English
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Hollywood Premiere
Recent graduate Alex Thompson shot for the stars when casting his independent short film. And he got one.
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If you like to read, to think and talk with others about what you’ve read, to write and hone your writing to catch and convey thought and emotion beyond yourself, English might be the major for you. English majors concentrate in writing or literature, but all are concerned with the power of words to enlighten, to move, to liberate, to discover, to breathe forth new realities.
English graduates become teachers, scholars, screenwriters, journalists, editors, copywriters, web designers, lawyers, policy-makers, entrepreneurs, poets… there are no limits.
Writing
The study of writing directly engages students’ imaginations and knowledge and helps them develop their potential as writers through courses in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting and journalism. Small workshop classes provide intensive experience in the crafting and revising of students’ own work and in the productive critique of others.
Topics Courses for Spring 2013:
- ENG 302A: Fiction Topics: Linked Story Collections Professor Doak
- ENG 322B: Nonfiction Topics: Multidimensional Me: Exploring the Personal Essay Professor Autman
Literature
Literature courses cover the spectrum of English, American, Anglophone, and world literatures, from the age of enlightenment to the literature of food, from Shakespeare to Kathy Acker, from Victorians to video games, and students to develop methods of critical interpretation. We seek both to inform and to engage our students, often through vigorous discussion and thoughtful debate.
Topics Courses for Spring 2013:
100-Level Topics
- Science Writing Professor McInnes
- American Literature of Place Professor Bayer
- Hip Hop and the Numbers Professor Forbes
- Medieval Magic and Mysticism Professor Kelleher
- Holocaust Professor Cornell
- Culinary Cinema Professor Geis
200-Level Topics
- ENG 264A: Women & Lit: Topics: Women, Writing, a Space Professor Hahn
Advanced Topics:
- ENG 392A: Genre: The Bildungsroman Professor Flury
- ENG 392B: Genre: Narrative Conundrum and Unreliable Narrators Professor Hahn
- ENG 393A: Literature and Culture: Literature & Religious Tolerance Professor Alvarez
- ENG 393B: Literature and Culture: Lit and Cult of the Beat Generation Professor Geis
- ENG 393C: Literature and Culture: Drugs, the Literary Imagination, and Related Questions of Consciousness and Culture Professor Glausser