English ......................................................................Bachelor of Arts

SPED 413: Autism Spectrum Disorders: Field Experience One

This course is a field experience taken concurrently or upon completion of SPED 412 Autism Spectrum Disorders: Theory and Practice. The experiential learning takes place in an educational or therapeutic setting for 30 hours. The candidate observes, serves as a teacher aide, and begins to practice skills. Online communications are required during this course. SPED 413 is only required for those seeking ASD endorsement. 1 credit, as offered

SPED 426: Autism Spectrum Disorder: Applied Behavior Analysis and Intervention

This course is designed to identify the components of applied behavior analysis (ABA) and the development of effective behavioral interventions pertaining to children and adolescents diagnosed along the autism spectrum. Focus is given to identification of the causes and function of behaviors, the assessment and diagnosis of behavioral issues, and the development and implementation of effective behavior and therapeutic treatment plans. The course participants will be able to assess, develop, implement, and evaluate effective behavioral and therapeutic intervention plans using a variety of positive behavioral supports and management techniques. 3 credits, as offered

SPED 427: Autism Spectrum Disorders: Field Experience Two

This course is a field experience taken concurrently or upon completion of SPED 426 Autism Spectrum Disorders: Applied Behavior Analysis and Interventions. The experiential learning takes place in an educational or therapeutic setting for 30 hours. The candidate observes, serves as a teacher aide, and begins to practice skills. Online communications are required during this course. SPED 427 is required only for those seeking ASD Endorsement. 1 credit, as offered

SPED 431: Autism Spectrum Disorder: Strategies for Social Competence

This course is designed to identify the components of language and social skills and the development of those skills as they pertain to children and adolescents with ASD. Emphasis will be placed on information processing and the development of language, communication strategies, pragmatics, augmentative, and alternative communication systems. This course will also focus on social skills deficits and approaches for teaching social skills to students with ASD. 3 credits, as offered

SPED 432: Autism Spectrum Disorders: Field Experience Three

This course is a field experience taken concurrently or upon completion of SPED 431 Autism Spectrum Disorders: Strategies for Social Competence. The experiential learning takes place in an educational or therapeutic setting for 30 hours. After approval from the Cooperating Teacher, the candidate is expected to take over most of the responsibilities of the day. Online communications are required. SPED 432 is required only for those seeking ASD Endorsement. 1 credit, as offered

Please note: For ASD endorsement candidates who live in the Erie area, arrangements for the field experience will be done by the School of Education. For ASD endorsement candidates who live outside of the Erie area, special arrangements will need to be made. The candidate must contact the Program Coordinator prior to enrolling in SPED 413 to discuss field experience site arrangements.

ENGLISH

MATTHEW DARLING, Chairperson FACULTY: Professors: Douglas King. Associate Professors: Ann Bomberger. Assistant Professors: Matthew Darling, Derek DiMatteo, Lauren Garskie, Shreelina Ghosh, Kaustav Mukherjee, Jennifer Popa. Associate Teaching Professors: Carol Hayes. ADJUNCT FACULTY: Elizabeth Kons, Emmett Lombard, Berwyn Moore Professor Emeriti, Patrick O’Connell Professor Emeriti, Laura Rutland, Penelope Smith, Lora Zill.

Mission Statement

The Gannon University English Department prepares students to be informed readers and skillful writers. Committed to students’ personal and professional growth, the English Department exposes students to literary texts from a variety of cultural backgrounds and develops their writing skills in a variety of academic and community settings.

Vision Statement

Helping students to explore the writing of the past, to use writing to engage with the present, and to create a better future through the written word. The department offers two majors

Program Description – English Major

The Department offers three curricular tracks to help students tailor the major to fit their interests and professional goals. • Secondary Education in English Track: For students interested in teaching English at the high school level • Legal Career Track: For students preparing to attend law school or wanting to pursue another law-related career (e.g., paralegal) • Literary Studies Track: For students preparing for graduate school in English literature or a related discipline or seeking careers demanding strong liberal arts preparation. All tracks cultivate the student’s ability to write in a variety of genres for different audiences and purposes.

Outcomes for English Major

1. Students apply linguistic theory to analyze language structures and the relationships among language, culture and society. 2. Students use visual images and technology for various purposes and audiences. 3. Students read actively. 4. Students produce rhetorically effective writing in multiple genres appropriate for the context and audience. 5. Students write effectively in response to literary texts. 6. Students analyze print and non-print media and the role of technology in communication. 7. Students conduct research of various kinds and report results effectively.

Program Description – Writing Major

The English Department also offers a separate Writing Major, a highly flexible program of study which prepares students to work as writing professionals in business and non-profit settings or as creative writers. Major core requirements in the English Department will focus primarily on writing, while program electives may be completed with courses from several departments, including English, Communications, Legal Studies, Marketing, Education, Information Systems or Criminal Justice.

Writing Program Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate effective writing and speaking skills for various rhetorical situations. 2. Apply various writing and designing technologies. 3. Analyze and critically interpret writing for a multicultural audience. 4. Produce collaboratively written projects. • The Department also offers students a variety of internships, a 3+3 program in legal studies with Duquesne University and features student-run publications, including Totem (an award-winning literary magazine). Whether they seek careers in education, publishing,

journalism, media, public relations, government, business, industry or law, Gannon English

Majors acquire the scholarly focus, broad preparation and intellectual awareness that form the basis of an intensive liberal arts education. Students in all tracks are required to complete an internship as part of their academic program. ENGL 101 is normally the prerequisite for upper level literature and writing courses.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

ENGL 101: Foundations of Academic Writing

Foundations of Academic Writing focuses on understanding writing, rhetoric, language, and literacy. It asks students to write and revise for various rhetorical situations while helping them investigate, expand, and apply their knowledge of writing. 3 credits

ENGL 200: Pursuits of English

Pursuits of English introduces students to the dynamic, evolving field of English and prepares them for advanced course work. Students will explore ways to approach and understand literature, linguistics, composition, and career and graduate studies opportunities for English majors. should be taken either before or concurrently with Pursuits of English. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 211: Advanced Composition

A rhetorical approach to problems of written communication. Although primary stress will be on developing the student’s writing ability, knowledge of rhetorical theory and of critical norms for prose will be required. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 212: Business and Professional Communication

A detailed study of the various methods of communication used in the professions, business, and industry, for audiences both within and outside the organization. Numerous written exercises. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 214: Writing for Print/News Media

This workshop course introduces new students to the basics of journalistic reporting and writing. Students receive practice in how to identify, gather, and write news; and make ethical judgments about news. The course should help students who want to work for newspapers and magazines as well as for broadcast and online media. This course is a prerequisite for ENGL 216 and ENGL 252. (This course is also listed as COMM 214). Prerequisite: ENGL 100 3 credits

ENGL 215: Editing/Production of Print Media

The course introduces students to the production of printed material, whether for newspaper, magazines, advertising, in-house publications, brochures, books, or anything else on paper. (This course is also listed as COMM 215). Prerequisite: ENGL 100 3 credits

ENGL 219: Photojournalism

This course introduces students to the principles of photojournalism. Students study and practice photojournalism techniques, with consideration of the ethical issues involved with creating and using visual images. (This course is also listed as COMM 252). Prerequisite: ENGL 214/COMM 214 3 credits

ENGL 220: Creative Writing

An introductory course providing instruction and practice in the techniques and principles of writing poetry and short fiction. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 261: Introduction to Linguistics

An introduction to the basic concepts of linguistics with an emphasis on both theory and application of linguistic principles. Topics include origin, structure, morphology, syntax, dialects, oral, and written language. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 281: Introduction to Photography

Taking effective and well-composed photographs; using the 35mm camera, its lenses, filters, and flash; developing black and white film; printing artistic enlargements. Corequisite: ENGL 251 3 credits

ENGL 282: Photography Lab

Corequisite: ENGL 281 0 credit

ENGL 301: Workshop: Special Topics in Writing

Specialized forms of writing in a workshop format for advanced writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 211 or 220 3 credits

ENGL 314: Feature Writing

This workshop course introduces students to various genres of feature writing for newspapers, magazines, and online publications, including profiles, entertainment pieces and trend stories. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 315: Advanced and Specialized Reporting

This workshop course focuses on specialized news beats including police, courts, government, education, and the environment and introduces students to computer-assisted reporting and research techniques. (This course is also listed as COMM 216). Prerequisites: ENGL 214/COMM 214 3 credits

ENGL 317: Writing for Social Change

Writing for Social Change is a community-based/service-learning, advanced writing course through which students explore and engage in the act of writing for social change/justice. Students will analyze and compose texts, in a variety of genres/modalities, which function rhetorically to advance causes for social change and social justice. 3 credits

ENGL 318: Writing in Digital Environments

This course focuses on the study and practice of textual and visual content development for web-based environments. Students will develop skills in social media strategizing, usability and accessibility optimization, promotional writing, and search engine optimization. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 321: Poetry Writing Workshop

An advanced seminar and workshop focusing on student’s original poetic composition. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 322: Fiction Writing Workshop

An advanced seminar and workshop focusing on student’s original composition of short fiction. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 331: American Literature to 1865

The course covers American prose and poetry to 1865, focusing on the development of a national literature in the United States. There is an emphasis on canonical figures (such as Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, and Thoreau), but attention will also be given to lesser-known native, women, and minority writers. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 332: American Literature, 1865 to 1914

American prose and poetry from the Civil War to World War I. Major figures include Whitman, Twain, James, Dickinson, Crane, Dreiser. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 333: American Literature, 1915 to 1945

American prose, poetry and drama between the World Wars. Major figures include Frost, Hemingway, O’Neill, Faulkner. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 334: American Literature after 1945

The course covers American prose and poetry from WW II to the present, with emphasis on traditional and postmodern texts. In addition to canonical figures like Arthur Miller, Ralph Ellison, Sylvia Plath, Flannery O’Connor, Toni Morrison, and Thomas Pynchon, there is an emphasis on ethnic-American writers and contemporary poetry. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 341: British Literature: Medieval and Renaissance

The dramatic and non-dramatic literature of the Medieval Period and non-dramatic literature of the Renaissance, with emphasis on the works of Chaucer, More, Sidney, Spenser, Milton, Donne, and Jonson. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 342: British Literature: The Long Eighteenth Century: 1666-1830

This course explores British literature during the time often known as the long eighteenth century, from 1666-1830. The course looks at literature thematically, exploring how important social and aesthetic concerns shift and change across periods. Topics may include the growth of the British empire, slavery and abolitionism, gender roles, the industrial revolution, political revolution, rural and urban culture, religion, and/or aesthetics. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 343: British Literature: Victorian and Modern

This course covers writers of the Victorian and Modern periods, as well as modern Commonwealth writers. The course will vary in thematic focus, looking at issues like Industrialism, social class, gender, and the British Empire, and may include a wide variety of writers, among them, Dickens, Gaskell, Tennyson, the Brownings, Charotte Bronte, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Rhys, Conrad, or Achebe. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 345: Drama of Shakespeare

The course explores Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and evolution as a dramatist, Across the genres of comedy, history, tragedy, and romance. We examine the question of whether Shakespeare was “of an age” or “for all time” (or both). From a variety of critical perspectives, we explore Shakespeare’s influence by and upon Renaissance England, as well as the universality and enduring appeal of his plays as seen through contemporary productions, films, and other cultural adaptations. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 353: Immigrant World Literature

Course on literature that is focused on the immigrant experience from around the world, post 1945. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 354: African American Literature

This course examines literature written by African-Americans. Emphasis is on literary and cultural analyses, including issues of race, ethnicity, gender and social class. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 355: Contemporary World Literature

The course introduces students to works of literature from around the world that have been composed after 1980. Intellectually, the students will be able to see and hear the sights and sounds from different cultures and places and appreciate the various historical, literary, and human connections in literature from places outside the United States. Course themes may vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 362: History of the English Language

Phonological and morphological development of Modern English from the Indo-European period. Methodology of historical linguistics. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 363: The Structure of English

Rationale and application of transformational grammar to linguistic and stylistic analysis. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 373: Literature and Film

This course gives students skills in analyzing literary works and films adapted from or inspired by them. We’ll explore the processes involved in adapting a narrative from a print and/or stage medium to the film medium. We’ll study works from a variety of genres and from a variety of critical perspectives. Students interested in pedagogy may also study methods of teaching literature/film parings. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 374: Literature For Young Adults

A study of distinguished literature for young adults and of the historical development and current trends in adolescent literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 376: Modern/Contemporary Drama

A critical approach to significant drama from Ibsen to the present and to the intellectual forces and assumptions that contribute to their development. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 380: English Internship

A semester-long internship providing field experience in areas related to the student’s concentration. Students may use no more than 6 practicum credits toward graduation requirement. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 1-6 credits

ENGL 381: Literary Criticism

This course provides a historical and analytical study of critical theory with emphasis on contemporary critical methods. The course focuses on central critical problems and evaluates a range of critical and theoretical responses to these problems. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 382: Mass Media and Popular Culture

This course covers the history, organization and management of mass media. It also covers the concepts and theories of popular culture and mass media, including advertising and public relations as well as news organizations. It examines critical approaches to newspapers, magazines and broadcast and online media as sources of information and entertainment. Among its focuses are the ethical and legal issues faced by news organizations. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 383: Public Relations

Strategies and communication tools of public relations as a link between an institution and its external and internal public. Cross-listed with COMM 372. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 389: Methods of Teaching English

Cross listed as EDCR 325, methods of teaching literature, writing, critical reading, and grammar in the classroom. Replaces EDCR 324 for English secondary education students only. Prerequisites: EDCR 101, 103, ENGL 101 3 credits

ENGL 390-394: Special Topics

Prerequisites: ENGL 101 1-3 credits

ENGL 395-398: Independent Study

Prerequisites: ENGL 101

ENGL 400: Senior Research Project and Oral Exam

Prerequisites: ENGL 101 1-3 credits

3 credits

English Major Curriculum Literature Track

(Numerals in front of courses indicate credits) FRESHMAN Fall 3 Foundational English/ENGL 101 3 Foundational Philosophy/PHIL 101 3 Quantitative Reasoning 3 Global Language 3 Elective 0 Gannon 101/FRSH 101 15

SOPHOMORE Fall 3 Integrative Communication 3 Integrative History 3 Linguistics/ENGL 261 3 ENGL Writing Course 3 Elective 15

JUNIOR Fall 3 Integrative Theology 3 Literary Criticism/ENGL 381 3 ENGL International Literature 3 Elective 3 Elective 15

SENIOR Fall 3 Professional Leadership/Ethics 3 Research and Oral Presentation/ ENGL 400 3 ENGL British Literature 3 Elective 3 Elective 15 Spring 3 Integrative English 3 Foundational Theology/THEO 101 3 ENGL American Literature 3 Global Language 3 Elective

15

Spring 3 Integrative Philosophy 3-4 Scientific Reasoning 3 Pursuits of English (WI)/ENGL 200 3 Drama of Shakespeare/ENGL 345 3 Elective 15-16

Spring 3 Global Citizenship 3 English Internship/ENGL 380 3 ENGL Elective 3 Elective 3 Elective 15

Spring 3 ENGL Writing Course (Professional Communication) 3 ENGL Literature Course 3 Elective 3 Elective 2-3 Elective 14-15

The following 4-year curriculum is an example. The placement of core courses ought to change to integrate appropriately and effectively the core curriculum with a major and program curriculum.