2015-2016 HillBook (Class of 2019) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
English
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Faculty:
Department Chairperson:
Jared Green
Office: Cushing Martin 119
Phone: 505-565-1711
jgreen@stonehill.edu
Professors:
W. Chapman Peek
D. Itzkovitz
Associate Professors:
M. Borushko (Sabbatical, Fall 2015)
S. Cohen
H. Duncan
S. Gracombe
J. Green
G. Piggford, C.S.C.
Assistant Professors:
A. Brooks
A. Opitz
L. Scales
Professors Emerita/Emeritus:
B. Estrin
R. Goulet
The Department of English offers a major and minor in English and a minor in Creative Writing.
Departmental Mission
The English major and minor alike offer a multi-disciplinary approach to literary study that forges connections between texts and contexts, as well as between the literary arts and studies in the Humanities. Our program enjoins students to explore the literary arts as a contact zone where history, critical analysis, theory, and creative writing converge.
By encouraging disciplined inquiry and critical thinking, English courses challenge students to examine their cultural and historical positions and to organize and articulate their discoveries. All courses require oral and written work in the form of class participation and individual papers. The program provides students with an understanding of traditional literary history and of the histories that have been left out of “the tradition.”
Through courses in poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, graphic narrative, cinema, and new media, students examine the world through multiple lenses, navigate a variety of literature and cultures in English, and pursue new ways of seeing received truths.
Learning Outcomes
Majors in English will:
- Advance in six core curriculum areas - critical writing, critical reading, literary history, studies in the literature and culture of England and America (plus contributions of the Anglophone nations), creative writing, and theoretical approaches to framing complex literary and cultural questions and producing rigorous analytical writing.
- Analyze, evaluate, and incorporate primary and secondary sources to formulate substantive critical claims supported by persuasive, well-organized textual analysis (close reading) and effectively integrated textual evidence.
- Recognize that literary texts shape and are shaped by their historical and cultural contexts. Develop the skills to analyze and evaluate these interactions between text and context, and the awareness that different time periods and cultures have different perspectives, norms, assumptions, and views about literature itself.
- Understand how to approach literature as a historical, cultural and aesthetic object of inquiry that is both distinct from and in resonance with other forms of expression.
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