21 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 105College Writing
This introductory writing course is designed to build writing skills and to increase students’ enjoyment of writing through extensive practice. The course focuses on teaching students to discover and develop ideas they wish to communicate, and then on the numerous technical skills necessary to make communication effective and engaging. Students will develop their voices, their styles, and their mechanics through multiple writing projects and through a focus on revision. Readings will illustrate the styles and organizational patterns of effective student and professional writers. Students who take this course cannot also take ENGL 112 Analytical Writing. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
In this writing course, students will study and practice critical writing. As students read, write, and discuss such important cultural issues as technological developments, media’s impact on society, identity formation, and environmental concerns, they will develop their own perspectives. Students will learn the purposes, strategies, and conventions of academic writing, particularly analysis and argumentation, through critical reading, drafting, and collaboration. Students who take this course cannot also take ENGL 105 College Writing. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
An introduction to the study of literature, the course will look at fiction, poetry and drama in a seminar format. In a discussion- intensive, reading-intensive course, students will look at a variety of books, built around a theme or a way of thinking about literature. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
This course focuses on study of literature through examination of the work of people bound together by their ethnicity, culture, or identity. It will look at a single subject from year to year. Among the possible subjects are: Women’s Literature, African-American Literature, Hispanic Literature, Asian, African or Latin-American Literature. Students may take and receive credit for this course additional times when different subjects are offered. 3 Hours, 1 Semester Return to Table of Contents Nichols College 2026-2027 Catalog 133
ENGL 234World Literature I: Myths, Legends, Folklore I
Students will examine a range of classical and medieval myths, legends, and folklore that explore the relationship between individual identity and the wider society. Students will learn about the historical and cultural context in which these texts were composed, and how literature both reflects and challenges ideology. Students will be expected to analyze literature’s relevance and contributions in not only its own time period, but also to our culture today. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
This course looks at literature from before 1870 that focuses on a particular theme. Each semester will be different, but some themes could include the search for identity, good and evil, love and sex, crime, and more. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
Across the continents, themes like love, becoming an adult, and death are universal. Other topics are unique to just some countries and cultures. As globalization makes today’s world smaller and smaller, this course will look at contemporary world literature to explore the ideas that join us and those that still drive us apart. (We will read selected works from the 20th and 21st centuries.) 3 Hours, 1 Semester
Starting before the United States existed; this course looks at the written and oral literature that defined America, from the time only Native Americans lived here through the middle of the Nineteenth Century. We will read the stories of slaves and settlers, Native Americans and newcomers, revolutionaries and artists. Included will be such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
Muriel Rukeyser once wrote, “The universe is made of stories, not atoms.” Fiction Writing centers on making our own universes through the creation of story and on the discovery of the universe within each of us, the stories of which we are made. Through discussion and revision of their own work as well as the reading of published pieces, class members find their own voices, hone their skills, and release the energy of their own creative expression. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
Intensive practice in a variety of approaches to professional writing tasks: memoranda, correspondence, proposals, and both brief and longer reports. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
ENGL 327Plays & Playwrights: Introduction to Drama
From Greece in 300BC to Broadway today, playwrights have taken on the daunting task of creating a slice of human drama that can be performed in (usually) three hours or less. We will read and watch a variety of plays to see how writers have created characters, wars, heavens, hells, pasts, and futures – and brought them to life on a tiny stage in front of a live audience. From classic to cutting edge, the themes of heroism, pride, sex, love, war, and the range of human experience are brought to life in every scene. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
This course will focus on both writing and reading/analyzing poetry, with the end goal of becoming more capable and attuned poets. Through discussing and revising your own work, as well as reading published pieces, you will find your own voices, hone your skills, and release the energy of your own creative expression. Approximately half of our classes will be spent discussing the works of established poets, both new and old, and the other half of our classes will be spent discussing your own poems. The structure of this course focuses not only on writing poetry, but also on the revision and analysis of poetry. You will spend ample time revising your work because all writing, including poetry, is ten percent writing and 90 percent rewriting. Moreover, there will be an emphasis on the reading and analysis of published poems because reading is as important as writing when trying to create great poetry— especially because the language of poetry is so different than our everyday language. 3 Hours, 1 Semester Return to Table of Contents Nichols College 2026-2027 Catalog 134
Using the sports programs at Nichols as well as issues and events in the larger sports world, students will develop the writing skills of bona fide sports writers. The course will involve reporting on actual sports events, writing feature stories about athletes and their sports, and composing columns that combine good research with thoughtful opinion. Along the way, students will learn planning and interviewing skills and reinforce the foundations taught in their first-year writing courses. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
This is a writing workshop course in which students will explore their own experiences and ideas while learning how to effectively share those ideas with readers. The course will focus on writing experiences including autobiography, profiles of others, creative literary non- fiction, and pieces that relate to world events and the society and culture around us. In addition to extensive writing, students will read model essays. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
Designed for students interested in journalism and those who want to improve their written communication skills. Intensive hands-on work in various aspects of news writing combined with analysis of the influence of media’s role in the world. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
This course will explore the genre of science-fiction emphasizing both creative and analytical writing. Exploring the sci-fi genre in literature, film, TV, and music, we will discuss themes of time travel, parallel universes, and the outer limits of science and technology, among other things. We will read, view, and discuss sci-fi and other forms of the supernatural in order to critically explore the human condition. Through discussion and revision of your own work, you will find your own voices, hone your skills, and release the energy of your own creative expression. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
This course is offered on an occasional basis and addresses topics and themes of special interest not covered in the standard course offerings in English. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
Students will complete an internship in order to explore opportunities in publishing, journalism, marketing, communications, education, and a variety of other fields which welcome English majors’ skills. 3 Hours, 1 Semester
