EN 120    01          3             Approaches to Literature              McKenna, Sandra   MWF     9:00-9:50

The Approaches to Literature course offers students an opportunity to explore, discuss and write about a variety of literary genres including novels, short fiction, poetry and drama. Students learn to think critically while enhancing their understanding of the music and the power of language. As we uncover the "mysteries" of literature, students gain new insights into the creative process and into the ways literature links the reader and the writer.

EN 160    01          1             Reading Roundtable-Women Behaving Badly            McKenna, Sandra              M   3:00-3:50

This semester the reading roundtable will be reading novels and short fiction that deal with some of literature's most alluring "bad" girls. From Flaubert's Emma Bovary to Chopin's Calixta, we will examine a variety of literature's fallen women to see why they were so shocking and made "nice" women faint.

EN 160   01          1            Reading Roundtable: Picture This          Dwiggins, Mary     W          4:00-4:50

This roundtable will explore children's picture books. Are they really for children? What are the myths that seem to be prevalent in these books that are manifested through both the child figures in the narratives and the adults who write the stories? We will look at some of your favorite such as Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen as well as some not so well known such as Tom Feelings' Middle Passage and Taro Gomi's Everyone Poops . We will also create our own picture book in response to what we discover.

EN 170   01          1            Haiku Writing Roundtable           Brooks, Randy      F           2:00-2:50pm   LIB MAC

This is a one-credit poetry writing workshop modeled after Japanese haiku schools. Reading goals will be to become familiar with contemporary American haiku and an understanding of Zen poetics. Writing goals will be to try a wide variety of approaches to writing and editing haiku in order to find your own way to the highest quality haiku possible for you. The class will have several anonymous kukai contests. Each student will create a small chapbook of their best haiku and submit haiku to a literary journal. Prerequisites: none.

EN 200   01          3            Writing Seminar    Staff       TR          2:00-3:15pm

A course in nonfictional prose, emphasizing clarity of style, audience and development of ideas. Content will vary semester to semester. Representative topics include persuasion and argument, the variety of non-fiction, writing in academic disciplines, research and extended essays.

EN 201   01          3            Intro to Creative Writing: Gleaning the Fields             Braniger, Carmella             MWF     2:00-2:50

EN 201 is an invitation to explore the mysterious and evocative workings of world and self, both through reading the work of published authors and through bringing about one's own creative work. Students will not only explore the forms of contemporary poetry and fiction, but will become the artist who brings forth something new. During the semester, students will closely study the works of contemporary writers. Students will also fashion their own poems and stories to share with fellow writers. As students engage in their own writing, they will draw on the everyday, ordinary experiences of their world and show the ways these experiences are or can become extraordinary, for themselves and others. During the first half of the course, students should be prepared to be an avid reader and prolific writer. The second part of the semester will be workshop- intensive.

EN 202   01          1            Writing About Literature              O'Conner, Michael TR          9:30-10:45

This is an entry-level course to learn to write about literature, with special emphasis on literary criticism and critical approaches. The course begins with forms of writing about literature for the general public--book and film reviews, personal essays, diaries and journals. The course then moves to careful reading and close textual analysis, with written forms to include explication and interpretation based on primary texts from a variety of authors and genres. Finally the course includes basic critical approaches to reading literature, such as feminist, formal, cultural studies, biographical, and psychological. Students compile a portfolio of writing by the end of the course. Required of all literature majors, and can fulfill one of the advanced writing requirements for all English majors. Usually taken in the sophomore year. Does not fulfill the A&S Literature requirement. Prerequisite: IN 151 or consent.

EN 215   01          3            Newswriting I        Meddaugh, Priscilla               TR         11:00-12:15          

Focused on print reporting, this course is an introduction to basic methods of news reporting and writing. The course is designed to develop skills associated with gathering and organizing information from a variety of sources and developing stories based on that information. Additionally, students develop a basic knowledge of writing techniques and story types, and learn to apply this knowledge in exercises and writing assignments. The course also examines the modern news industry and media ethics.

EN 223   01          3            African American Narrative               Matthews, Anne     TR         2:00-3:15
IN 250    01          3            African American Narrative               Matthews, Anne     TR         2:00-3:15

In this course, we will explore issues of slavery and freedom, power and powerlessness, identity and self-respect. We will read both fiction and non-fiction narratives, placing the works in their cultural and historical contexts. Authors will include Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Toni Morrison. Students will keep a double-entry reading journal, give a presentation on any aspect of African American literary history, take an exam, and write one literary analysis essay.

EN 220   01          3             Literature of Childhood            Dwiggins, Mary     MWF     10:00-10:50am
IN 250   08          3             Literature of Childhood            Dwiggins, Mary     MWF     10:00-10:50am

The Beginning of Innocence? In this course we will explore the idea of innocence as we examine the historical development of children's literature and the cultural representations of "childhood" from the 17th century to the present. We will look closely at the cultural history of the phenomena of childhood and the changes in adult ideas about children and childhood, as reflected in this literature. Furthermore, we will try to understand the cultural values built into and/or imposed upon this body of literature since, unlike other genre, this literature is ultimately written for children not by the genre represented.

EN 231   01          3            American Lit through Twain       Mihm, Brian         TR         12:30-1:45pm
IN 250   03          3            American Lit through Twain       Mihm, Brian         TR         12:30-1:45pm

American Literature Through Twain is a study of major American writers, ideas, and literary trends from Puritan literature through the work of Mark Twain. The course provides cultural background for the readings, and it emphasizes writers of the 19th century including Poe, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Stowe, Melville, Douglass, Whitman and Dickinson. Recurring themes include freedom and restraint, self and civilization, reason and madness, society and the individual.

EN 241   01          3            Classical Traditions             Brooks, Randy      MWF     9:00-9:50am

Western Classical Traditions examines the role of literature and rhetoric in classical society. The course surveys origins of literary and rhetorical arts in ancient Greece through primary texts including: The Odyssey , Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetic, Plato's Phaedrus and Gorgias . This course examines the tension between oral traditions and the emergence of a radical new technology called "writing" through the close reading of primary texts including epic, lyric, dialogue, drama, oratory and classical theories of rhetoric and poetic. This course fulfills the classical traditions core requirement for all English majors. Prerequisites: none.

(Fulfills the College of A & S literature requirement or the English major core requirement in Classical Traditions .)

EN 270   01          3            Computer-Aided Publishing            George, Michael     TR         12:30-1:45pm

This course is an introduction to layout and design as well as computer tools that assist designers in their tasks. The course will revolve around Adobe InDesign 2.0 (which replaces PageMaker 6.5). In addition, you will work with image software like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. By the time you finish this course you will be able to:

·                  Use InDesign to design a variety of professional materials
·                  Know the key concepts of layout and design
·                  Know more than you every wanted about type
·                  Know how to manipulate images for your publications
·                  Know how to adapt rhetoric for a business-oriented audience
·                  Have fun doing all of the above

Class sessions will be a combination of presentation and discussion, followed by workshop time for you to practice what we covered that day.

EN 280   01          1            Journalism Workshop             Meddaugh, Priscilla TBA

Staff members of the Decaturian, Millikin's campus newspaper, receive credit for writing and other staff responsibilities. This course can be repeated each semester for up to eight credits. If you have not completed EN 215 please contact Dr. Meddaugh for possible consent.

EN 300   01          3            Advanced Creative Writing: Series and Sequences    Frech, Stephen       TR         3:30-4:45pm

The advanced class will work on longer projects and the structural methods of sequences and series to sustain longer works. We will read as models Calvino's Invisible Cities (fiction), Gluck's The Wild Iris (poetry), Eliot's The Wasteland (poetry), and De Botton's On Love (fiction).

EN 301   01          3            Contemplation Writing:Self-Writing and Correspondence     Braniger, Carmella       MWF     12:00-12:50

EN 301 offers a space for cultivating and contemplating self/other relationships. Keeping in mind the intimate relationship between reading and writing, we will learn about and engage in the contemplative practices of self-writing (a kind of journal keeping) and correspondence (letter-writing). We will observe, remember, imagine. We will broaden our notion of what it means to think. As we contemplate and call into question the way one apprehends oneself and others, our goal is to come to recognize the potential for reading, writing, listening and speaking to help us construct identity and transform the way we interact with others. We will read the self-writing and correspondence of others such as Seneca, Saint Augustine, Van Gogh, Rilke, Bishop and Artaud. Major writing projects include journal keeping, letter writing and reflective writing.

EN 301   01          3            Advanced Writing                         staff       MWF       10:00-10:50

Specialized topics in writing at the advanced level, including such representative areas as the contemporary essay, manuscript editing and publishing, public relations writing, web publishing and reports and proposals. Includes an extended writing project.

EN 321   01          3            Major English Authors 1             George, Michael     TH         11:00-12:15

This course is a representative of a type of course that has been taken by English majors since the major began: a survey course. The idea behind a survey course is to expose students to as much literature from various periods as possible, and that is what this course will do. Survey courses usually involve tremendous amounts of reading, and this one is no exception, though only a couple of weeks will be really heavy.

By the end of this course, you should have knowledge of the basic literary and intellectual movements in each historical period. In addition, you should know the genres and prosody used in each period, as well as background information to help you place the literature in its social context.

EN 325   01          3            Shakespeare           Poitevin, Kim       TR         9:30-10:45

Why do the works of Shakespeare remain so popular on the stage and in film? Why are his words so often quoted (and misquoted) by lawyers, congressmen, presidents, and world leaders? Why is Shakespeare such a central part of the English curriculum in high schools and universities? This course will provide you with an introduction to some of the most heated issues surrounding Shakespeare in our own time as well as to the field of Shakespeare Studies in general. Throughout the course, we'll think about the role of Shakespeare in our own culture and in education itself. The poems and plays we'll look at this term raise interesting and sometimes uncomfortable questions about sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, patriotism, war, church-state relations, and homosexual love. As the semester progresses, we'll develop a better understanding of what studying, teaching, and performing Shakespeare's works allow us to do, and of how the texts and the media in which they are presented ask and answer questions relevant to Shakespeare's contemporaries as well as to our own.   Readings will include five plays, selected Sonnets and "The Rape of Lucrece," as well as a number of historical documents from Shakespeare's era, and critical articles from our own.

EN 360   01          3            International Fiction   Mihm, Brian      TR          2:00-3:15
IN 350    07          3            International Fiction   Mihm, Brian      TR          2:00-3:15

Contemporary stories and novels by writers from a variety of world cultures--Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. We'll discuss short stories in terms of their universal human themes (compassion, identity, alienation, freedom) and their particular historical and cultural contexts (customs and beliefs, race and gender issues, political and social change). Included are such novels as Rushdie's Midnight's Children , Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude , and El-Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero.  

EN 366   01          3            Bodies in Early Modern Culture     Poitevin, Kim       MWF     12:00-12:50
IN 350    08          3            Bodies in Early Modern Culture     Poitevin, Kim       MWF     12:00-12:50

This course examines how discourses surrounding the human body in the early modern period worked to encode gender, race, and religion. We will begin the course by examining how a few scholars in anthropology and the social sciences have written about the body, then we'll examine a number of sixteenth and seventeenth century writings and visual representations of the body. We'll look at anatomical drawings that represented male and female genitals as inverses of each other, Montaigne's account of a woman who lived half of her life as a female and the other as a male, and John Lyly's play Gallathea , which culminates in the sex-change and marriage of one female shepherdess to another. We'll talk about the "anatomy theatres" of public dissections, executions and dismemberments, European travelers' accounts of foreign peoples' bodies, circumcisions, pregnancy, tattooing and more.  

EN 366   02          3            International Literature              staff       MWF       3:00-5:30
IN 350   02           3            International Literature              staff       MWF       3:00-5:30

Advanced study of literature in historical, intellectual and cultural context. Offerings vary semester to semester and include medieval, Renaissance, 18 th century, romantic, Victorian, modern, and contemporary.

EN 410   01          3            Senior Writing Portfolio               Brooks, Randy      T           6:00-8:30

Senior Writing Portfolio focuses on matters of process and production, theory and practice, related to the construction of writing portfolios. After an overview of these matters, students will identify and study the type of portfolio they are creating in depth, revise past work and create new work as necessary, and construct professional writing portfolios for presentation to their intended audiences. The class is a combination of lecture, discussion, and workshop. Students must be senior writing majors or minors to take the class; each participant should be prepared to use the knowledge and skills they have gained as writing majors to contribute to the course in significant ways. Prerequisites: senior.

EN 470   01          3            Internship: Teaching Writing   O'Conner, Michael T             4:00-4:50pm

In this course, students work with a faculty member in an IN150 course, helping to design assignments, tutor students and read about and discuss various composition theories. Students will also have in-depth discussions with a wide range of English professors on issues of theory and best practices. This course is required for English Education majors and encouraged for English majors planning to attend graduate school. Signature of the Director of English Education required.

EN 480   80          1-3          Intern: Professional Writing   Brooks, Randy    TBA

The professional writing internship is an opportunity to learn from writing and publishing experiences in the workplace. Students are placed in a variety of organizations depending on personal or professional interests. This internship fulfills the off-campus learning requirement. A learning contract specifying the task goals, learning goals and professional expectations is required.

(Signature of chair on internship form required. Fulfills an advanced studies writing requirement for English majors and/or off-campus learning requirement.)