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Discussions of resource allocation, safety, classroom application of various forms of technology, and professional organizations are also included. Each student is encouraged to develop his/her personal philosophy of education and incorporate it in relation to integrity/ethics in the classroom and personal evaluation to maintain a sense of balance and growth. Prerequisite: ED342 Teaching Methods in the Secondary School. (Offered spring semester). Must apply to teacher education or consent of the education department chair.
This course is designed to provide the prospective secondary-level (grades 6-12) business teacher techniques for effective classroom teaching, including such issues as inclusionary practices, assessment, classroom application, various forms of technology, and professional organizations. It pulls together business and education concepts and theories just prior to one’s clinical practice and covers methods and materials for teaching business courses such as accounting, general business, keyboarding, and office practice. Prerequisite: ED342 Teaching Methods in the Secondary School (Shorthand is covered on demand). (Offered spring semesters). Must apply to teacher education or consent of the education department chair.
This course is designed to prepare students for successful teaching at the secondary level (grades 6-12) in both the social and behavioral sciences. Emphasis is placed on different approaches and practices of instruction planning and classroom management, selection and classroom application of various forms of technology, evaluation and questioning techniques, state assessments, research methods, professional organizations and the inclusive classroom. Prerequisite: ED342 Teaching Methods in the Secondary School. (Offered spring semester). Must apply to teacher education or consent of the education department chair.
This course is designed to prepare the prospective second language teacher for successful teaching at the secondary level (grades 6-12). It provides theories of second language acquisition, and second language teaching methods. Includes planning strategies, measurement/evaluations, test item construction, effective discipline, inclusionary practices, and technology media. Students become familiar with professional organizations and their publications/resources. In microteaching, including group and selfevaluation, students demonstrate current second language methodology. Prerequisite: ED342 Teaching Methods in the Secondary School.
This course is designed to provide the prospective secondary-level (grades 6-12) mathematics teacher the methods of teaching contemporary mathematics content. Topics include methods of presentation, awareness of national mathematics organizations, the writing of unit/daily lesson plans, microteaching of a math lesson, selecting materials, inclusionary practices, classroom application of various forms of technology, and techniques of assessment. Prerequisite: ED342 Teaching Methods in the Secondary School. (Offered spring semester). Must apply to teacher education or consent of the education department chair.
Harris, Hensel, Van Tassel *Alternate year course
EN101* Thinking and Writing 3 hours
The development of expository and argumentative writing skills through the processes of effective reading, clear thinking, organization, and expression, with appropriate emphasis on grammar and mechanics.
EN102* Introduction to College Research 1 hour
This course develops argumentative writing and research skills, introducing students to library databases and scholarly research. Students will practice careful/accurate reading of varied sources, organization, argumentation/persuasion, correct integration of outside sources, fair use of intellectual property, and grammar/mechanics.
EN110* Thinking and Writing about Fiction 3 hours
A course designed to offer students a broad introduction to the study of literary fiction, primarily American and British short stories and novels. The focus of the course is the nature of prose narrative: we will explore what a story is, what roles stories play in our lives, and how to interpret literary texts.
EN111* Thinking and Writing about Poetry 3 hours
As an introduction to one of the major genres in literary studies, this course is designed to offer students a broad introduction to the study of Anglophone poetry. Through analysis of—and writing about—a wide variety of poetic forms, students confront not only what a given poem might mean, but also how it communicates differently than other modes of literature. The focus of the course is to increase students’ basic understanding of and comfort with poetry: in doing so we will explore poetic devices, forms, and movements as they relate to the emotional and cultural content of the poems.
EN113* Introduction to the Art of Film 3 hours
This course is designed to help students develop a critical understanding of how moving images produce meaning. Through study of films, this course explores the nature of moving images and how they are organized to create a whole. The course will use various methods and theoretical approaches: aesthetic, formal, industrial, technical, social, historical, and political. By examining sounds and images, Introduction to the Art of Film will illuminate how motion pictures tell stories that resonate in the culture.
EN115* Reading the World: Topics in Popular Culture 3 hours
Students will learn how to apply methods of academic analysis to the interpretation of popular texts. Students will practice identifying and explaining ideas, elements, or arguments of texts or works of art, connecting the texts to larger cultural contexts. Students will also practice critical listening and the composing of their own texts suitable to the topics, purpose and audience.
EN120* World Literature 3 hours
A survey of masterpieces of world literature, this course gives students a taste of literature beyond the American and British traditions. In addition to introducing such literature, students will be confronted by a more global scope—by juxtaposing Western and non-Western texts or by locating “classic” literary works within a global perspective. All works are read in English translation.
EN130/330* Travel Writing 3 hours
This course aims to introduce to the genre of travel writing and give you an opportunity to practice writing it yourself. The types of travel writing introduced through class readings will include: travel essays, travel fiction, travel journalism, and travel service writing. The course will include a 10-day trip out-of-state.
Students will learn how to apply methods of academic analysis to the interpretation of Anglophone texts from their beginnings to 1800. Although topics rotate, student learning outcomes remain the same: the course reinforces critical thinking, literary analysis and interpretation, broad-spectrum communication skills, and the conventions of written, academic English. Past offerings have included The Monstrous Middle Ages, The Argument of America: God and Politics, and Eighteenth-Century Women Writers & Their Mansplainers.
Students will learn how to apply methods of academic analysis to the interpretation of Anglophone texts from 1800 up to the present. Although topics rotate, student learning outcomes remain the same: the course reinforces critical thinking, literary analysis and interpretation, broad-spectrum communication skills, and the conventions of written, academic English. Past offerings have included British Modernism, The Condition of England Novel, and Imagined America.
Students will learn how to apply methods of academic analysis to the interpretation of Anglophone texts the represent noncanonical literary movements or traditionally minority interests in literary studies. Although topics rotate, student learning outcomes remain the same: the course reinforces critical thinking, literary analysis and interpretation, broad-spectrum communication skills, and the conventions of written, academic English. Past offerings have included Comic Studies, Nature Writing and Ecological Literature, Gender & Literature, and Young Adult Literature.
Students will learn how to apply methods of academic analysis to the interpretation of Anglophone texts indicative of the oeuvre of one or two authors. Although topics rotate, student learning outcomes remain the same: the course reinforces critical thinking, literary analysis and interpretation, broad-spectrum communication skills, and the conventions of written, academic English. Past offerings have included Eliza Haywood, Toni Morrison, and William Shakespeare.
EN212* Children’s and Young Adult Literature 3 hours
An introduction to literature written about and for children and young adults. The course will emphasize formal literary analysis and issues of pedagogy as well as a psycho-social analysis of the literary treatment of adolescence.
This course will give you the opportunity to study literature that focuses on the natural world, human relationships with place and nonhuman nature, and environmental/ecological themes. The texts we study will include fiction/nonfiction/poetry, cultural analysis, and ecocritical theory. Additionally, the course will include a creative component, wherein you will practice writing essays, stories, or poetry about the natural world.
EN301* Writing, Language, and Rhetoric 3 hours
Advanced level composition, with both writing and reading based upon approaches in traditional and modern rhetoric and upon contemporary issues in sociolinguistics, argument, and semantics.
Students will continue to hone their skills in applying methods of academic analysis to the interpretation of Anglophone texts from their beginnings to 1800. Although topics rotate, student learning outcomes remain the same: the course requires mastery of critical thinking, literary analysis and interpretation, broad-spectrum communication skills, and the conventions of written, academic English. Past offerings have included The Monstrous Middle Ages, The Argument of America: God and Politics, and Eighteenth-Century Women Writers & Their Mansplainers.
Students will continue to hone their skills in applying methods of academic analysis to the interpretation of Anglophone texts from their beginnings to 1630. Although topics rotate, student learning outcomes remain the same: the course reinforces critical thinking, literary analysis and interpretation, broad-spectrum communication skills, and the conventions of written, academic English. Past offerings have included British Modernism, The Condition of England Novel, and Imagined America.
Students will learn how to apply methods of academic analysis to the interpretation of Anglophone texts that represent noncanonical literary movements or traditionally minority interests in literary studies. Although topics rotate, student learning outcomes remain the same: the course reinforces critical thinking, literary analysis and interpretation, broad-spectrum communication skills, and the conventions of written, academic English. Past offerings have included Comic Studies, Nature Writing and Ecological Literature, Gender & Literature, and Young Adult Literature.
Students will learn how to apply methods of academic analysis to the interpretation of Anglophone texts indicative of the oeuvre of one or two authors. Although topics rotate, student learning outcomes remain the same: the course reinforces critical thinking, literary analysis and interpretation, broad-spectrum communication skills, and the conventions of written, academic English. Past offerings have included Eliza Haywood, Toni Morrison, and William Shakespeare.
EN310* The English Language: Its History and Conventions 3 hours
This course serves as a linguistic/philological introduction to the English language. The development of the language will be traced from its Germanic origins in Old English through to the Modern Englishes that are in use today. Special attention will be paid to the innerworkings (grammar, mechanics, syntax, etc.) of the language. No prior linguistic/philological knowledge required.
EN321* Creative Writing 3 hours
An introductory course in the theory and practice of writing poetry and short fiction, along with reading of exemplary works of modern poetry and fiction.
EN380* Capstone 3 hours
Students will develop their advanced writing skills in this course. This course will provide a workshop space for students to develop the critical and analytical writing skills appropriate for a major. Prerequisites: At least two 300-level writing of literature courses or consent of the instructor.
