84 courses with the subject ENLT, 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.
A broad study of literature for children since 1800, with the emphasis on American works since 1950, including aesthetic consideration of the art and design of picture books. Works for children up to the age of 12 are considered.
An exploration of the nature of prose fiction, its elements and techniques. The emphasis is critical rather than historical. The range of works and the specific selections may vary with the individual instructor.
An exploration of the nature of poetry, its value, aims, and techniques. The emphasis will be critical rather than historical. The range of poems and the specific selections may vary with the individual instructor.
An exploration of the nature of drama, its types, techniques, and conventions. The emphasis will be critical rather than historical. The range of plays and the specific selections may vary with the individual instructor. This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track.
An introductory study of how literature conveys the relationship between humans and the environment. Topics studied may include the definitions of nature and the environment; sense of place; literature of the Anthropocene; post-humanism and animal studies; and environmental disasters and stories of renewal.
This course will examine representative examples of the short story in the United States from the past to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the significance of individual works, but some consideration will be given to the evolving cultural ethos in the nation.
An exploration of Irish culture by means of the island’s major works of mythology, history, religion, folk story, fairy tale, song, verse, drama and fiction. All readings in English.
Mythic materials are examined to discover the underlying heroic archetypal patterns. Then modern literature is examined in the light of the same mythic patterns.
A study of literature in various genres—including poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography, journalism, and music—written in and/or about the American prison. We will consider how this writing depicts the experiences of prisoners and raises social and moral issues related to imprisonment, race, gender, economics, and criminal justice reform.
An introductory study of drama and fiction analyzing issues of social justice and the social, political, and/or structural dimensions of these issues which have been used to impede the establishment of social justice. Topics studied may include race, gender, class, sexual orientation, ability issues, age-ism, and war/violence.
In this class, we’ll explore your expectations of college by looking at some of the literature, reporting, films and music that imagine college life. Along with reading and writing about those texts, you will write personal essays exploring your preconceptions, immediate responses, and eventual reflections on your own college experience.
Examination of the uses of various literary genres-including fiction, autobiography, poetry, and biography-to raise questions about how we might live a good life, even a magnificent one. Drawing largely from the Spiritual Exercises and Autobiography of Ignatius Loyola, we will explore some of the ways that literature raises questions of vocation, discernment, identification, compassion.
Students will be introduced to the college-level study of fictional narratives by reading and viewing a group of novels and films that fall generally into the category of recent and contemporary dystopian science fiction. Discussions and writing assignments will emphasize critical reading skills and forensic argument.
The hardboiled tradition stretches from 1920s Hemingway to today’s James Ellroy, Dennis Lehane, Clint Eastwood, and Coen Brothers. This class traces the way the genre has imagined detectives, gangsters, cowboys, and superheroes as representatives of the American experience, and it examines novels, stories, and films that define the tradition’s evolution.
This course introduces first-year students to the histories and practices of feminism and Jesuit education. In learning about what drives each approach, the student discovers the points where feminism and Jesuit education intersect: 1) transformational education geared at social justice, 2) the embrace of diversity, and 3) common teaching practices.
This course will structure all assignments around one Shakespeare play. Students will read the play carefully, commit to a topic, read literary criticism on the topic, write about that topic, discuss the play’s connection to the Jesuit tradition, examine the play in performance, and perform speeches from the play.
The purpose of this course is to understand race as a social construction and comprehend how race is a central element in the realization of social justice. Several works by authors that detail what it is like to live a “raced” existence and works about Jesuit education will be read.
This class looks at literature alongside the historical events that shaped it. Each iteration of the class focuses on a single year - for instance 1962, 1928, or 1984 - and discusses a range of novels alongside, potentially, short stories, poetry, drama, and films in their contemporary context.
An exploration of fiction, poetry, and drama. The approach is inductive; the aims are a greater understanding of literature, and an introduction to techniques of literary scholarship, theory, and research.
This seminar will explore Irish culture by means of the island’s major works of mythology, history, religion, art, folk story, fairy tale, music, song, verse, drama, fiction, and film (all readings in English). Participants will, read, discuss, teach, argue, research and explore the rich literature of Ireland.
Award-winning literary texts and writers of the last ten years enable students to examine success in literary and academic contexts and to practice a successful transition to the University of Scranton.
For students interested in science and literature, this seminar surveys works in the Western tradition which engage the natural world; from Biblical and Classical, through Medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment, nineteenth century, modern, and contemporary. Texts include scripture, philosophy, illuminated manuscripts, science, poetry, drama, verse, fiction, essays, and film.
An introduction to the works of William Shakespeare, including forays into each of the major dramatic genres (comedy, tragedy, history, and romance). Consideration will be given to the biographical and cultural contexts of individual works. This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track.
This course examines the films, the published screenplays, the volumes of short prose, and assorted interviews and articles. We will examine some of Woody Allen’s sources, such as Plato, Shakespeare, Joyce, and Bergman. Our approach will be historical and analytical.
(Prerequisites: at least one ENLT class at 120-179, 184 level or higher) (Formerly ENLT 254) This course critically explores the cultural stories we tell about illness, injury, and disability, examining how these narrative models impact the material realities of people’s lives and bodies, and how they both reflect and (re)produce ideological assumptions underlying social institutions and power structures, including those pertaining to gender.
(Prerequisites: ENLT with a # between 120 & 179 or permission of the instructor) This course begins by exploring the historical, personal, and literary contexts for Mary Shelley’s 19 th century novel and ends with a survey of 20 th -and 21 st -century feature films descended from James Whale’s 1931 influential re-imagining of the Frankenstein story.
This course will explore the narrative conventions of both the (literary) life story and the (scientific) case history as a means of analyzing both the characters involved in literary depictions of illness and the ways in which they perceive and understand others involved in the same healthcare event.
(Theory Intensive) Organized around issues raised in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Carolyn Heilbrun’s Writing a Woman’s Life , and informed by the ideas of British Marxist, French Psychoanalytic, and American traditional feminism, this course examines poetry and fiction from Sappho and Mary Shelley to Jean Rhys and Adrienne Rich.
A study of novels by and about women. The aim is to expand students’ understanding of women’s experiences as expressed by women writers.
A study of literature in various genres by American writers of color, from the 1950s to the present, exploring the relationships between race and the law. We will also examine this writing in the context of efforts for social justice.
(Prerequisite: One 100 – level ENLT Course) A consideration of Shakespeare’s dramatic work in the comic sub-genres of romantic comedy, farce, and pastoral. Students will read seven plays, usually Two Gentlemen of Verona, Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, and As You Like It.
(Prerequisite: One 100 – Level ENLT Course) A consideration of Shakespeare’s dramatic work in the tragic sub-genres of revenge tragedy, romantic tragedy, de casibus tragedy, and political tragedy. Students will read seven plays, usually Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus.
(Area B-1) This course will examine the development of Arthurian legend-tales of knights and ladies associated with the court of King Arthur from its early origins in Celtic and Latin medieval literature, through medieval romances and histories, culminating in Malory’s Morte D’Arthur .
(Area B-1) This course will explore 14th-century non-dramatic vernacular literature. In addition to Chaucer, authors studied may include Langland, Kempe, and the Pearl Poet.
(Area B-2) A survey of the first half of the British Romantic period. Readings will include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and at least three “minor” writers of this era. Discussions will focus on the Romantic imagination, the role of nature in Romantic mysticism, and Romantic notions concerning heightened sensations and altered realities.
(Area B-2) A survey of the second half of the British Romantic period. Readings will include Byron, Percy Shelley, Keats, and at least three “minor” writers of this era. Discussions will focus on the waning of the “Romantic religion” of Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth in an increasingly prosperous, skeptical, and secularized era.
(Area B-3) For two centuries, Irish short story writers have represented the comedy and tragedy of Irish experience and simultaneously have fashioned the medium into one of our most flexible and innovative art forms. In historical and critical contexts, we examine the work of four authors, emphasizing Joyce, O’Connor, O’Faolain, and O’Flaherty.
(Area B-1) A detailed study of representative works and authors from the Anglo-Saxons to the 17th century. Though the emphasis will be on an intensive study of major works in their literary and cultural context, consideration will be given to minor writers as well.
(Area B-2) A study of the major literary works in 19th-century England: poetry, novels and non-fictional prose. The emphasis is threefold: critical analysis; literary history; social, intellectual and political background.
(Area A-1) An in-depth study of a select group of major American authors from the Colonial Period to the Civil War. Included are Bradford, Franklin, Irving, and Poe. Consideration given to the historical and cultural milieu and development of major American themes and attitudes. (Offered Fall Semester Only)
(Area B-3) (Theory Intensive) Selected modern and postmodern English poets, playwrights, and fiction writers: Hopkins, Eliot, Hughes, Auden, Larkin, Spender, Osborne, Stoppard, Pinter, Greene, Waugh, Read, Lodge, Amis, Spark, McEwan and Chatwin. (Offered Fall Semester Only)
(Area A-2) Study of a select group of major American authors from the Civil War to the present. Included are Twain, Crane, Fitzgerald and Vonnegut. The historical and cultural milieu and the development of major American themes and attitudes are reviewed. (Offered Spring Semester Only)
(Area G) Readings will be drawn primarily from Native American, Asian American, African American and Latina/o writings. The class will trace common themes and questions such as what it means to be “American,” gender identity, the conflict of cultural identities, alienation and assimilation.
(Prerequisites: at least one ENLT class at the 120-179, 184 level or higher) (Formerly ENLT 233) The first half of the course begins with the Pocahontas stories of the colonial era and moves on to captivity narratives, autobiographies, and relevant prose fiction; the second half considers Hollywood portrayals of ‘cowboys and Indians’ & contemporary films by Native American filmmakers.
(Pre-requisites: any ENLT course between 120 - 179) This course can explore a variety of genres and authors within the writings of Latino/as in the United States. Topics can include: identity formation and negotiation in terms of language, race, gender, sexuality, and class; immigration and migration; exile and diaspora; colonialism and de-colonialism; and the role and value of cultural production/art.
(Prerequisite: any ENLT course between 120-179 or permission of the instructor) This course is an in-depth study of Asian-American literature. A variety of genres and authors can be explored. This examination will entail discussion of topics such as the notion of model minority; identity formation in terms of language, race, gender, sexuality, and class; and experiences of war, colonialism, and diaspora.
(Prerequisite: at least one ENLT class at 120 -179, 184 level or higher) (Area G, A-2, or A-3 dependent on course syllabus and approval of chair). This course is an in-depth study of African American literature. A variety of genres and authors can be explored. This examination will entail discussion of critical topics such as slavery and its legacy, racial identity, and the meaning of freedom.
(Area A-3)
(Area G) (Theory Intensive) This course introduces the intermediate student to the critical and creative writings by women of color. These texts convey women of color’s unique subjectivities. Discussion topics include themes of the body and storytelling, the ideas of self and communal preservation, and the political and cultural negotiation of multiple communal memberships.
(Prerequisites: Grade of “C” in their appropriate EP, Level I courses, and an ENLT 100-level course which may overlap with a FYS.) A study of science fiction and utopian/dystopian literature that focuses on the literary devices and concepts highlighted in these texts. Both written and oral skills are to be focused on and enhanced in this course through the analyses of selected primary texts and secondary critical work.
This course combines a traditional study of six Shakespearean plays on the University campus with a week-long residency at the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Students will read and discuss the plays produced during the current Royal Shakespeare Company season and attend performances of those plays.
This course explores Anglophone literature of the 21st century. A variety of genres and authors can be addressed. The course’s main focus will be on experiences of alterity and oppression, but the readings and assignments will highlight practices of resistance, simultaneously. Such examination fits within and supports the perspective of Jesuit teaching on social justice.
This SJLA course surveys a tradition concerned with the individual, family, and society from classical Greece (Homer, Aeschylus, Plato) to Shakespeare and thence to the Post-Colonial (Joyce, Woolf, Morrison). Readings explore the culmination of epic and dramatic modes in modern fiction. The emphasis is inductive, within cultural and theoretical contexts.
(Prerequisites: At least one ENLT class at the 120-179 or 184 level, or higher.) An exploration of novels, short stories, comics, film, and other works of fiction that concern our planet’s climate in all its facets. Students apply insights gained through these texts to real-world climate issues. Students are required to complete at least 10 hours of experiential learning with a predetermined community partner.
(Prerequisite: At least one ENLT class at the 120-179 or 184 level or higher) This course offers an exploration of queer texts and LGBTQIA+ identity in writing across genres through sustained, critical readings of theoretical texts representing queer and gender theories, and of texts across genres (including poetry, fiction, and nonfiction) representing queer forms and/or queer writers. Readings will likely vary with each offering.
(Prerequisites: at least one ENLT class at the 120-179, 184 level or higher) This class offers an advanced study of the work of a single author (or sometimes a connected pair) in a critical and historical context. Readings include primary and secondary materials. May be repeated for credit since the author(s) will vary.
(Area B-1) A survey of 14th- and 15th-century drama, including the Corpus Christi cycle, morality plays such as Everyman, Mankind and Castle of Perseverance , and the saint’s play. This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track.
(Theory Intensive) A detailed study of Shakespeare’s treatment of either a particular genre (comedy, tragedy, history, romance) or a particular subject that occurs across genres. Special attention will be paid to the meaning of plays in performance. This course may be counted toward the Theatre track or minor.
(Prerequisites: at least one ENLT class at the 120-179, 184 level or higher) This course uses digital materials, tools, and methods to approach British literature, history, and culture related to a specific topic and/or time period within the Victorian era. Texts covered include literary works (novels, short stories, poetry, drama), nonfiction texts (essays, criticism, historical documents), and images. Readings may vary across sections.
(Area B-2) (Theory Intensive) A survey of the major formal and thematic developments on the London stage between 1660 and 1776. Discussions will focus on the social, political and institutional changes that re-shaped theatrical productions during this period. This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track.
(Area G) (Theory Intensive) Through detailed study of such authors as Achebe, Conrad, Forster, Kincaid, Kipling, Naipaul, Orwell, and Rushdie, this course explores the myths and meanings of 19th- and 20th- century European colonialism in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
This course will focus on the ways in which the American novel has reflected our changing literary and cultural values from the late 18th to the 20th century. The reading list will include works by Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, John Steinbeck, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
(Theory Intensive) A study of Chaucer’s poetry in the context of medieval culture. Readings and assignments will concentrate on The Canterbury Tales , but will also cover the other major poems, such as the Book of the Duchess and the Parliament of Birds .
This course explores the prose works of James Joyce, a major figure in 20th-century literature. We will read Dubliners , A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , and, with the help of various guides, Ulysses . We will work to apprehend in Joyce both the universal and the peculiarly Irish.
The course provides a broad literary overview of Jewish life from medieval times to the present, examining the poetry, fiction, memoirs, and drama of Jewish writers from a variety of cultures.
(Theory Intensive) This course explores both the derivation and the defining characteristics of a range of contemporary interpretive practices, including those of psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, formalist, reader response, structuralist, poststructuralist, and cultural materialist critics.
(Theory Intensive) This course explores the Platonic insight that on the highest level literature and philosophy converge. We begin with a few of Plato’s dialogues which develop this idea. Then we examine several “literary” works in English which embody it. Our approach is analytical, inductive and historical.
The process of editing is surveyed. Macro-editing (publishing for a defined audience and delighting, surprising, informing, and challenging it) is emphasized over micro-editing (grammar, punctuation, and so forth). Both are fitted into the larger picture of promotion, fulfillment, circulation, advertising, production, and distribution.
A canto-by-canto study, in translation, of Dante’s dream vision of hell, purgatory, and heaven. Consideration will be given to the cultural milieu and to medieval art and thought as these affect the allegorical meaning and structure of the poem.
Study of the life and works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., the only priest-poet ever to be honored with a place in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner.
Theatrical Presentations of Divinity Playwrights from Aeschylus to Tony Kushner have attempted to stage the divine in various ways. This course will explore the cultural contexts for these plays and the always complicated relationship between organized religion and the stage. The reading list will include representative works from antiquity to the present day.
(Prerequisite: ENLT 120-179 or permission of the instructor) This course will examine the works of Toni Morrison, a major figure in both African-American and Contemporary American Literature. In reading her novels, primarily, and her essays, students will discover Morrison’s unique elaboration of critical concepts and themes within the discipline of literature. Reading list can vary with each course offering.
Variable credit A tutorial program open to third-year students. Content determined by mentor.
Variable credit A tutorial program open to third-year students. Content determined by mentor.
This Dublin-based course surveys Ireland’s pagan and Christian past. Our materials include: archeology, architecture, art, myth, literature, history, and film. Students will view films and read before traveling to Ireland. Students will be evaluated on discussion and on three original four-page critical essays and five two-page reflection essays. (Summer)
This SJLA course examines epic and lyric poetry from classical Roman poetry through medieval, early modern and modern literature. The approach is both literary (i.e., studying plot, character, style, genre) and thematic (i.e., addressing traditions concerning the individual, family and society). The emphasis is inductive, within cultural and theoretical contexts.
Variable Credit English majors can receive internship credit for a variety of on-the-job experiences. Approval must be obtained beforehand from chair and dean.
Variable Credit A tutorial program open to fourth-year students. Content determined by mentor.
Variable Credit A tutorial program open to fourth-year students. Content determined by mentor.
The topics of these literature seminars vary from semester to semester. Based largely on student writing, presentations, and discussion, this capstone course is required in the English major and culminates in the student’s development of a seminar paper. May be repeated for credit. Enrollment limited to 15 students per section.
Source: University of Scranton's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
