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  • ENG 399: Independent Study

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    Open to highly qualified Juniors and Seniors with the recommendation of an English Department Faculty member who will design and supervise the study. Permission of the Department Chairperson is required.
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  • ENG 410: Workshop in The Teaching of English

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    Students interested in teaching English who have done exceptionally well in English courses may work as assistants in the teaching and learning activities of the “Gateway Course” to the English Major. (ENG 220 Approaches to Reading and Interpretation). Open only to Juniors and Seniors with the approval of the Department Chairperson. (Offered each semester) Beyers, Shields/ Three credits
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  • ENG 411: Senior Seminar: American Film Genres: 1903- 1941

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    This course offers students an opportunity to explore the beginning of the American film industry and the development of genre films. Students will also explore a variety of critical approaches to viewing and interpreting film. Genre films share narrative, thematic, and stylistic elements that reflect changes in American cultural identity as well as universal myths and archetypes. We will begin with Edwin S. Porter’s archetypal western, The Great Train Robbery ( 1903) and will then look at examples of several genres: gangster films, musicals, science fiction, romantic comedy, drama, mystery, animation, and documentary. Students in this seminar will be responsible for viewing fifteen films, leading discussions, writing short essays, and developing a research project which will include a term paper, a set of film clips, and a colloquium presentation at the end of the semester. (Fall) DiBiasio/ Three credits
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  • ENG 412: Senior Seminar: John Cheever, The New Yorker, And American Culture: 1946- 1984

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    “These are the tranquilized Fifties,? ?Robert Lowell wrote in“Memories of West Street and Lepke,” a poem in which hecomplained of the endless conformity of American culture, “where even the man / scavenging filth in the back alley trash cans, / has two children, a beach wagon, a helpmate, / and is a ‘young Republican.’” Using the stories of JohCheever and the magazine in which many of his stories appeared as cultural refractions, we will examine the 1950s and their modulation and eventual rupture into the social and political upheaval of the 1960s and ’70s. We will also read Cheever’s 1977 novel, Falconer, and, as counterpoint, Don DeLillo’s 1984 novel, White Noise, a postmodern examination of American culture. Students will conduct several short analyses of such cultural artifacts as cartoons; cover art; feature articles; book, film, and theatre reviews; and short stories in preparation for a seminar paper that will be drafted and revised for presentation at the English Department’s Senior Colloquium in December. (Fall) Thoreen/ Three credits
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  • ENG 413: Senior Seminar: Jurying The Booker Prize

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    The Man Booker Prize is awarded annually to the novel that a committee of judges deems as the most outstanding work of fiction published that year in England or its former colonies (which include Canada, India, Ireland, and many other countries). The awarding of this prize, like the awarding of any artistic prize, always stirs controversy in the literary world and raises difficult questions about how we make judgments about works of art. What makes a novel great? What makes this novel greater than that novel? Who decides what the standards are for greatness in a novel, and how do those standards change over time and from one culture to another? Our seminar will begin by thinking about these general questions, considering perspectives from art, literature, and philosophy. Then we will read the six novels that were short-listed as potential prizewinners for a single year, and as a class we will discuss and debate their merits. The final weeks of the semester will transform the class into a jury to select its own Booker Prize winner from the short list, according to standards that will be established by the class. Students will write short response papers for each novel, and then complete or participate in three major projects: the construction of a wiki-styled website about the Booker Prize, one that I hope to post for public use; a researched presentation, in pairs, focused on a single author and his or her nominated novel; and a researched argument-essay that identifies and defends the novel they believe should have won the Prize for that year. (Spring) Lang/ Three credits
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  • ENG 414: Senior Seminar: Words of War: Understanding Honor And Horror

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    Perhaps because the human impulse to wage war is as strong as the human impulse to create, war has been a subject of literature since human beings first began to tell stories. In this seminar we will examine how literature depicts war and what it can tell us that history, anthropology and political science cannot. How does our need to make meaning through language illuminate our apparently equally compelling need to make war? We will focus on texts from three wars: the Trojan war in The Iliad, that central text of western civilization and one of the earliest efforts to understand the causes and effects of war; the First World War in novels and plays such as Hemingway’s In Our Time and A Farewell to Arms and Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and in poetry by Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon; and our own wars in Iraq and on terror in contemporary poetry, in fiction and drama such as Baker’s Double Vision and Reich’s Daniel Variations, as well as in dramatic and documentary films. (Spring) Murphy/ Three credits
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  • ENG 415: Seminar in Writing And Mass Communications

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    The goal of this course is to assist you in making the transition from life as a student of communications to life as a communications professional. Over the course of the semester, students will work with other members of the class to: 1) interview professionals from a variety of communications fields; 2) assess professionally produced advertisements, brochures, websites, and e-portfolios; 3) master the use of software and hardware used by communications professionals; 4) and complete a series of projects based on professional models. Collaborating with a team, students will design and produce an advertisement, a brochure, and a website for outside clients. At the completion of each project each student will submit an assessment evaluating the process, the product, the team, and his or her own performance. For a final project, each student will design and produce an e-portfolio for prospective employers showcasing his or her accomplishments in this and other courses. (Offered each semester) Knoles, Santos/ Three credits
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  • ENG 420: Mass Communications Practicum

    3.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    The Practicum consists of a seminar and an internship. The seminar provides interns with opportunities to reflect on the internship experience and to examine issues of the field of Communications relevant to that experience. The purpose of the Internship that goes with the Practicum course is to provide Communications majors with practical, handson experience in the field. A list of sites for internships is available in the English Department Office. Students must complete an application form (available also at the English Department Office) and set up an interview with the Department Chairperson or the designated internship advisor before the deadlines set for Fall and Spring. NOTE: Internships and the Practicum course are to be taken at the same time in the Fall and Spring semesters. Requirement for taking the Practicum and Internship: 2.8 minimum GPA in the major. Those who do not fulfill this requirement must consult the Department Chairperson.
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  • ENV 120: Environmental History of New England

    4.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    In the past 15,000 years, New England has recovered from glaciation and been colonized by humans—?rst by American Indians, then by European immigrants. These and other events produced a series of changes in the biological landscape, some dramatic, some subtle. This course will examine many of these changes chronologically, concentrating on the relationships between humans and their biological environment. The laboratory will include ?eld trips, lab exercises, and an introduction to some of the methods of historical biology. Three lectures and one laboratory per week. Lab Fee: $300.00. (Fall, alternate years) Sholes/ Four credits
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  • ENV 150: Introduction to Environmental Science

    4.00 Credits
    Assumption University

    An introductory course designed as a foundation course for all students interested in environmental science. The interdisciplinary nature of environmental science will be stressed by covering the chemical, biological, and social aspects of environmental issues and problems in a case study approach. The lab will expose the students to both field and lab work associated with applied environmental work. Three lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. Lab Fee: $300.00 (Fall, alternate years). Hauri/ Four credits
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