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2015-2016 HillBook (Class of 2019) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
Course Descriptions
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ENG 100/125 - The Imaginary Primitive (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Fall Semester
Our seminar will focus on how the modern idea of Western “civilization” took shape in response to the image of the non-European, “native.” Specifically, we will examine the “primitive” (and the related figures of the “cannibal,” the “savage,” and the “barbarian”) in British and French literature and visual art as the essential-if often invented-figure at the heart of modern concepts of empire, subjectivity, aesthetics, ethics, and culture. Although much of our work will concentrate on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, we will begin by examining several foundational early modern and Enlightenment-era texts to see how images of first contact between so-called “natives” and European explorers influenced more contemporary discourses of anthropology, biology, social science, psychoanalysis, and imperial politics. Readings will examine several key contact zones between European and non-European peoples: Africa, India, Oceania, and the Middle East. Our semester will end with a section devoted to contemporary responses to European constructions of racial ‘Otherness’ from the Sudan, France, and England. Authors to be covered include William Shakespeare, Michel de Montaigne, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rudyard Kipling, Paul Gauguin, Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, E.M. Forster, George Orwell, Marjane Satrapi, Tayeb Salih, and Zadie Smith. We will also look at art by Gauguin, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Man Ray, and Pablo Picasso, among others, as well as films such as Cannibal Tours and Dirty, Pretty Things.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 125 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 125, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/126 - Love and Other Difficulties (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
What does it mean to desire something-or someone? What is the nature of the relationship between the enamored and the object of desire? In this course, we will explore love and desire as fundamental aspects of identity and self-awareness as well as central themes of literature across diverse cultures and historical periods. Through readings in poetry, drama and fiction, we will examine desire in its many forms, from desire for friendship and familial connection to romantic and libidinal desire, to the desire for material goods and power. Authors to be considered may include Plato, Ovid, Shakespeare, Keats, Brontë, Freud, Rilke, Joyce, Kafka, Nabokov, Wilde, Mann, Duras, Neruda, García Márquez, and Morrison.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 126 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 126, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/127 - The Art of Memory (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Fall and Spring Semester
This course will be an interdisciplinary study of memory that encourages students to investigate both critically and creatively how different artists, writers, and filmmakers depict memory. We will discuss not only how it’s used in their work, but also how they represent the way it functions and how different approaches and mediums reveal or expose different aspects of experience. Artists, writers, filmmakers and composers we may explore include: Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation, Chris Marker’s La Jetee, poet Marie Howe’s What the Living Do, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Joe Brainard’s I Remember, as well as various essays (by authors such as Joel Agee and bell hooks). We will also examine the artwork of Christian Boltanski, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, as well as composer William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 127 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 127, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/128 - Wonderlands (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
A portal opens to another world: what wonders will we find there? In this course, we will travel down rabbit holes, through secret doorways, across borders, and back in time, encountering the stuff of dreams-and sometimes nightmares. Along the way, we will ask what these alternate realities tell us about our own world and our own imaginations. Texts may include: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, J.M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy, The Wachowskis’ The Matrix, Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, Octavia Butler’s Kindred, and short works by Margaret Cavendish, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, and Adrienne Rich.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 128 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 128, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/129 - Monstrous Representations (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
The topic of this course is, simply put, monsters. These figures have occupied the imagination for centuries. Even today, they continue to haunt our cultural consciousness in literature and film. Horrifying, strange, sometimes even seductive, monsters inhabit the space of difference, calling into question cultural values (such as those of gender, race, sexuality, etc.) and exposing the anxieties, fears, and desires of the cultures that generate them. But what does it mean to be a monster? What separates monsters from men? What happens when these boundaries are crossed? Why do monsters always return? In what ways do they change with each new return? How do they stay the same? In this course, we will examine these and other questions as we encounter monstrous representations from a variety of literary periods and genres. Through studying figures as diverse as the Blemmyae of medieval travel narratives, the creations of Dr. Moreau, and Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula, we will investigate what these monsters can tell us about the cultures that create and consume them.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 129 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 129, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/130 - Fairy Tales, Folklore and Fantasy (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
Fairy tales, folklore and fantasy are repositories for literary and cultural expression across the boundaries of period and genre. This course will use the lens of the fairy tale, its reinterpretation and adaptation, to introduce students to various literary genres, including poetry, prose and drama, as well as close reading, literary analysis, and critical thinking. Texts, from a diverse range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors, will be thematically linked through questions ofclass and gender that often surface in the re-imaginings of classic tales.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 130 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 130, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/131 - Extreme Makeovers: Transformative Texts (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Spring Semester
What links the Greek myths in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Bram Stoker’s vampire novel Dracula, Rebecca West’s psychological war story Return of the Solider, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and Richard Linklater’s recent film Boyhood? All are fascinated by “extreme makeovers” of sorts. This first year seminar will examine the ongoing appeal of such transformations in literature through close readings of a diverse selection of fiction, poetry, and film. In particular, we will explore the following questions: How are these extreme makeovers shaped by views about gender, psychology, sexuality, and otherness at different cultural moments? What do they suggest about the boundaries between human and animal? What do they reveal about the process of growing up? And does literature have the potential to transform us as readers, too?
Prerequisite(s): ENG 131 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 131, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/132 - Altered States: Literature and Intoxication (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Spring Semester
Various types of altered states of consciousness have long been reflected in Western literature. Changes to identity – not just states brought about by alcohol or drugs, but also spiritual or other intensely emotional experiences – have been a broad theme explored by many authors, from Homer’s Lotus eaters to the enchantments of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to contemporary confessional memoir. In this course, we will explore the many ways in which altered states have been represented by authors, ranging from the celebratory to the repentant, and the ways in which they construct or challenge the identities of authors, characters and audiences. We will also consider the acts of writing and reading as themselves challenges to conventional identity.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 132 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 132, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/133 - The Local and the Global (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
The Local and the Global: In this course we study the literature of place with a focus on the local (natural environment, home, and the city) as well as the global (travel, tourism, and imperialism) in order to explore how identities and communities are shaped by various social, cultural, and historical spaces. Possible texts include: Cisneros, House on Mango Street; McCarthy, The Road; Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard or Shakespeare, The Tempest; Kincaid, A Small Place; Schneider, The Wall Jumper; Wenders, Wings of Desire (film).
Prerequisite(s): ENG 133 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 133, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/135 - American Women Writers (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
In this course, we will read poetry, drama, and fiction written by American women during the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. We will consider how gender identity is constructed by, and interacts with, race, class, history, geography, politics, and socio-economic realities in our country in an attempt to arrive at an understanding of a vision (or visions) American women writers seek to articulate and how this understanding of our culture(s) and lives helps inform and enhance American literature as a whole. In what ways do the social, political, and historical context that women have written from and the range of racial and class barriers they face inform the content or style of these works? How have these writers been categorized and evaluated based on gender? For that matter, how important is the identity of the author to the work in question? Are women’s lives of universal importance to readers of both genders or do we risk ghetto-izing work written by women by identifying it as such? Be prepared to share your ideas and opinions, to think and reflect about what these writers and your peers say, and to respond thoughtfully.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 135 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 135, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/136 - What is Beauty? A Literary Investigation (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
This course is centered on what seems like a straightforward question: what is beauty? We will spend the semester reading and discussing texts that attempt to answer that question - a question that merges as surprisingly complex and potentially of profound significance to our conceptions of love, happiness, and justice.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 136 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 136, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/137 - Americans Abroad (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
American writers have long been fascinated with Europe as place, idea, rite of passage, and site of reinvention. How have writers represented both “Europeanness” and “Americanness”? How have gender, race, sexuality, and aesthetics intersected with nationality? We will investigate these questions through readings of fiction, films, and theories of nationalism.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 137 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 137, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/138 - American Gothic (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
This course explores the unsettling and uncanny elements in American literature. We will investigate the typical settings of gothic texts, including the wilderness, abandoned institutions (churches, asylums, prisons), and homes. Over the course of the semester we will meet the denizens of such locations and consider what disturbs the American dream.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 138 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 138, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/139 - “Getting the Joke”: Satire and Sentimentality (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
In this course, we’ll read short works and excerpts of canonical Western literature in their social, historical, and literary contexts in order to “get the joke.” Through careful reading and close analysis, students will explore intersections of satire and sentimentality in both their literary and colloquial contexts. Be forewarned: very often, the joke will be on us.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 139 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 139, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/140 - Daddy’s Girls (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
This course focuses on the relationship between fathers and daughters as represented in literature from the classical age to the present day.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 140, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/141 - African-American Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Fall Semester
TBD
Prerequisite(s): ENG 141 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 141, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/142 - Between Two Worlds: Multicultural Literature and Film (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Spring Semesters
In this course we study the work of African American, Native American, Chicana, Asian American, South Asian and Caribbean immigrant artists who explore what it means to live in the United States post-WWII until now. For African American artists the question has often most simply been: what does it mean to be black in America, and-more recently-how do black lives matter? For immigrants it’s a struggle to figure out the old home in relation to the new home, old customs and stories in relation to new ones. For Native Americans it’s often a matter of claiming a presence in a country that considers them little more than mascots. For Japanese Americans during World War II it’s about figuring out what the “American” means when their entire community is interned because of the “Japanese” part of their heritage. We want to know how writers and filmmakers from these multi-ethnic communities have responded to the questions of navigating a predominantly white world, and negotiating various sites of belonging. We will study novels, short stories, poems, personal essays, a graphic novel, and films by artists such as James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, Sherman Alexie, Junot Diaz, Jamaica Kincaid, Julie Otsuka, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jessica Abel, Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing), Mira Nair (The Namesake), Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet), and Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals).
Prerequisite(s): ENG 142 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 142, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/143 - Literature and the American South (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Spring Semester
This course looks at literature about the American South from the colonial era through contemporary culture. We will particularly focus on race and gender in literature and film about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the emergence of the “New South.”
Prerequisite(s): ENG 143 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 143, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/144 - Literary Evolutions (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Spring Semester
Etymologically (at the word’s root), literature is associated with “humane learning” and “literary culture” (see OED). Our primary goal in this course is to recognize the interdependence of literary evolution and human culture. We will explore how literature evolves over time and across discourses. Close readings of core texts and their offshoots will offer insight into the concepts of adaptation, intertextuality, and cultural capital. Finally, we shall analyze how authors revise key literary themes in the context of poetry, prose, drama, music, film and the graphic novel, and television.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 144 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 144, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/145 - Love and Other Difficulties (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Spring Semester
What does it mean to desire something-or someone? What is the nature of the relationship between the enamored and the object of desire? In this course, we will explore love and desire as fundamental aspects of identity and self-awareness as well as central themes of literature across diverse cultures and historical periods. Through readings in poetry, drama and fiction, we will examine desire in its many forms, from desire for friendship and familial connection to romantic and libidinal desire, to the desire for material goods and power. Authors to be considered may include Plato, Ovid, Shakespeare, Keats, Brontë, Freud, Rilke, Joyce, Kafka, Nabokov, Wilde, Mann, Breton, Neruda, García Márquez, and Morrison.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 145 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 145, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/146 - Telling it Slant: Unreliable Narrators in American Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Spring Semester
Should we trust the narrators of the literature we read? Why or why not? What about the “speakers” in poetry or the characters on stage in a play? In these works of fictions, moreover, is there a way to assess the reliability or unreliability of the voices telling us the story? How do these issues affect our experience of reading literature? This course use these questions to examine a diverse set of texts: selections from Emily Dickinson’s poetry; Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno; Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw; Nella Larson’s Passing; a play by Anna Deavere Smith; as well as short stories by Sherman Alexie, Kate Chopin, Junot Díaz, and Toni Morrison. Along with exploring these works, we will also read and discuss relevant secondary and theoretical work (from Wayne Booth, Peter Rabinowitz, and others) that can shed light on the challenges-and pleasures-of negotiating reliable and unreliable voices in literature.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 146 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 146, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 100/147 - Romanticism and How To Live (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Spring Semester
This cornerstone literature course reads major texts of the Romantic Age as explorations of paths toward the good life, broadly and diversely construed. Works by authors such as Blake, Wordsworth, Godwin, the Shelleys, Keats, and Austen will be read and analyzed in terms of the insights they provide on large and relevant topics such as justice, science, beauty, violence, among others; while responses to these Romantics texts from the Victorian Age through the present will be considered as well. We will not only learn to read Romantic texts carefully and thoroughly, but we will also begin to grasp the legacy of Romanticism in the present – such as, for example, how Godwin’s dilemma in “Political Justice” (whom would you save from a burning house if you had to choose between X and Y) provides the opening set-piece for Michael Sandel’s influential contemporary exploration of justice.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 147 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 147, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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ENG 200 - Introduction to Literary Studies Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
Introduction to the vocabulary and practices of criticism and the skills of close reading.
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ENG 201 - Literary History I Three Credits
Fall Semester
Introduction to English literary history through poetry, drama, and narrative from Anglo- Saxon roots to the development of British literary genres in the medieval and early modern periods.
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ENG 202 - Literary History II Four Credits
Spring Semester
Exploration of literature in the modern period, paying particular attention to the development of genres, the expansion of the British Empire, and the emergence of the British and American literary traditions.
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ENG 204 - Drama Three Credits
Spring Semester
Through the study of traditional and non-traditional types of drama (to include screenplays as well), students are introduced to new ways of classifying and reading texts. Designed for both entering and upper-level students with a particular emphasis on close reading.
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ENG 205 - Fiction Three Credits
Fall Semester
Through the study of traditional and non-traditional types of fiction (to include short stories as well), students are introduced to new ways of classifying and reading texts. Designed for both entering and upper-level students with a particular emphasis on close reading.
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ENG 220 - Introductory Topics in Literature Three Credits
Spring Semester
Introductory literary seminars that emphasize the development of writing and analytic skills necessary for upper-division English courses. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Priority given to first- and second-year students. Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ.
Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Course may be applied to the Gender & Sexuality Studies program.
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ENG 242 - Topics in Creative Writing: Poetry Three Credits
Fall Semester
An introduction to poetry writing that will include the examination of literary models in a variety of genres, writing exercises, and writing workshops.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Course may be applied to the Creative Writing minor.
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ENG 243 - Topics in Creative Writing: Short Fiction Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
An introduction to narrative writing, including description, setting, dialogue, characterization, plot.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Course may be applied to the Creative Writing minor.
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ENG 256 - Madness and Insight: Modernist Psychopathology Three Credits
Spring Semester
What do we learn about ourselves from looking through the lens of madness? This course will explore how narratives of insanity from the 18th century to the present have shaped our understanding of human cognition, perception, emotion, desire, and the unconscious. Authors to be considered Descartes, Poe, Dostoevsky, Gilman, Schnitzler, Woolf, Kafka, Breton, Didion, Pynchon and DeLillo.
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ENG 257 - Global Detective Fiction Three Credits
Not Offered 2014-2015
A critical study of contemporary novels by authors offering new, globally inflected twists on an old form. Readings might include mysteries and crime fictions by Henning Mankell, Luiz Garcia Roza, Dennis Potter, Alexander McCall Smith, and Donna Leon.
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ENG 271 - Film and Story Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
An introduction to film art through a comparison of its distinguishing features with those of fiction and of drama.
Course may be applied to the Cinema Studies minor.
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ENG 272 - Film History Three Credits
Not Offered 2014-2015
A survey of major film industries and canonical texts presented in a chronological order serving specific themes (for example, film-making in a given geographical region).
Course may be applied to the American Studies program and Cinema Studies minor.
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ENG 273 - Hitchcock Three Credits
Fall Semester
A survey of Alfred Hitchcock’s work and obsessions. This course welcomes students with no prior experience in the study of film. Additional screening time required.
Course may be applied to the American Studies program and Cinema Studies minor.
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ENG 280 - Shakespeare for Everyone Three Credits
Alternate Years: Spring 2018, 2020
This course provides a general introduction to the drama of William Shakespeare. We will carefully explore the genres that Shakespeare mastered - comedy, tragedy, romance, and the history play - by focusing primarily on how Shakespeare uses language to create character and dramatic tension and engages with larger ethical, social, and political questions.
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ENG 300 - Critical Theory Three Credits
Fall Semester
Introduction to contemporary theory - its origin and framework - by examining literary criticism as an institutional discourse.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 200 .
Course may be applied to the American Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies programs.
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ENG 301 - Topics in Medieval Literature Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A thematic study of texts, figures, and influences associated with the literature of the Middle Ages.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Fulfills the Writing-in-the Disciplines requirement.
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ENG 304 - Topics in Early Modern Literature Four Credits
Spring Semester
A thematic study of texts, figures, and influences associated with the literature of the early modern period.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Fulfills the Writing-in-the Disciplines requirement.
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ENG 306 - Topics in British Literature, 1700-1900 Four Credits
Fall Semester
A critical analysis of various cultural and literary issues that emerge in British literature.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Fulfills the Writing-in-the-Disciplines requirement.
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ENG 307 - Topics in British Literature, 1900 - Present Three Credits
Not Offered 2014-2015
A critical analysis of various cultural and literary issues that emerge in British Literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
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ENG 310 - Topics in World and Comparative Literature Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A critical analysis of literature outside of the American and British traditions and/or a comparative look at themes across national literatures and traditions.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
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ENG 315 - The Romantic Age Three Credits
Spring Semester
A comprehensive study of the literature of the Romantic Age in British literature (1789-1832). Examination of the poetry, novels, drama, and non-fiction prose of the period with attention to aesthetic inheritance and historical context. Authors include Blake, Wordworth, Coleridge, Godwin, Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, Keats, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Byron, Austen, Scott, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Clare, and others.
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ENG 322 - Topics in World Cinema Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A critical study of specific topics related to cinema production in countries outside of Europe and North America.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Course may be applied to the Cinema Studies minor
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ENG 324 - Topics in Television Studies Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
An examination of specific topics related to television genres or periods through application of contemporary critical theories.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Course may be applied to the American Studies program and Cinema Studies minor.
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ENG 326 - Topics in American Cinema Three Credits
Spring Semester
A critical study of specific topics related to the American narrative film.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Course may be applied to the American Studies program, Gender & Sexuality Studies program and the Cinema Studies minor.
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ENG 336 - The Romance Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
An historical survey of the romance from Heliodorus to the Harlequin.
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ENG 344 - Topics in Creative Non-fiction Three Credits
Spring Semester
An introduction to the various practices of the emerging field of creative non-fiction, including memoir, personal essay, literary journalism, travel writing , and hybrid forms that blur the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Course may be applied to the Creative Writing minor.
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ENG 346 - Topics in Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry Three Credits
Spring Semester
This course allows students to further develop the skills acquired in the beginning poetry workshop by concentrating on more complex aspects of poetic practice. Students will work on composing and revising their own poetry, critiquing peer work in a workshop setting, and reading the work of established poets.
Prerequisite(s): or Consent of Instructor.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Course may be applied to the Creative Writing minor.
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ENG 347 - Topics in Catholicism and Literature Three Credits
Spring Semester
An engagement with Catholic writers and themes in British and American Literature.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Fulfills the Catholic Intellectual Traditions requirement.
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ENG 348 - Topics in Religion and Literature Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
This course examines the emergence of spiritual themes and traditions in literary texts.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
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ENG 349 - Irish Literature: Nationalism, Religion, Mother Ireland Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A critical analysis of various cultural and literary issues that emerge in Irish fiction, poetry, and drama.
Fulfills the Catholic Intellectual Traditions requirement.
Course may be applied to the Irish Studies minor.
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ENG 350 - Chaucer Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A study of Chaucer’s poetry, with attention to the cultural and political forces that shaped late medieval poetics.
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ENG 351 - The Calamitous 14th Century Three Credits
Spring Semester
Focusing on the writing of Chaucer and Langland and their contemporaries, this course studies the representation of the social and literary upheavals of the late 14th century.
Fulfills the Catholic Intellectual Traditions requirement.
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ENG 353 - Shakespeare Three Credits
Fall Semester
Close readings of Shakespeare’s work.
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ENG 354 - Shakespeare’s Rivals Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A study of theater in early modern culture, with attention to the drama of Shakespeare’s competitors: Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, and Middleton.
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ENG 356 - Topics in British and Continental Literature 1660-1800 Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A critical study of various genres and figures from the Restoration through the 18th century.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
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ENG 357 - English and Irish Drama Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A critical survey of dramatic genres and texts from England and Ireland with a focus on specific themes and on performance texts.
Course may be applied to the Irish Studies minor.
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ENG 358 - Classical Backgrounds to English Literature Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
An introduction to the literature of ancient Greece and Rome, including mythology, Greek drama, and the epic poems of Homer and Virgil.
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ENG 359 - Nineteenth-century British Poetry Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A critical reading of Romantic and Victorian poets, along with relevant prose.
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ENG 360 - American Literature to 1865 Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A chronological survey of texts, figures, and influences associated with American literature of the period.
Course may be applied to the American Studies program.
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ENG 361 - American Literature, 1865-present Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A chronological survey of texts, figures, and influences associated with the period.
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ENG 362 - Topics in Poetry Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A critical reading of poetry. Topics vary from semester to semester.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Course may be applied to the American Studies program.
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ENG 366 - Topics in Twentieth-Century American Literature Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
An examination of themes in twentieth-century literature. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Course may be applied to the American Studies program.
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ENG 367 - Topics in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Four Credits
Fall Semester
An examination of themes in nineteenth-century literature. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Fulfills the Writing-in-the Disciplines requirement. Course may be applied to the American Studies program.
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ENG 368 - Race, Ethnicity, and American Culture Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
An exploration of the relationship between American racial and ethnic politics and twentieth-century American culture.
Course may be applied to the American Studies program.
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ENG 369 - African-American Literature Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
An exploration of landmarks in African-American writing from the time of slavery to the contemporary period.
Course may be applied to the American Studies program.
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ENG 371 - Topics in Contemporary Literature Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A critical study of contemporary writing linked by thematic or theoretical interests.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
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ENG 372 - ‘Zines, Chapbooks, and DIY Publishing Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
Whether you are interested in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or cross genre writing, this course will help you explore ways to get your work into the world. Focusing on small press publishers, artist made books, ‘zines, and literary journals. Creative writing experiments will result in your own independent publishing project which will be a chapbook, ‘zine, or handmade book.
Prerequisite(s): , or .
Course may be applied to the Creative Writing program.
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ENG 373 - Gerard Manley Hopkins and his Contexts Three Credits
Spring Semester
This course focuses on nineteeth-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in his various contexts: as a poet in the wake of the Romantic movement; as a Catholic convert and Jesuit in the wake of the Oxford Movement; as a Victorian engaged with and troubled by the social and political tumult around him.
Fulfills the Catholic Intellectual Traditions requirement.
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ENG 380 - Modern Poetry Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A critical analysis of issues of voice, persona, and genre in modern and contemporary poetry.
Course may be applied to the American Studies program.
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ENG 381 - Modern Drama Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A critical survey of world drama since the late nineteenth century.
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ENG 382 - American Drama Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A study of specific topics related to North American plays of the twentieth century.
Course may be applied to the American Studies program.
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ENG 385 - Taking the Victorians to the Movies Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
An exploration of why the Victorians have never gone out of style, using films to understand the novels on which they are based and vice-versa.
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ENG 389 - Alternative Modernisms Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
An examination of the anti-colonial, feminist, and queer foundations of literary modernism between 1890 and 1945.
Course may be applied to the Gender & Sexuality Studies program.
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ENG 390 - Topics in Modernism Four Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
Critical study of representative literature from the modernist period.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Fulfills the Writing-in-the Disciplines requirement. Course may be applied to the Gender & Sexuality Studies program.
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ENG 391 - Topics in Gender & Sexuality Studies Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A study of issues of gender, race, and class as they emerge in critical and literary texts.
May be cross-listed with .
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website.
Course may be applied to the Gender & Sexuality Studies program.
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ENG 392 - Topics in Postcolonial and Global Literature Four Credits
Spring Semester
An investigation of themes within the frame of postcolonial studies. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Fulfills the Writing-in-the Disciplines requirement.
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ENG 394 - Sexuality and Textuality Three Credits
Fall Semester
A critical examination of the definitions of sexual orientation found in diverse texts.
Course may be applied to the American Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies program.
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ENG 395 - Introduction to Postcolonial Literature and Culture Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
A critical introduction to the poetry, fiction, and drama of the postcolonial world. Discussions will be informed by an introduction to postcolonial theory.
Course may be applied to the Asian Studies program.
Course may be applied to the Latin American Studies program with permission of the Program Director.
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ENG 398 - Telling Tales: Theories of Narrative Three Credits
Spring Semester
The study of how and why we construct stories: an introduction to narrative theory, using texts from Jane Austen to comic books.
Prerequisite(s):
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ENG 422 - English Capstone Seminar Four Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
An examination of thematically related works within the framework of contemporary critical theory.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 300 , or .
Specific topics and descriptions offered in a given semester can be found on the Registrar’s website at www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/registrar/course-listings.
Fulfills the Capstone requirement in English.
Course may be applied to the Cinema Studies minor.
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ENG 475 - Internship in English Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
Designed to give English majors an acquaintance with - and experience in - careers that extend from their training in the major. Internships provide a practicum where students work for a particular business and a seminar where students meet on a regular basis with the instructor.
Must complete the “U.S. Internship Request for Approval” process found under the myPlans tab in myHill to register for this Internship.
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ENG 476 - English Teaching Apprenticeship Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
Designed for senior English majors seriously intending to pursue graduate study, this apprenticeship gives the students experience in creating and coordinating a general studies course under the direction of a faculty member.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 200 and ENG 300 , and permission of Department Chairperson.
Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ.
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ENG 496 - Independent Research Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
Opportunity for a student to do a research project in a specialized area of English or literature under the direction of a member of the English Department faculty.
Prerequisite(s): Approval of both the faculty member directing the research project and the English Department Chair.
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ENG 497 - Senior Thesis Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
A course for students who want to do an extended project.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department Chairperson.
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ENV 101 - Eco Representatives One Credit
Fall Semester
Students enrolled will learn the basics of ecological sustainability, and then design and implement sustainability programs for their peers (in their residence hall or among the commuter population).
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Students and Sophomores only.
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ENV 200 - Principles of Environmental Science Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
Fundamentals of the life sciences and physical sciences as they pertain to our environmental problems and solutions, as well as consideration of the pertinent social sciences such as economics. This interdisciplinary science course teaches relevant basic research techniques, and students will conduct research on real environmental problems.
This course includes field trips/work, and requires walking outdoors over uneven terrain, often in less than ideal weather.
Fulfills the Natural Scientific Inquiry requirement.
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ENV 201 - Research Methods in Environmental Science One Credit
Fall Semester
This course provides students with the opportunity to develop and practice the research skills required of today’s environmental scientists. Working in the lab and field, students will learn to safely identify, collect, analyze and report on key variables from a variety of environmental systems including rivers, forests and wetlands.
Prerequisite(s): (may be taken concurrently)
This course includes field trips/work, and requires walking outdoors over uneven terrain, often in less than ideal weather. Students who may have difficulty navigating uneven terrain should contact the Office of Accessibility Resources at 508-565-1306 or accessibility-resources@stonehill.edu at least two weeks in advance of the course to allow for planning around accommodation needs.
Fulfills the Writing-in-the-Disciplines requirement.
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ENV 270 - Environmental Ethics Three Credits
Spring Semester
This course considers traditional ethics and contemporary, radical approaches to discern the “good” in human-nature relations. Students engage in collaborative projects that engage the campus in changing behavior to better meet the relevant ethical good.
Cross-listed with PHL 230 .
Fulfills the Moral Inquiry requirement.
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ENV 275 - Environmental Law Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
This course explores rationales for environmental protection; the choice of policy instruments to address environmental problems; and the roles played by governmental and non-governmental actors. Practical experience with issues of environmental law will be gained through a partnership with the Natural Resources Trust of Easton.
Prerequisite(s): or .
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ENV 295 - Physical Geology Four Credits
Fall Semester
A systems approach to geology and landforms, including ecosystems that develop on the abiotic substrate. Scientific study of the earth’s modern and ancient lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: ENV 200
This course includes substantial field work both on and off campus, and requires walking outdoors over uneven terrain, often in less than ideal weather. Students who may have difficulty navigating uneven terrain should contact the Office of Accessibility Resources at 508-565-1306 or accessibility-resources@stonehill.edu at least two weeks in advance of the course to allow for planning around accommodation needs.
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ENV 299 - Ecology, Theologies and Worldviews Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
How does our world function? Where do we fit, ecologically and cosmically? Methodological and historical approaches to understanding reality from scientific and religious perspectives. Ecological principles, biodiversity and evolution. Contributions to ecospiritualities, ecotheologies, and community and global sustainability by Catholic and other Christian and world religions.
Fulfills the Catholic Intellectual Traditions and Natural Scientific Inquiry requirements.
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ENV 301 - Water Resource Management Three Credits
Fall Semester
Offered through the Massachusetts Bay Marine Studies Consortium. Interdisciplinary examination of water, our most precious natural resource. A look at water from scientific, historical, and cultural viewpoints. Survey of contemporary water problems in all dimensions: political, economic, and technological.
Students may not take both ENV 301 and .
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ENV 302 - Coastal Zone Management Three Credits
Spring Semester
Current issues in coastal environmental affairs. Scientific, legal, economic, management, and technical aspects of coastal issues are integrated into problem-solving exercises. History of the degradation and clean-up of Boston Harbor.
Prerequisite(s): Course in Biology, Chemistry, Geology, or Environmental Planning.
Students may not take both and ENV 302.
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ENV 325 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems Four Credits
Spring Semester
Introduction to geographical information systems technology, focusing on spatial data acquisition, development and analysis in the science and management of natural resources. Topics covered include basic data structures, data sources, data collection, data quality, geodesy and map projections, spatial and tabular data analysis, digital elevation data and terrain analysis, cartographic modeling, and cartographic layout. Laboratory exercises provide practical experiences that complement the theory covered in lecture.
Prerequisite(s): .
Course may be applied to the Data Science program.
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ENV 326 - Sustainable Agriculture Three Credits
Fall Semester
We will study the economic, ecological and social components of sustainable agriculture in the context of growing human populations and climate change. Students will assist in leading class discussions on these interdisciplinary topics and actively engage with material covered in the literature as they participate in the classroom and at the farm.
Prerequisite(s):
This course includes field trips/work, and requires walking outdoors over uneven terrain, often in less than ideal weather.
Fulfills the Natural Scientific Inquiry requirement.
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ENV 350 - Climate Science Three Credits
Spring Semester
An overview of the Earth’s climate system, including major physical and chemical components and interactions. Students will acquire the scientific perspective necessary to competently assess issues related to current climate change concerns.
Prerequisite(s): One year of Chemistry. Environmental Science or Studies, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, or Physics majors only.
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ENV 360 - Introduction to Oceanography Three Credits
Fall Semester
This course is designed to be a fundamental introduction to ocean sciences. Students will explore the physical and biological processes that govern the ocean’s circulation and marine life. Topics include waves and currents, marine life and ecosystems, tides, beach erosion and the way the ocean is being affected by global climate change.
Prerequisite(s): One year of chemistry. Environmental Science or Studies, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, or Physics majors only.
This course includes substantial field work off campus, and requires walking outdoors over uneven terrain, often in less than ideal weather. Students who may have difficulty navigating uneven terrain should contact the Office of Accessibility Resources at 508-565-1306 or accessibility-resources@stonehill.edu at least two weeks in advance of the course to allow for planning around accommodation needs.
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