Program Requirements

1. Students minoring in literature must complete a total of 15 hours (excluding ENGL 1010, 1020, 2030).
2. None of the required 15 hours may be taken pass/fail.
3. Only courses completed with a grade of C- (1.7) or better may be counted toward the minor.
4. A minimum of 9 upper-division hours of work in the minor must be taken with CU Denver English faculty.
5. A minimum of 6 credits must be taken at the upper division level.
6. Courses in a minor cannot be counted toward the English major or English Writing major.

Note: Students are advised to fulfill the liberal arts and sciences core curriculum writing requirements before enrolling in upper-division literature courses.

• Take the following required course:

• ENGL 2450 - Introduction to Literature

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  Take one course from the following major courses in Literature or film, including courses at the 1000 and 2000 levels (e.g. 1601, 2600, 2250):

  *Courses are repeatable if taken as a different genre/author/topic.

• ENGL 1601 - Telling Tales: Narrative Art in Literature and Film
• ENGL 2250 - Introduction to Film
• ENGL 2600 - Great Works in British and American Literature
• ENGL 3001 - Critical Writing
• ENGL 3070 - Film History I
• ENGL 3075 - Film Genres *
• ENGL 3080 - Film History II
• ENGL 3085 - Film Directors *
• ENGL 3200 - From Literature to Film
• ENGL 3300 - Topics in Film *
• ENGL 4190 - Advanced Topics in Writing & Digital Studies *(film and media-focused only; e.g., Film and Rhetoric)
• ENGL 4420 - Film Theory and Criticism
• ENGL 4770 - Topics in English: Film and Literature *(film-focused only; e.g. Recent International Cinema)

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  Take any three upper-division courses from the English major, Literature Option area requirements:

   

  Historical Survey

• ENGL 4080 - History of English Language
• ENGL 4166 - History of American Poetry
• ENGL 4200 - History of the English Novel I
• ENGL 4210 - History of the English Novel II
• ENGL 4230 - The American Novel
• ENGL 4236 - The American Short Story
• ENGL 4300 - History of British Drama
• ENGL 4320 - History of Poetry in English
• ENGL 4350 - History of American Drama

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  Old English, Medieval Language and Literature

• ENGL 4400 - Old English I
• ENGL 4500 - Medieval Literature
• ENGL 4510 - Whores and Saints: Medieval Women
• ENGL 4730 - Chaucer

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  Renaissance, Restoration and 18th Century British Literature

• ENGL 3661 - Shakespeare
• ENGL 4520 - English Renaissance
• ENGL 4530 - Milton
• ENGL 4540 - Restoration and the 18th Century

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  Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature

• ENGL 4200 - History of the English Novel I
   
• ENGL 4210 - History of the English Novel II
   
• ENGL 4560 - English Romanticism
• ENGL 4580 - The Victorian Age

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  American Literature

• ENGL 3700 - American Literature to the Civil War
• ENGL 3750 - American Literature after the Civil War
• ENGL 4166 - History of American Poetry
   
• ENGL 4230 - The American Novel
   
• ENGL 4236 - The American Short Story
   
• ENGL 4350 - History of American Drama
   

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  Modern and Contemporary Literature

• ENGL 3450 - Contemporary Women Writers
• ENGL 3480 - Modern Drama
• ENGL 4250 - Twentieth Century Fiction
• ENGL 4460 - Contemporary World Literature
• ENGL 4600 - Modernism