Literature Minor

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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)

ENG 205 - Introduction to English Studies and Ways of Reading Credits: 3
Select one of the following:
ENG 255 - Introduction to British Literary History Credits: 3 or
ENG 265 - Introduction to American Literary History Credits: 3

Electives (12 hours)

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

ENG 222 - Concepts of Good and Evil in Literature Credits: 3
ENG 224 - Social Change in American Culture Credits: 3
ENG 255 - Introduction to British Literary History Credits: 3
ENG 265 - Introduction to American Literary History Credits: 3
ENG 288 - Introduction to Women in Literature Credits: 3
ENG 322 - The Short Story Credits: 3
ENG 330 - Ethnic Literature in America Credits: 3
ENG 331 - African American Literature Credits: 3
ENG 344 - Adolescent and Young Adult Literature Credits: 3
ENG 371 - Non-Western World Literature Credits: 3
ENG 372 - Western World Literature Credits: 3
ENG 373 - Introduction to African Literatures Credits: 3
ENG 375 - Modern Canadian Literature Credits: 3
ENG 386 - World Mythology Credits: 3
ENG 387 - Women’s Literature and Gender Issues: 19th- and 20th-Century Theory Credits: 3
ENG 424 - Chaucer Credits: 3
ENG 426 - The Literature of the Renaissance Credits: 3
ENG 427 - Neo-Classical and Eighteenth-Century Literature Credits: 3
ENG 431 - Nineteenth-Century Literature Credits: 3
ENG 432 - Twentieth-Century Poetry Credits: 3
ENG 435 - The Novel to the Twentieth Century Credits: 3
ENG 436 - The Novel of the Twentieth Century Credits: 3
ENG 437 - Contemporary Fiction Credits: 3
ENG 448 - Literary Criticism and Theory Credits: 3
ENG 449 - Major Author Credits: 3
ENG 451 - Shakespeare’s Histories and Tragedies Credits: 3
ENG 453 - Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances Credits: 3
ENG 459 - Special Studies in English Credits: 1-6
ENG 473 - History of Western Drama I Credits: 3
ENG 474 - History of World Drama II Credits: 3
ENG 499 - Seminar in Literature and Language Credits: 3