Offered in alternate years. Designed for non-majors as well as majors. Genres include histories, journals, essays, Native American legends, captivity narratives, slave narratives, short fiction, the novel, and lyric poetry. Genres include essays, short fiction, drama, poetry, and the novel. Instruction and practice in the writing of drama, including planning scenarios, presenting scenes in class workshops and drafting a play, with emphasis on critiquing of student's work by instructor and peers.
Students attend weekly staff meetings and edit and publish the quarterly magazine.
Enrollment is by permission of instructor only. Does not fulfill the publications practicum for journalism and public relations majors. A survey of English literature beginning with Anglo-Saxon writers and concluding with Milton. Emphasizes literary and cultural history and developing literary styles. A survey of British literature from the Restoration through the Romantic and Victorian Eras.