34 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.
ENGL 050Composition and Rhetoric3
Hour(s) The course offers an introduction to rhetoric and composition, focusing on a variety of texts written by women from different eras and backgrounds. Students will utilize these rhetorical skills & strategies in their written and oral argumentation. Students will learn how to write for a variety of purposes and for a variety of audiences, and be able to determine which rhetorical strategies will be most effective in accomplishing these purposes. Additionally, students will learn about academic inquiry and research, from the initial research topic proposal, to conducting and evaluating research, to synthesizing information into a cohesive and effective line of reasoning, to writing and editing final drafts.
ENGL 075Literary Constraint: Explorations of Power, Punishment, Surveillance, & Justice3
Hour(s) The course offers an introduction to using literature to analyze culture and systems of power in early modern and modern society. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, students will contend with scholarly materials and primary sources that require them to think across traditional academic boundaries. Their writing will press on these boundaries, and student work and class discussion will frequently consider the impact of our investigations outside of a traditional academic space. This course will allow students to demonstrate their proficiency as critical readers and writers, and apply concepts beyond the classroom. (WI)
Hour(s) This course functions as an introduction to English Studies. The course will cover the different parts of the discipline, teach students how to engage with and produce texts in English Studies, and offer an overview of connections between English Studies and broadly defined health leadership. Enrollment suggested for first year and sophomore students.
Hour(s) An introduction to the study of human health through literature, narrative, and the arts drawn from diverse cultural contexts. Students will develop critical skills in text-centered methods of analysis through topics including representations of health, healers, and healing; illness and disability narratives; death and dying; medicine, technology, and the human body.
ENGL 200Independent Study English and Professional Writing1-4
Hour(s) Independent study under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Open to students with a 3.0 G.P.A. in the major and permission of the chair of the department. Independent study may take the form of readings, research, and will include a substantial written project. Independent study may be taken twice, but not more than once in any term. To count toward the major or minor, the course must be taken for 3 or 4 semester hours
Hour(s) This course is designed to examine the techniques and theories that inform the practice of tutoring writing. In particular, this course will train students to tutor writing in the Salem College Writing Center, as well as other tutoring spaces across campuses, ages, identities, and communities. The course will focus on the practical components of writing center work and how these methods can be applied across settings. Specific topics will include collaborative learning, consultation approaches, consultant roles, grammar instruction discussions, consulting strategies for a variety of clients (on campus and in the community), technology use in the writing center, composition & learning theories that influence writing center work, and resource development.
Hour(s) This course is designed to assist students in the health humanities prepare for careers outside of academia. Students will learn about the history of the health humanities, investigate potential careers and design a timeline and plan to maximize their professional development at Salem College.
ENGL 221Special Topics English and Prof Writing1-4
Hour(s) Intensive investigation of a topic or author not studied in depth in traditional courses. The topic will be announced prior to the beginning of the course. As the topic changes, the course may be repeated. To count toward the major or minor, the course must be taken for 3 or 4 semester hours.
Hour(s) A comparative study of influential playwrights between 1870s and 1990s in Europe and the United States; how their experiments with dramatic form, style, and taboo topics reveal social and cultural consciousness at the center of modern theater. The course will explore how gender, class, sexuality and race, along with European existentialism, played out on the modern stage. Special attention will be given to the portrayal of women and their issues. The authors will include Ibsen, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, Wilder, American women playwrights Glaspell, Hellman, and Hansberry, representatives of the Theater of Absurd and the African American theater of August Wilson.
Hour(s) Shared feminist and intersectional perspectives bind American women playwrights since early twentieth century. Their plays redefine gender roles, challenge racial and social injustice, and argue for a more equitable world for all. Students will examine in their critical and socio-cultural contexts a selection of plays by playwrights who come from diverse racial, cultural, geographic, and theatrical backgrounds. Socio-political and therapeutic function of theater will be explored as unique to community building and fostering resilience.
Hour(s) This professional writing course examines the idea of embodiment and considers how these various ways of viewing, interacting with/through, and thinking about bodies affects/creates rhetorical structures and genres in professional settings. In particular we consider intersectionality, ways of controlling/policing bodies as well as ways of resisting and subverting such control, bodies in particular circumstances/places/spaces such as classrooms, research, medical establishments, dress, and performance.
Hour(s) Best known in the West for his Oscar-winning animated feature Spirited Away (2002), Hayao Miyazaki has created a distinctive anime image and story aesthetic. Drawing on inspiration ranging from Greek myths and European fairy tales to Japanese folk tales, Homer, Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll to Ursula Le Guin and Diana Wynne Jones, Jean Giraud Moebius and Osamu Tezuka among others, Miyazaki spins stories that transcend time and culture as he explores the future. Modern history of Europe and Japan, Shinto religion, folklore and the supernatural, along with passionate environmentalism are some of the subjects Miyazaki probes. Early Disney, Russian and Canadian animators and Japanese manga have deeply influenced how he combines image with story. The course will analyze Miyazaki’s major animated feature films and explore his literary, filmic and cultural influences to understand the stories he tells, and how and why he tells them. We will look at Miyazaki’s key themes, plots, characters, and examine how he integrates these story elements with visual, auditory and social conventions of anime.
Hour(s) Different kinds of trauma, historical, socio-cultural, environmental, emotional and physical, inform films of the Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki. His distinctive art of anime and storytelling aesthetic have created what Susan Napier, Japanese culture and animation scholar, calls “Miyazaki World” where the audiences are transported to a thirtieth-century toxic jungle (Nausicaä), a bathhouse for tired gods (Spirited Away), or meet a red-haired fish girl (Ponyo), a furry woodland spirit (My Neighbor Totoro), or a modern witch (Kiki’s Delivery Service). Through close analysis of his films, their art of animation and storytelling, we will explore how Miyazaki creates a unique form of fantasy that can heal, restore, and help us face mortality and destruction. Along with films, major sources of inspiration from the Japanese and European literature, myth, art and history will be examined to contextualize the staying power of Miyazaki’s works.
Hour(s) Through close reading and discussion of the selection from Shakespeare’s famous tragedies, histories and comedies, the world of the Elizabethan period will be explored as reflected through his characters, plots, and language. Shakespeare’s portrayal of gender, race, and ethnicity will serve as lenses through which his relevance to contemporary readers and audiences will be examined.
Hour(s) This course familiarizes students with genres and practices of professional writing in traditional and digital contexts. Students will gain introductory experience writing in a variety of professional genres, including memos, proposals, executive summaries, emails, and letters of intent. Students will also interrogate notions of professionalism and investigate the role of the body in multimodal professional contexts.
Hour(s) This course examines rhetorical practices related to health and medicine, with a focus on strategies employed by both experts and popular culture. The course will emphasize connecting theories of rhetoric with current health debates, including how discourses of medicine intersect with issues of race, disability, gender identity, sexuality, and socioeconomic status.
Hour(s) The opportunity to use the knowledge and skills that the English and Professional Writing major/minor has learned through coursework in a real setting. The apprenticeship aspect of the internship implies that the students will increase her knowledge and skills by direct contact with an experienced mentor Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors with at least a 3.0 average in the major; no more than one internship can count towards English electives; admission only by application. No more than one internship can count towards English electives and must be taken for 3 or 4 semester hours.
ENGL 290Honors Independent Study English and Professional Writing3-4
Hour(s) Advanced independent study under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Open to juniors and seniors with a 3.5 G.P.A. in English and Professional Writing, subject to the approval of the chair of the department. Honors Independent Study may be taken for a maximum of two courses and must be taken for 3 or 4 semester hours.
Hour(s) This course introduces students to visual rhetoric, focusing on the theories and practices for producing and refining document design for professional purposes. This course will make use of design programs including Photoshop, iMovie, Publisher, and more through the lens of business/professional writing.
Hour(s) What was America like before Columbus? How did Native Americans and African Americans perceive America before the Civil War? What was the experience of the new continent and early America for women? Through research and close reading of a variety of early texts we will explore the counter-narrative of American experience, emerging national identity, and their relationship to evolving notions of race and gender. Our readings will range from creation stories and trickster tales to captivity and slave narratives, letters, speeches, journalistic essays, early American novels and poetry.
Hour(s) This course will explore writing by American women authors and their perspective on American experience since the end of the Civil War. Close reading of literary texts will be grounded in historical and social contexts and examined in relation to major literary movements of American realism, naturalism, local color, modernism, and ethnic writing. We will focus on themes central to women’s experience and imagination, women’s use of language, and their perspective on the evolving notions of gender, race and class. The selection of readings will include works by Anglo American, Native American, Asian American, African American and Hispanic American writers.
Hour(s) An examination of influential voices in American poetry from 1900 to the present. When attending to poetic form, figurative language and meaning, the questions of how a poem means, how different poets mean, and how we as readers mean a poem will be explored. The selected poets will include representatives of the Harlem Renaissance, modernism, imagism, symbolism, beat generation, confessional, feminist and ethnic poetry.
Hour(s) A famous adapter himself, Shakespeare has been adapted and interpreted more often than any other author. Manga adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays are the most recent example of how his use of English language inspires inter-art and inter-textual reconfigurations. The most popular of Shakespeare’s plays, their language, dense visual metaphors, ekphrasis, and character descriptions will be examined as they are transformed into manga images, In turn, manga’s visual, auditory and social conventions will be evaluated as contemporary expression of Elizabethan literary and cultural content. For example, Shakespeare’s use of cross-dressing will be related to Japanese kabuki and Noh traditions of theatrical gender-bending that are ‘reused’ in manga. How manga adaptations differ from and change the original Shakespearean plays in ways that reveal differences between the two cultures will be some of the questions guiding our inquiry into this newest form of Shakespeare adaptations. Foundational knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays will be expected.
Hour(s) This service learning course offers experience working with community partners in order to practice professional writing. Students will refine their skills in genres including grant proposals, grant letters, project pitches, memo writing, and social media for professional purposes. Students will be exposed to writing center theory and practice with an emphasis on social justice applications.
Hour(s) The last three decades of the twentieth century were instrumental to the emergence of ethnic women’s voices in contemporary American fiction. As a result of Civil Rights and Women’s Liberation Movements, their books were published, creating a new readership and awareness that challenged mainstream understanding of American literature and introduced new forms of storytelling. We will study a selection of American women writers whose stories engage contested ideas of identity, gender, race and ethnicity and represent various ethnic histories. Their writing styles will range from realistic to postmodernist, draw on ethnic traditions of storytelling, and experiment with narrative forms such as an epistolary novel, slave narrative, memoir, detective story, and bildungsroman among others.
Hour(s) This course will analyze literature by women from the non-Western world through a critical lens of race and gender in order to interrogate indigenous constructions of identity. Drawing on contemporary women’s literature from different parts of the globe, the course will examine the complex connections between gender and culture. The course is designed to provide a foundational understanding of the historical, political, social, and cultural conditions that influenced the development and production of the literature under examination. The novels in the course will depict the impact of colonial history on literature, resistance, and post-colonialism.
Hour(s) This course provides students with theoretical and practical knowledge of how to create, promote, and sustain freelance writing work. Focusing on multiple outlets of professional writing including copy editing, ghost writing, freelance writing, tutoring writing, and self publishing, this course will cover freelance experiences from conception through practice. Students will create a variety of professional materials including the basics of a personal website, professional social media accounts, business cards, and more.
Hour(s) This course focuses on digital production of texts, including professional uses of social media, blogging, and web design. Students will examine ethical issues around digital writing and surveillance and create a professional portfolio to showcase their work.
Hour(s) Modernist experimentation and social protest will be examined through comparative analysis of American novels written in the first four decades of the 20th century. The emphasis will be on how diverse American novelists contested the existing notions of gender, race and class to usher in a new aesthetic and cultural awareness. Some ‘odd’ literary couples will include Anderson/Stein, Faulkner/Hurston, Hemingway/Barnes, Steinbeck/Olsen, Wilder/Cather, Wright/Larsen.
Hour(s) What is literary multiculturalism? How do race and culture connect to define Native American, African American, Asian American and Hispanic American literatures? How different writers negotiate between individual and group identities, their race, ethnicity, gender and class intersecting with dominant American culture. Looking closely at individual texts in their specific social, historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts, the themes of survival, ‘usable past’, ‘bloodlines’, ‘borderlands’, assimilation and acculturation along with different ‘signifying’ practices will be explored.
Hour(s) The worlds of Native American spirituality and mythology will be explored through writings of Native American writers with particular focus on narrative structures of healing, role of mythic imagination and transactional symbols. Students will examine how Native writers use ceremony and trickster traditions to address historical and cultural trauma and heal relationships between mind, body, spirit, community and natural environment as part of Native American concepts of health and wellness.
Hour(s) Students will undertake extensive primary and secondary reading and research on a specified topic, to be determined with the help of a department faculty member. The outcome of this work will be an independent research project that will result in a professional written document (senior thesis or equivalent) and presentation. Enrollment limited to seniors.
Hour(s) How is literature related to the world around us? What do literary critics do? How do literary texts mean? Is there a difference between feminine and masculine imagination? How do gender, race, ethnicity and class play out in textual interpretation? An exploration of seminal texts by critics representing different literary theories ranging from structuralism, deconstruction, semiotics, cultural materialism to feminism, gender and postcolonial criticism. Major concepts shaping the study of literature since early 20th-century, examined when applied to interpretation of texts by Poe, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Faulkner, Dickinson, O’Connor, Morrison and Kingston. Conducted in a seminar discussion format, the class will engage in-depth critical reading, thinking and writing.
