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ENGLISH (ENGL) Professors: Feinstein, Hawkes (Chairperson), Moses, Lewes Associate Professor: Hafer Assistant Professors: Leiter, Preston Visiting Assistant Professor: Mohring The department offers two programs leading to the major in English: Track I - English Major in Literature This track is designed for students who choose English as a liberal arts major that prepares them for a wide range of career options; for students who choose English as their subject area for elementary certification or who wish to earn secondary certification in English; for students who wish to improve their verbal and analytic ability in preparation for a specific career, such as technical writing, business, or law; and for students who intend to pursue graduate study in British or American literature. A minimum of ten courses is required for Track I. Required courses are ENGL 217; 220; 221; two courses selected from 222, 223, 229; two from 311, 312, 313, 314, and 315; one from 335 and 336; two electives beyond composition; and the Capstone Experience. Students who wish to earn secondary teacher certification must complete a minimum of twelve courses in English. Required courses are ENGL 217; 220; 221; 335; 336; 338; two courses from 222, 223, 229; three courses from 311, 312, 313, 314, and 315; one elective beyond composition; and the Capstone Experience. Required courses outside English are EDUC 200, 338, 339, 446, 447, and 449; PSY 110 and 138; and THEA 100. Students who intend to pursue graduate study in British or American literature should complete the twelve English courses specified for secondary certification and, as part of that sequence, take ENGL 449, Advanced Criticism, as their English elective. Track II - English Major in Creative Writing This track is designed for students who aspire to careers as professional writers, as editors, and as publishers; for students who plan to continue studies in an M.F.A. or M.A. program; or for students who would like to discover their creative potential while pursuing a fundamental liberal arts education. A minimum of ten courses is required for Track II. Required courses are ENGL 240; two courses selected from 220, 221, 222, 223, 225, and 229; two from 311, 312, 313, 314 and 315; one from 331 or 332; one from 335 and 336; two from 341, 342, 441, and 442 (note prerequisites); and one from 411 or 412. Students who wish to earn secondary teacher certification must complete a minimum of twelve courses in English. Required courses are ENGL 220, 240, 335, 336, 338; one course selected from 221, 222, 223, 225, and 229; two from 311, 312, 313, 314, and 315; one from 331 and 332; two from 341, 342, 441, 442 (note prerequisites); and one from 411 and 412; ENGL 217 recommended. Required courses outside English are EDUC 200, 338, 339, 446, 447, and 449; PSY 110 and 138; and THEA 100. The following courses satisfy the cultural diversity requirement: ENGL 229, 332, and 334. The following courses, when scheduled as W courses, count toward the writing intensive requirement: ENGL 218, 225, 311, 334, 336, and 338. Seniors in the literature track must hand in a portfolio of writing during the first week of their final semester. The portfolio must include four major papers from English courses and a self-assessment essay. Seniors in the creative writing track must successfully complete either ENGL 411 or ENGL 412. Minors The department offers two minors in English: Literature: Five courses in literature at the 200 level or above, at least three of which must be numbered 300 or above. Writing: Five courses, four of which are chosen from ENGL 217, 218, 240, 322, and 338; plus one writing-intensive course in literature at the 300 level. 106 COMPOSITION Extensive practice in analytical writing. Special emphasis on developing the composing skills needed to articulate and defend a position in various situations requiring the use of written English. Credit may not be earned for both 106 and 107. 107 HONORS COMPOSITION Extensive practice in analytical writing. Special emphasis on developing the writing skills of students who have the potential to benefit from advanced work. Placement by examination only. Credit may not be earned for both 106 and 107. 215 SELECTED TOPICS IN LITERATURE An introduction to a variety of literature united by topic, which will vary according to each instructor. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of the instructor. 217 CRITICAL WRITING SEMINAR An introduction to writing critically about literary texts. Workshop setting offers intensive practice in the writing and critiquing of papers. Designed for beginning students of literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. Not open to juniors or seniors except for newly declared majors or with consent of instructor. 218 CLASSICAL AND MODERN RHETORIC An exploration of the province, content, strategies, and techniques comprising ancient and modern discourse, with particular emphasis on written lines of argument. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. 219 NEWSGATHERING AND REPORTING Practical experience in newsgathering for print, electronic, and digital media. Emphasis on researching, beat reporting, and structuring stories for different kinds of media. Significant practice in interviewing, copyediting, and ethical decision-making. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107. 220 BRITISH LITERATURE I A survey of literary forms, dominant ideas, and major authors from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 18th century. The course includes a brief study of language development to Chaucer and emphasizes writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Swift, Pope, and Johnson. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of the instructor. 221 BRITISH LITERATURE II Literary movements and authors from the beginnings of Romanticism to the end of the 19th century. Particular emphasis on such writers as Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Arnold, Hardy, and Yeats. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. 222 AMERICAN LITERATURE I Survey of American literature from the beginning to 1865, with major emphasis on the writers of the Romantic period: Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. 223 AMERICAN LITERATURE II Survey of American literature from 1865 to 1945, emphasizing such authors as Twain, James, Crane, Hemingway, Faulkner, Frost, Eliot, Stevens, O’Neill, and Williams. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. 225 CLASSICAL LITERATURE A study, in translation, of Greek and Roman works that have influenced Western writers. Literary forms studied include epic, drama, satire, and love poetry. Writers studied include Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Virgil, Juvenal, Horace, Lucretius, and Ovid. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. 229 AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE A survey of major works and authors of African American literary history from slavery to the present, focusing on such authors as Douglass, J. W. Johnson, Hurston, Hughes, Wright, Ellison, and Morrison. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of the instructor. 240 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING Workshop discussions, structured exercises, and readings in contemporary literature to provide practice and basic instruction in the writing and evaluation of poetry and fiction. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. 311 MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Readings in Old and Middle English poetry and prose from Bede’s Ecclesiastical History to Malory’s Arthurian romance. Study of lyric, narrative, drama, and romance with emphasis on the cultural context from which these forms emerge. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. Alternate years. 312 RENAISSANCE LITERATURE An examination of themes and literary forms of the Renaissance. Authors studied will include Donne, Marlowe, More, Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, and Surrey. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. Alternate years. 313 RESTORATION AND 18TH-CENTURY LITERATURE Consideration of selected themes, writers, or modes of Restoration and 18th-century literature (1660-1800) with emphasis on the social, political, and intellectual life of that era. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. Alternate years. 314 ROMANTIC LITERATURE Concentrated study in the writers, texts, and themes of the Romantic period (1789-1832) with emphasis on the social, political, and intellectual life of that era. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. Alternate years. 315 VICTORIAN LITERATURE Concentrated study in the writers, texts, and themes of the Victorian period (1832-1901) with emphasis on the social, political, and intellectual life of that era. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. Alternate years. 322 ADVANCED WRITING: THE CREATIVE ESSAY A course in which students from all disciplines learn to explore and define themselves through the essay, a form used to express the universal through the particular and the personal. Readings will include essayists from Montaigne to Gould. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. Alternate years. 323 FEATURE WRITING FOR SPECIAL AUDIENCES Practice in writing a variety of feature stories for different audiences. Study of the ways in which writing for magazines compares and contrasts with writing for newspapers, radio, and the electronic media. Readings, peer review, and practice in developing ideas using primary and secondary research. Prerequisite: ENG 106 or 107. 331 MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FICTION Examination of the novels and short fiction of such major writers as Conrad, Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner, Fowles, and Nabokov, with special emphasis on the relationship of their works to concepts of modernism. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. 332 MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY POETRY Studies in the themes and visions of modern and contemporary poets, beginning with Yeats and the American Modernists, covering a variety of central movements (such as the Harlem Renaissance), and concluding with a range of multi-cultural authors. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107 or consent of instructor. 333 THE NOVEL An examination primarily of British and American works from the 18th century to the present, focusing on the novel’s ability— since its explosive inception—to redefine its own boundaries. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. Alternate years. 334 WOMEN AND LITERATURE An examination—literary, social, and historical—of literature by women representing diverse cultures. Each course will examine a particular theme significant to women writers from more than one cultural background. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. Alternate years. 335 CHAUCER A study of representative work in the context of Chaucer’s life and times. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. 336 SHAKESPEARE A study of representative plays in the context of Shakespeare’s life and times. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. Alternate years. 338 LINGUISTICS An intensive look at the English language, focusing on three grammatical systems (traditional, structural, transformational) to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Attention is also given to larger issues, including language change, the politics of language, the creation of meaning, language acquisition, and dialects. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. Alternate years. 341 POETRY WORKSHOP I An intermediate workshop focusing on the writing of poetry and methods of analysis. Prerequisite: Grade of B or better in ENGL 240, or consent of instructor. 342 FICTION WORKSHOP I An intermediate course in the writing of short fiction in a workshop environment, where the student is trained to hear language at work. Emphasis on characterization and story. Prerequisite: Grade of B or better in ENGL 240, or consent of instructor. 411 FORM AND THEORY: POETRY An advanced workshop in which students will be asked to write in various poetic forms, such as the sonnet, villanelle, sestina, and pantoum. Prerequisite: ENGL 341 or consent of instructor. Alternate years. 412 FORM AND THEORY: FICTION A course that examines philosophical and aesthetic theories of fiction, and the resulting fiction based on those theories. Authors will most likely include Aristotle, Calvino, Gardner, Gass, and Nabokov. Prerequisite: ENGL 342 or consent of instructor. Alternate years. 421 ADVANCED TOPICS IN LITERATURE An upper-level literature course governed either by concept (such as a theme or movement) or author (one to three figures). Topics will vary according to each instructor. Prerequisite: At least one English course numbered 218 and above, or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. May be taken a second time for credit with departmental approval. 441 POETRY WORKSHOP II An advanced workshop in the writing of poetry. Students will receive intensive analysis of their own work and acquire experience in evaluating the work of their peers. Prerequisite: ENGL 341. 442 FICTION WORKSHOP II An advanced course in the writing of short fiction. Emphasis on the complexities of voice and tone. The student will be encouraged to develop and control his or her individual style and produce publishable fiction. Prerequisite: ENGL 342. 449 ADVANCED CRITICISM Reading and discussion in the theory and history of criticism. Examination of both traditional and contemporary ideas about the value and nature of literary expression and its place in human culture generally. Work in the course includes practical as well as theoretical use of the ideas and methods of critical inquiry. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107, or consent of instructor. Alternate years. 470-479 INTERNSHIP (See index) The department provides internships in editing, legal work, publishing, and technical writing. N80-N89 INDEPENDENT STUDY (See index) Recent studies include the role of Pennsylvania in the fiction of John O’Hara; the changing image of women in American art and literature (1890-1945); the hard-boiled detective novel; contemporary women writers; and Milton’s use of the Bible in Paradise Lost. 490-491 INDEPENDENT STUDY FOR DEPARTMENTAL HONORS (See index) Recent projects include “The Function of the Past in the Fiction of William Faulkner” and “Illusion, Order, and Art in the Novels of Virginia Woolf.” MEDIA WRITING (MWTG) The minor in Media Writing provides students in any academic discipline with significant practice in writing to diverse audiences in the contemporary world. Students completing this minor learn how to connect messages with audience needs, values, and interests and how to make choices among the possible ways of conveying information in a mediated world. Each student minoring in Media Writing completes five of the courses listed below as well as a minimum of two non-credit colloquium courses involved with campus media (one of which must include a full semester’s work on the campus newspaper). Writing, Rhetoric, and Audiences: one from ENGL 218 and FILM 246. Applied Media Writing: three from ENGL 217, 240, FILM 300, MWTG 219, 323. Special Areas of Media Writing: one from ART 430, ENGL 322, and FILM 321. Colloquium: two from CCOM 246, 346, and 446. 219 NEWSGATHERING AND REPORTING Practical experience in newsgathering for print, electronic, and digital media. Emphasis on researching, beat reporting, and structuring stories for different kinds of media. Significant practice in interviewing, copyediting, and ethical decision-making. Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107. 323 FEATURE WRITING FOR SPECIAL AUDIENCES Practice in writing a variety of feature stories for different audiences. Study of the ways in which writing for magazines compares and contrasts with writing for newspapers, radio, and the electronic media. Readings, peer review, and practice in developing ideas using primary and secondary research. Prerequisite: ENG 106 or 107.
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