Bachelor of Arts in Writing Requirements

Prerequisites: None

A survey of Colonial, Romantic, and Regional American writing with an emphasis on Franklin, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Jewett, and Freeman among others.

Offered every third year, fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

A survey of Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism in fiction, especially James, Gilman, Chopin, Stephen Crane, Robinson, Fitzgerald, and Eliot.

Offered every third year, fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: Senior Title

A study of fundamental texts in literary theory from Plato and Aristotle through the early twentieth century. The course also serves as a forum for seniors to develop their senior thesis and to review questions for the English comprehensive exam.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

A detailed study into the art of persuasion and argumentation. The course will take an advanced study into the history of rhetoric and look at rhetoric as an art of civil discourse. Students in the course will engage in writing and research, debate and criticism, as well as studying a variety of nonfiction and multimodal texts.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Creative Writing gives the student an opportunity to explore personal voice and style and experiment with different modes of creative writing. In this course, you will study an overiview of the art and craft of writing poems, fiction and creative non-fiction stories. We will read, analyze, and write works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to understand better the ways creative writers think about and utilize their craft. Students will share their own work and read the work of other course participants.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: WRT 0110: Writing. This course cross-lists with COM 0240 *. 

Business Writing is designed for students from a range of majors to learn the necessary rhetorical and research skills needed for their professional careers. Assignments will include business letters, memos, reports, proposals, and collaborative projects. The subject-centered focus of the course will vary each semester at the instructor’s discretion. 

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: WRT 0110: Writing, or POI

Do words really hold power in today’s climate? What does it mean to be a writer-activist? How can we use our writing to advocate for and enact social change? These are questions we will seek to answer in this creative writing course. This class will be equally focused on both the craft of writing for social action (and reading) and the practice of workshopping your own work through fiction writing, poetry, creative nonfiction, and community writing. The hybrid format allows for both in-class and digital writing, collaboration, and production.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

This course explores reading and writing in digital spaces, allowing the student to learn how digital environments create ways for writers to address multiple audiences, use visual texts, and communicate effectively.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

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Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

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Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

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Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

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Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

An examination of significant literary works from Beowulf to early Romanticism.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

An examination of significant literary works from the Romantic poets through James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

This course is a survey of world literature (poetry, drama, and fiction) from ancient to medieval writers. We will consider our collective inheritance from these earlier things. Discussions and papers may cover enduring themes such as love, nature, and spirituality. All readings will be translated into English.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

This course is a survey of world literature (poetry, drama, and fiction) from Renaissance to contemporary writers. We will consider our collective inheritance from these things. Discussions and papers may cover enduring themes such as love, nature, and spirituality.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None.

A survey of readings in Irish myths (in translation) and in literature by Irish and Anglo-Irish writers from Swift to Heaney. This class focuses upon twentieth century literature and on colonial and postcolonial experiences.

Offered every third year, [fall/spring] semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None.

We will examine the tradition of King Arthur, beginning with Medieval titles — such as “The Mabinogion” and “Le Morte Darthur”. From this foundation, we will consider later works of 486 literature that build upon the Arthurian tradition. Our study will also consider representations of the Arthur legend through art and film.

Offered occasionally. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None.

A study of the writers who have enriched and illuminated the American literary experience from the perspective of African American writers from its earliest inception to 1900. Poetry, slave narratives, autobiographies, speeches, short and long fiction, and the vernacular tradition in its myriad forms will be studied in conjunction with social, political, and religious movements of the time. Representative authors will include Olaudah Equiana, Phyllis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington among others.

Offered every other fall. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None.

In this course, there will be an examination of significant texts by Africa American authors reflective of the major literary movements of Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and PostModernism. Poetry, prose, drama, literary and social criticism, speeches, autobiographies by varied authors such as Nella Larson, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Toni Morrison, and Rita Dove, among others will be studied in conjunction with contemporary newspapers, journals, music, and other representations of popular culture.

Offered every other spring. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: ENG 0204: Survey Of British Literature I or Permission Of Instructor (POI)

The course focuses on readings from the so-called “Middle Ages” from Boethius to Chaucer. Includes a component on the translation of Old English.

Offered [fall/spring] semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

An examination of modernism and modernity in British literature, focusing upon innovations in fiction, film, media, and technology. This class considers novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and periodicals.

Offered every other year, [fall/spring] semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

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Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

Multicultural Literature addresses ILA Standard 4 (Diversity) through readings and discussion of writings by and about diverse cultures, ethnicities, religions, genders, and socioeconomic groups. We will work together to critically examine K-12 literature and the context in which it is read. Categories of differences will be considered to explore relationships between ourselves and others including interpersonal and institutional relationships. This course is designed to engage us as critical readers and consumers of K-12 literature.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

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Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

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Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

This course is an examination of Gothic literature, its prevailing tropes, and the far-reaching effects that this genre has had on subsequent literary movements and contemporary fiction. Students will analyze and evaluate the conflict between the high-reaching artistic achievements of certain classic Gothic works and popular, money-making works of the Gothic trade. Students will also break down the influence of Gothic literature on contemporary writing.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: SPA 0201: Intermediate Spanish II or permission of the instructor (POI).

This is a foundation course designed to introduce students to literary analysis in Spanish and to develop cultural and literary history background. Written and oral practice of Spanish through compositions and class discussion, on literary selections representing major genres and periods in Spanish and Spanish-American literature.

Offered every other year. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: SPA 0300: Representative Works in Spanish and Spanish American Literature

A study in the representation of women in several major Spanish works: epic poetry, romance, and contemporary narratives. Taught in English, using texts in English translation (see FLL0310). Students can earn credit toward major or minor when doing all coursework in Spanish.

Offered as needed. (3 Credits)

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Prerequisites: None

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Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)