13 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.
Prepares students for fundamental competence in the analysis and written communication of ideas encountered in undergraduate writing tasks, correct usage, and persuasive order of presentation are some of the conventions of strong, consecutive prose that will be stressed. Course includes reading of exemplary essays.
Writing I is a course designed specifically for the FASP student. In it, students will gain the skills necessary to fully express themselves, with clarity, nuance, and style. Special attention will be paid to the mechanics of writing as students compose sentences, paragraphs, and essays with grammatical accuracy and structural variety
Being able to critically evaluate ideas and to produce strong arguments to defend one's own ideas is a central competence for every student. This course will provide the basis for being able to analyze the structure and contents of oral and written arguments. Students will work on several texts and videos during class and at home, and learn to identify common mistakes in argumentation and to produce valid arguments for their own ideas. 55
A continuation of English Composition I. Training in critical reading and writing. Critiques, oral presentations, and based on assigned readings in the major literary genres.
Key works exploring how the artistic imagination depicts human conflict and conceptualizes ways of framing critical questions about the social problems of the day. Topics may include: Utopias and Dystopias; The Idea of the Foreign; Gothic Subtexts, The Politics of Gender, among others. Science fiction, essays, fantasy literature, and other genres will be included.
This course is designed to familiarize students with the thought, sensibility, and vision of the world that is reflected in the works of selected American authors of the past. Through the study of literature, students gain a perspective and a deeper understanding of the United States’ social history, culture, and the development of its multicultural voices that have become part of its national identity. The class explores works by many authors including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allen Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, and Zora Neale Hurston.
All works are chosen from the major Russian writers, and represent approximately one hundred years of authorship, from mid‐nineteenth century to mid‐twentieth century. In some semesters recent writers may also be included. This course aims to introduce students to influential ideological and aesthetic trends in Russia’s literary tradition against a background of a culture in dramatic transition 56
This course explores the genre of the bildungsroman, the coming‐of‐age novel, in a variety of cultural, social, and historical contexts. Assigned readings will focus primarily on novels, but will also include short stories and poetry. The class will study works written by Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Sue Monk Kidd, Sylvia Plath, Khaled Hosseini, and Edwidge Danticat.
A comparative cultural studies approach to some major texts of world literature in the twentieth century centering on literary works that present the interaction among different cultures. It begins with works from the colonial period at the beginning of the century, moves on to the literature of WWI, WWII, and Vietnam, and then to post- colonialism, concluding with the emerging globalism at the end of the century. The course also includes a genre approach to literature, using major texts to introduce students to literary types.
A study of several of the major plays spanning the early, middle, and late periods of Shakespeare’s career. 57
Great Books will familiarize students with a selection of masterpieces in literature. One semester's course may focus on the works of a single author, such as Dostoevsky viewed in the context of his faith and culture, while another course in the series may focus on a topic such as Literature and the law, or another will explore the heroic journey in such diverse works as Gilgamesh, The Divine Comedy, and, in the twentieth century, Eliot's Four Quartets, among others
For students preparing to advance social change in their professions. Readings will include the chronicles of social activists and authors such as Jane Addams, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O’Connor, among others. The subject stressed in the works in the connection between the idea of community and call of service.
This course explores some of the fundamental issues that arise in philosophical discussions of mortality and ethics. In this course we utilize philosophy and literature to deepen students’ understanding of ethics. Great literature often delves into ethical issues and awakens our minds and hearts to new possibilities; it also encourages readers to understand the moral life in unique ways. In class we explore ethical questions related to topics such as the purpose of morality, the nature of good and evil, the meaning of life, moral relativism, deontological ethics, and the importance of freedom, autonomy and respect.
Source: Hellenic College-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
