51 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 100English For Developing Writers3
Credit(s): 3 This self-directed online course is designed to provide students with basic reading and writing strategies crucial to the practice of university-level academic writing. Major components of the course include reading comprehension, sentence and paragraph development, vocabulary building, grammar, punctuation and usage skills. The course offers students valuable preparation and practice for ENGL 110 , Composition and Rhetoric I.
Credit(s): 3 This course is designed to provide students with basic reading and writing strategies crucial to the practice of university-level academic writing. Major components of the course include reading comprehension, vocabulary building, idea generating, sentence and paragraph development, organizing principles, and the five-paragraph essay. This course offers students valuable preparation and practice for ENGL 110 . Course Level: Undergraduate
ENGL 110Composition I: Close Reading And Analysis3
Credit(s): 3 This course focuses on close reading as a tool for critical analysis and as a means to achieve a foundation for various modes of writing. The course will explore interdisciplinary materials that connect students to larger academic and social communities and investigate the relationship between writers, purposes, and audience. Emphasis is placed on the preliminary writing process, including close reading, critical analysis, annotating, pre-writing, drafting, and revising.
ENGL 110LComposition I: Close Reading & Analysis Lab1
Credit(s): 1 This course is designed to provide students with extra reading and writing strategies crucial to the practice of college-level academic writing. Major components of the course include reading comprehension, sentence and paragraph development, vocabulary building, grammar, punctuation, and usage skills. The course offers students valuable practice to improve skills for
Students who wish to take Accuplacer to determine their English placement may do so; students with no national test scores must take Accuplacer. Students who score below a “4” on WritePlacer will be required to take English 110 with a lab component. Any student who does not take Accuplacer (except for those bringing in high standardized test scores) will automatically be placed into English 110 with a lab. Course Level: Undergraduate
ENGL 111Composition II: Research And Rhetoric3
Credit(s): 3 This course introduces students to university-level research and argumentation. Students learn source analysis, argumentation strategies, research techniques, and documentation. This is a theme-based course, and students will research current topics of interest with an emphasis on community, society, and citizenship.
ENGL 110 or: Students with an ACT English sub-score of 26* or higher or an SAT Verbal sub-score of 600+ will be placed in English 111 and will not need to take English 110. Students who wish to take Accuplacer to determine their English placement may do so; students with no national test scores must take Accuplacer. Students who score a “6” on WritePlacer will take English 111. Course Level: Undergraduate
ENGL 114Journal Production1
Credit(s): 1 An activity course offering a practicum in literary journals publication (The Tusculum Review). Students enrolled evaluate submitted manuscripts; participate in bimonthly staff meetings; learn marketing, author correspondence, layout, editing, book criticism, and publication skills; are promoted to staff positions of increased responsibility; and determine the shape and content of an international literary journal. Students receive a letter grade according to their completion of work as contracted with the journal editor. May be taken for up to 8 credits. Repeatability: May be taken for up to 8. Course Level: Undergraduate
Credit(s): 3 Introduction to Public Relations is based upon identifying, defining, assessing and creating effective communication strategies accompanied by proper execution and distribution methods. The course will focus on evaluation methods, responsiveness, timeliness, interpretation, planning, content creation, control factors and distribution methods. Course Level: Undergraduate
Credit(s): 3 This workshop-based course is designed for students with an interest in creative writing and completes an early requirement for those pursuing an English major. Students participate in a hands-on introduction to the craft of writing poetry and fiction, and they gain experience in close analytical reading of both genres. Other genres, such as creative nonfiction and drama, may be explored. Course Level: Undergraduate
Credit(s): 1 This is an immersive lab course to accompany ENGL 337 , where students read literary texts with respect to landscape, culture, and history. Students taking this course may travel abroad with or without ENGL 337 for one credit with permission of the instructor. This course may be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits and is offered on a pass/fail basis. Repeatability: Up to 4 credits Course Level: Undergraduate Pass/Fail: Yes
Credit(s): 3 This course explores the connections between gender, sexuality and literature. Through a study of literature by women, gay men, lesbians and other writers for whom sexuality and sexual identity has been a source of interrogation, students will explore the idea that gender is culturally constructed and investigate the way that our definitions of gender and sexual identity interact with other social constructs of the self. They will also interrogate the way that the body has become a site for the exertion of power, both social and political.
Credit(s): 3 An introduction to the reading of poetry, this course concentrates on the analysis and study of poetry and its forms. Significant poets and poetic movements will be explored.
Credit(s): 3 This course introduces students to the elements of short fiction and to the history of short stories as a discrete literary genre. Students will gain an understanding and appreciation of technique and style in stories of various genres, time periods and cultures.
Credit(s): 3 Students will consider the political, historical and social concerns that lie beneath the surface of often-familiar narratives through an investigation of a variety of cultural tales, including German, British, and non-Western. Students will have the opportunity to study the interconnections between literature, fairytale, and folklore, and how they influence each other in various ways and have been readapted in modern texts.
Credit(s): 3 Study of myths from different cultural traditions with attention to their social, religious, and artistic contexts, along with illustration of their evocative power and continued rebirth in literature and the arts. We also examine current theories of mythological structure and meaning, as well as modern myth-making in literature and film.
Credit(s): 3 Surveys selected works by writers from the British Isles from the Medieval period through the Restoration/18 th century. Emphasizes major genres, cultural contexts, and movements.
Credit(s): 3 Surveys major works in American literature from pre-European colonization through the Civil War. Emphasizes major genres, cultural contexts, and movements.
Credit(s): 3 Introduces students to texts and authors from around the world that made a lasting contribution to human culture and civilization. While the emphasis is on Western literatures, non-Western cultures are also represented. This course includes ancient literature through the seventeenth century.
Credit(s): 3 This course requires students to reach beyond stereotypes associated with the science fiction genre in order to examine novels, stories, comics, and films that interrogate the global commodification of culture, the fetishization of technology, and the prevailing ideologies that structure race, gender, and class relations. Drawing upon works from North America, Europe, and Asia, this course will ultimately challenge what counts as “human” in our increasingly inhuman world.
Credit(s): 3 An introductory course examining how writing styles and techniques must change when producing text to be delivered via different media outlets, such as newspaper, magazines, radio, social media, websites, and television.
ENGL 110 Course Level: Undergraduate Crosslistings: COMM 218
ENGL 219Theatre Of The World3
Credit(s): 3 From tragedy to absurdity, this course focuses on dramas written across the world. Students will examine how dramatists of different countries and time periods have approached gender, culture, form and function. Through a global perspective, students will consider the differences between drama on the page and on the stage, and will work to appreciate theater comparatively as well as historically.
Credit(s): 3 Surveys selected works from the British Isles tradition. Covers Romanticism to the present. Emphasizes major genres, cultural contexts, and movements.
Credit(s): 3 Surveys major works in American literature from the end of the Civil War (1865) to the present. Emphasizes major genres, cultural contexts, and movements.
Credit(s): 3 Explores literature from diverse cultures from the eighteenth century to the present. The course emphasizes the relationship between literary texts and the cultures that produced them.
Credit(s): 3 Examines works produced in the Appalachian region. The class considers how social, historical, economic and aesthetic concerns have combined to create a distinctive literature. The course may require some fieldwork.
Credit(s): 3 This course focuses on American minority literature. Students will read a variety of genres by authors of African-American, Asian-American, Jewish-American, Native-American, and Latina/Latino backgrounds, working to analyze how these authors approach cultural identity and ethnicity. Students will also examine how these authors have influenced and been influenced by American culture, history and literary traditions.
Credit(s): 3 An introduction to and workshop in writing for stage and/or screen. Students will learn about elements of dramatic writing, including structure, plot, characters, dialogue, scenes and sequences. Focusing on studies in the craft of scriptwriting, this course requires intensive reading, writing and revision.
Credit(s): 3 Students will be introduced to the techniques and aesthetics of film and an overview of film history. The course covers genre issues; compares studio, foreign and independent films; looks at aspects of film composition, and examines significant works by authors such as Alfred Hitchcock.
Credit(s): 3 Students will learn how to write effectively and quickly in a business context, exploring the proper form and content of memos, reports, business letters, executive summaries and other business documents. Students will also learn how to write and design their own personal resumes and will produce a finished resume and a cover letter. Additionally, students will learn how to deliver oral presentations appropriate to different audiences and forums.
Credit(s): 3 This course offers a more nuanced study of the craft of imaginative writing. Students will examine principles and practices of both poetry and prose in order to gain a broader and deeper understanding of their work and of creative writing in general. Through exposure to and analysis of the work of esteemed writers, students will acquire literary models, strengthen their editing and revision skills, and improve their critical vocabulary. Course Level: Undergraduate
ENGL 245Nature Writing And Environmental Literature3
Credit(s): 3 This course will explore various roles that narrative literature plays in mediating human interactions with nature, natural resources, the Anthropocene, and environment.
Credit(s): 3 A flexible course designed to broaden students’ knowledge and appreciation of the arts by examining special topics in literature of particular interest to students and faculty. Emphasis is on readings organized around a thematic approach or concept.
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Repeatability: May be repeated for credit provided course topic is different.
ENGL 110 Repeatability: May be repeated for credit provided course topic is different. Course Level: Undergraduate
ENGL 302Great Works You Should Have Read By Now3
Credit(s): 3 This course focuses on long-form literature (including novels, plays, long poems, and book-length nonfiction) that have collectively become “must reads.” Students will examine what makes these works “great” – stylistically, aesthetically, historically, culturally – in an effort to question the role and creation of a canon while also appreciating the fact that some literature does, for one reason or another, rise to the top.
one 200-level literature course. Course Level: Undergraduate
ENGL 305The Life And Works Of…3
Credit(s): 3 This course looks at the life and works of an author who has contributed a significant legacy to the world of letters. The course interrogates one author’s life, along with the author’s plays, poetry, and/or prose and examines the literary devices employed in the body of work being considered. This course promotes an improved understanding of a significant literary figure and a deeper enjoyment of an important writer’s timeless work.
HUMA 199 or a 200-level literature course. Course Level: Undergraduate
ENGL 309The Fantastic And The Uncanny In Literature3
Credit(s): 3 This course focuses on representations of the fantastic and uncanny in the literary tradition, from ghosts prowling Gothic castles to psychological preoccupations. Students will delve into literature that presents the fantastic and/or uncanny, and work to unpack how those fantastical elements function in a text (psychologically, historically, structurally and culturally). By analyzing the uncanny in it all its complexity – as both a spiritual and psychological phenomenon – students will grapple with the fantastic, bizarre and strange in literature.
one 200-level literature course. Course Level: Undergraduate
ENGL 312Editing For Publication3
Credit(s): 3 The course will cover advanced editing for print publications. It will train students to edit copy for accuracy, clarity, conciseness and flair. Students will examine the different needs for various media genres and outlets, and they will learn to identify possible libel and ethical dilemmas faced by editors.
two 200-level English courses. Course Level: Undergraduate
ENGL 320Poetry Workshop3
Credit(s): 3 A close study of the art and craft of poetry, this course demands intensive reading and writing experiments, and requires the practice of thoughtful revision strategies. Through formal analysis of peer work and established models, students will increase their ability to effectively review their own and others’ writing. Students will learn conventions for submitting manuscripts for publication.
Credit(s): 3 A close study of the craft of fiction, with an emphasis on the art of the literary short story, this course demands intensive reading and writing experiments, and requires the practice of thoughtful revision strategies. Through formal analysis of peer work and established models, students will increase their ability to effectively review their own and others’ writing. Students will learn conventions for submitting manuscripts for publication.
Credit(s): 3 This foundational course serves as an introduction to major theorists and schools of literary theory as well as an exploration of the ways that genre informs the reading and reception of literary texts. The course will provide a historical context for the development of different theoretical viewpoints and explore literary texts through various theoretical lenses.
One-200 level literature course. Course Level: Undergraduate
ENGL 328Concepts Of Language3
Credit(s): 3 Examines aspects of language including its origin as a symbolic activity and the development of English from Anglo-Saxon, to Middle, and then Modern English. Linguistics will be explored as the sound systems, forms, structures, and lexicon that serves as a basis of the study of language as a symbolic and social practice.
one 200-level literature course. Course Level: Undergraduate
ENGL 337Literature of Place3
Credit(s): 3 By relating important literary texts to the landscapes that inspired their writing, students will learn to better contextualize literature in its historical situation and place, as well as more effectively understand literature’s continuing importance in our modern world. This course may be taken without travelling abroad. This course may be combined with
HUMA 199 and one 200-level literature course. Repeatability: May be repeated once for credit. Course Level: Undergraduate
ENGL 338Literary Nonfiction Workshop3
Credit(s): 3 A close study of the craft of nonfiction, with an emphasis on the art of the essay, this course demands intensive reading and writing experiments, and requires the practice of thoughtful revision strategies. Through formal analysis of peer work and established models, students will increase their ability to effectively review their own and others’ writing. Students will learn conventions for submitting manuscripts for publication.
Credit(s): 3 In this advanced writing course, students will learn to locate grant opportunities and write grant proposals. Students will work closely with one or more local non-profit organizations, Tusculum University, or a charitable group of their choosing to produce a grant proposal suitable for submission. The focus of this course is to promote the “civic” aspect of Tusculum University’s commitment to the Civic Arts. Course Level: Undergraduate
Credit(s): 3 This course surveys African American literature and literary traditions from the 1700s to the present, exploring themes of representation, power, enfranchisement, and freedom in historical and cultural contexts.
Credit(s): 3 This course examines a specific period, theme, or genre within British Literature, such as Medieval Literature, Victorian Literature, English Drama, the British Novel, or Heretics and Nonconformists. Topics are changed with each offering, and the course may be repeated for credit provided the topic is different.
HUMA 199 Repeatability: Up to 4 credits Course Level: Undergraduate Pass/Fail: Yes
ENGL 354Seminar in American Literature3
Credit(s): 3 This course examines a specialized theme, topic, or era within American literature in depth and may be repeated for credit with distinct emphases. Potential focuses may include Colonial America; The Reform Novel; Transcendentalism; Regionalism, Naturalism, and Local Color; Modern Poetry; Women’s Work; Possession and Dispossession; Literature of the South. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits provided the topic is different.
HUMA 199 Repeatability: Up to 6 credits Course Level: Undergraduate
ENGL 355Seminar in World Literature3
Credit(s): 3 Examines broad cultural traditions from around the world, such as Caribbean Literature, Literature of Continental Europe, African Literature, or Literature of the Silk Road. Emphasis is on a shared cultural experience and cultural exchange in one region of the world. The optic changes with each offering, and the course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit provided the topic is different.
HUMA 199 Repeatability: Up to 6 credits Course Level: Undergraduate
ENGL 420Senior Seminar3
Credit(s): 3 The culminating course for those English majors, this seminar offers students a transition to post-undergraduate career and/or graduate-level academic pursuits. Working with the course facilitator and a second reader/advisor, students will complete a final portfolio that includes a résumé or curriculum vitae, a project that serves as a sample of their best work in their area of study, and a personal statement about (or critical introduction to) their capstone project. Students will fulfill their public speaking requirement in this course by presenting their capstone work in a public forum.
Credit(s): 1-6 This course is designed to permit students to explore material not normally offered in the existing curriculum, to delve significantly deeper in material that is offered, or to undertake a project not otherwise provided. Students considering enrolling in the course should have a specific topic or purpose firmly in mind.
Credit(s): 3 The internship experience provides advanced students on-the-job experience in their area of study and in a variety of settings. Students may elect to work on or off campus in areas such as editing, writing, public relations, publications management, or communication. The number of credit hours will vary based on the hours worked in the internship.
Junior standing or permission of the instructor. Course Level: Undergraduate Crosslistings: COMM 452
ENGL 453Extended Specialized Internship1-6
Credit(s): 1-6 The internship experience provides advanced students on-the-job experience in their area of study and in a variety of settings. Students may elect to work on or off campus in areas such as editing, writing, public relations, publications management, or communication. The number of credit hours will vary based on the hours worked in the internship.
