Overview

The Minor in English affords students basic training in the three areas of English literature, language, or professional creative writing. The area in creative writing remains to add uniqueness to the program in the region.

Program Objectives

The Minor in English aims to

1. enhance communication, critical thinking, and creativity,
2. support skills greatly needed in careers nowadays, and
3. complement majors in the humanities, social sciences, communication arts, education, Arabic, translation and business.

Learning Outcomes

Graduates with a Minor in English will

1. enhance their writing proficiency through literary and linguistic assign­ments,
2. acquire both literary and linguistic content in various areas, and become aware of the cultural, political, and social perspectives of different socie­ties,
3. analyze and critique different topics, and further develop their research methods, and
4. reflect upon the different aspects of today’s global issues in a literary and linguistic framework.

Curriculum

For the Minor in English, students must complete 18 credits, as per the following:

Program Core Requirements (9 cr)

• ENG213 Introduction to Language (3 cr)
• ENG216 Introduction to Literature (3 cr)
• Any English writing course

English Electives (9 cr)

Literature

• ENG323 Renaissance Drama (3 cr)
• ENG324 Medieval Literature (3 cr)
• ENG325 Renaissance Poetry (3 cr)
• ENG326 Restoration and Neoclassical Literature (3 cr)
• ENG328 Early Novel (3 cr)
• ENG336 Romantic and Victorian Poetry (3 cr)
• ENG339 19^th Century British Novel (3 cr)
• ENG342 Modernism and Beyond (3 cr)
• ENG345 20^th Century British Novel (3 cr)
• ENG346 Contemporary Culture (3 cr)
• ENG348 Post-colonial Anglophone Literature (3 cr)
• ENG351 Early American Literature (3 cr)
• ENG352 20^th Century American Novel (3 cr)
• ENG354 Theories of Literature and Culture (3 cr)
• ENG376 Gender in Literature (3 cr)
• ENG487 Topics in Drama and Theater (3 cr) ¹

¹ ENG487 can be taken more than once for extra credits if the topics differ.

Language

• ENG281 Language and Change: Past, Present, and Future (3 cr)
• ENG282 Language and the Media (3 cr)
• ENG283 Language and Gender (3 cr)
• ENG303 Literary Linguistics (3 cr)
• ENG380 Language and the Law (3 cr)
• ENG381 Corpus Linguistics (3 cr)
• ENG480 Discourse and Power (3 cr)

Writing

• ENG301 Food Writing (3 cr)
• ENG302 Travel Writing (3 cr)
• ENG304 Fashion Writing (3 cr)
• ENG305 Performing Arts Criticism (3 cr)
• ENG331 Poetry Writing (3 cr)
• ENG333 Fiction Writing (3 cr)
• ENG335 Playwriting (3 cr)
• ENG361 Adaptation (3 cr)
• ENG362 Multimedia Storytelling (3 cr)
• ENG410 Writing for International Organizations (3 cr)
• ENG411 Speech Writing (3 cr)
• ENG412 Grant Writing (3 cr)