English Major and Minor Requirements

The requirements listed below reflect Mount Union’s curriculum beginning in the 2012-2013 Academic Year.  For information regarding alternate major or minor requirements, please refer to the University Catalogue of your entering year.

One course in foundations courses:

• True Lies: Introduction to the Literary Imagination

Four courses in period, survey courses

• British Literature I
• British Literature II
• American Literature I
• American Literature II
  

One course in global, transnational literature:

• Global Anglophone Literature
• Africana Literature
• Native American Literature
• Irish Literature and Culture

One course in a major author:

• Major Authors

Three electives:

• Literature to Film
• Literature and Human Rights
• Modernism/Postmodernism
• Gender Issues in Literature and Culture
• Introduction to Linguistics
• History of the English Language
• Critical Theory
• *Reading in Depth (2 cr)
• Additional Global Transnational or Major Authors courses

One seminar course as the Senior Seminar

• Senior Seminar 

Requirements for a Minor in English

• True Lies: Introduction to the Literary Imagination
• Four additional ENG courses (at least two ENG courses at the 300-level or above)