Courses
English Courses
ENG009 Remedial English
[0–0, 0 cr.]
ENG009 is designed to introduce academic reading and writing skills with examples from the disciplines. It focuses on exposing students to general academic vocabulary, grammatical structure, and other rhetorical tools in context for an understanding of various academic texts. In addition, it introduces students to basic tasks required in research and integrates oral/aural skills.
Prerequisites: IEP003 Intensive English with a minimum of C or new EEE score of 102 or Equivalent*
The cut-off scores for ACT Writing, EEE, IBT, IELTS, SAT Evidence-Based Reading & Writing, and SAT Writing can be found here.
ENG101 Academic English I
[3–0, 3 cr.]
English 101 builds upon English 009, Remedial English, and exposes students through a variety of reading strategies to a range of texts from different genres. It emphasizes written guided responses and oral/aural tasks and reinforces research based tasks needed across the disciplines.
Prerequisites: ENG009 Remedial English with passing grade or new EEE score of 123 or equivalent*
The cut-off scores for ACT Writing, EEE, IBT, IELTS, SAT Evidence-Based Reading & Writing, and SAT Writing can be found here.
ENG102 Academic English II
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course is designed to develop advanced reading and writing skills associated with academic work. Emphasis is on the analytical reading of different text types required in the disciplines as well as on synthesis from a variety of sources to produce a written text.
Prerequisite: ENG101 Academic English I, or new EEE score of 135 or equivalent*
The cut-off scores for ACT Writing, EEE, IBT, IELTS, SAT Evidence-Based Reading & Writing, and SAT Writing can be found here.
ENG202 Advanced Academic English
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course builds on the skills achieved in the previous courses. It focuses on synthesizing sources producing an empirical research paper, and defending it in front of an audience.
Prerequisite: ENG102 Academic English II, or new EEE score of 148 or equivalent.*
The cut-off scores for ACT Writing, EEE, IBT, IELTS, SAT Evidence-Based Reading & Writing, and SAT Writing can be found here.
ENG211 English Literature I
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course offers a critical study of literature from the ancient world through the Renaissance with emphasis on the European and Mediterranean traditions. Readings chosen emphasize themes that continue to resonate in the present.
Prerequisite: ENG102 Academic English II
ENG212 English Literature II
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course offers a critical study of Western literature from the seventeenth century through the twentieth century as a continuation of ENG211. Readings chosen emphasize themes that continue to resonate in the present.
Prerequisite: ENG102 Academic English II
ENG212H English Literature II
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course offers a critical study of Western literature from the seventeenth century through the twentieth century as a continuation of ENG211. Readings chosen emphasize themes that continue to resonate in the present.
ENG213 Introduction to Language
[3–0, 3 cr.]
A survey of the theoretical bases of language study emphasizing theories of language origins and developments. Topics include semantics, syntax, pragmatics, writing systems, dialects, phonology, and the contrast between communication, true language, and artificial language.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG216 Introduction to Literature
[3–0, 3 cr.]
Through analysis of primary and secondary texts, this course provides a survey of the methodology and practice of literary study; of basic notions of literary theory; and a survey of the historical development of English literature.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG216H Introduction to Literature
[3–0, 3 cr.]
Through analysis of primary and secondary texts, this course provides a survey of the methodology and practice of literary study; of basic notions of literary theory; and a survey of the historical development of English literature.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 Academic English II.
ENG281 Language and Change: Past, Present, and Future
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course provides an overview of the history and development of the English language from its origins to the present. It examines the effects of historical, socio-political, and cultural phenomena on linguistic change. The course also discusses the notion of a ‘standard’ English, the richness and diversity of English dialects and varieties, and the role of English today as a global language.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG282 Language and the Media
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course examines the structure and use of language in various print and digital media texts such as newspaper articles, blogs, e-mails, Instant Messages (IMs), and Facebook posts. The course emphasizes the importance of studying media discourse in its socio-political and historical context and investigates how the language used in the media affects our knowledge and interpretation of phenomena and events.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG283 Language and Gender
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course explores the relationship between language and gender by focusing on both the nature as well as function of gender differences in communication. It examines the differences in linguistic behavior between men and women pertaining to issues as politeness and status. It also tackles the question of sexism in language by shedding light on issues like gender stereotyping, its socio-cultural effects, and attempts to counter it socio-culturally and linguistically.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG301 Food and Travel Writing
[3–0, 3 cr.]
The course introduces the history of food writing, different genres of food criticism, and trains students to write restaurant criticism, food criticism for different media. The course also studies different forms of travel writing from the past and present and offers practical training in several genres of travel writing, in structuring narratives, drawing on experience, developing specialized language the right angle, inventive ideas, descriptions, imagery, and humor. Students will explore new formats such as blogging, multimedia and photography.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG303 Literary Linguistics
[3–0, 3 cr.]
Offers a systematic linguistic approach to literary analysis, utilizing such linguistic tools as transitivity and voice, deixis, tense, modality, etc. It aims at consolidating students’ knowledge of both literature and linguistics by drawing on their interconnectedness.
Prerequisites: ENG102 and ENG213
ENG308 Semantics and Pragmatics
[3–0, 3 cr.]
Introduces theoretical and empirical approaches to linguistic semantics and pragmatics in relation to language encoded meanings as part of language syntactic structures and language choice in social interaction/ context.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG323 Renaissance Drama
[3–0, 3 cr.]
Examines the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries with attention to their social context and later reception. Close readings of texts and film versions are directed toward discerning elements of dramatic technique, characterization and theme.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG324 Medieval Literature
[3–0, 3 cr.]
Surveys the Medieval origins of English literature until the late 15th century across the genres of lyric, epic, romance and drama.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG325 Renaissance Poetry
[3–0, 3 cr.]
Examines the genres of lyric and epic poetry from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG326 Restoration and Neoclassical Literature
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course places the genres of poetry, drama and the prose essay within their historical contexts of the late 17th and the early 18th centuries.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG328 Early Novel
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course focuses on the emergence and early development of the novel in English starting in the 17th century in light of its historical and literary contexts.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG331 Poetry Writing
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course provides guidance in the form and construction of diverse forms of poetry, including poetry used in non-literary domains (such as advertising). Workshops are designed to develop style and theme, to deepen awareness of meter and rhyme, and the use of natural rhythms of the English language.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG332 Life Writing
[3–0, 3 cr.]
In this course, students will read a range of literature in the genre of life-writing, which will include biography, autobiography, letters, and podcasts. Set texts will include not only those conventionally understood as autobiography, but also those, such as works by Truman Capote (U.S.) and Doris Lessing (U.K.), which creatively blur the line between biography and autobiography. The course will allow students to develop their life writing narratives by producing portfolios of both biographical and memoiristic stories. Intersections and distinctions between (auto) biographical writing modes will be explored through in-class exercises to curate voice, and to develop skills of style, point of view, and narrative structure.
Prerequisite: ENG 102
ENG333 Fiction Writing
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course introduces the basic skills and techniques of writing prose fiction. Students study examples of published fiction for method and style. Through writing projects, exercises, and workshops, students learn to research, analyze, critique, revise, and edit their classmates as well as their own writing. The course offers students guidance and practice in developing description, dialogue, style, characterization, structure, as well as in experimenting with different genres such as fantastic realism, thriller, autobiographical, historical, experimental, or science fiction. Course projects can either be the first chapter of a novel, or one or several complete shorter prose works.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG334 Illness Writing
[3–0, 3 cr.]
Students in this course will explore an interdisciplinary range of illness narratives, which will include fiction extracts, memoirs, auto-ethnographies, and films/podcasts. Weekly readings will be linked to a related medical concept, illness, or controversy. The course trains students to engage, critically, with representations of illness in key texts, as well as creatively, by generating their own narratives that frame their perceptions of illness/otherness, as applicable, in relation to their home culture.
Prerequisite: ENG102 Academic English II
ENG335 Playwriting
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course guides and enables to practice playwriting. Students participate in writing exercises that focus on sense memory and perception, engage inner processes that generate work, experiment with dramatic and compositional strategies, different forms, and develop structure, point of view, story, character, and dialogue. In writing workshops students generate and receive constructive criticism. Students read and discuss a short play or scene from different historical and cultural contexts, to study and explore the diversity of individual voices and styles.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG336 Romantic and Victorian Poetry
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course examines lyric and narrative poetry throughout the 19th century, primarily British and American.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG339 19th-Century British Novel
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course explores the novel of 19th century England according to how it addresses major thematic and aesthetic concerns of the period.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG342 Modernism and Beyond
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course explores the concept of Modernism and Modernist art forms from the late 19thcentury to the 1960s. Through selected poetry, prose, film and plastic arts, the course seeks to understand a rich artistic, social and intellectual period.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG342H Modernism and Beyond
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course explores the concept of Modernism and Modernist art forms from the late 19th century to the 1960s. Through selected poetry, prose, film and plastic arts, the course seeks to understand a rich artistic, social and intellectual period.
Prerequisite: ENG102 Academic English II.
ENG345 The 20th-Century British Novel
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course tracks the British novelistic production throughout the 20th century. Questions explored may include the novels’ relation to colonialism and its legacies, or the novels’ social and historical contexts of production.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG346 Contemporary Culture
[3–0, 3 cr.]
Explores contemporary culture through literature, film and other media using a British or American cultural studies approach. Topics may include the ways in which culture intersects with politics, race, class, religion, gender or globalization.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG346H Contemporary Culture
[3–0, 3 cr.]
Explores contemporary culture through literature, film and other media using a British or American cultural studies approach. Topics may include the ways in which culture intersects with politics, race, class, religion, gender or globalization.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG348 Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course explores the English-language literary production from areas outside Europe and North America. Empire, encounter, diaspora, immigration, and exile may be among the objects of study.
Prerequisite: ENG 102
ENG351 Early American Literature
[3–0, 3 cr.]
Chronicles the formation of a national literature from its Puritan beginnings to the late nineteenth century. In tracing the emergence of an American “voice,” coursework may span a variety of genres such as autobiography, poetry, the novel, essays and speeches.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG352 20th-Century American Novel
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course tracks American novelistic production throughout the 20th century. Issues explored may include war, race, the Great Depression, the Cold War and neo-imperialism.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG354 Theories of Literature and Culture
[3–0, 3 cr.]
Examines theories of literary and cultural production and reception. The course may be arranged chronologically or according to schools and approaches.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG366 Creative Writing
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course develops creative writing in a variety of techniques of fiction, poetry writing and creative non-fiction writing, based on the study of selected models. Free-writing exercises and discussion of writing assignments will be emphasized.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG372 Comparative and World Literatures
[3–0, 3 cr.]
The course concentrates on the particular insights and problems attendant to examining literature from a cross-cultural perspective. Questions of genre, period and cultural relativism may be examined through primary texts drawn from two or more language traditions.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG372H Comparative and World Literatures
[3–0, 3 cr.]
The course concentrates on the particular insights and problems attendant to examining literature from a cross-cultural perspective. Questions of genre, period and cultural relativism may be examined through primary texts drawn from two or more language traditions.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG376 Gender in Literature
[3–0, 3 cr.]
Traces the construction of gender as depicted in literature and other cultural productions. Women’s issues, sexuality and identity formation may be among the objects of study.
Prerequisite: ENG102
ENG380 Language and the Law
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course offers a comprehensive account of the role of language in legal settings. It provides a theoretical and empirical approach to language in legal contexts such as legal and criminal investigations and courtroom proceedings. The principles of forensic linguistics are introduced in light of evidential texts/recordings. The course focuses on the use of a variety of linguistic tools varying from speaker’s/writer’s linguistic profiling to translation and interpreting.
Prerequisites: ENG102 Academic English II
ENG381 Corpus Linguistics
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course takes a computer-based methodological approach to the study of authentic patterns in language use and their contextualization and applicability to language teaching and learning. Linguistic variations in databank of written and/or spoken texts will be explored through the analysis of concordances, frequencies, collocations and lexical bundles. The major aspects of corpus design, tools and types are also covered in this course.
Prerequisites: ENG102 Academic English II
ENG381H Corpus Linguistics
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course takes a computer-based methodological approach to the study of authentic patterns in language use and their contextualization and applicability to language teaching and learning. Linguistic variations in databank of written and/or spoken texts will be explored through the analysis of concordances, frequencies, collocations and lexical bundles. The major aspects of corpus design, tools and types are also covered in this course.
Prerequisites: ENG102 Academic English II
ENG479 Topics in Literature and Culture
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course explores a literary-theoretical topic in some depth. Topics might include philosophy and literature, psychological and Marxist approaches to literature, narrative theory or postmodernism.
Prerequisites: Senior standing or permission of the instructor, ENG102, and ENG202
ENG479H Topics in Literature and Culture
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course explores a literary-theoretical topic in some depth. Topics might include philosophy and literature, psychological and Marxist approaches to literature, narrative theory or postmodernism.
Prerequisites: Senior standing or permission of the instructor, ENG102, and ENG202
ENG480 Discourse and Power
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course examines the relationship between language and ideology through investigating the role of discourse as an instrument of power and control. Emphasis is placed on modern socio-political discourse using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as an analytic model. Both CDA’s theoretical underpinnings as well as its more useful practical aspects are covered with particular emphasis on Systemic Functional Grammar, conceptual metaphorical mapping, and generic framing as the most valuable analytical tools for uncovering hidden ideologies in texts.
Prerequisites: ENG102 Academic English II
ENG487 Topics in Drama and Theater
[3–0, 3 cr.]
This course explores ideas of form, convention, style and context in Drama & Theater. It focuses on different dramaturgical and theatrical approaches to specified topics or theater trends or schools (Modern Drama, Postmodernism, Documentary Drama, Gender and Theater, Popular Theater…) Course may be repeated under different topics each semester. Students may take it more than once.
Prerequisite: ENG102, ENG202
ENG499 Senior Study
[3–0, 3 cr.]
An in-depth individual capstone project involving personal research—and if appropriate an internship in an off-campus setting—under close faculty supervision, culminating in a substantial paper demonstrating scholarly expertise as well as original insights in a significant subject relevant to the curriculum of the English Studies program.
Prerequisite: ENG202, senior standing and consent of instructor