2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
|
|
|
Courses that meet the General Education Curriculum (GEC) are so noted at the end of their individual course description.
Courses noted as “shared” are also offered at one or more of the other Vermont State Colleges.
|
| |
English |
| |
-
ENG 1710 - Special Topics in English
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 1000-level not offered in the general English curriculum.
Prerequisites: This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
|
| |
-
ENG 2005 - The Self-Sufficient Writer
Credit(s): 3
This course is intended to replace the Writing Proficiency Portfolio and is the means by which students who have failed the Writing Proficiency Exam may satisfy the last element of the General Education Core Curriculum in writing. As with the Writing Proficiency Exam, the emphasis of the course is the writing of extemporaneous persuasive essays in edited standard American English, without help from instructors or software-based spelling and grammar aids. Students will be expected to write in-class essays that state a clear thesis and develop that central idea concretely, logically and correctly. Class time is spent reviewing and cultivating the wide range of skills necessary to prepare students for the writing of analytic essays with a minimum of errors and without assistance from the instructor: review of and quizzes over the rules of grammar, punctuation, spelling and usage; editing passages and dictation exercises; peer teaching; and every week, in-class writing.
Prerequisites: Failure of the Writing Proficiency Exam
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2031 - History and Art of Publishing
Credit(s): 3
This course teaches the basic principles and fundamentals of literary magazine editing, production and layout. This includes the fundamentals of editorial selection, the processing and managing of submissions, editorial discussions of submitted material, editorial correspondence (rejections and acceptances), ordering of the final manuscript and preparation of the electronic manuscript for typesetting. Students are responsible for producing and publishing an edition of the journal over the course of the semester. Students act as editors and editorial assistants, reading, identifying and selecting well-written manuscript submissions, as well as selecting art. They also work in both production and marketing; develop skills in evaluating and reading copy and editing prose and poetry; evaluate art and photography; developing skills in layout and production; and interview and write articles on contemporary writers. This is primarily a lab course, academic in nature.
Prerequisites: ENG 1071
Offering Location: Johnson
|
| |
-
ENG 2051 - Introduction to Journalism
Credit(s): 3
The basics of news gathering and news writing are taught with an emphasis on print and digital formats. Students will write for Basement Medicine, the student-run NVU-Johnson and community newspaper, also serving as auxilary staff. The nuts and bolts of journalistic research, photojournalism, interviewing, story structure, and AP style are incorporated into the semester’s work. Ethics, basic media law, and the history of journalism are also part of the course.
Prerequisites: ENG 1032 or ENG 1071
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2052 - News Publishing
Credit(s): 3
This course will focus on editing the campus newspaper. The students will comprise the newspaper editorial staff. They will assign stories and photography; write news stories, columns and editorials; and learn layout (desktop publishing). In addition, some of the class will be designated to handle the business end of publication: advertising sales, budget and acquisition of supplies and equipment. This is a hands-on class required of all journalism majors and open to all majors.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 ; ENG 2051
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2085 - Public Relations, Advertising, and Marketing
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces the principles and practice of public relations, advertising, and marketing in a multimedia environment. Exploring marketing strategies that guide corporations, advertising campaigns that shape popular culture, and public-relations efforts that drive news headlines, this course will examine the role of strategic communications in society. The course offers practical experience in the techniques of writing and producing news releases, marketing projects, and advertising messages for a wide variety of media.
Prerequisites: ENG 1081 or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2101 - Creative Writing
Credit(s): 3
Students analyze and practice the techniques of poetry and prose fiction. In poetry, students work with imagery, metaphor, tone and diction, and experiment with traditional and contemporary verse forms. In prose fiction, students work with plot, setting, point of view and characterization.
Prerequisites: ENG 1071
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2130 - Introduction to Writing Poetry
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the art and the craft of writing poetry and offers an opportunity to practice concepts learned in class in a variety of written exercises. While the instruction encourages students to study published poetry, the emphasis will be on writing poetry for an audience of poetry readers. The course will also cover the rudiments of narrative structure. No previous creative writing experience is required.
Prerequisites: ENG 1081 or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2140 - Introduction to Writing Fiction
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the art and the craft of writing fiction and offers an opportunity to practice concepts learned in class in a variety of written exercises. While the instruction encourages students to study published fiction, the emphasis will be on writing original fiction. No creative writing experience is required.
Prerequisites: ENG 1081 or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2155 - Multimedia Storytelling
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the theory and practice of creative and professional writing across media platforms. The instruction allows students to construct narratives using a mix of text, photography, audio, video, and graphics. The course emphasizes development of multimedia offerings for online presentation.
Prerequisites: ENG 1081 or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
|
| |
-
ENG 2171 - World Literature I
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to fiction, poetry, essays and drama in translation, primarily from the European tradition, but also including works from the Near and Far East and Latin America. Included are works by Homer, Biblical and Buddhist writers, and the Chinese poet Tu Fu. Each work is viewed in its cultural context, with common themes and ideas also examined. This course may be taken separately or in sequence with ENG 2172 .
Prerequisites: ENG 1032 or ENG 1071
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2172 - World Literature II
Credit(s): 3
Major figures in this course include Dante, Rumi, Chekhov, Kafka and Neruda. Each work is viewed in its cultural context, with common themes and ideas also examined. This course may be taken separately or in sequence with ENG 2171 .
Prerequisites: ENG 1032 or ENG 1071
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2250 - Critical Approaches
Credit(s): 3
[LGWL2] This course provides an introduction to methods of critical analysis of textual and visual forms of storytelling. Beginning with an exploration of the essential categories and vocabulary of critical analysis, this course briefly surveys classical theories, such as those of Aristotle and Plato, and focuses on recent theoretical approaches such as reader-response theory, semiotics, deconstruction, feminism and gender theory, critical race theory, new historicism, psychoanalytic approaches, Marxist theory, eco-criticism, and film theory. Students will learn how these theories can be applied to specific genres, texts, and media.
Prerequisites: The prerequisite is ENG 1082. This course is offered every fall.
|
| |
-
ENG 2281 - Survey of English Literature I
Credit(s): 3
In this course, we will read and discuss works by writers from what we now call Great Britain, including early Anglo-Saxon poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and John Milton’s great epic, Paradise Lost, which aspires to “justify the ways of God to men”. We’ll read a variety of genres, including epic, poetry, and nonfiction. As we do so, we’ll develop an overview of literary history: its themes, literary forms, and cultural contexts. In order to understand and appreciate literature from distant periods and places, we’ll consider the intellectual, cultural, and political climates in which it was produced, and how issues from the literary past persist in our world today.
Prerequisites: ENG 1032 or ENG 1071
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2282 - Survey of English Literature II
Credit(s): 3
In this course, we will read and discuss representative works by writers from the British Isles from the 18th to the 20th century, including Jonathan Swift, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde. We will read a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, and drama. We will develop an overview of literary history: its themes, literary forms, and cultural contexts. In order to understand and appreciate this literature, we will consider the intellectual, cultural, and political climates in which it was produced, as well as how issues raised in this literature persist in our world today.
Prerequisites: ENG 1032 or ENG 1071
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2290 - Survey of British Literature and Culture
Credit(s): 3
[LGWL2] This course explores the roots and transformations of British literature and culture from the Medieval through the Modern periods through representative major figures such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Yeats, and Woolf.
Prerequisites: The prerequisite is ENG 1082 or permission. This course is required for English Secondary Education Licensure. This course is offered every fall.
|
| |
-
ENG 2321 - Survey of American Literature I
Credit(s): 3
This is the first of two courses surveying the American tradition of literature from the early colonial period to the present. The focus is on major figures and on genres such as diaries, journals, poetry, essays and fiction. This course considers Winthrop, Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards and Franklin in the 17th and 18th centuries and Emerson, Poe, Thoreau, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman as major 19th century writers.
Prerequisites: ENG 1032 or ENG 1071
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2322 - Survey of American Literature II
Credit(s): 3
This is one of two courses surveying the American tradition of literature from the early colonial period to the present. The focus is on major figures and on genres such as diaries, journals, poetry, essays and fiction. This course extends from the late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century and includes such writers as Twain, James, Crane, Frost, Eliot, Hemingway, Faulkner and Stevens.
Prerequisites: ENG 1032 or ENG 1071
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2323 - FYS: 1492: Reading the Conquest
Credit(s): 3
This first-year seminar will examine early literary responses to the conquest of the New World. Themes include the sense of wonder and curiosity catalyzed by the epochal encounters begun in 1492; the meanings of these journeys, discoveries and conquests; ideas about the natural (were the Americas and their inhabitants paradisiacal or savage?); and the significance of the conquest for us today. It is hoped students will share the sense of awe expressed by our authors at the marvels they encountered during their various sojourns. This course is also designed as a beneficial introduction to college life including research, balancing your schedule, learning how to learn, making use of campus resources and developing successful study skills.
Restrictions: First-year students only
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2325 - Survey of American Literature and Culture
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the roots and transformations of American literature and culture from the pre-Colonial period to the twentieth century. Genres include poetry, fiction, historical narrative, autobiography, and drama.
Prerequisites: ENG 1082 or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: This course is required for English Secondary Education Licensure.
|
| |
-
ENG 2355 - FYS: Tradition & Identity in Contemporary Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to investigate the influence of the past on the present, especially as this influence affects individual identity, purpose and fulfillment. Our focus will be on people’s responses to family contemporary essays, autobiography and fiction, and on our own examination of the past and its influence in our lives. Whenever we identify who we are, we make choices: What do we want or need to emphasize about ourselves? How will people respond to what they learn about us? Will our freedom and control (both short- and long-term) be enhanced or constrained as a result? What combination of skills, influences, insights and effort will give us the best chance of meeting life on its own terms and making the most of it and of ourselves?
Restrictions: First-year students only
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2390 - Survey of World Literature: Explorations
Credit(s): 3
This course, by focusing primarily but not exclusively on the modern era, explores the representations, ideas, and concerns of a variety of cultures through selected literary works that are considered significant by the culture that each embodies. Texts to be considered might include Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. The emphasis throughout will be on the ways in which the texts address issues of identity, gender, and cultural differences.
Prerequisites: ENG 1082 or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: This course is required for English Secondary Education Licensure.
|
| |
-
ENG 2510 - Women & Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course provides a culturally diverse survey of fiction and poetry by women authors that explores women as characters and the condition of women in the world.
Prerequisites: ENG 1032 or ENG 1071
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2535 - Genre Survey
Credit(s): 3
This course will explore a variety of literary and cultural genres at an intermediate level. Specific genres that might be explored in any given semester include: Mystery and Detective Fiction; Literary Non-Fiction; Epic Poetry; Fantasy Literature; and Adventure Literature.
Prerequisites: ENG 1082 or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of genre (but may be counted only twice toward English program requirements).
|
| |
-
ENG 2540 - Global English: Forms, Roles & Issues
Credit(s): 3
[LGCC4] This course addresses the importance of language in general as a means of understanding ourselves and the world around us. Topics include, but are not limited to, history of the English language, dialects of American English, World Englishes, language acquisition and language pathology, language and culture, gender difference, language policy and planning.
Prerequisites: The prerequisite is ENG 1082 or permission. The course is required for English Secondary Education Licensure. The course is offered every semester.
|
| |
-
ENG 2545 - Literature and Culture Survey
Credit(s): 3
This course examines intermediate topics at the intersection of literature and culture by exploring various literary themes and issues in their cultural contexts. Specific themes or issues that might be explored in any given semester include: Greek and Roman Classics; Arthurian Literature; Outsiders in Literature; Dangerous Literature; and the Literature of Business.
Prerequisites: ENG 1082 or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of issue or theme (but may be counted only twice toward program requirements).
|
| |
-
ENG 2710 - Special Topics in English
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 2000-level not offered in the general English curriculum.
Prerequisites: This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
|
| |
-
ENG 2810 - Internship
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved internship in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 2815 - On-Site Experience
Credit(s): 1-3
This course provides students with an immersion experience away from the Lyndon campus, such as a film festival, theater performance, a professional conference, or travel to a culturally significant locale. Students will be expected to attend meetings prior to, during, and after the experience. The academic content of the course will focus on participation in the experience activities, group discussions, and reflection papers about the experience. Students registered for 2 or 3 credits will be required to complete extended analytical or research papers.
Restrictions: By Permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: May be repeated for credit (but no more than three credits may be counted toward English program requirements).
Notes: There is a course fee.
|
| |
-
ENG 2910 - Independent Study in English
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved independent study in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3010 - Advanced Composition and Rhetoric
Credit(s): 3
This course offers advanced study of and practice in analytical, argumentative, persuasive, and expository writing, as well as rhetorical strategies. There is a substantial focus on the formal aspects of writing: grammar, mechanics, syntax, structure, and style. In addition, the course explores logic and rhetoric, techniques of rational and emotional persuasion, and the power of language.
Prerequisites: ENG 1082 or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
|
| |
-
ENG 3020 - Feature Writing
Credit(s): 3
An advanced course in the preparation and production of feature articles and essays, this course includes close examination of contemporary features writing in both national and regional newspapers and magazines. Opportunities for the publication of student work in this course may be available in the college newspaper and other college publications.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3022 - Advanced News Publishing
Credit(s): 3
This class is available to students who have taken ENG 2052 and choose to return to the newspaper staff a second semester. Responsibilities include more page layout, more investigative reporting and more line editing and rewriting.
Prerequisites: ENG 2052
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3025 - Media and Society
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the history, functions, and social effects of mass communication media, both within the United States and internationally, to provide a framework for the critical analysis of the politics, economics, and structure of the media. Topics include the roles and responsibilities of mass media in the context of a robust democracy, media law and ethics, technological developments related to the delivery and consumption of mass media, philosophical and psychological approaches to understanding the media’s influence on individuals and society, and possible future scenarios of the field.
Prerequisites: ENG 1082 or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3032 - Literary Publishing in the 21st Century: Green Mountain Reviews
Credit(s): 3
This course builds on ENG 2031 , teaching the basic principles and fundamentals of literary magazine editing, production and layout. This includes the fundamentals of editorial selection, the processing and managing of submissions, editorial discussions of submitted material, editorial correspondence (rejections and acceptances), ordering of the final manuscript and preparation of the electronic manuscript for typesetting. Students are responsible for producing and publishing an edition of the journal over the course of the semester. Students act as editors and editorial assistants, reading, identifying and selecting well-written manuscript submissions, as well as selecting art. They also work in both production and marketing; develop skills in evaluating and reading copy and editing prose and poetry; evaluate art and photography; developing skills in layout and production; and interview and write articles on contemporary writers. This is primarily a lab course, academic in nature.
Prerequisites: ENG 1071
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3080 - Strategic Media Communications
Credit(s): 3
This course offers advanced study of strategic media communication techniques in a practical setting. The instruction covers advanced topics such as integrated marketing communication, crisis communication, and social media messaging. Students act as public-relations and advertising consultants for selected clients.
Prerequisites: The prerequisite is ENG 2085 or MRM 3110. There is a course fee. This course is offered every even-numbered fall.
|
| |
-
ENG 3090 - Horse & Human Culture
Credit(s): 3
Horses and humans have lived in close contact with each other for centuries, beginning with the domestication of the horse by humans 6,000 years ago. The horse has served throughout history as food, transportation, machine, god, athlete and companion, and is second only to the dog in its effects on human culture. In the 20th century, horses have assumed the role, for the most part, of recreational partner or pet. In some ways, however, we are only starting to understand the potential of horse-human relationships. This course will engage with questions of how the horse has shaped human culture and how human culture has shaped the horse, through the study of anthropology, history, art and literature, psychology and business, starting even before domestication and continuing into the present day.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
|
| |
-
ENG 3120 - Poetry Workshop
Credit(s): 3
Student poems serve as the basis and focus of this advanced writing workshop. Intensive and extensive writing is expected, and revisions of poems are required. Students also study the poetry and poetic theory of contemporary writers to discover how their work fits into the contemporary poetic tradition.
Prerequisites: ENG 2101 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3130 - Fiction Workshop
Credit(s): 3
This upper-level course concentrates on the short story. Weekly class discussion ranges from critiquing fellow students’ work to examining work by professional writers. Students write at least three full-length stories by the end of the semester.
Prerequisites: ENG 2101 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3135 - Writing Lyric: Form and Theory
Credit(s): 3
[LGAD3] This course examines various theories, both ancient and modern, of how lyric poetry works to convey an emotion. The class will study lyrical moments, not only in poetry and song, but also in fiction, film, drama, essays, and photography. Students will also write lyrical pieces of their own and workshop them in class.
Prerequisites: The prerequisite is ENG 2130 or ENG 2140 or ENG 2155. There is a course fee. This course is offered every even-numbered spring.
|
| |
-
ENG 3140 - The Creative Essay
Credit(s): 3
The essay as creative nonfiction is analyzed as a model for students, and emphasis is placed on helping students to frame eloquent and artistic prose. Students write essays as well as study classic essays from academic and popular writing. The goal of the course is to encourage and help students become writers of essays that move as well as inform readers.
Prerequisites: ENG 2051 ; ENG 2101 ; or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3145 - Writing Narrative: Form and Theory
Credit(s): 3
[LGAD3] This course examines various theories of how narrative structure works to convey meaning and make sense of the world. The class will study a range of narratives from fiction and poetry to history and clinical case studies. Students will also write narratives of their own and workshop them in class.
Prerequisites: The prerequisite is ENG 2130 or ENG 2140 or ENG 2155. There is a course fee. This course is offered every odd-numbered spring.
|
| |
-
ENG 3270 - Myth & Myth Making
Credit(s): 3
An interdisciplinary, team-taught inquiry which provides an overview of myth and the myth-making process, this course focuses especially on quest myths and on myths concerning sacrifice, death and rebirth. Though most myths read will be Greek, students will also be encouraged to explore Native American and other mythologies. The course will emphasize the ways myth has been used by dramatists, poets and visual artists.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 and ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 or ENG 2510
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3320 - The English Novel
Credit(s): 3
This course surveys the English novel from Sterne, Richardson and Austen to Conrad, Lawrence and Woolf. Dickens, Hardy, Forster and other recent novelists are stressed.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 and ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 or ENG 2510
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3345 - Contemporary Canadian Literature
Credit(s): 3
Students in this course will gain an appreciation for the literature of the U.S. neighbor to the north. Through close reading and discussion of novels, poems and stories, students will consider not only the individual voices and concerns of Canadian writers but also what makes Canadian writing distinctive. How is it different, if at all, from American writing? How is it similar? How does Canadian literature speak to us on a personal level, and what can it contribute to the literature of the world?
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 and one of the following courses: ENG 1310 , ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 or ENG 2510
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3380 - British Romantic Literature
Credit(s): 3
In this investigation of English romanticism, students engage in close readings of poetry and prose by the major writers in the tradition: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats and Mary Shelley.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 and ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey course: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 or ENG 2510
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3385 - Genre Seminar
Credit(s): 3
This course will explore a variety of literary and cultural genres at an advanced level. Specific genres that might be explored in any given semester include: Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Children’s Literature; Gothic Literature; and Travel Literature.
Prerequisites: ENG 1082 or one ENG 2000-level literature course, or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of genre (but may be counted only twice toward English program requirements).
|
| |
-
ENG 3390 - Literature of the Grotesque
Credit(s): 3
This course includes historical, literary, philosophic and aesthetic approaches to the grotesque, especially examining the mix of humor and horror so essential to the genre. Rabelais, Swift, Poe, Dostoevski, Baudelaire, Beckett, Nathanael West and Flannery O’Connor, among others, will be studied, as well as slides of grotesque art works, from Hieronymous Bosch to Salvadore Dali.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 and ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 or ENG 2510
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3395 - Satire in Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course is an introduction to the vast and varied genre of satire, tracing origins to Old Comedy and Roman Verse satire, tracing satire theory from classical models up through 20th-century structuralism and postmodern theory. We’ll study Aristophanes, Horace and Juvenal, Menippean satire of Lucian and Petronius, bits of Rabelais, Chaucer, Donne, Butler and Marvell, as well as whole works from neoclassic masters Alexander Pope, John Dryden and Jonathan Swift. As satire has evolved in the last two centuries into a predominately narrative, not verse, form, we’ll study a number of anti-utopian novels such as Animal Farm, Brave New World, Memoirs From a Bathtub, as well as view Metropolis and Modern Times as cinematic satires.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 ; and one of the following courses: ENG 1310 , ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 or ENG 2510
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3405 - Literary Journalism
Credit(s): 3
Students are expected to analyze and understand the techniques of journalistic prose that have led to memorable stories and columns. Among those studied are muckrakers such as Steffens and Woodward, war correspondents such as Pyle and Herr, commentators such as Lippmann and Broder and many other literary journalists.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3435 - Practical Grammar
Credit(s): 3
This course is intended to enhance readers’ appreciation of elegance of expression in literature; to expand available rhetorical choices for writers; to increase precision and efficiency of expression; and to help prospective teachers of English respond to student writing with thorough, accurate and helpful instruction. Weekly activities include short writing assignments that expand the writer’s tools, grammatical analysis of passages and editing exercises.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3480 - Modern Literature
Credit(s): 3
Students engage in close readings of representative works of major poets and fiction writers from the start of the 20th century to World War II. The course includes British and American writers such as Joyce, Yeats, Woolf, Eliot, Stevens, Faulkner and Hemingway.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 and ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 or ENG 2510
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3510 - Contemporary Literature
Credit(s): 3
Students read representative works of major poets and fiction writers from the end of World War II to the present. The course includes writers such as Lowell, Plath, Ginsberg, Bellow, Rich, O’Connor, Atwood, Morrison and Carver.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 ; and one of the following courses: ENG 1310 , ENG 2171 . ENG 2172 . ENG 2281 . ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 or ENG 2510
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3520 - American Poetry
Credit(s): 3
This is an examination of important works by major American poets, including such representative poets as Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Eliot, Pound, Williams and Moore, with special emphasis on the Americanness of American poetry, as distinct from other traditions.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 ; and one of the following courses: ENG 1310 , ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 , ENG 2510 , ENG-2260 (CU course) or ENG-2270 (CU course)
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3525 - Victorian Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course examines poetry, prose, drama and nonfiction selections from the Victorian period in Great Britain (1837-1901). It will consider pressing issues of Victorian culture as these intersect with literature, such as science, politics, economics, morality, sexuality, and gender. The semester is divided into four units. Unit 1 looks at representations of and expectations for women and attempts to enlarge or change women’s roles and relationships. Unit 2 examines rising industrialization and resulting political and economic effects for the individual and society. Unit 3 considers the role of science and imperialism in unsettling certainties regarding religion and personal relationships. Unit 4 looks at various responses to previous Victorian ideologies of empire, the self and the role of art. As we move through the course, students will analyze overlapping concerns among the unit readings in order to gain a broader understanding of how views on, for example, women’s roles in society, the economic benefits of capitalism and the British imperialism were contested and developed.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 and ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 or ENG 2510
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3530 - The American Novel
Credit(s): 3
This course examines novels by Americans in historical context, beginning with the first half of the 19th century and including major works by novelists such as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Crane, Faulkner, Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 ; and one of the following courses: ENG 1310 , ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 , ENG 2510 , ENG-2260 (CU course) or ENG-2270 (CU course)
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3545 - Literature and Culture Seminar
Credit(s): 3
This course examines advanced topics at the intersection of literature and culture by exploring various literary themes and issues in their cultural contexts. Specific themes or issues that might be explored in any given semester include: The Bible as literature; Myths and Mythologies; Slave Narratives; The Self and Society; Poetry, Philosophy, and Politics; and Performing Gender.
Prerequisites: ENG 1082 or one ENG 2000-level literature course, or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of issue or theme (but may be counted only twice toward English program requirements).
|
| |
-
ENG 3565 - Shakespeare
Credit(s): 3
This course studies the poetry and drama of Shakespeare. It focuses on major themes and conventions in his works through the accurate and imaginative analysis of the texts. It also considers the context of reception and production through relevant cultural, political and religious questions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Prerequisites: ENG 1071 and ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 or ENG 2510
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3580 - African American Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the literary traditions of African Americans, beginning with slave narratives and the oral tradition (as seen in popular song and folk tales) and including poetry, autobiography and fiction by important African American writers of the 20th century.
Prerequisites: ENG 1310 ; and one of the following courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 , ENG 2510 , ENG-2260 (CU course) or ENG-2270 (CU course)
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3680 - Linguistics & Language History
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the English language from a theoretical, developmental and practical perspective and is intended for students with a general interest in language and expression as well as those students preparing to teach language arts and literature at the secondary level.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072
Recommended: ENG 2281
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 3710 - Special Topics in English
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 3000-level not offered in the general English curriculum.
Prerequisites: This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
|
| |
-
ENG 3999 - Writing Proficiency Exam
Credit(s): 0
Prerequisites: All on-campus baccalaureate- and associate-level students must pass the Writing Proficiency Exam or the course ENG 2005 -The Self-Sufficient Writer in order to graduate. (Distance Learning students must pass ENG 1220 - Rhetorical Expression or pass the Challenge Exam in order to graduate.) Students should take the exam when they have accumulated between 15-60 credits to ensure completion of this graduation standard. Students who fail the exam once may attempt it a second time; those who fail twice must take and pass ENG 2005 .
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 4010 - Media Ethics
Credit(s): 3
This course is a senior-level seminar that leads students through an examination of current ethical problems and issues in journalism: truth vs. accuracy; information biases: problems of personalizing, dramatizing, reenacting and manipulating the news; image making in politics, First Amendment vs. rights to privacy: naming names; photojournalism ethics; and the transformation of news into entertainment (the rise of images and the decline of meaning).
Prerequisites: ENG 2051
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 4080 - Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
Credit(s): 3
This workshop focuses on the advanced study of a particular genre of creative writing of the student’s choosing. In consultation with the instructor, the student will choose a creative writing genre and a suitable project to pursue. Student work-in-progress is critiqued through class discussion and frequent conferences with the instructor and fellow student writers. This course may be repeated once for credit with permission but may be counted only once toward program requirements.
Prerequisites: There is a course fee. The prerequisite is ENG 3110 or permission. This course is offered every fall.
|
| |
-
ENG 4110 - The Form & Theory of Fiction
Credit(s): 3
This study of novels and short stories focuses on their structure and on the ideas that give life to that structure. It is a workshop-oriented course primarily for writers, and much of the criticism read has a practitioner’s focus. Topics include the form of the novella, tone and texture in the contemporary short story and the novel as memoir. Major fiction by American and European writers is studied, along with representative novels and short stories by non-western and third world writers.
Prerequisites: ENG 3130 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 4120 - The Form & Theory of Poetry
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the theoretical writings of 19th and 20th century poets on the process of poetic creation. Theories about the source of inspiration, the origin of poetic structure and technique, the relationship between theory and practice, the responsibilities and uses of poetic imagination, and the relationship between artist and society are explored.
Prerequisites: ENG 3120 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 4130 - The Form & Theory of Nonfiction
Credit(s): 3
The structure and technique of creative essays are examined and analyzed, with stress on development and organization. Particular attention is paid to literary essays that have withstood the critical test of time and to modern essays that consciously strive to incorporate literary techniques. Discussion focuses on audience, allusion, research, patterns of development and organizing elements, as well as those literary techniques such as symbolism and irony that apply to non-fiction prose.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072
Recommended: At least one 3000-level writing course
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 4150 - Literary Criticism & Theory
Credit(s): 3
This investigation of 20th century approaches to literary criticism and theory focuses on major “schools” of criticism and on the critics and theorists associated with them. Students develop a definitive, historical perspective on this kind of discourse, including the goals criticism and theory have striven to reach and the effects such discourse has had on the study of literature. Students are encouraged to draw upon their own inclinations as readers and scholars, trying out some of these critical stances and evaluating their usefulness and their value to us as individuals and as members of various interpretive communities.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 ; two of the following survey courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 , or ENG 2510 ; and one of the following upper-level literature courses: ENG 3270 , ENG 3320 , ENG 3345 , ENG 3380 , ENG 3390 , ENG 3395 , ENG 3435 , ENG 3480 , ENG 3510 , ENG 3520 , ENG 3525 , ENG 3530 , ENG 3565 , ENG 3580 or ENG 3680 .
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 4160 - Investigative Journalism
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on best practices for in-depth reporting- reporting that goes beyond the immediate facts and official accounts. Students learn to use public records, databases and fieldwork to probe deeply into stories, with greater focus on the who, the why and the overall context than is provided in the usual daily fare. Students will have a chance to grapple with complex stories that help define the political, social and environmental realities of Vermont. Good investigative reporting, however, involves more than focused research techniques; students will learn how to hone analytical skills and to understand the legal and ethical issues involved in the craft. This class will emphasize stories that require planning, research and clear goals toward greater understanding of important public issues.
Prerequisites: ENG 2051 ; ENG 2052 ; ENG 3022
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 4250 - Advanced Critical Approaches
Credit(s): 3
This course provides an intensive examination of contemporary theories and methods of critical analysis of textual and visual forms of storytelling. The focus is on understanding criticism both as a mode of thinking and as an art in its own right, including philosophical, social, and literary dimensions, through the careful reading of preeminent theoretical writings.
Prerequisites: FLM 3010 , FLM 3610 , or one ENG 2000- or 3000-level literature course, or permission.
Recommended: ENG 2250
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 4510 - Literary Research Tutorial
Credit(s): 3
This course in bibliographic methods, research and writing represents the culmination of the undergraduate B.A. in English. Students will work intensively on a project of their own design, practicing the essential steps in literary research, writing and presentation.
Restrictions: Senior standing
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 4710 - Special Topics in English
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 4000-level not offered in the general English curriculum.
Prerequisites: This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
|
| |
-
ENG 4720 - Seminar in Literature
Credit(s): 3
Intended for upper-level English majors, this seminar examines in depth a particular author, literary movement or literary theme. Students prepare intensive research-based seminar presentations and extended research papers.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 ; two of the following survey courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 , ENG 2510 ; and one of the following upper-level literature courses: ENG 3270 , ENG 3320 , ENG 3345 , ENG 3380 , ENG 3390 , ENG 3395 , ENG 3435 , ENG 3480 , ENG 3510 , ENG 3520 , ENG 3525 , ENG 3530 , ENG 3565 , ENG 3580 , ENG 3680 .
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 4750 - Senior Seminar
Credit(s): 3
This course examines a single, advanced literary theme, author, or text in great detail. Specific topics that might be explored in any given semester include: Shakespeare’s Globe; the Austen industry; Twain’s America; The Canterbury Tales; Derrida and deconstruction; and Frost’s poetry.
Prerequisites: One ENG 2000- or 3000-level literature course, or permission.
Restrictions: Junior standing.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic (but may be counted only once toward English program requirements).
|
| |
-
ENG 4810 - Internship (J)
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved internship in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 4810 - Internship in English (L)
Credit(s): 2-15
The internship provides students with practical experience in the application of their previous course work in the major. Arrangements for placement must be made with the supervising faculty member, faculty advisor, the site supervisor, and the Career Services office. Following approval of the work experience, students are required to submit a learning contract and biweekly reports.
Restrictions: By Permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: Yes, but only 3 credits many be counted toward program requirements.
|
| |
-
ENG 4900 - Independent Study in English
Credit(s): 1 to 3
Independent Study offers students of English an opportunity to concentrate on an area of interest or to extend their range. The details of study are arranged between each student and the instructor. The course may be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: The prerequisite is permission.
|
| |
-
ENG 4900 - Independent Study in English (J)
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved independent study in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 4910 - Senior Portfolio
Credit(s): 3
This course provides students the opportunity to demonstrate their competency and proficiency in writing. Students meet independently with a professor to produce a portfolio of written work.
Prerequisites: The prerequisite is permission. This course is offered every semester.
|
| |
-
ENG 4920 - Senior Thesis
Credit(s): 3
A substantial writing project is required of students pursuing a B.F.A. in creative writing. Normally this project is completed during the final semester of the senior year. Students may work in any genre. The thesis is optional for students pursuing a B.A. Consult the Writing & Literature faculty for detailed information about developing a thesis project, finding a thesis adviser and carrying out the project.
Restrictions: Permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENG 4950 - Senior Capstone
Credit(s): 3
This course integrates the student’s understanding of the history, issues, and demands of Literature or Film Studies through advanced readings, group discussions, and individually mentored projects. It culminates with a final project on a topic of interest to the student, which will require substantial research, writing, and reflection.
Restrictions: By Permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
|
Environmental Science |
| |
-
ENV 1040 - Introduction to Oceanography
Credit(s): 3
Oceanography is a broad and multidisciplinary field in which many sciences are focused on the common goal of understanding how oceans work. This class is designed for the non-science major and will emphasize the role of basic scientific principles in the geological, biological, physical and chemical processes that govern the oceanic realm and how those oceanic processes affect the terrestrial realm. In addition, the connection between various oceanic processes and their impact on human existence and development will be explored.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENV 1050 - Introduction to Earth Science
Credit(s): 4
An introduction to earth systems and processes, this course emphasizes understanding the reasons for the distribution patterns of minerals, rocks and continents, as well as a basic understanding of the principles of geology, geomorphology, meteorology and climatology. It is recommended as a beginning course for students in the environmental sciences major.
(includes a lab)
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENV 1060 - FYS: Nuclear Power & Society
Credit(s): 3
This introductory, interdisciplinary course examines several aspects of nuclear power. Students will be introduced to the basic science behind nuclear power (unstable isotopes, mining, nuclear power plants and waste disposal), the environmental and biological effects of the use of nuclear power, our economics and politics of nuclear power and the use of nuclear weapons throughout the world. Guest speakers will be invited to make presentations; field trips will allow students to engage activities, business and legislators in discussions related to nuclear power; and some of the class time will be devoted to the use for computer technology to develop presentations (e.g., Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word).
Restrictions: First-year students only
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENV 1080 - Introduction to Environmental Science
Credit(s): 4
This course studies the environment and solutions to environmental problems. As an interdisciplinary academic field, it lies at the intersection of physical and biological sciences. This course introduces students to fundamental concepts in physical and ecological processes that shape our environment and the role that human civilizations have in shaping the environment. Emphasis is placed on examining solutions to current environmental problems including aspects of soil, water and air pollution, ecosystem services, biomimicry, environmental toxicology, living machines, phytoremediation, bioremediation and green chemistry. Central to this course are semester-long student projects.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
|
| |
-
ENV 1090 - Introduction to Weather, Climate & Climate Change
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to give students an appreciation of the difference between weather and climate and to have them develop an understanding of how weather phenomena are generated and the role/importance of weather in daily life. Also in this course, students will be exposed to one of the most hotly debated issues of the modern era, the topic of human-induced climate change.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENV 1110 - Introduction to Environmental Problems
Credit(s): 3
This course surveys environmental issues that arise from their interaction, with particular emphasis on the impact of and on human beings.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENV 1710 - Special Topics in Environmental Science
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 1000-level not offered in the general Environmental Science curriculum.
Prerequisites: This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
|
| |
-
ENV 2025 - Nature Photography
Credit(s): 3
Nature photography is the particular application of digital photography to convey information about the natural world through artful and compelling images as well as written narrative to produce gallery-quality exhibits and articles that inspire stewardship of the environment and promote the respectful treatment of all animals and plants.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENV 2040 - Introduction to Environmental Restoration
Credit(s): 4
[LGNR7] This course introduces students to the theory and practical applications of environmental restoration. A diverse array of habitat restoration techniques are addressed, including artificial cavity nest construction for birds, vernal pool creation for amphibians, streambank restoration, invasive exotic species control, and reptile hibernacula formation. The vast majority of the course is spent in the field involving hands-on restoration activities in local habitats working in concert with area landowners. The course emphasizes restoration techniques that may be readily used in area high school and junior high school science programs.
Prerequisites: The prerequisite is SCI 1030. There is a course fee. This course is offered every summer and as needed.
|
| |
-
ENV 2050 - The Natural History of Vermont
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the historical development of the geology, weather, wildlife and vegetation of Vermont. Field work is required.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENV 2060 - Energy, Environment, and Society
Credit(s): 4
This course focuses on such topics as energy sources and transformations, energy use and crises, environmental impact, alternative energy systems, solar energy, energy conservation, problems associated with nuclear power, and relations between energy use and environmental pollution.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
|
| |
-
ENV 2080 - The Anthropocene
Credit(s): 3
A large, dominating human population has made lasting impacts on Earth. The choices we make today have a profound and lasting effect on Earth systems. We will explore the physical, chemical, and biological impacts preserved in the rock record that serve as a permanent testament to the expanding human population and discuss the influences that drive the choices that we make each day.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENV 2090 - Sustainable Living
Credit(s): 3
This course addresses the global environmental consequences of contemporary human lifestyles and ways to live more sustainably, ranging from specific everyday measures that anyone can take to policies and approaches that can bring about broad societal change. Topics covered include solid waste reduction, recycling, composting, energy and water conservation, household heating, transportation of goods, paper and plastics industries, ore and mineral extraction, rainforest conservation, localvorism, informed consumerism, and green product alternatives.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
|
| |
-
ENV 2210 - Current Topics in Science
Credit(s): 1
A number of current environmental topics are explored in a seminar setting with a presentation by a speaker or panel followed by time for discussion. Presenters will be researchers or practitioners in environmental science. Students will keep a journal of all presentations.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENV 2270 - START Seminar
Credit(s): 1
This seminar provides opportunities to cultivate improvement in the following areas: note-taking, test-taking, oral presentation, critical reading of scientific literature, laboratory techniques, research methods, writing skills, mathematics, time management, financial management, grant proposal preparation and preparation for participation in conferences. Assistance will also be provided for the identification of internship opportunities, future employment, developing applications to see advanced degrees, interviewing skills and development of a personal resume.
Restrictions: START scholars only
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENV 2710 - Special Topics in Environmental Science
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 2000-level not offered in the general Environmental Science curriculum.
Prerequisites: This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
|
| |
-
ENV 2810 - Internship in Environmental Science
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved internship in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
-
ENV 2910 - Independent Study in Environmental Science
Credit(s): 1-12
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
|
| |
Page: 1 <- 2
| 3
| 4
| 5
| 6
| 7
| 8
| 9
| 10
| 11
| 12
-> 16 |
|
|
|
Print this Page