53 courses with the subject EN, 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.
EN 106Intro to Digital and Multi-Media Arts3
This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of digital and multimedia design and includes topics on visual graphic design, video editing, website design, and creating memes and gifs. Students will learn how to combine graphics, audio, and text in various multimedia projects. Course fulfills the core fine arts requirement.
Students who are registered for EN 198, promote, receive, and file submissions to a literary journal; meet to discuss, evaluate, choose, and edit all submissions; and make layout decisions in accord with a design editor's specifications. They also participate in and serve as hosts for events that promote the journal. This one credit "course" may be taken up to four times.
Rhetoric 101 Experience and instruction in all phases of the production of the Belmont Abbey College student newspaper, The Crusader.
EN 207Creative Writing3
A study of the three main genres of literature—fiction, drama, and poetry—and approaches to literary interpretation as preparation for writing in each of the three genres. The course features a variety of approaches to creative writing, and includes lectures, discussion, and workshops.
Explore poetry’s beauties, puzzles, challenges, and questions through reading the works of a variety of poets, poetic styles and forms, and by perhaps discovering the poet within by writing your own original poetry. Fulfills the Fine Arts Requirement and counts toward the Writing and English minors.
RH104 or RH101 and RH102 This course offers reading, analysis, and discussion of major western literary works representing different national cultures and historical epochs, from ancient times through the Renaissance.
RH104 or RH101 and RH102 This course focuses on reading, analysis, and discussion of major western literary works representing different national cultures and historical epochs, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century.
EN 215Introduction to Film Criticism3
A survey of film from the 1920s to the 1950s, focusing on directing, acting, character studies and soundtracks. Offered as demand warrants.
EN 217Spc Tpc in Film: Sport and the American Dream on Film3
This course will examine the 'American Dream' through the lens of sport films. Students will observe and discuss a number of feature length films, shorts, and documentaries with sport themes/topics to better understand the celebration and criticism of the American experience."
We will begin with some of the earliest works to mention Arthur and his knights and will progress up to the present day, observing how each people who adopted Arthur as their own or each time period to inherit the story shaped the tradition. In the end, we will discover why so many people have been enchanted by the "Matter of Britain." Counts toward the English and Medieval Studies minors.
RH 104 or RH 102 In this course, we will explore the development of the Arthurian legend in Western literature through a selection of texts and films.
EN 225Fiction to Film3
We will examine and analyze the strategies filmmakers employ as they attempt to present, revise, and sometimes radically transform stories originally told in prose. Filmmakers considered will include major figures of post-1945 cinema such as Elia Kazan, John Huston, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and the Coen Brothers. Fulfills the Fine Arts requirement.
RH 104 or RH 102 In this course we will consider significant works of modern literature alongside prominent film adaptations of those works.
EN 260Found of Language: Intro to Linguistics3
We all speak at least one language, but how often have we considered how language actually works? How we learn it? How we produce and comprehend it? This course will introduce you to the fundamentals of human language. We will learn the tools necessary to describe and think about all languages: pragmatics, semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology. And in conjunction, we will also review and discover the logic behind grammar. This course will give students the ability to think about language analytically, to recognize and understand the systematic patterns of sound and structure which govern the languages of the world.
Students will encounter Spenser, Sidney, the Sonnet Tradition, Donne and the Metaphysical poets, Jonson and the Cavalier poets, Elizabethan drama including Shakespeare, and Milton. Offered every other year.
EN 211, EN 212 A course addressing significant works of the English Renaissance.
EN 303American Literary Tradition3
After initial attention to literary nonfiction and poetry of the colonial and Revolutionary eras, the course will focus primarily on major antebellum authors such as Poe, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Douglass, Melville, and Dickinson. Later nineteenth-century authors such as Twain, James, and Chopin will also receive significant attention.
EN 211, EN 212 A study of the foundational works of American literature in their historical context.
EN 305Introduction to Literary Studies3
This course provides a broad introduction to the English major and to the study of literature more generally. Students in this course will study and write about selected literary and critical works. In doing so, they will learn the basic conventions, concepts, vocabulary, and techniques involved in formal analysis of literature. Students will also investigate the intellectual and cultural assumption that readers may bring to the interpretation of literary texts. These investigations will allow students to develop their writing skills in analysis and synthesis, and to employ logic and interpretive creativity to produce thoughtful academic arguments. In addition, students in this course will develop more conscious use of research methodologies and documentation as appropriate to the discipline of literary study.
the workshop approach to writing fiction. 2. careful study of canonical and contemporary fiction 3. incorporation of theoretical works on the art of fiction. Through reading writing, and critiquing, students will 1. establish themselves as critics who can read as writers 2. become writers who know both the strengths and weaknesses of their craft. 3. revise and polish their fiction into full-realized narratives.
RH 101, RH 102 This course is organized around three points of focus, each of which aims to improve students' fiction writing: 1.
EN 310Rhetorical Theory & Writing Instruction3
Prrequisites: EN 211, 212 A study of the major authors from 1660 to 1780 in relation to the political, social, philosophical, and aesthetic ideals and movements of the times. Offered every other year.
Students will become familiar with a variety of genres of workplace writing, including job search materials, internal memos, reports, and proposals. Cross-listed with BU 315 Business Communications.
RH 101, RH102 A focus on writing that is intended to impart technical or organizational information in a professional context, with an emphasis on audience, research methods, clear and accurate presentation of ideas and data, with computer-mediated communication.
EN 316Poetics: Reading & Writing3
With rigorous attention to meter and rhyme, this course introduces students to the wide range of poetic forms and conventions that have shaped English poetry for centuries, inviting students to engage in the literary conversation through their own creative writing. We will explore seminal poets who use conventions such as alliterative verse, sonnets, villanelles, and limericks. Furthermore, we will study poets who pioneer forms of their own, with special attention to contemporary poets who bring poetic form into modern parlance. Throughout the semester, students will write poems of their own, creating a portfolio of creatively formalistic poetry that brings their own voice into the poetic tradition.
EN 211, 212 A study of the representative works of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats as well as other writers, all of whom helped define the Romantic tradition in English literature.
EN 211, 212 A study of English Victorian writers, including representative works by Tennyson, Hopkins, the Brontes, Eliot, Newman, Carlyle, Arnold, Ruskin, and others.
EN 340American Literature3
A study of selected works of American literature, perhaps organized by theme or genre.
EN 211, EN 212 Study of the major Irish, English, and American authors of the early twentieth century.
EN 360History of the English Language3
History of the English language from its Indo-European roots and Germanic origins to its establishment in the United States. The central goal of the course is to acquaint students with the development of English phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, vocabulary, and graphics. As we move through different chronological stages of the English language, we will focus on different types of linguistic change. While this is not a grammar course per se, it does assume a basic grasp of the structure and conventions of Present-Day English.
This course introduces students to both a theoretical and practical approach to social media writing. Students will explore, critically analyze, and utilize various social media platforms, including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.. Assignments in the course will be multimodal.
This course focuses on editing and writing for publication. Students will explore opportunities for publishing a variety of genres, including creative writing, nonfiction, journalism, and academic essays. The course also focuses on the skills needed for editing a variety of documents and materials.
EN 363: Professional and Technical Writing (3) Prerequisites: RH 104 This course is designed to prepare students for writing in professional settings by having them engage with different genres and mediums of writing utilized by professionals in an increasingly digital world. To that end, this course requires students to produce documents that address a wide range of target audiences and purposes and to understand the process of rhetorical decision making that allows a writer to perform successfully in a given writing situation. Course assignments include grant writing, evaluations of visual rhetoric, and engagement with workplace writing.
Through close-reading and discussion, students will gain a deeper understanding of the various poetic approaches common at present; meanwhile, through the completion of a writing portfolio, students will also develop regular practice routines and prepare their own creative work for readings and potential publications.
RH 104 A mix of literary study and creative writing, this course introduces students to award-winning authors and current trends in the world of contemporary poetry.
EN 380Teaching & Tutoring Writing3
This course focuses on the knowledge and skills related to teaching and tutoring writing at the both the college and secondary level. Students will gain theoretical, practical, and experiential knowledge of the teaching of writing that will strengthen their confidence and understanding as writing tutors and teachers. Practical experience with evaluating student writing is offered in partnership with the Writing Center.
EN 211, EN 212 Courses offered on special subjects or literary specialties not normally covered in regular upper-level courses, for example, Fyodor Dostoevsky or Jane Austen.
EN 402Chaucer3
By studying a text whose author sought to capture every facet of medieval English life, we will learn a great deal about the people living during this period, including the genres of literature they preferred and the language that they spoke. We will learn about Middle English, its sounds and its poetry, as we read engaging stories that range from the shockingly ribald to the sapiential and sacred. Ultimately, we will find out what earned Chaucer the title "Father of English Literature."
EN 212, EN 212 This course will examine Chaucer’s efforts to create sustained fiction in English through his most ambitious and experimental work, The Canterbury Tales.
EN 403Medieval Literature3
Works studied in translation from Old English and Gaelic include Beowulf, selections from The Tain, and works in Middle English. Other works studied include Gawain and the Green Knight, selections from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and late medieval works written near the dawn of the Renaissance, such as Mallory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, and examples of Medieval drama.
EN 211, EN 212 Introduces students to significant works and ideas of the long Middle Ages.
EN 404Contemporary Literature3
The course will also give some attention to premodern texts that influenced writers of the Celtic Revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A focus on the development of modern Irish literature, featuring the work of major figures such as Jonathan Swift, W.B.Yeats, James Joyce, and Seamus Heaney.
EN 405Old English Language and Literature3
No prior knowledge is required, though some experience in learning another language is recommended. Once we have covered enough grammar and vocabulary, we will then translate and discuss some Old English literature. We will begin with shorter, simpler texts that offer insight into early medieval English society and culture. But eventually, we will tackle the epic Beowulf, first in translation but then in a selection of important excerpts in the original language. Along the way, students will explore the history of the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Vikings and learn about the manuscripts that contain our texts.
RH104 and EN211 In this course, students will be introduced to Old English, the language spoken and written in England from about the mid-fifth century until several decades after the Norman Conquest.
EN 211, EN 212 A survey of his major works, including "Lycidas," Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
EN 409Flannery O'Connor3
We will attend to O'Connor's emphasis on craftsmanship and on the relationship of her Catholic faith to her artistic vocation as expressed in her nonfiction (letters and essays). Other writers whom O'Connor admired or responded to may be briefly incorporated into the course, demonstrating her critical engagement with both a larger literary tradition and her own cultural moment.
EN 211, EN 212 Background on drama and its development in the 16th-17th centuries and on Shakespeare’s dramatic works within (and transcending) this historical context.
EN 413Dante3
The work will be considered with attention to relevant literary, philosophical, and theological contexts. Students will also consider Dante's vision of political harmony in relation to his place and time.
EN 211, EN 212 A study of American prose and poetry of the 20th century, including Frost, Hemingway, Faulkner, and O’Connor.
EN 418The Rise of the Novel3
Pre-requisites: EN 211, EN 212 The course aims to examine the unique relationship of the novel as a genre to both language and culture by combining the study of several fictional texts (Eg. Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Cormac McCarthy) with some seminal theoretical writings on the subject (Eg. by Mikhail Bakhtin). As we read these important works of fiction and literary theory, we will attempt to draw preliminary conclusions about the evolution of the novel as a literary form. We willl also work on developing a critical vocabulary for discussing the novel's polyphonic and unfinalizable nature.
This course will survey the stunning variety of short prose writing from its earliest examples to the most recent representatives. As we examine this history we will answer such questions as: Does size matter in literature? How does form affect content? How can one best articulate the difference between a story, a fable, a parable, and a novella?
EN 211, EN 212 The short story genre did not arrive on teh modern literary scene ready-made, and today, brief prose forms are as popular as difficult to classify and encompass as flash fiction, prose poetry, mini-essays and Tweets.
EN 211, 212 An exploration of romantic, mystical/spiritual, and altruistic love from the Medieval to the Twentieth Century, in a variety of genres, including non-fiction.
EN 422African American Literature3
Beginning with works written by enslaved African Americans, this course will survey writings representative of Reconstruction, The Great Migration, The Harlem Renaissance, Black Realism, The Black Arts Movement, Modernism, and Postmodernism. Genres studied will include poetry, fiction, drama, and historical narratives, with occasional reference to film and music, specifically jazz, blues, and hip-hop. Writers studied include Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, and others.
EN 211, EN 212 In this course, students will read, analyze, and discuss literary works written by African Americans.
EN 423World Anglophone Literature3
In this course we will explore the works of contemporary literature by authors from English-speaking countries, excluding the more commonly studied authors of Britain and the U.S., in an attempt to better understand the conflicts and tensions inherent in the rise of a global or world literature in English. Authors studied may include Chinua Achebe, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Wole Soyinka, Les Murray, Amitav Gosh, and others.
Committed Catholic writers such as Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Graham Greene, and Muriel Spark will be considered, along with professing Protestants such as Wendell Berry, Marilynne Robinson, and John Updike. Non-Anglophone Christian writers such as Shusaku Endo, Jewish writers such as Saul Bellow, and seemingly "lapsed" yet arguably theistic writers such as Cormac McCarthy may also receive some attention.
EN 211, EN 212 Major American and British fiction writers from World War II to the present day whose work is significantly informed by and concerned with questions of Christian belief.
EN 430WRhetoric, Research, and Writing3
A concentration on analysis and argumentation in a workshop environment readies students to deliver their senior thesis in the Spring semester of their final year. Offered every year, only in the Fall semester.
Practice field experiences in selected programs under the supervision of a full time faculty member. Evaluation will be based on papers and supervisor reviews. Laboratory, 120 hours. Pass/Fail course.
