Literature Minor Requirements

Porter College pond, 2008 Dickens Universe (photo by Elizabeth Walker)

The Literature Minor - Seven courses are required


Two lower-division courses are required:

  • Literature 1, Literary Interpretation: close reading and analysis of literary texts
  • One Literature 61-series course: categories, methodologies, and problems of literary study or one Literature 80-series course: topical, thematic, and comparative study of literary texts


Five upper-division courses are required:

  • Literature 101, Theory and Interpretation
  • Four other upper-division literature courses (except Creative Writing)


There is no language requirement for the Literature minor.