2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    May 15, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate 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.

 

Education

  
  • EDU 4820 - Elementary Student Teaching


    Credit(s): 12

    Following a semester of prescriptive study after Practicum I, the student enrolling in Elementary Practicum II will spend a full semester student teaching in a school district. Evaluation is based on the student’s demonstration of the competence generally expected of a first-year teacher.

    Prerequisites: EDU 4368 , EDU 4630 ; EDU TEW4 ; overall 3.0 or higher GPA; pass PRAXIS II; permission of placement coordinator

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • EDU 4850 - Secondary Education Student Teaching


    Credit(s): 12

    Students spend a full semester in a secondary classroom setting, gradually increasing their involvement, and culminating in a period of full-time teaching under the direction of a cooperating teacher. Practical application of teaching principles, knowledge, and understanding of adolescents is involved.

    Prerequisites: EDU 4130 ; EDU TEW4 ; overall 3.0 or higher GPA; pass PRAXIS II; permission of placement coordinator

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • EDU 4850 - Secondary Student Teaching


    Credit(s): 12

    This course places students in a secondary classroom. Students gradually increase their involvement, culminating in a period of full-time teaching under the supervision of a qualified cooperating teacher. This course involves practical application of teaching principles, content knowledge, and understanding of youth and their development. Students must take at least fifteen continuous weeks of student teaching for 12 credits.

    Prerequisites: EDU 4020 , EDU 4025 , EDU 4030 , or EDU 4040 , a GPA of 3.0, and passing scores in both Praxis Core and Praxis II.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Notes: There is a course fee.
  
  • EDU 4880 - Teaching Special Education


    Credit(s): 7-12

    This course introduces the student to special education in resource rooms, regular education classrooms, and other setting where special education takes place. Students gradually increase their involvement, culminating in a period of full-time teaching under the direction of a qualified supervising teacher. The course involves practical application of teaching principles, knowledge and understanding of youth and their development. Please note that 15 weeks of student teaching equals 12 credits and 10weeks of student teaching equals 7 credits.

    Prerequisites: EDU 4475 , EDU 4070 , EDU 4450 , EDU 4460 , and EDU 4580 , each with a B- or better, a passing score on at least two of the four sections of the Praxis II test, a minimum of 3.00 GPA in courses for the major, a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00, and permission.

    Corequisites: EDU 4730  

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Notes: There is a course fee.
  
  • EDU 4910 - Independent Study in Education


    Credit(s): 1 - 4

    This course gives the more mature student an opportunity to work on a well-formulated problem of special interest.

    Restrictions: Permission.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus, Lyndon Campus

  
  • EDU 4910 - Independent Study in Education (J)


    Credit(s): 1-12

    Students plan and complete an approved independent study in consultation with their faculty supervisor.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus


English

  
  • ENG 1005 - College Reading


    Credit(s): 3

    This course is designed to teach critical reading skills applicable to course work in many fields. Students will learn how to recognize the essential points in a piece of reading, as well as how to discern the writer’s tone and how to evaluate the relevance of supporting information. They will learn to ask questions about what they read, rather than taking what appears in print on faith. Though this course is not intended to be a speed reading course or a remedial course for serious deficits in reading skills, students who successfully complete this course will be more comfortable and fluent with a variety of texts and better prepared for further college work.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • ENG 1025 - Academic & Professional English for Non-Native Speakers


    Credit(s): 3

    This one-semester course is for non-native speakers of English who have been in the United States for under ten years and who speak another language at home. The course reinforces the reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills that students have acquired in secondary school composition and content courses. Students will focus on expanding their knowledge of voice, mode, and specialized vocabulary in college courses across the curriculum. They will also learn sociocultural and historical references, as well as idioms specific to contemporary American usage. Throughout the semester, they will utilize context clues and a range of rhetorical strategies essential for success in first-year reading, writing, and oral/aural assignments.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

    Repeatable for Credit: Yes.

  
  • ENG 1031 - College Writing 1A


    Credit(s): 3

    This course – with ENG 1032 , which must be taken afterward – covers the material of ENG 1071 . Students must earn a grade of C- or better in ENG-1031 in order to enroll in ENG 1032. If both courses are successfully completed, students earn 6 credits toward graduation.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • ENG 1035 - Foundations of Reading and Writing


    Credit(s): 1.5

    This course focuses on supporting students in the writing they are doing for other classes or for themselves. It is highly individualized and is especially useful as an adjunct to ENG 1081  and ENG 1082 . The course covers study skills such as note-taking, outlining, skimming, and vocabulary development, as well as critical reading skills including recognizing essential points, evaluating the relevance of supporting information, and asking questions about the text. Intensive instruction in writing process provides students with basic English literacy and competence. Paragraph and short essay forms will be covered, and a review of grammar, punctuation, spelling, and sentence mechanics and structure will support students’ writing on a college level.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Repeatable for Credit: Yes, three times.

    Notes: There is a course fee.
  
  • ENG 1045 - FYS: Dreams, Freedom, and Wonder


    Credit(s): 3

    In this course you will view, discuss, and then write about a number of American films from the past quarter century.  Each film incorporates themes of writing, dreaming, and discovering one’s truest self.  Along the way, your thinking will expand, and your critical reading and writing skills will improve.  Field trips to an arts cinema and/or a local film festival will enhance the classroom experience.

    Restrictions: First-year students only

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • ENG 1070 - Effective Speaking


    Credit(s): 3

    Students prepare and deliver short speeches, practicing how to choose, limit and arrange what they say according to their audience and purpose, and to use visual aids and cite sources appropriately.

    Recommended: ENG 1072  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • ENG 1071 - College Writing


    Credit(s): 3

    This course emphasizes the writing of narrative, descriptive and analytic essays developed around a central thesis. The construction of coherent, well-organized paragraphs, as well as standard punctuation, usage, grammar and spelling, receive special attention.

    Prerequisites: PLE 0003  or ENG-0041

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • ENG 1072 - Exposition & Analysis


    Credit(s): 3

    This course addresses the writing of analytic essays, focusing on the structure of persuasive writing, the appropriate consideration of audience and the development of style. The course culminates in a research paper.

    Prerequisites: PLE 0004  or ENG 1071  or ENG 1031  or ENG 1032  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • ENG 1081 - Writing and Reading Strategies for College


    Credit(s): 3

    This course introduces students to the study of language fundamentals and provides practice in reading strategies and in organizing and writing short essays necessary for college success. While providing instruction in syntax, grammar, diction, punctuation, and the conventions of standard academic English, this course emphasizes instruction in writing and reading processes, including invention and revision strategies, developing or locating a thesis, and organizing the material into a coherent whole. The course also includes an introduction to information literacy, particularly collecting or researching information, but does not necessarily include a formal academic research paper.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Notes: There is a course fee.
  
  • ENG 1082 - Academic Inquiry


    Credit(s): 3

    This writing course provides an opportunity for study and practice in the principles of rhetoric, evidence, analysis, exposition, and argument as a foundation for academic inquiry. Students will be expected to analyze source material from across the disciplines; to evaluate, summarize, and document the thoughts of others; and to synthesize researched evidence to create clear explanations and to develop one’s own academic argument. The course includes a review of research process and grammar and mechanics as needed, and at least one formal research paper will be required.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1081  with a C- or better, or permission.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Notes: There is a course fee.
  
  • ENG 1090 - FYS: The Vampire in Western Culture


    Credit(s): 3

    This course focuses on the vampire in Western culture in order to ask the questions: “How and why does a culture create outsiders, exiles and scapegoats?” “Why has the vampire become a figure that fires our imaginations, our fears and our desires?” We will consider folklore, history, geography, literature and film to study the cultural appeal of the vampire from the 18th to the twenty-first century, although the majority of the course will focus on the latter part of this chronology. We will also examine a selection of medical and psychological theories to gain insight into why the vampire has remained a figure of attraction (or revulsion) for centuries.

    Restrictions: First-year students only

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • ENG 1220 - Rhetorical Expression


    Credit(s): 3

    Through intensive practice with short essays and close instruction, students in this course enhance their skills in written expression. They become more effective and comfortable with the writing process, use of good mechanics and precise language, development of a natural style, and standard rhetorical forms and strategies.

    Restrictions: NVU Online Students Only.

    Offering Location: Online

    Notes: Pass/No Pass only.
  
  • ENG 1260 - Introduction to Photojournalism


    Credit(s): 3

    This course introduces students to the art and craft of visual narrative and provides the skills needed to produce effective images in a journalistic context. Students learn the elements of a good news photo, which means developing an understanding of composition, content and professional representation as they pertain to the demands of photojournalism. Students also learn how photojournalists work and where they fit within the framework of news organizations, be it newspapers, magazines or web. The class includes lectures, field assignments, collective critiques and guest speakers.

    Prerequisites: ART 2301  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • ENG 1280 - Fundamentals of Public Speaking


    Credit(s): 3

    This course focuses on the practical skills of public speaking essential for effective expository and persuasive presentations in interpersonal, small group, and broad public circumstances. Topics may include extemporaneous and prepared speaking techniques, effective listening, critical analysis, and basic principles of organization and research needed for effective speeches.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

  
  • ENG 1310 - Introduction to Literature (J)


    Credit(s): 3

    This is an examination of poetry, fiction and drama, emphasizing key literary concepts and techniques, including plot, theme, character, point of view and prosody.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • ENG 1310 - Introduction to Literature (L)


    Credit(s): 3

    This course consists of the study of fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. It develops the ability to read perceptively and to write effectively about literature.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

  
  • ENG 1330 - FYS: Language of Film


    Credit(s): 3

    Just as learning a foreign language requires a sensibility for rules and structure, effective communication using film and video requires an understanding of the filmic conventions that have grown up through the past 100 years of film history. Understanding these conventions is especially important as changes in technology bring the tools for video creation to personal computers and devices. Today’s students and workers have unprecedented opportunity for video expression in both their academic and professional careers.

    Restrictions: First-year students only

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • ENG 1360 - FYS: Dystopia: Cautionary Tales of a Nightmarish Future


    Credit(s): 3

    Probing basic questions of human nature and society, dystopian (the worst of all possible worlds) literature and film reveal anxieties that remain chillingly applicable today. We will explore such issues as the self, alienation, freedom, complicity, citizenship, love, faith, sex, technology and happiness through a variety of novels and films.

    Restrictions: First-year students only

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • ENG 1420 - FYS: Journaling: Writing in New Territory


    Credit(s): 3

    The objective of this course is to use writing as a means to stimulate reflective and critical thinking. With these skills, the students can then see the world through these lenses, as students and as writers. Students will do investigative writing; that is, they will not only write what they observe, but also they will write about how and why these observations affect the interpretation of experience, insight and knowledge. Students will use daily writing as a crucial medium for thinking. Students use their journals as a way to communicate through observation, reflection, introspection and written expression.

    Restrictions: First-year students only

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • ENG 1430 - FYS: Nature Writing


    Credit(s): 3

    In this course, students will read writings ranging from nonfiction, fiction, poetry, folklore, and children’s literature to environmental policy in order to explore the relationship between nature and identity and the way society and nature intersect. We will use these readings and our own experiences in the natural world to communicate our own beliefs and advocate for important environmental policy. Nature walks will figure into (and out of) class time.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • ENG 1450 - FYS: Censoring Popular Culture


    Credit(s): 3

    Witch hunts, scapegoats, public burnings and a whole lot of dirty words - who knew the First Amendment could be so interesting? This seminar will explore ways that free speech disputes go beyond hypersexual songs, ultraviolent video games, and hippie comedians yanked off stage in handcuffs to core conflicts deep in the heart of the American identity. Throughout the semester, we’ll touch on history, mass psychology, elitism, moral crusaders and political grandstanders, weird rituals, and what it means to really protect children. In class, we’ll look at banned books and listen to controversial music and comedy. We’ll also study old news footage to get a better understanding of the nature of hysteria.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • 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 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 - Narrative Theory


    Credit(s): 3

    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: ENG 1082 

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

  
  • 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 - Introduction to British Literature


    Credit(s): 3

    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: ENG 1082  or permission.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

  
  • 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 - Introduction to American Literature


    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

  
  • 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 - Introduction to World Literature


    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

  
  • 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 - Comparative Storytelling


    Credit(s): 3

    This course explores the ways in which storytelling works across different genres and media. Each semester will focus on a specific topic such as Imagining Monsters, Narrating Trauma and Narrative Healing, Love and Transformation, Retelling Hamlet, and Dream Narratives.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1082  or permission. 

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic but may be counted no more than twice toward program requirements.

  
  • ENG 2540 - Global English: Forms, Roles & Issues


    Credit(s): 3

    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: ENG 1082  or permission.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

  
  • ENG 2545 - Literary Lenses


    Credit(s): 3

    This course examines the relationship between societies and the stories they tell by exploring the ways in which various literary themes and issues develop over time. Each semester will focus on a specific topic such as Outsiders in Literature, Time Travel, Reading Trees and Forests, Courtroom Scenes, Witchcraft in Literature, and Narratives of Plague and Pandemic.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1082  or permission. 

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic but may be counted no more than twice toward program requirements.

  
  • ENG 2575 - Disquiet International Literary Program


    Credit(s): 3

    This is a course that will introduce students to a classic work of Portuguese literature by one of the 20th Century’s most exciting writers, Fernando Pessoa, through discussions and peer review and critique. We will read Pessoa’s classic text, in Richard Zenith’s translation, The Book of Disquiet. The course includes attending the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal. This conference features workshops, craft talks, literary tours of the city, and a Portuguese Literature and Culture Series offered in conjunction with the University of Lisbon. 

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

  
  • 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 - Shaping Language, Shaping the World


    Credit(s): 3

    This course offers advanced study and practice of rhetorical contexts, modes, and strategies, and includes substantial instruction in the formal aspects of writing: grammar, mechanics, syntax, structure, and style. Practice shaping language with these tools and strategies will lead to discussions of the power of language to shape our world.

    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 Mountains Review


    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 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 3110 - Creative Writing Workshop


    Credit(s): 3

    [LGAD3] This workshop studies the techniques of creative writing in various genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, screenplays, and creative non-fiction, and offers practice of those techniques in a workshop setting. 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 count only once toward program requirements.

     

    Prerequisites: There is a course fee. The prerequisite is ENG 2130 or ENG 2140 or permission. This course is offered every fall.

  
  • 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 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 3155 - Creative Writing: Form & Theory


    Credit(s): 3

    This course examines theories of various forms of creative writing. Specific genres that might be explored in any given semester include Speculative Fiction; the Lyric; Comedy; the Novel; Horror; Noir; and the Graphic Novel. Students will write and then workshop their original pieces in class.

    Prerequisites: One 2000 level English course.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Repeatable for Credit: With a change of genre, but may be counted only twice toward program requirements.

    Notes: There is a course fee.
  
  • 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 - Mythmaking and Archetypes


    Credit(s): 3

    This course examines a variety of mythic figures and symbols and the ways in which those myths intersect with their historical and cultural contexts. Each semester will focus on a specific topic such as Haunted Houses, Arthurian Literature, Labyrinths and Mazes, Legend of Robin Hood, and Cinderella Stories.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1082  or one ENG 2000-level literature course, or permission. 

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic but may be counted no more than twice toward 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 - Cultural Narratives


    Credit(s): 3

    This course examines the intersection of literature and culture by exploring a literary theme in its cultural and historical contexts. Each semester will focus on a specific topic such as Viking Sagas; Pirates and the Age off Discovery; Slave Narratives; Madness and Marriage in the Victorian Imagination; Writing the World Wars; and Peace, Protest, and Civil Rights.

    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 no more than twice toward 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 - 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 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).

 

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