70 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.
Practice in writing short compositions and review of English grammar. Required of, and open only to, students placed at Level 1 of the Writing Competency Program as preparation for Level 2. Does not count toward majors or minors in English. Offered Fall and Spring.
Practice in writing college-level expository and analytical (i.e., "argumentative") essays, as well as review of English grammar and mechanics, all of which prepares students for success in college-level writing. Students will have ample opportunity to practice the stages of writing: drafting, developing, revising and editing essays. Includes assigned readings and conferences with the instructor, as well as peer review of class colleagues' essays. Students write a minimum of fifteen finished pages of expository and analytical writing. Does not count toward majors or minors in English. Offered Fall and Spring.
Emphasis on the writing and particularly the revision of various short compositions in preparation for successful participation in a Level 3 (W) course. Open to Level 2B students and to transfer students who have taken composition elsewhere but have been placed at Level 1 or 2. Does not count toward major or minor in English.
Psychological, physical, and intellectual problems involved in speaking before an audience; classroom experience in various types of formal speaking; constructive criticism from the instructor and fellow students. Does not count toward majors or minors in English. Offered Fall and Spring.
Basic principles of leading meetings and conducting committees successfully. Techniques for stimulating lively exchange of ideas in small groups. Practice in the management and structuring of the various forms of discussion. Encourage thinking creatively and critically in small groups in social and work life.
Extensive practice in writing memos, letters and brief reports as solutions to communication problems encountered by managers. Study of the strategies of effective, tactful writing and the theory on which they are based. Covers writing within a business, organization or governmental agency as well as external communications with customers, clients or other firms or agencies. Limited to 20. Does not count toward the English major or toward the minor in literature. Offered yearly.
"Introduction to Technical Writing" offers an overview of the principles and practices of effective technical writing. "Technical writing" includes "instruction," "explanation," "summarization" and is characterized by brevity and precision of expression. Students will study and practice the genres of technical writing: for example, data summaries and clinical or scientific study reports; fellowship and research proposals; post-graduate application essays; memos; and instructional or explanatory manuals. Students will become versed in document design, audience analysis, and collaborative writing; they will also review APA formatting. This course will prepare students to communicate effectively, in print and electronic modes, within their professional disciplines.
Theory and practice of writing news stories, editorial opinion, feature articles and columns. Comparative study of current newspapers and news magazines. Introduction to copy editing, design, layout and production of news publications. Does not count toward the English major or toward the minor in literature. Offered yearly in the Fall.
A systematic, practical, and analytic study of the structure and function of words, phrases, and clauses in the English language with emphasis on the recognition of form and the analysis of function. This basic syntax course is designed for those students who wish to enrich their knowledge of and satisfy their curiosity about the English language through an in-depth study of authentic materials by authors from diverse backgrounds. It is recommended to English majors and minors, those planning to tutor at the Writing Center or student teach, and those serious about writing as a career.
The course will approach reading as a way to develop the imagination of the writer of both poetry and short fiction. Students will read widely in both genres, write poems and short stories in response to the readings, and participate in workshop discussions of their writing. The class will also consider relations between poetry and fiction, in terms of both their historical development and contemporary practice. Several short analytical essays on the assigned readings as well as the students' original poetry and fiction will be expected.
The course is designed to teach students ways to explore, interpret, and appreciate texts by reading closely, writing critical essays, and applying critical approaches deliberately. Required texts will include poetry, fiction, and drama, and class discussions will familiarize students with critical terms relevant to each genre. English majors must take this course within one semester of declaring their major.
An introductory survey of the myths and legends of the Greek and Roman gods and heroes most commonly encountered in the art, architecture, and literature of these two peoples. The vital place which these tales occupied in the fabric of the Greek and Roman societies will be emphasized.
Examines the sweep of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the works of Milton and his contemporaries. Emphasis will be on the characteristics of specific literary works and of the favored forms within an historical period, as well as the interactions between literature and culture during a historical period. Designed for English majors. Offered yearly. REQUIRED SURVEY FOR THE MAJOR.
Examines British literature from the Romantics through Contemporary literature. Emphasis will be on the characteristics of specific literary works and of the characteristic forms within an historical period, as well as the interactions between literature and culture during a historical period. Designed for English majors. Offered yearly. REQUIRED SURVEY FOR THE MAJOR.
An introductory course focusing on exploring the complex nature of gender and identity in the Middle Ages through a close examination of two figures found in a number of literary works and genres from the medieval period in Western Europe: the warrior and the poet. In the Middle Ages, both of these figures were more complex and contested than the modern stereotypes imply. Through close reading of a number of major works-including the Celtic epic The Tain, the Old English poem Beowulf, the Old French Lais of Marie de France, the Middle English lai Sir Orfeo, and the Icelandic saga Egil Skallagrimsson's Saga-students will explore some of the rich and complex cultural diversity of societies in the Middle Ages.
An introductory survey of one of the great literary traditions of the world, that of medieval Scandinavia and Iceland. The barbarian pagan invaders from the Scandinavian peninsula astonished and terrified the medieval Christian societies of the late 8th and 9th centuries, raiding and settling throughout Western Europe and beyond, from Nova Scotia to Byzantium. After their conversion to Christianity in the 10th and 11th centuries, however, the erstwhile Vikings performed a second astonishing feat: they created a body of vernacular literature that is virtually unparalleled in its imagination, breadth, and beauty. This course examines a small piece of this rich heritage through readings (in translation, of course) of examples of the major genres of Old Norse-Icelandic literature: eddic poetry, skaldic poetry, and saga. Recurrent themes and emphases will include the importance of revenge, the law, the varying roles of women, and the evolving influence of Christian ideology.
An introductory course focusing on novellas and short novels as forms of fiction that may be distinguished from their cousins, the novel and short story, by subject matter, style, and length. The course may include such authors as Leo Tolstoy, Italo Calvino, Katherine Anne Porter, William Maxwell, Stanley Elkin, George Saunders, Jane Smiley, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Andrea Barrett, and Laurie Colwin, among others. Students will engage in a series of close readings of the texts and will conclude the course with a larger research project.
A study of the narrative construction of black identity in major works in key African American literary forms: slave narratives, autobiographies, and fiction. Includes works by such writers as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison.
This class will focus on how to read, experience and develop an understanding of four of the great American poets of the twentieth century. We will strive to develop an understanding of the art of poetry and how poets create a working style. The course will also focus on developing critical reading and writing skills and on presentation skills, since each student will be expected on a regular basis to introduce specific poems for discussion. In recent years the course has studied poets such as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and John Ashbery. This course is normally offered during January Term.
A study of the films of Alfred Hitchcock, this course explores various aspects (cinematic, literary, psychological, and political) of the Hitchcockian metaphysic, with particular emphasis on his literary sources (including works by Poe, Mary Shelley, Stoker, Conrad, Buchan, and Du Maurier) and relationships with contemporaries such as Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, and Preston Sturges. Films include Blackmail, Sabotage, The Lady Vanishes, Rebecca, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Notorious, Rope, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho.
This course explores the dark and vivid world of the classic American novel and film noir-a complex, dangerous, romantic, corrupt, deceptive, ambiguous, and remarkably entertaining realm in which dreams and nightmares, hopes and fears, desire and dread, free will and fate are inextricably intertwined. Literary texts include novels by James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, Patricia Highsmith, and Jim Thompson and short stories by Hemingway, Hammett, and Chandler. Films include The Asphalt Jungle, The Big Sleep, Chinatown, Double Indemnity, Gilda, The Killers, The Killing, Kiss Me Deadly, The Lady From Shanghai, Laura, Out of the Past, Rear Window, Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train, Sunset Boulevard, The Third Man, Touch of Evil, Vertigo, The Wages of Fear, and White Heat.
This course examines the cultural anxieties embodied in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary works (imperialist novels and romances, utopian and dystopian fictions, fantasies, satires, allegories, poems, stories of adventure, science fiction, and horror) by authors such as Robert Browning, Thomas De Quincey, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Herman Melville, Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, and H. G. Wells.
This course offers an interdisciplinary engagement with various elements of the Utopian tradition, including its pessimistic alter ego, the dystopia. From the fundamental question of whether it is possible to imagine social forms radically different from our own, we will trace a series of ever widening circles through matters of human nature, money, technology, desire, authority, fear, and much else besides. Authors may include Thomas More, William Morris, Karl Marx, Yevgeny Zamyatin, George Orwell, Ursula LeGuin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Joanna Russ, and Margaret Atwood.
An exploration of the literary fantasy focusing on works by four of the central figures in the history of the genre: William Morris, H. G. Wells, E. R. Eddison, and J. R. R. Tolkien. More fundamentally, this course examines the literary fantasy as a response to some of the issues (industrialization, imperialism, technology, warfare, pollution, alienation, exploitation) that have tended to dominate modern life and culture.
A guided tour through the literary Gothic, a castle filled with chambers, crypts, and dungeons, each of them containing a frightful ghoul or spectre (psychological, antiquarian, cosmic, decadent) waiting to pounce upon the innocent and unsuspecting visitor. Readings include works by Horace Walpole, Matthew G. Lewis, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, J. S. Le Fanu, M. P. Shiel, Arthur Machen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. G. Wells, H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King.
A study of selected issues in British literature such as marginality, gender, sexuality, and colonialism, with emphasis on a text's relation to ideology and British culture. Topics may include "Imperial Nightmares" and "Unruly Women." May be repeated with different course content.
Traces the development of American literature from its roots in the 17th century to the 19th century flowering of the “American Renaissance,” with a primary emphasis on major works by authors such as Bradstreet, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Douglass, and Dickinson. Emphasis throughout is on the development of a distinctively American voice, sense of identity, and awareness of social complexity. Designed for English majors. Offered yearly. REQUIRED SURVEY FOR THE MAJOR.
English Internship
Training and practice in the teaching of writing. Students will serve as tutors in the Writing Center under supervision of the coordinator. Open to students of strong writing ability regardless of major. Consent of coordinator required early in term preceding enrollment. May be taken twice. Offered every term.
Based in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, the class will attend up to 12 productions offered by the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal National Theatre, West End theatres, and Fringe companies. Students will also visit theatres, museums, and historic sites and will talk with a number of British theatre professionals. There will also be time for students to explore the London area on their own. Offered alternate January Terms. Fee involved.
Using the basic skills of reporting and writing, students will progress to a more complex storytelling in individual and group projects. Types of news projects include participatory journalism, interpreting data, features, profiles and localizing U.S. and international news. Students will compile a portfolio of their work and design a resumé for use in future job searches. Does not count as a literature or creative writing course. Offered alternate Spring Terms.
Practice in writing a variety of kinds of non-fictional prose. Readings in the New Journalism, study of professional writing in such periodicals as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Does not count as a literature course.
Practice in the writing of fiction; exercises in theme and technique. Workshop and conference. Readings in the short story and the theory of fiction. Does not count as a literature course.
Practice in the writing of poetry; exercises in form. Readings in prosody, poetics, and contemporary poetry. Does not count as a literature course.
European plays from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the modern era will be studied either as part of a broad survey or as representative examples of a particular time or place. Shakespeare will not be included, and all plays will be in English.
European and American plays written after 1850 and before the last quarter of the 20th century will be studied. Genres and movements such as realism, expressionism, and the Theatre of the Absurd will be considered when reading plays by such writers as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Giraudoux, O'Neill, Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett, and Williams.
This class will cover some of the most important and exciting theatrical voices of the past fifty years, celebrating the possibilities of America and the American theater. Our studies will send us from coast to coast and in between, revealing American drama as diverse as the peoples that make this nation. Students will come to an understanding of why these living documents are important theatrically (artistically) and socio-historically (culturally).
This course explores some of Britain’s key dramatic works of the past fifty years, including works associated with (post-)colonialism. The students will come to an understanding of why these living documents are important theatrically (kitchen-sink realism, post-Brechtian, absurd, Angry Young Men, In Yer Face, farce, docudrama, state of the nation) and socio-historically (issues related to war, gender roles, sexuality, class, privilege, mental illness, race, religion, government, power, national identity, censorship, jingoism, among others).
A study of the evolution of this "novel" form of literary expression, from its emergence in England in the 18th century to its development as the paramount literary genre in the 19th. While focusing on the salient features of the genre, the course also will consider the historical and cultural influences that shaped the works of novelists such as Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Mary Shelley, Austen, the Brontës, and Dickens.
An exploration of the literature, language, and culture of the Old English period (c. 500-1100). An examination of the complex and multi-linguistic culture of England in the Anglo- Saxon period will be coupled with intensive study of Old English prose and poetic works such as "The Life of St. Edmund," the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, "The Dream of the Rood," "The Wanderer," "The Seafarer," and selections from Beowulf.
Intensive study of the works of Chaucer. Special attention will be paid to gaining fluency in reading Chaucer's Middle English (both silently and aloud), cultural context, and critical reception. Some of Chaucer's shorter works may be studied, but the main concentration of the course will be on his two masterpieces, Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.
Intensive study of the literature, language, and culture of the Middle English period (c. 1100-1500). The rich variety of Middle English literature will be explored through readings in different genres-romance, lyric, saints' lives, drama, epic, dream vision-and by practice in reading different dialects.
Advanced study of the poetry, drama, prose, fiction, and song of 16th century England, primarily works of the late Elizabethan era. With an eye always to the focal point of all Elizabethan circles, the Queen herself, students examine some notable models for success in court circles, study Elizabethan sonnet cycles, pastoral romance, revenge tragedy, and lyric comedy, and sample the literature of exploration and colonization. Authors include Hoby, Wyatt the Elder, the Sidney circle, Marlowe, Spenser, Kyd, Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, Greene, Raleigh.
Advanced study of plays from the first half of Shakespeare's career as a dramatist, with attention to the development of Shakespearean comedy, to the playwright's achievement in dramatizing English history, and to the interpenetration of these genres. The plays will be considered as scripts for a particular theatre in a particular place and time, as well as texts of enduring critical controversy, cultural interest, and iconic significance.
Advanced study of Shakespeare's later works, beginning with Hamlet, that is, the major tragedies and romances. Special attention will be paid to cultural context, critical reception, and stage history. Note: students do not need to have taken ENGL 336 to enroll in ENGL 337.
In this century of revolution, reformation, and imperial expansion, England's writers participated in its political, religious, domestic, and personal upheavals. We will examine these conflicted areas in the work of Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, and Milton, and in the increasingly important work of women writers, including Wroth, Philips, and Cavendish.
A concentrated study of the several interlocking cultural contexts-historical, political, literary-that situate such quintessentially "18th century" genres as the epistolary, picaresque, and Gothic novels, travel and crime narratives, the Newgate pastoral, ballad-operas and mock- georgics, satire and the burlesque, and mock-epic poetry. The literary productions of writers such as Defoe, Swift, Sterne, Pope, Johnson, Burney, and Austen will be considered as a response to and an expression of the tremendous social and political transformations marking the period spanning roughly 1660 through 1818, as England lurched toward modernity.
Major trends and writers of British poetry and prose from 1914-60, including Forster, Joyce, Lawrence, Thomas, Woolf, and Yeats.
Courses under this heading focus on the works of one to three British authors read closely within the context of their lives, culture, and critical reception. Possible authors include John Milton, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. May be repeated with different course content.
Traces the development of American literature from its roots in the 17th century to the 19th century flowering of the "American Renaissance," with a primary emphasis on major works by authors such as Bradstreet, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Douglass, and Dickinson. Emphasis throughout is on the development of a distinctively American voice, sense of identity, and awareness of social complexity. Designed for English majors. Offered yearly.
A close study of major American authors of the 20th century to 1945. A balance between poets and novelists is maintained. Includes such major poets as Frost, Eliot, Stevens, Pound, Moore and Williams; and such major novelists as Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Wright, and Welty.
A close study of American authors since 1945 including such poets as Lowell, Roethke, Ginsberg, Plath, Bishop, and Rich; and such fiction writers as Nabokov, Bellow, Cheever, Updike, O'Connor, Barth, and Morrison.
American Indian literature has been shaped by ancient tradition and the historical experience of American Indian life. Readings will include such early writers as Eastman, Winnemucca, McNickle and E. Pauline Johnson to help us understand the growth of literature as an Indian expressive art. Works by such writers of the American Indian Renaissance (1969 to the present) as Momaday, Silko, Erdrich, Harjo, Revard, Welch, and Alexie address contemporary problems in reservation and urban life, and the place of traditional cultures in sustaining Indian community and identity.
(Topic varies) Courses under this heading seek to enhance our understanding of the life and works of one or more important American authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Faulkner, Frost, Stevens, Bishop, Lowell, Oates, and Morrison. In general the emphasis is on the close reading of a body of work within a framework of cultural contexts, theoretical constructs, and critical traditions. Can be 3 or 4 cr. depending on course
Advanced study of selected issues in American literature and culture, exploring the incisive, imaginative responses of American writers to their times, and examining the way literature is shaped by, and helps us to shape, cultural contexts. May be repeated with different course content. (Topic varies) Can be 3 or 4 cr. depending on course
This course explores some of the remarkable literary works created by women in nineteenth-century New England. Authors range from the famous (Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Sarah Orne Jewett) to the merely well-known (Julia Ward Howe, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman) to the undeservedly obscure (Harriet Prescott Spofford, Rose Terry Cooke, Helen Hunt Jackson, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and Carolyn Wells Healey Dall) to the forgotten and/or unpublished (Helen Peabody, Hannah Foster, and the daughters of R. H. Dana).
Advanced study of an aspect of American poetry. Specific courses will explore an important circle of poets, a period, an artistic form, or a historical issue or cultural problem confronted by American poets. Courses taught under this heading include Four Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Poetry, and American Women Poets. May be repeated with different course content.
An exploration of central issues of American culture, history, and consciousness in the developing American novel, as well as its generic features. Includes works by such writers as Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hurston, Wharton, Cather, Steinbeck, Faulkner, and Ellison.
An introduction to some recent approaches to literature, such as deconstructive, reader-response, psychological, feminist, cultural, and materialist theories. The course offers practical experience in using these methodologies in reading and writing about literature. REQUIRED SURVEY FOR THE MAJOR.
This course serves as an introduction to the art of scholarship, a guided tour of the tools of the scholarly trade, and a prelude to the process of writing a Senior Thesis. Particular emphasis is placed on research methods and technologies that will facilitate critical analysis of a wide range of important texts.
English Internship
Practice in writing longer forms of fiction and in producing the finished short story. Workshop and conference. Offered alternate years.
Practice in writing poetry. Students will be expected to produce a manuscript of finished poems. Workshop and conference. Offered alternate years.
Concentrated study of a limited literary subject, such as a single author, a particular movement, a theme or, occasionally, a single work. Recent examples: The 1890s; Fitzgerald and Cather; Anglo- Scandinavian England; Creation in Literature and Art; Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell; Melville; Rule and Misrule in the 18th Century; and New England Women Writers. Open to junior and senior English majors. Limited to 15. Offered Fall and Spring.
Guided group preparation prior to the individual directed study of English.
Working from a topic approved in the preceding term, students preparing for literature projects will read their primary works and explore them in informal writing, develop a research question and a working thesis, prepare a full proposal in consultation with their project supervisor, consult with a research librarian to locate secondary sources, and discuss possible critical approaches. Creative writing students will read and annotate models appropriate to their projects, develop a full proposal in consultation with their project supervisor, workshop a preliminary section of the manuscript, and read writers' essays on their craft. Offered Fall Term. Permission is required.
During January Term of their senior year, majors must complete a directed study resulting in a critical essay of at least 20 to 30 pages on an author or topic or producing a manuscript of poetry, short stories, or a novella prefaced by an essay. Students will arrange for an informal oral review of the paper involving themselves, the study advisor, and one other member of the department. Open only to senior English majors.
Internship
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