EN 101. Introduction to Academic Reading and Writing.3 Credits.
This course introduces students to the ways that writing is grounded in reading and that inquiry is essential to learning. Through attentive reading of academic texts, students are given authority as learners to undertake serious intellectual projects that emphasize critical and creative thinking. Instructors guide students through sequenced reading and writing assignments and highlight the revision process of multiple-draft writing that leads to increasingly complex thinking and rhetorical presentation. As a community of learners, students begin to recognize academic writing as a site where knowledge is produced, understood and communicated. Portfolio assessment; grade of C- or better required to pass EN 101. Full-time students are expected to have completed EN 101 and EN 102 by the end of three semesters. Refer to the undergraduate Academic Good Standing Policy for details.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every year, All
EN 102. Academic Writing and Research.3 Credits.
Building on the practices of EN 101, this course introduces students to the kind of critical and creative thinking necessary to understand the relationship between academic research and argumentation. Working with a broad range of academic texts, students undertake projects that focus on a field of inquiry and that lead to increasingly proficient rhetorical presentation. Students develop a practical understanding of the ways in which critical thinking, writing and research all depend upon a shared process of inquiry that can be applied across disciplines and within their chosen majors. Portfolio assessment. Full-time students are expected to have completed EN 101 and EN 102 by the end of three semesters. Refer to the undergraduate Academic Good Standing Policy for details.
Prerequisites: Take EN 101 or EN 101I.
Offered: Every year, All
EN 222. Comics and Graphic Novels.3 Credits.
This course explores comics and graphic novels emphasizing contemporary works. Students consider the (often unnoticed) complexity of the comics form, as well as its historical development and representative genres. Readings are drawn from many different genres; and survey a wide variety of national origins, the better to represent the inevitable human diversity embodied in comics creation and reading. Students have the chance to develop an original portfolio that focuses on any creator, genre or theme of their choosing.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: As needed
UC: Humanities
EN 302. Advanced Creative Nonfiction.3 Credits.
This advanced writing course focuses on the reading, analyzing and writing of creative nonfiction. Students read essay and book-length works of creative nonfiction with an emphasis on understanding authorial presence, issues of audience, questions of truth and memory and artistic techniques. Students are asked to employ what they learn from studying masterworks of creative nonfiction to their own longer works of creative nonfiction.
Prerequisites: Take EN 201, EN 202 or EN 205.
Offered: Every other year, Spring
EN 366. Modern U.S. Literature (1900-1945).3 Credits.
The early 20th-century movement known as Modernism was an exhilarating time when the Western world's artists and thinkers were exploring how to represent human experience authentically. In the context of U.S. contributions to this era, students investigate questions of aesthetic innovation (especially in poetry), literary subgenres, popular vs. high culture, and national and ethnic identity (including the Harlem Renaissance). Representative authors might include Cather, Frost, Hammett, Hemingway, Hurston, Larsen, Stein, Stevens, Toomer and Yezierska.
Prerequisites: Take one 200-level English course.
Offered: Every other year, Fall