English
Overview
英语系的课程让学生在国际和跨学科的背景下对英语文学进行密切的批判性研究, encompassing works from British, American, and other Anglophone literary traditions. 在保持公平和卓越的西方的使命价值观, 英语课程的学生既要阅读长期研究的作家的作品,也要阅读那些以前被排除在传统文学史之外的作家的作品. 1)精通细读和集中讨论个别文学作品, 2)学会将这些作品置于它们的生成历史中, geographic and social contexts, 3)熟练地通过一系列的理论和方法来解释它们,这些理论和方法是文学研究这门不断发展的学科的特征. 非专业学生将培养他们进行细读的能力, critical thinking, and analytical writing. 该系的大多数课程都是研讨会或讲座与讨论的结合. 这种教学方向强调了该系对师生互动和知识协作生产的重视. Introductory survey courses (ENGL 287, ENGL 288, ENGL 289)使学生接触到英语国家文学史的广度和多样性. 高级课程培养文学分析方面的复杂技能, interpretive writing, and oral presentation. 二年级、三年级和四年级的方法论和研究型研讨会(ENGL 290, ENGL 390, and ENGL 490)指导学生进行原创独立分析的实践,将主要的文本解释与次要的批判性研究进行对话.
Major Requirements
一个专业至少需要11门课程(44学分).
Major (no concentration)
Historical Surveys
ENGL 287 | Literary Experiments from Chaucer to Milton | 4 units |
ENGL 288 | Modern British Literary Traditions | 4 units |
ENGL 289 | The American Experience in Literature | 4 units |
Seminars
ENGL 290 | Introduction to Literary Methods | 4 units |
ENGL 390 | Junior Seminar in English | 4 units |
ENGL 490 | Senior Seminar: Comprehensive Project | 4 units |
Group 1 - Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Students must select one of the following courses:
ENGL 220 | Literatures of the Scientific Revolution | 4 units |
ENGL 222 | The Literature of Revenge | 4 units |
ENGL 225 | Shakespeare: Beyond Tragedy | 4 units |
ENGL 311 | The Literature of Error: Romance and Genre | 4 units |
ENGL 314 | Renaissance Poetry | 4 units |
ENGL 316 | Literatures of Primitive Accumulation | 4 units |
ENGL 322 | Renaissance Cultures of Punishment | 4 units |
Group 2 - 18th and 19th Century Literature
Students must select one of the following courses:
ENGL 241 | The "Deviant" | 4 units |
ENGL 248 | Money, Gender, and the Nineteenth Century Novel | 4 units |
ENGL 330 | 复辟与十八世纪英国文学 | 4 units |
ENGL 332 | Eighteenth Century Literature: 1730-1800 | 4 units |
ENGL 341 | Race, Law, and Literature | 4 units |
ENGL 345 | On Tyranny in American Literature before 1900 | 4 units |
ENGL 346/BLST 346 | 19th Century African American Literature | 4 units |
ENGL 347 | 19th Century Novel and Bollywood Cinema | 4 units |
Group 3 - 20th and 21st Century Literature
Students must select one of the following courses:
ENGL 267 | Afro-Surrealism | 4 units |
ENGL 270 | Asian American Literature | 4 units |
ENGL 273 | Contemporary American Poetry | 4 units |
ENGL 274 | Women Writers | 4 units |
ENGL 295 | Topics in English | 4 units |
ENGL 351 | Modernism and Contemporary British Fiction | 4 units |
ENGL 353 | 解读全球1930年代:大萧条时期的文学、哲学和政治 | 4 units |
ENGL 360/BLST 360 | Toni Morrison and U.S. Imaginative Production | 4 units |
ENGL 365 | Contemporary Literature | 4 units |
ENGL 370 | Literary Criticism | 4 units |
ENGL 377/BLST 377 | Afrofuturism | 4 units |
Group 4 - Emergent Literature
学生必须选择以下课程之一,侧重于文学以前排除在经典:
ENGL 241 | The "Deviant" | 4 units |
ENGL 267 | Afro-Surrealism | 4 units |
ENGL 270 | Asian American Literature | 4 units |
ENGL 273 | Contemporary American Poetry | 4 units |
ENGL 274 | Women Writers | 4 units |
ENGL 341 | Race, Law, and Literature | 4 units |
ENGL 346/BLST 346 | 19th Century African American Literature | 4 units |
ENGL 347 | 19th Century Novel and Bollywood Cinema | 4 units |
ENGL 353 | 解读全球1930年代:大萧条时期的文学、哲学和政治 | 4 units |
ENGL 360/BLST 360 | Toni Morrison and U.S. Imaginative Production | 4 units |
ENGL 365 | Contemporary Literature | 4 units |
ENGL 370 | Literary Criticism | 4 units |
ENGL 377/BLST 377 | Afrofuturism | 4 units |
注意:“新兴文学”课程通常属于第二组或第三组类别. However, 它们不能同时计算时间段要求(如第二组或第三组)和紧急文献要求.
Electives
ENGL | One additional ENGL course |
我们强烈建议考虑文学专业毕业的学生选修至少11门以上的英语课程,以拓宽和加深他们对文学史和文学解读的知识. 大多数研究生课程要求至少精通一门外语.
Major with a concentration in Creative Writing
英语专业的学生可以选择选修额外的课程,以完成创意写作的集中, 一个特殊的轨道,提供了文学史和创造性写作技巧的强大背景. 选择本专业的学生总共要修13门课程.
Historical Surveys
ENGL 287 | Literary Experiments from Chaucer to Milton | 4 units |
ENGL 288 | Modern British Literary Traditions | 4 units |
ENGL 289 | The American Experience in Literature | 4 units |
Seminars
Students must complete the courses listed below:
ENGL 290 | Introduction to Literary Methods | 4 units |
ENGL 390 | Junior Seminar in English | 4 units |
ENGL 490 | Senior Seminar: Comprehensive Project | 4 units |
Three Upper Division Electives
Choose from categories noted above as Groups I, II, III和IV(其中只有一门可能是200级课程).
Creative Writing Electives
Students must complete four creative writing electives. 其中至少两份必须来自英语系. 其他提供写作课程的院系和项目包括法语, Media Arts and Culture, Theater, and Writing and Rhetoric. 对专注于创意写作感兴趣的学生必须与他们的导师和系主任协商制定一个仔细的计划.
ENGL 280 | Creative Writing: Introduction to Fiction Writing | 4 units |
ENGL 281 | Creative Writing: Poetry | 4 units |
ENGL 380 | Creative Writing: Advance Fiction Writing | 4 units |
ENGL 382 | Advanced Creative Writing | 4 units |
MAC 222 | Creating and Writing Television/Streaming Series | 4 units |
THEA 380 | Playwriting | 4 units |
WRD 285 | 新闻学原理1:跨媒体报道新闻 | 4 units |
WRD 286 | 新闻学原理2:叙事非虚构:讲好真实故事 | 4 units |
WRD 301 | Creative Nonfiction | 4 units |
Honors in the Major
那些在课程学习中表现优异,并成功地将他们的竞赛项目发展成荣誉论文的毕业生,可能会获得荣誉学位. To be eligible, students must have a 3.专业课程平均成绩65分,总成绩3分.5 grade point average. 在春季学期开始之前,合格的学生将被邀请申请进入荣誉课程. 经院系教师审核后,接受申请的学生将注册入学 ENGL 499 (独立学习),在春季学期有两个单元. 他们将在春季学期完成一篇论文,并在教师委员会前进行口头答辩. 欲了解更多详情,请咨询您的部门顾问.
Minor
Five courses or 20 units.
Historical Surveys
学生必须从以下列表中选择两门课程:
ENGL 287 | Literary Experiments from Chaucer to Milton | 4 units |
ENGL 288 | Modern British Literary Traditions | 4 units |
ENGL 289 | The American Experience in Literature | 4 units |
ENGL 290 | Introduction to Literary Methods | 4 units |
Electives
任意三门ENGL课程,其中两门必须达到300级.
Second-Stage Writing
英语专业的学生顺利完成第二阶段的写作要求 ENGL 390 在大三的时候,并收到一个“满意”的标记,因为它的写作部分.
Comprehensive Requirement
All majors must take ENGL 490 (Senior Seminar) in the fall of the senior year, where they will design, develop, 完成一项涉及文学研究和分析的重要项目. 该项目将导致大量的原始解释和相关的二次研究论文, 并在春季学期举行的高级研讨会上进行正式的会议式口头报告. See the department website for more details.