English

Description:
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section.
Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College's freshman writing requirements.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section.
Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College's freshman writing requirements.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section.
Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College's freshman writing requirements.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section.
Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College's freshman writing requirements.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section.
Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College's freshman writing requirements.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section.
Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College's freshman writing requirements.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section.
Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College's freshman writing requirements.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement.
Note: This course satisfies the second half of the College’s freshman writing requirement.If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; degree students only.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement.
Note: This course satisfies the second half of the College’s freshman writing requirement.If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; degree students only.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement.
Note: This course satisfies the second half of the College’s freshman writing requirement.If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; degree students only.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement.
Note: This course satisfies the second half of the College’s freshman writing requirement.If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; degree students only.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement.
Note: This course satisfies the second half of the College’s freshman writing requirement.If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; degree students only.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement.
Note: This course satisfies the second half of the College’s freshman writing requirement.If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; degree students only.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement.
Note: This course satisfies the second half of the College’s freshman writing requirement.If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; degree students only.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
This course offers guided practice in the close reading of three major literary genres — poetry, fiction, and drama — with works to be drawn from various historical preiods. (A fourth genre may be added at the instructor’s discretion.) The course explores the distinctive ffeatures of each genre, along with the concepts and terminology necessary to understand it accurately and communicate about it effectively. Close reading is integrated with aesthetic and evaluative responses to the literary works. A bridge to Literary Studies II (ENGL 300) is provided through focused study of at least one work from a biographical, historical, cultural, or other perspective. This course requires intensive writing.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or 102.
Distribution I Area: The Arts.
Distribution II Area: Arts.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
Representative works by five of the most important writers from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, studied as introductions to philosophical and humanistic studies, explored as reflecting and shaping the leading ideas, assumptions, and values of their ages. Works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and other authors such as Milton, Swift, and Austen, with films and background lectures on the philosophical and historical contexts of the works and their authors. Instruction in analytical reading and writing is provided.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101.
Distribution I Area: Philosophical and Humanistic Studies.
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
The achievements of American literature in articulating the American mind are illustrated by works from some well-known American writers — Thoreau, Dickinson, Faulkner, for example — as well as from those who deserve to be better known, such as Frederick Douglass, Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or 102.
Distribution I Area: The Arts.
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
Diversity Area: United States.

Description:
An introduction to the arts through the medium of writing as well as reading poetry and fiction. Student writing is submitted weekly and discussed in class.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102.
Distribution I Area: The Arts.
Distribution II Area: Arts.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
Introduction to themes and forms of fiction. Close analytical reading of stories and novels with special attention to an artist's historical and cultural milieu, and to an artist's choices of form (including thematic repetition and variation, narrative point of view, setting, characterization, plot and action, imagery, figurative language, and representations of speech). Emphasis on writing critical and interpretive papers. Please note: Students may receive credit either for this course or for ENGL C204 (The Nature of Literature: Fiction), but not for both. Capabilities addressed: Reading, writing, critical thinking, information technology, oral presentation.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and a minimum of 30 credits; degree students only.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
Introduction to life writing. Close analytical reading of memoirs, personal essays, biographies and autobiographies with special attention to a writer's historical and cultural milieu, and to a writer's choices of form (including narrative points of view, setting, characterization, scene and summary, figurative language, and representations of speech). Please note: Students may receive credit either for this course or for CORE C120 (Controversy), but not for both. This course may count toward the major or minor in English. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing, academic self-assessment, collaborative learning, information technology, oral presentation.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and a minimum of 30 credits; degree students only.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
An intensive workshop in developing effective prose style for various kinds of writing, including reports, essays, and theses. Instruction covers advanced grammar, usage, editing, and proofreading, with special attention to problems of expression and style arising from complex ideas and argumentative logic. In conjunction with ENGL 307, this course provides a strong preparation for editors and writers in all settings.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
Emphasizing formal and stylistic renditions of 20th-century narrative art, this course focuses on experimental aspects of fiction and film. It does so through close attention to written texts, media, and critical readings. Materials include fiction by James, Woolf, Faulkner, Coetzee, and Puig, and films by Eisenstein, Pabst, DeSica, Resnais, and Giral.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: International.

Description:
Comic literature from different cultures and periods, ancient through modern, illustrates the recurrence of different comic modes: satire, irony, romantic comedy, comedy of manners, and comedy of the absurd. Essays about theories of comedy aid students in evaluating the literature and forming their own ideas about the nature of comedy.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: Arts.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
The study of literature for children, including criticism and the history of the development of literary materials written specifically for children. The works studied-by such authors as Lewis, Grahame, Wilder, and Milne-are explored in the context of the historical and cultural settings in which they were produced, and the texts are analyzed both as works of art and as instruments of cultural and didactic impact.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
Readings in 20th-century short novels by authors such as Tolstoy, Joyce, Conrad, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Roth, Wright, Hurston, Achebe, C Johnson, and Oates. Exploration of how the language of analysis and interpretation affects the ways we relate to texts. Attention to differences among genres: short story, the novella or short novel, and the novel.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
A study of men and women and their relationships in nineteenth century literature, mainly British, with special emphasis on the issues of masculine and feminine sexual identity and sexual stereotypes, and the social position of men and women as these are treated in popular culture and in serious literary works.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
A study of significant works of American fiction written in the first half of the 20th century. Major American modernists-such authors as James, Wharton, S Crane, Cather, Hughes, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hurston, and Faulkner-helped to define the "American century" and to demonstrate the sustained achievement of modern American fiction.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
An examination of works featuring adolescents as protagonists, with attention to why American literature in particular has celebrated the adolescent (and pre-adolescent) experience. Consideration of assumptions held about adolescence, about authorial intention, about literary analysis, and about education. Authors may include Twain, Salinger, Updike, Eugenides, Angelou, Baldwin, Bambara, Morrison, and Allison.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
This course studies literature which takes the working class as its subject. It examines questions such as the following: how is the literary work affected by the relationship of the author to the working class? What have been the traditional literary forms for treating working class subjects and what is their effectiveness? What are the consequences of politics or ideology in literary works?

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: Arts.
Diversity Area: United States.

Description:
The course studies ways authors use imaginative literature to respond to political situations and to voice moral and political beliefs. It probes such themes as war and conquest, wealth, race, sex, but its main emphasis is on language and organization and this emphasis requires close analysis of style and structure. Authors may include Dickens, Forster, and Conrad, Dos Passos, Hansberry, Baraka, and Malraux, Brecht, and Silone.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: International.

Description:
Shakespeare’s problem plays, major tragedies and late romances. The course emphasizes critical interpretations of individual plays, and it assumes that students will have had some experience of Shakespearean plays, such as those in Engl 382. But this course may be elected without such experience.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
A close study of Yeats, Synge, O’Casey, Joyce, and other writers of the modern Irish renaissance. The backgrounds of Irish history and literature relative to these writers will also be studied.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.

Description:
After an introductory consideration of the oral tradition of Irish storytelling, this course traces the thematic concerns and technical developments of the Irish short story from 1830 to the present. It focuses especially on the most noted twentieth-century practitioners of the short story in Ireland — O’Connor, O’Faolain, and O’Flaherty — but also gives close consideration to their precursors, their contemporaries, and their followers.

Academic Information:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102, and ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.
Distribution I Area: None.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.