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Description: A course intended to help certain students develop fluency, confidence and correct, effective expression. The course stresses the development of thinking skills and introduces the student to the writing process. The student works under the close guidance of an instructor and a peer writing assistant. (Institutional Credit Only)
Description: The Writing Seminar provides a workshop setting in which first-year students explore writing for learning and communication. The seminar focuses on the complementary skills of speaking, listening, responding, and reading and thinking critically. Emphasis in the workshop is on process, peer group work, and constant revision. Students produce a portfolio of writing for evaluation at the end of the semester, which includes college application essays, critical and analytical non-fiction writing, as well as personal narrative. Conferences with instructors and writing assistants outside of class supplement in-class workshop.
Description: This course focuses on critical reading, thinking, and writing skills. Practice in writing full-length argu¬mentative and persuasive essays or literary analyses challenges students to engage all skills emphasized in the course. To further encourage deep critical think¬ing and more textured and sophisticated college-lev¬el writing, texts used may be interdisciplinary in na¬ture and will be organized around a central theme of the instructor?s choice and expertise. EN 105/106 (or equivalent) is prerequisite for all literature and writing courses.
Description: In nineteenth- and/or twentieth-century American literature, a survey through the study of a pervasive theme and related image pattern as it is translated into a mythology that shapes the American imagination. One of the following themes may serve as the focus: The American Innocent, The American Pioneer, The Virgin Land, The American Adam and Eve, and Waters of the Soul. Prerequisite: EN 105.
Description: The Heroic Vision in narrative and dramatic literature to 1800, studied through the figures of Beowulf, Sir Gawain, Doctor Faustus, Henry V, the Duchess of Malfi and Gulliver. Prerequisite: EN 105.
Description: A survey of the major works of British literature from Samuel Johnson to the twentieth century. Prerequisite: EN 105/106.
Description: A study of Chaucers Canterbury Tales. Emphasis will be placed on developing the critical skills necessary to interpret the text in its original Middle English. Prerequisite: EN 105.
Description: An introduction to writing the short story, drama and poetry. While the course is introductory, the workshop discussion should be useful to students at any level. Prerequisite: EN 105.
Description: Each student will be engaged in the exploration of themes, both through research and study, of a particular poet and through the production of a medium length manuscript. Research topics and manuscript themes will be developed in conference with the workshop director. Students will read their own work for the college during the semester. Prerequisites: EN 105, 209A.
Description: An exploration of fiction, poetry and drama with an emphasis on how to read, analyze, interpret and write about literature.
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Description: Focus will be on the process of developing short stories. To develop structure, style, and voice, stu¬dents will read and study published short stories and then write practice paragraphs that imitate the published models. Students will present drafts of stories for class workshop sessions. Final products will include ten polished pages of one or two short stories, a class reading of chosen work, and publi¬cation in a class-designed book. Prerequisites: EN 105/106.
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Description: Through texts ranging from Aristotle to TIME magazine, this course will study the best ways to write effectively and persuasively. Prerequisite: EN 105.
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Description: This course will examine the stylistic elements and technical issues involved in writing creative nonfiction. In a workshop setting, students will craft essays and regularly receive feedback through peer response and conferences with the instructor. Course readings will feature model creative nonfiction essays, including personal essays, nature meditations, medical narratives, place/travel writing, and portraits, as well as articles in which creative nonfiction writers discuss their own writing processes.
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Description: A junior seminar that traces a single theme and kind of literature tragedy - as it develops and changes over time, beginning in ancient Greece, moving through Renaissance England and France and into twentieth-century America. Prerequisite: Junior Standing or Instructor Permission.
Description: This seminar examines the history and practice of literary criticism and theory. Students will practice applying various theoretical approaches to several literary texts. The course is open to Juniors in the English major as well as any other interested students with permission of the instructor.
Description: This 10 day intensive course takes place in London. It includes attendance at eight theatre productions at the city?s major theaters, and are augmented by guided tours to the newly reconstructed Globe Theatre, and excursion to Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare. Morning classes include an overview of the London stage, in-depth study of the plays, and an examination of the related theatrical styles. Afternoons are set aside for study, sightseeing, and excursions; evenings for theatre attendance. The completion of theatrical critiques and other assignments are required.
Description: An intense study of American culture and literary forms reflected in significant works by American writers. Relevant literary criticism and the potential impact of gender and race will be considered. Prerequisite: EN 105.
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Description: Exploration of one geographical region (place) as a contributing influence in American literature: the course will focus on one of such areas as Concord, MA, Harlem, the South and the West. Prerequisite: EN 105.
Description: Exploration of postcolonial literature in English, primarily from Africa, India, and the West Indies. Examines issues of colonization and decolonizatiom. The historical contexts, and the aesthetic and political challenges posed in texts by Chinua Achebe, Buchi, Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ngugi was Thiongo, Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie, and V. S. Naipaul. Prerequisite: EN 105.
Description: A reading course in Shakespeare designed to give an in-depth knowledge of his representative histories and comedies.
Description: A close study of the major tragedies with special emphasis on characterization, structure and theme.
Description: A survey of representative history plays and close study of the major tragedies with special emphasis on characterization, structure and theme. Prerequisite: EN 105.
Description: A study of the poets and prose writers of the Victorian Period: Ruskin, Mill, Carlyle, Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, the Rossettis, Wilde and Swinburne. We consider literary production as it relates to the writers cultural and social milieu. Particular attention is given to the connection between literature and the arts. Prerequisite: EN 105.
Description: A study of the major poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Byron. Attention is paid to their prose (critical essays, journals, letters, etc.) as well as to their poetry, and to the place of these writers in the context of the revolutionary changes in the political thought of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Prerequisite: EN 105.
Description: In the course of the semester, students will develop a sense of the scope and nature of modern drama through reading, discussions, viewing of plays on DVD's, in-class presentations, and field-trips such as attending plays in the Greater Boston area. The course will focus on the rise of naturalism in the drama of late nineteenth-century dramatists, continues to explore dramatic works throughout the twentieth-century, and will conclude with a study of Global English drama in the New Millennium. Prerequisite: EN 105 & EN 106
Description: A study of short fiction written in English from around the globe. Special attention will be paid to the development of the short story over time and the historical and cultural events that have shaped readers? access to and delight in them. Prerequisite: EN 105
Description: An exploration of the themes, language, subjects and visions present in novels and short stories by women of varying cultural heritages. Works will be interpreted against the background of womens struggle for political, social and artistic liberation and within the context of influential literary criticism. Prerequisite: EN 105.
Description: The study of literary and cultural contributions by Latino/a writers in the United States. Reading of literary examples from the major immigrant groups that comprise Latino/a communities in the United States: Mexican-Americans, Cuban- Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Dominicans. Course taught in English. Spanish majors and minors are required to do some readings in Spanish and submit written work in Spanish. Prerequisites for Spanish majors and minors: SP 305, 306, or equivalent.
Description: A study of the poetry, fiction and drama of Modernists and their followers, including the works of Yeats, Woolf, Eliot, Joyce, Orwell, Waugh and others. Prerequisite: EN 105.
Description: This class will introduce students to a selection of uniquely American narratives: captivity narratives and slave narratives. As distinctly American literary forms they provide a unique entrée to American literature, culture and history
Description: Theory and Prose Fiction: an advanced seminar in the analysis of extended fiction through applications of diverse critical theories with particular attention to feminist criticism. Emphasis will be placed on the interactions of race, class, gender and the literary text. Prerequisite: EN 105, Senior Standing or Instructor Permission.
Description: This senior seminar will examine all six of Jane Austen?s novels, their historical contexts, current critical commentaries, as well as explosion of adaptations, contemporary film versions and other cultural artifacts of the last few decades.
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