Minor in English

Scrutinize Literature and Develop Comprehensive Communication Skills

A minor in English from the College of Human Sciences and Humanities at University of Houston-Clear Lake lets students who love reading great literature and writing creatively indulge their passions even as they pursue degrees in other fields. The English program offers a range of courses in which students intensively read, think, discuss and write about American, British, European, and World literatures and rhetorics. The minor in English allows students to maintain a primary focus in another field, but still take these English classes in a structured manner that is formally recognized on their transcripts.

Preparations for Graduate Studies or Your Future Career

Throughout history, the study of great literature and rhetoric has been a source of intellectual pleasure and also a way of training the mind to think and the hand to write critically about the world. Although the technical complexity of modern society often leads students to major in disciplines where they focus on acquiring particular professional skills, minoring in English allows you to deepen your abilities to read, think and write perceptively and critically about a broad range of issues. It increases your value by signaling to potential employers that you possess the adaptability, sensitivity, and the reflective and creative capacities that are hallmarks of a broad, humanistic approach to life and work.

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Degree Requirements

This degree has a specific set of courses you’ll need to complete before you can graduate from University of Houston-Clear Lake. Learn more about the classes that will help you complete the requirements of this degree. 

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Minor in English Faculty