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"Literary Phenomenon" George Saunders Here April 24 as Guest of Kelly Writers Series
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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 Fall 2013:
ENG 302A Creative Writing II: Linked Stories (Emily Doak)
ENG 312A Creative Writing II: Long Poems & Short Poems (Rodney Jones)
ENG 322a Creative Non-Fiction: Short Form (Tom Chiarella)
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 Fall 2013:
ENG 255a Readings in the Literature of the Black Diaspora (Vanessa Dickerson)
ENG 255b African American Drama (Deborah Geis)
ENG 255c Jewish American Literature (Cynthia Cornell)
ENG 264a Representing the Black Female Body (Karin Wimbley)
ENG 392a Modern Poetry (Meryl Altman)
ENG 451a Seminar: Gender Divides in the Modern Novel (Susan Hahn)