English
Programs
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Creative Writing, Major,Minor -
English, 3+1 Program,Major,Minor -
Shakespeare Studies Applied Minor, Applied Minor
Courses
ENG 118: First Year English Composition
Credits 3ENG 182: Work Smarter, Not Harder!
Credits 3Want to really shine in your next class presentation? Interested in learning how to complete research assignments with less stress and more success? Join this hands-on workshop course to explore a variety of research and presentation tools that will support success throughout your Earlham career. Projects in this course will be based on topics that represent your interests and passions.
ENG 200: Foundations of the Study of Literature
Credits 4This course lays the groundwork for English majors and minors by addressing the question “Why study Literature?” in relation to a wide range of literary texts and theoretical approaches. The class will study a variety of works and genres from American, British and World literary traditions, including attention to literary history, influence and periodization. Students will develop the fundamental skills of literary interpretation, including interpretive writing and research, while also learning about future professional opportunities for English majors. Appropriate for first-year students with a strong writing background and significant interest in majoring in English.
ENG 203: Women & Literature
Credits 4ENG 205: American Literature & Ecology
Credits 3ENG 206: Literature and identity
Credits 3ENG 207: Film and Literature
Credits 4ENG 208: Contemporary Literature
Credits 4ENG 209: Religion & Popular Literature in US
Credits 4ENG 211: Religion & Spirit in African American Literature
Credits 3ENG 212: Literature and Medicine
Credits 4This course offers students the chance to engage with texts that raise some of the largest existential questions of human life, including the nature of health and disease, the doctor-patient relationship, the social aspects of illness, and the dimensions of a well-lived life. Through the works of authors like Mary Shelley, Lev Tolstoy, Michael Ondaatje, Atul Gawande, Eula Biss, and Anne Boyer, we will explore questions of sickness and health beyond the biomedical paradigm to consider these questions through a humanistic lens. Fulfills the humanities elective requirement for the applied minor in Medical Humanities.
ENG 221: Intro to Creative Writing
Credits 4An 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. Appropriate for first-year students.
ENG 222: Creative Writing Projects
Credits 2ENG 309: Prophetic Black Women
Credits 3ENG 310: Contemporary Japanese Literature
Credits 3ENG 343: Modern Japanese Literature
Credits 3Introduces representative literary texts from modern Japan, mostly from 1900 to present. Develops more advanced skills for literary analysis. Some topics include: I-novel autobiographical fiction, women's writing and modern poetry.
ENG 350: Contesting America
Credits 4This course features mostly U.S. literary texts that represent cross-century encounters with what DuBois named “the color line.” We will explore texts’ and readerships’ relationships to raced, sexed and gendered hierarchies, considered Immigration as "Whiteness of a Different Color," and make use of interdisciplinary contexts and methods. This class will require additional meetings to be scheduled during the semester for group work, writing instruction, and other activities. These times will be flexible, but the class does require that students have some time available for such meetings, as well as time for extensive reading.
ENG 351: Class and Ideology in Literature
Credits 4An analysis of the topic of class and ideology in literature in English from different periods.
ENG 354: Topics in Peace and Justice
Credits 4Selected topics determined by the instructor that address issues of peace and justice in relationship to literature. Readings may be interdisciplinary and will focus on literature written in English. This course may be taken more than one time for credit when the topics are different.
Cross-listed as ENSU 354 when on an environmental topic.
ENG 358: Gender & Sexuality in Literature
Credits 4ENG 359: Shakespeare
Credits 4This course focuses on Shakespeare's plays, and on the ways they represent an exacting storytelling craft filled with precise techniques: character webs and conflicts, symbols and scene weaves. Along the way, we'll team up to explore how Shakespeare pioneered some kinds stories we still read and see today, and discover what Shakespeare's stories have to say about the how and why of human experience.
ENG 364: Post-Colonial Literature
Credits 4ENG 369: Contemporary Literary Theory
Credits 4ENG 373: Topics in Literary Theory
Credits 4ENG 378: Romances, Epics and Quests
Credits 4ENG 379: The Novel
Credits 4An examination of the genesis and development of the novel, with particular emphasis on its role in literatures written in English. This course may be taken more than one time for credit when the topics are different. Prerequisite: 200-level English course or consent of instructor.
ENG 380: Drama: Multicultural Theater
Credits 4ENG 382: Topics in Genre
Credits 4ENG 383: Understanding Poetry
Credits 4ENG 386: Reading & Writing Short Fiction
Credits 4ENG 387: Reading & Writing Poetry
Credits 4ENG 401: Junior Research Seminar
Credits 4ENG 463: Topics in African American Literature
Credits 4ENG 470: Adv. Writing Workshop
Credits 4ENG 481: Internships, Field Studies and Other Field Experiences
Credits 0 3ENG 481 INTERNSHIPS, FIELD STUDIES AND OTHER FIELD EXPERIENCES
ENG 488: Seminar
Credits 4WGSS 212: Literature and Medicine
Credits 4This course offers students the chance to engage with texts that raise some of the largest existential questions of human life, including the nature of health and disease, the doctor-patient relationship, the social aspects of illness, and the dimensions of a well-lived life. Through the works of authors like Mary Shelley, Lev Tolstoy, Michael Ondaatje, Atul Gawande, Eula Biss, and Anne Boyer, we will explore questions of sickness and health beyond the biomedical paradigm to consider these questions through a humanistic lens. Fulfills the humanities elective requirement for the applied minor in Medical Humanities.