44 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.
ENG 109Intro to Writing and Research with Support Lab3
An equivalent course to ENG111, but requiring an integrated support lab. Like ENG 111, ENG 109 focuses on effective written communication through frequent in-class and out-of-class writing practice emphasizing principles of rhetoric, grammar, and mechanics. Instruction in use of library resources for research. Instruction and practice in critical reading strategies, including responsible use of print and electronic research sources. Laboratory exercises designed offer remediation in grammar and mechanics, and to underscore lecture material. The lab component is required. Students must pass with a grade of C or better. Required of freshmen with placements based on ACT/SAT test scores, or departmental placement test.
Focus on effective written communication through frequent in-class and out-of-class writing practice emphasizing basic principles of rhetoric, grammar, and mechanics. Instruction in use of library resources for research. Instruction and practice in critical reading strategies, including responsible use of print and electronic research sources. Students must pass with a grade of C or better. Required of freshmen. Offered in both the fall and spring.
2. Society and Culture Students will demonstrate the ability to explain interactions among cultural (to include religions and languages), social, political, and/or economic systems, how these systems vary across societies and through time, and how human relationships work within these contexts. This dimension encompasses written communication, language, history, and social and political sciences. Students earning a Bachelor of Arts degree must complete SPA203 or FRE203 to fulfill intermediate language requirement for their degree. To meet this requirement, students will take 6-12 semester hours from the following courses:
ENG 201Survey of English Literature from Its Beginnings Through 17503
A study of English literature as represented by principal writers from the medieval period through the writers of the Enlightenment period. Stress on interpretation and critical analysis. Prerequisites: ENG 111, 112.
ENG 202Survey of English Literature from 1750 to the Present3
A study of English literature as represented by principal writers and literary movements from 1750 to the present. Stress on interpretation and critical analysis. Prerequisites: ENG 111, 112.
Provides students with an introduction to the academic analysis of film. Students will explore the ways in which formal choices (visual, aural, and structural) and contextual cues can create both narrative and ideological meanings. Introduces terminology, provides copious examples, and helps the student to develop the writing and speaking skills necessary for the academic study of motion pictures.
A study of writers and literary movements in America beginning with the colonization of the New World up to the American civil War. Concentration on exploring the variety of literary voices that arose during the settlement and establishment of the new nation, and the American Renaissance. Prerequisites: ENG 111 and 112.
ENG 206Survey of American Literature 1860 to the Present3
A study of writers and literary movements in America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, extending to the present. Attention to Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Post-Modernism. Prerequisites: ENG 111 and 112.
Introduces students to the scholarly study of videogames. As a contemporary entertainment medium, games are laden with both implicit and explicit messages, as game designers both reflect and comment on their culture(s). In this course, students will engage in close reading of both form (mechanics) and content (narrative/’flavor’) of mainstream and niche games.
In interdisciplinary studies, as well as in literature and film, subjects do not exist in isolation – literal and symbolic interaction can lead to rich, nuanced, and more meaningful experiences. Writers can write with a cinematic quality and filmmakers can create visual images of psychological depth. This course will explore the relationship between 116 | A v e r e t t U n i v e r s i t y A c a d e m i c C a t a l o g 2 0 2 6 - 2 0 2 7
In this course we will study science fiction cinema from its earliest days to contemporary releases, with an emphasis on the themes, subtexts, and cultural relevance of films from different cultures and historical periods. In addition to setting box-office records and spurring technological innovations in moviemaking, science fiction films have traditionally tackled weighty philosophical issues and serious cultural and ideological critiques.
This course introduces students to literature that has been forbidden (censored) for political, religious, moral, or social reasons. As an interdisciplinary course, it will look at the works of literature from the literary, legal, and historical viewpoints. The historical study will show how political, religious, moral, and social ideologies have changed over the centuries from the censorship of classical works to the modern novel.
The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to some of the major works produced by a variety of Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone Caribbean writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The course will focus on the genres of poetry, drama, song, fiction, and non-fiction and will also include appreciation of musical, artistic, theatrical, and culinary history and cultures. Students will gain an appreciation of the questions surrounding Caribbean identity and expression in colonial and post-colonial eras, and they will also consider the cultural interchanges occurring between/within the region and North America.
Selected study of major writers and literary movements worldwide, from ancient cultures to the present. The Course will emphasize the literary and cultural backgrounds of the selected works Prerequisites: ENG 111, 112. Offered in the spring.
The goal of this course is to examine some of the major works produced by a variety of African-American writers starting from before the days of the republic up to the present. The course will help students appreciate the significance of some of the major literary texts that have influenced the history of our land and our culture. It is also important for students to recognize the relationship between major writers and the historical periods from which they arose. They will also think critically about these works and their importance both to their times and our own. They will leave with an appreciation of the subject and a familiarity with major African-American authors, their themes, and techniques. Prerequisites: ENG 111, 112.
The course readings for the class include various genres of literature – poetry, fiction, graphic novels, novels, and films, and the subject matter for the course ranges from Indian captivity narratives and the story of Geronimo (“The Great Patriot Warrior”) to the more extensively documented wars (e. g. the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI and WWII, the Korean War and Vietnam War) and the recent Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prerequisites: ENG111 and 112.
This course introduces students to representative works by and about women from historical, social, and literary perspectives through the theoretical angle of gendered identities. It explores a variety of forms, guiding students to notice motifs, themes, and patterns. Students will probe gender’s varied influence on an individual’s economic, political, religious, romantic, and embodied experience, as well as how gender may inform reflection upon such experience. Additionally, students will be required to apply research strategies and theories emerging from the field of Gender Studies. Prerequisites: ENG111 and 112.
The Caribbean region, which has produced two Literature Nobel laureates in the last two decades, boasts a rich multi-ethnic, multicultural background that originated in all parts of the globe - its people are the descendants of native populations, European settlers, African slaves, and Asian indentured servants, among others. The texts of this course examine the history and evolution of the region through literature, primarily, but also through music, theatre, and food (performances and recipe demonstrations/tastings may be involved). Certain texts, furthermore, will explore the complicated relationship between Caribbean peoples and those of the North American mainland, including when and how those identities overlap. Works written in languages other than English, roughly half the reading list, will be read in translation.
The practice of imaginative writing. Types of writing include: poetry, essay, and the short story. Current and recent stories, poems, and articles are read and discussed. Required of prospective teachers of English, open to all students. [May substitute for ENG 412 as a requirement for prospective teachers.]
An overview of the culture and regional traditions of the American South as expressed in literature. Emphasis on critical reading of selected writers and study of literary movements from the colonial period to the present.
A review and analysis of the works of major British literary figures (Fielding, Austen, Scott, Eliot, Hardy, and/or others), focusing on the evolution and development of the novel. Prerequisites: ENG 111, 112.
A study of major authors from 1660 to 1798, with emphasis on Dryden, Restoration Comedy, Pope, Addison and Steele, Swift, Johnson, and the beginnings of the English novel. Prerequisites: ENG 111, 112, and one other literature course.
The student will be under the direct supervision of the faculty in the Department of Language, Literature, and Culture with the approval of the Chair. The minimum number of clock hours of work is 80. This course is available only to students who have completed all their general education requirements in English and who have shown strengths in their writing and in the study of literature.
This course will give students a clear understanding of how the structure of the English language has historically changed and continues to change in the present day. Additionally, the class will pay particular attention to important sociolinguistic issues and to how language is in the midst of significant variation and change as a result of emerging technologies and the computer revolution. Prerequisites: ENG 111, ENG 112.
This course provides students with an overview of the Romantic Period, examining social, political, and cultural issues that defined the time and the literary figures who addressed them. Readings will include fiction, drama, poetry, and non-fiction. Additional material will focus on art, music, and popular culture of the period.
A study of major authors, works, and trends during the early twentieth century This course will explore some of the most influential texts of literary modernism in a variety of genres: prose, poetry, essay, and visual art.
A study of the major literature of the early to mid-nineteenth century in the United States. Emphasis on the influence of English and European romanticism on American writers. Some background in pre-romantic American writers.
ENG 407American Literature: The Gilded Age to World War II3
Emphasis on later nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American literature. Emphasis on the realistic and naturalistic movements in nineteenth-century fiction and on new directions in twentieth-century fiction and poetry. ENG 410 Modern Drama (TH 410) (3) A study of the development of drama from Ibsen to today, including American, European and Third World playwrights. Prerequisites: ENG 111, 112.
The practice of imaginative writing. Types of writing include poetry, essay, and the short story. Current and recent stories, poems, and articles are read and discussed. Required of prospective teachers of English [ENG 313 may be substituted], open to all students. Prerequisites: ENG 111, 112, 313.
An examination of Geoffrey Chaucer as a writer and man of the late fourteenth century. Examination of the cultural and intellectual values and traditions of the era. Reading and analysis of selected works by other writers of the period (in translation). Analysis and close reading (in Middle English) of Chaucer’s two major works, Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales, as well as selected minor poems. Students will gain a beginning knowledge of Chaucer’s dialect of Middle English and its role in the development of modern English. ENG 414 Shakespeare (THE 414) (3) The study of sixteenth/seventeenth century dramatist and poet William Shakespeare. Critical reading and analysis of representative sonnets, comedies, histories, tragedies, and tragicomic romances with examination of Shakespeare’s practice in each genre and the development of his art and craftsmanship as poet and dramatist. Introduction to Shakespeare's world and Renaissance theatre practice. Prerequisites: ENG 111, 112.
A course focusing on techniques of teaching and evaluating expository writing (including research writing). Secondary attention will be given to topics such as standards of usage, course planning in composition, and 119 | A v e r e t t U n i v e r s i t y A c a d e m i c C a t a l o g 2 0 2 6 - 2 0 2 7
ENG 439Literary Criticism, Analysis, and Interpretation3
Surveys types of literary criticism practiced during the 20th and 21st centuries with some attention to earlier modes of criticism and the historical development of literary criticism in the Western tradition. Students will use a variety of readings from important literature written in English to examine how readers might interpret them through different critical perspectives. Students will practice these perspectives and methods of literary interpretation and analysis through readings, discussion, and assigned papers. Prerequisites: ENG 111, 112.
Total 48 The other General Education and Professional Education requirements which must be met in order to be recommended for teaching licensure in English are explained in detail in the Education (EDU) section of the catalog. Sample Four-Year Course Sequence for English with Teaching Licensure (not including General Education/Electives or Education Department Requirements) 114 | A v e r e t t U n i v e r s i t y A c a d e m i c C a t a l o g 2 0 2 6 - 2 0 2 7
This course is the study of literature intended for children and young adults with an emphasis on a range of genres including fantasy, folklore and fairy tale, poetry and realism. Prerequisites: ENG 111, 112.
This is a one semester course offering intensive study on a topic in American literature. The focus of the course will change from semester to semester, depending upon the interests of the students and the professor teaching the course, but it will always involve concentration on one or more important writers or important movements in American literature. Prerequisites: ENG 111, 112.
