English Department | Majors,
Minors | Programs
Lower Division ENG | Upper
Division ENG | JOU | WRI
Fall. Coreq.: HIS 101 or 102 or 103 or 105 or 106. 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 101 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 100, 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 100. All students enrolled in ENG 100 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.
Fall, spring. Coreq.: HIS 101 or 102 or 103 or 105 or 106. 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.
(Same as ART-140). Winter 2005. 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. (HUMANITIES and FINE ARTS and CULTURAL DIVERSITY).
Spring. 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. (HUMANITIES)
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. (HUMANITIES)
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. (HUMANITIES)
(Same as BIO 205.1) Winter. Alt. years. Not offered 2004-2005. Analysis of texts that concern both 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. (HUMANITIES)
Spring. Not offered 2004-2005. An opportunity for students to read widely in and begin writing poetry.
Spring. An opportunity for students to work in a variety of fictional forms.
Spring. An opportunity for students to write creative nonfiction focused on natural history, nature, environment, conservation, science, medicine, landscape, or place.
Fall, winter, spring. Prereq.: permission. A special research project on a selected topic. This course will not fulfill the General Education Curriculum requirement for independent work. See independent study guidelines.
Winter 2005. Sampling several centuries, countries, and literary genres, this course traces the love-hate relationship between literary art and financial calculation, a relationship which raises questions regarding what has value and what doesn't, what is real and what isn't, what humans in society owe to one another, and what purpose artistic endeavor is supposed to serve in a world where such endeavor rarely pays. (HUMANITIES)
Spring 2005. 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. (HUMANITIES)
Winter 2005. This course will explore the political and ideological dimensions of literature through a study of censorship and book banning. The course will focus on the power of literature, both real and imagined, as a subversive and disruptive force in society through case studies of banned books. Case studies may include Huckleberry Finn, The Awakening, Lolita, and The Satanic Verses.(HUMANITIES)
Spring 2005. Through careful scrutiny of representative plays in several genres and from different periods in Shakespeare’s career, this course will test popular perceptions of English literature’s most overexposed figure by situating him in his literary, theatrical, historical, and cultural contexts. (HUMANITIES)
Spring 2005. This course looks at representations, both fictional and non-fictional, of captivity and enslavement. Students will explore the psychological, political, and intercultural dynamics of captivity and domination, as well as the role of language in defining, enabling, justifying, and protesting captivity as well as emancipation. Authors may include Mary Rowlandon, William Apess, Frederick Douglas, and Ken Kesey. (HUMANITIES)