34 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 200 teaches methods for engaging with and interpreting literature and other cultural texts. Students will explore a wide range of texts and critical lenses, strengthening critical reading, thinking, speaking, and writing skills, and building their own interpretive frameworks for making meaning. Prerequisite: BP 151
Combines study in the classroom, in the library, and field research to teach research methods applicable to the field. Emphasis on writing research findings in MLA format. Includes: evaluating credibility and accuracy of research materials, focusing a thesis statement, organizing materials, citing sources. Prerequisite: BP 151.
Practical application of techniques of technical writing, including technological applications. Prerequisite: BP 151. English elective for majors; may be taken as elective for all other majors.
A study of the literature of Great Britain and its protectorates with emphasis on masterpieces of each period. Chronological. Prerequisite: EN 200. Required for all English Majors. Electives for majors in other programs.
A study of the literature of Great Britain and its protectorates with emphasis on masterpieces of each period. Chronological. Prerequisite: EN 200. Required for all English Majors. Electives for majors in other departments.
A performance course that gives experience in public reading and formal presentation of original dramatic scripts designed to enhance the curricular and co-curricular education of Bennett students. Prerequisite: EN 200. Elective for English majors and majors of other disciplines. May be taken twice for credit.
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A comparative study of modern grammar and the effect on standard American English. Study of traditional (prescriptive) grammar and two descriptive grammars: structural and transformational. In-depth analysis of grammar and linguistic conventions. Prerequisite: BP 151.
A survey of literary criticism and application of theory. Prerequisite: EN 200.
EN 310 is an introductory creative writing class that invites students to explore the ways creative writing can build and enhance community. Students will study poems, stories, plays, and/or creative nonfiction pieces (a minimum of three genres) to learn how writers use the written word to better understand themselves and connect with others. Students will also write and share original pieces in multiple genres, learning in a supportive environment how to give productive feedback on creative written work. Prerequisite: BP 151 and BP 152.
Intensive use of various rhetorical techniques. Extended writing tasks through the application of rhetorical strategies. Prerequisite: BP 151.
A study of English Literature from 800 C.E. to 1500 C.E. with emphasis on Beowulf, the Pearl Poet’s works, Chaucer’s works, and Malory’s works. Prerequisite: EN 200. Counts as period course for majors; may be taken as elective by majors in other programs.
A study of Renaissance literature from Wyatt and Surrey to the early Milton, and including drama, poetry, translations, and prose from major figures of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Prerequisite: EN 200. Counts as a period course for majors; may be taken as elective by majors in other programs.
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A study of literatures present on the American continent beginning with the late 15th century age of exploration and culminating in the Revolutionary era of the late 18th century. Prerequisite: EN 200. Counts as a period course for majors; may be taken as an elective by majors in other programs.
A study of the development of American literature with an emphasis on the works of major writers from the Colonial Period to the Modern Period. Prerequisite: EN 200.
A study of the development of American literature with an emphasis on the works of major writers from the Colonial Period to the Modern Period. Prerequisite: EN 200.
Study of selected plays of Shakespeare with reference to their connection to sixteenth- century culture, politics, religion, and values. Prerequisite: EN 200.
This seminar-style course studies a specific aspect of literature. Designed to provide advanced work in literary analysis, interpretation, and research. Primarily for majors in the junior and senior year who have completed foundation work in Renaissance, African Novels, Southern American Novels, Contemporary African American Female Authors. topic is the Harlem Renaissance, the student must have completed EN 333/334 Survey of African American Literature I & II. This course serves as an English Elective or Free Elective for English majors and is open to all non-English majors as a Free Elective.
This seminar-style course studies a specific aspect of literature. Designed to provide advanced work in literary analysis, interpretation, and research. Primarily for majors in the junior and senior year who have completed foundation work in Renaissance, African Novels, Southern American Novels, Contemporary African American Female Authors. topic is the Harlem Renaissance, the student must have completed EN 333/334 Survey of African American Literature I & II. This course serves as an English Elective or Free Elective for English majors and is open to all non-English majors as a Free Elective.
A study of the development of African American Literature from the Colonial Period to the Modern Period with emphasis on major writers and works. Prerequisite: EN 200.
A study of the development of African American Literature from the Colonial Period to the Modern Period with emphasis on major writers and works. Prerequisite: EN 200.
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The Chicago Black Renaissance is the name given to the upsurge in cultural production, community organizing and social self- activity on Chicago’s South Side from 1930 until 1950. This course will examine the material, practical, ideological, and aesthetic dimensions of the Renaissance. It will argue that Chicago became a center of American and international cultural and political experiment in this period, and provides a shining example of class, race, and gender-based social organizing. The course will include virtual site visits to Chicago and Chicago research centers. This field and archival work is meant to provide students a new perspective on one of the most understudied but important periods in U.S. history. Prerequisite: EN 200.
The Black Arts Movement, as it is commonly known, was an aesthetic, cultural and ultimately deeply political artistic movement loosely linked to and in philosophical agreement with many aspects of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Despite its brief historical span, we will explore why the Black Arts Movement remains significant for the course of contemporary African American, African Diasporic and American literature today, by looking first at its antecedents in the Harlem Renaissance, the first major African-American literary movement of the 20th century and a central moment in American modernism, and then contrast the rhetoric and discourse of key Harlem Renaissance figures with those of the Black Arts writers and artists, noting the centrality and model of the former, while also discussing the ways in which Black Arts writers diverge and participate actively in the construction of a (Pan-African(- American)/Black nationalism. Indeed, the question of "nationalism" will be key, as well as key concepts such as racism, gender, sexuality, class, and intersectionality. The course will conclude by considering the afterlife of Black Arts Movement ideas in several late 20th and early 21st century works. Prerequisite: EN 200.
Study of selected American and British authors of the twentieth century. Prerequisites: by majors in other disciplines. Prerequisite: EN 200.
EN 360 is a 16-week internship in the writing center. During MM1, students will meet daily to learn best practices for talking to peers about their writing, as well as study the 147
This course seeks to examine the extraordinary and diverse landscape of African American women's writing. Beginning in the early twentieth century and ending in the contemporary moment, the class will consider how African American women authors have wrestled with the themes of race, class, and sexuality in their texts. Moreover, the course does not assume a static definition of African American women's writing but examines how writers have challenged themselves and each other to think about what it means to be "American," "Black," and "woman" at different historical moments and within varied artistic genres. Some of the writers studied will include Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, Dorothy West, Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, Sister Souljah, Edwidge Danticat, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Buchi Emecheta and others.
A study of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature with an emphasis on such major figures as the later Milton, Bunyan, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and novelists such as Fielding, Behn, and Richardson. Prerequisite: EN 200.. Counts as a period course for majors; may be taken as an elective by majors in other programs.
Study of historical development of the English language, including influences from 800 C.E. to contemporary times. Prerequisite: EN 200.
A study of multicultural world masterpieces in English translation. Includes European (excluding British), Asian, African, North American, and South American literature.
Open to students who have the required G.P.A. and have demonstrated the necessary degree of self-motivation and academic ability. Prerequisites: 2.5 GPA; junior or senior standing; consent of instructor.
Open to students who have the required G.P.A. and have demonstrated the necessary degree of self-motivation and academic ability. Prerequisites: 2.5 GPA; junior or senior standing; consent of instructor.
Source: Bennett College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
