DePauw U: Catalog Majors, Minors, Courses of Instruction

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With major concentrations in Literature or Writing and a minor in Literature, English offers students the means both to connect with their world and to transcend it. Trained to think inventively and write expressively, English majors of both concentrations are prepared for work in various professional spheres, including graduate study in the field, education, communications, publishsing, law and business. Some have established reputations as important scholars, journalists and authors.

Literature classes enable students to study literature as an art form. Through courses covering a spectrum of historical, cultural and ethnic perspectives, literature also invites students to explore their own lives and times as well as think beyond their own experience. Classes typically combine lecture and discussion, introducing students to representative works of English, American, and Anglophone writing and encouraging them to develop methods of critical interpretation.

The study of writing directly engages students’ imaginations and knowledge and helps them develop their potential as writers through courses in fiction, non-fiction, 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’.

Students wishing to count courses taken off-campus toward a major in English must have prior approval from their academic advisors and the department chair.

Students preparing for secondary teaching should review Section V, Teacher Education, and confer with the chair of the education department about requirements for admission and certification.

Requirements for a major in Literature:

Total courses required: Ten

Core courses: ENG 151 and ENG 461.

Other required courses:
Two of the following courses are required: ENG 281, ENG 282 and ENG 283.
At least three courses in literature before 1830 are also required.

# 300 and 400 level courses: Five

Senior requirement: The senior requirement consists of the completion of ENG 461 with a grade of C or better.

Additional information: ENG 197 may be counted toward a major.

Requirements for a major in Writing:

Total courses required: Ten

Core courses: ENG 151, ENG 201 and ENG 412.

Other required courses:
Three additional courses in writing above the 100-level in at least two different genres, two of which must be at the 300-level.
Four additional courses in literature, at least one of which must be at the 300-level.

# 300 and 400 level courses: Four

Senior requirement: The senior requirement consists of the completion of ENG 412 with a grade of C or better, as well as a thesis.

Additional information: ENG 197 may be counted toward a major.

Requirements for a minor in Literature:

Total courses required: Five literature

Core courses:
One course that stresses writers before 1830
One course that stresses writers after 1830

Other courses: ENG 197 may be counted toward a minor.

# 300 and 400 level courses: Two

Courses in English

Courses in Literature

ENG 151. Literature and Interpretation	Group 3, lit	1 course
This course provides a foundation for advanced literary study, as well as skills useful in other disciplines. Through an exploration of varied works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and film, this course sharpens students’ abilities to read texts analytically and introduces them to the terms and strategies employed in contemporary critical discourse.

ENG 155. Topics in Literary Studies	Group 3, lit	1 course
While refining students’ general analytical and interpretive skills, this course offers intensive examination of specific issues in literature and culture, often those at the center of current critical interest. Recent sections have focused on The Gangster Film, Memoir and Sexuality, Quest for the Grail, Contemporary African American Fiction and Science Fiction.

ENG 167. Introduction to Film	Group 3	1 course
Designed to develop students' ability to understand and appreciate film as art and to acquaint them with a representative group of significant works and the characteristics of film as a type of literature.

ENG 197. First-Year Seminar		1 course
An exploration of a literary theme with an emphasis on class discussion and participation, independent projects, historical and cultural awareness and writing. Recent courses have included Beauty, Where the Poet Lives, Imagining Democracy in America, Woolf in Context and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. Enrollment limited to first-year students. May be counted toward a major or minor.

ENG 250. World Literature	Group 3, lit	1 course
A study of literature from both Western and non-Western traditions. Readings may focus on a theme that runs across cultures, a specific historical period or an event that affects a number of cultures.

ENG 252. Children's Literature [See also EDUC 292]		1 course
An examination of children's literature, attending to its history, canon and audience - both children and adults - and to selected topics, such as storytelling and censorship. Establishing criteria for several genres, students read widely to judge poetry, realistic fiction, picture books, fantasy, etc. and to compile bibliographies. May be counted toward a major in English. Offered second semester.

ENG 261. Modern Continental Literature	Group 3, lit	1 course
European writing from about 1885, stressing new directions in fiction and poetry from Zola to contemporary writers.

ENG 263. African-American Literature	Group 4	1 course
A study of African-American writing, including biographies, essays and polemics as well as drama, fiction and poetry.

ENG 264. Women and Literature: Topics	Group 3, lit	1 course
Introduces students to the work of women writers and the importance of gender as a category of literary analysis. Issues covered may include: images of women in literature by women and men; impediments women writers have faced; women's writing in historical/social context; feminist literature; intersections of race, class and gender. May be repeated for credit with a different topic.

ENG 281. British Writers I	Group 3, lit	1 course
This course surveys works of representative British authors from Anglo-Saxon times through the Augustan period. It is designed for students wishing to acquaint themselves with this broad area of British letters.

ENG 282. British Writers II	Group 3, lit	1 course
A continuation of the survey begun in ENG 181, this course begins with representative writers of the Romantic movement and ends with 20th-century authors. ENG 281 is not a prerequisite for this course.

ENG 283. American Writers	Group 3, lit	1 course
A study of representative American authors from the exploration of the New World to the present with attention to the literature of ethnic cultures.

ENG 351. Principles of Literary Studies	Group 3	1 course
This course is designed to give majors in English and related fields a grasp of the most important theories, terms and traditions that shape contemporary literary studies. Recommended for both literature and writing majors, and especially for anyone considering graduate study in English.

ENG 360. Chaucer and His World	Group 3, lit	1 course
Realism and romance in selected major poems of Chaucer and his contemporaries studied in their medieval context.

ENG 361. Shakespeare	Group 3, lit	1 course
A study of representative plays drawn from the histories, comedies, tragedies and late romances. Wide-ranging themes will include questions about gender relations and identity, both personal and national, and the conventions of Elizabethan performance.

ENG 363. Renaissance or Early Modern British Literature	Group 3, lit	1 course
A study of major developments in prose and poetry in English literature between 1500 and 1660, an age of exploration both literal and figurative. In both canonical works (by Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Jonson, Herbert and Milton) and recently rediscovered poems by Lady Mary Wroth, Aemilia Lanyer and Katherine Philips, we will analyze the intersection of influences--Classical and Biblical, native and Continental, medieval and modern.

ENG 364. Milton	Group 3, lit	1 course
A revolutionary who wrote against censorship and in defense of divorce, whose poetry made a mark on future generations of writers, Milton redefined heroism in his epic, Paradise Lost. We will study his major poems and selected prose, analyzing his transformation of every genre he touched: sonnet, pastoral elegy, masque, epic and tragedy.

ENG 365. Restoration and Eighteenth Century	Group 3, lit	1 course
Centers on Dryden, Pope, Swift, Fielding, Johnson, Sterne, Radcliffe and Austen. Stresses satiric, ironic, sentimental and gothic literature and their critiques of society.

ENG 366. The Romantic Period	Group 3, lit	1 course
Focuses on English poetry from approximately 1790-1830, along with related works of fiction, criticism and philosophy. Writers often studied include Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and Keats.

ENG 367. The Victorian Period	Group 3, lit	1 course
Focuses on writers who worked in the last 70 years of the 19th century. Writers often studied include Dickens, Carlyle, George Eliot, Tennyson, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

ENG 368. Modern British Literature	Group 3, lit	1 course
British novelists, poets and dramatists of the first half of the 20th century, including Conrad, Joyce, Yeats, Lawrence and Woolf.

ENG 369. Contemporary Literature in English	Group 3, lit	1 course
British and postcolonial writers from the mid-20th century to the present. Writers may include Rushdie, Gordimer, Larkin, Amis and Heaney.

ENG 371. American Literature: Revolution and Renaissance	Group 3, lit	1 course
A study of literature from the American Revolution through "the American Renaissance," when the writing of American authors first achieved an international reputation. Writers might include Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Melville, Jacobs, Whitman and Dickinson.

ENG 372. American Literature: The Age of Realism	Group 3, lit	1 course
A study of the literary culture between the Civil War and World War I, including considerations of realism, regionalism and naturalism as well as works of nonfiction. Writers might include Twain, James, Jewett, Crane, DuBois, Chesnutt, Dreiser, Wharton and Cather.

ENG 373. American Literature: Modern	Group 3, lit	1 course
A study of literature between World Wars I and II and the main philosophical, social and aesthetic issues that shaped it. Writers might include Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eliot, Moore, Hurston, Hughes, West, Steinbeck and Wright.

ENG 374. American Literature: Post-War to Post-Modern	Group 3, lit	1 course
A study of literature since the end of World War II, including that of minority writers, and the main philosophical, social and aesthetic issues that shaped it. Writers might include Warren, Nabokov, Bishop, Roth, Morrison, Rich, Pynchon, Erdrich, Kingston and Cisneros.

ENG 390. Women and Literature: Advanced Topics	Group 3, lit	1 course
Designed for English majors and/or students with some background in Women's Studies. Topics will provide opportunities for in-depth analysis of women writers and gender literary analysis. Issues covered may include: images of women in literature; women's writing in historical/social feminist literature theory and literary criticism; intersections of race, class and gender; formation of the literary canon. May be repeated for credit with a different topic.

ENG 391. Authors: Advanced Topics	Group 3, lit	1 course
In-depth study of one or more writers.

ENG 392. Genre: Advanced Topics	Group 3, lit	1 course
Study of works drawn from a specific literary genre or subgenre. Examples include Confessional Poetry, The Postmodern Novel and Revenge Tragedy.

ENG 393. Literature and Culture: Advanced Topics	Group 3, lit	1 course
A study of the relations between literature and culture, with a specific thematic focus. Examples include Literature and Law, Darwinism in Modern Fiction, and Literature and Social Protest.

ENG 394. Literature and History: Advanced Topics	Group 4	1 course
A study of literary representations of historical topics. Examples include The French Revolution and English Romanticism and Vietnam in Recent American Literature.

ENG 395. Literature and Theory: Advanced Topics	Group 3, lit	1 course
Study of a specific topic within contemporary literary theory. Examples include The Rise and Fall of Deconstruction, Cultural Poetics and Studies in Formalism.

ENG 460. Readings in Literature		1/2-1 course
Directed studies, with individual conferences or seminars, centered on a specific project arranged with the instructor and including the writing of papers. Prerequisite: senior classification and permission of instructor and chairman of department. Students seeking permission to take the course must present previous to registration to the department chair a written statement of the project countersigned by the instructor who will direct it.

ENG 461. Seminar in Literature		1 course
Concentrated study of one or more major British and/or American authors, as announced. Prerequisite: two 300- or 400-level courses in literature. Required of majors in English with emphasis on literature. May be repeated once for credit.

Courses in Writing

ENG 001. Journalism	Group 6	0 credit
A. Writers; B. Editors; C. Midwestern Review; D. Mirage and E. Eye on the World. Practical experience in writing for The DePauw (A&B), Midwestern Review (C), Mirage (D) and Eye on the World (E). The DePauw writers (A) receive 1/4 activity credit per semester, and editors B) receive 1/2 activity credit per semester. Midwestern Review, Mirage and Eye on the World staff members (C, D and E) receive 1/4 activity credit per semester. Prerequisite: signature of The DePauw advisor required.

ENG 100. College Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English		1 course
This course is designed for incoming students who are non-native speakers of English. Students write short expository essays based on their personal and cultural experiences. Students practice writing clearly, precisely and fluently in standard American English; students are also introduced to the form and methods of academic writing. May not be counted toward a major in English.

ENG 120. College Writing I		1 course
This course reviews good writing strategies to prepare students for the level of reading, writing and critical thinking done in College Writing II. By means of short essay assignments, students build fluency and confidence in writing. May not be counted toward a major in English. See Writing Program for details.

ENG 130. College Writing II		1 course
This course introduces students through reading and writing practice. Assignments focues on practice of essay forms from the personal narrative to analytical argument, developing skills used most widely in college: analysis, interpretation, paraphrase, critical reading, research documentation. Through a study of the writing process, students learn to generate essays appropriate to the writing task which demonstrates fluency, competency and critical thinking. May not be counted toward a major in English. See Writing Program for details.

ENG 201. Introduction to Creative Writing		1 course
An introduction to writing fiction and poetry in a workshop setting using readings from contemporary poets and writers as models. May include some creative non-fiction and/or dramatic writing.

ENG 209. Advanced Expository Writing		1 course
Writing and critiquing expository writing in various forms - informational and interpretive reports, journalistic articles and critical or interpretative essays. Extensive use of peer review and critique. Illustrative readings for analysis and discussion.

ENG 232. News Writing and Editing		1 course
An introduction to the art and craft of writing for newspapers, including story structure, research techniques, interviewing, note taking, ethics, libel and AP Style. Students will hone their writing and reporting skills by covering campus events, writing stories on deadline and following national and local media coverage.

ENG 301. Creative Writing II: Fiction Workshop	Group 6	1 course
A workshop focused on the writing of short fiction using modern and contemporary short stories as models and inspiration. Prerequisite: ENG 201.

ENG 302. Creative Writing II: Fiction Topics	Group 6	1 course
Topics in fiction writing with particular concentration on specific forms or other aspects of the genre using readings as models and inspiration. This might include the novella or the short-short story or techniques such as magical realism, meta-fiction, minimalism, etc., depending on the instructor. Prerequisite: ENG 201.

ENG 311. Creative Writing II: Poetry Workshop	Group 6	1 course
A workshop that gives students the opportunity to sharpen their skills as poets and exposes them to a wide range of contemporary poetry. Prerequisite: ENG 201.

ENG 312. Creative Writing II: Poetry Topics	Group 6	1 course
The course provides a particular focus on poetic forms or sub-genres of poetry. These might include dramatic monologue and extended poetic projects such as sequences in a particular form or voice. Effort is made to broaden students reading knowledge of poetry. Prerequisite: ENG 201.

ENG 321. Creative Writing II: Nonfiction Workshop	Group 6	1 course
This course will focus on the art and craft of nonfiction—with special attention to giving nonfiction the immediacy and liveliness of fiction. Forms explored may include profiles, travel writing, personal essays, reviews, memoir, nature writing or literary nonfiction. Prerequisite: ENG 201.

ENG 322. Creative Writing II: Nonfiction Topics	Group 6	1 course
This course will explore a specific genre of nonfiction in depth. Class will operate as an advanced writing workshop that uses master works as models and inspiration. Offerings might include profiles, travel writing, personal essays, reviews, memoir, nature writing or literary nonfiction. Prerequisite: ENG 201.

ENG 331. Creative Writing II: Advanced Reporting Workshop	Group 6	1 course
An upper-level reporting class for students who have taken News Writing and Editing or have written for a student publication. Students will analyze and discuss long-form, investigative journalism and write a series of in-depth news features. The course will address how to incorporate literary techniques in news writing.

ENG 332. Creative Writing II: Advanced Reporting Topics	Group 6	1 course
An upper-level reporting class for students who have taken News Writing and Editing or have written for a student publication. Students will study specifics forms of journalistic writing. Offerings might include feature writing, profiles, investigative journalism, magazine feature writing, or reviews and criticism.

ENG 341. Creative Writing II: Playwriting Workshop	Group 6	1 course
An introduction to the process of playwriting. The course will explore dramatic action for the stage—working with character, setting, dialogue, tone and style—through writing workshop, discussion and selected readings. Students will write monologues, scenes, a ten-minute play and a one-act play. Prerequisite: ENG 201.

ENG 342. Creative Writing II: Screenwriting Workshop	Group 6	1 course
An introduction to the fundamentals of screenwriting, in theory and in practice. Students will explore story, character, dialogue and structure as relates to writing for film; learn the screenplay format; and participate in writing workshop and discussion. Prerequisite: ENG 201.

ENG 343. Creative Writing II: Dramatic Writing Topics	Group 6	1 course
An upper level writing course that focuses on specific elements or forms within a genre of dramatic writing. Offerings might include The One Act Play, The Dramatic Monologue, The Short Film Script, Advanced Screenwriting or Advanced Playwriting. Prerequisite: ENG 201.

ENG 400A. Teaching Methods In English		1/2 course
An introduction to the problems of teaching composition, language and literature, primarily for those planning to teach English in the secondary schools. Prerequisite: a major in English or Communication and Theatre or permission of instructor. Generally offered second semester in even-numbered years.

ENG 400B. English Grammar		1/2 course
An introduction to modern English linguistics, centering on the description of the structure of modern English, its sounds, words, phrases and sentences, but also considering such topics as the nature of language, dialectics, semantics, language change and language standardization. Designed for those who wish to learn more about the workings of English and for those who plan to teach. Open by permission of the instructor. Generally offered second semester in even-numbered years.

ENG 401. Independent Writing		1 course
Independent writing under tutorial supervision designed for seniors wishing to develop or complete one of the longer forms. Prerequisites: senior classification, the successful completion of three courses in writing above the freshman level, and permission of instructor and chair of the department. Prior to registration, the student must present to the chairman of the department a written statement of the project countersigned by the instructor who will serve as tutor.

ENG 412. Seminar in Writing		1 course
This is an advanced creative writing workshop in which students design their own independent projects under the guidance of the instructor. Seminars generally explore a specific genre in depth. Prerequisite: senior classification and the successful completion of three courses in writing above the 100 level, two at the 300 level.

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Last Updated: 8/16/2005