Literary History Minor

English Department | College of Liberal Arts

Program Declaration

Completion of a Major, Minor, Concentration Declaration Form .

Minor Requirements

Complete 18 credits from six courses.

Grade: No courses with a grade below C may be applied toward the minor.
Pass/fail: No courses taken pass/fail may be applied toward the minor.
Residency: At least five courses for the minor the minor must be completed at UMass Boston.

Course Requirements

Electives (18 Credits)

Take six courses from the list below. At least one course must be a pre-1900 capstone.

ENGL 326 - Stage and Page: Drama Before 1642 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 327 - Stage and Page: Drama, 1660-1900 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 331 - Satire 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 351 - Early African-American Literature 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 365 - The British Novel and the Nineteenth Century 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 366 - Women and Men in Nineteenth-Century Literature 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 381 - Geoffrey Chaucer 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 382 - William Shakespeare’s Early Works 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 383 - William Shakespeare’s Later Works 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 385 - John Milton 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 396 - Jane Austen 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 401 - The Medieval Period 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 402 - The Renaissance in England 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 403 - The 18th Century: Satire to Sensibility 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 405 - British Romanticism 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 406 - The Victorian Age 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 408 - American Romanticism 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 409 - American Realism 3 Credit(s)
ENGL 437 - Reading the Gothic: Transatlantic Terrors 3 Credit(s)
Pre-1900 Capstone Courses
ENGL 480 - History of the Book 3 Credit(s)