Integrated Writing Requirement
Statement
In English, writing and cultural production are both the primary objects of study and our defining scholarly and creative practices. Because of this, almost every course in the major focuses in some way on the analysis and/or practice of writing and cultural production. Because we take writing seriously, we have integrated it into each level of our curriculum as a series of graduated “steps” that teach students progressively more demanding and sophisticated forms of written expression including developing forms of writing across different media platforms.
Sample Syllabi
Writing & Culture Seminars (WRIT 015)
Foundation Courses
Critical Methods (previously called Methods of Literary and Cultural Studies) (ENGL 090)
History of Lit, Culture, and Media I and II (previously called Literary History I and II) (ENGL 091, 092)
- ENGL 091 Literary History I: The Middle Ages through the 18C (McNamer)
- ENGL 092 Literary History II: The Late 18C to Present (Rifkin)
Lower-Level Electives (ENGL 100–299)
- British Poetry 1600–2000 (Wu)
- Postcolonial Novel of the Indian Ocean (Parsons)
- Romanticism (Wu)
- 20C Irish Lit (Parsons)
- Intro to US Film History (Benson-Allott)
- Intro to Film Theory (Benson-Allott)
- Women Writers, Feminist Readers (Fox)
- Histories of New Media (Benson-Allott)
- Writing and the Museum (Henderson)
- Intro to Rhetoric (Pavesich)
Upper-Level Electives (ENGL 304–459)
- Horror: Technology and Techniques (Benson-Allott)
- Class Fiction in the Contemporary U.S. (Fox)
- Byron, Shelley and Keats: The Second Generation Romantic Poets (Wu)
- Modern Irish Novel (Parsons)