The English Department currently offers the following
courses for general studies credit:

 

ENGL 187 Shakespeare for Everyone(3)

This introduction to Shakespeare’s works, life, and times closely examines the writer’s greatest plays and poems. It sets Shakespeare’s writing in its dramatic, historical, and intellectual contexts to develop students’ familiarity with and understanding of Shakespeare. This course fulfills a general studies requirement and is not an English elective.

ENGL 188 Stories of Immigration (3)

Why are journeys, voyages, and quests so important in literature of many countries? What do stories about real voyages tell us about internal travels? Course readings—epics, autobiographies, and other narratives on emigration/immigration, expatriation, exile, and diaspora—reveal connections between private experience and public, mythic, and historical experiences. This course fulfills a general studies requirement and is not an English elective.

ENGL 190 Literature and Film (3)

What happens when literary works are adapted as films? Point of view, technique, voice, and style are all translated and transformed in the process. This course examines similarities and differences between works in the two mediums. This course fulfills a general studies requirement and is not an English elective.

ENGL 192 American Dream in Literature (3)

American experience and aspirations are reflected in the readings for this course. Readings may include historical documents as well as more obviously literary works, and will reach back before the twentieth century to provide breadth and context to this exploration. This course fulfills a general studies requirement and is not an English elective.

ENGL 199 Creative Writing (3)

Practice, guidance, and criticism are provided for students wishing to develop their talents for writing poetry, plays, scenarios, or fiction of any length. This course fulfills a general studies requirement and is not an English elective.

ENGL 209 Children’s and Young Adult Literature

A wide variety of multicultural children’s and young adolescent literature is examined in this course. Students engage in rigorous literary and critical analysis of this literature in different genres. Note: This course fulfills an Area D, General Studies requirement for students in the Bachelor of Arts-Combined Literature Track, Teacher Certification Secondary Education (English), or K-8 and English as a Dual Major.