English

Description for ENGL101:
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section. Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College’s freshman writing requirements.

Prerequisite: Degree students only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL101:
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section. Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College’s freshman writing requirements.

Prerequisite: Degree students only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL101:
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section. Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College’s freshman writing requirements.

Prerequisite: Degree students only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL101:
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section. Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College’s freshman writing requirements.

Prerequisite: Degree students only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL101:
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section. Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College’s freshman writing requirements.

Prerequisite: Degree students only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL101:
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section. Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College’s freshman writing requirements.

Prerequisite: Degree students only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL101:
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section. Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College’s freshman writing requirements.

Prerequisite: Degree students only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL102:
If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement. The following description therefore applies as well to 102E. Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement. For more detail, see: www.freshman.umb.edu.

Prerequisites: ENGL 101; Degree Students Only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL102:
If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement. The following description therefore applies as well to 102E. Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement. For more detail, see: www.freshman.umb.edu.

Prerequisites: ENGL 101; Degree Students Only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL102:
If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement. The following description therefore applies as well to 102E. Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement. For more detail, see: www.freshman.umb.edu.

Prerequisites: ENGL 101; Degree Students Only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL102:
If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement. The following description therefore applies as well to 102E. Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement. For more detail, see: www.freshman.umb.edu.

Prerequisites: ENGL 101; Degree Students Only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL102:
If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement. The following description therefore applies as well to 102E. Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement. For more detail, see: www.freshman.umb.edu.

Prerequisites: ENGL 101; Degree Students Only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL102:
If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement. The following description therefore applies as well to 102E. Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement. For more detail, see: www.freshman.umb.edu.

Prerequisites: ENGL 101; Degree Students Only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL102:
If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement. The following description therefore applies as well to 102E. Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement. For more detail, see: www.freshman.umb.edu.

Prerequisites: ENGL 101; Degree Students Only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL102:
If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement. The following description therefore applies as well to 102E. Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement. For more detail, see: www.freshman.umb.edu.

Prerequisites: ENGL 101; Degree Students Only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL102:
If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement. The following description therefore applies as well to 102E. Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues. Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College's freshman writing requirement. For more detail, see: www.freshman.umb.edu.

Prerequisites: ENGL 101; Degree Students Only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL200:
This course offers guided practice in the close reading of three major literary genres-poetry, fiction, and drama-with works to be drawn from various historical periods. (A fourth genre may be added at the instructor’s discretion.) The course explores the distinctive features of each genre, along with the concepts and terminology necessary to understand it accurately and communicate about it effectively. Close reading is integrated with aesthetic and evaluative responses to the literary works. A bridge to Literary Studies II (ENGL 300) is provided through focused study of at least one work from a biographical, historical, cultural, or other perspective. This course requires intensive writing.

Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or 102.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Arts.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL201:
Representative works by five of the most important writers from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, studied as introductions to philosophical and humanistic studies, explored as reflecting and shaping the leading ideas, assumptions, and values of their ages. Works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and other authors such as Milton, Swift, and Austen, with films and background lectures on the philosophical and historical contexts of the works and their authors. Instruction in analytical reading and writing is provided.

Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or 102.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Humanities.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL202:
The achievements of American literature in articulating the American mind is illustrated by works from some well-known American writers-Thoreau, Dickinson, Faulkner, for example-as well as from those who deserve to be better known, such as William Wells Brown, Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston.

Prerequisite: ENGL 101.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Humanities.
Diversity: United States.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL210:
An introduction to the arts through the medium of writing as well as reading poetry and fiction. Student writing is submitted weekly and discussed in class.

Prerequisite: ENGL 102.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Arts.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL211:
An introduction to the writing of poetry for students who may or may not have had prior experience. Students read poetry as a basis for learning to write it, and class discussion focuses both on assigned readings and on student work. Individual conferences with the instructor are also required.

Prerequisite: ENGL 102.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL212:
An introduction to the writing of fiction for students who may or may not have had prior experience. Students read fiction as a basis for learning to write it, and class discussion focuses both on assigned readings and on student work. Individual conferences with the instructor are also required.

Prerequisite: ENGL 102.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL221L:
A study of prose works by American writers of East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian descent. In discussing texts and current issues in the field of Asian American literary studies, students consider the ways in which discourse determines identity and the responsibilities of writers-to themselves as artists and to their communities, whether defined by race or gender.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Humanities.
Diversity: United States.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL273G:
Introduction to themes and forms of fiction. Close analytical reading of stories and novels with special attention to an artist’s historical and cultural milieu, and to an artist’s choices of form (including thematic repetition and variation, narrative point of view, setting, characterization, plot and action, imagery, figurative language, and representations of speech). Emphasis on writing critical and interpretive papers. Please note: Students may receive credit either for this course or for ENGL C204 (The Nature of Literature: Fiction), but not for both. Capabilities addressed: Reading, writing, critical thinking, information technology, oral presentation.

Prerequisites: ENGL 102, and a minimum of 30 credits. Degree Students Only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL274G:
Introduction to themes in drama. Close analytical reading of plays with special attention to context. Focus on character development, figurative language, setting, imagery and action. Please note: Students may receive credit either for this course or for ENGL C203 (The Nature of Literature: Drama), but not for both. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing.

Prerequisites: ENGL 102, and a minimum of 30 credits. Degree Students Only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL276G:
Introduction to life writing. Close analytical reading of memoirs, personal essays, biographies and autobiographies with special attention to a writer’s historical and cultural milieu, and to a writer’s choices of form (including narrative points of view, setting, characterization, scene and summary, figurative language, and representations of speech). Please note: Students may receive credit either for this course or for CORE C120 (Controversy), but not for both. This course may count toward the major or minor in English. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing, academic self-assessment, collaborative learning, information technology, oral presentation.

Prerequisites: ENGL 102, and a minimum of 30 credits. Degree Students Only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL307:
An advanced course where strong writers can gain proficiency in major types of writing for the public, including journalism (news and feature articles), promotional writing (press releases, flyers), and business and informational prose (brochures, reports, manuals and instructions). Assignments connect to real campus, job, and community events and situations, with the expectation that some writing will be publishable. In conjunction with ENGL 308, this course provides a strong preparation for editors and writers in all settings.

Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL324:
A study of the short story, chiefly as a genre of this century. The course traces its development from nineteenth century origins, concentrating its reading on such American and Irish writers as Welty, O’Connor, Cheever, Lavin, Joyce, Hemingway, Montague, and considering as well the statements made by short story writers on the poetics of short fiction.

Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Arts.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL337:
Readings in 20th-century short novels by authors such as Tolstoy, Joyce, Conrad, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Roth, Wright, Hurston, Achebe, C Johnson, and Oates. Exploration of how the language of analysis and interpretation affects the ways we relate to texts. Attention to differences among genres: short story, the novella or short novel, and novel.

Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL345:
A study of the literary renaissance of the American South from 1920 to the present in works by such authors as Faulkner, Hurston, Wright, Warren, Ransom, Tate, Welty, Porter, Styron, O’Connor, Kenan, A. Walker, M. Walker, and S. Brown.

Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL366:
A study of men and women and their relationships in nineteenth century literature, mainly British and American, with special emphasis on the issues of masculine and feminine sexual identity and sexual stereotypes, and the social position of men and women as these are treated in popular culture and in serious literary works.

Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL371:
An examination of works featuring adolescents as protagonists, with attention to why American literature in particular has celebrated the adolescent (and pre-adolescent) experience. Consideration of assumptions held about adolescence, about authorial intention, about literary analysis, and about education. Authors may include Twain, Salinger, Updike, Eugenides, Angelou, Baldwin, Bambara, Morrison, and Allison.

Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL383:
Shakespeare’’s problem plays, major tragedies and late romances. The course emphasizes critical interpretations of individual plays, and it assumes that students will have had some experience of Shakespearean plays, such as those in ENGL 382. But this course may be elected without such experience.

Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL401:
Lyrics, romances, mystery plays, allegories of English literature in the period before the sixteenth century. Old and Middle English writers, including Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl Poet; stories of King Arthur and his knights.

Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Humanities.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL410:
A study of the phenomenon of "modernism" in, roughly, the first half of the twentieth century in Britain and America. Reading and discussion of such writers as Yeats, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Eliot, Hemingway, Pound, and Faulkner.

Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for ENGL415:
A close study of Yeats, Synge, O’Casey, Joyce and other writers of the modern Irish renaissance. The backgrounds of Irish history and literature relative to the above writers are also studied.

Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960