The English minor at Montreat College gives students the opportunity to read, discuss, and write about illuminating works in Western Literature, and to receive instruction and practice in creative and professional writing. Students who minor in English are prepared to work as editors and writers in their major fields. Students develop understanding of the world’s social and cultural conditions and learn to communicate effectively through the written word.

Montreat College offers a minor in English that requires 18 semester hours of course work: nine hours in literature courses (with at least 12 of those hours from the 300 level or above) and nine hours of writing courses.

Choose nine hours of literature courses:
EN 201-202 Survey of English Literature I, II (3,3)
EN 203-204 World Literature I,II (3,3)
EN 300 Middle English Literature (3)
EN 301 Shakespeare (3)
EN 304 Restoration & Eighteenth Century British Literature (3)
EN 305 Milton (3)
EN 306 Seventeenth Century British Literature (3)
EN 307 Romantic British Literature (3)
EN 308 The British Novel (3)
EN 309 Victorian Literature (3)
EN 321, 322, 323 Literature of the United States I, II, III (3,3,3)
EN 401 Seminar in Literature (3)
EN 402 Literary Criticism (3)

Choose nine hours of writing courses:
CM 313 Public Relations (3)
EN 311 Creative Nonfiction Writing (3)
EN 313 Poetry Writing (3)
EN 317 Short Story Writing (3)
EN 318 Life Writing (3)
EN 328 News Writing (3)
EN 404 Spiritual Memoir Writing (3)

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