40 courses with the subject ENGL, 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.
ENGL 1103Introduction to Academic Writing4
This course is dedicated to providing students with the writing and research skills necessary for academic success. Drawing on a variety of texts and media, students engage rhetorical strategies designed to place them firmly within the intellectual discourse. Additionally, theme-based writing assignments focus on sharpening students’ ability to organize, synthesize and interpret data, assess and make persuasive arguments while practicing advanced research strategies. Through peer edit and workshop revision, students come to see writing as both process and empowerment. Students should expect to write a minimum of three or four longer (3- to 5-page) essays as well as several shorter assignments. Fall and spring semesters.
History and literature question and illuminate one another as the imagined world of the political novel is read against, and as part of, historical events. How do such works as The Heart of a Dog, The Victory, or Nervous Conditions present politics and society? How, in reading them, do we gain a greater understanding of power relations and human relations in times of crisis and stasis? Works will be placed in context and then discussed in terms of perspective, ideology, style and impact. When last offered, the theme of the course was Jewish history through fiction; upcoming themes include ancient and early modern history through fiction, imperialism and colonialism in fiction, and history through detective and mystery stories. Spring semester, odd years.
This course explores selected types of writing often associated with the term “literary non-fiction,” giving students the opportunity for active reading as well as frequent practice in composing and revision. Conducted in the workshop format, this course will provide students the opportunity to learn editing skills through the evaluation of their peers’ writing. Students will work in the genres of the personal essay, the memoir, and the experimental form, and will be introduced to the publishing world through introduction to literary venues and forums for their work. Fall semester. 4 credits
An overview of the craft of fiction writing and the creative process, study will focus on story- telling structure, use of narrative and scene, the importance of conflict, sensory details, the revelation of character through dialogue and action, and the paramount importance of point-of-view to literary technique. Students will read and discuss published short fiction, write assigned exercises and read/hear the completed manuscripts of class members. Fall and Spring semester.
This course is a theme-based course in which students study literature that comes from, out of or relates to highly politicized “hot spot” borders between “regions,” encouraging students to think about borders and border crossing, national identities and transnationalism. Students will discover literature as a vehicle for cross- cultural inquiry, as a mode of empathetic engagement, and as an ethical mode of discovery. The course will highlight borders between the U.S. and Mexico, Palestine and Israel, India and Pakistan, Tibet and China, and Haiti and Dominican Republic. Students will study a mixture of novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction writing and will be introduced to major themes in transnational literary studies. Fall semester, even years.
This course explores the construction of masculinities in post-World War II American literature and film, concentrating on whether masculinity is conceived as natural and immutable or is culturally or historically determined. We will examine how versions of masculinity relate to cultural developments such as feminism, the “crisis in masculinity,” and drag culture. We will also explore the connections between sex, gender, sexuality,
Focusing on“the Age of Satire” in England, this course will present works by Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Delarivier Manley, Oliver Goldsmith, and Jane Collier as a context through which this aggressive literary mode emerges as a powerful cultural force. Fall semester, even years. 4 credits ENGL1502; and one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor permission.
and Young Adults This course provides a historical and critical survey of major writers and illustrators in children’s and young adult literature and explores the distinguishing characteristics of literature written for children. Students will read a range of traditional and contemporary literature and explore major authors and illustrators and a variety of genres. Through reading, discussion, in-class writing exercises, written assignments, and a research paper, students will become informed and analytical readers of literature written and illustrated for children and adolescents. Fall and spring semesters.
A requirement for Writing, Editing and Publishing majors, this course will be taught in the format of a writing workshop, with the goal of extending and refining the skills of non-fiction writing that students were introduced to in ENGL2504 Prose Writing. Spring semester. 4 credits ENGL2504 or by permission of the instructor
The course introduces students to the history of film and to “classical” and contemporary approaches to theorizing film. At the same time that students learn about cinema as an artistic form, they learn to think and write critically about its cultural relevance. Students read key theoretical texts, study nine films, and learn to analyze them using various theoretical approaches, including ideological criticism, psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. Possible films include Citizen Kane (1941), Strike (1925), It’s a Wonderful Lif (1946), Rear Window (1954), Fatal Attraction (1987), The Color Purple (1985), Paris Is Burning (1990), and Slacker (1991). Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits ENGL1502 and one 2000-level English or Communication course or instructor permission American Studies students: Junior status and instructor’s permission ENGL3991/ENGL3992 Special Topics
Students will extend and refine the skills of writing, revision, and editing developed in ENGL2504 Prose Writing and ENGL3504 Advanced Prose Writing, as well as engage directly with the publishing process by submitting their best work for consideration by journals, magazines, anthologies, and contests, with the ultimate goal of publication. Spring semester. 4 credits permission.
Under the guidance of a faculty member, students select, read, and research a particular literary, writing, or media-related topic. Offered as needed. 4 credits proposal approval and senior status. ENGL4991/ENGL4992 Independent Study e This course is limited to seniors whose proposal for Distinction in the Field has been accepted by the department. Under the guidance of a member of the English faculty, students complete a 40-page research paper which is the sole requirement for Distinction in the Field of English graduation honors. Offered as needed. 2 credits proposal approval and senior status.
Two 3000-level ENGL courses, Two 3000-level ENGL courses,
ENGL 4999English Senior Seminar
Students will examine how different texts (e.g., popular and classic literature, movies, television, etc.) present and shape a variety of issues such as gender, race and class throughout all levels of culture. Specific topics and texts will be determined by the instructor, but will include theoretical and critical material as well as primary sources. “Texts” could be all of one kind or a combination of different media, also to be determined by the instructor. Active student participation and a major research project are required. Spring semester. 4 credits instructor permission for
