In the Literary Translation Minor, students will practice the craft of translating literary texts from any language into English and explore international theories of literary translation.

The Minor is offered by the Literatures, Cultures and Languages Department. For further information, please contact peter.constantine@uconn.edu.

Requirements

The Literary Translation Minor consists of a minimum 15 credits at the 2000-level or above.

1. Two required translation courses: TRST 3010 Translating Literature: Practice and Theory and TRST 3011 The Art of Literary Translation.
2. Two literary/cultural courses chosen from:  ARAB, ARIS, ASLN, CAMS, CHIN, CLCS, CRLP, FREN, GERM, HEJS, HIND, ILCS, IRIS, JAPN, KORE, MGRK, PERS, PLSH, PORT, RUSS, SPAN, TRST, VIET.
3. One creative writing or related genre course from English chosen from:

   Course List

   Course	Title	Credits
   Creative Writing
   ENGL 2701	Creative Writing I	3
   ENGL 3701	Creative Writing II	3
   ENGL 3703	Writing Workshop	3
   ENGL 3705	Playwriting	3
   ENGL 3711	Creative Writing for Child and Young Adult Readers	3
   ENGL 3715E	Nature Writing Workshop	3
   Related Genre
   ENGL 2203/2203W	American Literature Since 1880	3
   ENGL 2214/2214W	African American Literature	3
   ENGL 2276/2276W	American Utopias and Dystopias	3
   ENGL 2301/2301W	Anglophone Literatures	3
   ENGL 2305	Modern Japanese Literature	3
   ENGL 2401/2401W	Poetry	3
   ENGL 2405	Drama	3
   ENGL 2407	The Short Story	3
   ENGL 2408/2408W	Modern Drama	3
   ENGL 2409	The Modern Novel	3
   ENGL 2411/2411W	Popular Literature	3
   ENGL 2413/2413W	The Graphic Novel	3
   ENGL 2600	Introduction to Literary Studies	3
   ENGL 2635E	Literature and the Environment	3
   ENGL 2730W	Travel Writing	3
   ENGL 3015W	Writing Across Cultures	3
   ENGL 3207	American Literature since the Mid-Twentieth Century	3
   ENGL 3210	Native American Literature	3
   ENGL 3212	Asian American Literature	3
   ENGL 3215W	Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African American Literature	3
   ENGL 3218/3218W	Ethnic Literature of United States	3
   ENGL 3220/3220W	Jewish American Literature and Culture	3
   ENGL 3403	Modern and Contemporary Poetry in English	3
   ENGL 3420	Children's Literature	3
   ENGL 3422	Young Adult Literature	3
   ENGL 3613	LGBTQ+ Literature	3
   ENGL 3621	Literature and Other Disciplines	3
   ENGL 3623	Studies in Literature and Culture	3
   ENGL 3699	Independent Study 1	1-6
   ENGL 4401W	Advanced Study: Poetry	3
   ENGL 4407W	Advanced Study: Prose	3

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With appropriate topic; requires approval of the Minor Advisor.

With the Minor Advisor’s approval, students may count up to six credit hours in independent study in lieu of courses from sections B and C. Advanced Placement credits may not be counted toward the Minor. Courses used to fulfill the field requirements of the student’s Major can also be used to fulfill the Literary Translation Minor.