27 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.
Through a variety of writing assignments, students develop effective writing processes, gain critical reading skills, represent and respond to others' ideas, reflect on their writing growth, and generate polished, reader-based prose. Students who take ENGL 100 must also take ENGL 101 to fulfill the General Education requirement for college writing.
This course helps students develop flexibile writing processes, increase rhetorical awareness, acquire critical reading skills to support their writing, implement effective reserach techniques, represent others' ideas in multiple ways, reflect on their writing development, and polish their work. Students who take ENGL 101 must also have already taken ENGL 100 to fulfill the General Education requirement for college writing. Prerequisites: ENGL100 and consent of instructor. BLC 2026-2027 Academic Catalog 117
Students obtain practical experience working as part of a literary magazine staff. Staff duties range from editing and designing magazine layout to organizing literary activities and maintaining a digital presence. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Students learn strategies that promote critical, creative, and collaborative drafting, and practice college level writing in narrative, critical, and persuasive forms. Students produce a portfolio of several essays, including a research paper.
Note: ENGL200 Literary Analysis is not waived for English majors who transfer in an equivalent course.
Students study a selection of major European authors from the late 18th century to the present day.
or ENGL230 Introduction to Contemporary Literature
This course introduces literary terminology commonly used in analyzing fiction. Western literature selections span ancient through modern times. Genres include short stories, fables. legends, epics, and drama.
or ENGL213 Creative Writing
Through regular writing to generate ideas and practice techniques, students fathom the creative process as they are led from exploring personal experience to transforming such experience into artful fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Literature Elective 3 cr.
Building on skills acquired in ENGL102, this course provides students with advanced work on the literary magazine. Previous credits in ENGL102 are strongly preferred. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Students examine and practice the craft and technique of textual production. Technical elements of narrative and story, such as style, voice, story arc, character development, dialogue, image, plotting, and tone are studied and practiced. Traditional literary genres as well as texts in visual, electronic, and new media are included.
Focusing on both the history of the English language and its structure and form, this course emphasizes grammar, phonology, syntax, and semantics. Students also examine prescriptive and descriptive linguistics, with an emphasis on the history and use of The Oxford English Dictionary.
Students study William Shakespeare’s dramatic and poetic works in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean cultures, as well as their literary origins. This course includes an examination of Shakespearean scholarship and Shakespeare’s influence on later authors.
BLC 2026-2027 Academic Catalog 118
Students study selected British authors from the Renaissance through the Victorian periods, with emphasis placed on the historical, intellectual, and social influences on authors across generations. Genres include drama, poetry, and novels, with particular attention to the development of the English novel.
Students study a selection of African-American authors from the 18th century to the present day.
Students study a selection of American literature through one or more thematic lenses, such as freedom and constraint, literary innovation, identity and nationhood, and spiritual inquiry.
This course introduces students to major questions and approaches in literary and rhetorical theory by treating theory as an active practice rather than an abstract body of ideas. Students examine how texts are made, how meaning is produced and contested, and how language shapes experience, identity, and culture. Through close reading, discussion, and sustained writing, the course explores debates about authorship, interpretation, representation, value, and responsibility—along with their relevance to contemporary media, digital culture, and AI-mediated communication. Emphasis is placed on applying theoretical perspectives to a range of texts.
Students survey Christian writers from the 2nd century through the 20th century. Authors include Augustine of Hippo, Bede, Martin Luther, John Donne, John Milton, John Bunyan, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis. Genres include nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama.
Topics vary and typically provide students with an investigation of specific literary themes, movements, authors, styles, or genres, thereby allowing students to experience depth in a specialized area of literature. Students may take this course twice with different content.
In ENGL493, the first semester of a year-long senior capstone course in English, students review writing, documentation, and research conventions specific to analyses and creations of texts; identify broad topics for their senior theses; and consider their developing projects and interests in relation to the discipline of English (textual studies). Prerequisites: ENGL200 and either ENGL210 or ENGL213. The completion of ENGL320 and ENGL350 prior to enrollment in senior seminar is strongly recommended.
Students who qualify for an English internship actively participate in an individualized field experience relevant to the English major. A proposal is made by a student on an Internship Program Learning Contract, which requires the approval of the student’s faculty advisor and the site supervisor. The student’s goals and outcomes are assessed by both the site supervisor and the student’s advisor, for a letter grade. Prerequisite: Only juniors and seniors majoring in English and in good standing are eligible for the internship, by permission only.
Source: Bethany Lutheran College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
