69 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.
Introduction to the development of the American literary heritage, with emphasis on analytical, written, and oral skills. (M2)
Introduction to distinctive British works, emphasizing analytical and communication skills. (M2)
Selected major works in the literature of the Western world, emphasizing analytical and communication skills through written and oral projects. Recommended for those considering an English major. (M2)
Introduction to major literary genres-fiction, poetry, and drama-from a variety of times and cultures, emphasizing analytical and communication skills through written and oral projects. On occasion, thematic courses may be offered, such as “The Experience of Literature by Women.” (M2)
African-American Literature. Introduction to the poetry, non-fiction, fiction, and drama of the African-American tradition in literature from the beginnings of the Colonial period to the present day, emphasizing analytical and communication skills through written and oral projects. (M2)
Introduction to distinctive British works, emphasizing analytical and communication skills. (M2)(Critical Reading)(PtK:HUM)
As an exploration of selections of medieval literature (c.500CE - c.1500CE) drawn from the variety of voices that gave rise to English literary culture, this course introduces major literary genres (e.g., prose, poetry, and drama) and emphasizes analytical and communication skills, as well as historical, cultural, and literary contexts.
Introduction to the development of the American literary heritage, with emphasis on analytical, written, and oral communication skills. (M2) (PTK - HUM)(Critical Reading)
Introduction to the African American literary tradition, which might include the genres of poetry, non-fiction, fiction, and drama. The course will explore how categories of race, gender, sexuality, class, and ethnicity shape this literature and reflect its peoples’ relationship(s) with the American nation. ( Inclusion)(Critical Reading)
This course introduces students to Native American Literature by exploring the rich diversity of tribal cosmologies, the vibrant storytelling imparted by the oral tradition, the tragic history of conflicts with European American settlers, and significant themes as well as wide-ranging stylistic approaches and particular literary techniques of contemporary Indigenous writers, with emphasis on analytical, written, and oral communication skills.(Intercultural and Linguistic Competencies)(Critical Reading)
Godzilla, Poke’mon, vengeful ghosts, serpentine seductresses…: monsters in modern and contemporary Asian cultures have frightened and fascinated audiences across time and borders. The monstrous, the supernatural, and the uncanny are that which transgress, transform, and destabilize existing cultural norms, providing nuanced insights into the collective psyche of a society. This course explores the many ways monsters symbolize and personify issues, problems, fears and hopes that have shaped modern East Asian societies. We will also discuss the global popularity of monster movies, manga, and video games, how they shape the world’s perception of Asia, and through which, how Asian societies remake their own cultural images. (Intercultural and Linguistic Competencies)(Critical Reading)
Introduction to writing for the business sector (correspondence, reports, proposals, presentations, other forms of business writing)..
Guided practice in public and personal essay writing. Workshop setting.
Guided practice in poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction.(M6) (PTK - CRE))(Writing)
This course offers a broad overview of composition and writing tutoring pedagogy and covers best practices for working with student writers. Students will gain practical teaching, presentation, and leadership skills through extensive practice with student writing samples and a range of reflective and research-based assignments. We will also address considerations broadly related to student success and academic readiness. This course is designed to support students who wish to become Writing Fellows or Writing Center Tutors.
One-half unit of credit given for self-guided study and four hours of tutoring per week. Student’s written proposal for study must be approved by Writing Center director.
Rhetoric is ordinarily thought of as a tool of orators, politicians, and advertisers, not as something employed by “creative” writers. Through reading rhetorical theory and literary theory as well as several narratives – novels, memoirs, film, and social texts – this course will examine rhetoric as it works in literary and cultural narratives: fiction and nonfiction prose, popular culture texts, and narratives of cultural myth. Writing intensive.
Introduction to business and technical composing practices and genres with an emphasis on audience awareness, project development and management, document design and visual rhetoric, professional editing, and usability testing. Includes critical rhetorical study and creation of job and application materials, proposals, technical instructions, print and digital marketing materials, and other deliverables requested as part of this class’s service learning collaboration with local organizations.
Students explore foundational concepts in writing studies in order to understand writing as both a subject of study and a significant symbolic activity in our everyday lives.
Students rhetorically analyze established and emerging digital genres in order to gain the theoretical and practical background necessary to approach the production of writing for digital platforms.
Introduction to phonology, grammar, and lexicon of English from its beginning to the present, with an emphasis on current language issues.(Public Speaking)
An integrative journalism course in which students will learn how to write, edit, pitch and publish news and features for a variety of media outlets; taught by an active media professional, with assistance and resources from Moravian’s new David Zinczenko Center for Integrative Media. (First-Year Seminar).
Introduction to English Studies. Introduction to various aspects of the discipline, including analysis of literature, bibliographic and research techniques, critical thinking and writing, various literary approaches, literary theory, and history of the field. Closed to non-English majors except by written permission of department chair or instructor. Writing intensive. Strongly encouraged as a pre-requisite for upper-level ENGL courses.(Writing)
Basic theory of public speaking with emphasis on developing skills essential to effective interpersonal communication in industrial, business, and academic settings.
Aesthetic, historical, and production aspects of theater. Practical experience in production.
Development of dramatic literature and theatrical practice in the 20th century.
Development of dramatic literature and theatrical practice in America, 1665 to the present.
Introduction to literature produced by 20th-century African, Asian, and Caribbean writers from former colonies of Western European empires, especially Britain. (M5) (Intercultural and Linguistic Competencies)(Equity and Inclusion)
This writing course will survey a broad spectrum of environmental literature, from Thoreau’s Walden to Cheryl Strayed’s recent bestseller, Wild, as well as images, music, and cinema that address environmental themes. Through writing, class discussion and other assignments, students will reflect on our changing relationship with the natural world and consider what that engagement has meant for both the planet and its human inhabitants. The course follows a workshop format, so reading and critiquing other students’ writing is required.
This course will provide students with an opportunity to closely read poetry, fiction, drama, and essays written by and about Native Americans. To truly understand these literary texts, we will need to learn about native peoples’ history, cultural contexts, oral traditions, and identity. Developing and interrogating questions regarding Native American identity will complicate our understanding of fixed literary genres and the power relations they encode. Our readings, discussions, and writing assignments will offer the opportunity to develop questions at issue for our discourse community. Writing especially will provide the chance to develop your own line of inquiry regarding specific texts.
Lucille Clifton states, “I don’t write because I have a mission to heal the world. My mission is to heal Lucille if I can, as much as I can.” Writing offers Clifton a medium through which she can enact a form of healing and self-preservation. Similarly, illness narratives communicate the embodied and disembodied experiences of people living with sickness, disease, and illness in an effort to make sense of their changing bodies, lives, and identities. This reading intensive course explores health, wellness, and illness narratives through a sustained engagement with non-fiction and imaginary literature.
This course considers such moral issues as identity; duties to kin; love, marriage, and sex; euthanasia and suicide; racism and sexism, as posed within a variety of world literature that includes short stories, novels, poetry, and drama, ranging from the era of Sophocles’ Antigone to the present.. (U2) (Ethical Deliberation)(Equity and Inclusion)
To what extent can, or should, writing (and also reading) function as a kind of activism? Can written work change minds and hearts? Should it be designed to do so? Can writing be more than a hobby–but also more than a vocation? That is, can the acts of writing and reading be seen as moral acts, as part of living a fully engaged life? In this course we will examine these and other questions as we read, view, discuss, and emulate both factual/documentary and imaginative works (ranging from op-ed pieces and documentaries to poems and short stories). (U2)(BTC)
This writing course will consider the emerging movement in “natural” - or “green” - burials, both in this country and abroad. Our primary text will be Grave Matters, which tells the stories of families who stepped outside the doors of their local funeral parlors and laid their loved ones to rest in natural cemeteries, backyard gravesites, memorial reefs, and at sea. You’ll also read about cremation, home funerals, and “eco-coffins,” as well the history of American burial and the benefits of going out green. By way of contrast, you will learn about the embalming process and the ecological consequences of our modern funeral practices. (Ethical Deliberation) (Equity and Inclusion)
Practical field experience in writing for mass media, business, industry, or nonprofits. Designed in consultation with director of internship program and field supervisor. By arrangement. For 288: 200-level writing course approved by the English major advisor or English Dept. Chair; for 386-388: 288 and one 200-level writing course approved by the English major advisor or English Dept. Chair; plus one additional English course.
Focused study of contemporary fiction, writing of several complete fictional works. Workshop setting. (M6)(Public Speaking)
Guided practice in writing news and feature articles for newspaper readers, with attention to news criteria and the state of newspapers in the United States.
Focused study of contemporary poetry, writing of a range of complete poetic works. Workshop setting. Alternate years. (M6)(Public Speaking)
Students analyze contemporary everyday discourses through rhetorical lenses, focusing on the ways language and other symbols function to persuade and/or to promote or prohibit understanding across differences. Students study theories of rhetorical analysis and practice those theories by analyzing self-selected contemporary discursive artifacts from pop culture, politics, and other aspects of everyday life. Students learn methods for critiquing the relative effectiveness of discourses within certain contexts as well as how to use that knowledge to better assess the effectiveness of their own writing.
Designed to provide the student of literature with theories and techniques for understanding, appreciating, and evaluating poetry.
This course begins with the reading and study of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and selected other works, followed by reading and study of selected major plays and sonnets by Shakespeare. No previous study of Middle or Early Modern English required, but ENGL 221 recommended.
The major plays. Spring, alternate years.
A study of the range of literary voices that constitute “American literature” from 1800-1865, including works by Native and African Americans, Hispanics, women, and a variety of ethnic and minority groups, as well as by the better-known writers of the era-Irving, Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, and Whitman. Alternate years. (Equity and Inclusion)
American Realism. Development of realism in American literature from its late 19th-century beginnings to its height in the early to mid-20th century. Alternate years.
Literature.Nonfiction prose, fiction, poetry to 1950. Fall, alternate years.
II.Works since 1950, with emphasis on living authors. Alternate years.
This course will provide students with an opportunity to closely read poetry, fiction, drama, and essays written by and about Native Americans. To truly understand these literary texts, we will need to learn about native peoples’ history, cultural contexts, oral traditions, and identity. Developing and interrogating questions regarding Native American identity will complicate our understanding of fixed literary genres and the power relations they encode. Our readings, discussions, and writing assignments will offer the opportunity to develop questions at issue for our discourse community. Writing especially will provide the chance to develop your own line of inquiry regarding specific texts.
This course takes the following question as its starting point: How do non-white members of the LGBTQ+ community experience their sexualities and identities in and apart from mainstream representations? Focusing on narratives from the 21st-century, we will work towards a better understanding of what it means to be queer and a racial minority. In so doing, we will work towards a better understanding of what it means to belong to this (Queer) Nation. (U2)
Chaucer.The Canterbury Talesand selected minor poems from the perspective of textual andsource analysis, as well as feminist, psychological, and new historicist approaches. No previous study of Middle English required but ENGL 221 recommended. Spring, alternate years.
Neoclassicism.British poetry, non-Shakespearean drama, and prose, 1500-1800. Alternate years.
A study of literature by men and women of varying ethnicities and social classes, and of primary documents that reveal major historical conditions and social and cultural movements to which these writers responded. Some emphasis upon major Romantic poets. Alternate years.
Novel.A study of the English novel from its beginnings in the 18th century to the 20th century. Alternate years.
Literature.British and Irish poets and novelists, with some emphasis on writers who have gained recognition since World War II. Alternate years.
Study of selected major and minor texts (mostly in translation) from Old English and Middle English literature, with corresponding interdisciplinary study of their cultural contexts. Examination of the evolution of literary genres, styles, and audiences. Exploration of the approaches and perspectives of contemporary scholarship to topics and issues in medieval studies, with a consideration of the links between contemporary and medieval cultures. (Ethical Deliberation)
Investigates issues of race, ethnicity, religion, and gender in the dramatic literature of the early modern period in England. Special attention to the plays of Shakespeare for their sensitivity to the diversity of the human condition. Earlier and later playwrights attuned to these issues will also be studied.
Examines moral problems and resolutions in modern and postmodern dramatic literature. Issues of race, ethnicity, religion, and gender, as well as other concerns that are part of the modern moral life.
Through close analyses of contemporary imaginative films, this course examines the relationship between narrative and cinema. Addressing the medium’s relationship with more traditional narrative forms (e.g., novels, short stories, etc.) and these forms’ contributions to the constructions of categories of race, gender, sexuality, class, and (inter)nationality, we will explore the questions, “How do films narrate? and “What do they narrate?” By the end of the course, we should have a more complex understanding of how narratives are constructed, how the medium of film challenges us to reimagine the shape and limits of what a text might be, and what the narratives offered tell us about the state of our societies and/or cultures. (Ethical Deliberation)
This course explores the literature and critical writings of twentieth century Black women writers to analyze depictions of black womanhood, community, resistance and resilience. Possible writers include Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Octavia Butler, Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, and others. (U2)
Detailed study of a single writer, school, genre, or theme in literature.
Senior Seminar.This course will synthesize and expand upon what students have learned throughout their major. Weekly meetings will consist of readings, discussion, and writing on topics within English Studies. Course requirements will include an extended written work in a student’s chosen genre, as well as a portfolio.Fall and Spring.(BTC)
Practical field experience in writing for mass media, business, industry, or nonprofits. Preferably taken in the senior year. Designed in consultation with director of internship program and field supervisor. By arrangement. For writing majors. Typically undertaken after submission of the writing track portfolio.
Practical field experience in writing for mass media, business, industry, or nonprofits. Preferably taken in the senior year. Designed in consultation with director of internship program and field supervisor. By arrangement. For writing majors. Typically undertaken after submission of the writing track portfolio.
Practical field experience in writing for mass media, business, industry, or nonprofits. Preferably taken in the senior year. Designed in consultation with director of internship program and field supervisor. By arrangement. For writing majors. Typically undertaken after submission of the writing track portfolio.
Practical field experience in writing for mass media, business, industry, or nonprofits. Designed in consultation with director of internship program and field supervisor. By arrangement.
Source: Moravian University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
