Requirements

1. Introductory course. One (1) course:
   • ENG-L 260 Introduction to Advanced Study of Literature i
2. Introductory Genre course. One (1) course:
   • ENG-L 203 Introduction to Drama (must be approved for CASE Intensive Writing)i
   • ENG-L 204 Introduction to Fiction (must be approved for CASE Intensive Writing)i
   • ENG-L 205 Introduction to Poetry (must be approved for CASE Intensive Writing)i
   • ENG-L 206 Introduction to Prose (Excluding Fiction) (must be approved for CASE Intensive Writing)i
3. Literary history courses. Two (2) courses from the lists below. Courses chosen must be from two (2) different Literary History lists.
   • Beginnings through the Eighteenth Century
   • ENG-L 305 Chaucer i
   • ENG-L 306 Middle English Literature i
   • ENG-L 307 Medieval and Tudor Drama i
   • ENG-L 308 Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Drama i
   • ENG-L 309 Elizabethan Poetry i
   • ENG-L 310
   • ENG-L 313 Early Plays of Shakespeare i
   • ENG-L 314 Late Plays of Shakespeare i
   • ENG-L 317 English Poetry of the Early Seventeenth Century i
   • ENG-L 318 Milton i
   • ENG-L 350 Early American Writing and Culture to 1800 i
   • ENG-L 367 Literature of the Bible i
   • Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
   • ENG-L 312 Literary History 2: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries i
   • ENG-L 320 Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature i
   • ENG-L 327 Later Eighteenth-Century Literature i
   • ENG-L 328 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama i
   • ENG-L 332 Romantic Literature i
   • ENG-L 335 Victorian Literature i
   • ENG-L 347 British Fiction to 1800 i
   • ENG-L 348 Nineteenth-Century British Fiction i
   • ENG-L 351 American Literature 1800-1865 i
   • ENG-L 352 American Literature 1865-1914 i
   • ENG-L 355 American Fiction to 1900 i
   • ENG-L 356 American Poetry to 1900 i
   • Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
   • ENG-L 316
   • ENG-L 345 Twentieth-Century British Poetry i
   • ENG-L 346 20th and 21st Century British Fiction i
   • ENG-L 354 American Literature since 1914 i
   • ENG-L 357 Twentieth-Century American Poetry i
   • ENG-L 358 American Literature, 1914-1960 i
   • ENG-L 359
   • ENG-L 360 American Prose (Excluding Fiction) i
   • ENG-L 363 American Drama i
   • ENG-L 365 Modern Drama: Continental i
   • ENG-L 366 Modern Drama: English, Irish, American, and Post-Colonial i
   • ENG-L 374
   • ENG-L 375 Studies in Jewish Literature i
   • ENG-L 380
   • ENG-L 381 Recent Writing i
   • ENG-L 396 Studies in African American Literature and Culture i
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4. Electives. One English elective at the 300–499 level (may be fulfilled by a course from the Literary History lists if not used to fulfill requirement 3 above).
   • Additional course from the Literary History lists
   • Any ENG-G 300–399
   • Any ENG-G 400–499
   • Any ENG-L 300–399
   • Any ENG-L 400–499
   • Any ENG-R 300–399
   • Any ENG-R 400–499
   • Any ENG-W 300–399
   • Any ENG-W 400–499
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5. Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
   1. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
   2. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
   3. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
   4. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
   5. Exceptions to minor requirements may be made with the approval of the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.