Minor Requirements
Minor in English
Satisfying the requirements for a minor in English requires students to complete a minimum of 18 credits in courses that satisfy minor requirements:
- The required course is ENG 2050(W) Introduction to Literary Studies
- The remaining four courses are to be distributed as follows:
One 3000 level or higher course in language or literature before 1800;
One 3000 level or higher course in literature after 1800;
One 3000 level course or higher in American Literature;
One approved elective at the 3000 level or higher.
A course at the 2000 level or below may be counted as a minor elective if approved and taken before the end of the sophomore year.
Minor in Visual Storytelling
Offered in collaboration with the Department of Visual and Performing Arts: An integrated program of design, illustration, and narrative analysis, the minor introduces students to principles of graphic design and narration, cinematic, digital and traditional illustration techniques, and various approaches to storytelling for creative visual presentation. The minor offers students the opportunity to concentrate in this focused area to satisfy an interest in comics/graphic novels and their film and digital adaptations, to prepare for further academic or professional study in visual storytelling and visual culture, or to work as cartoonists, graphic novelists, teachers of the graphic novel, or film and comics critics.
The minor requires the completion of a minimum of 18 credits, with a minimum of five (5) courses chosen from the list below and distributed so that at least two (2) are English courses and at least two (2) are FAA courses.
FAA 1210 Basic Drawing I
FAA 2220 Cartooning and Illustration
FAA 3850 History of Graphic Design
FAA 4820 3D Animation and Illustration
ENG 2750 Adapting Graphic Novels to Film
ENG 3685 The Graphic Novel
ENG 3910 Writing the Graphic Novel