23 courses with the subject ENG, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ENG 1200Introduction to Academic Writing3
Introduction to Academic Writing develops fluency and confidence in student writing through activities such as brainstorming, drafting, revising, and proofreading. Instruction is also provided on grammar, punctuation, mechanics and other fundamentals of academic writing. Enrollment in ENG1200 is determined by performance on a placement test. Students who take ENG1200 may not take ENG1201 for credit. PREREQUISITE: None
English Composition is a writing-intensive course that prepares students for all levels of academic discourse. Emphasis is placed on the art of persuasion, on the development of students' critical thinking skills and on key rhetorical concepts such as audience, purpose and voice. Students learn the various steps to the writing process, from brainstorming to final revision and learn the importance of writing coherent, unified and organized essays that are fundamentally and mechanically sound. Though primarily a writing course, this course also helps students see the connection between reading and writing. Students will also practice reading critically and evaluating sources in order to develop a framework for identifying cultural biases and cultivating a worldview that accounts for multiple perspectives, cultures, and experiences. In addition, students learn the art of academic research and documentation in MLA and APA style. ENG1201 is determined by performance on a placement test or by satisfactory completion of ENG1100. Students who take ENG1201 may not take ENG1200 for credit. PREREQUISITE: None
ENG1202 is an advanced writing course and is designed to extend reading and writing skills developed in English 1201. Emphasis is placed on critical and analytical writing and the analysis and interpretation of texts. Some sections of ENG1202 offer a curriculum that explores a theme in literature. Students are exposed to a variety of authors from fields across the curriculum. They write essays in response to what they read by formulating and defending a thesis, by synthesizing sources and by evaluating information and ideas from multiple perspectives. Students will also practice reading critically and evaluating sources in order to develop a framework for identifying cultural biases and cultivating a worldview that accounts for multiple perspectives, cultures, and experiences. In addition, students learn the art of academic research and documentation in MLA and APA style. PREREQUISITE: ENG1200 or ENG1201
This course provides practice in the construction of speeches, analysis of appeals to various audiences and development of the speaking voice. It is a practical course offered to fit the needs of students in all fields. In cases of over-enrollment, seniors will be given preference.
This course offers a survey of notable works of drama, fiction, and poetry from various cultures around the world from the fifth century BCE to the late sixteenth century. This course will use literature as a vehicle for both interrogating imperial power and contextualizing the formation of national literatures in a number of different historical contexts, ranging from ancient Greece, China, India, Rome, medieval Japan and Europe, and early modern Europe. Selected texts may include The Odyssey, Oedipus Rex, Lysistrata, The Bhagavad- Gita, Daodejing, The Metamorphoses, The Aeneid, The Thousand and One Nights, Beowulf, The Inferno, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, The Tail of Genji, The Lusiads, and The Tempest. PREREQUISITE: ENG1202 or ENG1602
This course offers a survey of notable works of drama, fiction, and poetry from various cultures around the world from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. This course will use literature as a vehicle for both interrogating imperial power and contextualizing the formation of national literatures in a number of different historical contexts, ranging from early modern Europe before and after the Enlightenment, the Antebellum US, and pre- and post- colonial periods from Africa, South-East Asia, and Central and South America. Selected authors may include Shakespeare, Behn, Moliere, Swift, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Ibsen, Joyce, Kafka, Marquez, Walcott, Rushdie, Melville, Wright, Morrison, Kincaid, Achebe, Diaz, and Gordimer. PREREQUISITE: ENG1202 or ENG1602
This course provides a one-semester overview of American literature from the colonial period to the present. Authors studied may include Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Douglass, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Frost, Hemingway, Faulkner, O'Neil and Williams.
ENG1202 or ENG1602 or permission of the instructor.
ENG 2510Survey of British Literature3
This course provides a one-term overview of British literature from the medieval period to the twentieth century. Authors may include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Auden, Yeats and others. PREREQUISITE: ENG1202 or ENG1602.
This course will explore African American literature through the lens of our current political climate in the US. We will explore a range of texts, themes, and questions in our class 229
This course explores the modern short story, from its origins in the early nineteenth century to its current form, through reading a wide variety of short fiction. We will focus on the history of the short narrative – how it reflects social and cultural movements – and how this form serves as a mode for personal expression and identity. A wide variety of authors include Twain, Carver, Poe, Chopin, London, Hemingway, Oates, Updike, Angelou, Walker and others. Students will study short fiction and compose 2-3 short stories over the course of the semester.
A series of courses that concentrate on a single significant topic in literature. Representative topics include Cannibal Fictions, The Vampire in Literature, Folklore and Film, The Gothic Imagination, Cli-Fi, Immigration Narratives, Drugs and Literature, Detective Fiction, Gender and Sexuality in Literature. PREREQUISITE: ENG1202 or ENG1602
This course will give students the opportunity to practice writing and revising in a variety of poetic forms. Students will study poetry from a diverse array of authors from across the globe. This course will investigate poetry for its historical and political investments, and students will end the semester with a portfolio or chapbook of polished poems. Poetic forms may include sonnets, wreaths, haikus, villanelles, limericks, odes, dirges, epithalaia, and free verse. Authors may include Shakespeare, Petrarch, Sidney, Donne, Whitman, Dickinson, Keats, Yeats, Thomas, Neruda, Stevens Bishop, Hughes, Walcott, Auden, Akhmatova, Sexton, Plath, Ginsberg, Hopkins, St. Vincent Millay, cummings, Coleridge, Tennyson, and Vuong. PREREQUISITE: ENG2325 230
ENG 3370Creative Writing IV: Creative Non-Fiction3
Exploring one of the most popular genres in the literary and publishing community, creative non-fiction gives students the opportunity to practice crafting personal narratives in different genres of non-fiction, which may include memoir, braided essays, travel writing, lyric essays or even literary journalism. Students will study different approaches from published authors and learn to shape their writing to a variety of audiences. Students will take their essays through the steps of research, peer-review and revision. PREREQUISITE: ENG2325
ENG 3400Major Authors in American Literature, 1492-18653
This course is a historical survey of American literature and its relation to American culture from its beginnings in 1492 through the Civil War. Authors studied may include Bradford, Bradstreet, Edwards, Franklin, Jefferson, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Douglass, Melville, Whitman and Dickinson. PREREQUISITE: ENG1202 or ENG1602
This course will offer a survey of Anglophone literature written by women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The course will attend to themes of feminism, mental health, gender fluidity, sexual liberation, and patriarchal oppression in a historical, cultural, and political context. How have narratives written by women informed political movements such as American suffrage or, more recently, the #metoo and #timesup campaigns? This course will introduce students to a variety of narratives written by women and explore experiences and identities of women authors and protagonists as multitudinous, changing, and intersectional. Authors may include Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys, Nadine Gordimer, and Edwidge Danticat. PREREQUISITE: ENG1202 or ENG1602
This course is designed to acquaint students with quality children’s literature, both for their own pleasure and for their standards in working with their own children or students outside of class. Enduring masterpieces of children’s literature as well as contemporary works will be included. PREREQUISITE: ENG1202 or ENG 1601, ENG1602
This course surveys works by such environmental writers as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Al Gore, William Cronon and Bill McKibben. PREREQUISITE: ENG1202 or ENG1602 or permission of the instructor
This course explores a selection of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances from an early modern historical and cultural standpoint. This course also brings Shakespeare into the twenty-first century by applying post-colonial and other theoretical frameworks to Shakespeare's works. What do plays like Othello and Titus Andronicus have to teach us about racism in a post-Trump America? How do Shakespeare’s comedies negotiate gender identity in 231
Students will complete a portfolio of creative writing for their capstone project that may consist of a combination of short fiction, a poetry chapbook, a feature-length screenplay, or play. Students will work closely with their English advisor to produce a substantial final project. Students will also be required to share their work with a wider audience, either through publication or performance. This course should be taken in the student’s final year and should be taken after all of the other courses for the minor are completed. PREREQUISTES: ENG2325, ENG 3290, ENG3340, ENG3370, COM3260
