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. Spring. No Group Credit.
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. Fall. Group: I.
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. Spring. Group: I.
EN 200
Writing on the Job: Professional and Persuasive Writing
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. Group: I.
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, and Virginia Woolf. Required for English majors. Fall. Group: I.
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 2013 and alternate years.
Prerequisite: CC 112 or permission.
Group: I.
EN 205
Visiting Writers Seminar: 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 2011.
Prerequisite: CC 112 or permission.
Group: I.
EN 206
Creative Writing
Develops the ability to write creatively in a variety of genres including fiction, poetry, and the personal essay. Students analyze writing and samples from published authors in class and compile a writing portfolio. Spring 2012.
Prerequisite: CC 112 or permission.
Group: I.
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. Spring 2013 and alternate years.
Prerequisite: CC 112 or permission. Group: I.
EN 208
Creative Nonfiction
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. Fall 2012. Prerequisite: CC 112. Group: I.
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. Spring.
Prerequisite: CC 112 or permission.
Group: I.
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. 1 credit. 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; Much Ado About Nothing; The Merchant of Venice; Antony and Cleopatra; Macbeth; King Lear; and The Winter’s Tale. Spring 2013 and alternate years. Group: I.
EN/TH 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, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest. Spring 2012. Group: I.
EN 223
Bad Girls and Wild Women: Images of Female Transgression in Literature; a Writing Intensive Course
Starting with Eve, women have been portrayed as both submissive and transgressive. This course examines diverse literary texts to explore attitudes toward women who break with convention. Are they bold pioneers, victims of gender stereotypes, immoral, or some combination of all three? This writing-intensive course requires a minimum of four essays with revisions, weekly response papers, and a final essay exam. Spring 2013.
Prerequisite: CC 112 or permission
Group: I.
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. The course considers children’s classics, modern children’s literature, controversial issues in children’s literature, and work by critical authorities in the field. Fall 2011.
Group: I.
EN 232
American Writers: Faith, Race,and Gender
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. Spring. Group: I.
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 Edwidge Dandicat. Spring 2012.
Prerequisite: CC 112 or permission.
Group: I.
EN 234/334
The Bachelorette in Fiction and Film
How has the single woman been portrayed in fiction and film as women’s lives began to change during the exciting 20th century, and women writers such as Edith Wharton and Toni Morrison told their stories? Interdisciplinary approach. EN 234 and EN 334 will meet together: EN 334 students will do more advanced writing assignments, including EN Assessment papers. Fall, 2011.
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. Fall 2011. Group: I.
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. By permission of the instructor.
Prerequisites: EN major and ED 205.
Group: I.
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 2012 and alternate years. Prerequisite: CC 112. Group: I.
EN/CO 350
Advertising Copywriting and Design Seminar
This is an interdisciplinary course shared with the English Program and is the capstone course for the joint Advertising and Public Relations concentration. Students work as part of an advertising and public relations team to create ad campaigns and public relations projects for on-campus clients and selected clients in the community. This course is highly recommended for Communications majors who want to pursue a creative advertising, marketing, or public relations campaign for their senior project. The work produced in this seminar will be helpful for senior portfolios. Offered selectively. Prerequisites: CO 310, MK 324, and junior or senior status. Group IV.
Both IDS 389 and IDS 390 will count as 300-level English literature courses in which a student may write her assessment paper (see Interdisciplinary courses on page 111).
IDS 390
Boston Through Its Writers
See and explore Boston as you never have before! This interdisciplinary course focuses on Boston and the various cultural and socio-political forces that have defined it and shaped it over the years. Primary focus is placed upon literary works produced in Boston or which deal with Boston as a theme, including the work of John Winthrop, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry James. This rich material will be organized into major historical periods, e.g. colonial, nineteenth century, etc., with an extensive analysis of the social and cultural history and art/architecture produced in each period. There will be field trips to various locations throughout Boston. Spring 2012 and alternate years. Prerequisite: Any lower-level AH, EN, HI, or SPS course or permission of the instructor. Group: IDS
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.
Courses offered selectively:
EN 219 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: The Life and Work of a Woman of Genius
EN 221 The Poet in the World
EN 226 Women’s Lives in Film and Fiction
EN 228 Theatre in Boston: Reading and Seeing Plays
EN 330 Images of Twentieth-Century America: Innovation in Literature
IDS 389 Empire and Resistance