English

Elements of expository and persuasive essay writing; research techniques; revising prose for accuracy, precision and effective style. By placement. Core: EC.

Course Offered: Every Fall, Every Spring

This course provides an overview of effective speaking techniques in a variety of settings and emphasizes communicating messages to different audiences. Students demonstrate public speaking concepts and principles to compose informative and persuasive speeches. While primarily performance based, students also critique memorable speeches through their observation and application of course content. Core: EC

Course Offered: Every Fall, Every Spring

This course will introduce students to various concepts and techniques of literary study using the genres of fiction, poetry and drama. Applying these fundamental tools of literary analysis, students will produce a variety of writing assignments. Core: EC.

Prerequisite: ENGL 110.     Course Offered: Every Fall, Every Spring

In this course, students will undertake the beginning stages of a major project requiring extended research and writing. This initial segment of the project requires a written proposal, an annotated bibliography, a progress report, and a rough draft. All phases will be supervised and evaluated by a faculty member in the literature program.

Prerequisite: ENGL 110; ENGL 115W; ENGL 286W or 287W; and senior standing.     Course Offered: Every Fall

In this course, students will complete the major project they began in ENGL 487. This concluding segment of the project requires a second revised draft, a public presentation of the project’s results, and a final polished revision of the paper at the end of the semester. All phases will be supervised and evaluated by a faculty member in the literature program.

Prerequisite: ENGL 110; ENGL 115W; ENGL 286W or 287W; ENGL 486; and senior standing.     Course Offered: Every Spring

This writing-intensive core course will rotate every two years among several single-author studies, focusing upon a selection of works by a famous literary author. Students will study the author’s social, cultural, historical, and literary contexts while engaging in ethical research methods and implementing advanced writing skills. Core: EC.

Prerequisite: ENGL 110.     Course Offered: Every Fall

This writing-intensive core course will rotate every two years among several single-author studies, focusing upon a selection of works by a famous literary author. Students will study the author’s social, cultural, historical, and literary contexts while engaging in ethical research methods and implementing advanced writing skills. Core: EC.

Prerequisite: ENGL 110.     Course Offered: Every Fall

In this course, students receive an introduction to several forms of creative written expression through the study of outstanding examples of published craft and the drafting of original work. Creative media may include creative nonfiction, dramatic writing for the stage or the screen, fiction, and poetry. Core: EC.

Course Offered: Every Fall

Stephen King argues that to write well, one must first “read a lot.” This course and its requirements are divided roughly into two halves: reading exemplary works of fiction in order to learn the tools of the fiction writer’s craft and writing and revising original work in a workshop setting, where the work is discussed around a table with one’s peers. Core: EC.

Course Offered: Every Spring

The first half of this course will be spent in studying exemplary works of creative nonfiction. In the second half of the course, emphasis will be placed on writing and revising original work in a workshop setting. Core: EC.

Course Offered: Every Fall

This course begins with an exploration of the various formal approaches the poet can take in creative composition. Students will be required to write in several different forms as a way of experimenting with the discipline of line and meter, ultimately compiling a small portfolio (3-5 poems) of revised, polished work. Core: EC.

Course Offered: Every Spring

This course focus on producing works of literary nonfiction and poetry that explore depictions of and ideas about the natural world. The emphasis of the course will be on writing and revising original work in a workshop setting. Core: EC.

Course Offered: Every Fall

This course will center on the life and works of Renaissance poet and playwright William Shakespeare. Students will study selected works—including sonnets, tragedies, comedies, and histories—with a particular focus on the dramatic, literary, historical, and cultural dimensions of Shakespeare’s art.

Prerequisite: ENGL 110.     Course Offered: Every Fall

This course will introduce students to various literary theories and to strategies for applying these theories to specific literary texts. Survey will range from early writings on literature by Plato and Aristotle to the proliferation of theory in the twentieth century, including psychoanalytic criticism, formalism, reader-response theory, deconstruction and new historicism.

Prerequisite: ENGL 110; ENGL 115W; or permission of instructor.     Course Offered: Every Fall

This course will focus on the historical and cultural exploration of the concepts of the child and childhood in literature written both for and about children. Survey of dominant trends in British and American literature as reflected in the writings of the Romantic Period, the Victorian and Edwardian “Golden Age” of children’s literature, and the multiculturalism of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Prerequisite: ENGL 110.     Course Offered: Spring of every even year

This course will focus on the development of the young adult literary genre in the twentieth century. Readings will include primarily prose works related to gender, race, and cultural diversity, as well as thematic topics involving various issues such as coming of age, technology, and dystopia. The course will also explore critical approaches to identifying reading material determined to be appropriate for secondary English Language Arts classrooms.

Prerequisite: ENGL 110.     Course Offered: Spring of every even year

This course will examine the literary figures and movements from select periods within British literature, with a focus on the manner in which cultural, historical, and social elements influence the genres and themes within the literary period(s). It will rotate every two years between LIT 301 (Early British Literature) and LIT 302 (Later British Literature).

Prerequisite: ENGL 110

This course will examine the literary figures and movements from select periods within British literature, with a focus on the manner in which cultural, historical, and social elements influence the genres and themes within the literary period(s). It will rotate every two years between LIT 301 (Early British Literature) and LIT 302 (Later British Literature).

Prerequisite: ENGL 110;

This course will examine the literary figures and movements from select periods within American literature, with a focus on the manner in which cultural, historical, and social elements influence the genres and themes within the literary period(s). It will rotate every two years between LIT 303 (Early American Literature) and LIT 304 (Later American Literature).

Prerequisite: ENGL 110;     Course Offered: Every Fall

This course will examine the literary figures and movements from select periods within American literature, with a focus on the manner in which cultural, historical, and social elements influence the genres and themes within the literary period(s). It will rotate every two years between LIT 303 (Early American Literature) and LIT 304 (Later American Literature).

Prerequisite: ENGL 110;     Course Offered: Every Fall

Students will examine the nature and function of myth in the ancient Mediterranean world, focusing upon the narrative and symbolic structure of myths, the cultural contexts of myths and the influence of myth upon later literature. Texts will include Greek and Roman epic, Greek drama and myths as represented in ancient and modern art.

Prerequisite: ENGL 110 or permission of instructor.     Course Offered: Every Spring

Students will examine the nature and function of myth in the medieval Northern European world, focusing upon the narrative and symbolic structure of myths, the cultural contexts of myths (particularly in terms of religious and philosophical belief), and the influence of myth upon later literature. Texts will include the Poetic and Prose Eddas, as well as later works that draw directly and indirectly from Norse myth, such as Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Beowulf, and Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Core: H

Course Offered: Spring of every odd year

Students will read significant works of world literature by a variety of writers that represent different geographical areas, authors, texts, contexts, and topics.

Prerequisite: ENGL 110.     Course Offered: Every Spring

Students will examine selected topics related to global perspectives within literary studies. Assigned literary texts must include a variety of perspectives of characters and authors from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Course topics will vary by section. Core: GP.

Course Offered: Every Fall, Every Spring

Students will survey myths and/or folktales rooted in the oral tradition from a variety of world cultures representing broad regions in such places as Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. The course will frame our contemporary understanding of world myth and folktale through an examination of literary works and/or films that have adapted earlier myth and folktale in order to appeal to a modern audience. Course topics will vary by section. Core: GP.

Course Offered: Every Fall, Every Spring

This writing-intensive core course will rotate every two years among several topics, such as “Literature of the Supernatural” (a historical and generic survey of literature that features supernatural elements), and “Literature and Nature” (literature that focuses upon human relationships to the natural world from the classical to contemporary eras). Core: EC.

Prerequisite: ENGL 110;     Course Offered: Spring of every odd year

This writing-intensive core course will rotate every two years among several topics, such as “Literature of the Supernatural” (a historical and generic survey of literature that features supernatural elements), and “Literature and Nature” (literature that focuses upon human relationships to the natural world from the classical to contemporary eras). Core: EC.

Prerequisite: ENGL 110;     Course Offered: Spring of every odd year

In this course, students receive an introduction to several forms of creative written expression through the study of outstanding examples of published craft and the drafting of original work. Creative media may include creative nonfiction, dramatic writing for the stage or the screen, fiction, and poetry. Core: EC.

Course Offered: Every Fall

Stephen King argues that to write well, one must first “read a lot.” This course and its requirements are divided roughly into two halves: reading exemplary works of fiction in order to learn the tools of the fiction writer’s craft and writing and revising original work in a workshop setting, where the work is discussed around a table with one’s peers. Core: EC.

Course Offered: Every Spring

The first half of this course will be spent in studying exemplary works of creative nonfiction. In the second half of the course, emphasis will be placed on writing and revising original work in a workshop setting. Core: EC.

Course Offered: Every Fall

This course begins with an exploration of the various formal approaches the poet can take in creative composition. Students will be required to write in several different forms as a way of experimenting with the discipline of line and meter, ultimately compiling a small portfolio (3-5 poems) of revised, polished work. Core: EC.

Course Offered: Every Spring

This course focus on producing works of literary nonfiction and poetry that explore depictions of and ideas about the natural world. The emphasis of the course will be on writing and revising original work in a workshop setting. Core: EC.

Course Offered: Every Fall

Elements of expository and persuasive essay writing; research techniques; revising prose for accuracy, precision and effective style. By placement. Core: EC.

Course Offered: Every Fall, Every Spring