This track balances work in writing courses with reflection on how writing is produced and how it works in our culture, allows students to combine study of writing with the study of literature, and helps students prepare themselves for the profession of teaching writing. We offer about ten courses in rotation, such as Literacy and Society, Language Variation, Introduction to Linguistics, Semantics, Linguistics and Grammar, and The Technology of Writing. It builds upon and refines the competencies developed in the required survey courses. Particularly in association with the Writing Certificate and with writing courses auch as Technical Writing, Writing for Business and Industry, Editing and Publishing, and Writing the Research Paper, the track is useful to students oriented to teaching, publishing, writing, law, linguistics, and graduate study. The Rereading the Canon track is designed to give English majors intensive knowledge of traditional texts and encourage new ways of seeing British literary heritage.
Offerings range from period surveys and genre courses to courses in criticism and theory.
We offer in rotation about twenty-five courses in British literature, such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Romanticism, Themes and Genres in Women's Literature, Modern English Fiction, and History of Criticism. The track aims to help students study major periods and writers in depth, understand and critique the literary tradition, become aware of recent intellectual and cultural developments that have changed the way we see literary history, understand the importance of cultural contexts in reading and producing texts, and write knowledgeably and well about literature and culture. It builds upon and refines the competencies acquired in the required survey courses. This track is useful for those students who intend to pursue professions such as law, medicine, teaching, for those who want to study in England, for those who want to work in public service or cultural institutions, and for those who plan on attending graduate school. Content and design 2000, Temple University.