EN 100**
Understanding the Structure of English: A Practical and
Theoretical Study of Grammar
This course focuses on analyzing grammatical structures
in English, using a variety of approaches such as traditional,
structural, and transformational. In particular, this
course examines the relationship between grammatical units
and explores the connection between grammar, meaning.
and style. The course explores the notion that there may
be competing descriptions of language structure and varying
opinions of correctness. Emphasizes the study of grammar
in the context of student writing. Fall.
**Does not fulfill the Group I distribution requirement.
EN 111
Mythology and Literature
Introduces students to important classical myths, legends,
fairy tales, and biblical works that have served as sources
or background for subsequent literature. Students analyze
ways in which writers from various cultures and eras use
these myths and legends in their poetry, fiction, and
drama. Required for English majors. Spring 2004 and
Fall 2004.
EN 112
World Literature: Genres and Themes
Introduces students to the basic elements of poetry, fiction,
drama, and nonfiction while exploring important works
of world literature. Through close reading, students will
analyze how literary works are constructed in a variety
of cultures, and explore how authors throughout the world
reflect individual and social concerns.
Fall 2003 and Spring 2005.
EN 200**
Writing on the Job: Professional and Persuasive Writing
(Formerly EN 200: Writing for the Professions)
Designed for students in all majors, this course teaches
how to hone your writing skills for specific professional
tasks. Learn how to analyze your audience, to develop
persuasive techniques, and to write effective and concise
office memos, proposals, and reports. Excellent preparation
for writing at your internship site. Students compile
a writing portfolio. Fall.
**Does not fulfill the Group I distribution requirement.
EN 203
British Literary Traditions
Examines clusters of English writers from various eras
from the medieval to the modern era, with emphasis on
the thematic and stylistic variety of the poetry and fiction
we now consider the “classic” texts. Writers
studied include Mallory, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne,
Milton, Swift, Pope, Jane Austen, Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Keats, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and Virginia Woolf.
Required for English majors. Spring.
EN 204
Feature Writing
This course teaches the basics of feature writing for
newspapers and magazines. Students will explore a variety
of styles by writing columns, human interest stories,
and reviews. In addition to writing for, editing, and
publishing the Pine Manor College Gator Gazette, students
will compile a writing portfolio and create the concept
for a magazine. Spring 2005, and in alternate years.
Prerequisite: CC 102 or permission.
EN 205
Visiting Writers Seminar: Prose Fiction
This analytical and creative writing course in fiction
gives students the opportunity to meet with published
writers at campus readings, as well as in classes. Students
meet in workshops to respond to one another's writing.
Furnishes an opportunity to improve both analytical and
creative skills and compile a writing portfolio. Fall
2004.
Prerequisite: CC 102 or permission.
EN 206
Creative Writing
Develops the ability to write original prose fiction,
poetry, and drama. Students analyze writing and samples
from published authors in class and compile a writing
portfolio. Spring 2005.
Prerequisite: CC 102 or permission.
EN 207
Visiting Writers Seminar: Poetry
Gives students the opportunity to meet with published
poets at campus readings, as well as in classes. Students
meet in workshops to respond to one another's writings.
Furnishes the opportunity to improve both analytical and
creative skills, and compile a writing portfolio.
Fall 2003, and in alternate years.
Prerequisite: CC 102 or permission.
EN 208
The Art of Advanced Prose Writing
This is a writing course for students interested in further
developing their prose writing skills. We read the nonfiction
prose literature of journals, letters, memoirs, autobiography,
and essays, examining the approaches and style of good
writers as models for student writers. In a workshop setting,
students create a portfolio of their prose writing and
an individual project of their own design. Spring 2004.
Prerequisite: CC 101.
EN 209
Journalism on the Web and on the Page
Surf the Net, create the Gator Gazette, and see your work
on display. In this course, you will analyze the elements
necessary for successful Web writing, online journalism,
and print production. Working with Adobe PageMaker and
Photoshop, you will write, edit, and publish your stories
and articles online and in print. Your projects will include
creation of a writing portfolio and the production of
the Gator Gazette. Fall 2003.
Prerequisite: CC 102 or permission.
EN 211
Newspaper Practicum
1 credit
Students investigate the news and write for the Gator
Gazette, both its print and online versions. Assignments
may include news reporting, beat reporting, features,
columns, reviews, sports reporting, and editing responsibilities.
Weekly staff meetings and periodic meetings with the instructor
for individual conferences. May be repeated for credit.
Offered on a CR/NC basis. Fall and Spring.
EN 212
Literary Magazine Practicum
1 credit
In this two-semester course, students, under the supervision
of the instructor, produce the College literary magazine
and thereby gain experience in important aspects of literary
publishing; writing; soliciting, editing, and evaluating
submissions; organizing and presenting contributions;
layout and production. Students attend a weekly staff
meeting and meet individually with the instructor as necessary.
At the end of the course, students write a short paper
describing what they have learned in this course and its
application to academics. This course may be repeated
for credit. Yearly.
EN 213
Editing Practicum
1 credit
Under the supervision of the working literary editor of
Éire Ireland, an interdisciplinary journal of Irish
Studies, students may help read and evaluate submissions
(including poetry), send out manuscripts for review, copyedit,
and fact-check. They assist with the correspondence and
computer record keeping necessary to support a professional
editorial project. The course may be repeated with permission
of the instructor. Fall and Spring.
EN 216
Shakespeare I
A survey of Shakespeare’s works, including comedies,
tragedies, histories, and one tragi-comedy, from among
the following plays: Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Henry
IV, Parts 1 and 2, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing,
The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello,
and The Winter's Tale. Spring 2004, and in alternate
years.
EN 217
Shakespeare II
A survey of Shakespeare’s work, parallel in scope
and challenge to EN 216. Several comedies, tragedies,
histories, and one tragi-comedy are selected from among
Hamlet, Richard III, Julius Caesar, The Taming of the
Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Measure
for Measure, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest. Fall
2004.
EN 219*
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: The Life and Work of
a Woman of Genius
Reading Virginia Woolf's diaries, letters, fiction, and
essays, we will trace the growth of this influential,
creative woman. Discover the worlds of a modern feminist,
publisher. and writer who broke the bonds of convention
in her life and work in twentieth-century England. Fall
2003.
* Future scheduling of this course is contingent upon
final approval.
EN 221
The Poet in the World
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the
world,” said the poet Shelley in 1821. Major poets
reflect the values, noble or ignoble, of their times.
This course examines their poetry in its social context.
In addition to reading and analyzing each poet’s
work, we will examine autobiographical writings, as well
as critical writings both by and about the poets. We will
explore the writers’ connection to poetry of the
past as well as their influence upon contemporary poetry.
The emphasis of the course is on gaining a textual understanding
of these writers, as well as an appreciation of their
place in literary history. Spring 2004.
EN 228
Theatre in Boston: Reading and Seeing Plays
Students read, discuss, and see six or seven plays written
by important dramatists and produced in the Boston area.
They also examine the period, author, and genre of each
work, read reviews, and consider the interpretation of
the play in the performance they see. Ticket and transportation
fees. Spring 2005, and in alternate years.
Prerequisite: CC 101.
EN 229
Children's Literature: Female Images and Gender Roles
Introduces principles of literary analysis and traces
changing social attitudes toward women through the study
of children's literature. Selected fairy tales, children's
classics, and modern children's novels and such critical
authorities as Bruno Bettleheim and Sheila Egoff. Grimm's
Fairy Tales, The Secret Garden, and Little Women are among
works considered. Spring 2005.
EN 232
American Writers: Rebels, Visionaries, and Innovators
Provides grounding for all further study of American literature.
A consideration of how a wide variety of American authors,
both women and men, black and white, wrote innovative
narratives, poetry, and essays that created new versions
of the American experiment. Interdisciplinary approach.
Writers include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass,
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson,
and Mark Twain. Required for English majors. Fall.EN 233
African-American and Caribbean Literature Traces the history
of African-American and Caribbean writers who have given
voice to the horrors of slavery, exile, and racism, as
well as to the creation of resilient communities. Pairing
male and female writers, the course introduces the works
of such writers as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston,
Richard Wright, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Spring
2005, and in alternate years.
Prerequisite: CC 102 or permission.
EN 235
Female Voices of Diversity: Studies in Contemporary Literature
Study of representative fiction, poetry, and essays examining
the way issues of ethnic diversity, gender, and cultural
difference are reflected in the language and vision of
American literature today. Work by authors such as Toni
Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, Sandra Cisneros, Louise Erdrich,
Leslie Marmon Silko, Amy Tan, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Spring 2004.
EN/TH 272
Drama and Theatre in London
A survey of London’s theatrical life from the Elizabethans
to the present day, as well as an introduction to this
greatest of theatrical cities. In London, students read
and attend performances of traditional and contemporary
plays, visit museums such as the Theatre Museum and the
Museum of the City of London, receive guided tours of
Shakespeare’s reconstructed Globe Playhouse, the
Banqueting House, and the Royal National Theatre of Great
Britain, and visit many other relevant sites in and out
of the city. In addition to course tuition, a separate
foreign travel fee is required. Summer 2004.
Prerequisite: One course in dramatic literature (EN
216, EN 217, EN 227, EN 228), or TH 104, or permission.
EN 310
Methods and Curriculum in English Instruction
Prepares students to teach English at the middle and secondary
school level by analyzing methods of teaching composition,
literature, and related language arts. Explores theoretical
issues in terms of their practical application in the
classroom. Students experience a variety of teaching approaches.
Frequent class presentations by students develop a variety
of classroom techniques, lesson plans, and curricula.
Students spend 30 hours observing and assisting in a middle
or secondary school English classroom. Fall.
Prerequisite: EN major and ED 305.
EN 311
Advanced Journalism: On the Beat
How to cover a campus beat, report an ongoing story, produce
press releases, write feature profiles, and cover meetings
and press conferences. Interviewing techniques, column
writing, and investigative journalism are also explored.
Students improve their skills in copyediting, headline
and outline writing, and learn how to support a story
with photographs. They interview a practicing print or
broadcast journalist, write for the Pine Manor Gator Gazette,
and strengthen their writing portfolios. Spring 2004,
and in alternate years.
Prerequisite: CC 102.
EN 330
Images of Twentieth-Century America: Innovation in Literature
Focuses on novelists Ernest Hemingway and Toni Morrison,
exploring how writers develop innovation and complex literary
art in twentieth-century America. Experimenting with techniques
of modernism, imagism, and postmodernism, these novelists
joined with such poets as William Carlos Williams, Langston
Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, and Adrienne Rich, as well as
painters, musicians, filmmakers, and critics to break
new ground in subject matter and form. Interdisciplinary
approach. In-depth study of selected writers and their
intellectual, historical, and aesthetic contexts. Fall
2003.
Prerequisite: An EN literature course or permission.
EN 332
American Girls and New Women: American Literature, 1870–1930
Examines how post-Civil War writers define and redefine
American women through literary portraits ranging from
Henry James’s depiction of naive ingenues to Willa
Cather's powerful frontier heroines. Using current critical
perspectives, students look at how such writers as Kate
Chopin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Zora Neale Hurston invented
new narrative forms to depict changing images of women.
Interdisciplinary approach.
Fall 2004, and in alternate years.
Prerequisite: Any EN course or permission.
EN 385
Irish Literature
Examination of leading figures of modern Irish literature,
with special emphasis on Joyce and Yeats. Topics may include
the influence of Celtic mythology and folklore, the influence
of Irish political history, the founding of the Abbey
Theatre, the early Literary Revival, and the recent surge
of poetry, fiction, and drama from Ireland. Interdisciplinary
approach.
Spring 2005, and in alternate years.
Prerequisite: Any EN course or permission.
EN 389
Empire and Resistance
To understand how attitudes toward race, gender ,and power
controlled literary productions of the British imperial
empire, students first look at canonical works by Shakespeare,
Charlotte Brontë, E.M. Forster, or Joseph Conrad.
Later, students read texts written in English by writers
like Naipaul, Salih, and Kincaid—the literature of
the colonized. Primarily fiction, but also drama, poetry,
memoirs, state documents, travel literature, criticism,
and film are examined.
Spring 2004, and in alternate years.
Prerequisite: Any EN course or permission.
EN 495
Senior Internship
6 credits
Must be taken in the fall of the student's senior year,
at a site where she can apply her research and writing
skills in a professional setting. At the site, the intern
develops a portfolio of professional writing. Regular
on-campus seminar meetings required. Fall.
Prerequisite: Senior status.
EN 496
Senior Essay
Available to a student doing honors work in English who
is a double major and who has a special interest in exploring
a literary topic or doing a creative writing project.
Approval of a faculty sponsor is required. A proposal
must be submitted to the faculty sponsor and the B.A.
Coordinator during the preregistration period of the preceding
semester. Fall and Spring.
Prerequisite: 3.0 GPA in English and permission of
the B.A. Coordinator.
EN 498
English Secondary Education Practicum/Internship
12 credits
This course is required for Massachusetts initial teacher
licensure in English(grades 8–12). EN 498 is not
under the supervision of the College Internship Office
and does not fulfill any 295 or 495 Internship course
requirements. Each student is placed with a supervisory
teacher in a local public school. The student assumes
increasing levels of professional responsibility in the
classroom. Students are required to teach full-time for
the entire semester, to attend a weekly seminar, and to
prepare a portfolio. All student teaching takes place
in the Greater Boston area. Students are responsible for
arranging and paying for transportation to and from school.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the Massachusetts
Tests for Educator Licensure. Completion of the pre-practicum
courses with substantial field-based training, each with
a minimum grade of “C”, a cumulative GPA of
2.00, and a GPA of at least 2.5 in Education courses;
and permission of the Director of the Teacher Licensure
Program.
Courses offered selectively:
EN 225 American Short Stories
EN 226 Women's Lives in Film and Fiction
EN 227 Images of Women in Drama: Interdisciplinary Approach,
Plays Past and Present
EN 260 The Publishing Industry
EN 273 Modern Drama
EN 302 The Language of Persuasion
