Minor in English

TO DECLARE: Visit the English Office, Eddy 359. For more information: visit the Department of English website, or email Sheila Dargon: Sheila.Dargon@colostate.edu.

The English department also offers the Linguistics and Culture Interdisciplinary Minor and a Minor in Creative Writing. 

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion, students will be able to:

1. Analyze texts across a broad range of literary genres, styles, and historical and contemporary contexts with an eye practiced in close reading. 
2. Write with clarity, effectiveness, and originality for a variety of rhetorical purposes and audiences.  
3. Describe the ways we use language and literacy and understand how concepts are related to identities, cultures, and notions of power. 
4. Identify and interpret how rhetorical theories and writing practices connect to larger socio-cultural contexts. 
5. Approach topics through an interdisciplinary lens and evaluate the possibilities and benefits associated with fostering collaboration in thought, scholarship, and being.

Effective Spring 2026

Students must satisfactorily complete the total credits required for the minor. Minors and interdisciplinary minors require 12 or more upper-division (300- to 400-level) credits.

Additional coursework may be required due to prerequisites.

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Lower-Division (Select a maximum of 9 credits from the following):		9
E 140	The Study of Literature (GT-AH2)
E 142	Reading Without Borders (GT-AH2)
E 150	English Studies Symposium
E 179	Western American Literature
E 200	Inquiry-Based Teaching and Communicating (GT-AH2)
E 202	Language Use in Society (GT-AH2)
E 204	Creative Writing as Transformative Practice (GT-AH2)
E 206	Language for Activist Rhetoric and Writing (GT-AH2)
E 210	Beginning Creative Writing (GT-AH2)
E 232	Introduction to Humanities (GT-AH2)
E 234/ETST 234	Introduction to Native American Literature
E 236	Short Fiction
E 237	Introduction to Science Fiction (GT-AH2)
E 238	Contemporary Global Fiction (GT-AH2)
E 239/ETST 239	Introduction to Chicano Literature
E 240	Introduction to Poetry
E 242	Reading Shakespeare (GT-AH2)
E 245	World Drama (GT-AH2)
E 270	Introduction to American Literature (GT-AH2)
E 276	British Literature--Medieval Period to 1800 (GT-AH2)
E 277	British Literature--After 1800 (GT-AH2)
Upper-Division (Select a minimum of 12 credits from the following):		12
CO 300	Writing Arguments (GT-CO3)
CO 301A	Writing in the Disciplines: Arts and Humanities (GT-CO3)
CO 301B	Writing in the Disciplines: Sciences (GT-CO3)
CO 301C	Writing in the Disciplines: Social Sciences (GT-CO3)
CO 301D	Writing in the Disciplines: Education (GT-CO3)
CO 302	Writing in Digital Environments (GT-CO3)
CO 401	Writing and Style
E 300/AMST 300	American Lives-Methods in American Studies
E 301	Framing Texts and Critical Theory in Equity
E 302	Reading and the Web
E 305	Principles of Writing and Rhetoric
E 306A	Study Abroad--Mexico: Writing Stories of Community in Todos Santos
E 310	Researching and Writing Literary Criticism
E 311A	Intermediate Creative Writing: Fiction
E 311B	Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry
E 311C	Intermediate Creative Writing: Nonfiction
E 320	Introduction to the Study of Language
E 322	English Language for Teachers I
E 323	English Language for Teachers II
E 324	Teaching English as a Second Language
E 326	Development of the English Language
E 327	Syntax and Semantics
E 328	Phonology, Morphology, and Lexis
E 329	Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
E 330	Gender in World Literature
E 331	Early Women Writers
E 332	Modern Women Writers
E 333	Critical Studies of Popular Texts
E 334	LGBTQ+ Literature
E 337	Western Mythology
E 338	Ethnic Literature in the United States
E 339	Literature of the Earth
E 340	Literature and Film Studies
E 341	Literary Criticism and Theory
E 344	Shakespeare
E 345	American Drama
E 350	The Gothic in Literature and Film
E 352	Study Abroad: Reading and Writing the Zambia Experience
E 355A	Study Abroad--Oxford: Shakespeare in Oxford
E 355B	Study Abroad--Oxford: Literature and Culture
E 356	Asian Literature
E 370	American Literature in Cultural Contexts
E 371	British Literature in Cultural Contexts
E 372	Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature
E 373	The Afterlives of Literature
E 375	Mindfulness and Literacy for a Changing World
E 401	Teaching Reading
E 402	Teaching Composition
E 403	Writing the Environment
E 404A	Study Abroad--Europe: Energy Transitions in Europe
E 405	Young Adult Literature
E 406	Topics in Literacy
E 407	Genre Bending
E 408	Topics in Comparative Literature
E 412A	Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction
E 412B	Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry
E 412C	Creative Writing Workshop: Nonfiction
E 420	Beat Generation Writing
E 421	Asian-American Literature
E 422	African-American Literature
E 423	Latino/a Literature
E 424	English Renaissance
E 425	Restoration and 18th Century Literature
E 426	British Romanticism
E 427	Victorian Age
E 428	Postcolonial Literature
E 430	Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
E 431	19th-Century English Fiction
E 432	20th-Century British Fiction
E 433	Literatures of the American West
E 438/ETST 438	Native American Literature
E 440	American Literature Before 1900
E 441	American Literature Since 1900
E 443	English Renaissance Drama
E 444	Restoration and 18th-Century Drama
E 445	Modern British and European Drama
E 451	Medieval Literature
E 452	Masterpieces of European Literature
E 455	European Literature after 1900
E 456	Topics in Critical Theory
E 458	Topics in Language, Law, and Justice
E 460	Chaucer
E 463	Milton
E 465	Topics in Literature and Language
E 466	Integrated English Studies Capstone
E 470	Individual Author
E 475	American Poetry Before 1900
E 478	Modern Poetry
E 479	Recent Poetry of the United States
Program Total Credits:		21