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REQUIREMENTS FOR A MINOR IN ENGLISH<br />

The Department of English offers two (2) minors:<br />

English minor with Literature concentration and<br />

English minor with Writing concentration.<br />

Literature courses used to complete Core Curriculum requirements may not be counted for the<br />

English minor.<br />

The requirements of each minor are as follows:<br />

English Minor: Literature Concentration<br />

Survey Courses: (2 required) ENGL 2204, 2205, 2206, 2207<br />

Language Courses: (1 required) ENGL 3300, 3302<br />

Genre Courses: (1 required) ENGL 3315, 3335, 3345, 3355,<br />

4440, 4450, 4460<br />

British Literature Courses: (1 required) ENGL 3320, 3330, 3340, 3350, 3360<br />

American Literature Courses: (1 required) ENGL 3375, 3380, 3385, 3390<br />

Total: 18 semester hours<br />

English Minor: Writing Concentration<br />

Survey Courses: (1 required) ENGL 2204, 2205, 2206, 2207<br />

Language/Theory Courses: (2 required) ENGL 2210, 2212, 2215<br />

Creative Writing Courses: (1 required) ENGL 3306, 3308<br />

Nonfiction Writing/Genre Courses: (2 required) ENGL 3303, 3310, 3315<br />

Total: 18 semester hours<br />

AWARDS<br />

The Department of English gives the following awards to outstanding English majors during the<br />

annual Honors Day program:<br />

the Walter D. Jones Award for Excellence in Composition and Scholarship<br />

the Murial B. Williams Award for Excellence in Literary Studies<br />

the Francis Marion Chalker Medlock Prize for Poetry<br />

The Jones award is given to the student whose paper written for a major course is judged as<br />

outstanding by a panel of reviewers. The Williams award is given to the student who is deemed<br />

by the English faculty to demonstrate the highest standards of scholarship and who contributes<br />

the most to the advancement of literary studies among English majors at <strong>LaGrange</strong> <strong>College</strong>. The<br />

Medlock Prize is awarded to the student who has demonstrated a love of and appreciation for<br />

poetry and who shows great promise as an aspiring poet. In addition, each spring at Honors Day,<br />

the Department of English recognizes the most outstanding essay composed for a Rhetoric and<br />

Composition course (ENGL 1101 or 1102) during the current academic year. Each winning<br />

essay is published in the next year‘s edition of the <strong>LaGrange</strong> <strong>College</strong> Handbook of Rhetoric &<br />

Composition.<br />

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