Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ Bulletin: 2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin Program: Literature Minor Minimum Credits Required:__________________

Literature Minor

College of Liberal Arts >> English 

18 hours; 2.0 minor GPA required

For lovers of reading, literature programs at the University of Southern Indiana provide a chance to study fiction, poetry and drama from a range of historical periods. Whether you’d like to improve your ability to understand what you read, learn to analyze and interpret any text, or improve your sense of history through literature and writing, the literature program will take you to imagined places that will enlarge your intellectual world.

The English Department offers a major in English with a concentration in literature and a Literature minor. Students who are earning a bachelor’s degree in English Teaching or a bachelor’s degree in English with a concentnration in Literature are not eligible to earn the Literature minor

Required Courses (6 hours)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
ENG 205 - Introduction to English Studies and Ways of Reading
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3

 

Select one of the following:

ENG 255 - Introduction to British Literary History or
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 265 - Introduction to American Literary History
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3

Electives (12 hours)

At least 6 hours must be taken at the 300-or 400-level

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
ENG 222 - Concepts of Good and Evil in Literature

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Moral and Ethical Reasoning; Embedded Experience - Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 224 - Social Change in American Culture

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Moral and Ethical Reasoning


Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ENG 255 - Introduction to British Literary History
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 265 - Introduction to American Literary History
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 288 - Introduction to Women in Literature

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 322 - The Short Story
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 330 - Ethnic Literature in America

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 331 - African American Literature

USI Core 39: Embedded experience - Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 344 - Adolescent and Young Adult Literature

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Creative and Aesthetic Expression; Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 371 - Non-Western World Literature

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ENG 372 - Western World Literature

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 373 - Introduction to African Literatures
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 375 - Modern Canadian Literature
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 386 - World Mythology

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture


Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ENG 387 - Women’s Literature and Gender Issues: 19th- and 20th-Century Theory
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ENG 424 - Chaucer
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 426 - The Literature of the Renaissance
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 427 - Neo-Classical and Eighteenth-Century Literature
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 431 - Nineteenth-Century Literature
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 432 - Twentieth-Century Poetry
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 435 - The Novel to the Twentieth Century
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 436 - The Novel of the Twentieth Century
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 437 - Contemporary Fiction
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 448 - Literary Criticism and Theory
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 449 - Major Author
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 451 - Shakespeare’s Histories and Tragedies
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ENG 453 - Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 459 - Special Studies in English
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 1-6
ENG 473 - History of Western Drama I
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 474 - History of World Drama II
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 499 - Seminar in Literature and Language
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
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