The English Division is dedicated to the study of English language and literature. It houses the Center for English Proficiency, the Arts & Sciences Core Composition and Literature courses, the AUD Writing Center, the annual Essay Contest, and the Minor in Literature. The English Division’s mission is to provide students with the advanced reading and writing skills needed to succeed in today’s competitive academic and professional environment. Students develop these skills through a range of courses that focus on critical reading, rhetoric and composition, academic research, and the literary arts. Students who enroll in English courses experience an intellectually stimulating learning environment that encourages creative, independent thinking and celebrates the diversity of experience and expression that is at the core of the best critical and creative writing.
ENGL 275-A - Psychology and Literature:
This course examines the connection between psychology and literature, from Freud’s psychoanalysis to post Jungian depth psychology. Specific psychological sites and literary themes of critical interest include: the nature of the unconscious, libido, narcissism, repression, memory, the archetypes, individuation, symbolism, myth, creativity, and active imagination.
The Literature Minor prepares students with a focused knowledge of literature, while allowing them the flexibility to focus on the periods or genres that are of particular interest to them. Students must complete a minimum of 15 credit hours from the following list of courses:
*ENGL 210 excluded for B.C.I.S. Journalism (English Track) and Digital Production and Storytelling (English Track)
**ENGL 275-278 may be repeated if topics are different.
ACADEMIC YEAR 2021-2022
Category 1: Awards for Outstanding Essays in First-Year Composition
Category 2: Awards for Outstanding Research Essays in First-Year Composition
Category 3: Awards for Outstanding Essays of Literary Criticism