English

Course Code : EN 301

Course Description :

Surveys major literary texts in the history of western and world literature with an emphasis on those considered essential to an understanding of British and American literature.

Credit : 3

Prerequisites :

EN111, EN320, EN COR 1

Course Code : EN 306

Course Description :

Covers the development of English literature from early medieval to modern times, including readings from representative authors of each period.

Credit : 3

Prerequisites :

EN COR 1, EN111, EN320

Course Code : EN 317

Course Description :

Explores contemporary critical approaches to literature, including new historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, African-American criticism, postcolonial, and lesbian/gay/queer criticism. We will examine the various theories as well as the assumptions and values upon which they rely in seminar form, developing the tools of literary analysis.

Credit : 3

Prerequisites :

EN111, EN320, EN COR 1

Course Code : EN 410

Course Description :

One of the final courses that an English major takes, the "Capstone ePortfolio Project" offers students the opportunity to revisit several papers written for English classes taken at Caldwell University. In this capstone course, students will heavily revise these papers according to certain guidelines, incorporate the process of self-reflection, and ultimately create an e-portfolio that will showcase their accomplishments as English majors. *Formerly English Seminar through Spring 2019.

Credit : 3

Prerequisites :

EN COR 1, EN111, EN320

Course Code : DR 202

Course Group(s) : Communication & Media Studies Electives

Course Description :

Introduces students to performance styles and conditions across the centuries.

Credit : 3

Course Code : DR 203

Course Group(s) : Communication & Media Studies Electives

Course Description :

Focuses on a range of twentieth century scripts, styles and conditions.

Credit : 3

Course Code : DR 204

Course Group(s) : Communication & Media Studies Electives

Course Description :

Introduces students to the study of Shakespearean drama as a performing art.

Credit : 3

Course Code : EN 319

Course Description :

A hybrid literature/creative writing/performance course that allows students to explore the possibilities for self-expression in poetry and personal essays. Students read and analyze examples of personal essays and lyric poetry by published authors; read and discuss a guidebook discussion of craft; write their own pieces in a collaborative, workshop setting that encourages critique and revision; and, ultimately, perform selected pieces for their classmates and/or a campus audience in a campus venue. Though there will be a strong autobiographical element in the writing studied and produced for the course, students will also be encouraged to think about how their experiences and concerns as individual writers intersect with the wider world and can be expressed in ways that will engage an audience.

Course Code : EN 320

Course Group(s) : Literature Course Electives

Course Description :

Offers an intensive writing workshop for students determined to advance from average to superior writing performance. Emphasis on effective strategies for producing compelling prose in many disciplines. Chair’s permission required. Does not fulfill core literature requirement.

Credit : 3

Course Code : EN 323

Course Description :

This course will enable students to exercise a critical eye when selecting poems submitted by a wide variety of contemporary poets on the basis of their artistic merit. Selected poems will be published in the annual issue of the international print journal, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. Students will read critical essays that discuss qualities of poetry that make it “good” by way of its craft. Additionally, they will read book reviews published in a number of current literary journals devoted to the intersection of literature and religious faith or spirituality with a view toward writing short reviews of recently published collections of poems. Excerpts from these student reviews will be posted on the journal’s website: www.catholicpoetryjournal.com.

Credit : 3

Course Code : EN 338

Course Description :

Focuses on the professional writing required in a variety of professional fields such as education, finance, publishing, health professions, communications and others. Students work on the various genres of professional writing, including proposals, press releases, business plans, reports, feature articles, op-ed essays, letters, memos, and electronic formulations. Does not fulfill core literature requirement.

Credit : 3

Instruction methods : Lecture: 3 Hours

Prerequisites :

EN111, EN320

Course Code : EN 406

Course Description :

Offers an intensive exploration of the short story and lyric poetry. A workshop for students interested in developing creative talents. Opportunity for publication in literary magazine. Does not fulfill core literature requirement.

Credit : 3

Prerequisites :

EN COR 1, EN111, EN320

Course Code : EN 418

Course Description :

When we stay up far into the night reading a novel instead of sleeping, chances are that the book in question is not one of the “classics” typically enshrined in literature anthologies and taught in college English courses but a psychological thriller, romance novel, detective story, horror novel or science fiction narrative. For many of us, these and other forms of genre fiction constitute a vital part of our extracurricular reading—the reading we do, perhaps somewhat guiltily, for fun. Guilty Pleasures: Reading and Writing Genre Fiction starts from the premise that we need not apologize for the pleasure we find in the books of Stephen King or Octavia Butler or Patricia Highsmith—to take three well-known examples—that genre fiction often has great literary value, and that it can teach us a lot about how fiction works. This course introduces students to some of the best short fiction in a selected genre and helps them apply what they have learned in short stories of their own creation. Does not fulfill core literature requirement.

Credit : 3