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English
Courses
Courses with * fulfill General
Education requirements
(A-AP) = Arts - Applied
(A-TH) = Arts - Theoretical/Historical
(A-AR) = Analytical - Abstract
Reasoning
(A-QR) = Analytical - Quantitative
Reasoning
(CP) = Comparative Practices
(D-D) = Diversity - Domestic
(D-I) = Diversity - International
(D-L) = Diversity - Language
(ES) = Earlham Seminar
(IP) = Interpretive Practices
(SI) = Scientific Inquiry
(W) = Wellness
(AY) = Offered in
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*ENG 150 EARLHAM SEMINAR (4 credits)
Offered
for first-year students. Topics vary. (ES)
*ENG 201 EUROPEAN LITERATURE (3 credits)
Develops critical and writing skills through readings of important
and challenging texts produced by European men and women during
the past three millennia. Considers a work's enduring influence, its
poetic or intellectual strengths, or its resistance to the ways of thinking
that dominated its age. Compares diverse responses of writers over time
to similar social, political, and/or personal questions. Authors may
include Homer, Sophocles, writers of religious scriptures, Virgil, Dante,
Shakespeare, Milton, Cervantes, Racine, Austen, Goethe, Mary Shelley,
Ibsen, Woolf, Kafka. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive
Practices course or consent of the instructor. (CP, D-I) (AY)
*ENG 202 RUSSIAN LITERATURE (3 credits)
An introduction to a variety of literary genres through the study of Russian literature since 1800, in translation. Particular attention to the relationship between Russian history and Russian literature. Authors may include Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Akhmatova, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. (CP, D-I) (AY)
*ENG 203 LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE EAST
(3 credits)
An introduction to the Middle East as a theme and setting for
both Western and Eastern writers. Authors may include Gide, Camus,
Lawrence, Salih, Mahfouz, Sa'adawi, Khalifeh, Oz, Yehoshua, Habiby, Kanafani.
Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent
of the instructor. (CP, D-I) (AY)
*ENG 204 AFRICAN LITERATURE (3 credits)
Studies in the development of a modern African Literature from "traditional" through "colonial" and "post-colonial" literatures with some attention to indigenous forms (including oral traditions), assimilationist/protest heritages, negritude and issues of audience. Authors may include Ama Ata Aidoo, Ngugi wa Th'iongo, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. Also listed as AAAS 204. (CP, D-I) (AY)
*ENG 205 WAR AND LITERATURE (3 credits)
A study of texts that considers the topic of war but also explores the responses that texts, as texts, make to the fact of war. Authors may include Homer, Shakespeare, Crane, Cather, Jordan, Moraga, Remarque, Hemingway, Camus, Heller, Levertov, Mason. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. (CP) (AY)
*ENG 206 JEWISH LITERATURE (3 credits)
An introduction to some of the most influential works of literature produced by the Jewish people. Some ancient and medieval texts are consulted, especially Midrash, but most time is spent on modern works. Special attention to the ways that Jews have used literature to preserve and challenge their cultural identity in different historical circumstances. Texts may include poetry by Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Nelly Sachs and Yehuda Amichai; novels by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anzia Yezierska and A.B. Yehoshua; and stories by Nachman of Bratzlav, Sholem Aleichem and Cynthia Ozick. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. Also listed as JWST 206. (CP, D-D) (AY)
*ENG 245 SEMINAR (3 credits)
Sophomore and junior level seminar. Topics determined by the instructor. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. (CP) (AY)
*ENG 301 JOURNALISM (3 credits)
An introductory class that focuses on the journalist's role in
society, news reporting and writing, approaches to news coverage
and the potential impact of journalists' choices on the communities
they serve. To ensure that students understand the inherently
public nature of journalistic work, some stories students write for
this class are published in the student newspaper. Also listed
as JNLM 301. (A-AP)
*ENG 302 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LITERATURE (4 credits)
An introduction to the formal study of literature focusing on reading, interpretation and criticism of texts from various genres in the British and American literary tradition. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. (CP)
*ENG 303 WOMEN AND LITERATURE (4 credits)
An introduction to the study of literature by and about the lives
of women, written in a variety of genres and periods, from a
number of cultural traditions. Explores ways in which a study
of a writer's ideas and techniques and a text's background (e.g.,
biography of the author, political climate, religious tradition) can
lead to greater appreciation and understanding of a work, a writer, a
reader and a time. A variety of critical points of view with particular
attention to Feminist and Womanist theories. Prerequisite: An Earlham
Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor.
Also listed as WMNS 303. (CP, D-D)
*ENG 304 AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (4 credits)
An introduction to the study of literature focusing on the works of Americans of black African ancestry, with possible attention to works of African Caribbean and African Hispanic Americans. Special attention to major developments in form and themes, major writers and the evolution of an African American literary tradition. Introduction to issues of black literary theory and criticism. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. Also listed as AAAS 304. (CP, D-D)
*ENG 305 AMERICAN LITERATURE AND ECOLOGY (4 credits)
A study of American environmental literature and its imaginative
forms in relation to environmental philosophy, including changing ideas
of nature and wilderness; representations of space and place; the deep
ecology, ecofeminism and environmental justice movements; and the overall
relation between human language and value and the non-human world. Attention
also to cultural issues of ecology, such as how our ecological understandings
affect our sense of identity and our social and economic practices. May
include writers such as Thoreau, Abbey, Muir, Snyder, Aldo Leopold, Terry
Tempest Williams, Leslie Marmon Silko and Mary Oliver. Prerequisite: An
Earlham Seminar, Interpretive Practices course, or consent of the instructor.
Also listed as ENPR 305. (CP) (AY)
ENG 306 THE NOVEL (4 credits)
Studies in the development of the novel in Britain and the United States with some attention to great novels of other traditions. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. (AY)
*ENG 307 DRAMA (4 credits)
A study of the common aspects of dramatic form and significant variations. Theories and application. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. Also listed as THEA 307. (A-TH)
*ENG 308 POETRY (4 credits)
Studies in the nature, techniques, and appreciation of poetry approached through the reading of selected poems written in English between the Renaissance and the present day. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices course or consent of the instructor. (A-TH)
*ENG 321 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING (4 credits)
An introduction to creative writing and the writing workshop process, focusing on the genres of poetry and short fiction but also occasionally exploring other genres (such as playwriting or creative non-fiction). Includes intensive writing and discussion of the craft and process of writing. Prerequisite: An Earlham Seminar, an Interpretive Practices or consent of instructor. Also listed as JNLM 321. (A-AP)
ENG 351 EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE (4 credits)
A study of representative literary texts from the mid-14th through the early 17th centuries. Special attention to the relationship of English literature to historical developments such as the Renaissance and the Reformation. Readings from such authors as Chaucer, William Langland, Thomas Malory, Thomas Wyatt, Thomas More, Philip Sidney, Mary Herbert, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe. Prerequisite: ENG 302.
ENG 353 LATE RENAISSANCE AND ENLIGHTENMENT LITERATURE (4 credits)
A study of representative literary texts from the 17th through the early 19th century. Using a range of poetry, prose and drama, explores literary, religious, social and political debates of the period and learn to read historically, reconstructing as far as possible a culturally distant world and putting findings in dialogue with a sense of our own time. Authors may include John Donne, Mary Wroth, Ben Jonson, George Herbert, John Milton, John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Fanny Burney, Jane Austen. Prerequisite: ENG 302.
ENG 355 ROMANTICISM (4 credits)
An examination of the literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in relation to the political, social and cultural conditions of the period. Topics include responses to the French Revolution; issues of gender, class, and race; authorial identity; the Romantic self; and the relation between literature and the environment. Authors may include: Blake, Wollstonecraft, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary and P. B. Shelley, Byron, Keats, Clare, Hemans, Austen. Prerequisite: ENG 302.
ENG 357 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE (4 credits)
A study of the development of a national literature climaxing in mid-century in the American Renaissance and the Women's Renaissance, followed by the growth of regional literatures moving towards realism and naturalism. Includes an examination of the early stages of ethnic literatures with emphasis on Native American and African American writings. Prerequisite: ENG 302.
ENG 359 MODERN LITERATURE (4 credits)
A study of British and American literature from around 1910 to 1965, as expressed in a variety of genres including non-fiction prose. Writers studied both as individuals and as members (or consciously non-members) of groups devoted to certain aesthetic or political principles. Groups or movements explored include Nihilists, Existentialists, Imagists, the Harlem Renaissance and Southern regionalist writers. Authors may include Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Nella Larsen, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, Richard Wright. Prerequisite: ENG 302.
ENG 360 MAJOR AMERICAN WRITERS (4 credits)
Close study of more than one work by a few American writers often
chosen from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Authors
may include Frost, Chesnutt, Jewett, O'Neill, Hurston, Cather, Dreiser,
Wharton, Harper. Prerequisite: ENG 302.
*ENG 381 SHAKESPEARE (4 credits)
A study of the poetic and dramatic art of Shakespeare through an examination of six to 10 plays, including tragedies, comedies, histories and romances. Approach may vary between attention to the written text and the text as performance. Prerequisite: ENG 302 or consent of the instructor. Also listed as THEA 381. (A-TH)
ENG 382 EARLY LITERARY CRITICISM (4 credits)
An introduction to some of the influential ideas in early literary criticism. All concepts examined in relation to works of drama, poetry and fiction. Sample critics are Plato, Aristotle, Sidney, Johnson, Wordsworth, Fuller, Poe, A.J. Cooper, James. Prerequisite: ENG 302. (AY)
ENG 462 LITERATURE OF THE INDUSTRIAL AGE (4 credits)
A study of selected works written during the period of the industrial revolution in Britain and the United States. Authors may include George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Henry James, Anthony Trollope, Pauline Hopkins, Charles Chesnutt, Elizabeth Gaskell, Rebecca Harding Davis, Herman Melville. Prerequisite: ENG 302. (AY)
*ENG 463 TOPICS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (4 credits)
Topics determined by the instructor might consider particular writers or literary movements as well as interdisciplinary or thematic concerns. For example: an exploration of the Slave Narrative and its influence on contemporary Black fiction; a close study of the Harlem Renaissance; an examination of contemporary literary critical debates in and about African American writing; attention to the nonfiction prose of DuBois, Morrison, Lorde Baldwin. Prerequisite: ENG 302. Also listed as AAAS 463. (D-D) (AY)
*ENG 464 POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES (4
credits)
An examination of the widely-debated term "postcolonialism" and its relation to other intersecting terms and critical concepts, such as the "Commonwealth," "Third World," "imperialism," "Orientalism" and "neocolonialism." Uses literatures from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia to explore questions such as: How have writers from the previously colonized world used literature to respond to the economic, political and cultural realities of (de)colonization? What does it mean to "write back" to the Empire? Authors include Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa Thiong'O, Jean Rhys, Mahasweta Devi and critical essays by Frantz Fanon, Edward Said and Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak, among others. Includes attention to issues of empire, nation, race, class, gender and sexuality. Prerequisite: ENG 302. (D-I)
ENG 466 CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (4 credits)
An exploration of the contemporary literary scene in America and Britain with attention to the works and influences of other literatures, particularly those written in English, and with some attention to genres such as science fiction and fantasy, autobiography or mystery. Considers contemporary literary theory and the cross-disciplinary impact of critical theory. Prerequisite: ENG 302. (AY)
*ENG 468 EMERGING LITERATURE (4 credits)
Studies in culture-making focusing on groups of literature of particular cultures and sub-cultures, exploring the genesis and development and the cultural and political uses of those literatures. For example, a contrasting study of the earliest period of American literature and the more contemporary development of a self-conscious gay and lesbian literature, or a study of latina/o literature in the United States compared to the study of a post-colonial literature. Prerequisite: ENG 302. (D-D or D-I) (AY)
ENG 469 CONTEMPORARY LITERARY CRITICISM (4 credits)
) An introduction to some of the major trends in contemporary literary criticism, such as Marxism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reception Theory and a variety of Feminist approaches. All theories applied to works of poetry and fiction. Sample critics are Freud, Bakhtin, Gates, Eagleton, Showalter, Christian, Barthes, Derrida, Kristeva, Iser. Prerequisite: ENG 302. (AY)
*ENG 470 WRITING WORKSHOP (4 credits)
An intensive writing experience in one or more genres, chosen by the instructor and for the serious writer who has gained admission to the class through a successful portfolio. Much individual work with class time spent in a workshop setting. May be taken more than once. Prerequisite: ENG 321 and consent of the instructor. (A-AP)
ENG 481 INTERNSHIPS, FIELD STUDIES AND OTHER FIELD EXPERIENCES
ENG 482 SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE (4 credits)
Selected topics determined by the instructor, either of an interdisciplinary nature such as Psychology and Literature or Philosophy of Literature; or a thematic study such as "time," or a study of an individual writer such as John Milton, Henry James or Toni Morrison. Prerequisite: ENG 302.
ENG 483 TEACHING ASSISTANTS (1-3 credits)
ENG 484 FORD/KNIGHT RESEARCH PROJECT (1-4 credits)
Collaborative
research with faculty funded by the Ford/Knight Program.
ENG 485 INDEPENDENT STUDY (1-3 credits)
Intended for the advanced student. An investigation of a specific topic conceived and planned by the student in consultation with a faculty adviser.
ENG 488 SENIOR CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE (4 credits)
An exploration of a literary theme or subject matter with cross-disciplinary dimensions, and at a level which requires the student to bring an accumulation of literary and analytical skills and value judgments to bear. Subject determined by the instructor in consultation with the Department. Prerequisite: Senior standing and ENG 302. |
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