English

A supplement to Rhetoric and Composition II (Eh 124), this course is required for students placed as basic writers and optional for all other students. Placed students must pass both this course and Rhetoric and Composition II. Class meets once a week. Class size is limited to eight. Curriculum is coordinated with Eh 124 instructor and tailored to the needs of students. Pass-Fail only. (Note: credit does not apply toward graduation.)

This course teaches techniques for effective oral and written communication. In a workshop environment that features continual instructor and peer evaluation, students develop a process approach to writing and speaking. Students will write in a variety of genres and will reinforce rhetorical strategies pertaining to audience awareness while practicing oral delivery skills. A grade of C or better is required to pass the course.

This course, building upon EH 111, introduces students to the study of literature and the fundamental of literary research. Students explore fiction, poetry, and drama from both the western and non-western worlds. The creative process is explored through reading, discussion, research and writing. Additionally, the key themes of power, identity, justice and adaptation and explored in relation literature.

This course introduces students to the narrative methods and storytelling strategies that define short fiction. Readings include short stories by traditional and contemporary writers from diverse national and cultural backgrounds. Attention will be given to individual stories and their function in the broader context of entire collections of short fiction.

This course provides a study of the novel, including its aesthetic development, critical reception, and social function, from its origins in the eighteenth-century to its contemporary practitioners. Specific topics and texts may vary according to instructor and student preference and may include Bradford, Bradstreet, Edwards, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau and Douglas.

This course presents an overview of American Literature from the end of the Civil War to 1945. It may include authors and works from the Gilded Age, Progressivism, World War I, the Expatriates, the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance. The course studies the role of literature to express and influence social, economic, and cultural realities of the United States. Specific topics and texts vary according to instructor and student preference and may include Twain, Bierce, Dickinson and Whitman.

This course surveys British literature from 1660 to the present. It will combine historical, cultural, and linguistic approaches in the study of various literary genres, considering along the way what shapes definitions of language, tradition, nation, and literature. Readings, class discussions, research and writing assignments aim to give students a broad look at a number of canonical writers, intellectual movements, and influential changes that have accompanied the development of British writing since the Restoration. The course is intended for majors and non-majors alike.

The second of two world literature surveys, this course concentrates on literary works from the English Restoration to the modern era. The primary goal for the course is to define the role of literature as it occurs through a wide range of social, cultural and geographical contexts. Selected texts depend on student and instructor interest and may include Voltaire, Borges, Mahfouz, Tagore, Mishima, Garcia Marquez and Achebe.

This course is intended to provide the opportunity to offer introductory courses in English that would not normally be a part of the Husson curriculum. As such the topics will depend upon the interests of students and faculty.

This course will investigate literacy from a sociocultural and linguistic perspective. Students will be defining and operationalizing the term "literacy" and striving to understand the various types of literacy that currently exist in American society. Furthermore, students will study how being adept in various literacies define group membership and serve as a gateway of access to various levels of American social stratification. Furthermore, beginning with pre-school aged children, students will investigate how literacy and the value of literacy is transmitted culturally and how that transmission weighs heavily on future involvement in literacy events.