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Program Description

The Department of Literatures in English offers three minors: “Creative Writing,” “English,” and “Minority, Indigenous, and Third World Studies” (MITWS). English majors can complete any minor except English.

Academic Standards

Minor Declaration Information 

Students interested in minoring with the department should submit an the Intent to Minor form as soon as all classes to be used are known, and no later than the end of the seventh week of their final semester.

Visit the English Minors Guide for more information.

Successful completion of the minor will be noted on students’ official transcripts after their conferral date and when processing by their college's Registrar is complete.

Program Information

• Minimum Credits for Minor: 15

Minor Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Required Courses 1
ENGL 2800	Creative Writing	3
ENGL 3820	Narrative Writing	3
ENGL 3840	Poetry Writing	3
ENGL 4800	Advanced Poetry Writing	3
or ENGL 4801	Advanced Narrative Writing
Elective Courses
Any English course in literature or cultural studies that is not a writing workshop and which otherwise qualifies for minor credit. 2		3-4

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Due to the writing-intensive nature of these courses, the department discourages enrollment in more than one creative writing course per semester.

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• ​Each minor requires students to pass five three- or four-credit full-semester courses with a minimum grade of C (no S/U grades). Courses offered by the department and all crosslisted courses quality for the minors, even if the student is not enrolled in the ENGL section. 
• First-Year Writing Seminars may not be applied toward the minors.
• A maximum of one 1000-level course may be applied to the minors.
• A maximum of one course at the 2000-level or higher from transfer, study abroad, independent study, or another Cornell department on subjects related to literary study, even if focused on literatures not originally in English, may qualify if approved by the department.