Undergraduate English
Undergraduate English
2026 Summer Term
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INTRODUCTION TO COLLEGE WRITING AND READING
ENGLISH 101
Critical reading and writing with emphasis on textual analysis of a variety of genres (both fiction and nonfiction), critical argumentation, the writing process, and conventions of academic prose.
INTRODUCTION TO COLLEGE WRITING, READING, AND RESEARCH
ENGLISH 102
Continuation of ENGLISH 100/ENGLISH 101 with additional emphasis on modes of inquiry, the research process, and the completion of a formally documented, argument-based research paper.
INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING
ENGLISH 274
This course offers an introduction to the fundamentals of writing short stories, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Not only will students read 20th and 21st Century practitioners of these forms, they will also learn, among other things, scene-writing, plot development, characterization, and theme (in the case of fiction and nonfiction) and image, form, voice, and cadence (in the case of poetry). Upon completing the course, students will be equipped to pursue upper-division creative writing courses in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and screenwriting.
ADVANCED COMPOSITION
ENGLISH 370
A course in advanced exposition and argumentation.
SHAKESPEARE
ENGLISH 404
A study of the works of Shakespeare which will include representative genres and which will not duplicate works studied in ENGLISH 405.