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  • EN 338: Seminar:Gender Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Eastern Connecticut State University

    This course continues the work of EN 335 by looking more closely at the way attitudes toward gender are enmeshed with representations of sexuality and homosexuality.Topics include the debate over origins (nature versus nurture), changing historical ideas about gender and sexuality, and political issues.The course focuses on theoretical material, fictions, and film.This course requires familiarity with some basic elements of gender and sexuality theory.(Prerequisites: EN 335, WS 101, or PO 119, or permission of instructor) Three credits.
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  • EN 339: Grant and Proposal Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Eastern Connecticut State University

    This course prepares students to write effective proposals and reports.Students learn to define and write problem statements, objectives, plans of action, assessment documents, budget presentations, and project summa-ries.In addition, they sharpen their teamwork, editing, writing, audience awareness, and design skills as they engage in collaborative projects with non-profit organizations in the community.Relevant historical and ethical considerations are discussed.A service-learning component is included in this course.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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  • EN 340: The World of Publishing:Working on Fairfield's Dogwood Magazine

    3.00 Credits
    Eastern Connecticut State University

    This course introduces students to the field of publishing, particularly book and magazine publishing.It provides students with a solid foundation in the publishing field (e.g., selecting and editing manuscripts, book/magazine production, and marketing) and offers students practical hands-on experience similar to that of an internship position at a magazine or publishing house.In addition to attending lectures and participating in discussion, students work on the University's national literary magazine, Dogwood. (Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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  • EN 341: Early African American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Eastern Connecticut State University

    This course surveys some of the major works of African American literature produced before the publication of W.E.B.Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk in 1903.The course begins with a section on slave narrative and African American poetry, briefly reviews the representations of Black people in 19th-century literature by white people, and concludes with an examination of the major fiction and non-fiction of the second half of the 19th century, with particular emphasis on works from the 1890s.Authors include Wheatley, Douglass, Jacobs, Chesnutt, Harper, Dunbar, Washington, and Du Bois.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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  • EN 342: Voices and Visions:Five American Poets

    3.00 Credits
    Eastern Connecticut State University

    Students undertake an intensive study of five major American poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, T.S.Eliot, and Langston Hughes.The course examines significant themes in the work of these poets and explores the ways in which the poetic process develops structures and meanings through patterns of imagery and the complex resources of language.The course gives attention to the poets' biographies and the historical periods in which they worked.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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  • EN 344: African American Fiction,1940 to 1980

    3.00 Credits
    Eastern Connecticut State University

    Students undertake a comparative study of novels by African American men and women, beginning with Richard Wright's Native Son and Ann Petry' s The Street , and ending with works published in the 1970s.Authors include Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Charles Johnson, and Toni Cade Bambara.Exploring race and gender in the United States from male and female perspectives, the course focuses on topics such as family, religion, enslavement, urban experience, education, and histor y.This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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  • EN 345: Representations

    3.00 Credits
    Eastern Connecticut State University

    This course focuses on "ways of seeing" and the "gaze" that are constructed and maintained in contemporary culture within the concept of representation.The course balances on the margins of textual and visual materials (paintings and films); offers an interdisciplinary theoretical base; examines the presentation and representation of self, subject, and identity as narrative, biography, and autobiography; and focuses on the notion of realism and politics of realism (or between traditional ways of seeing and deconstructed ways of seeing).By reading theoretical tracts on the ways of seeing and by using films and art slides to test these theoretical materials, students critique contemporary notions of seeing and being seen.Cross-listed under visual and performing arts as VPA 345.Students may not take this course under both designations.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credit
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  • EN 345/346: Fall/Spring Internships

    10.00 - 15.00 Credits
    Eastern Connecticut State University

    The internship program allows students to gain on-site experience in the fields of journalism, publishing, literary archives and libraries, business writing, English education, non-profit agencies, and public relations through supervised work for local newspapers, magazines, publishers, and news agencies.These positions are available upon recommendation of the department intern supervisor, under whose guidance the students assume the jobs, which require 10 to 15 hours a week.Students may take one internship for credit toward the English major.Students may take a second internship for elective credit.(Prerequisites: EN 12 or equivalent and permission of department intern supervisor) Three credits.
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  • EN 346: The Woman Question:Early Feminism and 19th Century American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Eastern Connecticut State University

    This course examines the issue popularly known as the Woman Question through some of the major works of 19th-century American literature, beginning in the 1850s, a time when American feminists began to intensify their questioning of the status of woman - philosophically and politically - and when a group of "domestic feminists," led by Harriet Beecher Stowe, became the most popular writers in the country.The course ends in the 1890s when the conventions of sentimental fiction were being superseded by realism and regionalism, and when an explicitly anti-domestic image of womanhood began to be formulated around the figure of the New Woman.Authors include Stowe, Fern, Hawthorne, Jacobs, Alcott, Gilman, Jewett, and Chopin.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credit
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  • EN 347: African American Fiction,1980 to Present

    3.00 Credits
    Eastern Connecticut State University

    This course studies contemporary fiction, offering a mix of now-canonical authors such as Toni Morrison, Ernest Gaines, and John Edgar Wideman, along with emerging writers such as Helen Elaine Lee and Paul Beatty, and includes a number of first novels by award-winning writers.The course begins with a neo-slave narrative paired with a novel that illustrates how the legacies of enslavement persisted into the twentieth century.The course explores both urban and rural experience in primarily African American towns and neighborhoods, and analyzes the consequences of desegregation in different locales.Gay and lesbian lives have become more prominent in Black fiction over the past two decades, as depicted in several of the novels.Narrative techniques also offer a main thread of discussion throughout the course. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Pre-requisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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