47 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.
Designed to help improve proficiency in English composition. Involves frequent writing, practicing strategies for gathering ideas, drafting, revising and editing, and reading/studying writing and writing methods.
A course emphasizing the production of academic writing through critical analysis of challenging texts. Topics may be drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines. Stress on writing to enhance learning, finding and evaluating information, practicing academic integrity, negotiating the process of revision, and using correct grammar and syntax.
Strategies for reading and writing about literature (poetry, drama, fiction, literary essays). Emphasis on understanding and interpreting primary texts, rather than reading criticism. Intensive attention to writing, including the development and organization of interpretive essays, as well as the use and evaluation of sources.
Introduction to the art of acting. Through lecture and practice in acting assignments in class, students gain understanding of the actor's role in theater.
Continuation of Acting I.
Introductory survey of drama for majors and non-majors.
Explores a range of literary representations of work, labor relations, business ethics, and developments in corporate culture. Emphasizes the different power relations between workers, managers, and consumers. Focuses on the analysis of literature—fiction and non-fiction—and film chosen from different historical periods and traditions. Open for majors and non-majors.
Explores a range of literary representations of legal institutions, the impact of significant legislation, and relationships between individuals and the law. Considers the multiple interpretations of law and legal authority. Focuses on the analysis of literature—fiction and non-fiction—and film chosen from different historical periods and traditions. Open for majors and non-majors.
Surveys a range of Western cultural literary representations of health and disease, emphasizing the different power positions occupied by patient, caretaker, and doctor. Open to majors and non-majors.
Focuses on the convergence of the disciplines of literature and psychology, especially the ways in which psychology has drawn on literary genres, techniques and motifs. Open to majors and non-majors.
Representations of women as major characters in literature and film.
Explores the concept of the journey in international literature from a number of cultural and intellectual perspectives.
Explores the concept of the journey in American Literature to examine the multi-cultural character of the United States.
Using various genres of young adult literature, students will develop an informed awareness of issues of social justice across multiple forms of diversity that fosters a global perspective. Through young adult literature, students will explore and interpret diversity and the social realities of groups with diverse identities. The young adult literature will enhance student appreciation for diverse and complex cultures, perspectives, and experiences. Students will also examine various theoretical stances related to equity, linguistic diversity, social justice, and societal transformation.
The theme of the quest focuses this survey of medieval literature which includes texts from Anglo-Saxon poetry, the French Lais, and the Arthurian legends. The class also considers how these Medieval texts have been adapted in contemporary film and the stage.
This advanced writing-intensive course enables students to explore and evaluate representations of animals, as well as how those representations signify human uses and understandings of animals, in a range of literary texts and films.
Workshop in the fundamentals of poetry and fiction writing, focusing on the close study and discussion of both student manuscripts and professional texts.
Introduction to the essentials of literary analysis and interpretation. Focusing on the rigorous analysis of poetry, prose narrative and drama chosen from different historical periods, the course will stress writing with critical awareness about literature.
A survey of poetry, prose, and drama in the vibrant English Renaissance.
A survey of the poetry and prose of major British authors in the "long" eighteenth century.
A survey of representative figures and genres in early twentieth-century British and American literature
Studies the formation of a national literature from origins to 1900 through a diversity of American writers. (Diversity).
The course looks at a prolific period in American Literature from 1820-1865 examining romanticism, sentimentality, the slave narrative and periodical literature.
The study of a particular theme, mode or period, such as "Captivity Narratives" and "The Rise of the American Novel." Topics vary semester to semester.
The course follows the origins of the American novel in the post-Revolutionary period to its height at the end of the 19th century.
Introductory survey for majors. Plays drawn from the categories of comedy, tragedy and history.
Works selected with emphasis on specific themes, structures, or styles. Shakespeare I is not a prerequisite.
Combines the study and the practice of the genre, reading and writing. Students study young adult novels in order to gain a sense of the variety of approaches and techniques available to a writer of YA fiction and, in a workshop setting, students propose, draft, revise, and edit YA stories of their own.
Up close and personal experience in theater production through attendance at professional plays in the city, and hands-on experience in reading and producing short works in the classroom.
A survey of contemporary Native American literature, covering major and lesser-known authors. The course traces the origins of traditions, both thematic and structural.
Study of recently published novels and short stories, exploring the formal and thematic range of new fiction and focusing on the contemporary issues it reflects.
This course will examine the English Gothic novel. Gothic novels emphasize the horrible, the supernatural, the sublime, and the fantastic, finding their inspiration in the mystery of the unknown. Knowledge and mystery, good and evil, the beautiful and the sublime, light and dark, all are opposing forces that characterize the human condition in the Gothic novel, which often dramatizes psychological, social, and sexual conflict. We will begin with Walpole and wend our way through the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic tradition and discuss how the Gothic transforms, adapting its political and social critique and incorporating developing understandings of human psychology.
Studies the novels along with literary criticism and other eighteenth century texts in order to understand Austen and her time.
An exploration, through readings in literature, history, and film, of trauma and optimism following the end of World II in the United States, both the construction of a conformist culture and the emergence of counterculture meant to contest it.
Post World War II literature from areas of the globe that have recently emerged from European colonization; may include literature and film from Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, the Caribbean, or Ireland.
Intensive practice writing a sustained academic argument, including developing a topic, defining a purpose, conducting research, synthesizing sources and drafting an essay.
A practicum combining the study of the history of the literary magazine in America with the practical work of editing The Quadrangle, the Canisius College literary magazine.
Practice in writing letters, memos and reports, with models and strategies offered for each form.
A theoretical and practical introduction to the methods and strategies of tutoring in a writing center.
Workshop for experienced writers in fiction.
Workshop for experienced writers in poetry.
Workshop for experienced writers in memoir.
English Honors seminars are designed by faculty around especially engaging questions, topics, and texts. Some are interdisciplinary; some involve both critical and creative writing; others are organized around a particular period, theme, critical approach, or major writer. Majors do not need to be in the English Honors Program to take this course.
Focus on preparation of a portfolio of polished work, creation of an artistic statement, submission of professional work, and career opportunities for writers.
The honors thesis is a long paper, written on a topic of the student's choosing under the direction of a faculty mentor, the culmination of a semester's reading, researching, and writing.
Internships are by application only and must be approved by the associate dean.
Offers the opportunity to conduct a program of independent readings and/ or research on a topic of the student's choice under the supervision of a member of the English Department. Independent studies require an application and approval by the associate dean.
Source: Canisius University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
