English

Review of writing skills expected in college-level courses, including ability to write clear and correct Standard English prose in paragraphs and short essays. A student enrolled in English 100 must earn a grade of at least C- in order to take 101.

Development of writing skills necessary for academic work at all levels, including skills in rhetoric, grammar, electronic research, and documentation. At least a C- is required to fulfill the college's writing requirement.

Instruction in reading and analyzing literature, writing academic discourse, and using electronic research and documentation. Introduction to different genres and selected critical theories. English majors should complete this course before the end of the sophomore year. 

The writing of poetry, fiction, and other creative projects; instruction in reading literary texts with attention to the crafts of poetry, prose (fiction and nonfiction), and drama. Development of workshop practice and instruction in research for creative purposes.

Introduction to the reading and enjoyment of poetry through the study of poems from selected time periods and diverse cultural traditions. English majors in the creative writing track are encouraged to take this course prior to English 322. 

Introduction to short fiction, including stories and short novels, with attention to a variety of forms from classical narrative to fantasy and expressionism. English majors in the creative writing track are encouraged to take this course prior to English 323. 

Introduction to drama, with a focus on the literary issues specific to drama as a form of narrative; consideration of dramatic genre and theory, and some attention to staging and performance, with an introduction to important playwrights of the tradition. English majors in the creative writing track are encouraged to take this course prior to English 325X. 

Introduction to film techniques and conventions; consideration of social, artistic, and historical contexts of films,how they shape and are shaped by their time; and systematic exploration of such influential film genres as silent film, documentary, film noir, New Cinema, and auteur analysis.

Survey of African American literature form the 18th to the 21st century, with attention to the fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama across the African American experience and the resulting literary traditions. From slavery and its abolition, segregation and the Jim Crow South, the civil rights movement, to contemporary social movements and aesthetics. 

Introduction to earlier British literature with attention to selected works by authors including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Johnson. English majors should complete this course before the end of the sophomore year.

Introduction to later British literature with attention to selected works by authors including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, G. Eliot, Woolf, Yeats, and T.S. Eliot. English majors should complete this course before the end of the sophomore year.

Introduction to literature from 1945 to the present and its diverse cultural, social, and political contexts.  Study of English-language authors from the British Isles, Africa, India, and the Caribbean, with attention to English as a language of world literature.  English majors should complete this course before the end of their sophomore year.  

Survey of writing in the United States through World War I, with attention to selected works by Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Douglass, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, James, Crane, Chopin, and Dreiser, that introduces students to American Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism.

Survey of writing in the United States after World War I, with attention to selected American authors from Eliot, Hemingway, Moore, and Fitzgerald to the present.

Analysis of the contribution of works of fiction and poetry to an understanding of contemporary life and the proclamation of the Christian faith.

Survey of traditional and modern texts for children and young adults, with attention to multicultural social contexts, genre, and developmental stages in reading. 

Reading and writing longer forms of exposition, persuasion, narration, and analysis, with emphasis on clarity of style, argument, and advanced editing and research skills. 

The writing of poetry, with attention to traditional prosody and innovations in contemporary poetry. 

The writing of prose fiction, with emphasis on techniques of characterization, voice, plot development, and theme. 

Introduction to the major components of scriptwriting; emphasis on dramatic action, character, and dialogue; tools and techniques of scriptwriting; focus on the imagination and creativity of the student through the development of a short script.

The study of creative nonfiction, with inspiration from writing based on topics from personal narratives to the natural world. The composition of original writing inspired by personal and professional interests for a range of publications, from journals to blogs. 

The writing and study of nature writing as a genre and pertinent literary forms, with attention to writing from Thoreau, Carlson, Leopold, Abbey, Berry, Lopez, Dillard, and Bass. This course is taken as part of the Semester-A-Trail Program. 

An applied study of critical perspectives on literature and related literary theories, including New Criticism, New Historicism, Feminism, Postcolonialism, Structuralism, and others. 

Overview of general linguistic theories, including applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. Nature, development, and acquisition of both first and second languages including knowledge of phonological, morphological, and semantic aspects of English and their impact on the development of vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical competence. 

Selected topics within any area of literature, comparative cultures and literature, criticism, and creative writing.

Representative comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances from his early, middle, and late periods, studied in the context of cultural and dramatic history and the Elizabethan theatre.

A study of the works, life, and culture of a single major author in the Anglophone tradition. Possible topics include Austen, Chaucer, Dickens, Faulkner, Milton, Woolf. May be repeated for credit.

Study of a selected ethnic, national, regional, or cultural literary tradition. Rotating traditions will include Multiethnic American, Irish, women's, Southern, and Appalachian traditions. May be repeated for credit.

Analysis of a selected topic in literature with related study of genre and schools of critical theory. Students in the literature and secondary education tracks complete a critical project. Students in the creative writing track may elect to complete a combined critical-creative project. Evaluation of student presentations by members of the English Department. 

Advanced independent research in a special area of literature and criticism, or a creative writing project, under the supervision of a faculty member.

Work experience related to the student's major, jointly supervised by the department and a professional in the field. Although the usual internship will carry either three or six hours credit, a student may elect to arrange an internship carrying between two and six hours credit with the permission of the department. Each hour of credit will require forty hours at the internship site.

Work experience related to the student's major, jointly supervised by the department and a professional in the field. Although the usual internship will carry either three or six hours credit, a student may elect to arrange an internship carrying between two and six hours credit with the permission of the department. Each hour of credit will require forty hours at the internship site.

Independent research in a special topic for honors.

Independent research in a special topic for honors.