English

English courses help students read critically and empathetically, write and speak clearly and effectively, ask ethical questions about literature and its implications for their values and ways of being in the world, gain a more informed and global understanding of cultural and historical differences, and become lifelong active and engaged learners. English students are urged to do an internship during their junior or senior years.

ENG 130 ENGLISH COMPOSITION
This writing course emphasizes planning, composing, and revising. Specifically, the course deals with strategies for generating ideas, recognizing audience, clarifying purpose, focusing on a perspective, and choosing effective arrangements of ideas. Techniques of revision, which are central to the course, focus on appropriateness of language and effectiveness of development, as well as on editing. Counts in the Core Curriculum as a Core Seminar, to be taken in the same year as LTE140, in either order. (Fall/Spring) Staff/Three credits

LTE 140 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
This course is designed to acquaint the students with the form and structure of various genres of literature. Readings are mainly drawn from English and American literature. Class discussion and writing assignments will make use of such critical concepts as point of view, imagery, and tone. Counts in the Core Curriculum as a Core Seminar, to be taken in the same year as ENG130, in either order. (Fall/Spring)
Staff/Three credits

ENG 201 ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION
Words matter. Of course, so do images and ideas, which can be expressed linguistically but also stylistically in terms of both the form and the function of a persuasive piece of communication. This course will therefore take up the rhetorical force of words (not to mention images and ideas) by first considering “rhetoric” itself not as a pejorative label but rather as a source of communicative power. Students will engage the uses (and abuses) of words and phrases, categories of language choices, varieties of verbal techniques, figures of argument, and more, all with the learning objective of developing a strong sense of rhetorical style. Emphasis will be on written argument, with some attention to reading, listening, and speaking. Consequently, you will analyze and then produce communications like micro-analysis papers, letters to editors, op-eds, and congressional testimonies. Students will then have the option to create an artful piece of persuasion for a final project in the form of an advertisement, a public service announcement, a podcast episode, or some other mode of public argumentation. Prerequisite: ENG130. (Fall/Spring) Land/Gilbert/Three credits

ENG 202 INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM
Students will explore important issues in print and broadcast journalism as well as in the writing techniques used in each medium. Students will study reportorial styles,  newsgathering, research and interviewing skills, and put each into practice through regular submissions to the College newspaper, Le Provocateur. This course includes a combination of academic classroom learning and experiential learning in the community. Prerequisite: ENG 130 and any Introduction to Literature. (Fall/Spring) Is often offered as a Community Service Learning (CSL) course. Staff, Land/Three credits

ENG 203 AUTOBIOGRAPHY
This course is intended to help students gain the ability to analyze and appreciate autobiographical writing and to produce powerful autobiographical writing of their own. Students will develop the ability to construct a close reading of an autobiographical text based on an analysis of such elements as imagery, dialogue, voice, and structure; and the ability to write an autobiographical story characterized by a powerful voice, imagery, narrative, structure, and meaning. Prerequisite: ENG130 and any Introduction to Literature. (Fall)
Knoles/Three credits

ENG 209 CREATIVE WRITING
In this course, students will study the techniques used by published poets and fiction writers and will learn to employ some of these techniques by writing original poetry and fiction. We will also learn the critical language for discussing these genres in a more precise and meaningful way, and will have ample opportunity to develop our understanding of the formal characteristics of poems and stories by both published and student writers. Prerequisite: ENG 130 and any Introduction to Literature. (Fall)
Hodgen, Thoreen/Three credits

ENG 211 SPEECH
This is a course in the fundamentals of public speaking. Emphasis is on content and delivery of the most common types of short speeches, such as introducing a speaker, presenting information, persuading an audience, and demonstrating a technique or process, as well as impromptu speaking. Detailed evaluation, videotapes, and conferences will be used to encourage the process of improvement. (Fall/Spring)
Staff, Knoles/Three credits

ENG 217 INTRODUCTION TO FILM
This course introduces the concepts and technical vocabulary central to filmmaking and film criticism, allowing students to discuss films with greater awareness and precision, both in conversation and in writing. One emphasis will be on form and narrative: the structure and composition of the frame, of the sequence, of the scene, of the story. Always we will ask, “How are stories told in film?” That is, how does what is shown prompt viewers to draw inferences about what is not shown? Other emphases include point of view, cinematography, editing, and sound. Likely films for study  nclude The Gold Rush, Casablanca, To Catch a Thief, Chinatown, The Sting, Pulp Fiction, Chaplin, Slumdog Millionaire, and The Road Within. (Fall)
Thoreen/Three credits

ENG 219 APPROACHES TO MEDIA ANALYSIS
Designed to give students the means and opportunities to understand and analyze types and functions of mass media, this is a course in media literacy. Students will critically examine the evolution of mass media through active participation in discussing, reading, viewing, and writing theory and practical application of issues, such as media and ethics, politics and media, and ways in which we are informed, entertained, persuaded, and manipulated by means of media. This course will link weekly writing tasks to a research project and presentation. Prerequisite: ENG 130. (Fall/Spring)
Ady, Gilbert/Three credits

ENG 220 APPROACHES TO READING AND INTERPRETATION
This writing emphasis course considers fundamental issues of textual interpretation, primarily but not exclusively in the print media. Representative readings, limited in number, will be chosen from a variety of genres and historical periods. In addition to adopting a critical vocabulary that will assist close reading of texts, the course also introduces the student to various interpretive strategies: formalist, historical, reader-response, structuralist, and deconstructionist, among others. Required for all English Majors. Prerequisite: Complete ENG 130 and any Introduction to Literature. (Fall/Spring)
Beyers, Shields/Three credits

ENG 221 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE I: BEGINNINGS TO THE 18TH CENTURY
This course provides a broad overview of English literature from the Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century. We will read a variety of texts, construct historical and cultural contexts, debate issues of periodization and canonization, and consider questions of genre and innovation. Prerequisite: Complete ENG 130 and any Introduction to Literature. (Fall)
Ramsey, Carella /Three credits

ENG 222 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE II: 19TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT
In this course we will survey major writers of the Neoclassic, Romantic, Modernist, and Contemporary eras, probing the ways in which their world views were conditioned by their times, examining the formal elements that enhanced their art, and coming to terms with how their works challenge us as readers. Prerequisite: Complete ENG 130 and any Introduction to Literature. (Spring)
Lang, DiDomenico/Three credits

ENG 223 SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS TO THE PRESENT
Participants in this course will read, discuss, and write about American literature from the 17th century to the present day. The focus of the course will be on literature as a form of rhetoric, that is, how literature contributes to the debate of key issues in American life. Writing assignments will invite students to explore the methods used by texts to persuade readers to accept a point of view and the ways in which texts connect to one another to create a national “conversation.” (Fall/Spring) Prerequisite: Complete ENG 130 and any Introduction to Literature. (Fall)
Beyers, Drew/Three credits

ENG/SOC 225 LITERATURE OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
An interdisciplinary course that offers students a combination of academic classroom learning and experiential learning in the community. Students will read contemporary American fiction and sociological monographs and cultural analysis, using these ideas to think critically about political, economic, and social issues in the community. Same as SOC 225. (Spring)
Land, Staff/Three credits

ENG 226 MAJOR AMERICAN WRITERS
Through selected works of Nathanael West, Flannery O’Connor, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, J. D. Salinger, and several of the major American poets of the late 19th and 20th centuries, we will explore the connections between art and our changing culture, and the consequences of dreams, disillusionment, and the potential for discovery. Prerequisite: Complete ENG 130. (Spring)
Hodgen/Three credits

ENG 233 MODERN SHORT STORY
In The Lonely Voice, Frank O’Connor writes that the short story is the literary form best suited to dealing with “submerged population groups.” We will go deep-sea diving in this course, encountering a wide variety of tramps, vamps, dreamers, drug-abusers, lovers, master manipulators, lonely idealists, and losers. Prerequisite: ENG 130 and Literature 140. (Spring)
DiDomenico, Thoreen/Three credits

ENG 235 INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE
This course provides a survey of Western drama and theories of performance. Students will become familiar with significant playwrights and plays from the Greek, medieval, Renaissance, modern, and contemporary time periods. The course will explore a number of important movements and trends, such as morality plays, Elizabethan tragedy, realism, and the “Theatre of the Absurd.” Readings will include works by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Samuel Beckett, and David Mamet, among others. Students will also read and discuss Theoretical writings by Aristotle, T. S. Eliot, Artaud, and Brecht. (Spring)
Shields/Three credits

ENG 237 FILM AND LITERATURE
This course will explore the rich tradition of film adaptations of literary texts, focusing on the exciting changes that occur when artists produce their own cinematic translations and interpretations of important literature. Students will develop their abilities to analyze texts and film productions with pleasure and critical insight and learn a critical vocabulary for this analysis. We will examine the effects of genre and medium on the adaptive process, and investigate how film adaptations contain cultural responses to literature and deploy literary texts to respond to culture. DiDomenico/Three credits

ENG 240 GOTHIC LITERATURE
A forerunner of Romanticism, Gothic fiction influenced the development of several types of popular fiction, including horror and ghost stories, the uncanny or weird adventure tale, the detective story, fantasy and science fiction, the sensation novel, magazine serials, and graphic novels. Women writers, marginalized by the mainstream press, found success writing for the magazine trade in the 19th century. Readings will include Frankenstein, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and representative ghost and horror stories and films. Prerequisite: ENG130. Dibiasio/Three credits

ENG 261R THE GRAND TOUR
This course explores the literary, cultural, social, and architectural impact of Rome and other sites in Italy that comprised the Grand Tour from the sixteenth century to the present: the culmination of a classical education for British and, by the nineteenth century, American students. Readings and films will include selections from current Italian news media and film; and from travellers’ journals, essays, literature, and popular media from 1650-2017. Texts include Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars; Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley; Robert Graves’s I, Claudius; selections from Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad; and Henry James’s Daisy Miller. Prerequisite: ENG130 (Fall and Spring, Rome Campus)
Dibiasio/Three Credits

ENG 263 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
This course provides a general overview of the field of children’s literature. Students read representative classic and contemporary works of children’s literature from a variety of genres, including fairy and folk tales, modern fantasy, realism, and nonfiction. They evaluate text and illustration, as well as address current issues in the field. Further, through disciplined examination of the history and tradition of children’s literature, students develop an appreciation for children’s books and those who create  them. Prerequisites: ENG 130 and any Introduction to Literature. (Fall/Spring)
Kielbasa/Three credits

ENG 265 INTRODUCTION TO PEACE STUDIES
An interdisciplinary introduction to the study of peace and war and of various approaches to resolving conflict in diverse settings. Students will examine classic texts on the subject of peace and case studies of particular conflicts involving political negotiation, violent or nonviolent direct action. The purpose of the course is to help students analyze conflict and apply approaches and perspectives from the past and the present that attempt to resolve them. Same as HIS 265, SRS 265, THE 265. (Spring)
Ady, Kisatsky/Three credits

Eng 285 WOMEN’S STUDIES I: IMAGES
This course is an introduction to the study of women. The course develops a coherent, integrated view of women and their roles; emphasizes the full range of contributions of and the limited opportunities for women; examines and appraises the experiences of women; and critically examines the thinking about women at various times and from various perspectives. The basic approach is interdisciplinary and the concentration of the course is on women in North America from the 19th century to the present. For classes prior to 2020, this course satisfies the humanities requirement in the Core Curriculum.Also offered under the following designations: CLT, HIS, PSY, SOC, and WMS. (Fall) Keyes/Three credits

ENG 287 LITERATURE BY AMERICAN WOMEN OF COLOR
We will ask whether people from different racial and ethnic groups and genders see the world differently, and if so, how those perspectives might be expressed in literature. What experiences and perspectives unite us human beings, and as Americans, across racial and gender and religious lines? And can seeing through the eyes of another help us to understand ourselves more fully? We will read novels, short stories, essays, and poems by American women from a variety of ethnic and racial backgrounds: Native-American, African-American, Latina-American, and Indian-American, and explore what these writers tell us about what it means to be American a person of color, and a woman. (Spring) Drew/Three credits

ENG 302 SPECIAL TOPICS IN JOURNALISM: SPORTS WRITING I
This course will prepare students to understand the importance of sports writing in journalism, gain a working vocabulary, analyze and write about a variety of sports, learn to meet deadlines, attend and cover sports events in central Massachusetts. Pre-requisites: ENG 130 and ENG 202 or permission of the Department Chair. (Spring) Nordman/Three credits

ENG 304 BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING
The course helps students learn techniques for composing various types of on-the-job writing tasks: memos, reports, letters, and proposals. It emphasizes clarity and functionality of language, and the need to suit format, style, and content to the purposes of the audience. It provides students opportunities for collaborative writing and for discussion of the ethical dimensions of writing on the job. Students are encouraged to learn the use of various technological tools for writing and research. Prerequisite: ENG 130. (Fall/Spring)
Staff, DiDomenico, Grochowalski/Three credits

ENG 306 WRITING WORKSHOP: POETRY
Ideally suited for, but by no means limited to, students who have completed ENG209 Creative Writing, this course will extend the discussion of craft begun there. Our discussions will be informed by reading the work of established poets, but we will focus most insistently on the poems produced by members of the workshop. Through a variety of exercises, writers in this course will develop greater technical proficiency with image, metaphor, musical devices, grammar, enjambment, and metrical forms. Prerequisite: ENG 130. (Spring)
Hodgen/Three credits

ENG 308 WRITING AND EDITING
This is a workshop course where students will learn a variety of editing techniques through a series of individual and group assignments. Through exercises in critical reading, writing, and editing, the course provides opportunities for increased facility with the writing process. Prerequisite: ENG130. (Spring)
Carella, Drew/Three credits

ENG 309 WRITING WORKSHOP: CREATIVE NONFICTION
In this course students will read and write essays in various forms of creative nonfiction: the personal essay, nature writing, and travel writing. The course will focus especially on the personal essay, in which writers draw upon and narrate elements of their history or experience to address broader social, political, or philosophical themes. For their major project of the course, students will produce a substantial personal essay on a subject of their choosing. This course should hold special interest for students who are thinking seriously about careers in writing, since it will allow them to stretch and test their skills in multiple forms of nonfiction writing. Prerequisite: Complete ENG 130 and any Introduction to Literature. (Spring)
Staff/Land/Three credits

ENG 311 BROADCAST JOURNALISM
This course will prepare you for your first job in radio or television. You will learn the mechanics of developing, producing, writing, shooting, editing, and presenting a story for broadcast, and you will gain experience in front of and  behind the camera/microphone. This course will be run like a professional newsroom in which you will work under deadline and pursue your passion, whether that’s sports reporting, talk radio, or investigative documentaries. Students will get experience in front of the camera and behind it. Students will write and produce at least three radio segments and three television segments, culminating in a documentary short on a topic of their choosing. Learn basic technical skills shooting and editing; lectures we also will go into the field and learn the basics of shooting television news and field reporting. Prerequisites: ENG 130, ENG 202, and TVP 295 or permission of instructor. (Fall) Lacombe/Three credits

ENG 320 MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
This course will provide an introduction to medieval English literature, language, and culture between the years 600 and 1500. While our primary focus will be on texts written in English, we will also read (in translation) selections from the other major literatures that flourished in Britain during this period, including Irish, Welsh, Norse, French, and Latin. We will examine a variety of genres ranging from heroes’ tales, sagas, and lyric poetry to saints’ lives, and medical/scientific treatises. Major themes will include multicultural influences on English literature during the Middle Ages and the evolving conceptualization of the medieval hero. (Fall) Carella/Staff/Three credits

ENG 325 CHAUCER
A study of The Canterbury Tales with emphasis on Chaucer’s development as a narrative poet. Prerequisites: ENG130 and any Introduction to LIterature. (Fall)
Carella/Three credits

ENG 352 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY NOVEL
This course examines the rise of the novel in Britain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We will discuss different definitions of the novel as a genre and explore why it became the most popular form of writing in Britain. We will read works by writers who are credited with inventing the novel, such as Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, and Daniel Defoe. We will also read works by Frances Burney, Sarah Scott, and Eliza Haywood because women writers made the novel popular and published more novels than their male colleagues. Prerequisites: ENG130 and any Introduction to Literature. (Spring)
Ramsey/Three credits

ENG 360 ROMANTICISM
A survey of major writers in the Romantic tradition, with primary emphasis upon English fiction and poetry. English authors include William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Shelley, George Gordon, Lord Byron, and John Keats. The class will also spend some time differentiating between Romanticism and the literary  periods that precede and follow it: neoclassicism and realism. (Fall)
Ady/Three credits

ENG 371 THE TWENTIES
The shock of World War I and new developments in science, psychology, politics, philosophy, and art helped produce some of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. In this course, we will look at key texts from Woolf, Yeats, Lawrence, Eliot, and Pirandello, all representative of the High Modern period. (Spring)
Beyers/Three credits

ENG 384 TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN DRAMA
This course is designed to introduce students to significant American playwrights of the 20th century. Students will become familiar with the predominant themes and motifs of American drama, including issues of race, gender, sexuality, and capitalism. One of the central questions will concern how various playwrights such as Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansbery, and Amiri Baraka approach the promises and possibilities of the “American Dream.” Prerequisites: ENG130 and any Introduction to Literature. Shields/Three credits

ENG/WMS 385 WOMEN OF THE WORLD
This course uses the personal stories of women around the world as a lens into current global issues. Each week participants read accounts of women’s lives in regions outside of the United States, along with readable texts that provide historical and contemporary background for personal experiences. Students encounter the powerful and the powerless; the rich and the poor; the courageous and the meek; and in learning their stories, also learn something about the world that they inhabit, and that we inhabit along with them. In this global age in which we live, what happens at the individual and the local level is intricately connected with what is happening around the world, including in our own homes and communities. In experiencing a “world of women,” we learn about the human struggles that unite and divide people across cultures in the modern world. For the Class of 2020 and all subsequent classes, this course fulfills the Global Awareness requirement in the Core. (Spring)
Keyes/Three credits

ENG 387 SURVEY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
This course introduces and explores the vibrant and entertaining work of African-American authors throughout American literature. The authors to be surveyed are always creative, often filled with the fervor of revolutionary passions, and always important. Prerequisite: ENG 130 and any Introduction to Literature. (Fall)
Drew/Three credits

ENG 390 ART OF THE NOVEL: THE BRONTES
In this course we will read several novels by the Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Ann, dating from the 19th century when the novel developed much of what we now take to be essential in its form and content. We will discuss questions specific to the Bronte sisters’ novels, and the culture those novels reflect. Works include The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Jane Eyre, among others. Prerequisites: ENG130 and any Introduction to Literature. (Fall) Ramsey/Three credits

ENG 391 LITERARY THEORY
What is literature? How should one interpret a literary text? Is literature a kind of philosophy? This course provides a venue for students to discuss these and other questions. The course pays special attention to the usefulness of literary theory and its place and validity in the academy. Students will read works by a number of prominent literary and cultural theorists, such as Sigmund Freud, Jacques Derrida, Harold Bloom, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler, and Slavoj Zizek. Prerequisite: ENG 130 and any Introduction to Literature. (Spring)
Shields/Three credits

ENG 396 AMERICAN FILM SINCE 1940
What is American film? For many, it is synonymous with the Hollywood studio production system that operated between the 1920s and the 1960s: the art and business of financing, creating, and marketing films that, whether they were star vehicles like Greta Garbo’s Flesh and the Devil (1927); film noir genre definers such as Double Indemnity (1944) ; Hitchcock’s elegant suspense films like North by Northwest (1954); Billy Wilder’s anarchic comedy Some Like It Hot (1959); or the ensemble musicals of MGM’s golden years, heralded by The Wizard of Oz (1939), all shared a distinctive look and style that is still recognized and copied by a global cinematic community. Successful films today may take years and well over $100 million to make, or can be filmed on home video equipment, edited on a laptop, and produced for under $100,000, like Paranormal Activity (2010). Every commercial film made today owes something to those early studio years in American film. This course introduces students to the analysis and history of American film in the age of the studio system and will also contrast that system with three films from the past decade. Students will screen twelve films, compile a DVD research archive, and read several screen plays in addition to a film text. Netflix, Amazon Prime, or other streaming service required. Prerequisite: ENG130. (Spring)
Dibiasio/Three Credits

ENG 399 INDEPENDENT STUDY
Open to highly qualified juniors and seniors with the recommendation of an English Department faculty member who will design and supervise the study. Permission of the Department Chairperson is required.
Staff/Three credits

ENG 410 WORKSHOP IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH
Students interested in teaching English who have done exceptionally well in English courses may work as assistants in the teaching and learning activities of the “Gateway Course” to the English Major, ENG 220 Approaches to Reading and Interpretation. Open only to juniors and seniors with the approval of the Department Chairperson. (Fall/Spring) Staff/Three credits

ENG 413/414 ENGLISH LITERATURE SENIOR CAPSTONE SEMINAR
This seminar is the capstone course for all English Literature majors. The course focuses on a different topic each semester and includes a significant research project. English Literature majors who plan to student teach should take the course numbered ENG 413 in the Fall of their senior year; all other English Literature majors should take the ENG 414 seminar. Prerequisites: ENG 130 and any Introduction to Literature. (Fall/Spring) Staff/Three credits

ENG 415 SEMINAR IN WRITING AND MASS COMMUNIATIONS (CSL)
The goal of this course is to assist you in making the transition from life as a student of communications to life as a communications professional. Over the course of the semester, students will work with other members of the class to 1) interview professionals from a variety of communications fields, 2) assess professionally produced advertisements, brochures, websites, and e-portfolios, 3) master the use of software and hardware used by communications professionals, and 4) complete a series of projects based on professional models. Collaborating with a team, students will design and produce an advertisement, a brochure, and a website for outside clients. At the completion of each project each student will submit an assessment evaluating the process, the product, the team, and his or her own performance. For a final project, each student will design and produce an e- portfolio for prospective employers showcasing his or her accomplishments in this and other courses. Prerequisites: ENG 130, ENG 202, and any Introduction to Literature. (Fall) fiction, sports reporting, and others based on what students want to create. Land/Three credits

ENG 420 MASS COMMUNICATIONS PRACTICUM
The Practicum consists of a seminar and an internship, taken in the same semester. The seminar provides interns with opportunities to reflect on the internship experience and to examine issues of the field of Communications relevant to that experience. The purpose of the Internship that goes with the Practicum course is to provide Communications majors with practical, hands-on experience in the field. A list of sites for internships is available at the Career Development and Internship Center in Alumni Hall, and in the English Department Office. Students must complete ENG 130, an application form (available also at the English Department Office), and set up an interview with the Department Chairperson before the deadlines set for Fall and Spring. NOTE: Internships and the Practicum course are to be taken the same semester. Requirement for taking the Practicum and Internship: 2.8 minimum GPA in the major. Those who do not fulfill this requirement must consult the Department Chairperson. (Fall, Spring) Land, Didomenico/Three credits

TVP 295 VIDEO PRODUCTION I
Video Production I will introduce students to the basics of field and studio video production through demonstrations, in-class exercises and assignments. Emphasis will be placed on creative storytelling using camerawork, lighting, sound recording and non-linear editing techniques. We will be using HD field and studio video cameras and the latest professional Avid editing systems. Students will share the roles and responsibilities of a professional television production team, on location and using the studio facilities in the Assumption College Media Center. (Fall, Spring) Burke, Three credits

TVP 390 VIDEO PRODUCTION II
Video Production II will build on skills acquired in Video Production I so students can produce their own high end video productions. We will create story ideas, storyboards, and develop pre-production approaches to ensure an engaging presentation. We will learn advanced camera, lighting and audio techniques as well as more elaborate editing. Projects will include documentaries, narrative Prerequisite: TVP 295 Video Production I (Spring) Hoover/Three credits 

Critical Interpretations

• Approaches to Reading and Interpretation
• Literature of Social Responsibility
• Introduction to Peace Studies
• Non-violent Tradition in Literature
• Women in Literature:
• Women’s Studies: Images
• Literature by American Women of Color
• Post-Colonial Literature
• Writing and Mass Communications
• Speech
• Writing Workshop: Argument and Persuasion
• Introduction to Journalism
• Creative Writing
• Introduction to Film Studies
• Film and Literature
• Introduction to Media Analysis
• Magazine Writing
• Writing Workshop: Fiction
• Writing Workshop: Poetry
• Writing Workshop: Drama
• Writing and Editing
• Creative Nonfiction
• American Film Since 1940

Genres

• Introduction to Poetry
• Modern Short Story
• Introduction to Theatre
• Gothic Literature
• Fantasy Literature
• Children’s Literature
• The Art of the Novel
• Historical Perspectives
• Survey of British Literature: Beginnings to the 18th Century
• Survey of British Literature: 19th Century to Present
• Survey of American Literature: Beginnings to the Present
• Major American Writers
• Arthurian Legend
• Chaucer
• Medieval Literature
• Old English
• Beowulf
• Renaissance Literature
• Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances
• Shakespeare’s Tragedies
• Shakespeare’s English History Plays
• Donne and His Contemporaries
• Milton
• Special Topics in 17th century Literature
• 18th Century English Novel
• Romanticism
• 19th-Century British Novel
• Victorian Poetry
• The 1920s
• Modern British Drama
• Modern British Novel
• Contemporary British Drama
• Contemporary British Novel
• Irish Drama
• Contemporary Irish Literature
• 19th Century American Literature
• 20th Century American Novel
• Contemporary Poetry
• 20th Century American Drama
• Special Topics in American Literature
• Contemporary Women’s Poetry

Seminars/Independent Studies

• Independent Study
• Workshop in the Teaching of English
• Senior Seminar: Literature
• Senior Seminar: Writing and Mass Communications

Other considerations for English courses:

There are other interesting English electives available through Assumption College’s participation in the Colleges of Worcester Consortium. Assumption students can cross register for courses at 11 other institutions in the Worcester region.