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English1EnglishWebsite or Neal Lerner, EdD405 Lake Hall617.373.4540617.373.2509 (fax)Students in the English major study the diverse historical, cultural,and aesthetic contexts of English, American, and other Anglophoneliteratures. They analyze writing practices and related media fromthe Middle Ages through the present, from the quill pen to code. Theypractice a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to thestudy of language, rhetoric, writing, and literature.Students of English develop capacities for reading, analysis, andexpression that are in great demand in the workplace and in graduatestudy, including the ability to interpret and evaluate a variety of texts,to evaluate and produce arguments, and to engage diverse audiences.The major and minors are particularly suitable for students preparing forgraduate school or careers in any field that demands analytical abilityand well-honed writing skills. For profiles of current students and recentalumni, see the English department (http://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/english/) website.The English department at Northeastern engages students in theexperiential liberal arts across four areas: critical literary studies; digitalhumanities; writing, rhetoric, and publication; and archival studies andhistories of the book. The Department of English offers a major and threeminors, as well as many combined majors.Our minors offer concise engagements with several areas of Englishstudies: English—introduces the materials and methods of the field as a whole Rhetoric—draws on courses in communication studies as well asEnglish Writing—encourages students to develop expertise in creative,professional, and public writing, as well as rhetorical theoryAcademic Progression Standardsin this option should consult with the undergraduate program director inEnglish by the end of the sophomore year.ProgramsBachelor of Arts (BA) English ialsciences-humanities/english/english-ba/) English and Communication Studies on-studies-ba/) English and Criminal Justice stice-ba/) English and Cultural Anthropology thropology-ba/) English and Graphic and Information Design ormation-design-ba/) English and Philosophy ba/) English and Political Science cience-ba/) English and Theatre /) History and English /) Journalism and English s-media-design/journalism/journalism-english-ba/) Linguistics and English ence/linguistics/linguistics-english-ba/) Media and Screen Studies and English studies-english-ba/)Bachelor of Science (BS)Same as university-wide standards described under “Academic ds/#status).” Architecture and English /)Half-Major Templates for Combined Majors Biology and English ence/biology/biology-english-bs/)The Department of English offers preapproved template programs inboth English and writing that may be paired with another preapprovedtemplate program to create a combined major. Computer Science and English tudents may request admission to such a combined major via theappropriate form, which requires approval by both disciplines/collegestogether with an approved curriculum. For additional information onpreapproved template programs, see your adviser.PlusOne Program (MA) in EnglishEnglish majors at the end of their sophomore year or the beginning oftheir junior year may qualify for application to the PlusOne program thatcombines the BA with the master’s degree in English. Students interestedMinor English ialsciences-humanities/english/english-minor/) Rhetoric /) Writing ialsciences-humanities/english/writing-minor/)

2EnglishAccelerated ProgramsSee Accelerated Bachelor/Graduate Degree Programs ate-degree-programs/#programstext)CoursesEnglish CoursesSearch ENGL, ENGW Courses using FocusSearch ject ENGL%2CENGW)ENGL 1000. English at Northeastern. 1 Hour.Intended for first-year students in the College of Social Sciences andHumanities. Introduces first-year students to the liberal arts in general;familiarizes them with their major; helps them develop the academicskills necessary to succeed (analytical ability and critical thinking);provides grounding in the culture and values of the University community;and helps them develop interpersonal skills—in short, familiarizesstudents with all skills needed to become a successful university student.ENGL 1120. Trouble in Utopia. 4 Hours.Offers a first-year seminar exploring utopian/dystopian thought fromPlato to contemporary popular culture, as a site for literary, political,social, and personal experimentation. Offers students opportunities toidentify, critique, and theorize utopian ideas in critical and creative writingexercises. Culminates in a collective exhibit for which students produceand analyze their own utopian “artifacts” in the medium of their choice.ENGL 1140. Grammar: The Architecture of English. 4 Hours.Provides students with the basic tools for analyzing how sentenceswork. Whenever we produce or understand a sentence, we are followingunconscious rules of grammar, our internalized “architecture” of English.In this course, we learn a new method for discovering and describingsentence structure and as well as a useful set of tools for analyzinglanguage in all of its representations.ENGL 1160. Introduction to Rhetoric. 4 Hours.Introduces students to major concepts, traditions, and issues in rhetoricalstudies. Explores the range of ways that people persuade others tochange their minds or take action; the relationship among language,truth, and knowledge; and the role of language in shaping identity andculture. Focuses on recognized thinkers from the Western traditionas well as writers that challenge the rhetorical canon. Emphasizescontemporary and interdisciplinary approaches to rhetoric interested inthe entire range of rhetorical artifacts, with primary attention given tomethods of critically investigating texts and their effects.ENGL 1300. Introduction to Health and Humanities. 4 Hours.Explores the ways in which narrative and other forms of creative andcultural expression help shape conceptions of illness, healing, andthe body. Offers students opportunities to consider the health andhumanities through a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and genres.Includes small-group and classwide experiential field outings. Culminatesin the composition of reflective responses, a medical ethics/medicaljournalism piece, and a team-based experiential e-portfolio project.Course objectives include differentiating between healing and curing;knowing how to elicit, listen to, and analyze stories to determine howparticipants in the healthcare system experience illness and healing;being able to articulate the ways health is a cultural construct; and usingthis analysis to identify an empathic response as a future professional.ENGL 1400. Introduction to Literary Studies. 4 Hours.Offers a foundational course designed for English majors. Introducesthe methods and topics of English literary and textual studies, includingallied media (e.g., film, graphic narrative). Explores strategies for reading,interpreting, and theorizing about texts; for conducting research; fordeveloping skills in thinking analytically and writing clearly aboutcomplex ideas; and for entering into written dialogue with scholarship inthe diverse fields that comprise literary studies.ENGL 1410. Introduction to Writing Studies. 4 Hours.Introduces the basic theories, history, methodologies, and debatessurrounding the study of how people learn to write and how writingis used in home, school, work, and civic contexts. Considers writingitself as both a practice and an object of study. Explores historical,rhetorical, linguistic, cognitive, social, and critical approaches to theteaching, study, and practice of writing, both in the U.S. tradition and ininternational contexts (e.g., UK, France, China). Emphasizes research onthe development of critical reading and writing practices and students’understanding of their own experiences and practices of other groups.ENGL 1450. Reading and Writing in the Digital Age. 4 Hours.Grapples with the long and sometimes tumultuous relationship betweenliterature—including fiction, poetry, film, and video games—and newmedia technologies. Offers students opportunities to historicize andengage the social and literary upheavals of our own technologicalmoment through reading, discussion, writing projects, and practicumsthat seek to develop skills for analyzing the data and metadata of textsthrough both qualitative and quantitative methods.ENGL 1500. British Literature to 1800. 4 Hours.Surveys the major British writers and major literary works from the MiddleAges to the end of the eighteenth century. Includes works by such writersas Julian of Norwich, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Behn, Pope,and Swift.ENGL 1502. American Literature to 1865. 4 Hours.Surveys the major American writers and major literary forms fromthe colonial period to the Civil War. Includes works by such writers asBradstreet, Taylor, Wheatley, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe,Melville, and Emerson.ENGL 1503. American Literature 1865 to Present. 4 Hours.Surveys the major American writers and major literary works fromthe Civil War through the present. Includes works by such writers asWhitman, Dickinson, Twain, James, Hemingway, Moore, Faulkner, Ellison,and Morrison.ENGL 1600. Introduction to Shakespeare. 4 Hours.Introduces students to a selection of Shakespeare’s major plays in eachof the principle genres of comedy, tragedy, history, and romance.ENGL 1700. Global Literature to 1500. 4 Hours.Introduces students to the ancient and classical literatures of Greece,Rome, and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as other premodernliteratures in translation.ENGL 1990. Elective. 1-4 Hours.Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions.May be repeated without limit.

EnglishENGL 2150. Literature and Digital Diversity. 4 Hours.Focuses on the use of digital methods to analyze and archive literarytexts, emphasizing issues of diversity and inclusion. Covers threemain areas: text encoding, textual analysis, and archive construction.Considers literary texts and corpora, including works by well-knownauthors such as Shakespeare, together with collections by marginalizedwriters, including slave narratives and writings by early modern women.Offers students an opportunity to explore what counts as literatureand how computers, databases, and analytical tools give substance toconcepts of aesthetic, cultural, and intellectual value as inflected by raceand gender.ENGL 2240. 17th-Century British Literature. 4 Hours.Examines the literature and culture of the period from the death ofElizabeth I to the end of the century. Considers such figures as Bacon,Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Milton, Marvell, Cavendish, and Behn.ENGL 2250. 18th-Century British Literature. 4 Hours.Surveys the literature of the long eighteenth century in Great Britainfrom the Restoration of the monarchy in 1688 to the ascension of QueenVictoria in 1837. Focuses on the “rise” of the novel, as well as the socialcontexts of democratic revolutions, the expansion of slavery, the rise ofthe middle class subject, changes in gender conventions, the influenceof notions of sympathy, and capitalism. Includes such major writers asAusten, Behn, Coleridge, Defoe, Johnson, Pope, Swift, and Wordsworth.ENGL 2270. Victorian Literature. 4 Hours.Surveys the major writers, genres, and issues of Victorian England,considering such authors as Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, the Brontës,Hopkins, and Wilde.ENGL 2296. Early African-American Literature. 4 Hours.Surveys the development and range of black American writers,emphasizing poetry and prose from early colonial times to the Civil War.ENGL 2296 and AFM 2296 are cross-listed.ENGL 2301. The Graphic Novel. 4 Hours.Explores the word-and-image medium of comics as a narrative form.Focuses on the contemporary phenomenon of the so-called graphicnovel. What are the preoccupations of today’s graphic novels? Howdoes their storytelling work? Some work in translation is included, butthe course largely concentrates on the American tradition, focusing onfiction, memoir, and nonfiction reporting and adaptation. O

ENGL 1502. American Literature to 1865. 4 Hours. Su rv e y sth maj oA ic nw d l f thcoln i ap rdCv W .I u swk by B r ad s t e,T y l oW C p P H wn D ug S Melville, and Emerson. ENGL 1503. American Literature 1865 to Present. 4 Hours. Surveys the major American writers and major literary works from the Civil War through the present.

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