UMass Boston

Current Undergraduate Students: Declare or change your minor by completing an Undergraduate Program Add/Change form.

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Electives (18 Credits)

Complete 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 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 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)

For more information on curriculum, including course descriptions and degree requirements, visit the Academic Catalog.

Complete 18 credits from six elective English 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 must be completed at UMass Boston.

English Department
Wheatley Hall, 6th Floor, Room 13
617.287.6700
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