ENGL 203: Writing About Literature entitled, "Approaching Different Selves/Sexualities" 

This course serves to enhance communication and persuasive skills in writing, by learning how to analyze and write about literature. How can the "self" be understood in terms of sexuality, starting from the early nineteenth century to the present day? We will look at a range of types of literature such as short stories, novels, and film, to understand how people understood themselves sexually, by writing about them. The course will look at texts such as Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and My Beautiful Laundrette. 

 

ENGL 232: Survey of English Literature II entitled, Romanticism to Postmodernism, The Making of the "Self"

This course is a survey of British writings ranging from poetry to novels to non-fiction prose from the late eighteenth century to the present. Whilst becoming familiar with major works of British authors, this course serves to enhance our understanding of the “self,” and how it transformed over centuries. Looking at works of Mary Shelley to the Pre-Raphaelites to Virginia Woolf and to contemporary authors, we will explore historical and literary texts that influenced how the “self” was shaped.

 

ENGL 322: Nineteenth-Century Literature (Victorian) entitled, “Radical Victorian Narratives”

This course serves to examine the poetry and prose of major Victorian authors within nineteenth century England. It will particularly be focusing on the theme of “radical Victorian narratives” in which we explore the various types of radical characters that were present within Victorian novels and poetry. The Victorian era was an age of continual transformations and it was not limited to the industrialization and change of religious and moral values, characters too fought against the grain of variant changes as they tried to understand themselves as individuals. As a class, we will critically analyze and write about the charismatic and peculiar nature of Victorian narratives that were present in the wake of radical change in nineteenth century England.  

 

ENGL 203: Writing about Literature entitled, "Cultivating Jane Eyre's Rhythm" 

This course serves to enhance communication and persuasive skills in writing, by learning how to analyze and write about literature. It will particularly be focusing on how to understand Jane Eyre and its adaptations to it, in surveying appropriate genres and thematic issues related to it. From the time Jane Eyre was originally published from 1847, there have been a range of adaptations, both film and novel which makes us, readers, question: why is it still so relevant? As contemporary readers, we as a class, will respond to this question by learning how to think critically, analyze, and write about some form or adaptation of Jane Eyre.

 

ENGL 210: Technical and Professional Writing

Technical and Professional Writing. (3-0). Credit 3. Focus on writing for professional rhetorical situations; correspondence and researched reports fundamental to the workplace—memoranda, letters, electronic correspondence, research proposals and presentations; use of visual rhetoric and document design in print and electronic mediums; emphasis on audience awareness, clarity of communication and collaborative team-work.