English Minor

Writing as discovery. Introduces essential concepts, knowledge, skills, methods and conventions for writing. Focuses on practicing writing processes and developing rhetorical knowledge through analysis, observation and self-reflection.

Writing as inquiry. Develops habits of critical thinking, research-based inquiry and argument through written engagement with relevant social and cultural issues.

Theories of play and how play is expressed in games. Emphasis on game literacy and games as complex cultural and aesthetic objects. Inquiry into the social, political and ethical issues that inform game design, game genres, game aesthetics, player decision-making, and role-playing and identity within games.

Interdisciplinary exploration of how literary works represent the complex ways in which human beings experience gender and sexuality. Topics of study may include social or psychological conflicts involving gender and sexuality; changing definitions of masculinity and femininity; and the impact of economic, political, medical and historical forces on the development of gender identity and sexual norms.

In-depth study of science fiction, from a particular critical, cultural, historical or philosophical perspective.

Interdisciplinary exploration of the relationships between literature and film (or other closely related media). Possible areas of focus include adaptation/remediation studies, genre studies and narrative studies.