Undergraduate Course Descriptions

First-Year Courses

EN104 Strategies of Writing 0.5

General principles and practices of successful written communication, with emphasis on invention, purpose, audience, diction and organization.

Exclusion: EN102, EN103, EN105.

EN105 Writing at Work 0.5

The principles and practices of communicating in administrative and other working environments, with a focus on correspondence, memorandums and short reports.

Exclusion: EN102, EN103, EN104.

EN118 Reading Literary Forms 0.5

A study of poetry, fiction and drama, pursued in the reading of works taken mostly from the twentieth century. Students will be introduced to basic literary terms and to some techniques and conventions of the genres studied.

EN122* Survey of Major British Authors 1.0

An historical and critical survey of influential works in British literature from the Middle Ages to the Modern period.

EN130 Reading Culture: Strategies and Approaches 0.5

An extension of the practices involved in reading written texts, literary and non-literary, to the interpretation of other cultural forms, (for example, film, graphics, TV programming). There will be some attention to theories that offer a general model for how meaning is constructed and exchanged.

Undergraduate Course Descriptions Courses English