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  • ENG 235: Introduction to Theatre

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    This course provides a survey of western drama and theories of performance. Students will become familiar with significant playwrights and plays from the Greek, medieval, Renaissance, modern, and contemporary time periods. The course will explore a number of important movements and trends, such as morality plays, Elizabethan tragedy, realism, and the “Theatre of the Absurd.” Readings will include worksby Sophocles, William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Samuel Beckett, and David Mamet, among others. Students will also read and discuss theoretical writings by Aristotle, T. S. Eliot, Antonin Artaud, and Bertolt Brecht. (Fall) Shields/ Three credits
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  • ENG 263: Children’s Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    This course provides a general overview of the field of children’s literature. Students read representative classic and contemporary works of children’s literature from a variety of genres, including fairy and folk tales, modern fantasy, realism, and nonfiction. They evaluate text and illustration, as well as address current issues in the field. Further, through disciplined examination of the history and tradition of children’s literature, students develop an appreciation for children’s books and those who create them. (Offered each semester) Hagenbuch/ Three credits
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  • ENG 265: Introduction to Peace Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    An interdisciplinary introduction to the study of peace and war and of various approaches to resolving conflict in diverse settings. Students will examine classic texts on the subject of peace and case studies of particular conflicts involving political negotiation, violent or nonviolent direct action. The purpose of the course is to help students analyze conflict and apply approaches and perspectives from the past and the present that attempt to resolve them. (Same as HIS 265, SRS 265) (Offered each semester) Hodgen/Siddle, Murphy/Watters/ Three credits
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  • ENG 303: Magazine Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    This course challenges students to write the kind of indepth pieces often found in magazines, as well as a variety of shorter assignments. Our writing will be anchored by extensive reading. Although English 202 Journalism is not a prerequisite, students who develop their journalistic skills in that course will be better prepared for this one. (Spring) Land/ Three credits
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  • ENG 304: Business And Technical Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    The course helps students learn techniques for composing various types of on-the-job writing tasks: memos, reports, letters, proposals. It emphasizes clarity and functionality of language, and the need to suit format, style, and content to the purposes of the audience. It provides students opportunities for collaborative writing and for discussion of the ethical dimensions of writing on the job. Students are encouraged to learn the use of various technological tools for writing and research. (Offered each semester) Connor/ Three credits
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  • ENG 305: Fiction Workshop

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    Ideally suited for but by no means limited to students who have taken ENG 209 Creative Writing, this course will extend the discussion of craft begun there. The goal is to learn to tell a story in writing in such a way that the writer disappears, so that what is left, for the reader, is a shimmering, three-dimensional reality that in no way betrays itself as an illusion. Through the study of story structure, the discussion of published and student stories, and the writing of exercises and complete stories, students labor to produce fiction that has the look, texture, and flavor of professionals. (Spring) Cavanaugh/ Three credits
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  • ENG 308: Writing And Editing

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    This is a workshop course where students will learn a variety of editing techniques through a series of individual and group assignments. Through exercises in critical reading, writing, and editing, the course provides opportunities for increased facility with the writing process. (Offered each semester) Boutin/ Three credits
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  • ENG 309: Creative Nonfiction

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    In this course students will read and write essays in various forms of creative nonfiction: the personal essay, nature writing, and travel writing. The course will focus especially on the personal essay, in which writers draw upon and narrate elements of their history or experience to address broader social, political, or philosophical themes. For their major project of the course, students will produce a substantial personal essay on a subject of their choosing. This course should hold special interest for students who are thinking seriously about careers in writing, since it will allow them to stretch and test their skills in multiple forms of nonfiction writing. (Fall) Lang/ Three credits
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  • ENG 320: Medieval Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    This course will provide an introduction to medieval English literature, language, and culture between the years 600 and 1500. While our primary focus will be on texts written in English, we will also read (in translation) selections from the other major literatures that flourished in Britain during this period, including Irish, Welsh, Norse, French, and Latin. We will examine a variety of genres ranging from heroes’ tales, sagas, and lyric poetry to saints’ lives, lawcodes, and medical/scientific treatises. Major themes will include multicultural influences on English literature during the Middle Ages and the evolving conceptualization of the medieval hero. (Area 1, Fall) Carella/ Three credits
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  • ENG 325: Chaucer

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    A study of The Canterbury Tales with emphasis on Chaucer’s development as a narrative poet. (Area 1, Spring) Carella/ Three credits
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