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Course Descriptions

 

English
  

  • EN 226 Detective Fiction

    This is a survey of different forms and sub-genres of suspenseful fiction, including texts that range from short, classic mysteries to hardboiled novels to police procedurals. It includes exploration of, among other concepts, justice and law and the di
  

  • EN 227 Philadelphia in Literary and Cultural Context

    This exploration of the rich array of expressions about Philadelphia focuses on diverse writers from different periods, including William Penn, Elizabeth Drinker, Philip Freneau, Edgar Allan Poe, George Lippard, and Frank Webb. Students interpret liter
  

  • EN 229 Voices of America

    Study of diverse voices that comprise American literary heritage. This course explores the relationship of the texts to the intellectual, historical and social conditions that produced them. Sample authors include Sherwood Anderson, Toni Morrison, Sher
  

  • EN 230 Survey of African American Literature

    This course functions as a survey focusing on the experiences, literature, critical theories, philosophies, and histories attributed to African Americans as represented by African American writers. The course explores the diversity of themes that compr
  

  • EN 231 African American Short Story

    This is a survey of short stories that reflect different historical moments in the African American community as both it and the nation evolved. Beginning with African and African American folk tales, the course includes classic stories by such writers
  

  • EN 232 Louise Erdrich

    Critical reading of and writing about major novels, short stories, nonfiction, and poetry of Louise Erdrich. Focuses on the stylistic, structural, and thematic developments of Erdrich’s work.
  

  • EN 233 Shakespeare

    This study of selected comedies, tragedies, histories and romances by William Shakespeare emphasizes systematic literary and dramatic criticism.
  

  • EN 240 Advanced Writing Course
  

  • EN 240 Intermediate Fiction Writing

    A workshop designed to immerse students in the practice of writing, revising and workshopping their original fiction works at an intermediate level. Students will read and critique the work of their peers while reading works of short and long fiction a
  

  • EN 241 Intermediate Poetry Writing

    A workshop designed to facilitate and encourage the student’s own style and voice in writing poetry. The course has three components: weekly readings, weekly writing prompts, and peer review workshops. Authors include Williams, Ashbery, Schuyler, Whale
  

  • EN 272 Poetry for Page and Stage

    One-half writing workshop, one-half performance, this workshop looks at how we can translate our own written work into a stage performance. It begins with a traditional poetry workshop centered on students’ writing. It explores vocal and theatrical tec
  

  • EN 299 Interpreting Literature II

    An intermediate-level investigation and practice of strategies of interpreting literary texts. Topics include multiple vs. single interpretations; the problem of political and psychological subtexts; and the relation among history, society and the auth
  

  • EN 311 Writing Center Issues

    This course helps Arcadia University Writing Center consultants to develop the skills and understanding of Writing Center issues necessary to be effective tutors. Every semester addresses a different theoretical perspective or issue, including writing

  

  • EN 314 Writing for Magazines

    The course offers a practical introduction to the consumer magazine industry and aims to equip students with the basic skills and understanding necessary to pursue full-time or freelance careers as magazine writers or editors. Students examine all form
  

  • EN 315 Technical Writing

    This intensive study of technical documents for various careers covers catalogue descriptions, descriptions of mechanisms, instructional and procedural manuals, bids, requests for bids, proposals, reports, memos and letters responding to customer inqui
  

  • EN 316 Writing for the Health Industry

    An intensive writing workshop offering an overview of the health-care communications field. Students become familiar with research tools (including online databases), interview techniques, and the integration of graphics to enhance text. They also deve
  

  • EN 318 Journalism II

    Learn the set-up of the newsroom; practice the conventions of news and news features, such as profiles and issue-oriented stories. Fieldwork includes coverage of some live events with emphasis on writing the more complex story, with style, color, flair
  

  • EN 320 Classical and Medieval European Literature

    This is a selective study and appreciation of texts from Western antiquity and the Middle Ages that remain influential and alive in our own time. These texts are considered within the cultural contexts from which they sprang and to which they helped gi
  

  • EN 321 European Renaissance and Enlightenment Literature

    This is a selective study and appreciation of texts from 16th, 17th and 18th century European literature with a focus on the English tradition and a consideration of the historical contexts of the works studied. Readings are drawn from Renaissance essa
  

  • EN 322 Modern British Literature

    This is a critical reading of major British works of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries in the context of cultural history. Readings include works by such writers as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Bronte, Browning, Tennyson, George Eliot, Conrad
  

  • EN 323 Modern American Literature

    This is a critical reading of major American works of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, approaching the texts as products of a specific place and historical experience.  Authors include Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, Twain, Dickinson, James, Faulkner, Frost, Hughes, Baldwin, Miller, Morrison and others.

     

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  • EN 323 Modern American Literature

    This is a critical reading of major American works of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, approaching the texts as products of a specific place and historical experience.Authors include Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, Twain, Dicki
  

  • EN 327 The discovery of Adulthood in British and American Fiction

    This course explores, through novels and short stories, the cognitive, moral, social and psychological complexities of adolescent and early adult experience. It also deals with the literary problems involved in portraying these stages of human developm
  

  • EN 328 William Faulkner

    In this intensive study of the work of one of America’s most important fiction writers, readings include five major novels and several short stories. In addition to understanding Faulkner’s extraordinary achievement as an experimental novelist, we look
  

  • EN 329 Narrative Form in Fiction and Film

    This is a study of narrative forms and structures in film and fiction. Close reading of texts, reviews and conventional and experimental narrative forms are guided by narrative theory. Opportunities exist for critical and creative responses.
  

  • EN 330 Black Cinema

    This course examines the cinematic productions by Black filmmakers, representing Africa, North American, the Caribbean and Europe. Sample topics include early “race films,” independent cinema, documentary, women in film, 90s urban drama, “message cinem
  

  • EN 332 Literature and the Law

    What is the right relation between people and the laws they enact? Strict obedience? Civil disobedience? Conscientious objection? Violent rebellion? Silent subversion? This question and the responses it’s drawn through centuries of human history are th
  

  • EN 333 Teaching English as a Second Language

    This introduction to ESL teaching methods provides background in lesson planning, cross-cultural communication, selecting English-as-a-second-language materials, and conducting lessons. It includes field tutoring experience in practicum with adult lite
  

  • EN 334 Introduction to Linguistics and Language History

    This examination of the historical development of the English language and the various approaches to acquisition and use of language includes psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, phonology, morphology, schools of grammar, semantics, synta
  

  • EN 335 Special Topics in American Literature

    In this advanced course in American literature, topics vary. Possibilities include Transcendentalism, Race in the Literary Imagination, Literature of the Early 20th Century, the Jewish Novel, Between the World Wars, American Women Poets and others.
  

  • EN 336 Asian Literature

    This is a historical introduction to the cultural and literary modes of India, China and Japan through the study and discussion of ancient and modern works of Indian, Chinese and Japanese literature, supplemented by some religious and philosophical tex
  

  • EN 337 Disaster, Death, and Madness

    The central objective of this course is to help students to enter imaginatively into the condition of people caught in extremis by disaster, death, and madnessor any combination of the three. The course is an intensely collaborative experienc
  

  • EN 341 The Slave Narrative

    This course will explore the structures and literary themes present in autobiographical narratives of former slaves (African and Black American) of the 17-19th centuries, as well as the revision of these narratives in the work of contemporar
  

  • EN 342 Ireland in 20th Century Film and Literature

    This is an intensive study of the myths and realities of 20th century Ireland as represented by seminal works of film and literature. In addition to its examination of the culture of Dublin over the past 100 years, the course guides students
  

  • EN 343 Writing for Children

    An intensive writing workshop focused on the production of publishable fiction and nonfiction for the children’s market, the course provides an exploration of the creative process, including invention techniques, drafting, and revision. Plotting, chara
  

  • EN 344 Special Studies Seminar

    This seminar on advanced topics in literature provides an opportunity for intensive study in areas of special interest. Topics vary. Possibilities include: Modern and Contemporary Fiction; American Women Writers; Cinema of Science Fiction; Women’s Cine
  

  • EN 346 Russian Fiction

    This is a survey of Russian fiction, of its themes and narrative techniques, with special emphasis on select works of Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Babel, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. It covers Russian history in outline, from the foun
  

  • EN 349 The Short Novel

    A study of several small masterpieces of fiction. Authors may include Austen, Melville, James, Faulkner, Pynchon, Morrison, Barker and/or others. Advanced course for juniors, seniors and graduate students.
  

  • EN 350 Major Authors Seminar

    This in-depth study of the significant work of one or more authors focuses on an author’s literary development as well as the relationship between the author’s life and work.
  

  • EN 351 Jane Austen

    A study of Austen’s six major novels with attention to the culture of Regency England, the course examines the enduring popularity of Austen’s works and the growing library of film adaptations of the novels. This course may be taught in a traditional c
  

  • EN 352 Alfred Hitchcock’s American Films

    An intensive study of the major film works of one of the best 20th century studio directors focuses on the cinema produced in his American period, 1943-63. The course guides students through discussion and analysis of such important films as
  

  • EN 353 Mark Twain

    In this intensive study of one of America’s most famous writers, students read a selection of his novels, stories and essays to get a sense of how complicated a writer he was. The course also views Ken Burns’ documentary. This course may be taught in a
  

  • EN 355 Southern Fiction

    This exploration of the fiction of the American South focuses on recurring themes in Southern literature. Authors may include Mark Twain, Faulkner, O’Connor, Lee, Warren, Hurston, Wright, Styron, Welty and Jones.
  

  • EN 359 Literature after War

    This course focuses on literature that expresses the mood of the community in response to war. Most of the texts look at the community in the wake of war, not during it. Thus, the course is not a typical “war literature” course in that it is less focus
  

  • EN 360 Contemporary American Autobiography

    Introducing students to the important genre of the memoir, this course explores how the memoir explicates childhood, alienation in a multicultural land, alternative (and mainstream) sexuality, homelessness, mental illness and aging. Readings include a

  

  • EN 361 Seminar: Modern Drama

    This exploration of the styles and techniques of modern theater includes selected British, American and Continental plays by modern dramatists such as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Synge, O’Neill, Pirandello, Brecht and Pinter.
  

  • EN 362 A Few Great Novels

    This exploration of the novel as a literary genre that has eluded precise definition focuses on works that represent major stages in the evolution of the genre. Possible authors include Austen, James, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, Mo
  

  • EN 363 Seminar: Modernism and Postmodernism

    This is a critical reading of selected texts, both artistic and rhetorical, to explore the differences between modern and postmodern styles, methods and attitudes in the 20th century. It includes such modernist works as Joyce’s Ulysses (select
  

  • EN 364 Seminar: The Lyric

    This exploration of lyric poetry from the ancient world to the present, with emphasis both on what makes language poetry and on the theory of the lyric form, includes a historical survey of highlights of the English lyric. Students write critical and a
  

  • EN 365 The Contemporary Moment

    This course seeks to give a student a fresh experience of the literature being produced in our culture here and now. The majority of the texts have appeared in the world very, very recentlytexts by living writers who, as creative personalities, make a
  

  • EN 366 Kerouac and His Sources

    This study of central works of Jack Kerouac and several key literary sources he drew on includes On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and the poetry collection Mexico City Blues. Influences include others in the Beat Movement such a
  

  • EN 368 Tell It Slant: Memoir Writing Workshop

    The word “memoir” literally means to remember in French, but it has morphed into one of the most popular literary genres today. The course primarily is concerned with carefully crafted literary memoirs. Some questions that will be considered are: What

  

  • EN 372 Special Studies in Writing

    In this advanced seminar course in writing, topics vary according to the needs and interests of students and faculty. Possibilities include poetry writing workshop, feature writing, editing, professional writing and critical writing.
  

  • EN 373 Writing for the Law

    This course focuses on writing forms and style used in legal settings and law school. Reports, forms and briefs, as well as research techniques and information gathering using legal resources, are discussed in full.
  

  • EN 374 Grant Writing for Non-Profits

    This course introduces the elements of fundraising through grant proposal writing for nonprofit organizations. Students identify and work with a nonprofit organization to produce a viable grant proposal. In the process, students develop skills in the a
  

  • EN 381 Modern British Literature and Culture

    The seminar begins on the Arcadia campus with study of the historical and philosophic backgrounds and the formal features of select modern English texts. Participants then travel to London, with visits to museums, libraries, cathedrals and the English

  

  • EN 382 Medieval Women

    Explores the facets of women’s connections to text during the Middle Ages through the lens of feminist literary theory. Women of the Middle Ages were the subject of many writers’ platitudes and chastisements and secular, religious and pedagogical texts
  

  • EN 383 Geoffrey Chaucer

    Geoffrey Chaucer has for decades been known as “The Father of English Literature.” We come to know him through his memorable characters such as the Wife of Bath, and through his comic tales, such as the Miller’s Tale. But Chaucer was a far more prolifi
  

  • EN 384 Graphic Fiction Adaptations from Literature and Life

    A study of graphic fiction as a hybrid narrative medium through a deep analysis of its synthesis of the narrative approaches of literary fiction, drama, journalism, and visual arts; and its distinctive blend of visual and verbal languages to produce gr
  

  • EN 385 Humanities Colloquium

    In this collaborative study of a specific topic from one of the humanities disciplines, topics vary from year to year, alternating among the three areas of concentration within the humanities program. It may be repeated for credit on a different topic.
  

  • EN 389 Independent Study

    This is an in-depth study and research on an individual author, genre, or theme, culminating in a substantial paper or project in creative writing.
  

  • EN 414 Writing and Editing for Magazines

    The course offers a practical introduction to the consumer magazine industry and aims to equip students with the basic skills and understanding necessary to pursue a full-time or freelance career as a magazine writer or editor. Students examine all forms of magazine writing from short front-of-book items to department stories to features, perform critical analyses of individual magazines, learn how to develop story ideas into compelling magazine prose, and write effective query or pitch letters. In addition to an overview of the industry, the course also provides an understanding of the basic structure of magazines, the different types of stories magazines publish, and the economic forces driving magazine publishing today.
  

  • EN 415 Technical Writing

    This intensive study of technical documents for various careers covers catalogue descriptions, descriptions of mechanisms, instructional and procedural manuals, bids, requests for bids, proposals, reports, memos and letters responding to customer inquiries. It emphasizes preparation of effectively written documents for various audiences (from expert to non-expert) and purposes. It presents the integration of graphic and copy elements in well-structured and designed documents. It includes individual and group assignments from a problem-solving approach. It requires portfolios of work in progress and two spoken presentations.
  

  • EN 416 Writing for the Health Industry

    In this intensive writing workshop which gives an overview of the health care communications field, students become familiar with research tools (including online databases), interview techniques, and the integration of graphics to enhance text. They also develop an understanding of audience and an appreciation for the knowledge base of the intended reader. This course covers the writing and editing of peer-reviewed technical journal articles as well as marketing materials, press releases, newsletter articles, feature and advertising copy.
  

  • EN 418 Journalism II

    Students learn the setup of the newsroom, practice the conventions of news and news features, such as profiles and issue-oriented stories. Fieldwork includes coverage of some live events with emphasis on writing the more complex story, with style, color, flair.
  

  • EN 420 Studies in Classical and Medieval Europe

    This course is a selective study and appreciation of texts from Western antiquity and the Middle Ages that remain influential and alive in our own time. These texts are considered within the cultural contexts from which they sprang and to which they helped give definitive shape. Typically, readings include plays and epics of ancient Greece, Roman authors such as Virgil, Augustine, and Boethius, and such medieval works, genres and authors as Beowulf, the Arthurian romances, Dante and Chaucer.
  

  • EN 421 Renaissance and Enlightenment Literature

    This course is a selective study and appreciation of texts from 16th, 17th, and 18th century European literature with a focus on the English tradition and a consideration of the historical contexts of the works studied. Readings are drawn from Renaissance essayists and novelists such as Thomas More, Montaigne, Bacon and Cervantes, Jonson, Shakespeare, and Webster; Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Donne, and Marvell; major works from later 17th century and Restoration authors such as Milton, Dryden, Congreve, Pope, Swift, Voltaire, Defoe, Fielding and Sterne.
  

  • EN 422 Modern British Literature

    Critical readings are of major British works of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries in the context of cultural history. Writers include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Bronte, George Eliot, Conrad, Woolf, and others.
  

  • EN 423 Modern American Literature

    Critical readings are of major American works of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, approaching the texts as products of a specific place and historical experience. Authors include Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, Jacobs, Twain, Dickinson, James, Faulkner, Miller, Sexton, Bogan, Morrison and others.
  

  • EN 427 Discovery of Adulthood in British and American Fiction

    This course will explore, through novels and short stories, the cognitive, moral, social and psychological complexities of adolescent and early adult experience. It will also deal with the literary problems involved in portraying these stages of human development. The aim both of the readings and of the class activities will be to enhance awareness of the magnitude of change implied in the term “growing up.” While the overall focus will be thematic in nature, the specific day-to-day focus will be primarily literary, although there will be some brief side-excursions into related fields, especially psychology.
  

  • EN 428 William Faulkner

    In this intensive study of the work of one of America’s most important fiction writers, readings include five major novels and several short stories. In addition to understanding Faulkner’s extraordinary achievement as an experimental novelist, students look at his presentation of themes such as race, slavery, family and the natural world.
  

  • EN 429 Narrative Form in Fiction and Film

    This study is of narrative forms and structures in film and fiction. Close reading of texts reviews conventional and experimental form guided by narrative theory. There are opportunities for critical and creative responses.
  

  • EN 430 Black Cinema

    This course examines the cinematic productions of Black filmmakers, including works from Africa and the Caribbean by such filmmakers as Oscar Micheaux, Camille Billops, Ngozi Onwurah, Spike Lee, Julie Dash, Jon Singleton, and Tsitsi Dangaremba. Students analyze and critique the films for their artistic and thematic value, while interrogating the politics of production and distribution specific to black filmmaking.
  

  • EN 431 Literature of London

    This is an intensive study of literary works about London. Readings include masterpieces by English literary greats such as Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, who lived in and wrote about the capital city.
  

  • EN 433 Teaching English as a Second Language

    This is an introduction to ESL teaching methods that provides background in lesson planning, cross-cultural communication, selecting English-as-a-second-language materials, and conducting lessons. Field tutoring experience in practicum with adult literacy learners or international students.
  

  • EN 434 Introduction to Linguistics and History

    This examination of the historical development of the English language and the various approaches to acquisition and use of language includes psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, phonology, morphology, schools of grammar, semantics, syntax and stylistics. It surveys contemporary theories, such as speech act theory, concerning the interpretation of language.
  

  • EN 435 Special Topics in American Literature

    In this advanced course in American Literature, topics vary. Possibilities include Transcendentalism, Race in the Literary Imagination, Literature of the Early 20th Century, The Jewish Novel, Between the World Wars, American Women Poets, and others.
  

  • EN 437 Disaster, Death and Madness

    The central objective of this course is to help students to enter imaginatively into the condition of people caught in extremis by disaster, death, or madness—or any combination of the three. The course is an intensely collaborative experience for the student and the instructor. Students give a seminar report on a public disaster that has been researched, review drafts of fellow-students’ work, write an original play, and participate in the production of the “class play.” The three common texts used in the course are John Hersey’s familiar Hiroshima; Kai T. Erikson’s Everything in Its Path; and Norman Maclean’s powerful—and posthumously published—Young Men and Fire.
  

  • EN 441 The Slave Narrative

    Students in this course read major slave and neo-slave narratives of the 19th and 20th centuries and examine these works from the dual perspectives of social testimony and literary phenomena. Some of the issues addressed include the genre’s evolving response to the conditions of slavery and to the Abolitionist movement, the relation of the slave narratives to the rise of realism in American fiction, and the influence of the slave narrative’s form on the evolution of African American fiction.
  

  • EN 442 Ireland in 20th Century Film and Literature

    This is an intensive study of the myths and realities of 20th century Ireland as represented by seminal works of film and literature. In addition to its examination of the culture of Dublin over the past 100 years, the course guides students through cinematic and literary works exploring such themes as migration and the myth of the West, colonial and post-colonial political struggles, and the role of women in Irish culture.
  

  • EN 443 Writing for Children

    This is an intensive writing workshop focused on the production of publishable fiction and nonfiction for the children’s market. The course provides an exploration of the creative process, including invention techniques, drafting, and revision. Plotting, characterization, and the writing of dialogue and description are examined. Students also engage in an in-depth study of the magazine and book publishing markets so they can effectively target their writings to specific publishers. The course includes such practical considerations as the writing of query letters, working with editors and agents, and preparing manuscripts for submission.
  

  • EN 444 Special Studies Seminar

    This seminar on advanced topics in literature provides an opportunity for intensive study in areas of special interest. Topics vary.
  

  • EN 445 International Literature

    This is an introduction to the works of representative Third World writers in English from Africa, India and the Caribbean. It studies characteristics of post-colonial discourse.
  

  • EN 446 Russian Fiction

    This is a survey of Russian fiction, of its themes and narrative techniques, with special emphasis on works of Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Babel, Pasternak, and Solzhenitsyn. Russian history, from the founding of the Kievan State to the emergence of the new Russian Republic, is studied. The course approaches individual works as cultural artifacts of their times.
  

  • EN 447 Language and Violence

    This course examines the phenomenon of language and harm from the point of view of contemporary theories in linguistics and rhetoric. Topics include language and violence in literature, hate speech, cursing, verbal conflict, interrogations, and negotiations. Students are exposed to a variety of theories on the subject, including speech act theory and other theories of conversational logic.
  

  • EN 450 Major Authors Seminar

    This in-depth study of the significant work of one or more authors focuses on an author’s literary development, as well as the relationship between the author’s life and his or her work. May be taken more than once when topics vary.
  

  • EN 451 Jane Austen

    A study of Austen’s six major novels with attention to the culture of Regency England, the enduring popularity of Austen’s works and the growing library of film adaptations of the novels. This course may be taught in a traditional classroom format or fully online.
  

  • EN 452 Alfred Hitchcock’s American Films

    This is an intensive study of the major film works of one of the best 20th century studio directors, Alfred Hitchcock. Focusing on the cinema produced in his American period, 1943-1963, the course guides students through discussion and analysis of such important films as Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds, examining them both as works of cinematic art and as documents reflecting the culture of mid-century America.
  

  • EN 453 Mark Twain

    In this intensive study of one of America’s most famous writers, students read a selection of his novels, stories and essays to get a sense of how complicated a writer he was. The course also views Ken Burns’ documentary. This course may be taught in a traditional classroom format or fully online.
  

  • EN 459 Literature After War

    This course focuses on literature written after wars in the 20th century. Some of the texts are about experiences in war, but many are not, instead reflecting the perspective of the war time or post-war writer on mortality, moral decisionmaking, concepts of heroism, marriage, sex, politics, patriotism, race relations, psychic health, and in general the mood of the community.
  

  • EN 460 Contemporary American Autobiography

    This course introduces students to the important genre of the memoir. It explores how the memoir explicates childhood, alienation in a multicultural land, alternative (and mainstream) sexuality, homelessness, mental illness and aging. Readings include a selection of recent American autobiographies and memoirs. Students may practice writing their own memoirs.
  

  • EN 461 Seminar: Modern Drama

    This exploration of the styles and techniques of modern theater includes selected British, American and Continental plays by modern dramatists, such as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Synge, O’Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, and Pinter.
  

  • EN 462 A Few Great Novels

    This exploration of the novel as a literary genre that has eluded precise definition focuses on works that represent major stages in the evolution of the genre. Readings may include works by Austen, James, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison, Pynchon and Byatt, Ellison and essays by modern theorists who have attempted to identify the generic characteristics of the novel.
  

  • EN 463 Seminar: Modernism and Postmodernism

    This course is a critical reading of selected texts, both artistic and rhetorical, to explore the differences between modern and postmodern styles, methods and attitudes in the 20th century. It includes such modernist works as Joyce’s Ulysses (selections), Eliot’s The Wasteland, poems by Yeats and Stevens and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, as well as essays by Wimsatt and Jung; postmodern works by poets W.C. Williams, R. Lowell, Plath, Levertov and Rich; film directors Fellini, Resnais, W. Allen and essays by Altieri, Fish and Barthes.
  

  • EN 464 Seminar: The Lyric

    This exploration of lyric poetry from the ancient world to the present, with emphasis both on what makes language poetry and on the theory of the lyric form, includes a historical survey of highlights of the English lyric. Students write critical and analytic papers and some poetry.
  

  • EN 465 The Contemporary Moment

    This course introduces upper-level undergraduate and graduate students to today’s literary scene with works by exciting writers who are currently practicing their craft. The course focuses primarily on American writers, although British writers and authors of other nationalities writing in English also may be considered. Students in this course get to help shape contemporary literary taste. The genres covered are the novel, the short story, poetry, memoir, and the creative nonfiction essay.
  

  • EN 466 Kerouac and His Sources

    A study of central works of Jack Kerouac and several key literary sources he drew on. Includes On The Road, The Dharma Bums and the poetry collection Mexico City Blues. Influences include others in the Beat Movement like Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Diana di Prima, American predecessors like Ernest Hemingway, Jack London and Walt Whitman; the French Symbolist poets (in translation) Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Bauselaire; and finally the Romantic visionary William Blake.
  

  • EN 468 Tell It Slant: Memoir Writing Workshop

    This course focuses on the writing and reading of memoir and the cultural issues surrounding this genre. Through the study of writing elements and craft, students have the opportunity to shape memoirs that will be meaningful for the writers themselves and their audiences. In addition, students enrich the course through creating a presentation project on a chosen established memoirist.
  

  • EN 469 Young Adult and Children’s Writing Workshop (Intermediate Level)

    This course further develops writing skills and knowledge of the children’s and young adult markets with a concentration on the student’s own work—in-progress. This course differs from the introductory course in several ways: by offering more intensive, full-class peer review; by providing additional technique workshops and one-on-one conferencing; and by being more student-directed via journaling and student-teacher conferencing. The emphasis is on the student’s own writing output, as well as on distinct characteristics of the genre.
  

  • EN 472 Special Studies in Writing

    In this advanced seminar course in writing, topics vary according to the needs and interests of students and faculty. Possibilities include poetry writing workshop, feature writing, editing, professional writing and critical writing.
 

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