ILO 5.1: Information Literacy (http://catalog.lasalle.edu/ undergraduate/ilo/)
- Subject
- ENG
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2023-2024-graduate
- Source
- catalog.lasalle.edu
97 courses with the subject ENG, 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.
ILO 5.1: Information Literacy (http://catalog.lasalle.edu/ undergraduate/ilo/)
This course introduces students to rhetorical analysis and argument, while helping students to improve their writing skills and to develop a writing process suited for college-level work. Students learn to read critically from a variety of texts, disciplines, and media. They learn to synthesize texts to develop original arguments aimed at an academic audience. The course establishes a community of learners whose writing engages in ethical inquiry and reasoned debate, and it prompts students to use writing to make meaningful connections between and among their academic, social, and political lives. This course requires and additional hour-long writing lab.
Three core courses 9 its Credits 15 3 Second Semester
This course offers an introduction to writing in a variety of literary genre and to the workshop format of reading and discussing student writing.
ILO 1.1: Understanding Diverse Perspectives (http:// catalog.lasalle.edu/undergraduate/ilo/)
Web Design and Development is an introduction to the practice of World Wide Web document design, grounded in an understanding of the Web's development and theories of graphics and communication. The course focuses on researching, creating, revising, and editing Web sites, using "hard code" and applications-based layout and editing. Cross-listed with DART 230.
3 This course offers a study of religion and religious themes in literature. 3 Attention will be paid both to literary critical concern and to religious 3 analysis of poetry, fiction, and drama. Cross-listed as REL 243. 3 ENG 245 Survey of British Literature and Culture To 1798 3 This survey course considers important authors, works, and literary 3 movements in British literature from its beginnings to 1798 within the context of shifts in history and culture. Students gain not only an overview of significant works within this time frame, including early Celtic literature, but also a broad understanding of the cultural and aesthetic underpinnings indicated by terms like Medieval literature, Renaissance or Early Modern literature, and Restoration and 18th-century literature.
This survey course considers important authors, works, and literary movements in British literature from its beginnings to 1798 within the context of shifts in history and culture. Students gain not only an overview of significant works within this time frame, including early Celtic literature, but also a broad understanding of the cultural and aesthetic underpinnings indicated by terms like Medieval literature, Renaissance or Early Modern literature, and Restoration and 18th-century literature.
3 ENG 249 Survey of American Literature and Culture Since 1865 3 3 Mix of core courses, controlled electives in the major, free electives 6 3 Credits 15
Three core courses 9 3 Credits 15 3 Second Year 3 First Semester 3 ENG 210 College Writing II: Research (students should complete 3 course during sophomore year)
1865
In this intermediate literature course, students discuss a literary theme in its cultural contexts. Topics vary by section (Literature and the Family, Literature and Gender, Literature and Food, and so on) and will be discussed in terms of multiple genres, including film, and different historical and social contexts.
This course studies how language affects the way we view ourselves and others in our culture. Case studies of language in relation to sexism, racism, and politics will be supplemented by discussions of introductory concepts of language systems and stylistic analysis.
By providing instruction in planning and executing effective business writing, this course helps students learn to write the documents required of them as professionals: letters, resumes, memos, proposals, abstracts, and reports.
This course offers an introduction to the writing of fiction using a workshop format.
This course offers an introduction to the writing of poetry using a workshop format.
This course will offer a study of the art of playwriting from the traditiona and contemporary points of view, and provides guided writing of a one- act play.
Legal Writing is a challenging yet practical course in the reading, planning, and writing of effective legal documents (legal letters and memoranda, briefs, contracts, and personal statements for applications to law schools). It is designed for students planning careers in areas such as law, business, communication, and media studies.
This course offers instruction in various types of specialized writing such as grant writing, creative nonfiction, and satire. Topics and emphases vary each time the course is offered, so students may take this course for credit more than once.
This course takes a workshop approach to provide students with experience in judging manuscripts, proofreading, typographical design, and production of short documents: e.g., forms, resumes, flyers, brochures, and newsletters. ENG 310 offers an introduction to, and directed practice in, the use of desktop publishing software.
3 ENG 316 Literary Theory and Criticism 3 ENG 351 Gender and Ethnicity 3 ENG 352 Genre and Form 39 ENG 353 Contemporary Literature
Students in ENG 316 read and discuss major critical theories that have dominated literary and cultural studies in the last several decades.
ENG 330
Mix of core courses, controlled electives in the major, free electives 12 Credits 15 3 Third Year 3 First Semester 3 Mix of core courses, controlled electives in the major, free electives 15 Credits 15
The course focuses on texts that represent various representations of gender or ethnicity in Western literature (primarily American ethnic literature and/or writers representing diaspora). The course may include literature from any time period, or be narrowed to specific groups, nationalities, or historic periods (i.e., Asian American women writers during World War II) or broadened to include cross-cultural, cross- gendered representations (i.e., British and French women writers).
In this course, students examine literature through the lens of form and genre. Specifically, topics may include history of the elegy, history of the novel, literature of detection, science fiction, autobiography and memoir, l environmental writing, or satire. Students will leave this course with a deeper understanding of how a specific genre is represented across time periods and from various cultural traditions.
Select two creative writing courses at the 300-400 level 6 One additional literature course with ENG designation 3 Any additional literature or creative writing course with ENG 3 designation Total Credits 18 NOTE: There is a maximum number of courses taken outside the department that students can count toward their 6 course minor in English or in Creative Writing. No more than 2 courses taken outside the department can count toward the 6 course minor. Such courses include AP credit, courses taken while studying abroad, courses taken at another institution, and Honors courses taught by faculty in English-- HON 111 Early Literary Traditions + HON 112 Modern Literary Traditions count as a single course: traditionally ENG 245 Survey of British Literature and Culture To 1798. Choices for Creative Writing Code Title Credits
Students read from the works of four or five well-known American writers who visit the class to discuss their work. Although topics of discussion will vary according to the writers being studied, consideration will be given to such matters as canonicity, the role of the writer in the broader culture, literary form, theme as it evolves over the course of an author's career, and the business of publishing.
3 ENG 370 Special Topics
Specially designed courses in literature built around a topic chosen by the instructor. Topics vary from semester to semester.
Specially designed courses in literature built around a topic chosen by the instructor. Topics vary from semester to semester.
3 ENG 373 Special Topics
Specially designed courses in literature built around a topic chosen by the instructor. Topics vary from semester to semester.
3 ENG 375 Special Topics
Specially designed courses in literature built around a topic chosen by the instructor. Topics vary from semester to semester.
Specially designed courses in literature built around a topic chosen by the instructor. Topics vary from semester to semester.
Specially designed courses in literature built around a topic chosen by the instructor. Topics vary from semester to semester.
Specially designed courses in literature built around a topic chosen by the instructor. Topics vary from semester to semester.
ENG 492
This course includes special topics in advanced writing, including memoir writing, magazine writing, advanced business writing, advanced poetry writing, and writing about the environment. Topics and emphases vary each time the course is offered, so students may take this course for credit more than once.
ENG 405 and ENG 406 offer students further direction in the writing of fiction within a workshop. Students may repeat these courses for credit. Prerequisite(s): ENG 305
ENG 405 and ENG 406 offer students further direction in the writing of fiction within a workshop. Students may repeat these courses for credit. Prerequisite(s): ENG 305 La Salle University Catalog 2023-2024 - Undergraduate 153
Publication Design reviews and extends knowledge of copyediting and layout and design for both print and Web. The emphasis is on the use of Adobe InDesign to produce a range of documents, from logos, advertisements, and personal identity packages to magazine pages, magazine dummies, and Web layouts. Copy from La Salle journalism students will be used for some layout and photography exercises and posted to the Web. ENG 310 or experience with InDesign is helpful, but not required.
This course studies the ways in which the language we call English has developed over the centuries, the kinds of English that are spoken in the world today, and the underlying structure of these varieties of English and their different grammars. ENG 417 combines theory with text, using works by authors from the 7th century to the 21st as base texts in which to analyze how English has continued to develop as an important linguistic force throughout the world.
This course surveys the literature of Western Europe from the ancient Greeks to the modern period, emphasizing drama and narrative in their many forms. Literary works will be studied in relationship to their historical and cultural contexts.
3 ENG 441 Studies in British Literature and Culture To 1700
In this course, students intensively study aspects of Medieval British and Renaissance literature and culture up to the beginnings of the modern period. Although topics may vary from section to section, this course concentrates on selected authors, examining them in light of their historical and cultural contexts, as well as their continental counterparts.
In this course, students intensively study British Restoration and 18th- and 19th-century literature, and the culture. Although topics may vary from section to section, this course concentrates on selected authors from this time period, examining them in the light of their historical, literary, and cultural contexts, as well as competitive or complementary continental traditions.
In this course, students intensively study British literature and culture from 1900 to the present. Although topics may vary from section to section, this course concentrates on selected authors from this time period, examining them in the light of their historical and cultural contexts, as well as continental traditions.
This course provides the student with an opportunity to do research with a faculty member. The student and the faculty member agree on the research project before the student registers for the course.
This course is a continuation of the 444 research course. It provides the student with an opportunity to continue to conduct research with a faculty member.
Two courses at the 400 level:
1900 All Other Required Courses For the Major in English
Students may intern at a variety of sites including advertising and public relations firms, publishing and broadcasting companies, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, and social service or health care agencies. Student interns work under professional supervision to learn how to apply their education to the everyday demands of the world of work. Students can earn 3 credits for internships requiring 12-15 hours per week of work, and 6 credits for internships requiring 24-30 hours per week of work. In addition, students can complete two 3-credit internships in different semesters. Restriction(s): Interested students must have at least a junior or senior standing, a 2.75 grade point average both overall and in the major, and the recommendation of the internship coordinator.
Students may intern at a variety of sites including advertising and public relations firms, publishing and broadcasting companies, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, and social service or health care agencies. Student interns work under professional supervision to learn how to apply their education to the everyday demands of the world of work. Students can earn 3 credits for internships requiring 12-15 hours per week of work, and 6 credits for internships requiring 24-30 hours per week of work. In addition, students can complete two 3-credit internships in different semesters. Restriction(s): Interested students must have at least a junior or senior standing, a 2.75 grade point average both overall and in the major, and the recommendation of the internship coordinator.
One course in literature before 1900:
Global Languages, Literatures, and
This gateway course to the graduate program examines the and contrastive relationships between critical and pedag The course’s approach is both historical and internation aims of making students keener readers of literature and them better to show others how to become such readers.
Students will apply both practical and theoretical approaches to various texts of American literature. Readings will vary in time period, selection, and genre. Attention will be paid to both the traditional and the ever-expanding canon. Assignments will be writing intensive.
Students will apply both practical and theoretical approaches to various texts of British literature. Readings will vary in time period, selection, and genre. Attention will be paid to both the traditional and the ever-expanding canon. Assignments will be writing intensive.
Students will apply both practical and theoretical approaches to various texts of Western world literature. Readings will vary in time period, selection, and genre. Attention will be paid to both the traditional and the ever-expanding canon. Assignments will be writing intensive.
Students will apply both practical and theoretical approaches to various texts of non-Western world literature. Readings will vary in time period, selection, and genre. Attention will be paid to both the traditional and the ever-expanding canon. Assignments will be writing intensive.
This course provides various approaches to the writing process and grounds students in the formal history of rhetoric with an eye to the various modes writers use to inform and persuade audiences.
This course studies the intersection of the theory and practice of ever-expanding digital technology with literary and pedagogical issues. Seminar emphasis may vary from semester to semester, but one goal will be to provide a framework for teachers expecting to teach Web and print design at the high school or college level. Student projects may be integrated with publications and Web sites of Philadelphia-area organizations.
This course allows students to ground literary works within their cultural contexts with attention to the historical circumstances and contemporary issues that inform writers and their works.
This course examines selected writers from the greater Philadelphia region (such as Benjamin Franklin, Charles Brockdon Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Owen Wister, Christopher Morley, John Edgar Wideman, Lorene Carey, Chaim Potok, Sonia Sanchez, Toby Olsen, David Bradley) in terms of various frameworks and contexts, including the cultural and historical development of the Philadelphia region, the patterns of immigration and migration that have produced the area’s ethnic and racial diversity, and the insights into that literature suggested by contemporary critical theories.
This course studies drama from a number of historical and cultural traditions with an eye both to reading and producing the play text. Students will study in detail the production history of both established and cutting-edge dramatic pieces; this course will also suggest ways for students to stage theatrical productions under their own direction. Students will also have the opportunity to interact with professional comparative theatre artists associated with theatres in Philadelphia. ogical theory. al with the dual of preparing
This course studies the relationship between literary texts and works of art, music, and film by allowing students to look at examples of literature that reflect, adapt, or make use of materials from a variety of artistic media.
In consultation with the graduate director, students will undertake a substantive critical pedagogical project approved by the graduate director and advisory committee.
Under the direction of a graduate faculty advisor, students will write a major critical essay of at least 10,000 words (i.e., 40 pages) on a topic approved by the graduate director and advisory committee.
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