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2019-20 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Education Background Checks Required for Students in Undergraduate Education Courses and Programs
Background Checks Policy
School of Education Background Checks policy requires all undergraduate students enrolled in Education courses that require fieldwork submit updated background checks documents (listed below) annually to the School of Education (by July 1st), via its online platform, Castle Branch.
- Pennsylvania State Police Criminal History Record (Act 34),
- Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Child Abuse History Clearance (Act 151),
- Federal Criminal History Background Check (FBI/fingerprint check) (Act 114), and
- P.P.D. (TB) Test (School Health regulations, 28 PA Code, Section 23.44).
- Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting (Act 126)* (renewal required every 5 years)
- Request to Release information (FERPA)
- School of Education Fieldwork Placement Informed Consent Form
All students are additionally required to report any infractions incurred between renewals. Any student enrolled in Education courses or an Education program who commits a reportable offense listed in Section 111 (e) of PA Act 24, is required to complete and return an Arrest/Conviction PDE form-6004 to the School of Education, Office of Field Experiences and Outreach (Taylor Hall room 203) within 72 hours of any arrest or conviction.
For full information for clearances,see the School of Education website.
Students registering for Education courses
All students registering for undergraduate Education courses submit required background checks to the School of Education prior to the first day of class*. Students who do not are required to drop the course prior to the end of drop/add period.
Undergraduate courses exempt from clearance requirements are:
ED 110 , ED 203 , ED 262 , ED 263 , ED 360 and ED 463 .
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ED 387 Pre-Student Teaching
Undergraduate education students work one day per week in the school that preferably will become their next semester student teaching placement. Students work in their host teacher’s classroom with a main focus on getting to know the students, the teacher, the school, and the larger community. Students complete three curriculum development cycles. An overarching goal for this experience is that Arcadia pre-student teachers become full participants in the life of their placement school and gain valuable experience working in the classroom and school where they will aim to complete their student teaching during the next academic semester.
Each student is supervised by an Arcadia University faculty member. Students meet regularly in small groups on site at their school and as a whole group over the course of the semester. The seminars provide a forum for open discussion and problem solving based on pre-student teaching classroom experience. This course is taken the semester preceding student teaching. Grade of “B” or better must be earned to move into student teaching.
Field experiences (full day) required. See background check requirement policy.
Requirement: A GPA of 3.0
Prerequisite: ED 110 , ED 212 , ED 214 , ED 220 , ED 315 , ED 323 , ED 324 , ED 375 .
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ED 389 Independent Study
Individualized study tailored to suit the needs and interests of a limited number of juniors or seniors. Encourages limited experimental research activities. Each student works under the guidance of a faculty member assigned by the Chair of Education.
Prerequisite: permission of the Chair of Education.
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ED 416 Student Teaching: Early Elementary
(9 credits)
Full-time teaching for a minimum of 14 weeks in an accredited day care center or school under the direction and guidance of an experienced mentor teacher and an Arcadia University supervisor.
Field experiences (full day) required. See background check requirement policy.
Requires attendance at weekly seminars with the supervisor. Students must provide transportation to the school.
Prerequisite: GPA of 3.0, senior standing and fulfilled all other coursework and requirements. See student teaching information.
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ED 417 Student Teaching: Secondary
(12 credits)
Full-time teaching for a minimum of 14 weeks in an accredited middle and secondary school under the direction and guidance of an experienced mentor teacher and an Arcadia University supervisor.
Field experiences (full day) required. See background check requirement policy.
Requires attendance at weekly seminars with the supervisor. Students must provide transportation to the school.
Prerequisite: GPA of 3.0, senior standing and fulfilled all other coursework and requirements. See student teaching information.
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ED 419 Undergraduate Student Teaching Practicum, Art Ed, K-12
(12 credits)
Student teaching practicum to include 14 weeks of full-time teaching in an accredited school and attendance at nine on-campus seminars. Includes supervision by an Arcadia University faculty member. Students must provide transportation to the school.
Field experiences required. See background check requirement policy.
Prerequisite: AE 300 , AE 308 , GPA of 3.0, senior standing and fufilled all other coursework and requirements. See student teaching information.
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ED 216 Teaching Literacy in the 21st Century
The purpose of this course is to explore the teaching of literacy skills and differentiating instruction in the 21st Century Pre-K to 8th grade classroom. Pre-service teachers will gain an understanding cutting-edge literacy practices and instructional trends and the inclusive reading process and strategies and assessments used in diverse classrooms. Some of the topics included are: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and differentiating instruction for the English language learner and students with special needs. Prerequisite: ED 110 Field experiences required.
Prerequisite: ED110
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EN 100 Basic College Writing
This course in the process of writing and reading addresses student needs and problems on an individual basis. It is required of all first-year students whose writing inventories indicate the need for special attention. For these students, this course is a prerequisite for EN 101 .
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EN 101 Thought and Expression I
Practice in writing for various academic aims and audiences, this course includes a supervised process of invention strategies, drafting, final editing, and at least one assignment in library research and proper forms of documentation. It encourages peer reviews, small-group problem-solving activities and in-class discussions of interdisciplinary readings. It is required of all first-year students.
Prerequisite: For some first-year students EN 100 or EN 103 .
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EN 103 English for International Students
This special program of study is for international students whose mastery of English is not yet sufficient to meet the entrance requirements for EN 101 .
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EN 104 Writing for the Academic Conversation
This is a five-week course designed to introduce Gateway and ACT101 students to the fundamentals of writing at the university level. This course is designed to help students understand and embody the basic habits of a scholarly life of inquiry and to help students contribute to the academic conversation. Students write two formal papers, maintain a journal, read and discuss assigned readings, peer review each other’s writing, and represent their growth as readers, writers and thinkers in an end-of-session portfolio. Students also are required to meet with the professor twice for one-on-one conferences on their papers and to participate in twice-weekly, one-hour writing sessions in a computer lab facilitated by two graduate-level writing consultants.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the summer Gateway program.
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EN 199 Interpreting Literature
This introductory course develops the student’s ability to read and write critically about literature and analyzes the relationship of literary form to thematic and rhetorical function through examination of poetry, drama and prose fiction. It includes some use of research material in the field.
Required of English majors.
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EN 200 Critical Reading/Writing Workshop
This workshop focuses on composing, analyzing and revising drafts, especially in the peer-review process. It includes readings in the theory and practice of peer-reviewing, motivation and resistance, role-playing and other group activities, and examination of student papers. It is open to all sophomores, juniors and seniors. (Pass or no credit.)
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EN 201 Thought and Expression II
Taken after EN 101 , this course follows the same basic format. Focuses on interdisciplinary reading and writing assignments with greater emphasis on library research.
Required of all students who do not take a Research Writing-designated course in another department.
Prerequisite: EN 101 .
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EN 202 Research Writing for English Majors
In this course, students begin to learn how to do discipline-specific research and use that research in different writing tasks designed to foster critical thinking and literary analysis.
Prerequisite: EN 101
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EN 203 Literacy Tutoring for Adult Learners
This is an introduction to methods of literacy tutoring for adult learners, including intensive preparation in methods of tutoring, the nature of cross-cultural communication, and the nature of literacy learning. It includes a service-learning experience providing classroom preparation followed by field experience tutoring adults in the area, with ongoing guidance through seminar discussions.
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EN 211 Creative Non-Fiction Workshop
This course introduces the genre of creative non-fiction, which borrows elements of fiction and poetry and questions notions of truth in written texts. Students will develop their understanding of voice, metaphor, specific language, clarity, and all aspects of storytelling techniques through the many forms of creative non-fiction, especially memoir, and the personal essay.
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EN 212 Writing Poetry and Fiction I
Practice in poetry and fiction writing skills, this course includes regular submission of written work for peer and instructor critique, with analysis of published poems and short fiction for style, interpretation and techniques in relation to subject and intention.
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EN 216 Writing Workshop
Practice in writing essays, with attention to individual needs, this course includes frequent assignments in various types of expository prose, ranging from feature articles and persuasive essays to reviews of plays and films. It emphasizes clear, interesting writing and the adjustment of style to subject matter and audience. It provides experience in revising and editing one’s own work in response to peer and instructor commentary.
Prerequisite: EN 101 .
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EN 217 Journalism I
This introduction to the basic elements of journalism includes newspaper and magazine writing, investigative reporting, editing, layout and the ethics of journalism. It covers all aspects of print journalism.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing.
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EN 218 Business Writing
This course offers practical experience in writing for business with rhetorical sophistication, grammatical competence and a strong sense of what is and is not good English prose style. It emphasizes typical business and industrial reports and correspondence.
Prerequisite: EN 101 .
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EN 219 Literary Themes and Forms
This intensive study of a selected genre or theme occurs in an informal lecture-discussion format. Possible topics: Humankind’s Relation to Nature, Love through the Ages, the Sonnet it may be taken more than once for credit when topics vary.
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EN 220 Selected Authors
This critical reading of texts by one or more major dramatists, fiction writers, or poets focuses on the stylistic, structural and thematic developments in each writer’s work. It may be taken more than once for credit when topics vary.
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EN 222 Lewis & Tolkien
This course focuses on the interconnections in the writings of these two popular fantasy authors and their social philosophies. Students will develop literary research skills to support critical literary investigations.
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EN 223 Contemporary Short Fiction
This course introduces students to a variety of contemporary (written in the last 25 years or so) short stories, with emphasis on the comic, the bizarre and the outrageous. Authors may include Atwood, Marquez, Alexie, Erdrich, Barth, O’Brien, Sontag, Tan, Amis, Gordimer, Kureishi, Galeano, Rushdie and others.
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EN 224 Native American Fiction
Introducing students to some of the most significant contemporary short stories, novels and poetry by Native American writers since the mid- 1960s, this course includes works by Momaday, Silko, Ortiz, Dorris, Alexie, Erdrich and others. Students examine the Native American “experience” in contemporary society.
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EN 225 Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Fiction
This course is an introduction to gay and lesbian literature from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Authors include Forster, Baldwin and Highsmith among others. Assignments and discussion topics consider the literature and its relationship to and impact upon the history, society and culture of the day.
Prerequisite: EN 101 .
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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 difference between the two. Texts from different nations and different historical periods reflect and/or create shifts in cultural, social and literary values. The course includes online discussion boards, short analytical papers and a longer final project that incorporates background research.
Prerequisite: EN 101 .
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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 literary, historical, and cultural texts through interdisciplinary methods, read archival materials about the city, and engage in weekend fieldwork by visiting sites such as the National Constitution Center, the Edgar Allan Poe House, and Eastern State Penitentiary. The course culminates at semester’s end with a researched project that examines some of the area’s metropolitan heritage.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above.
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EN 229 Voices of America
Study of diverse voices that comprise the American literary heritage. This course explores the relationship of the texts to the intellectual, historical and social conditions that produced them. Authors may include Sherwood Anderson, Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, Edwidge Danticat, Alison Bechdel, Sandra Cisneros and many others.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above.
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EN 230 African American Literature
This course focuses 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 comprise the literary canon through the examination of oral narratives, poetry, fiction, and drama. The primary goals of the course are strengthening pre-existing analytical and critical thinking skills, preparation for upper-level literature courses, and the introduction of major texts and themes.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above.
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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 as Charles Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright and also contemporary practitioners such as Edward P. Jones and Alice Walker.
Prerequisite: EN 101 .
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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.
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EN 233 Shakespeare
This study of selected comedies, tragedies, histories and romances by William Shakespeare emphasizes systematic literary and dramatic criticism.
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EN 234 Travel Writing
This course will explore travel literature (fictional and non-fictional) from British, American and Anglophone writers. We often turn to literature for the same reason we travel –to escape the familiar trappings of our own lives and to discover new worlds. In this course, we’ll think about the relationship between travel and literature, and consider why so many writers use their works to recreate or imagine adventures to new places. We’ll read a variety of travel texts, including satirical works, travel narratives and letters, literature from and about the colonial frontier, as well as accounts of travel in the “new world.” Ideally, this course will offer students a chance to think about travel in new ways in preparation for study abroad or as a means to process return from it.
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EN 235 Editing and Publishing the Small Literary Magazine
This course is an analytical and practical introduction to both the editing and publishing of literary magazines. Students will read essays from and about literary magazines in order to understand the history of the medium as well as the current discourse surrounding it. They will also examine the process of literary editing from a theoretical vantage point, looking at essays by editors, editor-author correspondence, and original and edited texts. In addition to this academic work, students in the course will serve as Readers for the university’s undergraduate literary magazine, Quiddity, whereby they will have the opportunity to apply the theoretical components of the class by reading, evaluating, editing, and curating student-produced work.
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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 and also texts about creative writing. Readings include two novels, seven to ten short stories, and a creative writing instructional text. Course requirements include a minimum of two analytical essays exploring fiction writing as a craft and demonstrating expert understanding of particular craft elements.
Prerequisite: EN 212 is highly recommended.
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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, Whalen, Armantrout, Hoagland, Smith, Scalapino, Lin, Berssenbrugge and others.
Prerequisite: EN 212 is highly recommended.
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EN 267 Introductory Fiction and Poetry Workshop
This course for beginning creative writers is designed to help students develop writing skills over four weeks through online discussions and workshops and also through personal feedback from peers and the instructor during both the weekend on campus and the four weeks of online workshops. Assignments include writing and revising original fiction and poetry, extensive reading of literature and writings on craft and technique, and a final portfolio of the student’s best work.
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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 techniques to bring the written word to life. Readings include works of O’Hara, Sanchez, Williams, Shange and current performance artists. The course ends in a final public performance.
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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 author. Readings are drawn from fiction, poetry, drama and essays on critical theory.
Required for English majors.
Prerequisite: EN 199 or its equivalent.
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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 across the curriculum, effective structures of consultations, the rhetoric of student papers and tutoring, conversation models, research writing, and cultural issues in tutoring.
Prerequisite: Students must be employed at the Arcadia University Writing Center as writing consultants.
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EN 312 Research in the Writing Center
This course extends the theoretical and practical training for Writing Center consultants into training regarding research, assessment and Writing Center scholarship. Students will develop and implement individualized research projects to explore a facet of Writing Center work. Students will collect and analyze their findings, report their results and reflect on how their research process influences their pedagogical approach(es) as tutors.
Prerequisite: Students must be hired by the Director of the Writing Center and have completed their initial semester of training in the Writing Center in order to take this course. Students must also complete EN 311 prior to taking this course.
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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 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 provides an understanding of the basic structure of magazines, the different types of stories that magazines publish, and the economic forces driving magazine publishing today.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 inquiries. It emphasizes preparation of effectively written documents for various audiences 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. Requirements include a portfolio of work in-progress and two spoken presentations.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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EN 316 Writing for Magazines
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 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.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 and substance.
Prerequisite: EN 217 or another course in journalism, or experience in public relations/advanced writing; or permission of the instructor.
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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 time. These texts are considered within the cultural contexts from which they sprang and to which they helped give definitive shape. Typically, readings are drawn from the plays and epics of ancient Greece; great Roman authors such as Virgil, Augustine, and Boethius: and such medieval works, genres and authors as Beowulf, the Arthurian romances, Dante and Chaucer.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 essayists and novelists such as More, Montaigne, Bacon and Cervantes; Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists such as Jonson, Shakespeare and Webster; English lyric poets such as Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne and Marvell; major works from later 17th century and Restoration authors such as Milton, Dryden and Congreve; and major figures from the 18th century such as Pope, Swift, Voltaire, Defoe, Fielding and Sterne.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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, Woolf, Beckett and others.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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, Dickinson, James, Faulkner, Frost, Hughes, Baldwin, Miller, Morrison and others.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 development. The aim both of the readings and of the class activities is to enhance awareness of the magnitude of change implied in the term “growing up.” While the overall focus is thematic in nature, the specific day-today focus is primarily literary, although there will be some brief side-excursions into related fields, especially that of psychology.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 at his presentation of themes such as race, slavery, family and the natural world. This is an advanced course for students with experience in reading and writing literary criticism.
Prerequisite: EN 199 or equivalent; Junior standing or above.
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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.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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EN 330 African and Black Diaspora Cinema
This course interprets cinema as text and discusses large themes in cinematic productions by Black filmmakers representing Africa, the Western Hemisphere, and Europe. Throughout the semester students will view films, read/discuss relevant articles, apply cultural studies theory, and complete written responses and research essays relevant to the course materials. Themes will vary.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 the subject matter of this course. Fiction, drama, essays and films have explored how people have grappled with the complex issues arising from the imperfect relationship between an individual and the law. We’ll view films and read fiction and drama that present the theme. Also, students will read essays by literary critics, philosophers, lawyers, judges and psychologists who write about the shared interpretive strategies of literature and law.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 literacy learners or second-language students.
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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, syntax and stylistics. It surveys contemporary theories, such as speech act theory, concerning the interpretation of language. It does not count as a literature course.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 1960s, the Jewish Novel, Between the World Wars, American Women Poets and others.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 texts. It includes such works and writers as the Ramayana, the Gita, Gandhi, Tagore; Confucius, Lao-Tse and recent Chinese poetry and fiction; Noh plays, haiku and The Snow Country.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 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.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 contemporary writers of the African Diaspora (late 20th and 21st centuries). We will discuss the global impact of slavery and the literary methods used to address the institution. In addition to archival sources from the Library of Congress and other slave narrative projects, possible authors include Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, Venture Smith, Toni Morrison, and Yvette Christiansë. This course may be taught in a traditional classroom format or fully online.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 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.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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, 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. It does not count as a literature course.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 Cinema.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above. May be taken more than once for credit when topics vary.
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EN 346 Russian Fiction
This is a survey of the themes and narrative techniques Russian fiction, with special emphasis on select works of Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Babel, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. It covers Russian history in outline, from the founding of the Kievan State to the emergence of new Russia. The course approaches individual works as cultural products of their times.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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EN 347 Tales of the City: Urbanism in Global Literature
This online course explores global urban spaces in contemporary literature representing different cultural and social environments. We will focus on character interactions and relationships to/with the geographical location. We will also discuss connections between identity formation and the built environment. The course is interdisciplinary. Readings will be taken from The City Reader textbook, novels, poetry, and film set in cities like Mumbai, Abidjan, New York City, and London, for example.
Prerequisite: EN 299
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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.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above. May be taken more than once when topics vary.
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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 classroom format or fully online.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 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 American culture of mid-century America.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 traditional classroom format or fully online.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 focused on what happens on the battlefield than on what happens after the battles are over. Possible texts include Regeneration, WW 1 poetry, Mrs Dalloway Sophie’s Choice, The Remains of the Day, Slaughter-house Five, WW2 poetry, “The Things They Carried,” All the Light We Cannot See.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 selection of recent American autobiographies and memoirs. Students may practice writing their own memoirs.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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.
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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, Morrison and Byatt.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 (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 such poets as W. C. Williams, R. Lowell, Plath, Levertov and Rich; film directors Fellini, Resnais, W. Allen and essays by Altieri, Fish and Barthes.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 analytical papers and poetry.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 recently—texts by living writers who, as creative personalities, make a just claim on both our time and our attention. A number of these writers, among them Jean Valentine, C.K. Williams, Robert Pinsky, and T.C. Boyle, are well-established writers whose reputations are secure. Others are emerging or established writers about whom a student will know little, if indeed anything, at the beginning of the course, but who will afford the student experiences that will be richly worthwhile.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 as Allen Ginsberg, Cary Snyder, Diana di Prima; American predecessors such as Ernest Hemingway, Jack London and Walt Whitman; the French Symbolist poets (in translation) Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire; and finally the Romantic visionary William Blake.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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 is the difference between memoir and autobiography? What are the ethics involved with writing memoir? What elements (dialogue, scene, description) go into crafting a memoir? How truthful is memoir? How do experienced writers render their memoirs?
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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EN 369 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 is 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 as well as on distinct characteristics of the genre.
Prerequisite: EN 343 /443: Writing for Children, or the equivalent from another institution, or permission from the instructor. Junior standing or above.
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EN 371 Career Internship in English
The internship is in a supervised professional setting for a minimum of eight hours per week. It includes meetings with other interns and the instructor to analyze and discuss the work experience. It requires a written log and a paper analyzing some aspect of the internship experience as it relates to personal career plans. Interested students must submit a written proposal for an internship before registering for the course. Students also must carry at least 8 additional credits at Arcadia University while enrolled in the internship unless regularly attending on a part-time basis.
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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.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
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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.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above
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