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WRI 101: Fundamentals of College Writing
Goal: To produce confident and capable readers and writers. To
introduce students to the rigors of college-level reading and writing. To
introduce students to the processes, rhetorical modes, and conventions of
research-based argumentative writing.
Content: This course enhances writing skills by asking students to
apply the principles of good writing in a variety of assignments. Such
principles include paying attention to the process of writing (prewriting,
planning, drafting, seeking feedback, revising, and editing) and accommodating
readers' expectations for content and style. In particular, the course
encourages writers to marshal evidence in support of a thesis while
acknowledging opposing viewpoints.
Taught: Fall, Spring.
Credit: 3 hours.
ENG 101: English Composition: Essays
Goal: To introduce rhetorical principles that will enable students
to produce clear, concise, and effective prose. Through attention to
fundamentals of grammar, mechanics, usage, and style, to guide students in
writing correct and organized short essays, including essay
examinations.
Content: Reading and writing essays.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of College writing
proficiency requirement.
Credit: 3 hours.
ENG 161: Creative Writing
Goal: By reading and studying models of writing, emulating these
models, and using them to inspire their own original work, students will develop
their expertise in creative writing.
Content: Reading and writing short stories, poetry, and drama.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: WIS 101 or ENG 101
Gen. Ed. Category: Developing; Writing Competency; (HUM)
Credit: 3 hours.
ENG 201, 202: Survey of British Literature I
and II
Goal: To introduce students to the general literary
characteristics and to the principal authors of English literature.
Content: Survey of English literature: ENG 201, from its
beginnings to the 19th century; ENG 202, from the 19th century to the present.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: WIS 101 or ENG 101 and ENG 111.
Credit: 3; 3 hours.
ENG 210: Introduction to Literary Criticism
Goal: To introduce techniques of literary analysis, including terminology,
strategies, and assumptions of recent influential theorists and critics.
Content: Theoretical and literary texts.
Taught: Spring.
Prerequisites: WIS 101 or ENG 101, and ENG 111 or ENG 140
Credit: 3 hours.
HUM/WST 260: Women's World Literature
Goal: To introduce students to writing from around the world by
women and/or focusing on women's issues. To enable students to study literature
in a cross-cultural context.
Content: Fiction, poetry, drama, essays primarily by women and/or
about women. Representative writers might include Shikibu, Ama Ata Aidoo, Bessie
Head, Gita Mehta, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Sawako Ariyoshi,Wang Anyi, Isabelle
Allende.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: WIS 101 or ENG 101.
Gen. Ed. Category: Expanding; Women's Experiences, (HUM)
Credit: 3 hours; cross-listed as HUM 260
ENG 338: Seminar in British Literature
Goal: To study a movement, theme, genre, era, or writer(s) in
British Literature. Focus of each seminar will vary. Representative topics might
include Shakespeare and his contemporaries, 18 th century satire, the Romantic
era, 19 th century female novelists, Victorian and Edwardian drama, modernism.
Content: Texts by poets, dramatists, essayists, and/or novelists
as appropriate to topic. Critical essays pertaining to relevant works.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: ENG 201 or 202, and ENG 210.
Credit: 3 hours.
ENG 347: Seminar in World Literature
Goal: To study a movement, theme, genre, era or writer(s) focusing
primarily on works outside the American and English traditions. The focus of
each seminar will vary. Representative topics might include Chinese poetry, the
African novel, revolutions in world literature, the Russian novel.
Content: Texts by poets, dramatists, essayists, and/or novelists
as appropriate to topic. Critical essays pertaining to relevant works.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: ENG 210.
Credit: 3 hours.
ENG 396: Special Topics in English
Goal: To allow students to concentrate on a major writer, genre, a
theme, or a limited period of literary history.
Content: Topics vary, depending on student needs and interest. A
student may take no more than two special topic courses. Representative
special topics might include Arthurian literature, , Irish literature, or Gothic
literature.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: WIS 101 or ENG 101; ENG 111 or ENG 140; ENG 210;
ENG 201, 202, 211 or 212; or permission of instructor.
Credit: 3 hours.
ENG 401: Senior Seminar
Goal: To enable senior English students to apply their accumulated
knowledge to critical analysis of selected issues in literary studies. To
encourage independent thought and judgment while providing a forum in which
students demonstrate their knowledge of current research and their ability to
communicate that knowledge effectively.
Content: Study and discussion of literary and critical texts.
Content may vary from year to year.
Taught: Spring.
Prerequisites: Senior standing and successful completion of ENG
210, three from ENG 201, 202, 211, 212, and one 300-level ENG
course, or consent of instructor.
Credit: 3 hours; S-course.
Rev. 09.15