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An examination of selected Shakespeare plays with an eye towards performance, as students will be mining the works of Shakespeare in preparation for performing soliloquies at the end of the semester in front of a live audience. We will pay attention to the historical and cultural context of the plays, learning about Shakespeare's unique - and at times precarious - position as a leading playwright in Elizabethan England. 

Survey of the major genres of literature (short story, poetry, drama) with emphasis on the organizational principles that give artistic structure or integrity. Intensive studies of such elements as characterization, plot, setting, tone, symbolism, etc., conducted.

Development of basic writing skills. Practice of written language in argument, persuasion and critical analysis. Course objectives designed to meet individual students' needs.

Study of writing with technical and scientific purposes.  Focuses on understanding scientific and technical discourse communities.  Topics include writing effectively in appropriate genres and styles, developing a personal writing-to-learn practice (e.g. STEM notebooks), presenting information in oral and online formats, corresponding with professionals, appealing to varying audiences, integrating graphics and data, reviewing and assessing scientific literature, editing, and collaborating.

Examines steps of the writing process from sight to insight: perceive, identify, analyze, discover, write, re-write and edit. Critical thinking, library research, peer conferencing, and the art of argument integral to the course.

Engages in primary analysis and response to significant literature from antiquity through the Renaissance.

The second of the three English Department survey courses, this class aspires to provide students with an introduction to some of the major literary works and ideological movements of the Western world during the 18th and 19th centuries. In the course of the semester, we will gain an understanding of a variety of texts as well as an appreciation for the social, historical, political, religious, and ideological currents of each era.

Engages the student in primary analysis and response to significant literature from late nineteenth century Modernism through post-colonial and post-modern configurations.

Engages the student in primary analysis and response to significant literature from the late 20^th century postmodernists to the present-day.