Catalog 2011 - 2012

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ENG 115 Editing Workshop

This course offers an intensive review of grammar and the conventions of standard edited English to FYW 101 students who are identified as needing additional instruction in editing. By permission of their FYW 101 instructors only, students enroll in ENG 115 in the second seven weeks of the semester.

Credit Hours: 1

ENG 116 Writing on Cultures: Concepts of Primary Research

This course explores the concepts of doing primary research on target cultures, as well as ethical issues involved in performing such research. It may be taught on-site in an international setting. In addition, the course provides students opportunities to perform primary (firsthand) research and gain field experience on an issue of their choice that is related to the culture or community being studied. For example, students can investigate a particular environmental or social issue pertinent to the setting, culture or community.

Credit Hours: 1-4

ENG 117 War in Literature and Film

Explores the vicarious experience of warfare and the practical and moral problems associated with command.

Credit Hours: 4
(A)

ENG 121 The Literature of Countercultures

A study of recurring patterns in social, cultural and artistic revolution of the last 100 years. Includes the decadents, the lost generation, the beats and the hippies.

Credit Hours: 4
(A)

ENG 126 Literature and Film Classics

A study of the techniques, history and development of selected literature and film classics. Content may vary depending on instructor.

Credit Hours: 4
(A)

ENG 140 Introduction to the Novel

An introduction to one of the most popular literary genres, the novel, with particular focus on the varied relations novelists establish between individual and society, audience and storyteller, to entertain, unsettle and inspire readers.

Credit Hours: 4

ENG 150 Introduction to Poetry

This course will investigate the roots, elements and nature of poetry in an effort to make poetry a rich source of pleasure for a lifetime. We will read poetry of all types from all ages, with an emphasis on modern and contemporary.

Credit Hours: 4
(A)

ENG 170 Stories and Wellness

A thematically organized course that studies the power of stories from many narrative traditions - European, Chinese, Zen Buddhist, Native American - to promote good health and healing.

Credit Hours: 4
(A)

ENG 175 Ethical Questions and Modern Drama

This course deals with significant modern plays in which the conflict centers on ethical questions across a broad range of University subjects: business, science, politics, and relations with and responsibilities to others. Classroom sessions and papers will address the plays first as works of literature but will go on to discuss and debate the ethical issues involved.

Credit Hours: 4
(A)