Courses
ENGL-101X LC College Writing (3)
This course requires students to write personal and expository essays in response to texts and class discussion on a range of issues. Its goal is to improve students’ writing and critical thinking. Students work toward understanding texts and exploring and communicating ideas, as well as toward mastery of the conventions of written English. The course design encourages active participation and collaborative learning. Students who have taken a Freshman Learning Community may not earn credit for ENGL 101C.
Attributes: LC YLIB
Restrictions: Including: -Class: FreshmanENGL-101C College Writing (3)
This course requires students to write personal and expository essays in response to texts and class discussion on a range of issues. Its goal is to improve students’ writing and critical thinking. Students work toward understanding texts and exploring and communicating ideas, as well as toward mastery of the conventions of written English. The course design encourages active participation and collaborative learning. Students who have taken a Freshman Learning Community may not earn credit for ENGL 101C.
Attributes: YLIB ZTRAENGL-103 Writing Workshop (1)
This course provides additional writing instruction designed to reinforce the student’s classroom experience in ENGL 101C. It is intended for those students who are required to or who opt to register for it based on their ENG 101C writing assessment projects. Permission of the Writing Center Director is required for registration.
Attributes: YLIB
Restrictions: Including: -Class: FreshmanENGL-104 Writing Workshop (1)
This course, a continuation of ENGL 103, provides additional writing instruction designed to reinforce the student’s classroom experience in any of the 199C courses. It is intended for those students who are required to or who opt to register for it based on their experience in ENGL 101C. Permission of the Writing Center Director is required for registration.
Attributes: YLIBENGL-199C RW Research-based Writing (3)
Students learn the basics of writing an academic research paper in this discipline. Emphasis is on elements of persuasive argumentation, the inclusion of more than one perspective on an issue, the proper use and documentation of sources, and revision. Students also learn how to make an effective oral presentation of their research. Department-determined topic may change from semester to semester and is likely to include literary texts as primary materials.
Restricted to freshmen and transfers.
Note: 199C courses may not be taken for credit more than once.
» Spring Research-based Writing (199) Courses & Topic Descriptions [pdf]
Attributes: RW YLIB
Restrictions: Including: -Class: Freshman, SophomoreENGL-200C Literary Analysis (3)
In this course, designed for English majors and minors, students develop the ability to analyze literary texts closely and thoroughly. Students learn to apply the vocabulary of literary studies and to consider such external influences as biography and culture in their readings of poetry, drama, and prose works. The course also includes an introduction to the relationship between critical methods and literary theory.
Attributes: ENLT HHSM HHUM YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-201 Y SENGL-201 Career Seminar (.5)
The objective of this course is to foster the academic success of students who are beginning the English major at St. John Fisher College. Students will explore career options and career preparation. This course, which meets for five one-hour sessions during the semester, is required of all students enrolled in ENGL 200C and strongly recommended for all transfer students majoring in English. Graded S/U.
Attributes: YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C Y D-ENGL-207C P1 Bible as Literature (3)
In this course, we read from the all-time best-selling book, an anthology of stories, poetry, songs, history, law and building instructions. We read the Bible as a literary work, with special attention to the themes, structure, and style of biblical narrative. The course considers selected books of both Hebrew and Christian scripture, along with works that adapt biblical materials to modern purposes, demonstrating the ongoing life of biblical texts in our culture.
Attributes: ENLT P1 YLIBENGL-210 P1 Literature & Healing (3)
Are mind, body, and spirit separate entities, and how are they reflected in literature and affected by self-expression? This course will examine how creative and analytical writers have addressed issues of health, illness, and healing. Texts and discussions may include issues such as cancer, AIDS, and mental illnesses; fertility issues; grief; epidemics and war; drugs and altered states of consciousness; stages of life and death; the ethics of healing; and different cultures’ approaches to sickness, health, and healing.
Attributes: ENLT HHCF HHUM P1 YLIBENGL-211 P1 Young Adult Literature (3)
How young is a young adult? How adult is an adolescent? How dark can children?s literature be, before it crosses a border? Who establishes these borders ? teachers? Parents? Librarians? Publishers? In this course, we consider those questions and read YA lit both as works of literature and as texts for education. Students will explore current issues surrounding YA literature, such as censorship, multiculturalism, dystopian visions, sex and violence in art, and the place of the individual in society.
Attributes: P1 YLIBENGL-212C P1 Shakespeare and Movies (3)
Shakespeare wrote his plays to be seen on stage, and many people think if he were alive today he would be making movies. In this class, we spend plenty of time reading Shakespeare’s works to understand his use of plot, character, structure, language, and genre, and we also put ourselves in the position of his audience. Viewing multiple film versions of plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, and Henry V, we consider how various interpretations are projected on screen, and we discuss what is gained and lost by close and loose adaptations of Shakespeare’s works.
Attributes: ENBL ENLT P1 YLIBENGL-214D P1 Reading Gender (3)
This course is an introduction to feminist literary theory. Students will learn some of the major schools of feminist thought over the centuries and learn to apply these perspectives to a number of literary works. Major issues will include concepts of authorship and voice, representations of gender roles, and ideas of identity and agency. In addition, students will develop skills in close reading and critical analysis. Cross-listed with WGST 214D.
Attributes: ENLT P1 WGST YLIBENGL-215C P1 News from Poems (3)
“It is difficult to get the news from poems,” wrote American poet William Carlos Williams late in his life, “yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” This course investigates both the kind of news that poems bring “about who we are and what we do; about what we know and what we dream” and the challenges of getting that news. Readings include poems in English reaching back to medieval ballads, but the course emphasizes the work of poets writing the news of our own time and considers forms of poetry ranging from the epic to the popular song. No special prior knowledge of poetry or poetic forms is expected.
Attributes: ENLT P1 YLIBENGL-226C P1 Arthurian Legend (3)
A study of the historical beginnings and literary development of the legend of King Arthur. The course concentrates on medieval literature, the time in which the legend came to have wide popular appeal, but includes some examples of later use of the legend as well as Arthurian films.
Attributes: ENBL ENLT P1 YLIBENGL-230 P1 Lit of Travel (3)
Martin Buber said, “all journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” In this course, we investigate why humans willingly pull up stakes and travel to unfamiliar places – and write about the experiences. We read fiction and nonfiction narratives that investigate the human desire to leave home, see other lands and people, and learn about the self in the process. We also investigate anthropological theories about travel and its uses. Authors may include Mark Twain, Isabella Bird, Mary McCarthy, Bruce Chatwin, Mary Morris, Jon Krakauer, Andrew Harvey, Douglas Preston, and others.
Attributes: ENLT P1 WGST YLIBENGL-231C P1 Detective & Mystery (3)
Detective and mystery narratives raise fascinating questions about the process of reading and interpretation; the detective, like the reader/critic, reads “signs” in order to transform chaos into order. Beginning with the Old Testament and ending with The Silence of the Lambs (both novel and film), this course considers detective and mystery narratives by such writers as Poe, Conan Doyle, Collins, Sayers, Christie, Du Maurier, Hillerman, and others. By giving highbrow and lowbrow mysteries equal footing, the course challenges traditional notions of canonicity, including the distinction between literature and film. Students are responsible for applying major theoretical arguments to texts that focus on “reading,” while they study the changing cultural implications of “mystery.”
Attributes: ENLT P1 YLIBENGL-236D CC The American Dream (3)
What is the American Dream? What is “American”? This course explores the American Dream – the dream of financial success, independence, tolerance, religious freedom – through the eyes of disparate groups. We emphasize the problem of cultural integration/assimilation alongside attempts to define a diverse culture as “one nation, indivisible.”
Attributes: AMHU CC ENEA ENLT YLIBENGL-239D P1 Haunted Houses (3)
Haunted Houses are a staple of the gothic genre. In this class we will investigate the Haunted House “formula” and variations on it, seeking to understand how it is that haunted house stories “get you where you live.” If home is where we are supposed to feel most secure, why do we enjoy stories which threaten this comfort zone? Course material will include short stories and novels by Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Edith Wharton and Henry James, as well as films and some psychoanalytic theory such as Freud’s “Uncanny.”
Attributes: ENLT P1 YLIBENGL-247C P1 War in Literature (3)
This class takes an inclusive, multi-faceted look at our nation at war–at war with racial “others,” at war with itself, at war abroad–and how war has affected not only soldiers who fight but also non-combatants. It examines depictions of U.S. wars in literature and films, from the colonial era’s “Indian Wars” to the Vietnam war. Because of the focus on literature (text and film), we also explore how the literary form affects the material.
Attributes: AMHU ENLT P1 YLIBENGL-248 P5 World Literature (3)
This course introduces students to a wide variety of literature from around the world, in translation, with attention to how such literature communicates the values and traditions of the cultures in which the writers live. The course will help students learn to analyze literature through written and oral assignments.
Spring 2015 Focus: Middle East
Attributes: ENLT ENWL P5 YLIBENGL-251 P1 Int Creative Nonfiction (3)
Creative nonfiction is the happy accident of fact and craft at the intersection of journalism and literature. In this class, students will draw on stories from their lives and the larger world to write vivid, compelling prose about people and events as a way of better understanding the world around them. Students read the published work of others and share their own work in small groups with an eye toward improvement.
Attributes: ENWR P1 YLIBENGL-253 P1 Intro Creative Writing (3)
Does poetry, fiction, or play-writing light your fire? Would you like to spend a whole semester igniting your imagination and kindling your writing skills? Creative writing will help you to discover and nurture your unique writer?s voice through guided exercises. Students will share their own work in small groups with an eye toward improvement.
Attributes: ENWR P1 YLIBENGL-259 Argument and Persuasion (3)
What persuasive strategies make some people and groups more convincing than others? Have you ever “won” an argument only to lose something larger in the process? Why do we use war metaphors to describe the act of arguing? In this course we will examine our assumptions and experiences with making arguments and explore theories of persuasion from the fields of rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies. We will experiment with using language persuasively to become more aware of the rhetorical situation, including audience, genre, context, and purpose. Emphasis will be given to both raising awareness in students? personal approaches to argument, and also raising awareness of notable moments in the history of persuasion in social, cultural, and political contexts.
Attributes: ENWR YLIBENGL-261C Topics:Sexuality & Lit (3)
Sometimes gender and sexuality are portrayed in literature in ways that reinforce traditional gender stereotypes and sometimes in ways that break or transcend them. How does language?and literature specifically?shape sexuality and sexual politics? The course looks at LGBTQ issues in a wide variety of types of texts, old and new.
Attributes: ENLT WGST YLIBENGL-263C P1 Topic:Lit & the Arts (3)
Fall 2017 Topic: Music, Literature, Politics Does music and literature merely reflect culture or can they change it? Can a song shift how the public thinks about an issue? In this course we will listen to the work of Marvin Gaye, Beyonce, Green Day, and others. How do artists represent and give voice to an experience of America that exists outside of mainstream culture? How does their music enact a “politics” that engages their audience in questions of class, race, and ideology? All of these questions will take shape in a course that also focuses on developing college-level reading, writing, and speaking skills.
Attributes: AMHU ENLT P1 YLIBENGL-264D P5 Topic:Politics & Lit (3)
As long as politics involves controversy and persuasion by words and images, literature will sometimes be inspired by, enlisted in, or blamed for these disputes and the social struggles they represent. Examining both traditional literary works and works intended to challenge and redefine our expectations of literature, the versions of this course will explore ways that books and authors, voluntarily and involuntarily, have been drawn into politics.
Spring 2016 Topic: Writing about War in the 21st Century
This course will examine prose fiction, memoirs, poetry, and blogs concerning the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Chechnya that have marked this young century. Our material will be witnessed or imagined and written from several perspectives: male and female, military and civilian, Afghan and Iraqi as well as American. Our fundamental questions will be: what can contemporary texts add to our understanding of the complex and intense experience of war in our own time? And how does war shadow our experience of the world away from it?
Attributes: AMHU ENLT P5 YLIBENGL-266 Writing as Social Practice (3)
Does developing reading and writing skills as a writer for the college newspaper differ from developing them in a prison writing group? How does your context–at home, work, school, and play?shape your work with texts? This course introduces students to some of the most important issues underlying contemporary studies of literacy. Typically, the general public, as well as many teachers and researchers, assumes that to be ?literate? an individual has attained a particular level of reading and writing competence. However, since the 1980s “new literacy” research has successfully challenged that view. Literacy?the social practices surrounding texts?and our understanding of it is thoroughly entangled in a complex web of cultural values, beliefs, and practices. The objective of this course is to examine these interconnections and, in doing so, become more purposeful, stronger readers and writers. Note: Beginning Fall 2011, this course replaces ENGL 258 in the English major and Writing minor.
Attributes: ENWR YLIBENGL-268 P1 Fundamentals of Film (3)
This course will begin by defamiliarizing the apparent accessibility of film. It will acquaint students with the basic tenets of film studies, including the technical aspects of film production, visual communication theory, and theories of film “authorship.” Then we’ll study a wide variety of films, including early silent movies, canonical classics like Citizen Kane, and films from divergent genres and traditions, like The Draughtsman’s Contract, Do the Right Thing, and Friday the Thirteenth. Student writing will focus on three areas: on how technique (form) creates content; on theories of visual pleasure; and on the politics of film ideology.
Attributes: ENLT P1 PROD YLIB
Restrictions: Excluding: -Class: FreshmanENGL-270C Becoming a Writing Tutor (1)
The best way to learn something is to teach it. This course trains students to become writing tutors in the College’s Writing Center. The course covers the writing, critical reading, and communication skills necessary to become an effective writing consultant. Dedicated writers in all majors are welcome. In addition to the weekly class meeting, students will be part of the Writing Center staff; as such, they will spend two hours each week there both observing and tutoring. Graded S/U. Permission of the Writing Center Director required to register.
Attributes: YLIB
Restrictions: Excluding: -Class: FreshmanENGL-293 P1 Early Engl Literature (3)
This course covers English literature written between the 10th and 17th centuries. Students become familiar with earlier forms of the English language, the genres which characterized literature of this period, and the cultural contexts which valorized and continue to valorize certain authors, subjects, and narrative styles in the literature of that period.
Attributes: ENBL ENLT P1 YLIBENGL-294 P1 Milton to Romantics (3)
John Milton, who published Paradise Lost in 1667 at the end of his career, influenced every major writer in English for the next 150 years, yet each responded differently to Milton as a literary forebear. What did Milton mean to writers as different as Alexander Pope and William Wordsworth, and what accounts for their differences? How do England’s changing literary tastes reflect the social and economic changes that made it, by 1820, the world’s foremost industrial power? Why do classical literary forms give way to native English models, lyric displacing satiric verse? How do the poems of Wordsworth and Blake reflect the revolutionary impulse felt throughout Europe? The course considers these among other questions. Besides Milton, it includes such writers as John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Gray, Robert Burns, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats.
Attributes: ENBL ENLT P1 YLIBENGL-298 P1 Modern American Lit (3)
This course surveys American literature representing a period that ranges from the consolidation of a national culture following the Civil War to the current paradoxical condition of a sole global superpower whose national culture has seldom seemed more fragmented. Topics to be explored include intellectual and imaginative responses to industrialization and urbanization, to the culmination of westward expansion and the loss of the frontier, to the integration of free African Americans and millions of immigrants into the culture and the economy, and to the challenges and responsibilities of world power. Readings include the work of such writers as Mark Twain, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wallace Stevens, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Bishop, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and others.
Attributes: ENLT P1 YLIBENGL-312C P1 Shakespeare (3)
Shakespeare’s plays have been and are continually re-interpreted by critics, theatrical and film productions, and audiences. Students investigate what literary interpretation is and how it is affected by historical and cultural contexts, reading the assigned texts both as works of literature and as scripts for a stage performance. In addition, students study current critical approaches to these plays to develop a sense of their own cultural lens for interpreting Shakespeare.
Attributes: ENBL ENLT P1 YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C D-ENGL-335 Studies in AFAM Literature (3)
This course will explore the work of African American writers who sought, largely between about 1965 and 1975, to create what we might think of as a Black nationalist cultural movement that paralleled the Black nationalist and Black Power political movements of the time. We?ll read poetry, plays, novels, cultural analysis, and philosophical arguments by such writers as Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ishmael Reed, Nikki Giovanni, and several others. Beyond the individual works themselves, we will consider the political and social background of the movement, its similarities to and differences from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, the idea of a ?Black Aesthetic,? and questions of the movement?s enduring influence.
Attributes: ENEA ENLT YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C D-ENGL-336 Studies in Native Amer Lit (3)
This course explores the means, styles, and purposes of self-representation, at both the individual and the communal levels, in a variety of texts by Native American writers. Themes and issues might include the struggle for cultural authenticity, the experience of conquest and the idea of the reservation, ideas of nationhood and the relations of tribal nations to the United States, and the pluralism of cultures within the Native American community itself.
Attributes: ENEA ENLT YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C D-ENGL-337 Ethnicities in/and Literature (3)
Ethnicity, often linked to but not the same as race, has a complex history in this nation whose motto is “E Pluribus Unum” (from many, one). It has been an obstacle to achieving our motto?s unity, and it has been a sustaining value to many of our citizens. Often it has been both these things simultaneously. This course examines literary representations of ethnic identity and culture, inviting students to explore definitions of ethnicity and their implications in the daily operations of peoples and nations. The course considers such questions as these: What is the difference between race and ethnicity? Do only “minorities” have ethnicity? How might we define ethnicity in an increasingly multiracial society? How do we handle the history of discrimination in today’s world?
Attributes: ENEA ENLT YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C D-ENGL-339 American Literatures (3)
This course explores the ways in which Amerian Writers have conceptualized the American experience and America as a nation. The plural in the title is deliberate; variety is a key concept. Possible areas of focus include key genres such as Romance, realism, regionalism, and naturalism; central themes such as race and ethnicity, religion, technology and the self-making narrative; and repeated motifs such as the American Adam and the American abroad.
Attributes: ENLT YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C D-ENGL-341 Studies in Poetry (3)
Poetry has a history that goes back nearly three thousand years that we know of, more than one thousand in English. The different versions of this course will range among many eras, poets, and structural plans, but all will focus on issues arising from the nature, resources, evolution, and cultural status of the art of poetry and its practitioners. One recent version explored the whole careers of two poets, American Gwendolyn Brooks and Irishman Seamus Heaney, trying to restore a sense of context and of development inevitably missing from anthology selections. Other versions have explored Modernism as an idea and a motive in early 20th century poetry and the Poetic Sequence as a genre.
Attributes: ENLT YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C D-ENGL-347 Studies in Postcolonialism (3)
This course will introduce students to postcolonial theory to help them develop an understanding of the historical forces and literary influences shaping writers in both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Reading classic literature of Empire along with emerging literature from the postcolonial world, students will put texts into dialogue with each other and examine how the experience of colonization affects individual authors and the process of cultural production.
Attributes: ENLT ENWL YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C D-ENGL-348 Women Writers (3)
An exploration of major works of English and/or American women writers often grouped by historical period. This course will attempt to discover common themes and images in women’s writing that we will place in a cultural and historical context. Mindful of the astonishing variety in this literature, students will try to discern whether there is what Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar call “a strong continuity” in the writings of English-speaking women, and if so, to what degree, as Virginia Woolf contends, books (particularly by women) “continue each other”.
Attributes: ENLT WGST YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C D-ENGL-349 Major Authors (3)
In addition to studying the literature of an author or group of authors in depth, students will examine the literary and social context which brought these authors to a place of prominence and the ways in which literary critics have approached their work.
Attributes: ENLT YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C D-ENGL-352 Rhetorical Theory (3)
This course explores aspects of classical rhetorical theory in contemporary forms of communication, both digital and traditional. Students use the tools of classical rhetoric to answer questions: how does persuasion work? What are the distinctions between informing, entertaining, and persuading an audience? How does moral stance affect the ability to make an argument? How do invention, style, and organization interplay with argument? Students will learn to write and speak persuasively and to think critically about both contemporary and classical rhetoric.
Attributes: ENWR ENWT YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-259 D-ENGL-353 Rhetorical History & Trad (3)
Can the silence of a Quaker Meeting be rhetorical? What rhetorics are embedded in the patchwork quilts that helped fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad? What are the main rhetorical strategies of the presidential campaigns and how have they appeared in the rhetorical choices of presidents? This course examines the rhetorical features of social, ethnic, religious, or political groups. We will read methods for analyzing cultural rhetoric in order to explore the underlying assumptions, beliefs, and values that shape the identities and purposes of groups. Central to this approach is that all artifacts from a group are rhetorical, and so we will “read” traditional artifacts like sermons, speeches, letters, and essays, but also art, film, clothes, photos, bumper stickers, and so forth in our work to make sense of the traditions of the groups under investigation.
Attributes: ENWR ENWT YLIB ZCIV
Pre-requisites: ENGL-259 D-ENGL-355 Professional Writing: Tpcs (3)
A professional writer is no mere machine, programmed to spew out formulas for easily identifiable occasions. Therefore, this course emphasizes decision-making processes that inform the ethical and effective design of professional texts. To ground our studies, we will explore principles and advanced practices of professional communications?situations where the stakes often involve monetary, human, or other valuable resources. Rhetorical principles of context, audience analysis, document design, and assessment are applied with professional rigor. Students may have the opportunity to work in collaboration with a community organization to design workplace documentation in digital or other formats, including grants, handbooks, letters, reports, and technical documents. In addition, students develop a portfolio of revised documents. Students will advance critical skills in language use, such as grammar, structure, and tone as they work to complete substantial professional projects.
Attributes: ENWP ENWR YLIB ZCIV
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C D-
Restrictions: Excluding: -Class: FreshmanENGL-356 Editing and Publishing (3)
The world of editing and publishing is filled with exciting challenges that demand specific skills: guiding a writer to complete an article or book for publication; collaborating with a team of editors, graphic designers and marketers to get a book to readers; or putting out an online publication, such as a monthly newsletter or journal, for a trade publisher or a not-for-profit. This course introduces many of the essential skills needed for editing and publishing at the professional level. Writing, editing, and in-class critiques will be a regular feature of a course that teaches grammatical and rhetorical competency. Readings, activities, and projects involve analysis of diverse genres and contexts for editing, including a focus on how evolving technologies affect publication. Practice in editing sample texts will be supplemented by projects, including revision and editing a text of one’s own for a specific purpose, audience, and publication; and collaboration with a community partner on a text bound for publication.
Attributes: ENWP ENWR YLIB ZCIV
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C D-
Restrictions: Excluding: -Class: FreshmanENGL-361 Writing with New Media (3)
What does it mean to be a writer and reader in the 21st century? How have developments in digital media required writers to consider the visual in addition to the verbal as well as interactivity? How do conflicting interpretations of copyright law impact creativity? This course focuses on the emerging area of digital writing studies, and we will discuss texts and new media works?both scholarly and popular?addressing such issues as the impact of information technology on research and teaching/learning, the social and cultural dimensions of technology, and models of writing associated with digital media.
Attributes: ENWP ENWR YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C D- OR COMM-263 D-
Restrictions: Excluding: -Class: FreshmanENGL-370 Gender and Writing (3)
Social differences of every kind are reflected in the way we write. Differences such as age, social class, and ethnicity inform our beliefs and values; they shape our experiences and how we express those experiences to others. This course examines how gender shapes written communication. It draws on a variety of research fields, including feminist theory, literacy studies, rhetorical theory, and literary studies to define concepts such as masculinity and femininity. Course readings and projects explore how critics, writers, and artists imagine the relationship between gender and writing.
Attributes: ENWR ENWT WGST YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-259 D-ENGL-371 Creative Writing:Fiction (3)
In this course, students will give and receive detailed critical evaluation of short stories and chapters of novels. Students will leave the course with several works of short or longer fiction, according to their own preference.
Attributes: ENWP ENWR YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-251 D- OR ENGL-253 D-ENGL-372 Creative Writing:Poetry (3)
In this course, students will give and receive detailed critical evaluation of poetry. Students will leave the course with a collection of poems.
Attributes: ENWP ENWR YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-251 D- OR ENGL-253 D-ENGL-374 Creative Writing: Drama (3)
In this course, students will give and receive detailed critical evaluation of plays. Students will leave the course with several short plays or substantial scenes from a longer play.
Attributes: ENWP ENWR YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-251 D- OR ENGL-253 D-ENGL-376 Creative Writ: NonFiction (3)
In this course, students will give and receive detailed critical evaluation of different types of creative nonfiction. Structure, voice, character and scene will all receive emphasis in the course. Students will determine their own semester projects.
Attributes: ENWP ENWR YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-251 D- OR ENGL-253 D-ENGL-378 Topics in Advanced Writing (3)
This course explores a specific type of writing, according to the interest of the instructor. Past topics have included Young Adult Fiction, Detective Fiction, Humor Writing, and Sports Literature. In this course, students will give and receive detailed critical evaluation of different types of creative nonfiction. Students will determine their own semester projects. Spring 2016 Topic: Literary Writing and Publishing This course provides a thorough introduction to contemporary literary magazine culture with the assumption that students have an interest in publishing their own creative writing. In addition to writing and revising creative works, students will read and review submissions for The ANGLE, SJFC?s literary magazine, gaining experience and insight into the editorial selection process as they prepare to submit their own finished works for publication.
Attributes: ENWP ENWR YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-251 D- OR ENGL-253 D-ENGL-380 Visual Rhetoric (3)
Developing a critical awareness of the way images, both moving and still, are constructed to convey particular messages is an important part of rhetorical awareness in the digital age. This course will explore various theories of visual rhetoric, using them as a lens through which to approach a variety of texts. Artifacts being analyzed in the course include graphic novels, film and television, advertisements, memorial spaces and museums.
Attributes: ENWR ENWT YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-259 D-
Restrictions: Excluding: -Class: FreshmanENGL-381 The Rhetoric of Hate (3)
Hate crimes and acts of symbolic and physical violence against particular people and groups can usually be tracked to specific cultural discourses and worldviews. In this course, students learn how rhetorical histories of hate have formed the foundations of genocide, racial supremacist ideologies, homophobia, and sexism. We will also study how these developments have been resisted by forces seeking social justice. Through the lens of rhetorical and cultural theories, we will analyze the historical, political, and economic contexts that have produced the rhetorics of hate and the rhetorics of social justice in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Attributes: ENWR ENWT YLIB ZCIV
Pre-requisites: ENGL-259 D-ENGL-382 Digital Literacies (3)
The popularity of blogging, social networking sites, and Twitter mean more people are writing more words than ever before, and that writing can be read and commented on instantly. As a result, people are not just consuming media but also producing media. What it means to be a writer and reader is changing. Literacy is in a transitional period, and these new ways of writing and reading are called “new literacies.” In our readings, discussions, and projects we will consider the social, cultural, and legal implications of digital media and the new conditions for literacy.
Attributes: ENWR ENWT YLIB
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C D- OR COMM-263 D-
Restrictions: Excluding: -Class: FreshmanENGL-420 Senior Literature Seminar (3)
This is the capstone course for senior English Department majors, culminating in an extensive research paper (20-25 pages) of each student?s design, along with an oral presentation. During the semester, students read articles from academic journals in order to become familiar with critical perspectives on literary and cultural texts. In their research papers, the students then situate their own critical perspectives on a text (or texts) within the context of established critical discourse.
Attributes: ENLT YLIB ZCAP
Pre-requisites: ENGL-200C D-ENGL-425 Senior Writing Seminar (3)
This capstone course for senior English Department majors is a writing seminar open only to senior English majors with a writing concentration and senior writing minors. The course culminates in an extensive project of each individual student?s own design. Each project includes a substantial written component and an oral presentation. During the semester, students read scholarly and other texts in order to become familiar with critical and rhetorical perspectives on writing. Students then situate their own writing and critical perspectives on a text (or texts) within the context of established critical discourse.
Attributes: ENWR YLIB ZCAP
Pre-requisites: ENGL-259 D-ENGL-475 Washington DC-Internship (6 TO 9)
Washington Experience semester is offered through The Washington Center. Permission of the advisor, department chair, and TWC liaison (Dr. Monica Cherry) is required to register.
Attributes: YLIBENGL-476 WashDC Experience-Sem (3 TO 6)
Washington Experience semester is offered through The Washington Center. Permission of the advisor, the department chair and TWC liaison (Dr. Monica Cherry) is required to register.
Attributes: YLIBENGL-477 WashDC Experience-Forum (1 TO 3)
Washington Experience semester is offered through The Washington Center. Permission of the advisor, the department chair and TWC liaison (Dr. Monica Cherry) is required to register.
Attributes: YLIBENGL-498H Honors in English (3)
A one- or two-semester sequence of independent study during the senior year, culminating in a thesis. Upon completion of the project, a student receives three or six hours of 400-level credit toward the major. The candidate should carefully select a member of the department to direct the project and work closely with him or her. The advisor evaluates the student’s performance and determines a final grade. No later than the end of the junior year, the student should consult with his or her director and submit a detailed description of the project to the chair of the department for approval. Completion of the Independent Study/Tutorial Authorization form is required.
Attributes: YLIBENGL-499H Honors In English (3)
A one- or two-semester sequence of independent study during the senior year, culminating in a thesis. Upon completion of the project, a student receives three or six hours of 400-level credit toward the major. The candidate should carefully select a member of the department to direct the project and work closely with him or her. The advisor evaluates the student’s performance and determines a final grade. No later than the end of the junior year, the student should consult with his or her director and submit a detailed description of the project to the chair of the department for approval. Completion of the Independent Study/Tutorial Authorization form is required.
Attributes: YLIB