53 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.
Develops students’ abilities to use writing as a tool for inquiry. Introduces genre theory, writing as a process, revision, and strategies of primary and secondary research. Reviews grammar, style, and documentation conventions. Engages students in reflection and promotes positive attitudes toward writing.
Advances students’ development in the writing processes. Promotes a critical evaluation and integration of information into their own writing as they research complex and open-ended issues. Identifies the relationships between rhetorical situations, the status of claims, and the need for evidence and warrants. Continues review of grammar, style, and documentation conventions. Encourages collaboration and effective search strategies of the Internet and library resources. Promotes students’ reflective analysis and a positive attitude toward writing.
Advances students' development in the writing and research processes and their understanding of how genres of writing shape meaning. Some courses may focus on the student's academic and discipline-specific experiences; Others may be based on literary or social themes. Promotes a critical reading of texts, reflective analysis, and a positive attitude toward writing.
Develops students' abilities to read and write expository and persuasive academic discourse. Teaches students the components of the writing process and strategies to think and read critically and to present a written argument. Requires students to write expository and persuasive essays and research papers and to keep a journal to express their responses to the material read and studied in the course.
Equivalent to the university requirement of ENGL 101. Develops multilingual (non-native speakers of English) students' abilities to use writing as a tool for research and reflection. Introduces the concept of genre, writing as a process, reflection on students’ own and others’ work, revision, and approaches to primary and secondary research. Reviews grammar, organization, style, and documentation conventions. Promotes positive attitudes toward writing.
Equivalent to the university requirement of ENGL 102. Advances multilingual (non-native speakers of English) students’ abilities to use of writing as a tool for research and reflection and their understanding of writing as a process. Develops the critical evaluation and integration of information into students’ own writing as they research social, political, and educational open-ended issues. Continues review of grammar, organization, style, and documentation conventions. Enhances effective strategies for secondary research and collaboration skills. Promotes positive attitude towards writing.
Equivalent to the university requirement of ENGL 103. Advances multilingual (non-native speakers of English) students' development in the reading, writing, and research processes. Some courses may focus on the student's academic and discipline-specific experiences, while others may be based on literary or social themes. Enhances multilingual students’ ability to read texts critically and to reflect on their own and others’ writing, scholarly and literary works, and social events. Promotes a positive attitude toward writing.
This course introduces freshman majors to the practice and study of the English major. It is a foundation for further study as well as a course about how we learn. It prepares the student to be successful in upper-division courses and to become familiar with the basic tools of the discipline. It encourages the creative and critical thinking that is a hallmark of the English major.
A survey of Greek and Roman literature (Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil and Cicero), up to and including the Medieval period (Aquinas, Cavalcanti, Chaucer, and Dante).
A survey of Western literature from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, focusing on works by Cervantes, Erasmus, Rabelais, Petrarch, Voltaire, Rousseau, Swift and Pope.
A survey of Western literature of the 19th and 20th centuries focusing on the major periods of Romanticism (Blake, Coleridge and Keats), Realism (Balzac and Ibsen), and Modernism (Kafka, Borges and Woolf).
A survey of nonwestern literatures produced before the modern era in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, representing the more important periods and genres.
A survey of nonwestern literatures written since the 20th century by writers from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and focusing on the effects of social, aesthetic and contemporary events on artistic creation.
A survey of American literature from Colonial times through the Civil War, including works by such writers as Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Cotton Mather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
A survey of American literature from the Civil War through the 21st century, including works by such writers as Kate Chopin, W.E.B. Du Bois, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Philip Roth, Mark Twain and John Updike.
Introduces students to African-American Literature, from the mid-18th century to the present. Provides a basic understanding of social, political and cultural influences and an awareness of the African-American literary tradition.
A historical survey of British literature from its beginning to the end of the eighteenth century. Students will read texts selected to represent major authors, forms and thematic material that illustrates the development of English literature through the medieval and Renaissance periods and seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
A historical survey of British literature from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present; students will read texts selected to represent major authors, forms and thematic material of the Romantic, Victorian and modern periods.
A basic course, which focuses on fiction as a genre through the study of a variety of short stories and fiction, organized by theme, period or form. One of three genre courses.
A basic course which focuses on poetry as a genre through the study of a variety of poems organized by theme, period or form. One of three genre courses.
A basic course which focuses on drama as a genre through the study of a variety of plays organized by theme, period or form. One of three genre courses.
This course examines writing in English by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and sexual minority authors. Learning from LGBT literature in a variety of forms and genres will help students cultivate sophisticated knowledge about sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, homoeroticism and homophobia, HIV/AIDS, the relationship of art and politics, and the intersections of sexuality, gender, race, class, and nation.
This course explores the unique role of Jewish humor in literature and film in the 20th and 21st centuries in relationship to aspects of Jewish life ranging from assimilation to antisemitism, through a selection of novels, short stories, essays, plays, and film. Some of the authors whose works we may discuss and analyze include Philip Roth, Neil Simon, and Melissa Broder in addition to filmmakers such as Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, the Coen Brothers, and Sasha Baron Cohen.
This course introduces students to the digital humanities through two main practices of inquiry: the reading and discussion of theory, and guided hands-on experimentation with computational methods. Digital humanities is broadly defined as the use of digital tools and methods to conduct humanities research, as well as the study of digital tools and methods. Readings and activities will encompass interdisciplinary humanities topics in literature and history, such as archival studies, media and material culture studies, history of the book, Black studies, feminist and queer theory, and disability studies. Previous experience with digital humanities methods is not required.
This course studies the impact of scientific and technological change on works of literature and art produced in various historical periods.
This 1-credit variable topics course for English majors explores specialized issues in literature and writing such as: an author or major work; a significant moment in the history of writing, literature, or criticism; or a controversial or debated issue in writing or literary studies. English majors must take 3 different ENGL 301 colloquium topics as part of their major requirements.
This course explores the relatively recent discipline of Ecocriticism and considers the literary relationship between human beings and the natural environment--both altered and unaltered by human activity. The approach is interdisciplinary in its investigation of the relationships among science, culture, and personal observation. Students will read a selection of seminal texts of American environmental literature.
Provides reading and discussion of works illustrating the development of modern science fiction.
This course introduces students to young adult (YA) fiction and to secondary sources useful for the appreciation of it. Topics discussed include: young adults as an audience, the genres of YA fiction, keeping up with YA fiction, literary and psychological theory applied to YA fiction.
A study of the mystery story, from its inception as a genre in the 19th century to the present, through short stories and novels.
An examination of novels, short stories, and poetry about our "national pastime" that illuminate American ideals and values, history and culture from 1845 to the present. A study of how the game's symbols and rituals, its history and mythology help us understand American belief systems and ideologies.
Genocide is defined as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” (U. N. Office on Genocide Prevention). This course will feature literature, film, and articles, by survivors themselves, historians and other writers, about major genocides and their perpetrators. Topics may include cases from any part of the world or century up to the present.
In this advanced reading course, students read literary works about business and work and write analytically about these works, grounding that analysis in nonfiction readings from business publications. Course writing assignments ask students to respond to problems and issues raised in the texts.
This is a variable topics course, focusing on the literature of a particular period (i.e., Classical Literature; Victorian Literature; the Harlem Renaissance).
A seminar-style course in which students work on a research or creative project of their own choosing. They acquire knowledge and skills related to the development of researchable original ideas in the domains of humanities areas like literature and philosophy, or social science areas like communication, history or psychology, or a creative work or portfolio.
This course focuses on Shakespeare's major plays and sonnets, providing the historical and cultural contexts that gave rise to his work.
A course focused on intensive study of one or more authors, for example: Jane Austen; Joseph Conrad; Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald; Writers of the Harlem Renaissance; Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
A variable topics course which studies relationships between literature and one or more of the visual arts, theater or music (i.e., Surrealism; Memoir and Documentary Film; The Faust Legend). May be repeated for credit.
A variable topics course which focuses on a particular national or regional literature within its cultural, historical and political contexts (i.e., African Literature; French Literature; Latin American Literature). May be repeated for credit.
This course provides a close reading of selected books of the Old and New Testaments alongside selected literary works to discover both the literary qualities of these texts and their influence on literature.
This course investigates the specific forms mythological stories have taken in the literature, art and ritual of some or all of the following: Greece, Rome, Iceland, Mesopotamia and Native American and European cultures in the United States.
A variable topics course which studies the literature of one or more of the United States ethnic populations within their historical and cultural contexts. May be repeated for credit.
Focuses on the Jewish Bible, a classic literary document of Western civilization, deemed by many people of the world as fundamental to their religion; stresses aspects of cultural diversity and awareness.
This course focuses on literature written by, and/or about women and considers issues relating to women's place in literary history.
This course examines the relationship between literature and the society it reflects and helps shape.
A variable topics course designed to further develop the ideas first presented in the African American Literature survey by exploring, in much more depth, significant authors, periods, and genres within the African American literary and cultural tradition. Topics include Science and Technology in African American Literature; the Slave Narrative; and Black Travel Writing.
This is a variable topics course which focuses on aspects of illness, healing, care-giving, aging, grief, and mortality as presented in narrative. Exploration of how literary construction and analysis affect understanding of these experiences. Topics include 'Illness and Healing in Literature' and 'The Physician in Literature and Film.'.
This course examines literary theoretical thinking, and focuses on twentieth century structuralism, post-structuralism, and contemporary theory. We will examine the ways in which language is conceived and reconceived by major theoretical writers and the implications of this rethinking for conceptualizations of history, politics, ideology, sexuality, and trauma, among others.
This is a variable topics course, providing intense literary study on a specific theme.
This seminar gives students the opportunity to synthesize, contextualize, and deepen their understanding of how disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences approach the experiences and implications of illness, aging, mortality and healing. Regular guest lecturers, discussion of assigned readings, student presentations, and written projects.
An advanced course with variable topics in British or American Literature stressing textual analysis, cultural and historical contexts and research; provides students with intensive preparation for advanced and professional studies.
An advanced course with variable topics in World Literature stressing textual analysis, cultural and historical contexts and research; provides students with intensive preparations for advanced and professional studies.
Open to English Majors only, the senior project in literature should reflect the student's interest in a specific subject, author or theme and should demonstrate the student's research, critical and analytical expertise at an advanced, pre-professional level.
Source: Drexel University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
