ENGL - English
A student-centered writing-workshop course in which students understand and practice various stages of the writing process; compose essays using narration, description, persuasion, exposition, and explanation; and use writing and discussion as a means of situating themselves in a world of ideas. There is an emphasis, as well, on reading critically.
3
Credits
3
ENGL 106 will provide students with a full semester overview of the major areas within and current approaches to literary studies. Students will gain insight into literary history, the process of and critical debates concerning canon formation, the fundamental skills and terms for effective analysis of poetry and prose, and the multiple functions and genres of literature and writing.
3
Credits
3
Students will explore, through literature, primary historical texts, and/or other genres and media, central U.S. myths and cultural narratives. Individual sections will examine particular themes chosen by the instructor.
3
Credits
3
Students will delve into historical and recent American literature, across multiple genres and in relation to multiple institutions and media, that relates to the experience of "becoming Americans".
3
Credits
3
This writing-intensive course explores how words and images work together to make meaning in an artistic form. Students will study important features of at least one specific artistic form (such as poetry, drama, graphic memoir, or fiction) and then will compose their own creative work in a genre.
3
Credits
3
This writing-intensive course examines how creative writers often manipulate sound patterns to capture our attention; through critical and creative assignments, it explores the rhetorical and emotional impact of the sounds of words, as well as other sounds found in and out of language. Students will study the play and purpose of sound in artistic texts and create original works utilizing sound for expressive and/or persuasive purposes. Examples may include song lyrics, spoken word, poems for page and/or performance, advertisements, musicals, oratory, and experimental traditions.
3
Credits
3
Students will explore constructions of humanity and enduring questions about the human experience through inquiry into thematic readings of literature, film, and/or other genres and media.
3
Credits
3
Study of a range of world literature, across multiple genres, that relates to the experience of the process of "Border Crossings".
3
Credits
3
The study of major texts from origins to the present in British literature. Will include divergent approaches to texts, the historical development of the literatures, and the relationships between literature and other disciplines.
3
Credits
3
Readings in world literature from ancient to contemporary. Readings include epics from the oral and written traditions and romances from several traditions.
3
Credits
3
The study of major texts from origins to the present in American literature. Will include divergent approaches to texts, the historical development of the literatures, and the relationships between literature and other disciplines.
3
Credits
3
An introduction to the methodologies of studying American cultures, with a special focus on popular and mass cultures. Particular course emphasis will be determined by the individual instructor, but topics will stress the multiplicity of American cultures. While literary works will make up the majority of the class texts, the course will utilize an interdisciplinary approach integrating materials from fields such as history, anthropology, women's studies, ethnic studies, geography, sociology, music, and art.
3
Credits
3
Readings in world literature from ancient to contemporary. The course teaches analysis of varying narrative styles and approaches and the relationship of narrative to culture.
3
Credits
3
Readings in world literature from ancient to contemporary. Students will develop skills in reading poems both as literary works and as cultural artifacts.
3
Credits
3
Texts and Contexts is a writing-intensive course designed to introduce students to the process of research-based writing intended for a range of audiences and rhetorical situations. Students will undertake a series of writing projects that engage writing process elements, from completing pre-writing strategies; to locating, assessing, integrating, and properly citing research sources; to drafting, revising, and proofreading final copy. Through reading like a writer, students will learn to evaluate and construct logical arguments and to explore questions related to the contexts of writing, such as audience, genre, and historical or political moment. The course will culminate in a significant research-based writing project
3
Credits
3
Readings from among various fiction genres, intended to reflect the growth of and influences in American fiction from its beginnings to the present; specific focus is chosen by the instructor.
3
Credits
3
A survey of mystery writers from Edgar Allan Poe to P.D. James, exploring their techniques with the genre and the methods of their detectives.
3
Credits
3
Historical and generic survey of science fiction through representative works and major authors; examination of its relationships with other types of literature.
3
Credits
3
Historical, comparative, and generic survey of fantasy fiction through representative works and major authors; examination of its relationships with other kinds of literature.
3
Credits
3
In this course, students read a selection of foundational texts from within the Western tradition and its Others. They will learn how to identify, analyze, and evaluate the various claims and concepts elaborated from within it and about it. More specifically, they will gain insights into how the western tradition was formed, how this formation hinged on the inclusion and exclusion of certain (changing) others, and how its legacy continues to inform the geocultural and geopolitical present. At the same time students will learn how to differentiate between the various linguistic and cultural singularities that make up the umbrella term Western Civilization, thus becoming aware of problems of transmission and translation as well as of the logic of generalization as such. The interdisciplinary focus of the course will moreover allow students to synthesize and integrate these questions within a more widely conceived framework than can be provided within their own respective majors.
3
Credits
3
Through drama or film, students will explore significant questions and issues related to being human.
4
Credits
4
An examination of major works by African American novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, musicians, and essayists in terms of the intellectual and political concerns of their periods and locations. Cross-listed with
ETHN 240.
3
Credits
3
Study of works by and about Latinos, including poetry, novels, film, drama, music, and essays. Focus on culture of people of Hispanic descent living in the United States, including Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Dominican Americans, and Cuban Americans, with some consideration of the ongoing relations between U.S. Latinos and Latin America. Cross-listed as
ETHN 241.
3
Credits
3
Study of a variety of works, including traditional tales, novels, poems and memoirs, produced by American Indians from historical beginnings to the present. Cross-listed with
ETHN 242.
3
Credits
3
A study of the ways in which writers and others use the written word as a form of social critique and to effect social change.
3
Credits
3
Study of the literature written by and often about black women, including poetry, short and long fictions, novels, drama, biography, and autobiography from the 18th century to the present.
3
Credits
3
Study of ways to approach and understand film as a medium of art and communication. Emphasis on building a working vocabulary of basic film terms through screening, discussion, and analysis of feature and shorter films.
4
Credits
4
Examination of sections of Old and New Testaments as works of literature, history and religious thought. Emphasis on major themes, motifs, and critical techniques.
3
Credits
3
An exploration of the historical construction of American gender, ethnicity/race, and class; their present status; and their literary and cultural representations. Focusing on intersections between these categories of identity, the course will utilize an interdisciplinary approach, integrating materials from fields such as literary studies, history, gender studies, ethnic studies, geography, sociology, music, and art.
3
Credits
3
Variable-content course; topic announced in the online Course Offerings each semester.
1-4
Credits
1-4
Offered on occasion. In-depth critical examination of selected "landmarks" from the literature of continental Europe. Focus on issues of interpretation, intertextuality, literary movements and periods, canon formation, and pedagogy.
3
Credits
3
In-depth critical examination of selected "landmarks" from the literary tradition of the United States. Focus on issues of interpretation, intertextuality, literary movements and periods, canon formation, and pedagogy.
3
Credits
3
In-depth critical examination of selected "landmarks" from British literary tradition. Focus on issues of interpretation, intertextuality, literary movements and periods, canon formation, and pedagogy.
3
Credits
3
In-depth critical and comparative examination of selected "landmarks" from global literary traditions. Focus on issues of interpretation, intertextuality, literary movements and periods, canon formation, and pedagogy.
3
Credits
3
An examination of contemporary Latina literary productions in the context of representations of Latinas in mainstream U.S. society. The focus of the course is on women of Hispanic descent living and writing in the United States, including work by and about Chicanas, Puerto Ricans, Dominican Americans, and Cuban Americans. Previous course work in Latina/Latino literature not required, but some previous course work related to African American or other ethnic literature, women's literature/feminism, and/or film studies is strongly recommended.
3
Credits
3
This survey course will offer a study of Middle Eastern literatures from antiquity to the present. The central goal of the course is to introduce the students to the trends and genres in Middle Eastern literatures and to offer them an overview of the historical, literary, and cultural setting of some of the canonical literary texts. Particular emphasis will be given to a broad understanding of the interaction between religion, history, and literature in the Middle East. All readings will be in English translation.
3
Credits
3
Study of Renaissance texts, with a focus on English Renaissance literature.
3
Credits
3
This course includes coverage of a range of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction prose authored by 19th-century women writers, as well as the historical contexts within which those works were produced. In addition to the primary focus on reading and analyzing literature, the course will also expose students to histories and approaches of literary criticism and the methods of recovering and assessing neglected traditions and perspectives from literary history.
3
Credits
3
An in-depth study of literature by women. The course explores questions regarding gender, language, perception, and experience through various genres.
3
Credits
3
This course will explore the Gothic novel in its various geographic and temporal contexts, from classic texts to more non-traditional ones. Beginning with its eighteenth-century origins, we will examine the different changes that the genre has undergone and the different themes that the genre has addressed.
3
Credits
3
Advanced-level course in analysis of poetry: introduction to various critical approaches; background study of poetic techniques; independent work on one poet.
3
Credits
3
A study of modern dramatic literature from the late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century. Particular attention will be paid to the influence of realism on modern drama. The course will explore meaning beyond the page by considering the textual ramifications of staging dramatic texts.
3
Credits
3
A study of contemporary dramatic literature from the mid-20th century to the present focusing on understanding the dramatic form and its relation to society. Critical analysis of plays includes historical and cultural contexts as well as theatrical implications of staging the text.
3
Credits
3
Romantic movement in England, 1790 to 1835, as exemplified in writings of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Byron, the Shelleys, Keats, Wollstonecraft, DeQuincey, Hazlitt, and others.
3
Credits
3
Study of myth theory, mythology, and literary symbolism in world literature.
3
Credits
3
Introduction to later 19th century English poetry and prose; emphasis on relationship between social-intellectual history and literature. Topics include problems of rapid industrialization, impact of science and technology, pressures for increased democratization, impact of laissez-faire capitalism, and relationship of the literature to 19th century music, painting, and architecture.
3
Credits
3
Study of major British fiction, poetry, and drama, 1900 to the present. Topics include the Irish national movement, romantic/realistic attitudes toward war, the roots of modernism, the dissolution of Empire. Authors range from Yeats, Synge, Joyce, and Lawrence to Amis and Fowles. Approach is varied but tends to emphasize social-historical backgrounds.
3
Credits
3
Exploration of the evolution, subject matters, forms, and conventions of graphic texts with emphasis on their literary form.
3
Credits
3
Study of American literary and cultural roots in the 17th and 18th centuries; special attention to the emergence of myths and realities concerning the American hero and the American dream, including specific issues such as the rise of slavery, the role of women, the treatment of the Indian, the power of the Puritans, and the rhetoric of the Revolution.
3
Credits
3
Study of Romanticism in terms of influence, development, and characteristics within the context of American culture, including textual examples ranging from indigenous native sources to those of Europe and the East.
3
Credits
3
Survey of American nature writing, chiefly over the past half century. Focuses on the art of seeing natural places. Includes field trips, direct study of nature.
3
Credits
3
Study of Realism and Naturalism in terms of influence, development, and characteristics within the context of American culture, including influences from Europe and from the emerging voices of American women and African American slaves.
3
Credits
3
Study of American poetry of the first half of the 20th century. Focuses on tradition and innovation, distinctive voices, the cultural and historical context.
3
Credits
3
Study of modernism in terms of influence, development, and characteristics within the context of American culture; might include such figures as Faulkner and Hemingway, and such movements as the Harlem Renaissance.
3
Credits
3
Study of contemporary works, genres and movements with attention to literary form, historical contexts and other interdisciplinary concerns.
3
Credits
3
Study of the literature flourishing within the African American community between approximately 1919 and 1930. Focuses on the political, social, and literary activities of the era.
3
Credits
3
Study of major texts that contribute to the field of African American autobiography. Focuses on the literary and cultural trends exhibited in these texts, as well as on the individual significance of each text.
3
Credits
3
This course offers students an introduction to literary and theoretical approaches to issues of sexuality and gender identity, as they pertain to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender peoples. We investigate queerness both in terms of a range of identity issues, and as a set of approaches to reading texts. We will look at such representations through literature and film, from various historical, cultural and theoretical perspectives.
3
Credits
3
Study of a variety of genres of contemporary multiethnic American literature, featuring African American, Asian American, Latina/o, Native American and other ethnic American writers. The course explores whether and how these writers exhibit shared concerns; how racial and ethnic identities and differences are represented in their work; and how race and ethnicity intersect with gender, class, sexuality, and nationality.
3
Credits
3
Focus on understanding, analyzing, evaluating, and working with different modes of reading the world and its texts. We will consider the strengths and weaknesses of a range of interpretive, contextualizing, and interventionist critical and theoretical strategies, their stakes and historical contexts, and their relations to social struggles for dignity, justice, and creativity.
3
Prerequisites
ENGL 106
Credits
3
A multidisciplinary approach grounded in the humanities and arts will be employed to account for the social, economic, political, historical and cultural ways that gender is constructed and represented in contemporary societies.
3
Prerequisites
ENGL 100
Credits
3
Overview of the ways language use both reflects and shapes social identities. Areas for consideration include gender, race, age, class, status, power, and nationality.
3
Credits
3
Overview of the origins and changes of the English language, from Old English to present-day American English. Areas for consideration include the changing speech sounds, word and sentence structures of English; etymology and new word formation; and the interrelationships between English and the political and social history of its speakers.
3
Credits
3
Overview of basic grammatical concepts and structures, including punctuation and basic usage. Students will learn to recognize and correct grammatical errors in their writing and in everyday examples. They will also be able to explain why something is grammatically correct or incorrect, enabling them to impart their knowledge of grammar to others in their future professional workplace or classroom. While the course is designed with everyone in mind, the needs of future teachers are taken into special consideration. Additional topics will vary with instructor but might include differing approaches to grammar and style depending upon audience, purpose, and genre; the power of dynamics implicit in choosing one grammar over another; and the art of grammar - how writers use and abuse grammar artfully for expressive purposes.
3
Credits
3
A study of various film genres from the beginnings through 1945. Through screenings, lectures, discussions, assigned readings and analytical writing, students learn to interpret films from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Theoretical approaches include psychoanalytic, Marxist, gender theory, queer theory, race theory, historicism, and culture studies.
4
Credits
4
A study of various film genres from 1945 to the present. Through screenings, lectures, discussions, assigned readings and analytical writing, students learn to interpret films from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Theoretical approaches include postmodern, psychoanalytic, Marxist, gender theory, queer theory, race theory, auteur theory, historicism, and culture studies.
4
Credits
4
The course offers an in-depth study of Icelandic Noir and offers two broad thematic approaches. The first is "Setting and Landscape" and the second theme is "Conflict between Modernity and Tradition" Among others, we will examine representations of angst about globalism and foreign-funded energy industry; human rights and immigration laws; ancestry and genetic research, etc. in Icelandic crime fiction and films. All texts are in English translation and films have English subtitles. No proficiency in Icelandic is required.
3
Prerequisites
ENGL 100
Credits
3
A study of films by and about women in global cinema. The course focuses on women filmmakers primarily, and their uses of documentary, experimental, and/or narrative forms.
4
Credits
4
An in-depth study of the films of one or two significant American film directors as a body of work informed by a specific artistic vision. We examine this work within various critical frameworks, such as auteur theory, psychoanalytic criticism, culture studies, and American history. This course satisfies the authors" requirement in the English major and is an elective for the film minor."
4
Credits
4
Introduction to major literary genres of classical Greece and Rome; emphasis on characteristic forms and themes. Readings in Modern English translations.
3
Credits
3
A study of major Jewish writers from the Bible to the present. Emphasis will be on the literature and on the varieties of Jewish culture that it represents.
3
Credits
3
An exploration of basic themes commonly associated with the concept of Romanticism as identified in literature from Eastern and Western cultures.
3
Credits
3
Intensive reading of important works of Russian fiction to understand each writer's vision of the potentialities, complexities, and essential conditions of human nature, within the intellectual and cultural context perceived or created by the writer. Significant attention to political and cultural history of Russia.
3
Credits
3
Study of the literary and philosophical transformations during the age of Enlightenment(s) (Aufklarung, Illuminismo, Lumieres, etc.). Focuses on the genre of satire and concepts such as liberty, discovery, rationality, natural law, revolution, difference, belonging and the idea of Europe.
3
Credits
3
Variable-content course; topic announced in the online Course Offerings each semester that the course is offered.
1-4
Credits
1-4
In the capstone course, students will reflect back upon their English major, and will polish their skills in critical and close reading, research-based and other forms of writing, as well as oral explorations of literature.
3
Prerequisites
ENGL 324 or
ENGL 343 or
ENGL 345 or
ENGL 349 or
ENGL 380 or
ENGL 381 or ENGL 440
Credits
3
Variable topics course. Taught in London as a study abroad experience, the course examines its content using interdisciplinary approaches rooted in the resources of the city of London.
3
Credits
3
This course will study drama as it is meant to be explored--on the page and on the stage. We begin our analysis of the drama with discussion on campus and then travel to see productions of the plays. In our post-production discussions and writing, we will consider the choices made in production and the impact of that on our reading of the plays. A frequent destination for the course will be New York City, but we may also travel to Stratford, Ontario, or other sites, for productions as well.
1.5-6
Credits
1.5-6
Study of the many works about King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, extending from the eighth century to the present.
3
Credits
3
Study of Shakespeare's romances and comedies.
3
Credits
3
Study of Shakespeare's histories and tragedies.
3
Credits
3
Study of the works of up to three major writers. A variable content course. May be taken more than once with departmental approval.
3
Credits
3
Undergraduate Research is an opportunity to conduct research in the fields of English. Students will join a research team with a specific focus and carry out the research tasks that will lead to submission of presentations or publications.
1-3
Prerequisites
ENGL 213
Credits
1-3
Advanced study aiming to enhance students' ability to understand, analyze, contextualize, evaluate, and work with one or more modes of literary theory.
3
Prerequisites
ENGL 213
Credits
3
Focus on tutoring students whose first language is not English.
1
Credits
1
English internships. Interns work 40 hours for 1 credit hour. Enrollment requires a completed Learning Contract and permission of the department.
1-12
Credits
1-12
Study of a particular author, topic, or work. Periodic meetings with instructor and writing a substantial paper. Department approval.
1-6
Credits
1-6
A variable-content course. Topics announced in online Course Offerings.
3
Credits
3
ENGL 500 introduces new graduate students to contemporary issues, designs and methods in the field of English studies. Emphasis will be on scholarly methods and aims of research in literature, rhetoric, and pedagogy, showing points of intersection and connection across various aspects of the discipline. By the end of the course, students will develop tentative plans for pursuing their own research interests, providing them with a strong foundation for their individual program of advanced study.
3
Credits
3
Short-term independent study of particular texts, methodologies, pedagogies or theories, conducted by graduate students under the direction of a graduate faculty member in English. Students must take one directed study as part of their degree requirements; a second may be taken as part of elective credit, with a different faculty member.
1.5
Prerequisites
ENGL 500
Credits
1.5
Study in-depth of one writer or up to three writers related on the basis of a unifying principle.
3
Credits
3
Study of the development of important movements or concepts in literature.
3
Credits
3
Study of literary works from different time periods, nations, or cultures.
3
Credits
3
Part one of the historical study of critical and theoretical approaches to literature and the teaching of literature, with concentration on authors pre 1900.
3
Credits
3
Part two of the historical study of critical and theoretical approaches to literature and the teaching of literature, with concentration on authors post 1900.
3
Credits
3
A variable-content course, interdisciplinary in nature, featuring a contemporary topic central to the discipline.
3
Credits
3
This course will expose students to contemporary issues of ethics as they are encountered in the writing process. Such topics may include, but are not limited to, copyright and plagiarism issues; the question of how to write about others; maintaining integrity in marketing rhetoric; the ethical implications of new media for writers; and the status of truth within contemporary creative non-fiction.
3
Credits
3
"Writing for Digital Media" will help prepare students to become informed and skilled citizens of an increasingly digital world. Students registered in this course will compose for digital spaces; relate these writing experiences to relevant theoretical frameworks; and reflect critically on the effects of digital communication.
3
Credits
3
This course offers an overview of the grant writing process. In it, we will explore how to write a persuasive grant proposal and how to identify grant-making organizations best aligned with your project or need. We will also discuss the grant cycle so you can better appreciate not only how grants are reviewed, ranked, and awarded but also what is expected of you after a grant is secured.
3
Credits
3
Art of Grammar will help students learn the principles underlying internalized rules of English and the range of choices available to speakers and writers. The course will engage with debates around whether language is primarily cognitive or social in nature as well as language in use and on some fundamental principles of all languages--namely, variation and change.
3
Credits
3
This skills-based course intended for multiple audiences provides a practical introduction to editorial practices. Students develop competence in basic procedures of copyediting; develop creativity through solving problems effectively; and come to expand their sense of the field of English and their possible roles within it.
3
Credits
3
Study in literature or language in conjunction with a cross-listed undergraduate 400 level course. Graduate students are required to do graduate-level work beyond the course requirements for undergraduate students.
3
Credits
3
A variable-content course on topics announced in the online Course Offerings each semester.
1-6
Credits
1-6
Independent study of a defined topic under the supervision of an instructor. No more than 6 credit hours of the course may be applied to degree requirements.
1-4
Credits
1-4
Graduate students are required to remain continuously enrolled until completion of their capstone work in order to allow continuing usage of university resources and to accurately account for faculty involvement.
1
Credits
1
This required supervised research course for graduate students in English provides an opportunity for working one-on-one with a faculty mentor that will culminate in a final degree project subsequent to this class (thesis, action research thesis, professional development essay, comprehensive exam). Students will finish their project research, gain faculty feedback for proposals and drafts, finalize faculty committees and review professional opportunities in the field. Students conducting classroom research as part of their degree projects will also obtain necessary permissions from the Institutional Review Board and school authorities and carry out their research in preparation for writing their final reports. Students must have a minimum overall GPA of B in order to enroll in Degree Project Research. [NOTE: identical description for
ENED 690, with prerequisites
ENGL 500 and
ENED 502
3
Prerequisites
ENGL 500 and
ENGL 502
Credits
3
English internships at the graduate level. Interns work 40 hours for 1 credit hour. Enrollment requires a completed Learning Contract and permission of the department.
1-3
Credits
1-3
Capstone course for the graduate program focusing on the current state of English studies. The course facilitates the transition from graduate student to scholar-teacher and helps candidates prepare to take their place in the profession.
3
Prerequisites
ENGL 500 and (
ENGL 502 or
ENED 502) and (
ENGL 690 or
ENED 690)
Credits
3
The culminating project for all graduate students in English, taken together with the capstone course (
ENGL 695), demonstrating successful completion of advanced research in the field of English studies. Students choose one of several different degree projects. A final grade in 696 of B or above indicates successful completion of the degree project, including all required written and oral portions and, in the case of thesis/action research thesis, submission to the AP for Graduate Studies and to Reed Library for electronic archiving.
3
Prerequisites
ENGL 690 or
ENED 690
Credits
3