Program: English, Minor in - Hofstra University - Modern Campus Catalog™

Mar 15, 2025

2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin

Minor Requirements - Total Semester Hours: 18

A Minor in English consists of the successful completion of 18 semester hours, under advisement, with at least 6 hours in-residence, as follows:

Semester Hours: 9 minimum

At least 9 s.h. must be chosen from the following:

ENGL 020 - Ways of Reading Literature Semester Hours: 3-4
ENGL 104 - Old English Language and Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 105 - The Middle Ages in England Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 107 - (LT) Canterbury Tales Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 110 - The Age of Spenser Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 112 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 113 - (LT) Inventing Identities: Yeats, Heaney, and the Emergence of Modern Irish Poetry Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 114 - Fairy Tales in English and American Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 115 - (LT) Shakespeare: The Earlier Plays and Sonnets Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 116 - Shakespeare: The Later Plays Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 117 - Seminar: Renaissance and 17th-Century Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 118 - 17th Century English Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 119 - Milton: Literature, Liberty, Revolution Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 120 - (LT) British Drama from 1660 to 1789 Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 121 - (LT) The Novel Before 1900 Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 122 - The Novel: 1900 to the Present Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 123 - 20th-Century Anglo-Irish Drama Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 124A - The Woman Writer in America Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 125 - (LT) Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 126 - The American Short Story Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 127 - Shakespeare’s Comedy Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 128 - (LT) British Gothic Fiction and Modern Horror Semester Hours: 3 s.h.
ENGL 129 - (LT) The 18th Century Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 130 - Seminar: 18th-Century Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 131 - The 18th-Century British Novel Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 132 - The 19th-Century British Novel Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 136 - Beat Generation Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 137 - Colonial and Early American Literature From the Puritans Through Irving Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 138 - American Literary Naturalism Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 139 - (LT, CC) The African Novel Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 140 - African American Literature Before 1920 Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 141 - (LT) African American Literature: The Harlem Renaissance and After Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 142 - The American Renaissance, 1820-1860 Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 144 - American Literature II Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 145A - (LT) American Fiction, 1900-1950 Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 147A - American Fiction, 1950-Present Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 148 - 20th-Century American Poetry Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 149 - The 19th-Century American Novel Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 150 - (CC) Native American Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 151 A-Z - Special Topics: Major Authors Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 152 - Literary Perspectives on Children’s and Young Adult Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 153 - (LT) The Romantic Age Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 154 - Seminar in the Romantic Age Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 155 - (LT) Childhood and Adolescence in Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 156 - The Bible as Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 157 - (LT) Victorian Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 158 - Seminar in Victorian Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 159 - 20th-Century British Poetry Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 161 - (LT) How The Simpsons Saved American Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 162 - (LT) Law and Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 163 - (LT) Contemporary Irish American Literature and Culture Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 164 - James Joyce Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 165 - 20th-Century British Novel Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 166 - Critical Theories and Critical Writing Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 167 - (LT, CC) Post-Colonial Literature of South Asia Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 168 - (CC, LT) Caribbean Experience in Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 169 - (LT) Renaissance Pick-Up Artists Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 180 - (LT) The Outlaw in American Literature: An Irish-American Perspective Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 181 - (LT) The Graphic Novel Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 182 to 184 A-Z - Readings in Literature or Special Studies Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 185 - (LT) Revolutions: British Literature 1945 to the Present Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 186 - (LT) Other Britons: The Literature of Multicultural Britain 1945 to the Present Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 187 - (LT) Modern British Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 188 - Independent Readings in Literature Semester Hours: .5-3
ENGL 189 - Contemporary British Theater Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 190 A-Z - Special Studies in Literature Semester Hours: 1-3
ENGL 191A - (LT) Science Fiction Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 192 A-Z - Special Studies in Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 193 - (LT) Medical Science Fiction Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 194 A-Z - Special Topics: Junior/Senior Seminar Semester Hours: 3-4
ENGL 195 - Independent Readings in Literature Semester Hours: 1-3
ENGL 196 A-Z - Readings in Literature or Special Studies Semester Hours: 1-3
ENGL 196D - (LT) Disability in Literature and Culture Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 198 A-Z - (LT) Special Studies in Literature Semester Hours: 3

Semester Hours: 3 minimum

At least 3 s.h. must be chosen from the following:

ENGL 010-ENGL 198A-Z
CRWR 132-199

Semester Hours: 6

No more than 6 s.h. chosen from the following:

ENGL 060 - (LT) Constructing British Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 061 - (LT) British Literature 1785 to the Present Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 070 - (LT) Constructing American Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 072 - (LT) The American Experience in Context Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 073 - (LT) American Killers, American Saints Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 080 - (LT) (CC) Constructing Global Anglophone Literature Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 081 - (LT) Western Literature I Semester Hours: 3
ENGL 082 - (LT) Western Literature II Semester Hours: 3
AMST 145 A-Z - Special Topics in American Studies Semester Hours: 3
AMST 146 - Seminar in American Studies Semester Hours: 3
CLL 191 - (LT) Romanticism Semester Hours: 3 or 4
CLL 195 - (LT) Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism Semester Hours: 3
CLL 199 - (LT) Contemporary European Literature Semester Hours: 3 or 4
DRAM 173 - (AA) History of the Drama I Semester Hours: 3
DRAM 174 - (AA) History of the Drama II Semester Hours: 3
DRAM 175 - (AA) Modern Drama I Semester Hours: 3
DRAM 176 - (AA) Modern Drama II Semester Hours: 3
HUHC 013 - (LT) C&E Fall Humanities Semester Hours: 3
HUHC 014 - (LT) C&E Spring Humanities Semester Hours: 3
JRNL 050 - Feature and Magazine Writing Semester Hours: 3