Courses
ENG 242 AMERICAN WOMEN OF COLOR 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines the writings of African- American women. The specific authors change each time the course is offered. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 243 AMERICAN ETHNIC FICTION 3.0 Credit(s)
One of the most dramatic and vibrant developments in American literature to occur after World War II has been the outpouring of multicultural writers. In this course we will read fiction by a variety of multicultural or Ethnic American (Jewish, Irish, Italian, Native, African, Asian, Hispanic, Caribbean, Middle Eastern) writers and examine how these different groups in the United States grapple with the culture, language, and values of the dominant culture. We will look at the influence of race, class, and gender, with special consideration to identity and community in this fiction. Prerequisite: TAKE FYS
Offered: All Semesters All Years
ENG 244 STUDIES IN WORLD LIT. 3.0 Credit(s)
Explores works both inside and outside the Western canon. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 249 SP TOPICS IN MULTICULT. LIT 3.0 Credit(s)
Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 255 ADVANCED POETRY WRITING 3.0 Credit(s)
Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 261 MASTERPIECES OF WORLD LIT. 3.0 Credit(s)
Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 285 SEMINAR ON A SINGLE AUTHOR 3.0 Credit(s)
Studies the works and criticism of a single author. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 289 POSITIVE PSYC IN LIT & FILM 3.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
PS 219 SPSS AND DATA MANAGEMENT 1.0 Credit(s)
This course covers database management skills using SPSS, such as data entry, importing/merging datasets, data transformations, conducting descriptive statistics to clean data, safeguarding data, and creating graphs, tables and figures.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 270 SHORT STORY WRITING 3.0 Credit(s)
An introductory course and workshop on the history and craft of the short story. The first part of the course is comprised of reading and using interpretive techniques for close reading of both canonical and new canonical versions of the short story. In the second part of the course, students will write a short story using some of the strategies and techniques of the short stories read in the first part of the course. Prerequisite: Take ENG-253 and FYWS-125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 271 WRITING SOCIAL FICTION 3.0 Credit(s)
An examination of fiction as a form of social and ideological critique and the society that provided the backdrop from which the fiction emerged. The course also examines the interconnection between embodied experience and political agency with particular emphasis on diasporic groups, working class, and women. Students will have an opportunity to create their own form of social fiction using new media technologies.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 272 WRITING FLASH FICTIONS 3.0 Credit(s)
A course in writing very short narratives: flash fiction, prose poetry, prosetry, sudden fiction, micro-writing, and postcard stories. This is not traditional fiction writing or the writing of short stories. This is a literary form related to narrative poetry, fables, and writing that defines or describes "moments." It provides an additional avenue of literary experiment for students currently writing in more traditional forms. Workshop atmosphere allows peer interaction and frequent student/instructor consultation.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 273 POETRY WRITING 3.0 Credit(s)
A seminar in the writing of poetry. The course includes various readings about poetry and its writing as well as background readings of contemporary American and world poetry. Discussion of student work will be the focus of the seminar. Workshop atmosphere allows peer interaction and frequent student/instructor consultation.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
ENG 274 TEACHING WRITING SECONDARY EDUCATION 3.0 Credit(s)
This course introduces students to pedagogical approaches to teaching writing in Secondary Education. Prerequisite: Take ENG-253, FYWS-125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
HI 237 AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY 3.0 Credit(s)
This course considers the way in which Americans have imagined, experienced, and debated the natural world from European colonists' ideas about hunting, fishing, and farming to the political debates about climate change in the early twenty-first century. Prerequisite: Take HI-100 or HI-102 or HI-110 or HI-115
Offered: As Needed Contact Department