85 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 165Writing and Rhetoric3
This course prepares students for the writing and research they will do throughout their university experience. Students will learn to explore, to analyze, and to inform within academic contexts using the most effective rhetorical strategies, structures, reference, and language of multiple disciplines. Students will identify the strengths and weaknesses in their written communication. *Fulfills Civitae Core Foundation Course WI
This course introduces students to the broad field of English studies and some of the principal disciplines within the field (literary studies, creative writing, rhetoric and professional writing). The analytical methods, critical terminology, and writing conventions that mark English studies as a field will be covered in some depth; the course will also more briefly address the analytical methods and terminology that distinguish some of the field’s principal disciplines.
ENGL 208Principles of Secondary English Education1
Principles and methods of curriculum development, instruction, and assessment in the secondary English classroom with an emphasis on the VA SOL. Required of all English majors with a secondary education concentration. Must be taken during the first semester of the sophomore year.
Sustained study of reading and writing skills necessary to the student of literature, including close reading, the ability to conduct research, and an overview of major critical approaches. Emphasis on a variety of poetic, dramatic, and fictional forms from a range of cultures and historical eras.
An introduction to the formal analysis of texts, which may include works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, and other genres. Students will develop skills in assessing how form and genre enable and constrain expression using relevant techniques of reading and research. *Fulfills Civitae Core FAES WI
An introduction to the historical analysis of literary and cultural texts, which may include works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, and other creations. Students will develop skills in assessing texts as evidence of continuity and change in one or more contemporary or historical cultures using relevant techniques of reading and research. *Fulfills Civitae Core FHCI WI
This course introduces students to the field of rhetorical studies with a focus on its global impact through historical and contemporary texts, events, and artifacts.
An intensive introduction to playwriting and screenwriting. Learning and utilizing a workshop format, students will develop skills in reading as a writer, giving and receiving constructive criticism, and developing and using an expanding knowledge and vocabulary of craft to reflect and make judgments about texts they read, their own texts and the creative writing process. *Fulfills Civitae Core FAES. AA
An intensive introduction to the writing of short fiction, specifically the short story. Learning and utilizing a workshop formal, students will develop skills in reading as a writer, giving and receiving constructive criticism, and developing and using an expanding knowledge and vocabulary of craft to reflect and make judgments about texts they read, their own texts and the creative writing process. *Fulfills Civitae Core FAES. AA
An intensive introduction to the writing of poetry. Learning and utilizing a workshop format, students will develop skills in reading as a writer, giving and receiving constructive criticism, and developing and using an expanding knowledge and vocabulary of craft to reflect and make judgments about texts they read, their own texts and the creative writing process. *Fulfills Civitae Core FAES. AA
ENGL 223Introduction to Writing Creative Nonfiction3
An intensive introduction to the writing of creative nonfiction, including but not limited to memoir, personal essay, travel and environmental writing, and literary journalism. Learning and utilizing a workshop format, students will develop skills in reading as a writer, giving and receiving constructive criticism, and developing and using an expanding knowledge and vocabulary of craft to reflect and make judgments about texts they read, their own texts and the creative writing process. *Fulfills Civitae Core FAES. AA
This course prepares students for the writing and speaking they will do throughout their university experience through an investigation of various aspects of citizenship. This course is specifically designed for students with an Associate’s Degree earned in high school through a dual enrollment program. By permission only. WI
Selected topics in English. The topics will vary from semester to semester. Descriptions will be available from academic advisors. May be repeated for credit when topics change.
Examination of the theories, research, and practices of visual rhetoric and document design. Emphasis on ways in which images and other visual methods of communication influence audiences.
ENGL 305Advanced Topics in Rhetoric and Professional Writing3
This advanced course explores the power of rhetoric as a tool for civic engagement and global advocacy. Through in-depth analysis of speeches, media campaigns, public discourse, and digital platforms, students will engage with classical and contemporary rhetorical theory to examine how rhetorical strategies shape public opinion, influence policy, and mobilize communities around urgent civic and global issues such as but limited to climate change, human rights, public health, and social justice. The course will culminate in a research or advocacy project in which students design and execute a rhetorically-informed campaign or analysis addressing a civic or global issue. May be repeated for credit if topic changes.
Completion of the FSRC Pillar and completion of the FAES Pillar
Corequisite
None *Fulfills Civitae Core PAES WI
ENGL 311Reading Minds: Theories of Mind in Literature and the Sciences3
This course investigates exchanges between scholars and writers concerning the nature of the human mind. Students will explore how formal accounts of the mind among philosophers and psychologists have influenced artistic practices among writers as well as how literary form shapes theories of mental experience. Students will research scholarship that applies models of the mind from the arts and sciences, consider how those models are applied to ethical decision-making, and articulate how different cultures interpret human motives and decision-making. In doing so, students will develop an informed perspective on the challenges of pluralism in a global society.
This course introduces students to critical theory by providing both an overview of the traditions and contexts that led to theoretical revolutions in different English disciplines and instruction in the practical application of theoretical methods.
ENGL 325British Literature I: Medieval to Eighteenth Century3
Survey of British Literature from 600 to 1785. Emphasis on anonymous early works such as Beowulf and later works by such major authors as Marie de France, Chaucer, Spencer, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, Cavendish, Milton, Dryden, Behn, Swift, Finch, Pope, Montagu, Defoe, Johnson, and Burney.
ENGL 327British Literature II: Romantic to Contemporary3
A survey of British Literature from 1789 to the present. Special emphasis on such major authors as Blake, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Browning, George Eliot, Wilde, Shaw, Hardy, Conrad, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Heaney, Barnes, and Rushdie.
ENGL 335American Literature: Contact to Romanticism3
The literature of contact and of the colonial, early republic, and antebellum periods, with an emphasis on major authors such as Smith, Mather, Bradstreet, Franklin, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Douglass, Whitman, and Dickinson.
ENGL 336American Literature: Realism to Contemporary3
Realism, naturalism, modern, and postmodern literature (1865 to the present), with an emphasis on major authors such as Twain, James, Dreiser, Crane, Chopin, Chesnutt, Wharton, Eliot, Frost, Cather, Hemingway, Hughes, Faulkner, Wright, Rich, Morrison, O’Neill, Wilson, Albee, Cisneros, and Harjo.
Literature by African American writers from slavery to the present, with a focus on major themes and authors such as Douglass, Jacobs, Chesnutt, Larsen, Ellison, Baldwin, Hansberry, and Morrison.
This course introduces students to major authors from a variety of world cultures (exclusive of British and American literature) from antiquity to 1650, such as Homer, Sappho, Valmiki, Li Po, Dante, and Cervantes.
This course introduces students to major authors from a variety of world cultures (exclusive of British and American literature) from 1650 to the present, such as Juana Inés de la Cruz, Molière, Proust, Goethe, Emecheta, Murakami, Rushdie, Roy, and Coetzee.
An introduction to the study of language with an emphasis on language as a human system, including language acquisition, the cognitive and social significance of language, language change and variation, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse analysis, historical linguistics, and psycholinguistics.
An introduction to the digital world of narrative and publishing. Students will develop skills in creating digital narratives in various contexts, online manuscript submission, establishing and maintaining author websites and blogs, editing and managing an online creative arts magazine, techniques in digital interviewing, and more.
Study of a literature that has been historically marginalized or underrepresented, such as ethnic literature, queer studies, postcolonial literature, or women’s literature. May be repeated for credit when the topic changes.
Subject
ENGL
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
credits
Type
course
Repeatable
May be repeated for credit when the topic changes.
This course provides an in-depth study of a major author, that author’s contributions to form and genre through a signature style, and that author’s impact on a civic or global issue, such as Jane Austen’s influence on ideas of marriage as a social institutions. The course will approach a major author from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, comparing and contrasting such lenses as history, sociology, race and ethnic studies, and/or women’s and gender studies. Sample topics include William Shakespeare, John Milton, Jane Austen, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Alfred Hitchcock, Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, or Bob Dylan, among others.
This course will focus on literary and cultural texts that examine scientific issues important to civic and global culture in order to understand how literature depicts the ethical and political challenges science presents. Issues explored may include genetic engineering, climate change, artificial intelligence, and technological advancement.
Storytelling is one of the strategies used to make change in hearts and minds of citizens. How that strategy of storytelling is used to effect change is the focus of the course. Students will examine a specific locality with a civic issue and explore ways that storytelling is used by agents in power, be it political, social, cultural, or economic to address a desired outcome.
This course investigates how scholars, writers, and filmmakers have depicted the idea of “masculinity” in America and what their depictions mean for contemporary men. It will explore historical, social, and psychological models for masculinity and use those models to interpret popular and literary texts.
Crosslisted With: ( ART 375 ) An intensive introduction to the creation of graphic narratives, including the graphic novel, graphic memoir, digital graphic narrative, comic book, and others. Using a workshop format, students will develop skills in reading graphic narratives as writers and artists, giving and receiving constructive criticism, and creating graphic narratives in various formats.
This course will focus on literary, cultural, and historical texts that depict particular historical periods or events and their core issues, such as the 1920s, the American Civil Rights Movement, or the Victorian Age, as a means of understanding how literature treats historical and political issues such as rights, politics, ethics, identity, and historical recovery.
Completion of FHCI Pillar *Fulfills Civitae Core PHCI WI
ENGL 378Law, Literature, and Difference3
This course explores how conceptions of the law work in concert with custom to attempt to encode definitions of identity into U.S. society. We will attempt to understand how conceptual categories like “citizen” and “the Human” are crafted through court decisions, written laws, and material enforcement. Students can expect to read widely and deeply across disciplines including law, history, and literary theory in order to grapple with the problems and implications of the legal history of forms of difference.
This course will focus on literary and cultural texts that use nonhuman entities and configurations to explore questions of science, ethics, morality, and identity. In specific, we will look at how writers reconfigure the human through depictions of the animal, technology and the cyborg, the superhero, and the monster/alien (or some combination of these areas).
A survey of young adult literature from 1967 to the present. Selection and evaluation of books, poetry, short stories, and other media. Instruction in and practice with response theory using written assignments and oral presentations.
A study of the various aspects of English grammar for elementary, middle, and secondary level pedagogical purposes. Includes two mutually informed focuses: (1) the descriptive review of the fundamentals of English grammar and (2) the discussion of the theoretical and pedagogical issues and best practices related to the teaching of English grammar.
An introduction to British and American literature for children, from its roots in the oral tradition and medieval literature through contemporary works.
ENGL 384Diversity in Literature for Young Readers3
This course provides opportunities for investigating children’s literature that is representative of a variety of ethnic and religious groups. We will discuss major issues of multiculturalism, the history of multicultural children’s books, stereotyping, authenticity of perspective, as well as criteria for selecting and evaluating these books.
Students will explore methods of researching and writing about the civic role of the arts in an academic program based in Boston, Massachusetts. Writing projects will focus on how Boston’s monuments, museums, authors, libraries, theaters, and public art have shaped the city’s sense of community. Upon their return to Virginia, students will research and analyze texts and other data on the arts in their own communities with respect to audience, purpose, and context, and write an evaluation of the arts in those communities, as well as a piece of public writing that advocates specific strategies for improving the role of the arts there.
Selected topics in English. The topics will vary from semester to semester. Descriptions will be available from academic advisors. May be repeated for credit when topics change.
ENGL 400Active Citizenship: An Advanced Writing Seminar3
Develops rhetorical skills needed for citizenship in a democracy. Includes interdisciplinary inquiry into and analysis of at least one significant public issue across all sections.
Study in the tradition and qualities of poetry as a unique genre with emphasis on one or more specific forms or a period in which the genre flourishes. May be repeated for credit when topic changes.
One 300-level course in a literary period, or permission of the instructor
Corequisite
None
ENGL 413The Novel3
Study in the tradition and qualities of the novel as a unique genre with emphasis on one or more forms or a period in which the genre flourishes. May be repeated for credit when topic changes.
One 300-level course in a literary period, or permission of the instructor
Corequisite
None
ENGL 415Drama3
Study in the tradition and qualities of drama as a unique genre with emphasis on one or more forms or a period in which the genre flourishes. May be repeated for credit when topic changes.
One 300-level course in a literary period, or permission of the instructor
Corequisite
None
ENGL 416The Bible as Literature3
This course will both study the Bible as a work of literature and glance at its appropriation in later literary works. Students will examine the Bible itself primarily through the lens of the principal genres of biblical literature: wisdom writings, liturgical poetry, theological history, prophecy, gospel, epistle, and apocalypse. Students will also look at how the Bible is treated in later literature as both a generally accepted source of literary authority and a contested site of interpretive debate.
Extended study of specific themes and topics in Shakespeare’s works. Topics may include, but will not be limited to studies of a specific genre (comedy, tragedy, history), studies of Shakespeare’s Roman plays or history plays, or studies in Shakespearean stage on film history.
One 300-level course in a literary period, or permission of the instructor.
Corequisite
None
ENGL 438Studies in World Literature3
This course engages students in the advanced study of the literature of a specific author, country, or region exclusive of England and the United States.
One 300-level course in a literary period, or permission of the instructor
Corequisite
None
ENGL 439Comparative World Mythology3
This course investigates myths representing diverse global cultures; compares and contrasts plot structures, themes, and character types within and across cultures; and traces myth’s relationship with religion and the arts.
One 300-level course in a literary period, or permission of the instructor
Corequisite
None
ENGL 444Literature and Culture3
Extended study of British or American literature and culture at a particular point in time or of a literary theme over time. Emphasis on the relationship of literature to its cultural context, including politics, social organization, art, and music. May be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Advanced study of literature for children and young adults from a variety of world cultures (exclusive of Britain and the United States). In this course, students will use multiple different theoretical lenses to analyze and interpret a body of children’s and young adult literature that represents a range of countries, time periods, and genres.
ENGL 461Senior Seminar: Professionalization and Public Life3
This capstone course offers methods for students to identify, highlight, and present transferrable skills and proficiencies gleaned while completing the English major. By connecting major-specific skills to the larger demands of contemporary workplaces and civic life, this class enables students to consider their post-college goals in relation to broader questions about the position of the humanities in 21st century society. Students will analyze the relevance of the English major for contemporary society, in terms of both professional development and civic engagement; they will also articulate how their studies have prepared them to be successful and productive citizens.
ENGL 320 and senior status, or permission of the instructor
Corequisite
None
ENGL 470Professional Writing Skills3
This course will focus on writing for workplace settings from a rhetorical perspective. Students will study strategies for effective professional communication, including the basics of copyediting and document design, and produce writing genres commonly found in the professional world (e.g., business, government, and media). The course will culminate in a portfolio that students can use to showcase their skills in the professional world.
ENGL 479Writing: Theory and Practice for the Middle and Secondary Classroom3
A study of theories and strategies for improving writing. Includes a discussion of analyzing subject matter, determining purpose and audience, drafting, revising, editing (including using correct mechanics), and evaluating the elements of effective writing instruction at the middle and secondary levels. This course will also contain a field-based component in a classroom setting when students will examine current pedagogical practices in the teaching of writing.
Prospective English teachers will examine and demonstrate the principles of content planning, effective methods for teaching content that reflect best practices, and the alignment of curriculum and assessment.. Offered in fall semesters only.
ENGL 482Directed Teaching in the Secondary Classroom12
Each student is assigned to work with a qualified cooperating teacher in a selected off-campus school setting. The student teacher goes to the school setting and follows the schedule of the cooperating teacher(s) for a thirteen-week period.
Completion of all major and professional education coursework; minimum cumulative and major GPA of 2.5; passing scores on all tests required for English 6-12 licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Corequisite
None
ENGL 483Writing: Theory and Practice for the Elementary Classroom3
A study of theory and practice relating to writers at emergent, early, and developing stages. Includes discussion of the complex factors involved in literacy acquisition at the elementary level, along with exploration of effective ways to address these factors through writing instruction. Also includes extensive experience with writing: processes, strategies, and evaluation.
An introduction to practical issues beginning writers face, including but not limited to manuscript preparation, researching journals and markets, preparation for and giving public readings, and imaginative ways to deal with rejection.
ENGL 220 or ENGL 221 or ENGL 222 or ENGL 223 , with a grade of C or higher
Corequisite
None
ENGL 486Digital Writing, Literacy and Practice for Middle and Secondary Classrooms1
The study and practice of digital literacies in middle and secondary English language arts. In this course, students will produce an online digital literacies project that expertly demonstrates the practice of new literacies, digital writing and critical literacy.
Prospective English teachers will reflect on best practices and the alignment of curriculum and assessment while observing an English language arts classroom in a 6-12 setting.
per semester A directed reading and/or research program administered by qualified specialists in the department. One option is to do an extended research project in conjunction with a 300- or 400-level English course for an additional one-hour credit. The student must secure the director’s approval prior to registering for the course.
Directed practicum in an applied setting that permits supervised experiential learning. Students perform meaningful tasks related to the discipline in professional environments, such as publishing and journalism on and off campus. The student will complete a practicum agreement established with the department chair, department adviser, and work supervisor. Students may repeat internships or do multiple internships for credit for a maximum of 12 credits.
Selected topics in English. The topics will vary from semester to semester. Descriptions will be available from academic advisors. May be repeated for credit when topics change.
Students conduct an in-depth project in English under the direction of a faculty member and the Longwood Senior Thesis Committee. May be repeated as 499.
