English

Departmental Honors

Honors in English

The department offers a two-semester honors program for a small number of seniors whose work in English has been outstanding. Only three of the six honors program credits can be counted toward the major. Minimal requirements for admission to the program are a 3.0 cumulative average (3.5 in English courses) and recommendations to the English honors committee from faculty members acquainted with the applicant’s work. Interested students should contact the director of the major. (Note the descriptions of ENGL 498-499 below.)

Honors in Creative Writing

A few outstanding seniors are invited to work for honors in creative writing by completing an intensive workshop with the director of creative writing in the fall, and working with an individual faculty advisor on a collection of poetry, fiction, or drama in the spring. Requirements for admission are a 3.0 cumulative average, a 3.5 average in English and creative writing courses prior to the fall, and approval by a committee of creative writing faculty. Qualified students should see the Director of the Creative Writing Program in April for details.

Programs

• English Major (BA)

• Creative Writing Minor
• English Minor
• Irish Studies Minor
• Literary History Minor
• Professional Writing and New Media Minor
• Transnational and Multicultural Literatures Minor

Courses

• ENGL 101 Composition I
• ENGL 102 Composition II
• ENGL 110 Reading Like a Writer
• ENGL 120 What to Read: Life-Changing Literature
• ENGL 123 Adaptations: Literature, Film, and Beyond
• ENGL 124 Science Fiction
• ENGL 125 From Crime to Sci-Fi: Popular Literary Genres
• ENGL 126 Young Adult Literature
• ENGL 130 Vikings!: The Literature of Scandinavia, Medieval and Postmodern
• ENGL 135 American Stories
• ENGL 179GL Sexuality in Nature and Culture
• ENGL 181G Literature and the Visual Arts
• ENGL 183G Literature and Society
• ENGL 185G Literature and Film
• ENGL 188G Literature, Medicine, and Culture
• ENGL 189G War in Literature
• ENGL 200 Introduction to Literary Studies
• ENGL 201 Five British Authors
• ENGL 202 Six American Authors
• ENGL 203 Writing Craft/Context/Design
• ENGL 210 Introduction to Creative Writing
• ENGL 211 Creative Writing: Poetry
• ENGL 212 Creative Writing: Fiction
• ENGL 216 Reading and Writing Journalism
• ENGL 221L Introduction to Asian-American Writing
• ENGL 223 Latino/Latina/Latinx Literature
• ENGL 225 Graphic Novels
• ENGL 226 Storytelling: Myth to Media
• ENGL 230 King Arthur
• ENGL 235 African-American Literature
• ENGL 242 Grammar for Every Writer
• ENGL 245 Global Voices
• ENGL 248 Utopia/Dystopia Across Culture
• ENGL 249 Animal Lit
• ENGL 250 The Monstrous Imagination in Literature
• ENGL 252 Film I: Foundations of Cinema Studies
• ENGL 258 Introduction to World Cinema
• ENGL 259 Sexuality in Literature & Film
• ENGL 262G The Art of Literature
• ENGL 272G The Art of Poetry
• ENGL 273G The Art of Fiction
• ENGL 274G The Art of Drama
• ENGL 276G The Art of Life Writing
• ENGL 284 Language, Literacy and Community
• ENGL 285 Tutor Training: ESL
• ENGL 292 Cinema, Sex, and Censorship
• ENGL 293 Literature and Human Rights
• ENGL 300 Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop
• ENGL 301 Advanced Poetry Workshop
• ENGL 302 Advanced Fiction Workshop
• ENGL 303 Advanced Special Topics in Creative Writing
• ENGL 306 Advanced Nonfiction Writing
• ENGL 307 Journalism and Media Writing
• ENGL 308 Professional Editing
• ENGL 309 Multimedia Authoring
• ENGL 310 Literature and Journalism
• ENGL 311 How to Write Like a Film Critic
• ENGL 312 Digital Culture and Composition
• ENGL 315 New Wave Cinemas: Global Filmmaking in the 1960s
• ENGL 316 Cult Cinema
• ENGL 317 American Independent Cinema
• ENGL 319 English Epic Poetry
• ENGL 320 Memoir and Autobiography
• ENGL 324 Short Story
• ENGL 326 Stage and Page: Drama Before 1642
• ENGL 327 Stage and Page: Drama, 1660-1900
• ENGL 328 Stage and Page: Drama, 1900-Today
• ENGL 329 Narrative in the Novel and Film
• ENGL 331 Satire
• ENGL 332 Comedy
• ENGL 333 Tragedy
• ENGL 334 Science Fiction
• ENGL 335 Children’s Literature
• ENGL 337 Short Novel
• ENGL 338 Classical Hollywood Cinema
• ENGL 339 Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema
• ENGL 340 Literature and Visual Media
• ENGL 341L Gender and Film: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
• ENGL 343 Literature, Culture and Environment
• ENGL 345 Literature of the American South
• ENGL 348 Native American Literature
• ENGL 351 Early African-American Literature
• ENGL 352L Harlem Renaissance
• ENGL 353 Multiethnic American Literature
• ENGL 354 The Black Presence in American Literature
• ENGL 355 African-American Poetry
• ENGL 357 African-American Women Writers
• ENGL 358 Caribbean Literature
• ENGL 360 Arthurian Literature
• ENGL 362 Modern British Poetry
• ENGL 363 Modern American Poetry
• ENGL 364 Post-1945 American Poetry
• ENGL 365 The British Novel and the Nineteenth Century
• ENGL 366 Women and Men in Nineteenth-Century Literature
• ENGL 367 Modern British Fiction
• ENGL 368 Modern American Fiction
• ENGL 369 Post-1945 American Fiction
• ENGL 370 Reading Sexualities: Queer Theory
• ENGL 371 The Coming-of-Age Novel
• ENGL 372L American Women Writers and American Culture
• ENGL 373 Working-Class Literature