Literature | Heidelberg University

This literature minor lets you further your passion for reading and improve your critical thinking and communication skills. Students majoring in English are not eligible for this minor.

Make yourself marketable

Combine this minor with History or Education.

With my minor, I am hoping to gain more knowledge about literature and broaden my horizons when it comes to reading and writing papers as I would like to work in the publishing industry.

— Sydney Fesler

Minor in Literature

Required:

• LIT 102: Literary Genres
• LIT 221: British Literature to 1798
• LIT 222: British Literature, 1798 to the Present
• LIT 231: American Literature to 1860
• LIT 232: American Literature, 1860 to the Present
• LIT 291: Introduction to Literary Theory
• One elective Literature course

English major requirements

English class gets cool nod in Singaporean novel

A group of Heidelberg students from Barry Devine’s “The Empire writes Back” literature course back in 2019 have left their mark halfway around the