Junior standing or permission of department. A seminar on specific themes, periods or writers, this course provides a flexible opportunity to enrich English offerings. May be taken more than once when a different sub-title is used. While not a required course in the Writing Major, the practicum offers the student an opportunity to receive credit for workplace experience using writing skills. The position may be volunteer work, or paid or unpaid employment.
Students keep a journal and a portfolio of work and arrange for a supervisor's letter.
The practicum is monitored and evaluated by a faculty mentor. This course studies literatures translated from other languages, Anglophone literatures from outside the United Kingdom and the United States, and literatures from minority or special populations in North America. Offerings have included World Epics, Comparative Mythology, Women and Literature, African-American Literature, and The Greek Ideal. This course deals with dramatic literature from Ibsen to the present. It is primarily a reading course and its goal is to acquaint the student with a representative group of the best contemporary plays, while at the same time illustrating how the theatre has changed and developed during the 20th century.