ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION
Go to class! As a discipline, English is defined by both materials and methods. While students can certainly access the materials—texts of many kinds, defined in many ways—on their own, the methods require participation in a community of scholars, which is the role of the classroom lecture and discussion. Students learn from each other as well as from faculty, and miss a significant portion of the educational experience when they miss class meetings or fail to participate in discussions. The English Department therefore affirms the importance of regular class attendance and supports penalties for non-attendance as indicated on the syllabi of individual faculty members.
Courses at the 100-level
Dramatic literature, past and present, is studied through analysis of selected plays.
3 credit hours
Film as an art form is studied, through viewing and analyzing representative films and by reading and writing essays on the aesthetics of film.
3 credit hours
Literature as an art form and as an expression of diverse cultural voices is studied, including the voices of women, minorities, and non-Western authors. (Formerly Contemporary Approaches to Literature.)
3 credit hours
Students examine the culture and heritage of the Western world as expressed in literature.
4 credit hours
Various literary writings are used to introduce students to selected themes and topics in relation to the history and culture of one or more non-Western societies. Sections of this course are titled: (1) African Narrative and (2) Modern India: A Crisis of Identity and Direction.
4 credit hours
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