For a student to become familiar with the works of literature is to gain for oneself the advantage of knowing the best of the varied thoughts about those questions which thinking persons have always asked of themselves. The study of literature will aid the student who seeks to enlarge perspectives about oneself and one’s culture.
Thus literature contributes in a major way to the value of liberal education which according to Newman “aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life.  It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.”
No junior or senior may take a 1000 or 2000 level course without the special permission of the English Department.
0053 Fundamentals of Writing (3)
A course designed to strengthen basic writing skills, including mechanics, grammar, sentence structure, paragraph development, use of specific information, organization and coherence. A preparation for ENGL 1003. This course does not meet the general education requirement for College Writing nor English major or minor requirements (FALL/SPRING).
1003 College Writing 1 (3)
Emphasis on learning to outline, summarize, explicate, and analyze readings and to write essays with a defined thesis, clear relationships, and proper use of rhetorical modes as means to organization and coherence. Prerequisite: ENGL 0053 or placement exam (FALL/SPRING).
1013 College Writing 2 (3)
Continuation of ENGL 1003 with focus on the summary, the critique, and the research paper. Prerequisite: ENGL 1003 (FALL/SPRING).
2003 Introduction to Literature and Criticism (3)
An introduction to the novel, short story, poetry and drama genres of literature with emphasis on analysis and critical approaches leading to appreciation and enrichment. Prerequisite: ENGL 1013 (FALL/SPRING).
2063 Introduction to Film (3)
In addition to fostering a greater appreciation for film as art and a communication medium, this course stresses movie history and an understanding of basic cinematic techniques such as editing, lighting, sound and lens selection. In-class viewings familiarize students with the work of innovative directors such as Eisenstein, Ford, Wells, Resnais, Coppola, Griffith, and Truffaut. Prerequisite: ENGL 1013 (FALL-EVEN YEAR-ONCE IN A 4-YEAR CYCLE).
2073 Literature for Children and Adolescents (3)
Introduction to children’s literature including the study of authors and illustrators, criteria for selection and evaluation according to the needs, abilities and interests of children from pre-school through middle school. Special attention will be given to literature of different cultural and ethnic groups. Prerequisite: ENGL 1013 and a literature option from the general education requirements (FALL/SPRING).
288 - Selected Topics in English
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
299 - Workshop/Seminar in English
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
3001 Literary Publications (1)
A course which culminates in the publication of a literary magazine. Students participate at all levels of the process from selections to final layout and editing. Prerequisites: ENGL 1013, 2003 and computer literacy; Pagemaker recommended (SPRING).
3013 American Literature 1: Enlightenment – Realism (3)
A study of significant American writers in their milieu from the beginning of American literature to the 20th Century. Special attention is given to the contributions made by women and minority writers to the emergence of a distinctively American literature. Includes such writers as Franklin, Cooper, Thoreau, Bradstreet, Wheatley, Ashbridge, Equiano, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, James, and Twain. Prerequisite: ENGL 1013 and 2003 (FALL-ODD YEAR).
3023 Creative Writing (3)
A course designed for the student who has already demonstrated a facility in expository composition and who wishes to develop a facility in creative writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1013 and 2003 (FALL-ODD YEAR).
3033 American Literature 2: Modernism – Present (3)
A continuation of ENGL 3013, with special attention given to the contributions of women and minority writers to the development of a culturally diverse, distinctively American literature. Includes such authors as Crane, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Eliot, O’Connor, Morrison, Dove, Silko, Song, Albee, and Wilson. Prerequisite: ENGL 1013 and a literature option from the general education requirements (SPRING-EVEN YEAR).
3043 Short Story (3)
The history and development of the short story noting plot, character, tone, theme, imagery, and point of view as they operate in a variety of short fictional works from a variety of cultures. Prerequisite: ENGL 1013 and 2003 (FALL-ODD YEAR).
3053 Poetry (3)
The experience of poetry through a cross-period study of major poets and poetic forms. Included are such poets as Frost, e.e. cummings, Roethke, Eliot, Auden, Yeats. Prerequisite: ENGL 1013 and 2003 (FALL-EVEN YEAR).
3063 World Literature 1: Ancient World – Renaissance (3)
A survey of the Western and Non-Western world’s great literature and traditions from ancient times through the Renaissance, including such works as Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, Sappho’s lyrics, the Analects, the Bhagavad-Gita, the Aeneid, the Old and New Testaments, the Koran, the Inferno, the Popul Vuh, and Don Quixote.
3073 History and Structures of Language (3)
An introduction to the history and development of language and to structural, transformational-generative and traditional grammars, plus an intensive review of English usage. Prerequisite: ENGL 1013 and 2003 (SPRING-ODD YEAR).
3083 Advanced Composition (3)
An intensive course for the advanced student in non-fiction writing that focuses on diction, clarity, referencing, conciseness, and style of expository writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1013, 2003 and junior standing (FALL-EVEN YEAR).
3093 Business and Professional Writing (3)
This course will reinforce skills learned in the two required college writing classes, while heightening writing skills as utilized in the workplace. It focuses on the writing and editing of documents, reports, inter- and intra-group communication and research techniques. Whenever possible, class exercises and assignments will derive from the work environment of the students. Special emphasis will be placed on expressing ideas with accuracy, clarity and purpose. Prerequisites: ENGL 1013 and 2003 and COMM 1013 or COMM 1033.
3103 Literature in Business (3)
This course explores the intrinsic relationship between business concepts and classic works of literature. The works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Sinclair Lewis, and other writers will be studied, with an emphasis on how business management, economics, ethics, and social responsibility are reflected in literature from ancient times to the present. The course also examines the works of writers who are/were primarily employed as business people but also create(d) fiction. Prerequisite: ENGL 1013 and 2003.
3163 World Literature 2: Enlightenment – Present (3)
A survey of the Western and Non-Western world’s great literature and traditions from the Enlightenment through the Present, including works by authors such as Basho, Voltaire, Goethe, Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Proust, Kafka, Akhmatova, Rushdie, Mahfouz, Gordimer, Soyinka, Mistral, Marquez, and Walcott (SPRING - ODD YEAR).
399 - Workshop/Seminar in English
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
4013 British Literature 1:Medieval – Enlightenment (3)
A survey of English poetry and prose, from the medieval through the Enlightenment periods. Course includes readings such as Beowulf, Sir Gawain, and the Green Knight, Canterbury Tales, Everyman, The Book of Margery Kempe, sonnets by Wyatt and Sidney, Dr. Faustus, selected poems by John Donne, Paradise Lost, The Rape of the Lock, Gulliver’s Travels, and selections from Johnson. Prerequisite: ENGL 1013, a literature course from the general education requirements and junior standing, or English Department consent (FALL-ODD YEAR).
4023 Aesthetics (3)
See PHIL 4023.
4053 British Literature 2: Romanticism – Present (3)
A survey of English literature, beginning with Romantics, moving through the Victorian era and concluding with significant works of contemporary British writers. Course includes readings of such writers as Blake, Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, Keats, Charlotte Bronte, Tennyson, Dickens, Hardy, Yeats, Woolf, and Joyce. Prerequisite: ENGL 1013, a literature course from the  general education requirements and junior standing, or English Department consent (SPRING-EVEN YEAR).
4063 Shakespeare (3)
An intensive study of selected works of Shakespeare including tragedies, comedies and history plays together with some consideration of major Shakespeare critics and scholars. Prerequisite: ENGL 1003, 1013, 2003 and junior standing (SPRING-ODD YEAR).
4701 English Senior Seminar (1)
This capstone class for the English major provides the opportunity for students to evaluate the program and their performance in it. To this end, students will attend semester meetings with the English faculty. Based on notes from these meetings, they will write a reflective paper on their program of study. In addition, they will select representative projects created for each of the required English courses and discuss each, in writing, in terms of how the paper or project contributed to the student’s development in the discipline. Students will bind these papers and projects (or project descriptions) along with the analysis of each and present the manuscript to their faculty advisor at the time they apply for graduation (SPRING).
488 - Selected Topics in English
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
495 - Cooperative Education: English (1–3)
A course in which students work in a position related to their major, thereby giving them the opportunity to integrate theory with practical experience. In addition to the work experience, course requirements include attending workshops and completing projects assigned by the faculty coordinator. Individualized programs must be formulated in consultation with and approved by the faculty coordinator and the appropriate Cooperative Education coordinator. May be repeated for credit with change of agency or topic. Prerequisite: At least junior standing and consent of faculty coordinator and appropriate Cooperative Education coordinator.
499 - Independent Study in English |