature I (RODP) (3 credits)
ENGL 2420 - Western World Literature II (RODP) (3 credits)
ENGL 2430 - European Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 2630 - Literature for Children (RODP) (3 credits)
ENGL 3010 - Poetry (3 credits)
ENGL 3020 - Fiction (3 credits)
ENGL 3030 - Drama (3 credits)
ENGL 3040 - Literary Nonfiction (3 credits)
ENGL 3050 - Literature and the Environment (3 credits)
ENGL 3065 - Southern Appalachian Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 3070 - Native American Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 3100 - Introduction to Linguistics (3 credits)
ENGL 3130 - Advanced Composition (3 credits)
ENGL 3134 - Computers, Writing, and Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 3142 - Creative Writing I: Fiction (3 credits)
ENGL 3150 - Literature, Ethics, and Values (3 credits)
ENGL 3200 - History of the English Language (3 credits)
ENGL 3250 - Professional Communication I (RODP) (3 credits)
ENGL 3270 - Literature of Popular Culture (3 credits)
ENGL 3280 - Mythology (3 credits)
ENGL 3290 - Introduction to Film (3 credits)
ENGL 3300 - Literary Criticism (3 credits)
ENGL 3400 - Survey of African American Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 3500 - Women Authors (3 credits)
ENGL 3650 - American Folklore (3 credits)
ENGL 3700 - The Bible as Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 4010 - British Novel (3 credits)
ENGL 4012 - American Novel (3 credits)
ENGL 4017 - Children’s Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 4020 - British Poetry (3 credits)
ENGL 4022 - American Poetry (3 credits)
ENGL 4030 - Modern Drama (3 credits)
ENGL 4032 - African Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 4040 - Modernism and Postmodernism (3 credits)
ENGL 4057 - Writing: Theory and Teaching (3 credits)
ENGL 4077 - Literature for Adolescents (3 credits)
ENGL 4087 - Themes in Women’s Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 4100 - Writing in the Professions (3 credits)
ENGL 4117 - Grammar and Usage (3 credits)
ENGL 4120 - Descriptive Linguistics (3 credits)
ENGL 4130 - Sociopsychology of Language (3 credits)
ENGL 4137 - Dialectology (3 credits)
ENGL 4200 - Shakespeare and His Age (3 credits)
ENGL 4207 - Literature of the South (3 credits)
ENGL 4217 - Irish/Scottish Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 4237 - Scots-Irish and Scots in Appalachia (3-6 credits)
ENGL 4290 - Film Genres (3 credits)
ENGL 4320 - Film Criticism (3 credits)
ENGL 4337 - Appalachia in Scotland (3-6 credits)
ENGL 4340 - Topics in Film (3 credits)
ENGL 4350 - National Cinemas (3 credits)
ENGL 4360 - Screenwriting (3 credits)
ENGL 4407 - London Theatre, Study Abroad (3 credits)
ENGL 4507 - Literature and Film (3 credits)
ENGL 4680 - Continental Literature (RODP) (3 credits)
ENGL 4690 - Milton and His Age (3 credits)
ENGL 4700 - Chaucer and Medieval Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 4857 - Technical Writing (3 credits)
ENGL 4896 - Studies in English (3 credits)
ENGL 4907 - Creative Writing II: Fiction (3 credits)
ENGL 4910 - Independent Study (1-3 credits)
ENGL 4917 - Creative Writing II: Poetry (3 credits)
ENGL 4957 - Topics in English (1-6 credits)
Note: Any 3000 or 4000 level English course may be used for an elective.