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| ENG124 |
Basic Writing |
4 credits |
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Students learn to recognize and master the basic steps of pre-writing,
drafting and revising, and they learn specific strategies for handling
any general writing task. The course begins by emphasizing expressive
writing and topics drawn from the students' personal experiences and
observations. It is required for and limited to freshman or transfer
students with ACT English scores of 19 or below (SAT below 470). This
course does not count toward an English major or minor. (4 credits)
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| ENG184 |
College Writing |
4 credits |
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An introduction to academic writing emphasizing the writing process.
Students learn strategies for pre-writing, drafting and revising of
expository essays. The course also includes analysis of model essays and
discussion of their ideas, and an introduction to research and research
writing. This course should be taken in the freshman year if possible.
Open to students with ACT English scores of 20 or above (SAT 470 or
above), as well as students who have completed ENG124 with a passing
grade of C- or better. This course does not count toward an English major
or minor. (4 credits)
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| ENG220 |
Introduction to Literary Study |
4 credits |
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(general education requirement under literature) This course invites
students to read important literary works and respond to them. The course
is designed for general education and is a prerequisite to many courses
in the English major. Individual sections may emphasize historical
surveys, thematic studies or comparative approaches; in all sections
students will examine various literary genres within their cultural
context, learn critical reading practices and write about literature. At
root, the course explores the power of metaphor as a way of knowing
ourselves and as a means of imagining others. Does not count toward an
English major or minor. Prerequisite: ENG184 or ACT English score of
30 or above (SAT 680 or higher). (4 credits)
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| ENG221 |
Practicum in Tutoring |
2 credits |
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After studying the writing process and tutoring theory, students respond
to the writing of others in one-on-one conferences. Students will serve
as writing center tutors. Prerequisite: recommendation of a writing
instructor. (2 credits)
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| ENG225 |
Literature of the Developing World |
4 credits |
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(general education option under cross-cultural studies) To paraphrase
Salman Rushdie, the Empire has written back. The last half of the
20th century has produced a number of literary texts written in
English by authors from the recently independent nations of the Old
British Empire. These texts have proved so rich in both literary value
and cultural context that their authors, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott,
Chinua Achebe, and Rushdie himself, have won the most prestigious
literary prizes available. We will be reading and appreciating these
books, both as ripping good yarns, and as significant cultural documents
that teach us much of how members of other societies think, feel and
act. Prerequisite: ENG220. (4 credits; alternate years, consult
department)
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| ENG235 |
Introduction to Rhetorical Studies |
2 credits |
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This course functions primarily as an introduction to rhetoric and
rhetorical analysis. It is designed to introduce students to the major
and the minor in writing and rhetoric. Topics include the rhetoric of
ancient Greece, definitions of rhetoric, past and present, rhetorical
analysis of texts, and analysis of the rhetor's purpose, situation, genre
and audience. Students should attempt to take at least one other course
that includes signficant writing assignments during the same semester. (2
credits)
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| ENG238 |
Literature and Film |
4 credits |
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The course introduces students to the art of adaptation of texts.
Although we are frequently viewers of film, we are not always good
readers and interpreters of visual texts. Students in this class will
read original literary texts and then view the film adaptations of those
texts. Through class discussion and writing about adaptations, students
will learn how to read a film intelligently and understand the place of
film as a literary form. Prerequisite: ENG220. (4 credits; alternate
years, consult department)
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| ENG277 |
Teaching Literature to Adolescents |
2 credits |
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A study of and practice in the teaching of literature, especially
literature appropriate for young adults, with the goal of preparing
students to teach English in junior high and high school. Topics:
selecting literature, eliciting response, oral interpretation,
integrating the language arts and assessment. Prerequisite: ENG296
or 297, or permission of instructor. Students taking ENG308x should
take this course during the same semester. (2 credits; alternate years,
consult department)
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| ENG280 |
Shakespeare |
4 credits |
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William Shakespeare never attended college, yet he saw the world sharply
in his mind's eye. He wrote piercingly about kings and college students,
warriors and witches, goblins and gravediggers; his 1,000 characters have
never been off the stage in 400 years. In this course we read eight plays
which fathom the range of human experience and bring the English language
to its height of expressive beauty. (4 credits)
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| ENG283 |
Grammar in the Classroom |
2 credits |
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Most middle schools and high schools expect their English teachers to
teach writing and grammar. What are the goals of teaching grammar? What
grammar should young writers know? This course takes a rhetorical
approach to the study of grammar and how it can be used in the teaching
of writing. Prerequisite: ENG184 or permission of instructor. (2
credits)
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| ENG288 |
Writing in the Professions |
2 credits |
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A study of professional writing. In a writing workshop setting, students
will learn to adjust style, tone and content to accomplish a definite
purpose with an identified audience. They will also learn strategies for
creating texts that are clear, concise and accurate. The course is
especially useful for those whose career goals require facility in
written communication, such as those studying marketing, public
relations, advertising, management or law. All students will choose a
professional to be their mentor on a writing project related to the
career they are interested in. Students will also build a small
portfolio of professional writing that includes letters, a memo, a
resume and a research report. Prerequisites: sophomore class standing
and ENG184 or ACT English score of 30 or above (SAT 680 or higher).
(2 credits)
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| ENG290 |
The Art of the Essay |
2 credits |
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A study of some of the best contemporary American non-fiction writing on
such subjects as politics, the arts, religion, natural science and
medicine. Students write on similar topics and develop their own style by
emulating such models. Prerequisites: sophomore class standing and
ENG184 or ACT English score of 30 or above (SAT 680 or higher), or
permission of instructor. (2 credits)
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| ENG294 |
Reading and Writing Short Fiction |
4 credits |
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Students will explore the nature and design of fiction by studying and
analyzing a range of short fictional genres, learning to read fiction the
way its writers read it, and participating in a fiction writing workshop.
Attention will be given to purposes of language, to relationships between
reading and writing, and to narrative as a mode of thinking and an
expression of culture. Prerequisite: ENG184 or equivalent. (4
credits; alternate years, consult department)
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| ENG296 |
Reading and Writing Poetry |
4 credits |
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Students will actively explore the nature and design of poetry by
studying a range of poetic genres and styles, learning to read poetry as
writers do, and writing poetry in a writing workshop. Attention will be
given to the purposes of language, to relationships between reading and
writing, and to poetry as a mode of thinking and an expression of
culture. Prerequisite: ENG184 or equivalent. (4 credits; alternate
years, consult department)
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| ENG297 |
The Rhetoric of Persuasion |
2 credits |
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A study of the methods of persuasion: logical and emotional appeals and
trustworthiness, ways of structuring arguments, and persuasive style.
Students will learn to create and critique arguments on a variety of
subjects. Prerequisites: sophomore class standing and ENG184 or ACT
English score of 30 or above (SAT 680 or higher), or permission of
instructor. (2 credits)
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| ENG308 |
Methods of Teaching Secondary English and Speech |
2 credits |
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A study and practice of methods for teaching English and speech in high
school and junior high school. Topics include language and language
learning, composition, oral language, planning, curriculum and
assessment. Does not count toward a major or minor. Cross-referenced in
theatre/speech. (2 credits; alternate years, consult department)
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| ENG345 |
Linguistic Perspectives on English |
4 credits |
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Where did our language come from? How did English get the biggest
vocabulary of any modern language? How are the words joust, yoke, and
yoga related? Why is English spelling so irregular? Are there bad
words? This course traces the 1500 year development of our language,
from the Germanic tongue of Beowulf to the Frenchified language of
Chaucer, to the many varieties of modern English spoken around the world.
(4 credits; alternate years, consult department)
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| ENG346 |
American Literature I |
4 credits |
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A study of prose and poetry in the United States from America's
beginnings through the end of the Civil War. The course will focus on the
works of Colonial and Romantic writers and the literatures of Native and
African Americans. Special attention will be given to defining the
qualities and concerns that make this literature distinctively
"American". Prerequisite: ENG220. (4 credits; alternate years,
consult department)
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| ENG347 |
American Literature II |
4 credits |
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A study of prose and poetry in the United States from the Civil War until
the present. The course will study works by realists (including
regionalists) and modernists, as well as contemporary writers.
Prerequisite: ENG220. (4 credits; alternate years, consult department)
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| ENG376 |
Medieval Literature |
4 credits |
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The Middle Ages was a Christian millennium. Authors, philosophers,
astronomers and economists pursued their calling within a Christian
worldview and a Catholic power structure. When warlike Anglo-Saxons
imagined the crucifixion, they saw a heroic prince stripping for battle
and mounting the cross in triumph. Medieval dramatists recreated the
entire pageant of Biblical history on a long summer's day. In this course
we read literary and historical works by both men and women, including
Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Canterbury Tales.
Prerequisite: ENG220. (4 credits; alternate years, consult department)
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| ENG377 |
English Renaissance Literature |
4 credits |
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Like our own age, the Renaissance saw spiritual perspectives and secular
perspectives in conflict and in synthesis. Writers, like seafarers,
expanded our understanding of what it is to be human in this world. In
this course we read plays, speeches, and poems by such authors as
Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, Donne and Milton. Prerequisite: ENG220.
(4 credits; alternate years, consult department)
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| ENG378 |
English Nineteenth-Century Literature |
4 credits |
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The industrial revolution resulted in an urbanized, more literate
population. Writers of the time sought to reach a popular audience in a
way unparalleled in English literary history. We shall read Austen,
Wordsworth, Dickens, Eliot and their contemporaries, examining what they
thought of and had to say to the common people of their day.
Prerequisite: ENG220. (4 credits; alternate years, consult department)
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| ENG379 |
English Twentieth-Century Literature |
4 credits |
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England was largely depopulated of young men and nearly reduced to rubble
by two world wars. The nation that arose, stripped of its empire, has
continued to be a literary center. We shall read Shaw, Yeats, Eliot,
Heaney and others, examining how they have analyzed and expressed the
modern human condition. Prerequisite: ENG220. (4 credits; alternate
years, consult department)
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| ENG380 |
Special Topics in Writing |
2-4 credits |
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Specific subject matter of this course will vary from semester to
semester, but will always focus on an issue in composition studies or a
genre of writing. Courses will include both readings and student writing
within the genre and will be designed to welcome both majors and
non-majors. The course may be taken more than once as long as the topic
of study is different, and will count toward the advanced writing course
general education requirement. Prerequisite: ENG184 or ACT English
score of 30 or above (SAT 680 or higher). (2-4 credits)
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| ENG385 |
Literature of Place |
4 credits |
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Some writers are especially interested in the ways people transform
places and the ways places influence people. The elements of a place- the
mountain ranges, shopping malls, grasslands, forests, migratory patterns
of animals, rush of automobiles, or the portals of cyber-places--shape
the imagination. This course examines significant literary works,
especially non-fiction, that explore the relationship between persons and
places. In particular, we will examine the tension between the writer's
need to construct definations of "home places" and how the places
themselves respond to human "home making". Prerequisite: ENG220 (4
credits; alternate years, consult department)
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| ENG386 |
The Other America |
4 credits |
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America is home to a variety of peoples and literatures; this course
focuses on the development of literatures produced by those outside the
Anglo-European tradition whose experiences tell a different story about
America. The goal of the course is to enrich students' views of the
content of American Literature and to familiarize them with a culture or
cultures with which they may not be familiar. The course may be taught as
African American, Native American, Asian American or Hispanic American
literature. Alternatively, the instructor may choose to focus on
literatures in contact and conflict with one another, for example, the
turbulent confluence of Native American, Anglo and Hispanic Literatures
of Nueva Espana. See the instructor for the specific offering before
enrolling. This course may be taken more than once, provided a different
literature is studied. Prerequisite: ENG220 (4 credits; alternate
years, consult department)
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| ENG387 |
Special Topics in Rhetoric |
2-4 credits |
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Specific subject matter of this course will vary from semester to
semester, but will always focus on an issue in rhetorical studies or a
genre of writing. Courses with writing as their emphasis will include
both readings and student writing within the genre. The course will be
designed to welcome both majors and non-majors. The course may be taken
more than once as long as the topic of study is different. Prerequisite:
ENG184 or ACT English score of 30 or above (SAT 680 or higher). (2-4
credits; non-yearly, consult department)
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| ENG398 |
Directed Study |
1-4 credits |
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| ENG401 |
History and Theory of Rhetoric |
4 credits |
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Designed to provide solid grounding in Greek and Roman rhetorical theory
and practice including studies in pre-literate rhetoric and the theories
of Aristotle and Plato, among others. Some attention is also given to the
Christianizing of rhetorical theory during the Middle Ages. Finally, the
course concludes with the examination of trends in contemporary rhetoric
studies and topical applications. Prerequisite: junior class standing,
ENG235 recommended. (4 credits)
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| ENG410 |
Seminar in Interpretation |
4 credits |
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In this course we study basic problems in understanding literary texts.
We explore solutions offered by various critical schools (structuralism,
psychoanalysis, New Historicism, reception-aesthetics), examining both
their inherent logic and their applicability to a particular text. (4
credits; alternate years, consult department)
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| ENG417 |
Internship |
6-8 credits |
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(4 credits may apply toward the major)
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| ENG420 |
Advanced Writing Project |
4 credits |
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Students will define for themselves an advanced writing project in a
given genre or set of genres of artistic, journalistic, or other writing.
They will also sketch a plan for five years beyond college, do reading to
gain theoretical, ethical, theological, or moral perspectives on the work
they expect to do as writers, and reflect on that reading. Students will
also assemble a portfolio of their best writing and any related work in
visual imagery or design. Accompanying the portfolio will be writing to
connect it to audiences beyond college such as query letters to
publishers, letters of application to employers, and personal statements
for graduate school admission committees. Prerequisite: at least one
writing course in the genre in which the student plans to do the advance
project. (4 credits)
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| ENG480 |
Special Topics in Literature and Culture |
4 credits |
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In this seminar we analyze interpretive problems in literature and their
relation to cultural theories and conditions. Particular attention is
given to questions germane to Christian experience and thought. Specific
subject matter will vary from year to year and might include such topics
as a literary period, a national literature, a specific author or
literary genre. This course may be taken more than once provided a
different topic is studied. (4 credits; non-yearly, consult department)
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| ENG499 |
Honors Research |
2-4 credits |
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