ENG 103Freshman Composition Freshman Year
- Subject
- ENG
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- annamaria.edu
Anna Maria College · Courses
ENG
26 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 201Creative Writing
- Subject
- ENG
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 206Irish Literature3
Explores various themes in Irish literature from ancient times to the present century. Such themes will include nature, mythology, religion, oppression and conflict and family unity.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 210Short Fiction3
This writing course explores the art of creating short narratives, using both classic and contemporary examples to understand the progression of the form through cultural and political changes, as well as to appreciate the craft of storytelling with concision. Writers such as Chekhov and Munro will represent the “typical” short story form, but students will also have an opportunity to read and write other forms, such as flash fiction, fairy tales, graphic fiction, and commercials.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 212Memoir Writing3
In this creative nonfiction course, students will write stories based on their life experiences. This course teaches students how to structure their stories, develop storytelling skills, and learn new techniques to adapt their own life stories into a chronological memoir. This course introduces students to the study and writing of nonfiction prose, with emphasis on studying the elements of nonfiction prose and practice in the craft of writing.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 215Poetry Writing3
2 Such as WRI 307: Writing for the Professions, WRI 311: Persuasive Professional Communication, etc. 137
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 217The Detective in Fiction3
Studies the detective in English and American fiction from his birth in the stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through his (or her) evolution in the works of such writers as G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Dashiell Hammett and/or Agatha Christie. The course concludes with an examination of the contemporary detective fiction of writers like Elmore Leonard, P. D. James, Barbara Vine, and/or Sherman Alexie.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 218Dystopia in Literature3
Dystopian fiction often imagines bleak, post-apocalyptic futures that are controlled by totalitarian regimes, subjugated by technology run amok, devastated by environmental disaster, or blighted by plague and/or all manners of contagion. While these are set in the future, they are exaggerations (maybe even predictions) of the problems in our contemporary world. This course will look at the development of dystopian fiction and how authors and movie makers use these dystopias to comment on our own world.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 220The Hero Then and Now3
Emphasizes song and tale, fable, epic and tragedy. Discussion of the evolution of narrative and verse forms, and oral (story-teller/poet) techniques, and the power of image and symbol. Topics occur in the context of a survey of the classical Greek, Hebrew and North American experience. Study will include reference to other cultures and ideas from theorists such as Freud, Jung, Hamilton, Graves, and Campbell
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 222Gothic Literature and its Influences3
Examines the changing conventions within gothic literature. Forms include prose, verse, and film. Looks at the influences of history, art and architecture in the development of the genre. Historical focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as the contemporary period. Literary theories may include psychoanalytic theory and feminism.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 230American Dreams and Nightmares3
Examines key moments in the making and remaking of the national identity of the United States, from the Puritans to the American Renaissance, from the Harlem Renaissance to multiculturalism. Literary forms may include verse, prose, and film. Genres may include the jeremiad, epic, pastoral, and satire. Literary theories may include historicism, Marxism, new historicism, and cultural studies.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 233British Literature3
Examines the development of literature in Britain from the Renaissance to the 20th century. The course looks at various movements and genres that are prominent in British literature. Students will be exposed to major writers in the British tradition, such as Milton, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, 138
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 240Women’s Lives, Women’s Literature3
This course examines literature written by women around the world and examines how their experience as women informs their writing. In addition, the course will present writings by feminist critics to show how theories about women’s places in the world can help readers to understand the impact of the world in the writing of women.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 241Race and Ethnicity in American Literature3
Examines American literature by writers of various races and ethnicities using Cultural Studies/Multiculturalism (theories of race, racism, and nationalism as well as sociological theories of identity and group behavior and how these theories influence writers). Literary forms may include verse, prose, and film. Genres may include comedy, tragedy, and satire. Historical periods may include European colonization, the Jim Crow era, the civil rights movement, and today.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 242Psychological Study of Literature3
Explores how psychology has been used to examine both characters in literature and authors of literature. Students study how critics have used psychology to come to a better understanding of literature drawing upon such theories as those of Freud, Jung, Lacan and others. Furthermore, the course looks at the psychological impacts of literature on the reader- why we react the way we do to works of literature. The course will cover fiction, drama, poetry as well as comedy, tragedy and other genres.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 307Authentic Writing for Professional Communication
Four electives in the field of writing. English, and Media Studies offer writing courses; courses outside of Humanities may be included at the discretion of Humanities faculty.
- Subject
- ENG
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 320Robin Hood and the Medieval Outlaw Tradition
This course will look at literature from Anglo-Saxon time through the 15th century that focuses on Robin Hood and other Noble Thieves. The course will examine how the nature of the character changed over the years to reflect the changing values of the culture as well as what the cultures viewed as justice. It will look at Middle and Early Modern texts in the original language, but will also examine Anglo-Saxon and continental texts in translation.
- Subject
- ENG
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 321King Arthur in Medieval Literature
This course will look at literature from Anglo-Saxon time through the 15th century that focuses on King Arthur. The course will examine how the nature of the character changed over the years to reflect the changing values of the culture. It will look at Middle and Early Modern texts in the original language (i.e. Chaucer/Malory) but will also examine Anglo-Saxon, Welsh and French texts in translation.
- Subject
- ENG
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 330331 The Works and World of William Shakespeare3
Explores the drama and poetry of William Shakespeare from different periods of his life, as well as the context in which these works were composed and received. Includes contemporary criticism of Shakespeare’s works. ENG 330 covers tragedy and history, and ENG 331 covers comedy and romance. Literary theories may include historicism, new historicism and biographical criticism. Prerequisite: or instructor permission. 139
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 341Post Colonial Global Literature3
This course examines poetry and prose written by and about colonial and postcolonial people. Post colonialism includes colonialism and imperialism, individual struggles for decolonialization, post-WWII exile, migration, and diaspora. It discusses the impact of colonialization during and after the imperial period. This course fulfills the global literature requirement of the English major and the Societies of the World requirement of the core.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 350Banned Books3
Examines and attempts to understand the historical and current conflict between “free speech” and cultural standards. Students analyze texts which have been at the center of public controversy and censorship conflict using standard techniques of literary analysis and research issues raised by the opposing sides in the debate concerning the text. Students become familiar with the First Amendment, court cases and decisions, and the volatility of public concern over “community standards” as part of the class discussion and research. Prerequisite: One English course or permission of instructor.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 355Literature of the Holocaust3
Examines the literature produced by those directly affected by the Holocaust. Looks at how the Holocaust affected its victims, both long and short term, and how these effects are shown in prose, poetry, and film. Discussion will center on common themes in the works, the progress from despair to hope, the possibility of forgiveness, and the impact such literature has on an audience who weren’t alive during the Holocaust.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 369Trauma in World Literature3
Trauma is a universal reaction to extremely stressful situations, but how culture affects an individual’s reaction to trauma varies greatly. World Literature provides a chance to explore how different cultures believe trauma should be dealt with, as well as seeing how some cultures can affect how the trauma of other cultures are treated. This course will explore the trauma of situations such as war, abuse, and natural disaster, and how the trauma is dealt with through literature.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 490Senior Seminar - Thesis in English3
Integrates literary study with the General Education. Students design and complete a seminar project that integrates their years of study of literature. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 496Guided Course in Literature3
Directed readings in an area of interest resulting in the production of a major paper. Permission of Associate Dean of Humanities required.
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
ENG 499Internship (variable credits)
An opportunity for the specially qualified English major to practice communication and analytic skills in the world of work. Prerequisite: Permission of Associate Dean of Humanities required. Practicum fee. 140
- Subject
- ENG
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-undergraduate
- Source
- annamaria.edu
Source: Anna Maria College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61