English Courses

Editing the college literary magazine, Camas. Planning, soliciting submissions, making selections, preparing manuscripts for printing. 1 credit. (EL)

Editing the college literary magazine, Camas. Planning, soliciting submissions, making selections, preparing manuscripts for printing. For departmental majors only. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. 1 credit.

For students who need an introduction to or a refresher in English grammar, including parts of speech, phrases, basic sentence patterns, tense, mood, and punctuation. 2 credits.

A beginning course in creative writing. Introduces students to writing in various genres by means of creative exercises and assignments, workshops, and individual conferences. May include poetry, fiction, plays, and creative non-fiction. 4 credits. (CS)

Introduction to literary genres through texts addressing a particular theme. Emphasis on developing close reading skills central to literary analysis. Practice in writing effective papers about literature. 4 credits. (CS)

Examination of themes finding expression over a broad historical reach in the Anglo- American literary tradition. May include works of global literature beyond or outside that tradition. May be repeated once for credit. 4 credits. (CS or GP)

Investigation into the literatures and cultural issues of the American West. Study of significant western writers. May include Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner, Maxine Hong Kingston, H.L. Davis, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ken Kesey or others. 4 credits (CS or VP or US)

Formal initiation of majors and minors in both literature and creative writing to critical and aesthetic analysis of literary texts. Concentrated practice in close reading of major works in various genres, as well as exploration of different critical methodologies. Should be completed before the start of the junior year. 4 credits. (WI)

Initial portfolio course for English and Creative Writing major. Documents progress toward learning outcomes of major. Students should register for course with departmental academic advisor. 1 credit. (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)

Introduction to U.S. Literature from its pre-Columbian antecedents to the present, including colonialism, the American Renaissance, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. Emphasis on themes involving nature, modernity, and U. S. literary pluralism. Lecture/discussion. Offered fall. (CS or US)

Exploration of major works of world literature dealing with a particular theme, subject, or cultural legacy. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: INQS 125 or consent of instructor. No more than 8 credits may be counted toward departmental majors/minors. 4 credits. (CS)

Introduction to nature writing and its lessons about the environment. Practice in writing in the genre. Authors studied include Annie Dillard, Gary Snyder, John McPhee, Mary Austin, Edward Abbey, and Aldo Leopold. Prerequisite: INQS 125. 3 credits. (CS or UQ)

Literary works addressing issues of race, gender, class, minority experience, or national literatures besides those of the U.S. or England. May be repeated once for credit with different content. Prerequisite: INQS 125 or consent of instructor. 4 credits. (CS or UQ or GP)

Continued instruction and experience in academic writing (two hours/week) combined with work as a staff member in the Linfield Writing Center (four hours/week). College writing across the disciplines, writing strategies, effective interpersonal communication in helping others write, practical understanding of the intricacies of English. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisites: INQS 125 and consent of the instructor. 4 credits. (MWI)

Workshop, conferences, and practice in techniques of poetry writing. Reading of modern poets and study of genre. An option for Creative Writing majors and others. May be repeated once for credit. 4 credits.

Workshop, conferences, and practice in techniques of fiction writing, especially the short story. Reading of modern fiction writers and study of various fictional genres. An option for Creative Writing majors and others. May be repeated once for credit. 4 credits.

Workshop, conferences, and practice in techniques of writing dramatic fiction in script form for films, television, or stage. Conventions of dramatic structure, character development, dialogue, form, and current practice. For Creative Writing majors and others. May be repeated once for credit. 4 credits.

Workshop focused on the personal essay, with class discussion of works in progress and readings by such writers as Barry Lopez, Ursula LeGuin, Barbara Tuchman, and Wendell Berry. Weekly writing assignments and in-class exercises. Practice in finding ideas, getting started, using storytelling and creative writing techniques, keeping journals to gather material, incorporating research, and revising. Final project: a revised portfolio of essays. May be repeated once for credit. 4 credits.

Advanced imaginative writing workshop in four genres (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, drama/screenplay) or in cross genre experiment. Emphasis on development of ambitious original work, revision, refinement of genre related techniques, and critiquing. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisites: 200 plus two literature courses, plus one genre specific writing class: 316, 317, 318, or 319, or consent of instructor. Offered at least every other year. 4 credits. (CS, WI)

Focus on one genre, such as the novel, drama, poetry, autobiography, short story, or epic. History and characteristics of the genre with readings and analysis of significant examples. May be repeated once for credit with different content. Prerequisites: INQS 125 and completion of at least one literature course or consent of instructor. 4 credits. (CS, MWI)

See MSCM 327. 4 credits.

Focus on the work of one writer such as John Milton or Virginia Woolf, or two closely connected writers such as W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, or Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. May be repeated once for credit with different writers. Prerequisites: INQS 125 and completion of at least one literature course or consent of instructor. 4 credits. (MWI)

Writers and works from the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo- Norman, and Middle English traditions, reflecting the medieval outlook from Beowulf to Chaucer to Malory. Prerequisite: INQS 125 or consent of instructor. 4 credits. (CS or VP)

Writers and works from the early part of the English Renaissance through the great Elizabethan flowering and on into the Jacobean period at the beginning of the 17th century. Analysis of typical forms of the period such as the sonnet, essay, and play. Prerequisite: INQS 125 or consent of instructor. 4 credits. (CS or VP)

Representative literary forms and ideas from Restoration and 18th-century writers. Prerequisite: INQS 125 or consent of instructor. 4 credits. (CS or VP)

The major Romantic writers from 1785 to 1830, usually including such poets as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and introducing one or more novelists such as Austen, Radcliffe, Scott, or Shelley. Prerequisite: INQS 125 or consent of instructor. 4 credits. (CS or VP)

The major writers in prose and poetry from 1830 to 1901, usually including the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tennyson, Fitzgerald, Robert Browning, Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, and Hopkins; the prose writers Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, and Huxley; at least one novel and one play. Prerequisite: INQS 125 or consent of instructor. 4 credits. (CS or VP)

Representative forms and ideas in English prose and poetry of the 20th century. Prerequisite: INQS 125 or consent of instructor. 4 credits. (CS)

Selected comedies and histories in their historical and critical context. Emphasis on comedy as a dramatic form and questions of gender and sexuality as they are represented through performance. Prerequisite: INQS 125 or consent of instructor. 4 credits (CS or VP)

Selected tragedies and tragicomedies in their historical and critical context; emphasis on tragedy as a dramatic form. Prerequisite: INQS 125 or consent of instructor. 4 credits. (CS or VP)

Literary responses to the transformations of American life in the latter 20th century as a result of the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements, the Vietnam War, Sixties youth culture, environmentalism, and the continuing seductions of the American Dream. The flowering of American ethnic and minority writing. Postmodernism and the influences of popular culture. Prerequisite: INQS 125 or consent of instructor. 4 credits. (CS)

Exploration of postcolonial writers in English interrogating themes of colonization, hybridity, globalization. Authors studied may include but not limited to Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, Tsitsi Dangaremba, V.S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott Prerequisites: INQS 125 and completion of at least one literature course or consent of instructor. 4 credits. (CS or GP)

An overview of and internship in teaching literature in the multicultural classroom. Prerequisites: one literature course and consent of the instructor. 4 credits. (MWI)

Literary investigation into concerns fundamental to human existence such as the nature of good and evil; the origins and condition of the human being in the universe; the nature of religious quest and experience of the sacred; ethical inquiry and behavior; utopian social aspiration; the nature of human knowing. May be repeated once for credit with different content. 4 credits. (CS or UQ)

Examination of a major U.S. literary genre via themes linking American fiction over time. Study of aesthetic experimentation within the genre. Topics will vary. May be repeated once for credit. 4 credits. (CS or US)

Reading and discussion course organized around a writer or theme. Emphasis on close reading, articulate discussion and evaluation of cultural significance of literary and/or popular texts. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisites: INQS 125 and one literature course. Offered occasionally. 1 credit.

The English language from Indo-European beginnings through Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, and modern English. Addresses phonetic, morphemic, and syntactic changes as well as current linguistic theory. 3 credits.

Advanced opportunity for outstanding students to assist faculty members in the classroom or laboratory. Focus on course content and pedagogy. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. 3 credits. (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)

The dominant trends in 20th century literary criticism from a variety of perspectives, and practice in applying literary theory to specific texts. Prerequisite: 275. 4 credits. (MWI)

Senior portfolio course for English and Creative Writing major. Documents progress toward learning outcomes for major. Students should register for course with departmental academic advisor. 1 credit. (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)

Program of directed tutorial reading on some topic or problem within the discipline relating to the special interests of the student and supervised by a departmental faculty member. 1-5 credits.

Completion in conference and workshop of a substantial writing project as the final requirement in the Creative Writing major. Such original work as a collection of poetry; a collection of short stories; a novel or novella; a collection of creative essays; a collection of short dramatic works; a full length play or film script. A senior level course for students who have previously completed most of the requirements for the Creative Writing major. Prerequisite: 275. 4 credits. (MWI)

Advanced study of a specialized literary subject in a seminar setting. Completion of a substantial critical paper. A senior level course for students who have previously completed most of the requirements for the English major. Prerequisite: 275. 4 credits. (MWI)

Supervised employment in a work setting which draws upon the writing, speaking, oral, and analytical skills developed by English and Creative Writing majors. Open to seniors and second-semester juniors with permission from faculty supervisor. No more than 4 credits to be counted toward the major. 1-8 credits. (EL)

4 credits (WI)