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EDU 201 FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION CREDITS: 4

This course explores the social, political and philosophical forces behind school structures and practices in the United States as they have evolved over time . Students analyze the interaction of ideas and practices in past, current and future contexts . Critical thinking skills are developed so students think seriously about education as a potential career . Course readings, class activities, and projects provide students with a framework from which they can formulate their own educational principles and standards . Offered fall . Exploration area: Social Sciences

EDU 204 EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY CREDITS: 4

This course introduces and applies educational multimedia technology in 21st century teaching and learning in a dynamic global society . Students will develop relevant learning experiences incorporating contemporary technological resources to maximize content learning in varied contexts . Students will be guided to examine/shape their educational philosophy and expand their technological literacy and skills by applying Google tools, Web 2 .0 platforms and portable mobile technologies to support K-12 student learning . Offered fall . Exploration area: Social Sciences . Prerequisite: sophomore or above standing . EDU 250 TOPICS IN EDUCATION CREDITS: 4

These courses offer students in-depth study of topics in education that are not part of the regularly scheduled course offerings . The topics are announced before registration . EDU 308 METHODS OF TEACHING CREDITS: 4

Students will learn about: common core/curriculum/assessment, evidence-based

teaching, differentiated instruction, teaching resources, communication skills and behavior management . A 4-hour per week practicum associated with the student’s major is required . Offered fall . Prerequisites: 16 credits in major, EDU 201

EDU 350 TOPICS IN EDUCATION CREDITS: 4

These courses offer students in-depth study of topics in education that are not part of the regularly scheduled course offerings . The topics are announced before registration . EDU 480 TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP CREDITS: 1–4

Qualified junior and senior students may apply to work with faculty members as teaching assistants in 100- and 200-level courses . The teaching assistantship course allows students to participate in the instructional development of a course and to learn about teaching methodologies and course development . The teaching assistant has definite instructional responsibilities in the class as well as an instructional component in which the assistant learns how to teach . The assistant engages in regular discussions with the faculty member concerning the course and teaching methodology . Offered fall and spring . Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the department chair . Requirements can be found under Additional Curricular Opportunities .

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ENG 161 INTRODUCTION TO GENRE STUDIES CREDITS: 4

In this introductory course for English and Creative Writing majors, students approach such questions as what is literature, how do literary texts relate to each other, and how does literature relate to ordinary life . Students learn critical vocabulary and perform close readings in a variety of literary genres . We focus on the conventions pertinent to different literary forms as well as the way in which social and cultural concerns impact theory formation . Offered fall . ENG 213 THE POEM CREDITS: 4

This course explores the ways of reading and understanding poetry of many cultures and literary periods . The material ranges from ancient poetry to contemporary song lyrics . This course investigates the origin of poetry and addresses such questions as Where does poetry come from? What is it that we pay tribute to when we write poetry? Offered fall of even- numbered years . Exploration Area: Literature

ENG 215 VISIONS OF NATURE CREDITS: 4

Using examples of the nature writing tradition begun by Gilbert White and continued by writers such as Edward Abbey, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, Annie Dillard, Michael Pollan, Wallace Stegner, Henry David Thoreau, this course examines the sources of the nature- writing tradition in prose and poetry . Students explore definitions of the pastoral, wilderness, and the birth of environmentalism that looks toward ecocentric visions for the 21st-century . Offered fall and spring . Exploration Area: Literature

ENG 216 IRISH LITERATURE CREDITS: 4

This course examines Irish literature in its cultural context . Special attention is given to Anglo-Irish relations, Catholicism, the Famine, Irish nationalism, and Ireland’s hold on the Irish-American imagination . Students read a sampling from Ireland’s rich literary heritage ranging from ancient heroic narratives to writers more familiar to 21st-century readers, such as Heaney and McCourt . Offered spring of even-numbered years . Exploration Area: Literature ENG 221 AMERICAN LITERATURE I CREDITS: 4

This course is the study of selected representative works by American writers before 1865 . Special attention is paid to literary periods, major literary themes, and major authors . Offered fall of odd-numbered years . Exploration Area: Literature

ENG 222 AMERICAN LITERATURE II CREDITS: 4

This course is the study of selected representative works by American writers from 1865 to the present . Special attention is paid to literary periods, major literary themes, and major authors . Offered spring of even-numbered years . Exploration Area: Literature

ENG 229 NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE CREDITS: 4

This course is a study of representative works created by native peoples of the Americas, including traditional songs and chants from the oral traditions of past centuries as well as poetry, fiction and autobiographical writings from such contemporary authors as Sherman Alexie, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Leslie Silko, and N . Scott Momaday . Offered fall of even-numbered years . Exploration Area: Literature

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ENG 231 BRITISH LITERATURE I CREDITS: 4

Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Elizabethan, Restoration, and 18th-century figures are approached within the contexts of social and religious roles/concepts, aesthetic forms and conventions, and literary themes . Student read the works of Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Pope, Johnson and others . Offered fall of even-numbered years . Exploration area: Literature ENG 232 BRITISH LITERATURE II CREDITS: 4

In this course students study major British authors from the 1780’s to the present . Their writings are studied in relation to literary themes, historical change, and creative innovation . Offered spring of odd-numbered years . Exploration area: Literature

ENG 234 MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE CREDITS: 4

This course introduces students to the genre of mythology and folklore . Students study ancient and modern stories from a variety of cultures and discuss how myths serve as foundations for spiritual discovery and expression while defining cultural beliefs and values . Offered spring . Exploration area: Literature

ENG 238 WORLD LITERATURE I CREDITS: 4

This course introduces the origins of human expression in non-Western cultures . The readings begin with some of the first works of recorded literature and ends with the discovery of new worlds . Students study the contexts and meanings of the texts as well as the new and important perspectives they can bring to our own lives . Offered fall . Exploration Area: Literature

ENG 239 WORLD LITERATURE II CREDITS: 4

This course focuses on modern European and non-Western literature . Students examine cultural expression in language and art, the impact of emigration and exile on identity and gender, and the deep connections among globalization, politics, and the literary imagination . Offered spring . Exploration Area: Literature

ENG 244 THE NOVEL IN A GLOBAL WORLD CREDITS: 4

This course focuses on novels that portray a modern, globalized world and how individuals cope with cultural change . Students consider the relation of content to form . How has the novel changed to represent a new, more global world? Offered fall and spring . Exploration Area: Literature

ENG 250 TOPICS IN ENGLISH CREDITS: 4

These courses offer students in-depth study of topics in English that are not part of the regularly scheduled course offerings . The topics are announced before registration . Offered fall and spring .

ENG 265 LITERATURE AND FILM CREDITS: 4

This course explores the similarities and differences in both the form and content of works of literature—short stories, novels, nonfiction, drama—and their cinematic adaptations . Using literary and filmic examples from a variety of cultural traditions, the course considers how the two media draw on their unique aesthetic elements to develop characters, themes, narrative lines and point of view . Offered spring of odd-numbered years . Exploration Area: Literature

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ENG 266 AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE CREDITS: 4

This course is a historical survey of African American Literature . Students will study a wide variety of genres—the slave narrative, folklore, the blues, the novel, poetry—to better understand the unique contributions writers of African descent have made to the American imagination . Other possible topics include the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts

Movement, and African American women authors . Offered spring of even-numbered years .

Exploration area: Literature

ENG 278, 378, 478 RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP CREDITS: 1–4

Academically qualified junior and senior students work with faculty members as research assistants for faculty research projects . The assistant and faculty collaborate to determine the specific responsibilities for design, implementation, and analysis of the research project . The assistantship may include responsibilities in the classroom or laboratory . The research assistantships can be at the 200, 300, or 400 level of course work . Students may not complete more than one assistantship at any one level . Please refer to more details and requirements in the Additional Curricular Opportunities section of this catalog . Offered fall and spring .

ENG 285 ENGLISH INTERNSHIP CREDITS: 1–4

Qualified sophomores, juniors, and seniors may arrange internships related to English with a faculty member in the Humanities Department . The goal is to gain practical experience under the supervision of both a professional in the field and a member of the English faculty . Any organization involved in writing or publishing, or the promoting of literature, literacy, and the arts would serve as appropriate sites . These organizations might include newspaper, magazine, journal and book publishers, advertising and public relations firms, state and local libraries, writers’ organizations, arts councils, and historical societies . Graded Pass/ Fail . Offered fall, spring and summer . Prerequisites: Pre-internship seminar, permission of the faculty sponsor and department chair .

ENG 295, 395, 495 INDEPENDENT STUDY CREDITS: 1–4

Qualified students may develop independent study courses in areas not ordinarily offered at the college . The distinction among course levels depends on the focus of the proposed course, the amount of work previously done in the field, and the extent of student

independence; the higher the number, the greater the expectations . Each independent study course is developed in consultation with a faculty member . Independent study courses may not be used to meet major requirements; only one may be used to meet a requirement for a minor . Independent study courses may be repeated for credit however after the first course additional courses may only be used as electives . Please refer to more details and requirements in the Additional Curricular Opportunities section of this catalog . Offered fall and spring . Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor and the department chair .

ENG 305 STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN LITERATURE CREDITS: 4

The intellectual and artistic history of the Medieval and Renaissance periods will be examined through a variety of literary and cultural expressions . Theoretical texts will assist in the analysis of the aesthetic choices made in this period of complex cultural encounters . Offered spring of odd-numbered years . Prerequisite: one 200-level literature course .

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ENG 317 STUDIES IN THE BRITISH 19TH CENTURY CREDITS: 4

During the 19th century, England underwent significant social and political change . Authors of the era wrote about these changes and their impact on England . Authors studied may include the Romantic poets, the Victorian sages, the leading novelists of the period, and the writers of the fin de siècle . Offered spring of even-numbered years . Prerequisite: one 200-level literature course .

ENG 324 STUDIES IN THE AMERICAN 19TH CENTURY CREDITS: 4

This course explores the major figures of mid-19th century American literature—Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson—by examining their works in considerable detail, understanding their contributions to the American Renaissance in the context of the times when they were created and tracing the connections and influences these authors had on the works of one another . Offered fall of odd-numbered years . Prerequisite: One 200-level literature course .

ENG 331 IMAGES OF WOMEN IN LITERATURE CREDITS: 4

This course examines the various ways women have written the text of their lives within the genres available to them and within the context of the cultures they have inhabited . Writers studied may include Toni Morrison, Tillie Olsen, Adrienne Rich, Virginia Woolf, Arundhati Roy, Margaret Atwood, and Alison Bechdel as well as feminist literary critics and theorists . Offered fall of odd-numbered years . Prerequisite: One 200-level literature course course .

ENG 333 STUDIES IN ETHNIC LITERATURE CREDITS: 4

This course provides students with an in-depth study of the literature of a specific ethnic group . Students will also read critical race theory and cultural theory as a way to understand the literature of traditionally underrepresented minority groups . Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Postcolonial literature, the literature of European immigrants, African, Hispanic, and Asian American literature, Native American literature, and Caribbean literature . Offered spring of odd-numbered years . Prerequisite: one 200-level literature course .

ENG 335 SELECTED GENRE STUDIES CREDITS: 4

In this course students will undertake a close reading of a specific genre using current theoretical interpretations . Genres chosen could include, but are not limited to: autobiography, drama and poetry . Offered fall of even-numbered years . Prerequisite: one 200-level literature course .

ENG 338 CONTEMPORARY FICTION AND NARRATIVE THEORY CREDITS: 4 The purpose of this course is to study contemporary fiction using the tools provided by literary theory . Students read a wide-range of experimental texts and excerpts from recent theoretical essays . This course also explores the differences between Modernism and Postmodernism using course texts . Offered fall of even-numbered years . Prerequisite: one 200-level literature course .

ENG 339 LITERARY MODERNISM CREDITS: 4

This course examines representative works of poetry, fiction and drama from the experimental literary movement known as modernism, exploring the social, cultural, and aesthetic influences that gave rise to this literature and which are reflected in it, including links with the art, music and film of the period . Among the writers to be considered are

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Cather, Eliot, Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Pirandello, Pound, Stein, Toomer and Woolf . Offered spring of even-numbered years . Prerequisite: One 200-level literature course . ENG 342 STUDIES IN LITERARY THEORY CREDITS: 4

This course introduces students to a range of traditional and contemporary critical approaches to literary texts with the goal of extending their level of analysis, research, and writing . In the process, students also develop a keener sense of how critical study and analysis are performed at the professional level . This course prepares students for the extended senior thesis project . Offered fall . Prerequisite: ENG 161/ENG 160

ENG 350 TOPICS IN ENGLISH CREDITS: 4

These courses offer students in-depth study of topics in English that are not part of the regularly scheduled course offerings . The topics are announced before registration . Offered fall and spring .

ENG 480 TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP CREDITS: 1–4

Qualified junior and senior students may apply to work with faculty members as teaching assistants in 100- and 200-level courses . The teaching assistantship course allows students to participate in the instructional development of a course and to learn about teaching methodologies and course development . The teaching assistant has definite instructional responsibilities in the class as well as an instructional component in which the assistant learns how to teach . The assistant engages in regular discussions with the faculty member concerning the course and teaching methodology . Offered fall and spring . Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the department chair . Requirements can be found under Additional Curricular Opportunities .

ENG 485 ENGLISH INTERNSHIP CREDITS: 1–6

All English majors are required to complete a minimum 120 hour internship to gain practical experience under the supervision of both a professional in the field and a member of the English faculty . Any organization involved in writing or publishing, or the promoting of literature, literacy, and the arts would serve as appropriate sites . These organizations might include newspaper, magazine, journal and book publishers, advertising and public relations firms, state and local libraries, writers’ organizations, arts councils and historical societies . Graded Pass/Fail . Offered fall, spring and summer . Prerequisites: Pre-internship seminar, permission of the faculty sponsor and department chair .

ENG 487 THE CAPSTONE PROPOSAL CREDITS: 2

Students design and complete the proposal and an annotated bibliography for the Capstone Project they write the following semester . Students plan their project with both the instructor and their advisor for the project . Proposals are evaluated by the instructor, their advisor, and another member of the department . Professionalization of the degree and portfolio preparation will be covered . Graded Pass/Fail . Offered fall . Prerequisite: senior standing or permission of the instructor and department chair .

ENG 488 CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE: SENIOR SEMINAR CREDITS: 2

Students complete a significant, independent project in a workshop setting . Students draw upon their own interests, developing their skills to a more professional level, and design a project that consolidates their own approach to literary studies . Students present the project

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on Scholars Day . Three faculty members, including the instructor and the advisor assess the final essay . Offered spring . Prerequisite: ENG 487 or permission of the instructor .