73 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.
ENG 100Writing Seminar2
Students will reflect on their own literacies and the expectations of an academic audience, with an emphasis on how to organize argumentative essays. Students will practice reading academic texts and their own writing for the choices writers make in form, language, and mechanics. Prerequisite(s); if any: By permission of the English Department.
Students will practice organizing, composing, and revising expository writing with purpose, audience, and context in mind. Students will practice reading critically. Students will practice identifying and using conventions of academic English.
Students will practice planning, developing, and executing an extended written research project. Students will practice evaluating, synthesizing, documenting, and integrating sources. Students will be introduced to discipline-specific conventions in order to organize, compose, and revise research papers.
An examination of the influence of language on attitude and perception, manipulative use of language, types of change within English, and writing systems. The course involves no technical linguistic concepts or theories.
Students will practice the skills of studying literature including close reading, textual analysis, writing about literature, and building interpretative arguments.
Students will explore a particular topic, interest, or activity through its representation in literature. Possible topics: Sports Literature, Religion and Literature, Crime in Literature, etc.
Introduction to literary genres, periods, or themes. Authors and works vary from term to term. Extensive writing. Core literature requirement for Honors students. Open by permission to other students for elective credit.
Introduction to literary genres, periods, or themes. Authors and works vary from term to term. Extensive writing. Core literature requirement for Honors students. Open by permission to other students for elective credit.
ENG 245Major Figures in English Literature: Through the 18th Century3
British literature from the Anglo Saxon period through the Restoration. May include Beowulf , Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales , poetry, prose, and drama from 16th and 17th centuries. Milton’s Paradise Lost , and selected writings from other authors.
ENG 246Major Figures in English Literature: Since the 18th Century3
British authors from the Romantic Movement to the beginning of 21st century. Authors covered may include Wordsworth, Keats, Austen, Tennyson, Browning, George Eliot, Dickens, Conrad, Woolf, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Larkin, Heaney, Byatt, and Murdoch.
Whether Irish peasants avoiding the mass graves of the Famine, Russian Jews fleeing their burning villages, or Nigerian students escaping a military-controlled country, many immigrant groups have experienced the kind of fearful history that inspires great writing. Who Americans are is shaped by the memories burned into their brains, left to history in letters, photographs, or gravestones, or even forgotten. By reading literary and historical accounts of the conditions immigrants were escaping, as well as contemporary media representations, we can begin to understand what it means to become an American.
Study of traditional grammar from a variety of perspectives, including handbook definitions and exercises, sentence parsing, grammar and language learning, and grammar and literacy pedagogy.
We will analyze the ways in which public-facing and academic texts impact audiences. We will also examine political and cultural contexts that impact our choices in writing. Finally, we will study how to develop an effective prose style imbued with your own voice.
This is a class on reading, writing, and critiquing fiction. To write well, one must read well. That means noticing the complex choices writers make, involving character, plot, or other literary devices, and how such choices impact the reader. In one’s own work, it means using such choices deliberately, to create a specific effect. In a workshop setting, students have an opportunity to analyze each other’s choices, and to help each other become better writers.
Practice, theory, and research concerning writing techniques in all disciplines to understand and implement particular writing requirements in professional work environments. Practical applications include e-mail writing, letter writing, memo writing, report writing, and job searches including creating resumes and cover letters. Strategic applications include reflective writing and responding to work situations. Focus is placed on format, content, organization, tone, and mechanics.
Historical development of the novel in either the British, American, or Western literary tradition. Topics include point of view, narrative voice and technique, idea and form, and character. Same as LIT 373
Literature by authors from the Latinx community in the United States and its territories across multiple genres, including texts that may range from the time of Spanish colonization to the present, emphasizing the development of the U.S.’s Latinx literary tradition, its political aspects, and its relationships to the broader literary marketplace and to other U.S. literatures.
Literature related to the LGBTQ2IA+ community across multiple genres, including texts that may range from antiquity to the present, emphasizing the development of a queer literary tradition, its political aspects, and its relationship to the broader literary marketplace. Same as LIT 394 .
The poetry, fiction, letters, and journals of American writer Sylvia Plath. As her work is often regarded as (at least semi-)autobiographical, this course examines her career considering a lifespan from childhood to death. As we read her work, we discuss her biography, paying attention to the events that inspire her writing. We will look at criticism, archives, and ongoing Plath studies to consider her legacy.
Reading and practice of nature writing; discussion of the history of the genre and survey of the chief practitioners, including deCrevecouer, Emerson, Thoreau, Abbey, McPhee, LaBastille, Dillard, Carson and Berry.
ENG 533Mohawk Valley Writing Project Summer Institute (3 to 6)
Professional development program available to area K-12 and college teachers by invitation. Writing workshops, teaching demonstrations, research in writing and learning. During school year following the Summer Institute, teacher consultants share learning through in-service presentations.
An exploration of descriptions of disability experience in first person narratives,memoirs and fictional accounts in literature and film. Same as HLS 547
Examines cultural and personal reasons why realists at the turn of the twentieth century, including Twain, James, and Wharton, also wrote supernatural literature, realism’s opposite.
Individual reading or research in a topic of interest between the student and the instructor. Must be approved in advance by the appropriate graduate program director.
Study of the formal properties of ethnic literature including narrative structure, cultural detail, distinct language patterns. Emphasis on themes such as formation of American identity, cultural authenticity, connections between memory and history.
