Undergraduate Bulletin

Spring 2025

Requirements for the minor in STEM in Literature and Culture

Completion of the minor requires 18 credits.* Students majoring in English may not use credits applied toward the major to apply toward the minor in STEM in Literature and Culture. 

The two following core courses (6 credits):

  • EGL 130: Science, Technology and Literature
  • EGL 250: Introduction to English Studies for STEM Majors

Two 300-level EGL courses selected from the following four courses (6 credits):

  • EGL 319: Ecology and Evolution in American Literature
  • EGL 370: Literature and Ethics
  • EGL 389: Science Fiction
  • EGL 394: Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies of Science and Technology

One EGL elective (200 or 300 level course) selected from the following (3 credits):

  • EGL 210: Literature, Medicine, and Ethics
  • EGL 290: What is Public Health? A Humanities Approach
  • EGL 303: Genre or Media (e.g. Science Literacy)
  • EGL 375: Literature in English in Relation to Other Disciplines
  • EGL 381: Advanced Analytic and Argumentative Writing
  • EGL 390: Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies

One Elective Outside EGL, selected from the following (3 credits):

*The English Department Undergraduate Program Director may make discretionary substitutions for these courses.