English (EN) 1 EN114 American Literature Since 1865 (3 Credits) ENGLISH (EN) A study of literature written in the United States after the Civil War that traces diverse expressions of American storytelling. Through a variety of EN101 Grammar Intensive I (1 Credits) literary texts, students will explore a nation struggling to unify after the An intensive study of the form and function of English grammar and war and engage topics of racism, sexism, and classism. Students also conventions necessary in academic and professional writing and will learn about key literary movements, including realism, modernism, speaking. Students will learn concepts of grammar, sentence structure, and postmodernism. Writers that may be covered include Mark Twain, punctuation and mechanics in order to communicate about and Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston strengthen their writing and speaking skills. They will also identify Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, and Junot individual areas in need of improvement. 1 hour lecture. Díaz. Students also will examine the role of the artist in a continually EN105 Essentials of Academic Writing I (3 Credits) changing American society. Texts may be drawn from poetry, fiction, Support in developing efficient writing skills, critical reading/thinking graphic narrative, and drama, as well as essays, autobiographies, and skills, strong sentence-level skills, and basics in MLA documentation film. style, in preparation for success in EN111. These developmental writing Prerequisite(s): EN111 or equivalent or EN221. courses count towards the degree but do not fulfill the university writing EN115 World Literature I (3 Credits) requirement. Students may not take EN105 or EN106 (or equivalent A broadening of perspective through the study of great literature, both transfer courses) for credit after passing, with a grade of C or better, any European and from other regions, which was not originally written in higher level writing courses, including EN111, EN112, or EN221. English. Prerequisite(s): Placement. Prerequisite(s): EN111 or equivalent or EN221. EN106 Essentials of Academic Writing II (3 Credits) EN116 World Literature II (3 Credits) Support in developing efficient writing skills, critical reading/thinking A broadening of perspective through the study of great literature, both skills, strong sentence-level skills, and basics in MLA documentation European and from other regions, which was not originally written in style, in preparation for success in EN111. These developmental writing English. courses count towards the degree but do not fulfill the university writing Prerequisite(s): EN111 or equivalent or EN221. requirement. Students may not take EN105 or EN106 (or equivalent EN150 Career Paths for English Majors (1 Credits) transfer courses) for credit after passing, with a grade of C or better, any In this course, students will be expose to the limitless career available higher level writing courses, including EN111, EN112, or EN221. to English majors. Each week, two different guest speakers from a wide Prerequisite(s): Placement or a grade of C or better in EN105. range of industries will discuss how they translated their education EN111 Academic Writing and Research I (3 Credits) into career success. Representatives from publishing, marketing, sales, Practice in the process and production of academic writing and law, business, and the helping professions will speak to the class about research. Emphasis on the major strategies for organizing expository their career journeys, as well as discuss what they look for when hiring and persuasive writing, the relationship of the writer and audience, candidates today. Students will be asked to think about their own career and the use of documented supporting evidence. An argument-based aspirations and design a career action plan to help them achieve their research paper is required and completed under supervision. Basic oral goals. presentation skills are introduced and integrated into class activities. EN175 British Lit from Anglo-Saxon to 1785 (3 Credits) This course fulfills the university writing requirement. Students must earn Enter the magical yet treacherous world of monsters, knights and ladies, a grade of C or better to meet general education requirement. Offered and medieval pilgrims in such works as Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the yearly. Green Knight, The Canterbury Tales, and The Faerie Queene. Explore the Prerequisite(s): Placement or a grade of C or better in EN106. passions of obsessive love, lust, and hate encompassed in such works EN112 Academic Writing and Research II (3 Credits) as the sonnets of William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Practice in the process and production of academic writing and Meet Satan and Sin and their son, Death, in the greatest English epic, research. Emphasis on the major strategies for organizing expository John Milton’s Paradise Lost. And finally, experience the 18th-century’s and persuasive writing, the relationship of the writer and audience, caustic satire and amusing parody in such works as Jonathan Swift’s “A and the use of documented supporting evidence. An argument-based Modest Proposal,” William Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode, and Alexander research paper is required and completed under supervision. Basic oral Pope’s Rape of the Lock. presentation skills are introduced and integrated into class activities. Prerequisite(s): EN111 or equivalent or EN221. Offered yearly. EN176 British Lit Since 1785 (3 Credits) Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in EN111. An introduction to some of the most influential works of literature EN113 American Literature Before 1865 (3 Credits) from Great Britain, its colonies, and former colonies since the late 18th A study of literature written in North America before the Civil War that century. The course will explore such topics as industrialization, social traces diverse expressions of American storytelling. Through a variety class, evolving gender roles, war, memory, and humanity’s dual nature. of literary texts, students will explore the early formation of American Students will learn about major literary periods and movements, such literature as rooted in Native American creation stories and engage topics as romanticism, Victorianism, modernism, and postmodernism. Writers of Puritanism, deism, slavery, and Transcendentalism. Writers that may covered may include William Blake, Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, be covered include Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Phyllis Wheatley, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, Derek Walcott, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walt Salman Rushdie, and Zadie Smith. Students will also examine the Whitman. Students also will examine the role of the artist in a continually importance of storytelling as a defining part of the human experience changing American society. Texts may be drawn from poetry, fiction, and while studying works of poetry, fiction, drama, and film. drama, as well as sermons, journals, and autobiographies. Prerequisite(s): EN111 or equivalent or EN221. Prerequisite(s): EN111 or equivalent or EN221. 2 English (EN) EN190 TopicsPostcolonialLit (3 Credits) EN225 Topics in Writing (3 Credits) A diverse reading of contemporary literary texts after 1980 from countries Study of selected topics not listed among the department’s other colonized by European nations, i.e., nations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, offerings. Offered as a conventional class or, with the approval of the Latin America, and/or the literature about/from refugees. This course instructor, as directed independent study. introduces students to major international writers whose writings we will Prerequisite(s): EN111 with grade of C or better or EN221 Honors with read in English or in translation. These ordinary and extraordinary human grade of C or better. experiences are expressed in a variety of literary genres such as poetry, EN226 HNR American Literature & Culture (3 Credits) essays, graphic novels, film, and fiction. Contemporary topics of race, This course focuses on the transformative nature of American literature sexuality, war, colonialism, nationalism, gender, diaspora, exile and/or during several consecutive time periods marked by recognized artistic migration will be explored. and literary movements in the United States. Emphasis will be placed Prerequisite(s): EN111 or equivalent or EN221. on the innovations and the influences American writers have had on EN210 Writing for the Mass Media (3 Credits) literature and culture and may include such movements as romanticism, This course introduces the principles and techniques of writing across transcendentalism, naturalism, realism, modernism, and/or post- various forms of mass media. Course includes critical discussion and modernism. Individual sections of the course may be organized around analysis of readings, individual and collaborative writing projects, as well a specific theme, issue, or idea at the instructor’s discretion. EN226 as peer editing. replaces EN114. Students may not take both for credit. Prerequisite(s): EN111 or equivalent or EN221. Prerequisite(s): Either EN221 with a grade of C or better, or permission EN213 News Writing & Reporting (3 Credits) from the instructor. This course provides an introduction to contemporary journalism, with an EN230 Writing on the Web (3 Credits) emphasis on practical experience in news writing and reporting within a Focuses on writing about and for the web.