English

Students will study writing as a process of composition and communication, and will write short essays directed at a variety of audiences. Review of basic grammar, mechanics, and usage will receive special attention. Reading strategies will be discussed and students will be encouraged to read interactively.

Prerequisite: English placement test.

Focuses on the basics of writing, including control of basic grammar and punctuation. Through frequent writing and revision, students develop a portfolio of essays that is submitted to a review panel for assessment at mid-term and at the end of the semester. This course does not satisfy the GER communication requirement.

Prerequisite: ENGL S092 (C or higher) or placement test.

Instruction in techniques of essay organization and development, research, and analytical reading and writing. A critical analysis and research paper are required.

Prerequisite: ENGL 110 (C or higher) or placement test.

This course focuses on exploring, understanding, and appreciating literature, which will generate analytical student writing. Students write analyses of at least three works from the various genres (poetry, short fiction, drama, and novel or film). Traditional literary research among critical sources leads to at least one research paper.

Prerequisite: ENGL S111 (C or higher) or placement test.

Composition of professional correspondence and technical reports. A broad range of college and career writing skills including audience analysis, readability and effective style. Significant critical reading and major investigative report required.

Prerequisite: ENGL S111 (C or higher).

Analysis and interpretation of selected writings from the Anglo-Saxons to the eighteenth century.

Prerequisite: ENGL S111 (C or higher) or concurrent enrollment.

Introduction to the study and practice of writing original works of fiction and poetry. Writing techniques are explored through class discussion, study of established writers, and participation in writing workshops.

Prerequisite: ENGL 211 (C or higher) or instructor permission.

This course focuses on study of masterpieces of world literature in translation, selected from diverse genres, literary periods, and cultural traditions.

Prerequisite: ENGL S211 (C or higher) and upper-division standing, or instructor permission.

Advanced principles of expository prose for academic purposes with some work on fiction and poetry. Elements of rhetoric, style, grammar, paraphrasing, and research documentation. Students will participate in a writing workshop approach: writing, responding, revising, editing and publishing frequently. Successful completion of the course involves a portfolio review by a panel of readers.

Prerequisite: ENGL S211 (C or higher) and upper division standing, or instructor permission.

Study and practice in the techniques of memoir writing, explored through class discussion, study of literary models, and participation in writing workshops.

Prerequisite: ENGL S261 (C or higher) and upper-division standing, or instructor permission.

Course will focus on contemporary Latin American literary production in translation, including the novel, short story, drama and testimony. All readings are available in English translation. Class discussions and assignments will be in English.

Prerequisite: ENGL S211 with a C or higher, and upper division standing; or instructor permission.

In conjunction with a community celebration of the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Wilderness Act, we will explore both the benefits and problems inherent to the idea of wilderness. To investigate the cultural history that brought us the legislation, as well as the ramifications of wilderness in legal, scientific, and cultural discourses, readings will be drawn from diverse disciplines and perspectives.

Prerequisite: ENGL S211.

In reading Toni Morrison's novels, we will attend especially to questions of transgenerational suffering, memory and counter-memory, race and representation, and the possibility or impossibility of hope and justice in the wake of unspeakable violence. Our studies will be supplemented by readings in critical race theory, feminist cultural studies, and trauma theory.

Prerequisite: ENGL S211.

Was there ever a trickster more bent on outfoxing his readers than Robert Frost? In the popular imagination he's as authentic (and sugary) as maple syrup, a benevolent old Yankee of mythic proportion who taught us through his accessible verse the value of seeing things for what they are. But just blink, and the contrary might be true, too: what if Frost is more the sneaky raven than the majestic eagle of modern American poetry? Upon a close reading, his poetry is loaded with inherent contra-diction, misdirection and wordplay that threatens to upend the comfortable image we have of him and his work. Frost was also unafraid of exploring the dark depths of what it can mean to be human. Through close readings of a range of Frost poems, some familiar and others more obscure, we will explore the complexities of the man's philosophy and his puzzling penchant for eluding the reader. We will also sample his essays and browse Frostian criticism and biography.

Prerequisite: ENGL S211.

Advanced study and practice in the techniques of creative writing. This may include poetry, drama, fiction, creative non-fiction, or other genres. Creative writing techniques are explored through literary study and writing workshops. The specific theme and/or genre will be announced in the course schedule. May be repeated for credit when content varies.

Prerequisite: ENGL 261 (C or higher) and upper-division standing, or instructor permission.

What do song lyrics, villanelles, and slam poems have in common? How does a poem hold together? How do we use form to push our writing? This term we'll focus on different ways to build poems, using varied types of both formal and non-traditional structures. Although readings will focus on poetry, students may write poetry, fiction, or non-fiction. Half of each class will be devoted to workshopping student poems and stories.

Prerequisite: ENGL 261 (C or higher) and upper-division standing, or instructor permission.

The English internship program provides students with an opportunity to gain experience working in a language-based field of employment (e.g., journalism, teaching, public relations, research, or editing).

Prerequisite: Admission to an English degree program, senior standing, and instructor permission.

Independent thesis or project in the student's area of interest as approved by the student's advisor. The thesis will be presented to and evaluated by panel to be determined by the English department. Pass/Fail grading.

Prerequisite: Admission to the B.A. in English program, or creative writing minor, senior standing, and instructor permission.