50 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.
This course provides instruction and practice designed to increase competence in communication, with primary emphasis on expository writing. Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to basic approaches toward the writing of fiction, poetry, drama and hybrid genres. Together we will explore various modes of creative composing, as well as engage with readings, group discussions and focused writing activities in order to supplement these explorations. Students will study and learn to practice the craft of writing by examining works of established, published writers. Through deep reflection, students will develop an individualized writing practice with the aim of producing original manuscripts. Finally, all class participants will learn to offer and receive generative, constructive feedback of these original manuscripts through both class-wide and small-group workshops. Credit(s): 3
This course provides hand-on experience in the production of the university student literary magazine, Avalon. This includes acquisitions, submissions, selection, editing, layout, production, budgeting, advertising and promotion. Students will function as contributors, producing content for submission and providing input into the editorial process, such as by evaluating submissions, as well as assisting with the layout and design of the magazine. May be repeated once for credit. One credit hour. Credit(s): 1
This course provides instruction and practice in writing substantial essays of varied types: personal, expository, persuasive and literary. Credit(s): 3
This course provides an introduction to the discipline of literary studies, including the vocabulary of literary analysis and theory, and methods of interpreting, researching and writing about literature. Credit(s): 3
This course is an intensive study of the terminology and function of grammar. Beginning with the eight parts of speech, the course goes through complex forms such as absolutes, clauses and gerundives. The course concludes with a survey of modern theories of linguistics. Credit(s): 3
This course provides hand-on experience in the production of the university student literary magazine, Avalon. This includes acquisitions, submissions, selection, editing, layout, production, budgeting, advertising and promotion. Students will function as assistant editors, producing content for submission and providing input into the editorial process, such as by evaluating submissions, as well as assisting with the layout and design of the magazine and
This course introduces students to key works of literature from around the world, with primary emphasis on regional literatures from outside the United States and Western Europe. Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to key works of British literature prior to the 18th century. Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to key works of British literature from the 18th century to the present. Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to key works of American literature prior to 1865. Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to key works of American literature from 1865 to the present. Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to key works of African American literature. Credit(s): 3
This course will introduce students to key works of Native American literature.
This course will introduce students to key works of Asian American literature.
This course is designed to both improve students’ writing skills as well as acquaint them with important genres, strategies and styles of writing in medicine, nursing, physical therapy, athletic training and other health professions. This course mixes workshop with lecture and discussion formats and allows students to work, in ethical ways, on writing required by science courses they are currently taking. Credit(s): 3
This course is a survey of selected literary masterpieces from Classical times to the Renaissance. Credit(s): 3
FILM 307 This course explores the interaction of film and literary texts. Points of inquiry include what happens when literary texts are made into films, how we view literary and cinematic texts differently, and how the cultural context in which these art forms are created influences their production and their reception. Credit(s): 3
This course provides a survey of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and intersex literatures. Intersections among gender, sexuality, race, nationality, class, politics, culture and other contexts will be considered. Credit(s): 3
This course prepares students to become peer writing tutors through the study and application of writing center theory, writing process theory and general theories of learning. Credit(s): 3
This course is a history of the American Self. Selected autobiographies will be examined in their historical contexts and with reference to race and gender as important formative factors in identity. Credit(s): 3
This course examines the major themes in Young Adult Literature from its beginnings in the 1800s to the present. Through historical, social, psychological, critical and biological lenses, literature for ages 12 to 18 will be explored. Special attention will be given to crossover literature, the Bildungsroman, series fiction and the problem novel. Credit(s): 3
This course introduces seminal literatures and theories in African studies with attention paid to historical, cultural and other contexts. Credit(s): 3
This course provides instruction in critical approaches to literature. Credit(s): 3
This course introduces seminal literatures and theories in Caribbean studies with attention paid to historical, cultural and other contexts. Credit(s): 3
This course explores nature writing in America from essays that are purely descriptive to those that become autobiographical and even metaphysical. Most of the readings are contemporary, although classical 19th century examples and perspectives will be examined initially. Credit(s): 3
This course is a writing workshop in which students share their original creative work. Genre may be open or specified (e.g., poetry, fiction, drama, memoir or creative nonfiction). May be repeated for credit. Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to forms of literacy and multimodal composition practices necessary to effectively understand and communicate in digital spaces, establish one’s ethos in different online environments and use images and sounds (along with traditional writing) to achieve desired rhetorical effects. Credit(s): 3
This course provides hand-on experience in the production of the university student literary magazine, Avalon. This includes acquisitions, submissions, selection, editing, layout, production, budgeting, advertising and promotion. Students will function as associate editors, producing content for submission and providing input into the editorial process, such as by evaluating submissions, as well as assisting with the layout and design of the magazine, developing promotional materials and contributing to the Avalon blog.
This course involves a comparative study of major postcolonial works of world literature, including those from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, the Caribbean and the British Commonwealth. Theoretical similarities such as theme and technique will be identified with simultaneous attention paid to historical and cultural specificities. Credit(s): 3
This course will study literary works that engage with concepts of gender, including but not limited to representations of femininity, masculinity and non-normative gender identities, from the perspective of literature written by women.
GWST 351 This course introduces students to key works of literature by African American women writers. Students will critically analyze these works in the contexts of history, culture and the theoretical frameworks of gender and women’s studies. Credit(s): 3
This course explores the historical evidence for King Arthur before studying the growth and development of the legend of Arthur during the Middle Ages. Students will read about the Grail quest, Knights of the Round Table and Gawain and the Green Knight. Students will investigate 19th and 20th century versions of Arthurian legend in writing, opera and in British and American popular culture. Credit(s): 3
This course examines the work of perhaps the most influential playwright in the English language. Preliminary work consists of orientation to modern English, the language of Shakespeare, and to Elizabethan history, thought and culture. Most importantly, this course involves the study of plays representing the range of Shakespeare’s dramatic works. Credit(s): 3
This course explores the work of important playwrights of the past several decades. Classes will be devoted to critical analysis and interpretation of plays and discussing the playwrights’ views of late 20th and 21st century America. The class will watch filmed productions of several of the plays. Credit(s): 3
This course surveys influential tragic plays spanning the last 2,500 years from ancient Greece through Elizabethan England and into the contemporary United States. Students will consider how these works have helped to shape our contemporary understandings of dramatic tragedy. Credit(s): 3
This course addresses significant genres and subtypes of English and American poetry in both free and fixed forms, touching upon aspects of literary history and poetic theory. Credit(s): 3
This course explores Romanticism in its English context through the study of key poems of the period. Credit(s): 3
This course is a study of the major poets of the Victorian era, focusing on various poetic forms such as lyric, dramatic monologue, ode and elegy. Credit(s): 3
This course is a study of special topics, issues or themes within the field of English. Credit(s): 3
This course combines the study of creative writing, literature and theory in a global context to understand how and why traumatic experiences are artistically narrated. As the class presents trauma narratives and trauma theory, students participate in writing workshops to produce their own fictional and/or autobiographical traumatic narratives. Credit(s): 3
This course provides advanced interdisciplinary study of African and Black Diaspora arts, humanities and social sciences with special attention to history (origin of the species through present day), current challenges and the future of the discipline. Credit(s): 3
This course introduces specific major historical developments that shaped Chicana/o experiences and the ways in which Chicana/o literary discourses articulate those experiences. Students analyze issues of ethnicity, gender, race and sexual orientation in order to gain insight into the role of Chicana/o literature in the United States’ multicultural literary canon. Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to literature, cinema and theory on global transnational feminisms, gender and sexualities. Attention will be paid to intersections among gender, sexuality, race, nationality, class, global/local politics, culture, pre/post/neocolonialisms and other contexts. Credit(s): 3
This course will provide an overview of writing studies, including composition studies, literacy studies and rhetorical theory. While this course is based more in history and theory than in practice, it will also examine the ways that theories of composition and of rhetoric can inform and be put into writing practice. Credit(s): 3
This course provides hand-on experience in the production of the university student literary magazine, Avalon. This includes acquisitions, submissions, selection, editing, layout, production, budgeting, advertising and promotion. Students will function as managing editors, directing the editorial process and making final editorial decisions on content, layout, and production.
This course allows for individualized study in an area of literary or writing studies not offered as part of the curriculum or a current ENG 399 Topics course. Students will consult with their supervising faculty member to formulate a course reading list. Students are expected to conduct their own research and writing in periodic consultation with supervising faculty. Credit(s): 3
The English internship provides students with an opportunity to work in an English Studies or adjacent field and utilize their coursework knowledge and skills in a professional setting. The student must acquire the internship position with approval from the instructor in advance of registration. Credit(s): 2-6
This course is an independent study in which English majors are expected to demonstrate maturity as readers, writers and researchers. The Capstone Portfolio is comprised of three areas: (1) a collection of a student’s written English coursework, (2) a lengthy reflective essay and (3) a public oral presentation that addresses the student’s progress as a reader, writer and researcher by drawing on and synthesizing evidence from the student’s own work and supporting secondary research. In preparing the Capstone Portfolio, students are invited to arrange for consultation with individual members of the English faculty. Students who major in English are required to complete either this course or ENG 498 Capstone Essay in their final year of study. Credit(s): 3
This course is an independent study in which senior English majors are expected to demonstrate maturity as readers, writers and researchers. The Capstone Essay is comprised of two elements: (1) an article-length, researched literary studies, rhetorical studies / writing studies or cultural studies essay of publishable quality that is either a significant revision and expansion of a previous English paper or a new composition; and (2) a public oral presentation of the work. In preparing the Capstone Essay, students will consult with individual members of the English faculty. Students who major in English are required to complete either this course or ENG 497 in their final year of study. Credit(s): 3
Source: Shenandoah University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
