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Department of English Language and Literature

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Undergraduate Course Descriptions - Summer 2023

6 Week Summer Sessions

ENGL 102.J18       RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION       WEB ASYNCH      CROCKER
Instruction and intensive practice in researching, analyzing, and composing written arguments about academic and public issues.

3 Week Summer Sessions

ENGL 101.J10      CRITICAL READING AND COMPOSITION      WEB ASYNCH      LEE
Instruction in strategies for critically reading and analyzing literature and non-literary texts; structured, sustained practice in composing expository and analytical essays.

ENGL 102.J10      RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION      WEB ASYNCH      SMITH
Instruction and intensive practice in researching, analyzing, and composing written arguments about academic and public issues.

ENGL 102.J11      RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION      WEB ASYNCH      TBA
Instruction and intensive practice in researching, analyzing, and composing written arguments about academic and public issues.

ENGL 280.J10      LITERATURE AND SOCIETY      WEB ASYNCH       BARILLA

(AIU & VSR)
Fiction, poetry, drama and other cultural texts engaged with questions of values, ethics and social responsibility.

ENGL 282.001      UPON A PLACE IN PORTUGAL…EXPLORING PORTUGESE FANTASTICAL FICTION        STUDY ABROAD        FISK

(Restricted to Capstone Scholars)      

English 282 is designed to help students learn about literary fiction as a genre. To that end, we will learn about various elements of fiction, including plot, setting, character, conflict, symbol, and point of view. When studying these elements, it’s useful to think about how they all work together to develop a central theme. In this particular English 282 course, students will critically read and analyze passages from a diverse group of Portuguese authors and their works, including but not limited to: Afonso Cruz’s The Books that Devoured My Father and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen’s The Girl from the Sea & Other Stories. By conducting our study in Portugal, the home country of these award-winning authors, we will focus on the importance of setting and how that translates into fictional works. Because many of these works are designed for children, they’re designed both to instill national pride and to provide a literary “tour” of both Portuguese places and lore. As a bonus, students will critically read and analyze selected passages from JK Rowling’s internationally bestselling Harry Potter series. Rowling is, perhaps, the most well-known Portuguese-inspired English author. In the early 1990s, she lived in Porto and drew much inspiration from her surroundings; one of the questions this course will consider is: what makes Portugal, the oldest nation-state in Europe, so magical? This course requires a rigorous examination, through discussion and in writing, of the ways in which cultures are both sustained and merged via fictional texts, as well as how our host country and its surrounding areas still serve as a hot spot for creativity.

ENGL 101.J11       CRITICAL READING AND COMPOSITION       WEB ASYNCH       JIMENEZ
Instruction in strategies for critically reading and analyzing literature and non-literary texts; structured, sustained practice in composing expository and analytical essays.

ENGL 102.J15       RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION       WEB ASYNCH       GLAVEY
Instruction and intensive practice in researching, analyzing, and composing written arguments about academic and public issues.

ENGL 428B.J10       AFRICAN AMERICAN LIT II        WEB ASYNCH       TRAFTON
Representative works of African-American writers from 1903 to the present.

ENGL 102.J19       RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION       WEB ASYNCH       JARRELLS
Instruction and intensive practice in researching, analyzing, and composing written arguments about academic and public issues.

ENGL 437.J10       WOMEN WRITERS       WEB ASYNCH       WOERTENDYKE
Representative works written by women.


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