66 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 100Essay Writing3
Literature requirement. Letter Grade Develops fundamental writing skills such as grammar, paragraph development, and ENGL 160: Literature Into Film organization. Students learn to see writing as (MI) Credits: 3 Letter Grade a process as they plan, draft, edit and revise A study of the transformation of literary texts papers. This course does not address research into film texts that focuses on the technical, but does introduce students to incorporating cultural and political aspects of adaptation outside voices into an essay (through quoting, and the different capacities and limitations of each medium. Core: Literature requirement.
(MI) Letter Grade An investigation of the short story as a formal genre within prose fiction. Students practice close reading and literary analysis skills and are introduced to literary criticism. Students explore the limits and possibilities created by brevity of form. .
(MI) Letter Grade An examination of the legends and literature associated with the “Matter of Britain” – that is the tales of King Arthur, the knights of the Round Table, and the intrigues of court life at Camelot. Course materials range from the early medieval source texts to the popular chronicles, poetry, fiction, and films that have been created over the centuries to express a fascination with Arthurian legends that persists until today.
(MI) Letter Grade A study of short stories from around the globe. Also explores the cultural and geographical factors that influence human character and behavior The aim of the course is to foster appreciation of literary and cultural differences. Core: Literature requirement.
ENGL 201Shakespeare's Heroes and Heroines or ENGL-202: Shakespeare in Love and War
One American Literature Elective (3 credits) One British Literature Elective (3 credits) One Period Course Before 1900 (excluding Shakespeare) (3 credits) One Period Course After 1900 (3 credits) One Literary Genre Course (e.g., poetry, drama, novel, short story) (3 credits) One Cultural Studies Course (e.g., gender, ethnicity, ecology, animal studies) (3 credits) Additional English Electives (36 total credits in literature required; *6 credit limit in Creative Writing courses) American Electives:
(AC) Letter Grade Students will be exposed to several forms of literary nonfiction in order to produce their own writing in the genres of the essay, memoir, and new journalism. Readings may include works by Orwell, de Montaigne, Frank McCourt, David Sedaris, Mary Karr, and Mark Bowden.
(MI) Letter Grade A study of the spirit and form that makes American poetry “American” from the free verse of Whitman to spoken word work of Baraka and Piñero. Readings from a variety of American poets with attention to the evolving conventions of the genre Core: Literature requirement.
(MI) Letter Grade A study of selected major poets with attention to conventions of genre and form in relation to key movements in the changing history of British language and culture. Core: Literature requirement.
(AC) Letter Grade Exposes students, particularly those interested in Creative Writing, to an additional -- and extremely popular -- writing genre: memoir. Offers a rigorous expansion of knowledge of literary forms, authors, and works. Classic and bestselling memoirs will be discussed; and brief memoirs will be written.
(AC) Letter Grade An investigation of the human impulse to travel and to record that experience in written, literary or photo-journalistic, expression. Students will engageclassic examples in the genre of travel writing. They will also practice the craft directly through instruction and field work that leads to production within various forms of the genre including narrative, feature articles, reviews, blogs, and photo journalism. Prerequisite:
(MI) Letter Grade Readings in English literature during the Age of Reason with emphasis on "wit" and "satire" (in poetry and drama) and attention to the new genre of fiction that will become the novel. Core: Literature requirement.
ENGL 227Drama/Classical to Modern post-war, post-colonial and post-modern3
(MI) Letter Grade aesthetics and the effects of new voices from An intensive reading of major dramas in the former British colonies as they expand and British and continental literature. Stresses question the notion of what Englishness genres of tragedy and comedy. Core: Literature means. Core: Literature requirement. requirement.
ENGL-101 or Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or IDHP 220. IDHP-220.
ENGL 228Modern Drama (SW) Letter Grade3
(MI) Credits: 3 Letter Grade Readings in various genres that investigate An intensive reading of major American, gender as a social and literary construction. British, and continental dramatists. Students explore gender and sexual identity Emphasizes historical development and in relation to historical and cultural staging of plays. Core: Literature requirement. conditions and in light of power relations that alike. Course is Writing Intensive. Core:
ENGL 101 or IDHP-220. inform expression for authors and characters
ENGL 233British Romanticism Literature requirement. Prerequisite: ENGL3
101 or IDHP-220. (MI) Letter Grade An examination of readings in major poetry and prose of the period covering 1790 -1820, ENGL 245: American Theater with attention to the origins of the “romantic” (MI) Credits: 3 Letter Grade movement and the aesthetic and social A study of plays from O’Neill to the present. concerns of first and second generation of Attention given to the history of early drama Romantics writers. Authors may include in America, with intensive reading of modern Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, plays. Core: Literature requirement. Keats and Mary Shelley. Core: Literature
ENGL 101 or IDHP 220. requirement. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or IDHP 220. ENGL 248: Iriish Literature I Credits: 3 Letter Grade
ENGL 237Fantastic Worlds of British Lit Presents the origins and evolution of the3
(MI) Letter Grade movement. Studies the drama, fiction and An examination of the tradition of “the poetry of major Irish writers up to the Gaelic fantastic” in British literature from the Revival. Medieval to the present. Readings may include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Morte ENGL 249: Modern Irish Literature d’Arthur, Victorian fantasy tales, Tolkien’s (MI) Credits: 3 Letter Grade The Hobbit, and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter A study of major works in drama, fiction, and novels. Core: Literature requirement. poetry from the writers of the Irish the new voices of contemporary, postcolonial
ENGL 240Contemporary British Literature of poetry writing. In addition to instruction in3
(MI) Letter Grade writing, the class will introduce students to a Readings in all genres of the contemporary range of poems written by a diverse field of period with attention to the influences of poets representing different cultures and 252
(AC) Letter Grade Focuses upon the essential elements of writing t clear, concise, and dynamic short scripts for film and video productions. Through writing exercises, students will learn how to write realistic dialogue, visually compelling scenes, and precise technical instructions for crew. Both documentary and narrative formats will be explored.
(MI) Letter Grade Readings include a diversity of racial, ethnic and cultural voices writing in different inflections within English. Students will examine issues of identity, otherness, immigration, and assimilation as those issues relate to an author’s cultural or ‘native’ tongu Core: Literature requirement.
(SW) Letter Grade Readings in American literature that cover texts from the moment of contact, Native American texts, Puritan texts including sermons, captivity narratives, early American poetry and fiction, and works by Founding Fathers. Authors may include Winthrop, Bradford, Smith, Bradstreet, Edwards, Franklin, Wheatley, Jefferson, and Apess. Core: Literature requirement.
1865 (MI) Letter Grade Readings in all genres of American literature that cover the birth of a vibrant American literary scene during the 1820s including but not limited to authors such as Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe and Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Jacobs, Fuller, and Whitman. Core: Literature requirement.
1945 (MI) Letter Grade Readings in all genres of American literature that cover texts from the immediate post- Civil-War period with its challenges related to Reconstruction of the South, immigration, the woman question, industrialization, and urbanization to the literary experimentation that characterized the lead up to and aftermath of World War I. Students will explore literary movements including Realism, Naturalism, Regionalism, and Modernism and study writers such as Twain, Dickinson, James, Crane, DuBois, Fitzgerald, O’Neill, Eliot, Hemingway, Hughes and Hurston. Core: Literature requirement.
(AC) Letter Grade An in-depth exploration of short fiction writing, both traditional short stories and "flash fiction," an increasingly popular and very short form of fiction writing. Concentrates on the fundamentals of short story writing such as character, voice, and plot.
Letter Grade This course explores the nature and evolution of Gothic literature in the 19th and 20th centuries, with attention to the artistic and political roots of horror fiction. Includes Frankenstein, Dracula, and American literary offspring.
(AC) Letter Grade An introductory yet rigorous encounter with a subgenre that is receiving much academic and popular attention. Students will read and analyze a number of graphic texts (fiction and nonfiction) to understand how the narrative and visual components work together. Participants will produce the text and artwork for several graphic stories. Ability in drawing is not a prerequisite.
(MI) Letter Grade Students will read from a wide array of literary and eco-critical sources that offer a theoretical framework within which to explore representations of nature in literature and the R interrlatedness of nature and humanity. Concepts to be explored include: wilderness, frontier, exploitation of the environment, sustainability, and an ethical (i.e. earth- centered) understanding of what it means to live “with” rather than simply “on” earth. Core: Literature requirement.
(MI) Letter Grade Analysis of some of the most influential American writers at home and abroad in the 1920s, including ex-patriots Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eliot, Stein, Baldwin, and other Americans writing in the aftermath of World War I. Course is Writing Intensive. Core: Literature requirement.
Letter Grade This course studies writing by humans and machines. Students will critically explore and learn about writing within the new landscape of artificial intelligence. Students will experiment with AI tools for various writing tasks and determine whether and how to balance AI input with their own contributions. Students will develop a distinctive voice for writing in and outside of academia, reading and writing in multiple genres.
(MI) Letter Grade Readings of British novels as the genre rose to prominence in 19th C realism and its further developments in modernism and post- modernism in the 20th and 21st Centuries. The course is Writing Intensive. Prerequisite:
(MI) Letter Grade A study of medieval British literature including such works as The Canterbury Tales, Arthurian legends, medieval plays, ballads, and romances in relation to their historical, linguistic, and cultural contexts. Core: Literature requirement.
Letter Grade Seminar study of a single author or selected authors connected by a theme or historical movement in American literature. Readings from primary texts as well as literary criticism and theory and other related historical or cultural texts relevant to the primary works lead to a focused research project. Repeatable for credit.
Letter Grade Seminar study of a single author or selected authors connected by a theme or historical movement in British literature. Readings from primary texts as well as literary criticism relevant to those texts lead to a focused research project. Repeatable for credit. 220.
(AC) Letter Grade An advanced poetry workshop where students will not only read and critique each other’s poems, but also write, with the instructor’s guidance, a poetry book review. By writing prose about poetry, students will both deepen their understanding of poetic craft and enter into dialogue with the broader poetry community. One goal of the course is to encourage opportunities for student publication.
(AC) Letter Grade An intensive workshop in the craft of writing short fiction and/or novel chapters for students who have successfully mastered the basic elements of fictional composition. Students are expected to produce thoughtful and detailed responses to each other’s work and to produce two new short stories (10 to 20 pages each) or two new chapters (10 to 20 pages each).
Pass/Fail Designed to provide practical experience in fields related to the English or English and Writing Major. Students can request assistance to find placements. Repeatable for credit. Graded Pass/Fail only. Satisfies the Career Connections requirement for graduation.
Minor #4 or Writing/English or General Elective + HUMN-300: Bridge Course (1 credit) Minor #5 or Writing/English or General Elective Writing/English or General Elective Minor #6 or Writing/English or General Elective Writing/English or General Elective Writing/English or General Elective Writing/English or General Elective Writing/English or General Elective Major in English Literature and Writing with Secondary Education Co-Major and Special Education Minor The Secondary Education Certification Preparation Program in English (Grades 7 -12) is available to English Literature and Writing Majors seeing Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) Certification. The Program integrates educational theory and practice with field experi- ences that include practicum and student teaching, as well as opportunities to develop teaching competence through innovative and effective approaches to the educational process with focus on students at the Secondary Level. Students interested in the Co-Major/Mi- nor should contact the Education Program at 215.248.7129. The PDE requires that all Secondary Education Certification Preparation Program participants have 9 credits of Special Education and 3 credits of Teaching English as a Second Language, in addition, students must meet field experience competencies before Student Teaching: EDUC-201 provides 20 hours; EDUC-203 provides 20 hours; EDSC-317 provides 75; EDSP-347 provides 75; and Student Teaching, EDSC-420, is 14 weeks in duration. Stage I and Stage II Portfolios are completed in the following courses:
Core Requirement + HUMN-300: Bridge Course (1 credit) English Literature or General Elective English Literature or General Elective English Literature or General Elective English Literature or General Elective English Literature or General Elective English Literature or General Elective English Literature or General Elective Major in English Literature with Secondary Education Co-Major and Special Education Minor The Secondary Education Certification Preparation Program in English (Grades 7 -12) is available to English Literature Majors seeking Pennsylva- nia Department of Education (PDE) Certification. The Program integrates educational theory and practice with field experiences that include practicum and student teaching, as well as opportunities to develop teaching competence through innovative and effective ap- proaches to the educational process with focus on students at the Secondary Level. Students interested in the Co-Major/Minor should contact the Education Office at 215.248.7129. The PDE requires that all Secondary Education Certification Preparation Program participants have 9 credits of Special Education and 3 credits of Teaching English as a Second Language, in addition, students must meet field experience competencies before Student Teaching: EDSC-203 provides 20 hours; EDSC-201 provides 20 hours; EDSC-317 provides 75; and Student Teaching, EDSC-420, is 14 weeks in duration. Stage I and Stage II Portfolios are completed in the following courses:
Letter Grade Students work closely with a faculty mentor, who will provide disciplinary guidance, including appropriate primary and secondary readings, discussions of theoretical or disciplinary questions that might inform thesis development in ENGL-495. Taken in conjunction with ENGL-495 and followed by HUMN-495 and HUMN-300-level bridge course.
