Department
and Course Listings

The English Department encourages the study of the historical and cultural contexts of literature and language, the aesthetic pleasures and values of texts and writing, and the variety of voices and experiences represented in the global literary tradition. The department also believes that acquiring superior reading, writing, and research skills is essential to a liberal arts education.

Within the department, students may pursue special interests in literature, creative writing, and journalism. The English major offers study in the areas of American, British, and world literature. English majors are encouraged to specialize in one of these areas. The creative writing major offers concentrations in poetry, fiction, nature writing, and journalism. It is designed not only for the student who wants to be a professional writer and does not have the skills or publications necessary to enter a Master of Fine Arts program, but also for any student who has a serious interest in writing. Because of the overlap in required courses for the English and Creative Writing majors, students cannot double major in these areas.

Through the English Department, independent studies and internships offer opportunities for the exploration of intellectual problems and the development of skills related to the study of English. A variety of internships in local businesses and agencies are available to English majors. Students can also acquire practical experience through on-campus opportunities with the college newspaper and literary magazine. The department also has research and employment opportunities for students. Interdisciplinary courses, cultural field trips, and work with professional writers enrich the curriculum.

English Major: consists of 33 credits (excluding ENG 100W, 101W, 301, and JOU 301.1) to include:

At least one 200-level Topics in Literature course

ENG 351.1 Origins & Traditions of British Literature

ENG 362.1 Origins & Traditions of the Literature of the United States

ENG 359 Constructing World Literatures

At least two 300-level Seminars in Literature

ENG 397 Introduction to Literary Theory & Criticism

ENG 343 Author Course AND
ENG 498 Senior Thesis Seminar in Literature.

The Foreign Language Requirement: Students electing a major in English or Creative Writing can meet the Department’s foreign language requirement in one of two ways: 1) satisfactorily completing the second year of language study at the college level (or passing a second-year equivalency test), or 2) satisfactorily completing the first year at the college level (or passing a first-year equivalency test) in two different languages. If available, Latin or Greek may be used in the second option. The equivalency tests must be agreed upon by both the Modern Foreign Language and English departments.

English Teaching Certification: Students seeking certification as teachers of English develop a program in consultation with the faculty member in charge of secondary education as well as an English advisor. Students planning to teach are encouraged to take additional courses in English beyond the 33 credits required above. A carefully planned and executed program will give the prospective teacher a rich variety of theoretical and applied knowledge and skills helpful in getting a job.

Creative Writing Major: consists of 33 credits (excluding ENG 100W, 101W, 301, and JOU 301.1) to include:

One techniques course from
ENG 202    Techniques of Contemporary Poetry
ENG 203    Techniques of Contemporary Fiction
ENG 204.1 Techniques of Contemporary Nature Writing

Two writing workshops (only one of which may be Journalism) from
ENG 200.1 Nature Writing Workshop I
ENG 214    Poetry Writing Workshop I
ENG 260    Fiction Writing Workshop I
JOU 200     Principles and Practices of Journalism
JOU 301.1 The Documentary

One subsequent writing workshop from
ENG 300.1 Nature Writing Workshop II
ENG 314    Poetry Writing Workshop II
ENG 360    Fiction Writing Workshop II

One 200-level Topics in Literature course

One 300-level Seminar in Literature course

ENG 351.1 Origins & Traditions of British Literature

ENG 362.1 Origins & Traditions of the Literature of the United States

ENG 359 Constructing World Literatures

ENG 397 Introduction to Literary Theory & Criticism AND
ENG 496 Creative Writing Capstone Seminar

English Minor: consists of 18 credits (excluding ENG 100W, 101W, 301, and JOU 301.1) to include:
ENG 351.1, 362.1, 359, and 397.

Journalistic Writing Minor: consists of 19 credits to include: ENG 200, 306; JOU 200, 301.1, and 497; ART 123 and either 130 or 363.

Creative Writing Minor: consists of 18 credits (excluding ENG 100W, 101W, 301 and JOU 301.1) to include: two courses from ENG 200, 214, 260; one course from ENG 300, 314, 360; one techniques course from ENG 202, 203, 204; and two courses from ENG 351.1, 362.1, 359, 397.

Interdisciplinary (IND)

IND-307.01 London: Art, Architecture and Literature 1.0 cr.
Fall 2002. This course is a prerequisite for the winter session off-campus study course (IND 307.02) of the same name. This course does not count toward any general graduation requirement.

IND-307.02 London: Art, Architecture and Literature 5.0 cr.
Winter 2003. Prereq.: IND 307.01. An on-site, interdisciplinary study of the history, art, architecture, literature and music of 19th and 20th-century London as reflected in the literature, memoirs, art, periodicals, travel literature and other public documents. The course will consider the central place of London as an imperial metropole and its continuing existence as a city operating at the center of an emerging modern world leisure economy. The central three weeks of the course will be conducted in London. (3 CREDITS FINE ARTS THEORY OR 3 CREDITS CULTURAL DIVERSITY OR 3 CREDITS LITERATURE)

IND-308 The Cuba Experience 6.0 cr.
Winter 2003. An on-site interdisciplinary study of Cuban and Cuban-American literature, the geography of Cuba, and the sociology of post-revolutionary Cuba. activities will include a chartered bus tour of the island, visiting cultural and educational sites, working with our counterparts at Cuban universities, and meeting with Cubans in various walks of life. The last three weeks of the course will be conducted in Cuba. This six-credit course may fulfill two general graduation requirements in the following areas: literature (3 credits), social science (3 credits), natural science (non-lab, 3 credits), cultural diversity (3 credits). Students will designate which general graduation requirements are to be fulfilled at the beginning of the course.

WRI-399T.01 Advanced Writing in a Discipline 3.0 cr.
Spring 2003 only. Prereq.: WRI 150, permission, and junior standing at the time of registration. A writing-intensive course focused on writing for or about a particular discipline. this course emphasizes document planning, drafting, and revision, including analysis of audience, argument and persuasion, use of reference materials, editing, and document design. Course theme varies among sections. Spring 2003 section has an additional prerequisite: completion of the natural science general graduation requirement. This section, "Science and Nature Writing", focuses on essays in natural history, health sciences and public health, and the environment. Weekly writing and revision, final portfolio. required field trips. Readings from contemporary biologists, nature writers, and journalists. (ADVANCED WRITING)

Composition and Linguistics

LOWER DIVISION

The First-year Book Program is an essential part of the First-Year-Experience. This program is a component of all first-year writing courses that meet during the fall term--ENG 100W, ENG 101W, WRI 150--and attendance at the program's evening presentations is required.

ENG-100W Basic First Year Composition 4.0 cr.
Fall. A course in the essential elements of critical thinking and rhetorical strategies necessary for effective college writing. The course emphasizes writing as process and focuses extensively on revision. A research paper, which involves library work and instruction in research techniques, is required. This course, followed by WRI 150, fulfills the First Year Writing requirement and provides more individualized instruction than the ENG 101W courses. Required of all students scoring at or below the 30th percentile in either column of the descriptive Test of Language Skills. Students enrolled in ENG 100W whose native language is English are encouraged to enroll in STS 110, Effective Studying. Students whose native language is not English may be required to do work in English as a Second Language (MFL 101, 102) prior to enrolling in ENG 100W. All students enrolled in ENG 100W are required to have one hour of individual tutoring per week through the college Writing Center. All first-year students are required to attend the evening programs.

ENG-101W Writing the First Year Experience 2.0 cr.
Fall, spring. Coreq.: HIS 101 or 102 or 103 or 104. Six weeks. A course in the essential elements of critical thinking and rhetorical strategies necessary for effective college writing. The course emphasizes writing as process and focuses extensively on revision. Participation in the First Year Book Program is required. All first-year students are required to attend the evening programs.

WRI-150 Finding a Voice 2.0 cr.
Fall, winter, spring. Prereq.: ENG 100W or 101W or placement. Six weeks. This course completes the writing segment of the First Year Experience. Students apply and practice the techniques of writing and the rhetorical skills acquired in ENG 100W or 101W through sustained intellectual inquiry. All first-year students are required to attend the evening programs.

UPPER DIVISION

ENG-301 Advanced Writing 3.0 cr.
Fall, winter, spring. Prereq.: WRI 150 and junior standing. The study of modern forms of writing; course requires weekly writing assignments, totaling 50 to 60 pages of original work by the end of the term and develops lifetime writing skills. The course emphasizes writing as process and focuses extensively on revision.

ENG-306 Technical Writing 3.0 cr.
Spring. Prereq.: WRI 150 or equivalent. This course offers an introduction to the basic principles of professional writing, including audience analysis, document design, and stylistic conventions. Credits may include business correspondence, instructions and expanded definitions, job application materials, meeting agendas and minutes, and proposals. This course does not fulfill the general graduation requirement for advanced writing.

ENG/MFL/EDS-446 Linguistics for Language Teachers 3.0 cr.
Spring. Alt. years. Prereq.: junior or senior standing. A study of the central concepts of linguistic theory. Includes the theoretical areas of pragmatics, semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology; and the applied areas of language variation, first language acquisition, second language acquisition, written language, and the neurology of language. Students will acquire the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as an essential tool for disciplined examination of linguistic phenomena. Issues of socio-linguistics will be addressed as students wrestle with the relationship between language, thought, and culture, and the nature of the cognitive and brain systems that relate to language learning, language teaching and language use.

Creative Writing

LOWER DIVISION

ENG-200.1 Nature Writing Workshop I 3.0 cr.
Spring. An opportunity for students to write creative nonfiction focused on natural history, nature, environment, conservation, science, medicine, landscape, or place.

ENG-202 Techniques of Contemporary Poetry 3.0 cr.
Fall. An investigation of traditional poetic meter and techniques of scansion and a survey of stanzaic forms exploited across the centuries, with attention to the diverse possibilities of form, rhythm, diction, subject matter, and voice available to poets writing today. Writers may include Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wilbur, Pattiann Rogers, Thomas Lux, and Garrett Hongo. (LITERATURE)

ENG-203 Techniques of Contemporary Fiction 3.0 cr.
Fall. An examination of selected classic and contemporary narrative. Readings may include works by Angela Carter, Tobias Wolff, Tim O'Brien, Carolyn See, and Italo Calvino. (LITERATURE)

ENG-204.1 Techniques/Contemporary Nature Writing 3.0 cr.
Fall. An examination of the various forms, methods (including fieldwork), and subject matter of nature writing. Writers studied may include Diane Ackerman, Stephen Jay Gould, Barry Lopez, Gary Nabhan, and Terry Tempest Williams. (LITERATURE)

ENG-214 Poetry Writing Workshop I 3.0 cr.
Spring. An opportunity for students to read widely in and begin writing poetry.

ENG-260 Fiction Writing Workshop I 3.0 cr.
Spring. An opportunity for students to work in a variety of fictional forms.

UPPER DIVISION

ENG-300.1 Nature Writing Workshop II 3.0 cr.
Fall. Prereq.: permission. A continuation of ENG 200, intended primarily for students who have already taken that course. Students are expected to show evidence of continuing development as natural history writers and to submit their work for publication.

ENG-314 Poetry Writing Workshop II 3.0 cr.
Spring. Prereq.: ENG 214 or permission. An opportunity for students to continue reading and writing poetry. Students are expected to demonstrate continued development as writers and to submit work for publication.

ENG-360 Fiction Writing Workshop II 3.0 cr.
Spring. Prereq.: permission. A continuation of ENG 260, intended primarily for students who have already taken that course. Students are expected to show evidence of continuing development as writers and to submit their work for publication.

Journalism

LOWER DIVISION

JOU-200 Principles & Practices of Journalism 3.0 cr.
Fall. A study of news gathering and news writing, to include journalistic forms, diction, and conventions. Students will assist with the publication of The Coyote.

UPPER DIVISION

JOU-301.1 The Documentary 3.0 cr.
Spring. Practice in and critical analysis of documentary print journalism, documentary film and radio scripts, and text in conjunction with photography. The amount of writing expected is equivalent to that expected for ENG 301. (ADVANCED WRITING)

JOU-497 Internship 1.0 to 3.0 cr.
Fall, winter, spring. Prereq.: permission. Individually arranged internship designed to provide practical experience in journalism. (INDEPENDENT WORK)

Literature

LOWER DIVISION

ENG-140 Native American Art & Literature 3.0 cr.
Winter. (Same as ART 140). This course will offer students an opportunity to see the connection between Native American art and literature. The focus will be on Navajo and Pueblo traditions involving word and image. Authors will include Leslie Silko and Scott Momaday. (LITERATURE OR FINE ARTS THEORY OR CULTURAL DIVERSITY). During the first week of the course, students will choose which general graduation requirement the course will fulfill. Students will not be allowed to change this designation at a later date.

ENG-205.1 Uncharted Territories 3.0 cr.
(Same as BIO 205.1) Winter. Analysis of texts that both concern biology and literature and challenge existing literary/biological paradigms. Requires a reading and travel journal and a final comprehensive written project that reflect the ways in which the winter Sawtooth experience informs the assigned texts and vice versa. Assigned texts include works by Oliver Sacks, Peter Hoeg, Diane Ackerman, Loren Eiseley, John Horgan, and Michel Foucault. (LITERATURE ONLY)

ENG-294 Independent Study 1.0 to 3.0 cr.
Fall, winter, spring. Prereq.: permission. A special research project on a selected topic. This course will not fulfill the general graduation requirement for independent work. See independent study guidelines.

ENG-299T.06 Waifs & Wouldbegoods: Constructions of Childhood in 19th Century Literature 3.0 cr.
Winter 2003. During what has often been called the golden age of children's literature, fictional children figured as imaginative innocents, suffering orphans, and even spirited imperialists. This class will focus on the cultural preoccupations that gave rise to these potent images of childhood. Texts studied could include cautionary tales, fantasy literature, boys' adventure novels, nonsense literature, and Daisy Ashford's The Young Visiters (sic), the funniest novel of manners ever written by a nine-year-old. (LITERATURE)

ENG-299T.07 Postmodern Memories & Seriously Twisted Storytelling 3.0 cr.
Spring 2003. This course is not about quiet remembrances of days past! Instead, postmodern literature, with disruption of time and space; utterly irreverent concepts of authority and self; and complete disbelief in the veracity of any memory, creates new methods of representing the non-representational (i.e. memories of past, present, and the future). The course will intersect with several movies. Possible authors include Ondaatje, Ishiguro, Calvino, and Cortazar. Possible movies include Memento, Prime Suspect, and Daughters of the Dust. (LITERATURE)

ENG-299T.08 Forever Mourning: Narratives of Loss in Expatriate & Immigrant Writing 3.0 cr.
Winter 2003. Through a cross-genre mixture of travel writing, memoir, fiction, poetry, and essays on displacement, this course will address particular elegiac narratives unique to the expatriate and immigrant experience. In addition to examining transnational modes of mourning, the class will also evaluate whether or not such displaced writers can ever achieve consolation. Possible authors include Hanif Kureishi, Bharati Mukherjee, Derek Walcott, Agha ShahidAli, Mohsin Hamid and Edward Said. (LITERATURE OR CULTURAL DIVERSITY)

ENG-299T.09 Visions of Environment 3.0 cr.
Winter 2003. This course focuses on writers who have shaped thinking about the environment in the United States. The course first examines the historical and philosophical bases for American conceptions of nature, and then analyzes literary treatments of concepts such as bioregionalism, wilderness, sense of place, and environmentalism. authors include Henry David Thoreau, George Perkins Marsh, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and others. (LITERATURE)

ENG-299T.10 Shakespearean Comedy 3.0 cr.
Winter 2003. This course will trace the development of Shakespearean comedy through representative plays from all stages of the dramatist's career. In the process, the class will explore the literary, theatrical, religious, political, and cultural significance of comedy, both in general and in its Shakespearean form. (LITERATURE)

ENG-299T.11 Changelings, Animal Brides, & Bogey Men 3.0 cr.
Winter 2003. This course will explore a variety of themes in folk literatures from around the world and introduce basic strategies for reading them critically. Tales will be selected from the following cultures: Russian, British, Middle Eastern, African, Indian, Chinese, and Native American. (LITERATURE OR CULTURAL DIVERSITY)

ENG-299T.12 Beastly Literature/Literary Animals 3.0 cr.
Spring 2003. Remember the old joke about an infinite number of monkeys at the typewriter? If left to their own devices, they eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare! The close relationship between the animal and the human has provided a rich device for calling into question the nature of the human animal, who exists in tension particularly between the spiritual and sensual, the literary and political realms. Students will be introduced to the basic vocabulary of literary evaluation and criticism. Texts may include the Chinese epic Monkey, the Indian epic Ramayana, Buddhist Jataka tales, and works by Soseki, Kafka, Ovid, Hoffmann, and Hoag. (LITERATURE) OPTIONAL concurrent enrollment in 1 credit service learning component (SLENG 299T.12). Community animal rescue and shelter organizations give students the opportunity to witness first hand the joys and sorrows, as well as the expectations and realities of our treatment of those animal we allow closest to us.

UPPER DIVISION

ENG-343.03 Author Seminar: Charlotte & Emily Bronte 3.0 cr.
Spring 2003. Prereq.: WRI 150 or permission. This class will study the poetry, fiction, and fantasy juvenilia of Emily and Charlotte Bronte, emphasizing gender, genre, and biographical approaches. This course does not fulfill the general graduation requirement in literature.

ENG-350.01 Seminar: World Dramatic Literature 3.0 cr.
(Same as THE 350.01). Spring. Alt. years. Prereq.: WRI 150 or permission. A study of selected plays of significant periods and movements of world drama from Greek tragedy to Japanese Noh and Indian, African theatre to Theatre of the Absurd. This course does not fulfill the general graduation requirement in literature. (FINE ARTS THEORY ONLY).

ENG-351.01 Seminar: Origins & Traditions of English Literature 3.0 cr.
Fall. Spring 2003. Prereq.: WRI 150 or permission. A survey of landmark poetry and prose from the Anglo-Saxon Era to the Enlightenment, with special emphasis on how the assumptions, concerns, and techniques of these texts came to be seen as the kernel of a coherent national literary tradition. This course does not fulfill the general graduation requirement in literature.

ENG-351.02 Seminar: British Literature from Romanticism to the Present 3.0 cr.
Fall. Prereq.: WRI 150 or permission. This class will study British poetry and fiction from the Romantic period through the present. Particular attention will be given to the roles that cultural preoccupations with class, gender, and national identity have played in shaping the last two centuries of British literature. Authors studied could include Blake, Wordsworth, Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, and Heaney. This course does not fulfill the general graduation requirement in literature.

ENG-351.03 Seminar: Shakespeare 3.0 cr.
Spring. Prereq.: WRI 150 or permission. A study of representative poetry and plays from throughout Shakespeare's career, focusing equally on the features of Shakespearean artistry and on the cultural conditions to which that artistry responded. This course does not fulfill the general graduation requirement in literature.

ENG-359 Seminar: Constructing World Literatures 3.0 cr.
Fall. Prereq.: WRI 150 or permission. In order to see the picture, one must step out of the frame. In this course, students will step out of their own cultural frames by studying how and why genres, politics, trade/war, religion (and also how we ourselves) construct global culture and identity. The texts will provide not only vicarious experiences of lands and cultures but will also reflect the dialogic nature of specific cultural and cross-cultural literary traditions. Possible traditions covered may include those of the Ancient Near East, the Ottoman Empire, the Subcontinent, Mogul and Persian poetry, Greco-Roman culture, North Africa, Native America, and the Caribbean-African-Asian heritage. This course does not fulfill the general graduation requirement in literature. (CULTURAL DIVERSITY ONLY)

ENG-362.01 Seminar: Origins & Traditions of the Literature of the United States 3.0 cr.
Fall or spring. Prereq.: WRI 150 or permission. This course features a range of "literature," including transcribed Native American oral stories, colonial promotional tracts, sermons, speeches, captivity narratives, political pamphlets, personal letters, and slave narratives. The class will explore personal and cultural issues that concerned early Americans, and discuss how texts both define and complicate some of the terms associated with this period, including "Puritan," "Enlightenment," "Transcendental," "liberty," and even "American." This course does not fulfill the general graduation requirement in literature.

ENG-362.02 Seminar: Modern American Literature 3.0 cr.
Spring. Prereq.: WRI 150 or permission. This course features analysis of texts written in the United States between the Civil War and the present. While considering the historical contexts of these texts, students study a variety of genres, including poetry, the short story, the novella, the novel, and the autobiographical memoir. The class will discuss how texts both define and complicate the labels used to describe the literary movements of this period, including "Realism," "Regionalism," "Modernism," and "Post-modernism." This course does not fulfill the general graduation requirement in literature.

ENG-397 Introduction to Literary Theory & Criticism 3.0 cr.
Prereq.: WRI 150 or permission. this course introduces the principle theoretical traditions that inform advanced literary study. Students will evaluate the major figures, schools, and concepts of literary theory and criticism through intensive reading and application. This course does not fulfill the general graduation requirement in literature.

ENG-494 Independent Study 1.0 to 3.0 cr.
Fall, winter, spring. Prereq.: permission. Research project on selected topics. See independent study guidelines. (INDEPENDENT WORK)

ENG-496 Creative Writing Capstone Seminar 3.0 cr.
Winter 2003, spring 2004. Prereq.: senior standing and completion of lower-division poetry, fiction, and/or nature writing course. A cross-genre course for Creative Writing majors, in which students will propose and work on independent projects. Creative writers will begin to approach writing and their works as professionals--i.e., thinking long-term beyond the classroom, and considering marketing their works (scouring journals and framing rejection letters!). In addition to intensive writing, students will contribute to and design the reading list; contextualize their works/writing styles within a literary tradition/genre; and create a community of writers.

ENG-497 Internship 1.0 to 3.0 cr.
Fall, winter spring. Prereq.: permission. Individually arranged internship designed to provide practical editorial and writing experience. An extended analysis of the experience is required and periodic reports may be assigned. See internship guidelines. (INDEPENDENT WORK)

ENG-498 Senior Thesis Seminar in Literature 3.0 cr.
Spring 2004. This is a capstone course for English majors designed to help students move beyond guided college instruction to independent post college study, regardless of their chosen path. Students will engage in two related activities. First, they will research and compose an individualized reading list based on their interests after graduation, be they specialized in world, American, or British literature, graduate record exam preparation, or ancillary to secondary education teaching.