Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. - Requirements for English Minors

Requirements for English Minors

Twenty credits from any English (ENG) offering, eight credits of which must be at or above the 300 level

227R: Foundations of Creative Writing
One course (4 credits) from English literature/linguistics electives (excluding 112 and 491: Methods of Teaching Reading and Writing for the Secondary School).
Two courses (8 credits) from one set of the following pairs:
- 316: Business Writing AND 324: Technical Writing; OR
- 317: Telling the Story: News Writing AND 318: Telling the Story: Feature Writing; OR
- 377: Nonfiction Writing Seminar AND 477: Advanced Nonfiction Writing Seminar; OR
- 378: Poetry Writing Seminar AND 478: Advanced Poetry Writing Seminar; OR
- 379: Fiction Writing Seminar AND 479: Advanced Fiction Writing Seminar
One course (4 credits) in writing from
- 316: Business Writing
- 317: Telling the Story: News Writing
- 318: Telling the Story: Feature Writing
- 324: Technical Writing
- 377: Nonfiction Writing Seminar
- 378: Poetry Writing Seminar
- 379: Fiction Writing Seminar
- 380: Special Topics (v) approved for Writing credit
- 390: Cooperative Education
- 477: Advanced Nonfiction Writing Seminar
- 478: Advanced Poetry Writing Seminar
- 479: Advanced Fiction Writing Seminar
- 489: Senior Capstone in Writing

Variable topic courses designated (v)

220: Human Values in British and American Literature
230: Introduction to Literary Scholarship
One course (4 credits) from "cultural contexts" category:
- 315H: English Language: Historical and Analytical
- 326: British Literature: Medieval to Renaissance
- 336: British Literature: Restoration to Romanticism
- 346: British Literature: Empire to Independence
- 353: American Literature: Beginnings to Realism; or 355: American Literature: Realism to the Present
- 358UZ: Native American Literatures
- 365U: Writing of Women
- 380: Special Topics-when designated "literature" (v)
One course (4 credits) from "study-in-depth" category:
- 401H: Shakespeare and the English Renaissance
- 410: Individual Author
- 421: Traditions in Literary Genre (v)
- 439Z: Film and Literature
- 441: Theory and Practice of Criticism
- 451G: Postcolonial Literatures
- 488: Senior Capstone in Literature
One course (4 credits) from English electives (excluding 112 and 491: Methods of Teaching Reading and Writing for the Secondary School)

Variable topic courses designated (v)

Each of these:
- 317: Telling the Story: News Writing
- 318: Telling the Story: Feature Writing
- 371: Editing and Grammar for Professionals
- 403: Investigating and Narrating the News
One course credit from these:
- Art 370: Graphic Design
- English 390: Co-op in Journalism
- COM 236/Art 236: Introduction to the Photographic Process
- COM 313: Persuasion: Influencing Human Behavior
- COM 331: Mass Media
- English 419: Mass Communication Law (2)
- English 420: Mass Communication Ethics (2) OR ENG 422 which replaces 419-420 after spring 2011
While journalism minors would also be encouraged to choose their distribution courses and electives with their career plans in mind, they would not be required to submit their course plans in contract (see section on Proposed List of Core Courses, p. 16 in the handbook, or here).