Minor English Minor

Requirements

The English minor consists of 15 credit hours of 300- and 400-level courses, three hours of which must be at the 400 level. A general minor and five minors in areas related to the English majors are offered, with the general minor and some areas also available online.  Regardless of emphasis or delivery method, the curriculum is still called a minor in English.

English

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Select 15 credit hours from 300 and 400-level English courses		15
Total Credit Hours		15

Creative Writing

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Select 15 credit hours from the following:		15
ENGL 300W	Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 351	Fiction Workshop
ENGL 352	Poetry Workshop
ENGL 449	Craft of Literary Nonfiction
ENGL 451	Advanced Fiction Workshop
ENGL 452	Advanced Poetry Workshop
ENGL 454	Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 456	The Craft of Fiction
ENGL 457	The Craft of Poetry
Total Credit Hours		15

Journalism

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Select 15 credit hours from the following:		15
ENGL 335	Editing and Document Design
ENGL 368	English Internship
ENGL 380	Reporting and News Writing I
ENGL 381	Public Relations
ENGL 382	Reporting News for Television and Digital Media
ENGL 383	Digital Journalism
ENGL 384	Business and Science Journalism
ENGL 385	The Press and Making of American Democracy
ENGL 454	Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 482	Sports Journalism
ENGL 483W	Reporting and News Writing II
ENGL 484	Feature Story Writing
ENGL 485W	Editorial and Persuasive Writing
ENGL 486	Media Law and Ethics
Total Credit Hours		15

Applied Language Studies

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Select 15 credit hours from the following:		15
ENGL 350	Aspects of the English Language
ENGL 370	English Linguistics
ENGL 371W	Language and Culture
ENGL 390	TESL Methods, Materials, & Assessment
ENGL 440	General Linguistics
ENGL 442	English Grammar
ENGL 443	Southern and African American English
ENGL 444	History of the English Language
ENGL 445	Forensic Linguistics
ENGL 450	American English
ENGL 477	Language, Gender and Power
Total Credit Hours		15

Literature

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Select 15 credit hours from the following:		15
ENGL 301	Introduction to British Literature I
ENGL 302	Introduction to British Literature II
ENGL 303	Shakespeare's Histories and Comedies
ENGL 304	Shakespeare's Tragedies and Poetry
ENGL 333	Introduction to Critical Theory
ENGL 336	The Short Story
ENGL 340	American Drama
ENGL 342	Southern Literature
ENGL 345	American Literature to 1860
ENGL 346	American Literature Since 1860
ENGL 349	The Contemporary American Novel
ENGL 360	World Literature I
ENGL 363	World Literature II
ENGL 407	Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
ENGL 416	English Renaissance Drama
ENGL 418W	Jewish Writers
ENGL 421	British Literature 1660-1800
ENGL 423	The Romantic Movement in Britain
ENGL 432	Origins and Early Development of the British Novel to 1800
ENGL 433	Victorian Literature
ENGL 438	The Twentieth-Century British Novel
ENGL 447	The American Novel to 1920
ENGL 448	The American Novel 1920 to Present
ENGL 459W	New Literatures in English
ENGL 461	American Poetry of the Early Twentieth Century
ENGL 463W	Women Writers
ENGL 465W	African American Literature
ENGL 466W	Asian American Literature
ENGL 492	Modern World Drama
ENGL 493	Contemporary World Literature
Total Credit Hours		15

Technical Writing

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Select 15 credit hours from the following:		15
ENGL 307T	Digital Writing
ENGL 325	Introduction to Rhetorical Studies
ENGL 327W	Advanced Composition
ENGL 334W	Technical Writing
ENGL 354	Client-Based Research Writing
ENGL 368	English Internship
ENGL 381	Public Relations
ENGL 427W	Writing in the Disciplines
ENGL 435W	Management Writing
ENGL 436	Writing for the Government
ENGL 439	Writing in Digital Spaces
ENGL 473	Writing with Video
ENGL 484	Feature Story Writing
Total Credit Hours		15

For completion of a minor, a student must have a minimum grade point average of 2.00 in all courses specified as a requirement for the minor exclusive of lower-level courses and prerequisite courses and complete a minimum of six hours in upper-level courses in the minor requirement through courses offered by Old Dominion University.