16 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 099Big Books
We like big books. The purpose of this course is to immerse students in one lengthy work. Through a carefully paced schedule, weekly discussion sessions, and check-ins with small groups and the instructor, the class will work its way through one long work of meaningful, influential, or otherwise “important” literature and consider just what it is about this big book that makes it meaningful, influential, or important. Can be retaken for credit with a different text for up to four credits. N
A writing-intensive course focusing on a particular topic related to literature, film or other forms of cultural studies. This course emphasizes the writing process and is designed for all students interested in developing their critical reading ability and improving their writing, as well as for students interested in an English major. Limited to first- and second-year students. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H; DN or GN, if so designated, contingent upon topic) ENGL/HIST-212. Bears Make History: U.S. Higher Education and Digital Entrepreneurship in the Archive and Online Ursinus College has a history, and you’re going to tell it. Using an array of digital media, students in this course will become part of the shaping and recounting of the history of Ursinus College and its community. We will consider Ursinus’s place in a broader history of U.S. colleges and universities and will examine how digital humanities is influencing archival research. Students will learn a variety of digital tools, and will analyze and evaluate existing digital history projects. The
This course addresses two questions: how does the English language work, and how did Standard American English become the complex structure it is today? Students will examine the sentence as structure, with attention to morphology, syntax, and grammar. Students will also explore how the English language has developed from its earliest forms through attempts at standardization, including how different racial and ethnic communities have shaped English in the United States. Required for studen ENGL-220-250 These literature courses focus on improving students’ skills in close reading of texts and writing of critical essays, with instruction in the conventions of genre, period, and region as appropriate. Students will complete a research project as part of the course. ENGL-230, 240, and 250 courses may have a DN, GN, and/or O designation depending on individual course topics.
An interactive introduction to Shakespeare focused on language, genre, and dramatic techniques, with some attention given to theater history and performance questions. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H, O.)
A thematic study the literature written by Black American writers, sampled from its beginnings to the twenty-first century. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H, DN, LINQ with HIST-228.) ENGL/GWSS-228. Women’s Literature A cross-period study of women’s writing, whether national, multiethnic, and/or transnational, attending to issues of canon formation and feminist literary theories. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H, DN.)
A mixed-genre approach to a specific historical period or literary movement, including early modern/ Renaissance, Modernism, Romanticism, ante-bellum America, the Atlantic World, and 20th/21st-Century America. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H.)
Focusing on the development of a single literary form throughout a specific time period or more generally through literary history, genre courses emphasize the relationships between formal innovation and changing thematic concerns. Sample topics include medieval romance, lyric poetry, epic poetry, satire, drama, rise of the novel, memoir, neo-historical novel, and short fiction. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H.)
These courses shift the focus from conventional genres and periods to new directions in the expanding field of literary study. Students may encounter contemporary genres, such as the graphic novel or the emancipation narrative; explore literary texts through a recent theoretical lens such as disability studies or ecocriticism; or investigate new spaces of textual production such as the digital humanities or transnational/urban literature. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H.)
Introduces literature by multi-ethnic writers across the globe. Studying multi-ethnic literature enables students to gain a better understanding of a rich diversity of cultures, illuminating the historical Eurocentrism of literary canon and literary studies. Topics may include Latinx literature, Asian American literature, Native American literature, Jewish literature, African and African Diasporic literature, and others. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. ENGL/ENV-262. The Environment in Literature Students in this course will read and reflect on a variety of texts focused on environmental issues, such as sustainability, the land ethic, ecological crises, climate change and other eco-critical concerns. From nature writers, to philosophers, and from poetry to prose, students will engage with the literature as well as participate in a civic engagement project as part of their course-related work. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (H, O.)
Designed as a gateway to the English major, 290W offers robust understanding of critical vocabulary in three major genres: poetry, fiction, and drama. May explore additional genres such as art and film. Teaches methods of literary analysis using close reading and historicism; conventions of a mature literary research paper; and frequent practice of careful critical writing. Prerequisite: CIE-100 or 150, or permission of instructor. Three hours per week. Four semester hours.
A study of historical and contemporary theoretical approaches to literary texts, such as ecocriticism, feminist criticism, postcolonial critique, and psychoanalytic theory. Entails applications of these theories-in writing and speech-to close readings and critical interpretations of literary texts and other kinds of human cultural productions. Prerequisites: ENGL- 290W and one course between ENGL-220 and 250, or permission of instructor. Three hours per week. Four semester hours.
An academic/work experience under the supervision of an internship adviser and an onsite supervisor. Open to juniors and seniors. The term during which the internship work is performed will be noted by one of the following letters, to be added immediately after the internship course number: A (fall), B (winter), C (spring), or D (summer). Internships undertaken abroad will be so indicated by the letter I. The intern must complete a minimum of 120 hours of work and must present that work in
An academic/work experience under the supervision of an internship adviser and an onsite supervisor. Open to juniors and seniors. The term during which the internship work is performed will be noted by one of the following letters, to be added immediately after the internship course number: A (fall), B (winter), C (spring), or D (summer). Internships undertaken abroad will be so indicated by the letter I. The intern must complete a minimum of 160 hours of work and must present that work in
A study of a genre, a major figure, or a special topic. Prerequisites: ENGL-290W or 301; senior or permission of department chair. This course will satisfy the College requirement for a capstone experience and an oral presentation in the major. While the topic of the course will change based on faculty expertise, several elements remain consistent, especially those pertaining to its capstone designation and to the Core Curriculum. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (CCAP, H.)
This course is open to candidates for honors in English and to other students with the permission of the department chair. Pre-requisite: ENGL-301. Four semester hours. (XLP.)
A continuation of course ENGL-491 for students approved for honors. Prerequisite: ENGL-491. When this course is used to fulfill the capstone experience in the major, the student will be required to give a substantial oral presentation of the research project, either to the departmental honor society or to another group approved by the project adviser. Four semester hours. (XLP.)
