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2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

Any course listed in this catalog with a prerequisite assumes a grade of C– or better in the prerequisite course, unless specified otherwise by the department or program in its course listings.

Courses numbered 1 to 99 are lower-division; courses numbered 100 to 199 are upper-division; courses numbered 200 to 599 are graduate. Course numbers which are hyphenated (e.g., ACCTG 160 -ACCTG 161 ) indicate that the course is continued from the previous term, and that the first part is normally prerequisite to the second part. Credit is given for each part.

Final information concerning course offerings and class schedules will be issued at the time of registration for each term. January Term courses are listed separately in a special on-line catalog published each fall. The College reserves the right to cancel any course for enrollment or administrative purposes.
 

English - Upper Division
  

  • ENGL 102 - Creative Writing

    Upper Division

    Offerings rotate among poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and dramatic writing. May be repeated for credit as genre varies.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis); CP - Artistic Understanding (Creative Practice)

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 103 - British Literature I

    Upper Division

    Chronological study of British literature from the Middle Ages to 1700, including Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton, with attention to close reading and historical context.

    Additional Notes
    English 103 is not prerequisite to ENGL 104 .

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 104 - British Literature II

    Upper Division

    Chronological study of British literature from the Neoclassic, Romantic, Victorian and Modern periods, with attention to close reading and historical context. Writers studied may include Pope, Wordsworth, Austen, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Woolf, Yeats and T.S. Eliot.

    Additional Notes
    ENGL 103  is not prerequisite to English 104.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 105 - Children’s Literature

    Upper Division

    Intensive readings in imaginative literature for children. Topics may include adolescent fiction, multicultural literature, picture books, fairy tales, issues in selecting books for children, history, enduring themes, forms of fantasy, conventions and relationship to adult literature.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 106 - Writing Adviser Training Workshop

    Upper Division

    Training in the art of helping fellow students develop, organize, and articulate their ideas in writing. Students develop tutoring skills through practice and discussion in a workshop setting.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    CE - Community Engagement

    Course credits: 0.25
  

  • ENGL 107 - Writing Adviser Staff Workshop

    Upper Division

    Prerequisites
    ENGL 106 .

    Advanced training in the art of helping fellow students develop, organize, and articulate their ideas in writing. Students develop tutoring skills through practice and discussion in a workshop setting.

    Repeatable
    May be repeated for credit.

    Course credits: 0.25
  

  • ENGL 108 - Advanced Argument and Research

    Upper Division

    Prerequisites
    ENGL 004   (must have a C- or better). Intended only for junior transfers (16.0+ entering credits); may not be taken by students who have completed ENGL 005  . 

    In this course students will hone the rhetorical and critical thinking skills necessary to analyze texts and to structure complex arguments. In addition, students practice evaluating sources, exploring arguments through library research, and supporting original theses with appropriate evidence. Through a scaffolded process, students write and revise two or more essays, at least one of which is a substantial research essay of 15-20 pages that presents an extended argument. This course prepares students for the Writing in the Disciplines courses that they will encounter in their major. It requires the completion of approximately 40 pages (10,000 words) of writing in the semester (at least 25 pages would be graded formal writing). A grade of at least C- in English 108 is prerequisite to enrollment in Writing in the Disciplines courses.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 109 - Advanced Composition

    Upper

    Prerequisites
    ENGL 004  and ENGL 005 , or ENGL 004C and ENGL 005, or ENGL 108  

    This course is designed to improve students’ analytical, persuasive, professional and expository writing as well as to help them develop voice and style. Students will build on their research skills with the aim of producing effective upper-division college papers on complex topics. In addition, the course will cover motivation and commitment to writing and revising, appealing to specific audiences, developing and organizing ideas.

    Repeatable
    No

    Cross-Listing
    No

    Course credits: 1.0
  

  • ENGL 110 - Linguistics

    Upper Division

    An introduction to the scientific study of language. Language as a system: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse. Language in context: language in relation to history, culture, social class, region, ethnicity, and gender. Language considered biologically: as a uniquely human characteristic, in brain development, first- and second-language acquisition, and in animal communication systems.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 111 - Topics in Linguistics

    Upper Division

    Study of specialized topics in linguistics. Topics may include language and thought, language acquisition, second-language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and language and literature.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 115 - Chaucer

    Upper Division

    Studies in the poetry of Chaucer with emphasis on the Canterbury Tales;a study of Chaucer’s language directed toward the ability to read the poetry with ease and understanding.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 118 - 20th-Century Literature

    Upper Division

    Reading and discussion of major works of literature written since 1900. Poetry, fiction, drama or essays included.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 119 - Contemporary Literature

    Upper Division

    Reading and discussion of contemporary poetry, fiction, drama, or essay, with occasional inclusion of other media.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 120 - The Short Poem

    Upper Division

    Study of the development of lyric poetry written in English from the 16th century to the present.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 122 - Law and Literature

    Upper Division

    Intensive study of specific problems in the law and the literature that addresses them. Examples of possible offerings are: Early Modern Drama and the Law; Victorian Literature and the Law; African American Literature and the Law; Contemporary Drama and the Law.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis), AD - American Diversity, TCG - The Common Good

    Repeatable
    May be repeated as content varies.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 124 - SMPP Assessment

    Upper Division

    Students in the English Subject-matter Preparation Program are required to register for this course during their senior year. The course assists students in assembling the final version of their portfolio and preparing them for the final assessment interview required by the SMPP.

    Course credits: 0.25
  

  • ENGL 125 - Film

    Upper Division

    Viewing and discussion of films with emphasis on theory, history and aesthetics of film.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 126 - Topics in Film

    Upper Division

    Viewing and discussion of films of a particular genre, country, or director. Examples: American comic film, Japanese film, film noir, films of Hitchcock.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Repeatable
    May be repeated as content varies.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 130 - Single Author

    Upper Division

    Intensive study of the major works of one important author. Some attention to background and biography.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    AD - American Diversity

    Repeatable
    May be repeated as author varies.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 138 - Short Fiction

    Upper Division

    Close reading of short stories and novellas of the 19th and 20th centuries.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 140 - Studies in Literary Genre

    Upper Division

    Exploration of a particular literary genre. Examples of possible offerings: satire, tragedy, comedy, memoir, science fiction, detective fiction, Gothic fiction and nature writing.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 141 - Studies in Medieval Literature

    Upper Division

    Study of British literature through 1500, focusing on the period as a whole or some aspect of it. Examples of possible offerings: Chaucer and His Contemporaries; Fabliau and Romance; the Arthurian Tradition; Medieval Allegory and Enigma; Women Writers of the Middle Ages.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 142 - Studies in Renaissance and 17th-Century Literature

    Upper Division

    Study of British literature from 1500 to 1660, focusing on the period as a whole or some aspect of it. Examples of possible offerings: Renaissance Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare; 16th-Century Poetry; 17th-Century Poetry; Prose of the English Renaissance; Renaissance Storytelling.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 143 - Studies in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature

    Upper Division

    Study of American and/or British literature from 1660-1800, focusing on the period as a whole or some aspect of it. Examples of possible offerings: Tory Satirists; Johnson and His Circle; Pre-Romantic Poetry; the Emergence of the Professional Woman Writer.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 144 - Studies in 19th-Century Literature

    Upper Division

    Study of American and/or British literature from 1800-1900, focusing on the period as a whole or on some aspect of it. Examples of possible offerings: Romantic Poetry; Victorian Poetry; the Social Problem Novel; Gothic Fiction; the “Woman Question” in the 19th Century.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 150 - American Literature Before 1800

    Upper Division

    Study of American prose, poetry, and fiction of the 17th and 18th centuries with particular attention to the representation of cultural diversity. Readings may include Native American literature, Puritan journals and poetry, prose by the Founding Fathers, and “domestic” novels by women.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    AD - American Diversity

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 151 - American Literature 1800-1900

    Upper Division

    Study of American prose, poetry and fiction of the 19th century from the Transcendentalists to 1900, with particular attention to the representation of cultural diversity. Readings may include the literary traditions of Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants and women.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    AD - American Diversity

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 152 - 20th-Century American Literature

    Upper Division

    Study of American prose, poetry and fiction of the 20th century, with particular attention to the representation of cultural diversity. Readings may include writers representing modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, the Jazz Age and the Great Depression, the literary traditions of Chicano-, Hispanic-, and Asian-Americans.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 153 - American Ethnic Writers and Oral Traditions

    Upper Division

    Study of the literary or oral imaginative achievement of an American ethnic or cultural group such as Native Americans, Asian Americans, American Jews, specific Black cultural groups, Hispanic Americans or Chicano communities.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis); AD - American Diversity

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 154 - Studies in African-American Literature

    Upper Division

    Study of some aspect of the African-American literary tradition. Examples of possible offerings are: Oral Tradition and Slave Narratives, African American Novelists, the Harlem Renaissance, Contemporary African American Poets.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis); AD - American Diversity

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 160 - Development of English Fiction I

    Upper Division

    Studies in the origin and development of the English novel with attention to foreign influences.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 161 - The English Novel

    Upper Division

    Studies in the English novel in the 19th and 20th century.

    Additional Notes
    ENGL 160  is not prerequisite to 161.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 162 - The American Novel

    Upper Division

    Studies in the range of varieties of the American novel.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 163 - Anglophone Literatures

    Upper Division

    Studies in literature in English outside the English and American traditions. Examples: the Commonwealth Novel, the African Novel in English, Writers of the Caribbean, and Canadian Literature.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Repeatable
    May be repeated as content varies.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 167 - Literary Criticism I

    Upper Division

    Prerequisites
    ENGL 029 .

    Readings in the development of critical theory from Aristotle to Coleridge.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 168 - Literary Criticism II

    Upper Division

    Prerequisites
    ENGL 029 .

    Readings in 19th- and 20th-century criticism and aesthetics.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 170 - Problems in Literary Theory

    Upper Division

    Prerequisites
    ENGL 029 .

    Intensive study of the varying problems in literary theory. Examples of recent course offerings: Metaphor, Symbol and Myth; Philosophy in Literature; Feminist Theory; Post-Colonial Theory.

    Repeatable
    May be repeated as content varies.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 171 - Literary Movements

    Upper Division

    Study of groups of writers related by time, place or interest. Examples of possible offerings are: The Metaphysical Poets, Modernism, the Bloomsbury Group, Negritude, American Expatriates, Surrealism, The Pre- Raphaelites.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Repeatable
    May be repeated as content varies.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 173 - Women Writers

    Upper Division

    Intensive study of some aspect of literature by women. Examples of possible topics are: 19th-Century British Novelists; Contemporary Women Poets; and American and Canadian Short Story Writers.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Repeatable
    May be repeated as content varies.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 175 - Shakespeare

    Upper Division

    Close study of selected major plays and poems with attention to developing the ability to read the plays with ease and to experience them with pleasure.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Repeatable
    May be repeated as topic varies.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 180 - Milton

    Upper Division

    Study of the minor poems, of Paradise LostandParadise Regained,and of representative prose works such as theAreopagitica.Attention will be given to Milton’s life and times.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 182 - The Drama

    Upper Division

    Study of ancient, modern and contemporary forms of drama. May include film and television. Attention is given to plays as works designed for performance. Emphasis on the structure and forms of dramatic texts.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 183 - Topics in Drama

    Upper Division

    Intensive study of a group of plays as products of their times and places. Examples of possible offerings are: Theater of the Absurd, Women Playwrights, Mythic Drama, Expressionist Drama, Restoration Drama. The plays are considered as works designed for theatrical production.

    Repeatable
    May be repeated as topic varies.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 184 - Contemporary Drama

    Upper Division

    Introduction to current plays by American and British playwrights. Attention is given to plays as works designed for theatrical production.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis)

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 185 - Individual Dramatist

    Upper Division

    Intensive study of the major works of one important dramatist. Some attention to background, biography and criticism, as well as to the plays as works designed for theatrical production.

    Repeatable
    May be repeated as content varies.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 195 - Internship

    Upper Division

    Prerequisites
    Permission of the instructor and the department chair required.

    Work-study program conducted in an internship position under the supervision of a faculty member.

    Course credits: Credit may vary
  

  • ENGL 196 - Capstone in English

    Upper Division

    Prerequisites
    ENGL 029  

    An advanced seminar and writer’s workshop that will culminate in a major research essay in the discipline.

    Core Curriculum Designation(s)
    WID - Writing in the Disciplines

    Additional Notes
    Topics will vary.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 197 - Special Study

    Upper Division

    Prerequisites
    Permission of the instructor and the department chair required.

    An independent study or research for students whose needs are not met by courses available in the regular offerings of the Department of English.

    Course credits: Credit may vary
  

  • ENGL 198 - Senior Honors Thesis (Independent Study)

    Upper Division

    Prerequisites
    Senior standing required. Course admission by application to department chairperson.

    Directed reading and research under the supervision of a department faculty member, culminating in the writing of an academic thesis.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 199 - Honors Independent Study

    Upper Division

    Prerequisites
    Permission of the instructor and the department chair required.

    An independent study or a research course for upper-division students with a B average in the major.

    Course credits: Credit may vary
  

  • ENGL 300 - Foundations of Contemporary Literature

    Upper Division

    This introductory course familiarizes all first-year MFA students with selected core texts in all three of the program’s genres. By way of lecture and discussion, the course covers several literary movements and periods and offers approaches to numerous foundational texts, including novels, stories, poems, and essays by Jane Austen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Isak Dinesen, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, and Raymond Carver, among others.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 301 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop

    Upper Division

    This course gives students the opportunity to explore material in various areas of creative nonfiction, such as memoir, personal essay, or travel writing. The course addresses issues of voice, scene, point of view, and theme, as well as any other elements of nonfiction writing that emerge from individual manuscripts. By the end of the course, students should develop the terminology and the critical skills for revising creative nonfiction, and should develop a good understanding about issues and trends in the genre.

    Course credits: 5
  

  • ENGL 302 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop

    Upper Division

    This course gives students the opportunity to explore material in various areas of creative nonfiction, such as memoir, personal essay, or travel writing. The course addresses issues of voice, scene, point of view, and theme, as well as any other elements of nonfiction writing that emerge from individual manuscripts. By the end of the course, students should develop the terminology and the critical skills for revising creative nonfiction, and should develop a good understanding about issues and trends in the genre.

    Course credits: 5
  

  • ENGL 303 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop

    Upper Division

    This course gives students the opportunity to explore material in various areas of creative nonfiction, such as memoir, personal essay, or travel writing. The course addresses issues of voice, scene, point of view, and theme, as well as any other elements of nonfiction writing that emerge from individual manuscripts. By the end of the course, students should develop the terminology and the critical skills for revising creative nonfiction, and should develop a good understanding about issues and trends in the genre.

    Course credits: 5
  

  • ENGL 304 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop

    Upper Division

    This course gives students the opportunity to explore material in various areas of creative nonfiction, such as memoir, personal essay, or travel writing. The course addresses issues of voice, scene, point of view, and theme, as well as any other elements of nonfiction writing that emerge from individual manuscripts. By the end of the course, students should develop the terminology and the critical skills for revising creative nonfiction, and should develop a good understanding about issues and trends in the genre.

    Course credits: 5
  

  • ENGL 311 - Tutorial in Creative Nonfiction

    Upper Division

    Students meet over the course of the semester with the workshop instructor for individual sessions to review strengths and areas for revision of manuscripts. The instructor suggests additional reading, ideas for revision, writing exercises, and specific areas where a student might improve their craft.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 312 - Tutorial in Creative Nonfiction

    Upper Division

    Students meet over the course of the semester with the workshop instructor for individual sessions to review strengths and areas for revision of manuscripts. The instructor suggests additional reading, ideas for revision, writing exercises, and specific areas where a student might improve their craft.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 313 - Tutorial in Creative Nonfiction

    Upper Division

    Students meet over the course of the semester with the workshop instructor for individual sessions to review strengths and areas for revision of manuscripts. The instructor suggests additional reading, ideas for revision, writing exercises, and specific areas where a student might improve their craft.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 314 - Tutorial in Creative Nonfiction

    Upper Division

    Students meet over the course of the semester with the workshop instructor for individual sessions to review strengths and areas for revision of manuscripts. The instructor suggests additional reading, ideas for revision, writing exercises, and specific areas where a student might improve their craft.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 321 - Fiction Workshop

    Upper Division

    This course is an intensive exploration of the ideas, techniques and forms of fiction with a primary emphasis on the careful analysis and discussion of student works-in-progress. Students grapple with questions of voice, point of view, dramatic movement, structure, rhythm and imagery, as well as with any and all issues of art and craft that arise from individual manuscripts. By the end of the course, students should develop the terminology and the critical skills for revising fiction, and should develop a good understanding about issues and trends in the genre.

    Course credits: 5
  

  • ENGL 322 - Fiction Workshop

    Upper Division

    This course is an intensive exploration of the ideas, techniques and forms of fiction with a primary emphasis on the careful analysis and discussion of student works-in-progress. Students grapple with questions of voice, point of view, dramatic movement, structure, rhythm and imagery, as well as with any and all issues of art and craft that arise from individual manuscripts. By the end of the course, students should develop the terminology and the critical skills for revising fiction, and should develop a good understanding about issues and trends in the genre.

    Course credits: 5
  

  • ENGL 323 - Fiction Workshop

    Upper Division

    This course is an intensive exploration of the ideas, techniques and forms of fiction with a primary emphasis on the careful analysis and discussion of student works-in-progress. Students grapple with questions of voice, point of view, dramatic movement, structure, rhythm and imagery, as well as with any and all issues of art and craft that arise from individual manuscripts. By the end of the course, students should develop the terminology and the critical skills for revising fiction, and should develop a good understanding about issues and trends in the genre.

    Course credits: 5
  

  • ENGL 324 - Fiction Workshop

    Upper Division

    This course is an intensive exploration of the ideas, techniques and forms of fiction with a primary emphasis on the careful analysis and discussion of student works-in-progress. Students grapple with questions of voice, point of view, dramatic movement, structure, rhythm and imagery, as well as with any and all issues of art and craft that arise from individual manuscripts. By the end of the course, students should develop the terminology and the critical skills for revising fiction, and should develop a good understanding about issues and trends in the genre.

    Course credits: 5
  

  • ENGL 331 - Tutorial in Fiction

    Upper Division

    Students meet over the course of the semester with the workshop instructor for individual sessions to review strengths and areas for revision of manuscripts. The instructor suggests additional reading, ideas for revision, writing exercises, and specific areas where a student might improve their craft.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 332 - Tutorial in Fiction

    Upper Division

    Students meet over the course of the semester with the workshop instructor for individual sessions to review strengths and areas for revision of manuscripts. The instructor suggests additional reading, ideas for revision, writing exercises, and specific areas where a student might improve their craft.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 333 - Tutorial in Fiction

    Upper Division

    Students meet over the course of the semester with the workshop instructor for individual sessions to review strengths and areas for revision of manuscripts. The instructor suggests additional reading, ideas for revision, writing exercises, and specific areas where a student might improve their craft.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 334 - Tutorial in Fiction

    Upper Division

    Students meet over the course of the semester with the workshop instructor for individual sessions to review strengths and areas for revision of manuscripts. The instructor suggests additional reading, ideas for revision, writing exercises, and specific areas where a student might improve their craft.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 341 - Poetry Workshop

    Upper Division

    The primary aim of this course is to allow students as much freedom as possible in their writing while teaching the skills to identify their strengths and weaknesses. The most important work for students is to locate their style or voice, with encouragement to produce at least one new poem per week. By the end of the course, students should develop the terminology and critical skills for revising poetry, and should develop a good understanding about issues and trends in the genre. Students may also be encouraged to write a poetic statement in which they analyze their own poems-with particular attention to their development over the semester.

    Course credits: 5
  

  • ENGL 342 - Poetry Workshop

    Upper Division

    The primary aim of this course is to allow students as much freedom as possible in their writing while teaching the skills to identify their strengths and weaknesses. The most important work for students is to locate their style or voice, with encouragement to produce at least one new poem per week. By the end of the course, students should develop the terminology and critical skills for revising poetry, and should develop a good understanding about issues and trends in the genre. Students may also be encouraged to write a poetic statement in which they analyze their own poems-with particular attention to their development over the semester.

    Course credits: 5
  

  • ENGL 343 - Poetry Workshop

    Upper Division

    The primary aim of this course is to allow students as much freedom as possible in their writing while teaching the skills to identify their strengths and weaknesses. The most important work for students is to locate their style or voice, with encouragement to produce at least one new poem per week. By the end of the course, students should develop the terminology and critical skills for revising poetry, and should develop a good understanding about issues and trends in the genre. Students may also be encouraged to write a poetic statement in which they analyze their own poems-with particular attention to their development over the semester.

    Course credits: 5
  

  • ENGL 344 - Poetry Workshop

    Upper Division

    The primary aim of this course is to allow students as much freedom as possible in their writing while teaching the skills to identify their strengths and weaknesses. The most important work for students is to locate their style or voice, with encouragement to produce at least one new poem per week. By the end of the course, students should develop the terminology and critical skills for revising poetry, and should develop a good understanding about issues and trends in the genre. Students may also be encouraged to write a poetic statement in which they analyze their own poems-with particular attention to their development over the semester.

    Course credits: 5
  

  • ENGL 351 - Tutorial in Poetry

    Upper Division

    Students meet over the course of the semester with the workshop instructor for individual sessions to review strengths and areas for revision of manuscripts. The instructor suggests additional reading, ideas for revision, writing exercises, and specific areas where a student might improve their craft.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 352 - Tutorial in Poetry

    Upper Division

    Students meet over the course of the semester with the workshop instructor for individual sessions to review strengths and areas for revision of manuscripts. The instructor suggests additional reading, ideas for revision, writing exercises, and specific areas where a student might improve their craft.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 353 - Tutorial in Poetry

    Upper Division

    Students meet over the course of the semester with the workshop instructor for individual sessions to review strengths and areas for revision of manuscripts. The instructor suggests additional reading, ideas for revision, writing exercises, and specific areas where a student might improve their craft.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 354 - Tutorial in Poetry

    Upper Division

    Students meet over the course of the semester with the workshop instructor for individual sessions to review strengths and areas for revision of manuscripts. The instructor suggests additional reading, ideas for revision, writing exercises, and specific areas where a student might improve their craft.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 361 - Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

    Upper Division

    This course is a literary survey of contemporary nonfiction, including the personal essay and narrative nonfiction. Students investigate the relationship between art and culture, between the writer and their society. The course places special emphasis on formal analysis of themes and patterns in contemporary writing. Writers likely to be included are Jo Ann Beard, Joan Didion, Dave Eggers, Lucy Grealy, Pico Iyer, Mary Karr, Philip Lopate, Richard Rodriguez, Terry Tempest Williams, and Tobias Wolff, among others.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 362 - Contemporary Fiction

    Upper Division

    A careful study of a range of important works by contemporary writers of novels and short stories with attention to thematic and formal analysis. Writers likely to be included are Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Michael Cunningham, Don DeLillo, Nadine Gordimer, Louise Erdrich, Carole Maso, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, and John Edgar Wideman, among others.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 363 - Contemporary Poetry

    Upper Division

    This course examines a variety of different trends in contemporary poetry and enables students to distinguish between some of the most important voices. The course is likely to explore the relations between contemporary poets and some of their precursors with an eye toward how these writers have affected such post-World War II movements as the confessional school, the beats, open field, the New York School, the Black Arts Movement, and the Language poets. It also considers the poetry of the present day in which there is less of a consensus as to which poets, trends or schools are central.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 365 - Internship

    Upper Division

    Students have the opportunity to pursue internships either for elective credit or as an extracurricular activity during their second year of study, specializing in publishing, teaching, and community engagement for writers.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 365-1 - Teaching

    Upper Division

    Prerequisites
    Permission from supervising instructor and MFA Director required before registering for this course.

    The Teaching Internship allows students to observe the conduct of a college course and to share the pedagogical activity of the supervising instructor.. Teaching internships are only available to second-year students.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 365-2 - MARY Journal Publishing

    Upper Division

    Students learn about small press internet publishing by working on MARY: a journal of new writing,the MFA in Creative Writing’s web publication. Students assist with various elements of publication, such as administration, editing, layout, publicity, and advertising.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 365-4 - Wave Editorial

    Upper Division

    Prerequisites
    Permission from instructor required before registering for this course.

    Students work with Wave Books ditor and MFA faculty Professor Matthew Zapruder on editorial projects related to books, as well as other curatorial activities. Depending on what the Wave editors are working on during the time of the internship, interns may assist in various ways with current, special, or future publishing projects. Interns also work on a public event that features Wave authors. nterns have the opportunity to conduct interviews and write reviews with Wave authors, for possible publication. Wave Books publishes 8-10 books per year, mostly poetry but also books of translation or prose by poets, specializing in the work of mid-career authors. 

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 365-5 - Community Engagement

    Upper Division

    Saint Mary’s College defines service learning as a specific form of teaching and learning in which students engage in purposeful actions that address community goals. Through critical reflection students integrate the action with academic objectives to develop civic responsibility and social justice.

    In consultation with their academic advisor, MFA students will work with a community organization to develop, implement, and assess a program and/or written product that meet the specific goals/needs of the agency. Students have the opportunity to work with established community partners of the College or to design their own service learning opportunity with an outside organization they are already involved in. Please consult with your academic advisor before registering for this course.

    Additional Notes
    Selected students will participate in an orientation and meet once per month in a classroom setting to discuss assigned readings and complete reflection and in-class writing exercises. Students will also complete an impact statement and a creative culminating project in the form of an anthology, blog, or some other approved project.

    Course credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 371 - Craft Seminar in Creative Nonfiction

    Upper Division

    This course focuses on issues that influence the writing of nonfiction. Some seminars may focus on issues of craft of aesthetics-narrative structure, point of view, or dialogue-and others may be thematic in nature or explore a subgenre of nonfiction-personal essay, memoir, nature writing, travel writing, humor, book review, historical narrative, biography, etc. Readings may include a wide range of nonfiction from diverse backgrounds and historical periods as well as the students’ own works-in-progress.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 372 - Craft Seminar in Creative Nonfiction

    Upper Division

    This course focuses on issues that influence the writing of nonfiction. Some seminars may focus on issues of craft of aesthetics-narrative structure, point of view, or dialogue-and others may be thematic in nature or explore a subgenre of nonfiction-personal essay, memoir, nature writing, travel writing, humor, book review, historical narrative, biography, etc. Readings may include a wide range of nonfiction from diverse backgrounds and historical periods as well as the students’ own works-in-progress.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 373 - Craft Seminar in Creative Nonfiction

    Upper Division

    This course focuses on issues that influence the writing of nonfiction. Some seminars may focus on issues of craft of aesthetics-narrative structure, point of view, or dialogue-and others may be thematic in nature or explore a subgenre of nonfiction-personal essay, memoir, nature writing, travel writing, humor, book review, historical narrative, biography, etc. Readings may include a wide range of nonfiction from diverse backgrounds and historical periods as well as the students’ own works-in-progress.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 374 - Craft Seminar in Creative Nonfiction

    Upper Division

    This course focuses on issues that influence the writing of nonfiction. Some seminars may focus on issues of craft of aesthetics-narrative structure, point of view, or dialogue-and others may be thematic in nature or explore a subgenre of nonfiction-personal essay, memoir, nature writing, travel writing, humor, book review, historical narrative, biography, etc. Readings may include a wide range of nonfiction from diverse backgrounds and historical periods as well as the students’ own works-in-progress.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 381 - Craft Seminar in Fiction

    Upper Division

    This course focuses on issues that influence the writing of fiction. Some seminars may focus on issues of craft or aesthetics-narrative structure in the novel, point of view, or dialogue-and others may be thematic in nature-historical fiction, realism, or the postmodern ethos. Readings may include a wide range of fiction from diverse backgrounds and historical periods as well as the students’ own works-in-progress.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 382 - Craft Seminar in Fiction

    Upper Division

    This course focuses on issues that influence the writing of fiction. Some seminars may focus on issues of craft or aesthetics-narrative structure in the novel, point of view, or dialogue-and others may be thematic in nature-historical fiction, realism, or the postmodern ethos. Readings may include a wide range of fiction from diverse backgrounds and historical periods as well as the students’ own works-in-progress.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 383 - Craft Seminar in Fiction

    Upper Division

    This course focuses on issues that influence the writing of fiction. Some seminars may focus on issues of craft or aesthetics-narrative structure in the novel, point of view, or dialogue-and others may be thematic in nature-historical fiction, realism, or the postmodern ethos. Readings may include a wide range of fiction from diverse backgrounds and historical periods as well as the students’ own works-in-progress.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 384 - Craft Seminar in Fiction

    Upper Division

    This course focuses on issues that influence the writing of fiction. Some seminars may focus on issues of craft or aesthetics-narrative structure in the novel, point of view, or dialogue-and others may be thematic in nature-historical fiction, realism, or the postmodern ethos. Readings may include a wide range of fiction from diverse backgrounds and historical periods as well as the students’ own works-in-progress.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 391 - Craft Seminar in Poetry

    Upper Division

    This course focuses on issues that influence the writing of poetry. Some seminars may focus on issues of craft or aesthetics-figuration, the line, the sentence, or open field theory-and others will be thematic in nature-politics and poetics, psychoanalysis and surrealism, ecopoetics, etc. Readings may include a wide range of poetry from diverse sources and historical periods as well as the students’ own works-in-progress.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 392 - Craft Seminar in Poetry

    Upper Division

    This course focuses on issues that influence the writing of poetry. Some seminars may focus on issues of craft or aesthetics-figuration, the line, the sentence, or open field theory-and others will be thematic in nature-politics and poetics, psychoanalysis and surrealism, ecopoetics, etc. Readings may include a wide range of poetry from diverse sources and historical periods as well as the students’ own works-in-progress.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 393 - Craft Seminar in Poetry

    Upper Division

    This course focuses on issues that influence the writing of poetry. Some seminars may focus on issues of craft or aesthetics-figuration, the line, the sentence, or open field theory-and others will be thematic in nature-politics and poetics, psychoanalysis and surrealism, ecopoetics, etc. Readings may include a wide range of poetry from diverse sources and historical periods as well as the students’ own works-in-progress.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 394 - Craft Seminar in Poetry

    Upper Division

    This course focuses on issues that influence the writing of poetry. Some seminars may focus on issues of craft or aesthetics-figuration, the line, the sentence, or open field theory-and others will be thematic in nature-politics and poetics, psychoanalysis and surrealism, ecopoetics, etc. Readings may include a wide range of poetry from diverse sources and historical periods as well as the students’ own works-in-progress.

    Course credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 400 - Thesis

    Upper Division

    Designed to support graduate students preparing for their first semester teaching English 4, this course creates a productive community where instructors and the course directors can discuss teaching strategies and philosophies related to the teaching of writing. Students will be asked to think critically, reflectively, and deeply about their work as teachers of writing, and they will receive guidance in working with the course structure and materials. Some time will be spent developing materials that reflect both the program’s and the students’ goals for learning. Course texts, assignments, and discussion aim to provide an introduction to composition pedagogy and offer the opportunity to experiment with and combine pedagogical stances. 

    Course credits: 3.0
  

  • ENGL 400-01 - Fiction Thesis

    Upper Division

    During the spring semester of the second year each MFA candidate is required to pursue a tutorial course of study under the direction of an assigned faculty writer in the student’s genre. Through this tutorial, the student performs the revision necessary to turn two years of writing into a coherent, polished creative thesis: a collection of essays, poems, or short stories; a novel, a memoir, or other work of nonfiction. Students meet with their thesis director several times during the semester to confer on the following aspects of the thesis: final revision and editing of individual pieces to be included in the manuscript, selection and arrangement of material, and coherence of the work as a whole. The student takes an oral examination with the thesis director and second reader in order to assess the student’s knowledge of contemporary literary aesthetics and how they relate to the student’s work. Upon satisfactory completion of the thesis and the oral exam, the thesis director and second reader approve the thesis.

    Course credits: 0
  

  • ENGL 400-02 - Poetry Thesis

    Upper Division

    During the spring semester of the second year each MFA candidate is required to pursue a tutorial course of study under the direction of an assigned faculty writer in the student’s genre. Through this tutorial, the student performs the revision necessary to turn two years of writing into a coherent, polished creative thesis: a collection of essays, poems, or short stories; a novel, a memoir, or other work of nonfiction. Students meet with their thesis director several times during the semester to confer on the following aspects of the thesis: final revision and editing of individual pieces to be included in the manuscript, selection and arrangement of material, and coherence of the work as a whole. The student takes an oral examination with the thesis director and second reader in order to assess the student’s knowledge of contemporary literary aesthetics and how they relate to the student’s work. Upon satisfactory completion of the thesis and the oral exam, the thesis director and second reader approve the thesis.

    Course credits: 0
  

  • ENGL 400-03 - Creative Nonfiction Thesis

    Upper Division

    During the spring semester of the second year each MFA candidate is required to pursue a tutorial course of study under the direction of an assigned faculty writer in the student’s genre. Through this tutorial, the student performs the revision necessary to turn two years of writing into a coherent, polished creative thesis: a collection of essays, poems, or short stories; a novel, a memoir, or other work of nonfiction. Students meet with their thesis director several times during the semester to confer on the following aspects of the thesis: final revision and editing of individual pieces to be included in the manuscript, selection and arrangement of material, and coherence of the work as a whole. The student takes an oral examination with the thesis director and second reader in order to assess the student’s knowledge of contemporary literary aesthetics and how they relate to the student’s work. Upon satisfactory completion of the thesis and the oral exam, the thesis director and second reader approve the thesis.

    Course credits: 0
  

  • ENGL 401-2 - The Writer in the World: New Perspectives on Writing

    Upper Division

    English 401-2 is a year-long Graduate Level course (1.5 credits per semester, 3 credits total) for all 1st-year MFA students. Over the course of the year, students will attend a year-long series of readings, craft talks, master classes led by writers, scholars, and editors, and will participate in student-centered discussions. In addition to sharing their own work and scholarship, the series’ speakers will address topics relevant to the three genres of the MFA Program (creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry), as well as discuss what it means to be a “writer in the world”-one who balances a creative writing life with the demands of the profession.

    Course credits: 1.5
 

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