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Course Descriptions

 

Education
  

  • EDU 310 - Content Specific Pedagogy

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    Knowledge for teaching is both generalizable and specific. All teachers must have an understanding of pedagogy more generally, understanding theories of: learning, development, classroom management, assessment, and curriculum design. But teachers also need pedagogical knowledge that is content specific.  This course will provide pre-service secondary education teachers an opportunity to explore pedagogical approaches particular to their discipline and to examine the pedagogical decisions that content teachers must make as they design, deliver, and reflect upon effective lessons.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): EDU 102  and junior or senior standing. 
    Note: Students are required to complete a 2-hour per week prepracticum placement
  

  • EDU 312 - Art, Music and Movement

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    Course focus is on art, music and movement as creative processes, as expressive modalities and as educative and insight-building tools for children with and without disabilities. Course work stresses a developmental perspective of children’s art, music and movement expression.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Not open to first-year students.
  

  • EDU 315 - Curriculum and Instructional Design

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Course familiarizes PK-12 pre-service teachers with instructional and pedagogical approaches and materials for teaching. Develops beginning competence in designing and evaluating curricular programs and activities. Course emphasizes lesson planning, unit planning, and implementation in the PK-12 classroom. Computer literacy skills are addressed throughout the course.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): EDU 102  or EDU 104 , Junior status or higher.
    Note: Pre-practicum: one full day per week required.
  

  • EDU 320 - Teaching Math, Science & Technology

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Course focuses on developing content/pedagogy aligned with national standards in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering & mathematics). Emphasis will be placed on how students learn within these disciplines. Course culminates in the creation of a community based STEM project.
     

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Not open to first-year students.
    Note: Pre-practicum required.
  

  • EDU 330 - Reading & Writing in the Content Areas

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    Development of techniques to meet the reading and writing needs of students across content areas. Emphasis is placed on strategies which teach students to improve learning through application of reading and writing techniques.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): EDU 102 . Not open to first-year students.
  

  • EDU 333 - Topics in Education

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    In-depth coverage of an up-to-date advanced educational topic. This course is an advanced education elective for Education majors / Secondary Education minors. Specific content focuses on cutting edge educational theory and practice in the specific sub-discipline of the faculty member teaching the course. Course is repeatable with consent of Department Chair.
  

  • EDU 430 - Practicum: Early Childhood Education

    Nine Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Supervised practicum leading to initial teaching licensure [Teacher: Early Childhood: Teacher of Students with and Without Disabilities, (PK-2)]. Practicum hours in two settings (1) PK/K & (2) 1st /2nd grade. Evaluation based upon Massachusetts DESE Initial License Teaching Standards.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Senior standing, completion of all Education requirements, minimum 3.00 GPA, passing scores on all MTEL subtests, and consent of Director of Licensure, Placement and Supervision.
    Corequisite(s): EDU 440 .
  

  • EDU 433 - Practicum: Moderate Disabilities PreK-8 Level

    Nine Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Capstone experience integrating the coursework of the Education Major into a clinical experience. Stonehill Students spend 15 weeks in a moderate-disabilities setting in the area and at the level of their intended license. They work with qualified practitioners in partner school districts to gain teaching experience while assuming gradual responsibility of the teacher role. The experience culminates with a three-week takeover of all responsibilities of the classroom teacher.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Senior standing, completion of all Education requirements, minimum 3.00 GPA, passing scores on all MTEL subtests, and consent of Director of Licensure, Placement and Supervision.
    Corequisite(s): EDU 440 .
  

  • EDU 435 - Practicum: Elementary Education

    Nine Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Supervised practicum leading to initial teaching licensure [Elementary (1-6)]. Evaluation based upon Massachusetts DESE Initial License Teaching Standards.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Senior standing, completion of all Education requirements, minimum 3.00 GPA, passing scores on all MTEL subtests, and consent of Director of Licensure, Placement and Supervision.
    Corequisite(s): EDU 440 .
  

  • EDU 437 - Practicum: Secondary Education 5-12 Level

    Nine Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Supervised practicum leading to initial teaching licensure [Secondary (content area, e.g. foreign language, English, history): grades 5-12]. Evaluation based on Massachusetts DESE Initial License Teaching Standards.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Senior standing, completion of all Education requirements, minimum 3.00 GPA, passing scores on all MTEL subtests, and consent of Director of Licensure, Placement and Supervision.
    Corequisite(s): EDU 440 .
  

  • EDU 439 - Practicum: Secondary Education 8-12 Level

    Nine Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Supervised practicum leading to initial teaching license [Secondary (content area, e.g. Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics): grades 8-12]. Evaluation based on the Massachusetts DESE Initial License Teaching Standards.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Senior standing, completion of all Education requirements, minimum 3.00 GPA, passing scores on all MTEL subtests, and consent of Director of Licensure, Placement and Supervision.
    Corequisite(s): EDU 440 .
  

  • EDU 440 - Practicum: Reflective Seminar

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Series of evening seminars taken concurrently with appropriate practicum. Facilitated by Stonehill faculty and professional education practitioners, this capstone seminar will address current issues of best practice in education. Issues around assessment and evaluation of teaching as well as professional development and teacher support will be addressed.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Senior standing, completion of all Education requirements, minimum 3.00 GPA, passing scores on all MTEL subtests, and consent of Director of Licensure, Placement and Supervision.
    Note: Must be taken concurrently with EDU 430, EDU 435, EDU 437, or EDU 439.
  

  • EDU 450 - Education Capstone Seminar

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    In this seminar style class taken concurrently with a 3-credit (minimum) internship in education, students will explore contemporary issues in education.  Over the course of the semester, students will review research related to a problem in a selected educational domain, conduct an investigation, and synthesize information gathered from field work and research in a product that will be shared with the Stonehill community.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Junior or Senior Education Non-licensure majors only.
    Corequisite(s): Must be taken with EDU 476 - Internship in Education  
  

  • EDU 475 - Senior Field Project

    Nine or Twelve Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Field experience for 15 weeks, 3 or 5 days per week. Student will design a field-based research project in consultation with an Education Department faculty member.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Senior standing and permission of instructor and Department Chairperson required.
  

  • EDU 476 - Internship in Education

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Research or practical experience in the field of education at an outside agency. The upper-class student is expected to carry out a supervised assignment based upon experiences in the field working alongside a supervising practitioner.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Permission of instructor and Department Chairperson required. Not open to first-year students. Must complete the “U.S. Internship Request for Approval” process found under the myPlans tab in myHill to register for this Internship.
    Note: An Intern will typically spend at least 8-10 hours/week for a minimum of 112 hours on site to earn 3 credits. 
  

  • EDU 490 - Directed Study - Education

    One to Four Credits
    Offered as Needed

    Investigation in a field of education for which the student has special interest not covered by a normally-scheduled course.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Approval of a faculty member willing to supervise the project and the Department Chair or Program Director; and submission of the online Directed Study Application and Contract to the Registrar’s Office. Not open to first-year students.
    Note: Students must complete 45 hours work/semester per credit.
  

  • EDU 496 - Independent Research - Education

    One to Four Credits
    Offered as Needed

    Opportunity for upper-class students to carry out an advanced research project in a specialized area of education under the direction of a faculty member from the Education Department. The research may be part of an ongoing project being conducted by the faculty member, or the student and faculty member may develop an original project.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Approval of a faculty member willing to supervise the research and the Department Chair or Program Director; and submission of the online Independent Research Application and Contract to the Registrar’s Office. Not open to first-year students.
    Note: Students must complete 45 hours work/semester per credit.

English
  

  • ENG 100/110 - Island Living/Island Leaving (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This seminar explores the literature of islands. This will be a semester-long inquiry into how the unique conditions of island living shape literature and culture. We will study texts about castaways, pirates, tourists, islanders, and adventurers to discern what makes stories about islands so compelling and enduring.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 110 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 110, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/112 - First Person: Film Theory/Film Practice (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This seminar will introduce students to film, and film representation, through theory and practice: intensive study of film language, technique, and theory will be followed by a basic introduction to film-making (creating short films). This will enable students to apply the theories and techniques they have learned in class.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 112 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 112, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/113 - Machine Culture: Our Technology, Ourselves (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course explores the representation of technology as created by artists from ancient Athens to the 21st century. Questions we will pursue: is technology the friend or foe of humanity? Will machines enable our perfection or enhance our flaws? Should our machines be more or less like us?

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 113 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 113, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/116 - Literature in Translation? (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    Many of the texts that you read in your core courses are translations into English. What exactly does it mean to read a text in translation? We will ask and answer that question, using these 19th-century texts: Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal/Flowers of Evil; Flaubert, Madame Bovary; Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 116 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 116, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/119 - Gods and Monsters (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course focuses on the dialogue between classical authors and later artists who re-visit, revise, re-voice the epic tradition. We will work on certain skills: close reading, engaging with and applying secondary literature, thinking through complex ideas, formulating readings of these texts. Authors will include Euripides, Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and Anne Carson We will also examine film, music, and dance.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 119 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 113, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/120 - “The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet”: Metaphor and the Unconscious (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course explores the connections between reading strategies encouraged by lyric poetry, fairy tales, and Freud’s account of the operation of dream narratives. Texts to be examined include drama, fiction, and essays by such authors as William Shakespeare, Charles Perrault, Sigmund Freud, and Angela Carter, as well as poetry by W.H. Auden, W.S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Adrienne Rich, and William Carlos Williams. We will also look at films from Alfred Hitchcock, David Kaplan, and Wes Craven.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 120 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 120, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/121 - Violence and Nonviolence (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    We only have to look around us to see that our world is defined in a fundamental way by violence. Writers and thinkers from various historical moments have both recognized the problem of violence in society and have offered critiques of it. Our study this term will be guided by the following question: what perspective does literature provide on the issues of violence and nonviolence in the world? We will encounter novelists, poets, playwrights, and essayists whose work contains original, thought-provoking, and moving representations of and reflections on violence and nonviolence. We will pose a number of additional questions of our readings: how do these texts represent the causes and consequences of violence? How do the texts convey the relationships among different types of violence - interpersonal, political, psychological, and socioeconomic? Is nonviolence a viable ethical position in these texts? How is nonviolence defined, and what, if any, are the impediments to lessening the violence of the world? Lastly, what might the role of literature, and art more generally, be in our imagining of nonviolence?

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 121 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 121, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/123 - “In Sickness and in Health”: Bodies in Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course presents an introduction to the study and appreciation of literature. Our thematic focus is the representation of human bodies in the works of poets, dramatists, novelists, and essayists at various significant moments in western cultural history. As we read some famous and influential literary texts alongside less familiar works, we will become acquainted with key concepts and methodologies employed in literary studies. We follow, more or less, a historical track and begin the semester with Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which set the standard for literary representations of the body, before turning to one of Shakespeare’s more obscure works, Titus Andronicus, a bloody revenge drama, Miss Evers’ Boys, a play about the infamous Tuskegee experiment, and finally Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, a tale about a man who wakes one morning to find that he has turned into an insect. Midway through the course we will also read poetry by physicians and other health care workers. We examine films that deal with questions about human embodiment, but most of our time is devoted to the close reading of texts, to formulating arguments about literature, and to exploring methods of interpretation.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 123 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 123, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/124 - On the Road: Encounters with the “Other” (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    In this course we will ask how authors from Homer to Kerouac write about journeying and encounters with “other” people, places, ideas, values, and modes of conduct. The texts we read come from disparate historical periods and from a variety of cultural contexts. As we investigate their formal and stylistic elements and their possible meanings, we will become acquainted with different literary modes, from poetry, to drama, to prose. Although the overarching theme of the course is the journey and the encounter with “otherness,” the individual texts we read present very different engagements with the subject. The journeys about which we read may be mythic, factual, intellectual, spiritual, and/or artistic; they may constitute a rite of passage or initiation; they may be brief or interminable, alienating or rewarding; they may end tragically or lead to new understanding. The course emphasizes close reading and open questioning of cultural meaning. And these are some of the works you will encounter this semester: Homer’s Odyssey; selections from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; Shakespeare’s Tempest; Goethe’s Faust; and Kerouac’s On the Road.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 124 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 124, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/125 - The Imaginary Primitive (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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)/Restriction(s): ENG 125 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 125, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/126 - Love and Other Difficulties (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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)/Restriction(s): ENG 126 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 126, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/127 - The Art of Memory (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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)/Restriction(s): ENG 127 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 127, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/128 - Wonderlands (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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)/Restriction(s): ENG 128 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 128, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/132 - Altered States: Literature and Intoxication (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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)/Restriction(s):

    ENG 132 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only. 
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 132, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/139 - “Getting the Joke”: Satire and Sentimentality (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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)/Restriction(s): ENG 139 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 139, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/140 - Daddy’s Girls (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course focuses on the relationship between fathers and daughters as represented in literature from the classical age to the present day.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 140 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
     
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 140, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/142 - Between Two Worlds: Multi-Ethnic Literature and Film (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    In this course we study the work of contemporary writers and filmmakers from Native American, African American, Caribbean immigrant, and Asian American communities. We will examine how these artists explore questions such as community, belonging, and identity; race, nation, and assimilation; power and representation; colonization, history, and institutionalized racism; and writing and resistance. Students are expected to read at least one novel, a number of short stories, poems, and personal essays in preparation for class discussion, as well as watch documentary and feature films, mainstream as well as independent. There will be weekly response papers, at least one presentation, and two or three longer papers. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 142 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
     
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 142, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/143 - Literature and the American South (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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)/Restriction(s): ENG 143 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 143, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/144 - Literary Evolutions (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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)/Restriction(s): ENG 144 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 144, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/146 - Telling It Slant: Unreliable Narrators in American Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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 uses 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)/Restriction(s): ENG 146 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 146, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/147 - Romanticism and How to Live (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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)/Restriction(s): ENG 147 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 147, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/148 - Sport Stories (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course centers on the study of contemporary fiction and literary nonfiction that is about sports by authors such as Sherman Alexie, John Edgar Wideman, Joyce Carol Oates, and David Foster Wallace, among others.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 148 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 148, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/149 - Women in Literature: A Home in the Word

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course includes some of the most widely-read and influential American women authors of the last hundred years. While novels form the backbone of the course, we will also read poems, short stories, essays, memoirs, recipes, advice literature, and a graphic memoir. The course will function as an introduction to reading critically and to writing about literature; additionally, we will use our texts as a lens onto the condition of women over time, and attend to the relationship of women’s writing to the evolution of gender politics in the twentieth century. Throughout, we will attend to issues of social location such as race and class, with an emphasis on intersectional thinking. The course is loosely organized around the theme of “home” conceived broadly-as a literal dwelling, the locus of productive and of creative work, and as an important historical site of female meaning-creation.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 149 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 149, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/150 - Writing About Film (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    Our goal this semester will be to develop an easy fluidity with the language of cinema, and explore how to use this language to think and write critically about film. We’ll spend substantial time examining the work of five great directors, learning how these filmmakers use and experiment with the vocabulary of cinema.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 150 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 150, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/151 - In Passing: Performed Identities in Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    What does it mean to pass as someone you’re not? Or to not pass as someone you are? Focusing on gender, race, and ethnicity, this course will explore how identity can be performed. Through readings in drama, fiction, and poetry, we will consider the experiences of the gender-bending character in disguise, the mixed-race person passing as white, and the assimilating immigrant adapting to a new culture. By looking at ways identity can be literally enacted (through costuming, affectation, and language), we will examine the underlying social constructs that reveal how identity is performed in everyday life. What is at stake in these performances and what is their relationship to authenticity?

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 151 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 151, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/152 - Site-Specific Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course will explore literature about space and place. How do writers craft the feeling of a particular place in their work? What is our experience of this place in our imaginary-or what is the experience of reading this literature in the very place it was written about? We will examine how being “here” or “there” relates to issues of identity, community, belonging, displacement, power, and privilege. We will find ourselves in Joyce’s Dublin, compare Dickens’s and Woolf’s London to the city as experienced by a West Indian immigrant, contemplate geography with John Green, and read a poem about Boston’s Public Garden in the Public Garden itself, all the while discovering how we locate ourselves in and outside of these texts.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 152 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 152, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/153 - Border Stories: Transcultural Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    In many ways, globalization and technological advances have made the world a more open and interconnected place than ever before.  Yet around the world borders remain sites of contestation. The course asks two interrelated questions: how authors represent borders, and how the genres in which they work shape our understandings of the issues themselves. Topics include the ethics of dividing culture along ethnic, linguistic, and national lines on the one hand and the problems of the universalizing category of “the global” on the other. We will also examine the relationship between creative production and such topics as empire, travel/diaspora, translingualism, and literary reconfiguration. Readings may include works by Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Arjun Appuadurai, Suketu Mehta, Suki Kim and Teju Cole.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 153 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 153, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/154 - The Essay: Contemporary Voices (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    We currently live in what James Wood has called “the golden age of the essay.” In this course, we will study a diverse range of contemporary essayists, from those who practice compelling literary or creative nonfiction to those who write the most incisive cultural commentary. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 154 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 154, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/155 - The Mirror of Friendship (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Fall 2018

    “Without friends,” wrote Aristotle, “no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” For the Greek philosopher, in fact, friendship was a higher value than justice and one of the purest forms of love. Oscar Wilde, with tongue in cheek, had a somewhat different take: “Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.” In this course we will examine the philosophy and literature of friendship from the ancient world to the contemporary era of social-media friending. We’ll look at friendship in its many hues: from the innocent relationships of childhood and the intensities of adolescent bonds to friendships that cross over into romantic love and friendships that spiral into dependency, rivalry, obsession, and betrayal.  
    As we gaze into what Aristotle called the mirror that friends hold up for one another, we will also examine what the border-crossing power of friendship shows us about race, class, gender, and sexuality. Authors we will consider may include: Aristotle, Cicero, Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, David Mitchell, Achy Obejas, ZZ Packer, Junot Diaz, Sherman Alexie, and Mohsin Hamid.

    Frequent writing assignments will ask you to explore a variety of kinds of writing, such as “quotes and notes” annotations, blog posts, personal essays, and formal critical analysis.  Special attention will be paid to developing basic writing and composition skills with an emphasis on formulating clear and persuasive arguments. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 155 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 155, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/156 - Listen: Sound Texts from Broadcast to Podcast (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This seminar will examine the histories and cultures of broadcasting. We will consider radio as a unique mode of storytelling and information distribution. The forms of listening have changed from scheduled or serendipitous dial-spinning to downloading and streaming on demand. But much remains the same about the form and connections that broadcasting makes possible. In addition to unearthing connections between radio and literary and cultural production, we will also create our own podcasts.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 156 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 156, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/157 - Poetry, Migration and Exile (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course will explore the themes and expressions of exile, migration, the loss of home, and the experience of estrangement through narrative and lyric poetry. We will study displacements of self and relations that arise because of changing perceptions of identity, threats, or new regimes. Selected poems-epic, odes, elegy, fragments, songs-will coincide with urgent questions of the body, passions, gender, background, national or global citizenship. With some review of examples from across the ancient and medieval worlds, the Renaissance and Romantic periods, (eg. Sappho, Ovid, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Dickinson) the course will focus primarily on Twentieth Century works, including Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, James Wright, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Yusef Komunyakaa and contemporary poets, spoken word and rap artists.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 157 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 157, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/158 - Whose Ireland? Writing the Immigrant Experience (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This seminar explores the concept of Irishness through the work of writers born in Ireland and those who immigrated into Ireland in the wake of the Celtic Tiger and the formation of the European Union. We will ask: How has what it means to be “Irish” changed after key moments in Irish history? Who “counts” as Irish? Is Irishness a geographic designation, a cultural concept, a political tool, or a literary construct? By examining seminal works by authors such as W.B. Yeats in conversation with contemporary authors including Oona Frawley and Melatu Uche Okorie, students will practice close reading of texts in order to form compelling arguments about the interactions between the nation, race, ethnicity, and literature.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 158 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 158, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/159 - Twice Told Tales (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    The title of this course is fittingly repurposed from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twice Told Tales (1837), a collection of short stories containing a variety of his own previously published works. Throughout the semester, students will read a series of republished and retold narratives as a way of considering the stakes of literary genre, narrative voice, cultural capital, and publication histories. By exploring narratives that have reverberated across multiple genres-drama, film, fiction, and poetry-students will explore how form shapes and contains the kinds of stories artists are able to tell. Reading closely for the ghost plots and literary echoes that haunt these “twice told tales,” students will contemplate the aesthetic significance of repetition and revision and will examine the political and ethical stakes of recuperating lost stories.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 159 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 159, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/160 - Marking Time (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course will offer students the opportunity to consider the many ways of knowing time as presented in various English texts written across the long eighteenth century. We will consider multiple literary forms-poetry, novel, the familiar letter, philosophical essay-for their ability to provide compelling examinations into how historical and literary subjects mark time, and how that epistemology connects to issues of historiography and nationalism. Our readings will engage with various philosophies on marking time, such as through class struggle, as embedded in cultural practices or traditions, or as unfolding through the actions of specific exemplary figures. We will explore the differing strategies for inclusion and exclusion inherent to these texts, as well as the national qualities-agrarian or industrial, monarchical or republican, landed or mercantile capital-supported by them. We will explore the meaning the past holds for the present and future in an increasingly commodity-driven and industrial world, where public and private processes of constituting time often offer conflicting accounts of the individual’s relationship to the national. Students will examine gendered biases in depictions of time, and how these biases empower ideological stability, Enlightenment ideals of chronological progression.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 160 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 160, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/161 - Dramatic Voices: Influences of Orality in Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    While literature implies a written text, this course will explore the relationship between speech and writing. What does it mean for one form to be privileged over another? Or for each to inform the other? In this course, we will examine texts that are meant to be spoken aloud, like the oral traditions of epic poetry and origin stories, and texts that are meant to be performed, like drama, speeches, and contemporary slam poetry. We will also come to understand the performative nature of literary texts through an emphasis on narrative voice in fiction and the aural properties of poetry. The voices we encounter may be formal, colloquial, multilingual, lyrical, or unreliable as we discover what voice can reveal about personality and power.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 161 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 161, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/162 - Young Adult Literature: Marginalization and Coming of Age (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course will explore the nature of “coming of age” narratives as they intersect with the experience of marginalization. In moments of transition from one stage of life into another, when emphasis is placed on the discovery and definition of the self, what does it mean for that self to be viewed as different? Through readings across genre-from fantasy to nonfiction, drama to graphic novels, encounters with superheroes and zombies-we will examine gender, sexuality, race, disability, and other possible markers of difference. We will come to question the parameters of “young adult” literature, its expected content and intended audiences. When are you done “coming of age”?

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 162 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 162, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 100/163 - American Nightmare/American Dream: Dystopic and Utopic American Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar)

    Three or Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    What do The Hunger Games and the Declaration of Independence have in common? Or Thoreau’s Walden and Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech? Each offers a vision of a future American society and asks us to reexamine the principles that shape it. In this course we will explore how writers from John Winthrop to Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Octavia Butler have imagined America in literature

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 163 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
    General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
    ENG 163, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
  

  • ENG 200 - Introductory Topics in Literary Studies

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Introduction to the vocabulary and practices of literary-critical analysis and the skills of close reading with a focus on the major literary genres.

    Note: 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.
  

  • ENG 201 - British Literature to 1700

    Four 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.
  

  • ENG 202 - Literary History II

    Four Credits
    Not Offered 2018-2019

    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.
  

  • 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.
  

  • ENG 205 - Fiction

    Three Credits
    Spring 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.
  

  • ENG 220 - Introductory Topics in Literature

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    Introductory literary seminars that emphasize the development of writing and analytic skills necessary for upper-division English courses.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Priority given to first- and second-year students.
    Course Applies to: Gender & Sexuality Studies
    Note: 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.
  

  • ENG 221 - Introductory Topics in Digital Humanities

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    This course features an introduction to a range of digital methods and tools for humanistic inquiry.

    Course Applies to: Digital Humanities
  

  • ENG 242 - Topics in Creative Writing: Poetry I

    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 Applies to: Creative Writing
    Note: 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.
  

  • ENG 243 - Topics in Creative Writing: Fiction I

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    An introduction to narrative writing, including description, setting, dialogue, characterization, plot.

    Course Applies to: Creative Writing
    Note: 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.
  

  • ENG 247 - Topics in Catholicism and Literature

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    An engagement with Catholic writers and themes in British and American Literature.

    General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Traditions
    Note: Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered each semester can be found on the Registrar’s website.
  

  • ENG 248 - Catholic Literature and the Modern World

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    Through literature and film this course will introduce students to the development of the Catholic imagination from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. We will examine the struggle between the Catholic Church and modernity, which developed into a more cooperative relationship by the time of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), and which continues to evolve into the contemporary period.

    General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Traditions
    Course Applies to: Catholic Studies
  

  • ENG 256 - Madness and Insight: Modernist Psychopathology

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2018-2019

    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.
  

  • ENG 257 - Global Detective Fiction

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2018-2019

    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.
  

  • ENG 258 - Literature and Sports

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2018-2019

    Students will read and study literature that draws on or engages in some way sports and its diverse cultures. Some of the stories, novels, and essays will be about sports; others will, for example, incorporate sports into their broader aesthetic and social visions; others still will use the culture of sport as the canvas on which to paint characters and their internal lives.

    Course Applies to: Sport Commerce and Culture
  

  • ENG 271 - Film and Story

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    An introduction to film art through a comparison of its distinguishing features with those of fiction and of drama.

    Course Applies to: Cinema Studies, Visual Studies
  

  • ENG 272 - Film History

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    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 Applies to: American Studies, Cinema Studies, Visual Studies
  

  • 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 Applies to: American Studies, Cinema Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Visual Studies
  

  • ENG 279 - Harry Potter: Magic, Muggles, and Metaphor

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    This course will immerse students in the world of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Reading the novels as literary and cultural texts, the course will explore how Rowling creates an intricate alternative universe with parallel political and social dimensions. The course will examine the novel series as narrative and cultural artifacts, paying special attention to how the texts offer construct new notions of nation, authority, education, morality, folklore, and fandom.
  

  • ENG 280 - Shakespeare for Everyone

    Three Credits
    Alternate Years: Spring 2020, 2022

    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.
  

  • ENG 300 - Topics in Literary and Cultural Theory

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Explorations in literary, critical, and cultural theories with an emphasis on connections between language, literary expression, and cultural and historical contexts.

    General Education Attribute(s): Moral Inquiry
    Course Applies to: American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Visual Studies
    Note: 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.
  

  • ENG 301 - Topics in Medieval Literature (WID)

    Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    A thematic study of texts, figures, and influences associated with the literature of the Middle Ages.

    General Education Attribute(s): Writing-in-the-Disciplines
    Note: Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered each semester can be found on the Registrar’s website.
  

  • ENG 304 - Topics in Early Modern Literature (WID)

    Four Credits
    Spring Semester

    A thematic study of texts, figures, and influences associated with the literature of the early modern period.

    General Education Attribute(s): Writing-in-the-Disciplines
    Note: Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered each semester can be found on the Registrar’s website.
  

  • ENG 306 - Topics in British Literature, 1700-1900 (WID)

    Four Credits
    Fall Semester

    A critical analysis of various cultural and literary issues that emerge in British literature.

    General Education Attribute(s): Writing-in-the-Disciplines
    Note: Course may be taken twice as long as topics differ. Specific topics and descriptions offered each semester can be found on the Registrar’s website.
  

  • ENG 307 - Topics in British Literature, 1900 - Present

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    A critical analysis of various cultural and literary issues that emerge in British Literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

    Note: 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.
  

  • ENG 310 - Topics in World and Comparative Literature

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    A critical analysis of literature outside of the American and British traditions and/or a comparative look at themes across national literatures and traditions.

    Note: 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.
  

  • ENG 317 - The Romantic Age I

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    Study of major texts and authors of the first generation of The Romantic Age. Authors may include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and others.
  

  • ENG 318 - The Romantic Age II

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    Study of major texts and authors of the second generation of The Romantic Age. Authors may include the Shelleys, Byron, Keats, Austen, Hazlitt, Hemans, and others.
  

  • ENG 322 - Topics in World Cinema

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    A critical study of specific topics related to cinema production in countries outside of Europe and North America.

    Course Applies to: Cinema Studies, Visual Studies (depending on topic)
    Note: 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.
  

  • ENG 324 - Topics in Television Studies

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    An examination of specific topics related to television genres or periods through application of contemporary critical theories.

    Course Applies to: American Studies, Cinema Studies, Visual Studies
    Note: 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.
     
  

  • ENG 326 - Topics in American Cinema

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    A critical study of specific topics related to the American narrative film.

    Course Applies to: American Studies, Cinema Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Visual Studies (depending on topic)
    Note: 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.
     
  

  • ENG 336 - The Romance

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2018-2019

    An historical survey of the romance from Heliodorus to the Harlequin.
  

  • ENG 344 - Topics in Creative Non-fiction

    Three Credits
    Fall 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 Applies to: Creative Writing
    Note: 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.
  

  • ENG 345 - Topics in Creative Writing: Fiction II

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    This course will provide students who have already taken ENG 243  the opportunity to advance their fiction-writing skills and develop longer, more complex narrative forms.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 243  or Consent of Instructor.
    Course Applies to: Creative Writing
    Note: 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.
  

  • ENG 346 - Topics in Creative Writing: Poetry II

    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)/Restriction(s): ENG 242  or Consent of Instructor.
    Course Applies to: Creative Writing
    Note: 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.
  

  • ENG 348 - Topics in Religion and Literature

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course examines the emergence of spiritual themes and traditions in literary texts.

    Note: 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.
  

  • ENG 349 - Irish Literature: Nationalism, Religion, Mother Ireland

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    A critical analysis of various cultural and literary issues that emerge in Irish fiction, poetry, and drama.

    General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Traditions
  

  • ENG 350 - Chaucer

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    A study of Chaucer’s poetry, with attention to the cultural and political forces that shaped late medieval poetics.
  

  • ENG 351 - The Calamitous 14th Century

    Three Credits
    Fall 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.

    General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Traditions
  

  • ENG 353 - Shakespeare

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    Close readings of Shakespeare’s work.

  

  • ENG 354 - Shakespeare’s Rivals

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2018-2019

    A study of theatre in early modern culture, with attention to the drama of Shakespeare’s competitors: Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, and Middleton.
  

  • ENG 357 - English and Irish Drama

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2018-2019

    A critical survey of dramatic genres and texts from England and Ireland with a focus on specific themes and on performance texts.
  

  • ENG 358 - Classical Backgrounds to English Literature

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2018-2019

    An introduction to the literature of ancient Greece and Rome, including mythology, Greek drama, and the epic poems of Homer and Virgil.
  

  • ENG 359 - Nineteenth-century British Poetry

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2018-2019

    A critical reading of Romantic and Victorian poets, along with relevant prose.
  

  • ENG 360 - American Literature to 1865

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2018-2019

    A chronological survey of texts, figures, and influences associated with American literature of the period.

    Course Applies to: American Studies
  

  • ENG 361 - American Literature, 1865-present

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2018-2019

    A chronological survey of texts, figures, and influences associated with the period.
  

  • ENG 362 - Topics in Poetry

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    A critical reading of poetry. Topics vary from semester to semester.

    Course Applies to: American Studies
    Note: 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.
 

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