ENGL 20200 Engaging English
This theme-based course introduces students to the field of English, and provides foundational liberal arts skills. It teaches, for instance, critical and creative thinking, reading, and writing using a variety of textual media.
ENGL 20300 Introduction to Professional Writing Research
Introduction to research sources and methods useful for professional writers, digital electronic resources. Focus on collecting print and online information, interviewing, surveying, and conducting observations; and on evaluating, summarizing, analyzing, and reporting research.
ENGL 20300 Introduction to Research For Professional Writers
Introduction to research sources and methods useful for professional writers, including electronic resources. Focus on collecting print and online information, interviewing, surveying, and conducting observations; and on evaluating, summarizing, analyzing, and reporting research.
ENGL 20500 Introduction to Creative Writing
Practice in writing short prose narratives and poetry for students who have finished composition and wish to develop their skills further. Workshop criticism.
ENGL 21900 Figures of Myth and Legend 3: Magic & Marvels
Myth and Legend 3 surveys stories of elves, fairies, wizards, witches, etc., and explores the allure of all things marvelous, strange, and magical. The theme of this particular section is “Tolkien on Page and Screen.” Texts covered include The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, and more.
ENGL 21900 Figures of Myth and Legend 3: Magic & Marvels
Myth and Legend 3 surveys stories of elves, fairies, wizards, witches, etc., and explores the allure of all things marvelous, strange, and magical. The theme of this particular section is “Tolkien on Page and Screen.” Texts covered include The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, and more.
ENGL 22700 Elements of Linguistics
A summary of what is known about human language, its structure, its universality, and its diversity; language in its social setting; language in relation to other aspects of human inquiry and knowledge.
ENGL 23000 Great Narrative Works
Reading and discussion of great narratives from Homer’s Odyssey to the present, considering works from a variety of cultures and time periods in order to develop an understanding of their ideas, structures, styles, and cultural values.
ENGL 23200 Sports and Literature
Examination of sports and the techniques by which it is treated in various literary works, usually in more than one genre.
ENGL 23400 Ecological Literature
Literary study of nature writing; writing from the natural sciences; and canonical poetry, fiction, and essays through an ecological lens. Introduces students to ecocritical thought and environmental literary history.
ENGL 23700 Introduction to Poetry
How to read poetry intelligently; function of diction, metrics, figures of speech, and theme; place of a poem in history, uses of poetry.
ENGL 23800 Introduction to Fiction
How to read fiction intelligently; this course promotes understanding and appreciation of the range, values, techniques, and meanings of fiction.
ENGL 24100 Survey of The British Literature: From The Rise Of Romanticism To The Modern Period
Surveys authors, periods, and themes of British literature from the later eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
ENGL 25000 Great American Books
Selected literary texts, such as The Scarlett Letter, Moby Dick, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Walden, Huckleberry Finn, Absalom, Absalom!, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Native Son, and Beloved, closely read and discussed as to their literary qualities and their cultural significance.
ENGL 25700 Literature of Black America
A survey of literature written by black American authors. Close attention is paid to the history of black literature and to the historical context in which it was written, as well as to the texts of major works by black writers.
ENGL 26200 Greek and Roman Classics
Study of important works of Greek and Roman literature, their intrinsic literary values, and their influence on later European and American writing and thinking.
ENGL 26400 The Bible as Literature
A study of selections from the Old and New Testaments as examples of Hebrew and early Christian literature.
ENGL 26600 World Literature: Beginnings To 1700 A.D.
World literature in translation. A comparative and chronological survey of masterpieces of Eastern and Western literature.
ENGL 27600 Shakespeare on Film
Considers the relation of written Shakespeare plays to film versions from a wide variety of times and cultures, e.g., the United States, England, France, Italy, Japan, Denmark, India, and Russia.
ENGL 28600 The Movies
Introduction to the movies from classic to contemporary films. One afternoon or evening a week for the screening of films; two periods a week for discussion.
ENGL 30600 Introduction to Professional Writing
Development of skill in analyzing rhetorical situations in the workplace. Practice in planning, writing, evaluating, and revising a variety of documents typical of those used in the arts and industry.
