ENG 203-710 – Dr. Brenda Squires LITERATURE OF THE UNITED STATES: COLONIAL ERA TO THE CIVIL WAR This course will explore issues of nation formation, race, gender, class, exploration, and identity in the historical context of early American poetry and prose. ENG 202-010 – Dr. Tina Iraca ENGLISH LITERATURE: ROMANTIC TO MODERN NOT YOUR MOTHER’S ENGLISH LIT! Malevolent mermaids, mysterious lovers, deified nature, invasive industry, massive shifts, love! Writers contemplating everything that the human mind can imagine from the Romantic period through modernity. ENG 209–010 & ENG 209-610 Dr. Keith O'Neill CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION Writers will practice various forms of fiction writing, examine the elements of fiction, probe the creative process, and develop their work. ENG 210–510 – Prof. Leigh Williams CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY What tools can we use to most powerfully express ourselves in poetry? Explore and experiment with the ways we can shape language to engage the ear, the eye, and the mind. Share your writing with other students as you develop your voice as a poet. ENG 211–010 – Prof. Kevin Lang INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM In this age of "fake news," good journalists are more in demand than ever. Are you curious, inquisitive, love to learn new things and tell stories? Then this course is for you. Keep those in power honest and preserve the First Amendment. ENG 214-010 – Prof. Patricia Phillips Are you more forthcoming in your writing than in spoken conversation? Then consider some possibilities in the writing of literary nonfiction: constructing a character – from yourself; questioning and reflecting on your inner wisdom; revealing and accepting your innermost thoughts with all flaws and imperfections. This course will focus on the craft of reading and writing literary nonfiction. ENG 216–010 – Dr. Tina Iraca THE SHORT STORY Storytelling is gossip, dialogue, secrets, narrative, confession, and fantasy about love, fear, joy, hope, death, knowing. We read and discuss the best short fiction ever written that reveals the heights and depths of human behavior. Join the conversation. ENG 218-010 – Dr. Brenda Squires ADVANCED COMPOSITION AND PEER TUTORING WRITING Join a community of writers who help other students find their voices. Future teachers work one-on-one and in groups with students seeking help in the Writing Center while immersing themselves in a series of writing assignments that give them a chance to experiment with multiple and challenging essay forms. Permission of Dr. Brenda Squires is required to register (x8436). ENG 223–01H – Dr. Navina Hooker WOMEN IN AMERICAN LITERATURE How many female authors can you name? How many male ones? It’s likely the second list is longer than the first. Taking this course will help you understand the historical and cultural context for that fact and will change it for you. ENG 224-010 Prof. Jacqueline Goffe-Mcnish AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND BLACK LITERATURE A study of selected works by significant African- American writers. The forms studied include the novel, the short story, drama, the autobiography and poetry. ENG 226-010 – Dr. Joseph Allen POPULAR CULTURE Are you an active or passive consumer of popular culture? To answer this seemingly straightforward question, we’ll study the industrial food system, the fashion industry, social identity as represented on television, and the ways the internet and big technology companies have altered popular culture. WRITING CREATIVE Walt Whitman What’s Your Story? “A piece of fiction can allow us imaginatively to identify with a character’s pain; we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with our own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. ” –David Foster Wallace