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Course Descriptions

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Courses numbered 100 are open to all students without prerequisites. Ordinarily, courses numbered 200, 300, and 400 have prerequisites and may not be taken by freshmen. Consult the individual department course listing for exceptions to this general policy.

Students are advised to check the final schedule of courses published before each advisement period.

The following courses may be offered during the 2016-2017 academic year—including Summer, Fall, Intersession, and/or Spring semesters/sessions/trimesters at both SJC Brooklyn and SJC Long Island, unless otherwise noted. Not all of these courses will be available at night or on weekends at SJC Brooklyn and SJC Long Island. Consult the semestral schedule of courses for more specific information, including the SJC Long Island Weekend College Trimester Program.

Online Courses: Academic departments sometimes offer courses in an online format. Check the semester course schedule for details.

 
 

English

CO-CURRICULAR WORKSHOP IN YEARBOOK may be offered for academic credit in accordance with the policy that “students may earn 1/2 credit per semester for a total of two credits toward the degree for participation in co-curricular activities approved for credit by the faculty.” Consult the Moderator of the Yearbook.
  

  • ENG 102 - Basic Writing Skills

    Usually geared to the needs of the professional, this course is an introduction to the basic principles of effective writing. Special attention is given to spelling, punctuation, tenses, cases, agreement, subordination, categorization, and modification. Idiomatic expression, vocabulary development, dictionary skills, sentence structure, and paragraph construction are stressed. Competence in all these areas is required.

    This course is applicable to the liberal arts requirements of the curriculum.
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Only Offered at SJC Brooklyn
  

  • ENG 103 - Writing for Effective Communication

    Analysis and application of the principles of effective writing. Skill development in the performance of various writing tasks. Research techniques also implemented.

    This course is applicable to the liberal arts requirements of the curriculum.
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall
  

  • ENG 105 - Creative Writing

    An introduction to the practice of written expression in prose, poetic, and dramatic forms; students develop greater skill through the experience of various literary structures and discover how to think as literary citizens of the world.  

    Prerequisite: ENG 103  or written permission of the chairperson.
    1 semester 3 credits.
  

  • ENG 106 - Dramatic And Visual Writing

    A course in script-writing designed to give students an opportunity to develop skill in the writing of short and/or long works for stage and/or screen. Students will also be expected to read work in progress and respond to each other’s writing in class.

    1 semester 3 credits.
  

  • ENG 107 - Fiction Writing

    A creative writing course that focuses on the practice of fictional prose forms, both long and short. Students write from various narrative prompts and/or develop independent works-in-progress. They also gain experience in responding to literature through writing, leading to greater skill in their own creative work.  

    1 semester 3 credits.
  

  • ENG 109 - Analytical Writing

    Emphasis on increasing student skill in the use of logical progression, clarity, analysis, and illustration in writing. Attention to grammar, sentence and paragraph structures, punctuation, and usage as backdrop to effective exposition, argumentation, and editing of written material.

    Prerequisite: ENG 103  or equivalent.
    This course is applicable to the liberal arts requirements of the curriculum.
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 110 - Communication for Professionals

    This course is designed to provide students with communication theories and proficiencies needed in professional organizations. Students will study the structural principles of this type of communication and its specialized writing techniques and formats, strengthen critical and editing skills, polish grammar and vocabulary, examine verbal and non-verbal communication modes, develop expertise in speaking and listening effectively.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 111 - The Language of Film

    A study of what is probably the most current and most popular form of communication. Film lectures will center on the history and development of film as an art form; class sessions will also include the viewing of selected short and feature films as well as discussion and written evaluation.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 113 - Introduction to Drama

    Reading and discussion of plays representative of the richness in varying cultures and periods of World Drama designed to ask and answer the question: “What is the underlying, basic notion of the dramatic form?” Consideration of plays in historical contexts.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 114 - Introduction To Poetry

    A study of the richness of poetic language across a diverse cultural and historical range; students will be introduced to language of poetry criticism (explication, scansion, etc.)

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 115 - The Short Story

    Definition, characteristics, developmental history, and stylistic trends of the short story as a literary form in different cultural traditions. Reading and interpretation of representative modern short stories both in English and in translation.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 117 - The New York Scene in Literature

    A study of the extraordinarily diverse New York “scene,” from the 19th century to now, as reported and reflected in texts set in and around the environs of New York City. Works of authors like Irving, Whitman, Melville, James, Wharton, O. Henry, Crane, Cather, Fitzgerald, Runyon, Hurston, Cahan, Yezierska, Larsen, Powell, E.B. White, Frank O’Hara, Ellison, Capote, Baldwin, Morrison, Roth, DeLillo, Hijuelos, Chang-Rae Lee, and Colson Whitehead are included.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 119 - A Rainbow of Voices

    This course explores the ethnic richness which characterizes American literary history. Emphasis is placed on African-American, Native-American, and Asian-American literature, as well as on the Chicano and Puerto-Rican contributions to this complex and yet closely woven tapestry.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 120 - Poetry Writing

    An introductory creative writing course examining poetic traditions and contemporary poets as a means of fostering students’ own writing. Students will review one another’s drafts in workshop format, producing a portfolio of poems by the end of the semester. A term paper is also required.


     

    1 semester. 3 credits.
  

  • ENG 123 - Fictional Narrative (SJC Brooklyn)

    An introductory survey of fictional narrative as exemplified in the novel and short story. Salient examples of each genre will be read and discussed.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Only offered at Bishop Kearney High School in Brooklyn.
  

  • ENG 124 - Poetry And Drama (SJC Brooklyn)

    An introductory survey of poetic and dramatic forms. Exemplars will be chosen from diverse periods in literary history.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Only offered at Bishop Kearney High School in Brooklyn.
  

  • ENG 125 - An Introduction to Magazine Writing

    This course will focus on longer-length, non-fiction articles; it is not a course in creative writing. Students will read and analyze articles in mainstream consumer and trade publications, receiving feedback from professional freelance writers. Included are tips for breaking into the field of freelance writing, as well as the different types of rights pertinent to authors and publishers. Covered also are the writing of query letters, the formal proposal of article ideas, source lists, and the conducting of interviews.

    1 semester 3 credits.
  

  • ENG 130 - World Literature I

    This course covers ancient texts from around the world: The Epic of Gilgamesh from south-west Asia; the Ramayana and the Bhagavad-Gita from India; the Greek and Roman epics of Homer and Virgil; the Greek tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides; and the Hebrew Bible. We will be reading texts that show how diverse cultures from the Middle East, South Asia, and Europe have variously attempted to come to an understanding of themselves and their relationships with other peoples and with the natural and spiritual worlds. All texts will be read in translation.

    This course replaces ENG 112  

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 140 - Miracles and Massacres

    (SPN 140 )

    “Miracles and Massacres: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Early English and Spanish Literature,” examines ethnic, racial and religious identity as represented in English and Spanish literature of the 12-16th centuries. In addition to enduring questions of conflict, diversity, and cross-cultural exchange, the course explores political and social relations among the religious communities particular to the medieval world and the Renaissance. The course includes an active online component and culminates with a study abroad experience in southern Spain.

    1 semester 3 credits
    Spring
  

  • ENG 199 - Supervised Internship

    Designed to give professional experience in a business organization whose activities require the communication and research skills developed by English majors. The student is expected to work 100 hours with or without remuneration during the internship, keep a log, and submit a paper applying the skills developed in various English courses to the internship assignment. A member of the English faculty will supervise the internship and will receive and consider the evaluations made by a representative of the business in assessing student performance.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 201 - Introduction to Reading Literature Critically

    This course helps students to develop skills for the close reading of literature, including poetry, drama, and novels. Every section introduces students to essential literary terms and critical vocabulary, aiming to equip students with the skills and knowledge needed for success in the major. Both in-class discussions and student essays will provide opportunities for students to formulate original and analytic interpretations of the primary readings. This course approaches reading, writing, and thinking as interdependent skills that ground the interpretive process. Required of all Majors as soon as possible after the major is declared.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 202 - Literature and the Writing Process

    This course extends the process of English composition by introducing students to literary genres and methods of writing essays in relation to them. Students will read poetry, drama, and fiction as part of the course content. As a writing-intensive course, students will produce regular informal journal assignments, short essays, and one research paper. Required of all concentrates by the end of their junior year.

    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 203 - Advanced Expository Writing

    This course is designed to provide students an opportunity to develop critical voices in expository writing. Emphasis is placed on the academic writing process, organizational patterns and development of rhetoric. Students will be able to create coherent writing whose purpose is to inform and explain. instructors will also help students to understand and employ the basic elements of persuasive argument writing. This course includes a research component.

    Prerequisite: ENG 103 
    1 semester. 3 credits.
    Fall, Summer.
  

  • ENG 205 - Advanced Creative Writing

    In this course, students will explore more advanced literary forms, building upon the practice introduced in our 100-level creative writing courses.  Students will also have an opportunity to present and develop works-in-progress, whether poems, essays, short stories, plays, or parts of a novel (though works-in-progress are not required).

    ENG 105  , ENG 106  , ENG 107  or ENG 120  
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 211 - Film/Media Genre

    Focused study of the history, criticism, and theory of genre (Westerns, gangster films, musicals, melodramas, science-fiction films, etc.) as the concept relates to film and media then and now. Approaches will vary among studies of Hollywood and of other selected national cinemas, periods, movements, and filmmakers.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 212 - Film/Media Authorship

    Focused study of the history, criticism, and theory of authorship as the concept relates to film and media then and now. Approaches will vary among studies of the processes of adaptation and/or the work of creative figures (directors, writers, producers, stars, etc.) within Hollywood and other selected national cinemas, periods, and movements.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 213 - Film/Media and Society

    Focused study of the history, criticism, and theory of film and media as social practices, with an emphasis on historical contexts and cultural ideologies, then and now. Approaches will vary among studies of Hollywood and other selected national cinemas, periods, movements, and filmmakers.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 214 - Film/Media Form

    Focused study of the narrative, dramatic, and poetic formal practices of film and media, with an emphasis on analyzing storytelling style among Hollywood and other selected national cinemas, periods, movements, and filmmakers.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 218 - Medieval Imaginations

    (FORMERLY Medieval Literature)

    This course provides an inclusive introduction to medieval literatures and cultures, surveying a range of texts and topics that situate medieval English literature within its global context. Readings will include Middle English literature as well as translations from Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, and European literatures produced between 500 and 1500AD. The instructor will focus the syllabus around major genres, questions, problems, or themes at his/her discretion.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 219 - Literature of the English Renaissance

    Nondramatic literature of the English Renaissance as exhibited in the more important works in verse and prose of such representative writers as More, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 221 - Seventeenth Century Literature

    The prose and poetry of the seventeenth century with religious, political, and social backgrounds; the Puritan, the Cavalier, and the Metaphysical writers of the century; the Restoration and its literature.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 230 - World Literature II

    This course covers medieval and early modern texts from  South-West Asia and Continental Europe: The Thousand and One Nights  from the Middle East; The Song of Roland and Chretien de Troyes’s Arthurian Romances from France; Dante’s Inferno, Petrarch’s sonnets, and Boccaccio’s Decameron from Italy; and Cervantes’s Don Quixote from Spain. We will explore how cultures located close to each other in terms of both geography and historical period can nevertheless produce very different worldviews, but also how texts produced in one part of the world may influence those produced in  another.  All texts will be read in translation.

     

    This course replaces ENG 303  

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 233 - Prose and Poetry of the English Romantic Movement

    A study of the works, including poetry and prose, of the six major Romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall
  

  • ENG 237 - Modern American Drama

    A study of the major American dramatists of the twentieth century. Students will read approximately one play per week, with screenings of adaptations as assigned by the instructor.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 238 - Modern European Drama

    A study of the development of modern European drama from Ibsen to the Theater of the Absurd.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 253 - Modern Poetry

    A detailed study of Modernist American and British poets of the early 20th century and their influence on post-war English-language poets.  Poets studied normally include Frost, Eliot, Yeats, and Hughes, with shifting emphasis on Moore, Williams, Stevens, Graves, Auden, Rich, Heaney, Brooks, Plath, and others.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 254 - Supernatural Horror

    Designed to introduce students to the finest representative authors of speculative fiction-M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, and H.P. Lovecraft– as well as to provide them with a brief overview of the roots of supernatural horror ranging from antiquity - Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Dante - to the present - William Peter Blatty.

    1 semester. 3 credits.
  

  • ENG 255 - Comedy

    This course will survey the richness of American and European comedy from ancient Greek and Roman drama through Theater of the Absurd to the contemporary television sitcom. Students will read, interpret, and apply theories of comedy from Aristotle to Henri Bergson to Larry David. Readings may include: Aristophanes, Plautus, Shakespeare, Moliere, Wilde, Synge, Beckett, Ionesco (and others).

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 256 - The Bible as Literature

    A study of the historical development of the Bible; literary analysis of selections from the Old Testament with emphasis on poetic and narrative elements.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 259 - Modern American Novel

    An examination of the new fictional techniques and thematic concerns of the American novel beginning with Henry James and including such writers as: Wharton, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dreiser, Lewis, Ellison, Wright, Momaday, and Morrison.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 261 - African American Literature

    A study of the contributions of the African-American community to the literature of the United States. The course will include folktales, the lyrics of spirituals, gospel and jazz compositions, slave narratives, works from the Harlem Renaissance and works of major writers such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall
  

  • ENG 262 - Resonant Voices

    This course will introduce students to a range of writers representing the more contemporaneous international literary scene. It is intended to expand and deepen their knowledge of figures and genres outside the traditional canons of American and British literature. Longer and more sophisticated works of such diverse authors as the following will be studied: Chinua Achebe, Jorge Luis Borges, Nadine Gordimer, Tato Laviera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, V.S. Naipaul, Wole Soyinka, Derec Walcott, Naguib Mahfouz (and others).

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
  

  • ENG 265 - Literature and the Environment

    This course will survey important writings on nature and introduce students to “eco-criticism,” an approach to literature that emphasizes a study of the role of place and environment in the expression of important literary themes. Major authors of study may include Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Ursula Le Guin, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Rachel Carson, and Derek Walcott.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 278 - Brooklyn Voices

    Brooklyn’s literary history is as diverse and dynamic as the borough itself. Brooklyn writers and writing about Brooklyn demonstrate this borough’s consistent vibrancy and singular place in the literary history of America and the world. This course will feature short pieces from a diverse array of writers, as well as longer representative works, also featuring work from writers visiting the SJC Brooklyn campus in its Brooklyn Voices reading series.

    1 semester. 3 credits.
    SJC Brooklyn.
  

  • ENG 292 - Survey of British Literature I

    This course surveys British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the Renaissance and considers the changing status of the vernacular, the Reformation, and the problem of periodization, among other literary historical issues. This intense journey through canonical literature promises to surprise not only with lovely verse and stirring imagery, but also by questioning and querying everything from what it means to be human to the authority of the written word itself. Required of all majors.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 293 - Survey in British Literature II

    This course surveys British literature from the 17th century through the present day, addressing major movements in literature and culture such as Enlightenment, Romanticism, the rise of the novel, Victorianism, and literary Modernism. This exciting voyage through canonical literature will delight and surprise with exquisite language and challenging concepts.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 294 - Survey in American Literature from Beginnings to 1865

    A detailed consideration of the diverse components of American literature from First Encounters to the Civil War. We examine important literary works in the context of defining both “America” and “American literature.” 

     

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 295 - Survey in American Literature Since 1865

    A detailed consideration of the diverse components of American literature from the Civil War to the present. We examine American literature in the context of transformation of American society after the Civil War and into the 20th century.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 300 - Scholarly Writing about Literature

    Introduction to the techniques of written textual analysis, including the role of literary theory in the production of scholarly writing. Required of English majors by the end of their junior year. This course is only open to English majors, minors and concentrates.

    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 305 - Chaucer

    This course focuses on the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer and covers enduring themes and issues in Chaucer criticism, such as class, religion, politics, love, England, internationalism, and the authority of the vernacular.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 320 - Milton

    Reading and interpretation of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, together with Milton’s minor poems and selections from his prose. Class discussions and reports suggested by the study.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 332 - Shakespeare

    Reading and interpretation of some of Shakespeare’s best-loved and most widely known works; study of the types of Shakespeare’s plays, structure and character development, major themes.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 358 - American Renaissance

    This course will include a study of the major fiction, non-fiction, and poetry of American writers from 1820-1890, the period of romanticism, transcendentalism, nationalism, abolitionism, and realism.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 360 - American Literature Since 1945

    This course will include a study of the major fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama of American writers from World War II to the contemporary era.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 370 - Selected Themes or Topics of Literary Interest

    This course deals with literary issues, developments, or problems not covered in depth in the regular course offerings. It enables students to take advantage of faculty expertise in diverse and mutually interesting areas. Recent offerings have showcased (or will highlight) such topics as: “African-American Women Writers,” “Out of Africa & India: Modern English Literature,” “The Immigrant Voice in America,” “The African-American Literary Consciousness,” “Thomas Malory and the Emergence of King Arthur in Medieval Literary Types.”

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall and Spring
  

  • ENG 414 - Middle English Literature

    This course explores Middle English literature beyond the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Readings will be in the original language; and students will learn to analyze Middle English closely and carefully. Individual instructors may tailor this course to examine a variety of genres, themes, or topics, including but not limited to: Alliterative Verse, Arthurian Literature, Dream Visions, Literature of Dissent, Middle English Drama, Middle English Romance, and the Piers Plowman Tradition.

    Prerequisite: ENG 218 or ENG 305, or department permission
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 420 - Seminar in Film/ Media Studies

    An advanced level seminar addressing complex issues in film/media. Courses will be generally rooted in theory, but may also involve intensive research in film/media history.

    Prerequisite: Any English Department Film/Media course.
    1 semester. 3 credits.
  

  • ENG 430 - Seminar: Jane Austen

    This course will look at all six of Austen’s novels in order to analyze Austen’s innovations in the writing of a realist novel; we will examine her language, style and structure, her use of pastiche and parody, irony. We will examine her literary influences, the Gothic novel, Romanticism, and we will look at her biography and the historical context of her works, particularly the French Revolution. We will try to answer the questions, why are her works alive and well, frequently filmed, frequently updated?

    1 semester. 3 credits.
  

  • ENG 434 - Victorian Prose & Poetry

    A study of representative Victorian poets and prose writers, such as Tennyson, Browning, Mill, Arnold, Newman and Hopkins; current social and intellectual movements with relation to the literature of the period.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall
  

  • ENG 443 - Nineteenth Century British Novel

    ENG 243

    A study of the major nineteenth century novelists from Jane Austen to George Eliot.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Fall
  

  • ENG 445 - Modern British Novel

    ENG 245

    Beginning with Thomas Hardy, this course will explore the many and developing facets of the modern British novel. The novelists’ interest in experimental techniques of continental fiction will also be addressed.

    Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
    1 semester 3 credits.
    Spring
  

  • ENG 450 - Seminar: Comparative Authors

    This course offers an opportunity to study two authors in depth. These authors may share a common cultural heritage (e.g. Ellison and Morrison), have similar themes in their work ( e.g. Hawthorne and Faulkner), or demonstrate an influence of one upon the other (e.g. Whitman and Ginsberg). NOTE: Students may repeat this course if topics are different.

    1 semester. 3 credits.
  

  • ENG 460 - Seminar: Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather

    A comparative study of the fiction of three major American authors whose work transformed the possibilities and point of view of literary realism.

    1 semester. 3 credits.
  

  • ENG 462 - The Plays of Eugene O’Neill

    A study of at least a dozen plays tracing the development of America’s first major dramatist.

    1 semester. 3 credits.
  

  • ENG 465 - The American Confessional Poets

    A close study of the major poets associated with “confessional” writing, where the poet is perceived as speaking differently from his/her life, the stereotyped “tortured soul.” One important question will consider is how this perception has often clouded critical perceptions of these poets, and how we might be able to step back and look at the artistry in their greatest works. Poets to be closely studies include: Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, W.D. Snodgrass, and John Berryman.

    1 semester. 3 credits.
  

  • ENG 468 - Seminar: Contemporary Native American Literature

    A study of the work of contemporary Native American authors, such as N. Scott Momaday, Luci Tapahonso, David Ortiz, Joy Harjo, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Louise Eldrich, and Sherman Alexie. This literature draws on Native American oral tradition to explore the historical ongoing “cultural contact” between Native and European identities, seeking to create works that resist and renew.

    1 semester. 3 credits.
  

  • ENG 487 - The Senior Thesis

    A focused, research-oriented project. Its product is the senior thesis. Required of English majors in their senior year.

    ENG 300  
    Mentored, independent study. 1 semester. 3 credits.
    Fall only.
 

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