Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
English
Mission
The Bachelor of Arts in English provides students with a rich understanding of literary tradition and with language skills that prepare them for a variety of careers. English majors learn to think, read, and write clearly. They learn to analyze literature through close examination of specific passages and to identify the major periods of literature in Western culture and the major trends in Western thought.
An English major at Reinhardt is prepared to enter a field such as education, publishing, or journalism, or to pursue further education in graduate or professional studies. Indeed, most businesses in today’s marketplace are eager to find graduates with the strong writing abilities and analytical skills possessed by English majors. The English program at Reinhardt offers an optional internship, in which students are placed in workplaces such as newspapers, publishing firms, and law offices in order to gain valuable experience that will enhance their ability to find jobs after graduation. The English program encourages students with an interest in writing to combine their major in English with a minor in Media Writing, housed in the Communication and Media Studies program.
Student Learning Outcomes for English
Students who complete the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) of English will be able to:
- Demonstrate sound skills in expository writing.
- Demonstrate sound skills in critical analysis.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the historical and/or cultural context of literature.
- Demonstrate the ability to research information from reliable sources and document these sources correctly.
Student Learning Outcomes for the Bachelor of Science in English/Language Arts Education
Teacher candidates who complete the Bachelor of Science (B.S) in English/Language Arts Education program will:
- Use knowledge of curriculum, learner differences, and ongoing assessment data to plan for student access to same essential content.
- Utilize a variety of strategies to differentiate instruction and provide an academically challenging environment for all students.
- Use systematic formal and informal assessment as an ongoing diagnostic activity to measure student growth and to guide, differentiate, and adjust instruction.
- Display a professional commitment to the teaching philosophy of differentiated instruction to support students’ diverse learning needs and to maximize learning.
Special Features and Activities
English students are offered the opportunity to do the following:
- Join the English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta.
- Assist with tutoring in the Center for Student Success.
- Contribute articles and selections to the Reinhardt publication, Sanctuary.
- Hear and discuss issues with respected and well-known local and national authors and academics.
- Present their creative writing and research at the Robert L. Driscoll Convocation of Artists and Scholars.
Degrees and Certificates
Courses
ENG 101: COMPOSITION
Credits 3This course introduces and develops analytical thinking and writing skills with emphasis on the organization and development of the short essay. Nonfiction prose readings, designed to stimulate critical discussion and inquiry, provide a basis for writing and support intellectual growth; assignments are text oriented. Prerequisite: University placement in ENG 101 or an A, B or C in ENG 100.Prerequisite:
ENG 102: COMPOSITION AND LITERATURE
Credits 3This course builds on the rhetorical and compositional skills students mastered in ENG 101 and introduces the short story, the novel, the poem, and the play as the basis for analytical argumentative essays. Research skills, particularly borrowing and integrating ideas from electronic and print sources and assessing source appropriateness support student thinking and writing. ENG 102 is strongly recommended for students planning to major in English. Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a grade of C or better or A in ENG 100
ENG 103: COMPOSITION, RHETORIC & RESEARCH
Credits 3This course builds on the rhetorical and compositional skills students mastered in ENG 101. It emphasizes the organization and development of the research-based argumentative essay and introduces students to research techniques involving both print and electronic source material. A major component of this course is a focus on critical reading and the evaluation of source appropriateness. Topics are wide ranging and cross curricular. Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a grade of C or better or A in ENG 100
ENG 203: BRITISH LITERATURE I
Credits 3This course surveys major works, writers and genres from the Anglo-Saxon period through the Renaissance.
ENG 204: BRITISH LITERATURE II
Credits 3This course surveys major works, writers and genres from the eighteenth century to the present.
ENG 223: AMERICAN LITERATURE I
Credits 3This course surveys American literature from the colonial period through the Civil War, emphasizing major writers, contexts and approaches to literature.
ENG 224: AMERICAN LITERATURE II
Credits 3This course surveys American literature from the Civil War to the present.
ENG 235: DIVERSE AMERICAN VOICES
Credits 3This course surveys multicultural American literature from its Native American beginnings to the present. It encompasses works by native American, African American, Asian American, European American, and Latino authors. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or 103, or COM 103 with a grade of C or better.
ENG 236: AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE SURVEY
Credits 3This course is a survey of African-American Literature from the slave narratives to the present, using the theme of musical influences. African-American literature has always been closely tied to musical traditions, from slave narratives and the spirituals, to the Harlem Renaissance and jazz, to hip-hop and contemporary African-American literature. This class integrates literature, history and music to provide a lively exploration of African-American literature and culture. Prerequisites: ENG 101 and ENG 102 or ENG 103 with a grade of C or better
ENG 238: SCIENCE FICTION LITERATURE SURVEY
Credits 3This course will examine the literature of science fiction in a chronological survey, from the early 1900s with H. G. Wells (1903) up to the beginning of the 2000s with Ken Liu (2004) and beyond as time allows, with the focus being a survey of major science fiction literature, its authors, genres, and themes. It is designed first as a survey course of science fiction literature: chronological as well as thematic. Some major areas to be examined may include time travel, space travel, stories of Mars, aliens, interstellar war, conceptions of gender, cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, robots, cyborgs, dystopia, and apocalypse. The course is designed to develop students’ reading, writing and research skills using literary works elected from the SF novel and short story – through which students will gain a broad understanding of SF. We will begin the course with a discussion into defining what SF is, and we will return to this at the end of the course, not only accurately defining it, but describing how it has changed over more than one hundred years and likely will continue to change—and how SF is such a particular useful form for examining the human condition.
ENG 240: INTRO TO CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Credits 3This course prepares students for the English major by introducing basic approaches to literary analysis, including historical context and literary terminology, as well as professional conventions for writing literary criticism.
ENG 260: INTRODUCTION TO THEATER
Credits 3This course is an introduction to all aspects of the theatrical experience, emphasizing the role of the artist as well as the technician. Participation in the production and performance of a play is expected.
ENG 271: WORLD LITERATURE I
Credits 3This course surveys world literature from the earliest recorded texts of antiquity through the Renaissance, with special attention to the classics.
ENG 272: WORLD LITERATURE II
Credits 3This course surveys world literature from the 17th century to the present. Prerequisite: ENG 102
ENG 280: INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING
Credits 3This course introduces students to creative writing in several genres, including poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. Students learn how to identify structure, imagery, insight and tension in assigned readings and to use these elements in their own creative compositions. No prerequisite required.
ENG 298: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENGLISH
Credits 3This course, which explores a topic of contemporary interest to the study of English, is offered as needed to students with sophomore standing.
ENG 299: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ENGLISH
Credits 3This course, which involves supervised research on a selected topic, is offered as needed to students with sophomore standing. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
ENG 300: MEDIEVAL BRITISH LITERATURE
Credits 3This course examines medieval British literature and language. Students read works of literature in modern English translation alongside the Old or Middle English originals. Possible topics include the Old English language, literature, and culture; the Arthurian tradition; the Romance tradition; the alliterative tradition; and women writers of medieval Britain.
ENG 301: CHAUCER
Credits 3This course examines the life and works of Geoffrey Chaucer, with a focus on selections from The Canterbury Tales. Other works to be studied may include Troilus and Criseyde, excerpts from Chaucer’s dream-vision poetry, and select shorter works.
ENG 303: SHAKESPEARE
Credits 3This course focuses on the plays of William Shakespeare and their enduring meaning. In the context of Renaissance drama, students read and study representative examples of Shakespeare’s tragedies, histories and comedies.
ENG 304: MILTON & THE 17TH CENTURY
Credits 3This course concentrates on the life and work of John Milton and his contemporaries, with attention to cultural, religious and intellectual backgrounds. The course might include other writers such as Donne, Herbert, Marvell and Vaughn. Although the course includes study of selected minor poems and prose of the period, the focus is on Paradise Lost.
ENG 306: THE ROMANTIC AGE
Credits 3This course examines the spirit and the age of Romanticism, especially the cultural forces that shaped such canonical writers as Goethe, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron and Shelley. Lesser-known Romantic writers such as Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Mary Shelley and Dorothy Wordsworth are also considered.
ENG 307: THE VICTORIAN AGE
Credits 3This course alternates close readings of Tennyson, Browning and Arnold with the study of a wide range of other Victorian works. It considers genres, the cultural contexts of the period and the interconnections among major authors.
ENG 308: RESTORATION & 18TH CENTURY LIT
Credits 3This course focuses on the literature of the Restoration and eighteenth century, including comedic, dramatic and satiric veins. Authors are chosen from Dryden, Swift, Pope, Addison, Steele, DeFoe, Congreve, Wycherly, Sheridan, Goldsmith and others.
ENG 310: JANE AUSTEN
Credits 3This course explores the major works of Jane Austen. Students read and examine Austen’s novels from a variety of perspectives, including contemporary responses, critical analyses, and modern adaptations.
ENG 312: BRITISH NOVEL
Credits 3This course covers the British novel from its origins to the modern day. Novels that look toward the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as those that exemplify modernist expression and the novel form, are considered.
ENG 321: AMERICAN POETRY
Credits 3This course emphasizes the poetry of major and representative American writers from the colonial period to the present, including such figures as Bradstreet, Bryant, Dickinson, Frost, Eliot, Wilbur, Stevens, Moore, Roethke and Levertov.
ENG 323: ROMANCE/REALISM/NATURALIS IN AM LIT
Credits 3This course considers the figures who express the dominant literary modes of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States, with attention to their influence on later authors. Included are such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Bierce, Chopin, Howells, O’Neill, Dreiser, Wharton, James and Crane.
ENG 324: MODERN AMERICAN NOVEL
Credits 3This course focuses on the novels of major and representative American authors from 1920 to the present, including such writers as Dreiser, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Ellison, Morrison, Hamilton and Proulx.
ENG 325: WILLIAM FAULKNER
Credits 3This course explores the works of William Faulkner. The focus is the major novels, though students also study some of Faulkner’s short stories and less critically acclaimed works.
ENG 326: SOUTHERN LITERATURE
Credits 3This course is a study in the literary achievement of the twentieth century American South, with special attention to its fiction and emphasis on the Southern Renaissance. Writers studied include Faulkner, O’Connor, Porter, Welty, McCullers, Warren, Percy and Toole, as well as contemporary figures like Hood and Conroy.
ENG 328: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Credits 3This course examines the works of the playwright Tennessee Williams and explores themes, characters, plots, symbols, and other literary and theatrical components of his works through an in-depth study, not only of his plays, but also of literary criticism and film adaptations.
ENG 335: MULTI CULTURAL AMERICAN LITERATURE
Credits 3This course explores the lively diversities in American literature through readings of works by a variety of ethnic American writers. Novels, short fiction, poetry, and background information on authors are considered.
ENG 336: AFRICAN-AMERCAN LITERATURE
Credits 3This course considers important African-American short fiction, novels, poetry and drama. Background information on authors is considered as it relates to their works.
ENG 340: TEACH GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT OF WRITING
Credits 3This course is a study of approaches in teaching grammar and writing. It explores current theories of composition pedagogy and assessment, including numerous strategies for teaching writing. Attainment of grammatical competence in oral and written communication, the history of grammar instruction and research on grammar instruction are covered to promote sophistication in syntax and writing style.
ENG 341: LITERARY GENRES & CRITICIAL APPROAC
Credits 3This course focuses on six approaches to literary interpretation: the traditional approach, the formalistic approach, the psychological approach, the mythological and archetypal approach, the feminist approach, and cultural studies
ENG 342: ADVANCED GRAMMAR
Credits 3This course is designed to increase knowledge of modern English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, usage, and syntax so students can speak and write with clarity, precision, and confidence. The course is also designed to enable prospective teachers to effectively convey grammatical concepts to their classes, as well as diagnose and remedy problems in student prose.
ENG 343: INTRO TO LANG & LINGUISTICS
Credits 3This course analyzes the nature of human language and includes an introduction to speech sounds, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Students examine the social and pedagogical implications of modern linguistic theory, including issues such as language acquisition, dialect variation, historical linguistics and English as a Second Language.
ENG 345: HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Credits 3This course examines the origins and development of the English language from its Indo-European roots to modern English. Students learn about changes to pronunciation, syntax, spelling, and semantics. Areas of study may also include the historical forces that have shaped English; the notion of “correct” English, pidgins, and creoles; and English as a world language.
ENG 351: LITERATURE AND FILM
Credits 3This course explores the relationship between literature and the cinema, emphasizing films that make creative use of literary works and traditions.
ENG 360: DRAMATIC LITERATURE
Credits 3This course provides a comprehensive introduction to dramatic literature. Students explore characteristics of each genre from Greek tragedy to contemporary drama through in-depth play analysis, discussion and literary criticism.
ENG 371: GLOBAL LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION II
Credits 3This course includes the study of authors and works from the Mediterranean, Continental Europe, Africa, the Far East, Latin America, North America and Great Britain to provide students with a comprehensive selection of World literature.
ENG 372: RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
Credits 3This course provides an overview of the literature of the European and British Renaissance. The course is heavily interdisciplinary, incorporating the art, music and philosophy of the era to increase students’ understanding.
ENG 376: MODERNISM
Credits 3This course is a study of Modernism in the great twentieth century works of European, British and American literature. Students focus on the period from World War I to the present, with special attention to the Lost Generation that followed World War I; Surrealism and Dadaism; Existentialism; responses to the Holocaust, the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and the Cold War; the Beat Generation; and the outgrowth of Modernism called Post-Modernism.
ENG 377: STUDIES IN POETRY
Credits 3This course is a study in the genre of poetry. Students read a selection of great poetic works and learn to understand poetry and to analyze its formal aspects, such as meter, rhyme, stanza form and alliteration.
ENG 378: THE RISE OF THE WOMAN WRITER
Credits 3This course focuses on great women writers of the Western tradition, emphasizing canonically acceptable authors, as well as those authors who were lesser known in the twentieth century but who were extremely popular or influential in their own time.
ENG 383: LITERARY EDITING & PUBLISHING
Credits 3Students gain practical experience in literary editing and publishing through producing Sanctuary, the University literary magazine, as well as Webfolios of their own work. Areas of study include copy editing, publication software, layout, and the literary marketplace. Students collect and choose works for inclusion in Sanctuary and create their own works for publication. This course may be repeated once for elective credit.
ENG 386: POETRY WRITING
Credits 3This course introduces students to the techniques of writing poetry. Students study the basic elements of poetry, including imagery, rhyme, meter, and stanza form. Students read a variety of poems as models and assemble their own portfolio of original work.
ENG 387: CREATIVE NONFICTION
Credits 3This course introduces students to the voices, styles, and structures of the creative non fiction essay. Students read and analyze creative non fiction works such as the memoir, the meditation, the lyric essay, and the literary journalistic essay. They then write essays that incorporate the narrative devices they have identified in the assigned works. A major focus is attention to diction, syntax, and revision as elements of effective writing
ENG 388: SCRIPTWRITING
Credits 3Students learn the elements of scriptwriting with a focus on writing for stage and screen. Through writing practices, students develop their skills in creating plot structure, conflict, character development, dialogue, setting, point of view, and motivation. In addition, students learn script formats, the revision process, the art of adaptation, and the various writers’ resources.
ENG 389: FICTION WRITING
Credits 3This course includes the study of fiction writing, as well as the examination of effective critical evaluation methods. Emphasis is placed on the elements of fiction characterization, point of view, setting, plot, narration, dialogue, and style. Publication avenues and revision are also discussed.
ENG 390: TV WRITING
Credits 3Students will learn the elements of television writing (concepts, processes, pitching, formats, roles, and industry expectations) by reviewing different approaches to structure, discussion of current TV series, reading TV scripts, analyziing TV pilots and an ongoing workshop of student writing. Students will work to master the following skills: dramatic structure, conflict, character, dialogue, style and voice. In addition, students will learn the revision process, the art of adaptation, and the various writers' resources.
ENG 391: PLAYWRITING
Credits 3This course is dedicated to process. Students learn to write plays by writing and analyzing plays. The primary goal of the course is to encourage students to write quickly, fluidly, and fearlessly. Students will write one 10-minute play (approximately 10 pages) about every 10 days, or a 10 page scene which will be outlined in an assignment.
ENG 407: ENGLISH INTERNSHIP
Credits 3A supervised program of study for the communication or English major, this course is designed to provide practical hands-on experience. Skills learned in the classroom are applied to the workplace environment. Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours of ENG courses at the 200-level or above, plus a faculty member’s recommendation
ENG 408: CREATIVE WRITING INTERNSHIP
Credits 3Students will learn practical skills for jobs in the world of writing and publishing through an internship. Pre-requisite: ENG 280 or any 300 level Creative Writing course.
ENG 450: SENIOR THESIS
Credits 3The Senior thesis consists of a 30-50 page research paper or a 30-page creative manuscript accompanied by a 10-page analytical essay. Students must choose a senior thesis advisor and gain approval for their senior thesis topic in the semester before the thesis is to be written. Prerequisite: Senior standing
ENG 480: SENIOR SEMINAR IN CREATIVE WRITING
Credits 3This course is the capstone experience for seniors pursuing the creative-writing concentration of the English major, although it is also open to other students who have taken at least two other 300-level creative-writing classes. Through workshops, peer review, and extensive revision, students create a portfolio of their own writing and submit an original work for publication. Prerequisites: Two other 300-level creative-writing courses with a grade of C or better
ENG 483: LITERARY EDITING & PUBLISHING
Credits 3Literary Editing and Publishing (Advanced) Students gain practical experience in literary editing and publishing through producing Sanctuary, the University literary magazine. This is also a leadership position, as the advanced student will take the helm as a senior editor, often guiding ENG 383 students in the editorial process. Organizational and management skills will be heightened in this process. The student enrolled in the advanced class may request an editing position on the graduate literary journal, the James Dickey Review, which maintains a national and international reputation with authors of the highest level, including Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, and others of notable acclaim. Areas of study include copy editing, publication software, layout, and the literary marketplace. Students collect and choose works for inclusion in Sanctuary and create their own works for publication. Prerequisite: ENG 383
ENG 486: ADVANCED POETRY WRITING
Credits 3This course introduces students to the techniques of writing poetry, but at an advanced level and is designed for the student pursuing additional instruction in the discipline. Students study the elements of poetry, including imagery, rhyme, meter, and stanza form. Students read a variety of poems as models and assemble their own portfolio of original work. Prerequisite: ENG 386
ENG 487: ADVANCED CREATIVE NONFICTION
Credits 3This course introduces students to the voices, styles, and structures of the creative non-fiction essay. This class is designed for the student pursuing additional instruction in this discipline. Students read and analyze creative non-fiction works such as the memoir, the meditation, the lyric essay, and the literary journalistic essay. They then write essays that incorporate the narrative devices they have identified in the assigned works. A major focus is attention to diction, syntax, and revision as elements of effective writing. Prerequisite: ENG 387
ENG 488: Advanced Scriptwriting
Credits 3ENG 489: ADVANCED FICTION WRITING
Credits 3Fiction Writing (Advanced) This course includes the study of fiction writing, as well as the examination of effective critical evaluation methods and publications. It is class designed for the student pursuing additional instruction in this discipline at an advanced level with an emphasis placed on the elements of fiction characterization, point of view, setting, plot, narration, dialogue, style, and revision. Publication avenues are explored. Prerequisite:
ENG 389
ENG 490: ADVANCED WRITING FOR TV
Credits 3Students will learn the elements of television writing (concepts, processes, pitching, formats, roles, and industry expectations) by reviewing different approaches to structure, discussion of current TV series, reading TV scripts, analyzing TV pilots and an ongoing workshop of student writing. Students will continue working toward mastering the following skills: dramatic structure, conflict, character, dialogue, style, and voice. In addition, students will learn the revision process, the art of adaptation, and the various writers' resources. This class is designed for the student pursuing additional instruction in this discipline at an advanced level, oftern building on past projects. Prerequisite: ENG 390
ENG 491: Advanced Playwriting
Credits 3ENG 497: MFA SPECIAL TOPICS-NON DEGREE
Credits 3A non-degree course, ENG 497 is for MFA participants who enroll for enrichment purposes but not for the MFA degree. Someone taking ENG 497 participates fully in a MFA course and submits creative work for evaluation. However, ENG 497 may not be converted to degree program credit if the individual decides to apply to the MFA degree program, and non-degree seeking students are not eligible for financial aid.
ENG 498: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENGLISH
Credits 3This course, which explores a topic of contemporary interest to the study of English, is offered as needed to students with junior-senior standing.
ENG 499: INDEPENENT STUDY IN ENGLISH
Credits 3This course, which involves supervised research on a selected topic, is offered as needed to students with junior-senior standing. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
ENG 500: OREINTATION & PROGRAM PLANNING
Credits 1This course is designed to familiarize first-semester MFA students with the curriculum and processes of the MFA program and to help them begin to map out their course of study and creative goals. Students will discuss several essays on the art and process of creative writing. They will also learn about how the publishing industry for creative writing works and be encouraged to set goals for publication. They will receive instruction in the core characteristics of strong writing across the genres. They will learn about the art of revision and be given instruction in how a creative writing workshop functions. They will be given a writing prompt with which to generate a piece for the practice workshop that will follow this class.
ENG 501: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
Credits 1Readings, Seminars, One-to-One Consultations.There will be a reading and/or seminar offered by a visiting writer every evening of the Residency, and students are required to attend each night except on the evenings they have a scheduled one-on-one meeting with their Workshop instructor or their mentor for the upcoming semester. At the one-on-one meetings with the mentor, the mentor will make a semester plan with the student, specifying assignments, due dates, and logistical processes for sending writing and comments back and forth. Additionally, experiential learning will take place in formal and informal meetings between visiting writers, instructors, and students.
ENG 502: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING READING SEM
Credits 1There will be a reading and/or seminar offered by a visiting writer every evening of the Residency, and students are required to attend each night except on the evenings they have a scheduled one-on-one meeting with their Workshop instructor or their mentor for the upcoming semester. At the one-on-one meetings with the mentor, the mentor will make a semester plan with the student, specifying assignments, due dates, and logistical processes for sending writing and comments back and forth. Additionally, experiential learning will take place in formal and informal meetings between visiting writers, instructors, and students.
ENG 503: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CONSULTATIONS
Credits 1There will be a reading and/or seminar offered by a visiting writer every evening of the Residency, and students are required to attend each night except on the evenings they have a scheduled one-on-one meeting with their Workshop instructor or their mentor for the upcoming semester. At the one-on-one meetings with the mentor, the mentor will make a semester plan with the student, specifying assignments, due dates, and logistical processes for sending writing and comments back and forth. Additionally, experiential learning will take place in formal and informal meetings between visiting writers, instructors, and students.
ENG 505: READING PLACE
Credits 3This course will consist of a set of readings about place as well as a program of experiential learning based on the “City as Text” model during the Summer Residency. In this course, students will study how other writers have represented place through a set of readings to be completed prior to the Residency. During the Residency, they will discuss the readings and go out themselves on “walkabouts” to explore landscapes and to learn how place itself is a text to be read as well as written.
ENG 510: PRACTICE WRITING WORKSHOP
Credits 1First semester students will participate in the two-day practice workshop to familiarize them with how a creative workshop functions. They will receive instruction in the rules and procedures for a workshop. As the participants discuss one another’s work, the instructor will facilitate constructive discussion and comment upon the process. The instructor will model appropriate comments and direct students in regard to the types of questions and suggestions that are most useful. Students will workshop the work they created from the prompt during the orientation class. During the workshop, each writer’s work will be critiqued in detail, and the instructor will use each manuscript to illustrate points about craft elements and to show students how they can formulate responses based on observations about craft elements.
ENG 515: READING STORY
Credits 3In this eight-week online course, students analyze the use of story in exemplary texts of all genres. Students will learn to develop and structure plot and to master pacing and the interweaving of past and present events. Each week, students will be expected to read (or, in the case of film, watch) an assigned text. Students will post responses to targeted questions, engage in a weekly live-chat session with the instructor and fellow students, and submit a weekly analysis paper on the readings. All activities will focus on observing use of story in the assigned pieces and analyzing how each author uses writing techniques to create effects.
ENG 520: WRITER'S WKSH: POETRY, PROSE, SCRIPT
Credits 3The Writer’s Workshop is a daily three-hour class in which students read and discuss one another’s work under the guidance of a well-known writer. There will be three workshops each Residency: Poetry, Prose and Script. Students must choose one. Several weeks prior to the Residency, each student submits a manuscript to be workshopped, and all participants read the manuscripts prior to the Residency and mark them up with comments for the writer. Each writer will bring to the workshop a completed peer critique report for the other students’ manuscripts. During the Workshop, each writer’s work is critiqued in detail, and the instructor uses each manuscript to illustrate points about craft elements. The instructor may also choose to assign additional readings for the group to read and discuss in order to emphasize a certain craft element. The instructor may also assign writing exercises to be completed and shared during the workshop. The instructor also provides each student with detailed written feedback on his or her work and may choose to meet one-on-one with individual students.
ENG 525: READING IMAGE
Credits 3In this eight-week online course, students will analyze the use of image in exemplary texts of all genres. Across the genres, writers must learn to convey emotions through detailed images rather than through abstract statements. Each week, students will be expected to read (or, in the case of film, watch) an assigned text. Students will post responses to targeted questions, engage in a weekly live-chat session with the instructor and fellow students, and submit a weekly analysis paper on the readings. All activities will focus on observing use of image in the assigned pieces and analyzing how each author uses writing techniques to create effects.
ENG 530: WRITER'S WKSH: POETRY, PROSE, SCRIPT
Credits 3The Writer’s Workshop is a daily three-hour class in which students read and discuss one another’s work under the guidance of a well-known writer. There will be three workshops each Residency: Poetry, Prose and Script. Students must choose one. Several weeks prior to the Residency, each student submits a manuscript to be workshopped, and all participants read the manuscripts prior to the Residency and mark them up with comments for the writer. Each writer will bring to the workshop a completed peer critique report for the other students’ manuscripts. During the Workshop, each writer’s work is critiqued in detail, and the instructor uses each manuscript to illustrate points about craft elements. The instructor may also choose to assign additional readings for the group to read and discuss in order to emphasize a certain craft element. The instructor may also assign writing exercises to be completed and shared during the workshop. The instructor also provides each student with detailed written feedback on his or her work and may choose to meet one-on-one with individual students.
ENG 535: READING VOICE
Credits 3In this eight-week online course, students will analyze the use of voice in exemplary texts of all genres. Students will learn to create distinctive voices for each character or speaker in their work and ultimately a signature voice for themselves as a writer. Each week, students will be expected to read (or, in the case of film, watch) an assigned text. Students will post responses to targeted questions, engage in a weekly live-chat session with the instructor and fellow students, and submit a weekly analysis paper on the readings. All activities will focus on observing use of voice in the assigned pieces and analyzing how each author uses writing techniques to create effects.
ENG 540: WRITER'S WKSH: POETRY, PROSE, SCRIPT
Credits 3The Writer’s Workshop is a daily three-hour class in which students read and discuss one another’s work under the guidance of a well-known writer. There will be three workshops each Residency: Poetry, Prose and Script. Students must choose one. Several weeks prior to the Residency, each student submits a manuscript to be workshopped, and all participants read the manuscripts prior to the Residency and mark them up with comments for the writer. Each writer will bring to the workshop a completed peer critique report for the other students’ manuscripts. During the Workshop, each writer’s work is critiqued in detail, and the instructor uses each manuscript to illustrate points about craft elements. The instructor may also choose to assign additional readings for the group to read and discuss in order to emphasize a certain craft element. The instructor may also assign writing exercises to be completed and shared during the workshop. The instructor also provides each student with detailed written feedback on his or her work and may choose to meet one-on-one with individual students.
ENG 545: READING DIALOGUE
Credits 3In this eight-week online course, students will analyze the use of dialogue in exemplary texts of all genres. Students will learn how to use dialogue to play out the conflicts between characters and to push story to its climax. Each week, students will be expected to read (or, in the case of film, watch) an assigned text. Students will post responses to targeted questions, engage in a weekly live-chat session with the instructor and fellow students, and submit a weekly analysis paper on the readings. All activities will focus on observing use of dialogue in the assigned pieces and analyzing how each author uses writing techniques to create effects.
ENG 555: READING CRITICISM
Credits 3This class prepares students for the Critical Thesis by teaching them how to conduct literary research and how to write a scholarly essay on literature. Students will master research and writing skills associated with writing about literature, including research methods and resources, the conventions of scholarly writing, and proper quotation and citation style. Students will complete a set of readings before coming to the Residency, and over the course of the Residency will receive instruction in the components of research paper writing and work through the steps to produce a 12-page research paper. Students will also receive instruction in how to use the Reinhardt Hill-Freeman library’s online and print resources to conduct literary research.
ENG 560: CREATIVE WRITING I
Credits 3In this individual study, the student will work one-on-one with a mentor to develop elements of writing craft, including image, structure, syntax, diction, voice, tone, style, figurative language, point of view, characterization and plot. The student will submit monthly portfolios of work to the mentor for comments and will revise in response to the mentor’s suggestions. The student and the mentor will draft a timetable of due dates and logistical processes at the beginning of each semester. Additionally, the instructor will familiarize the student with resources for calls for submissions and require the student to compose a query letter and submit at least one piece of work for publication. In addition to monthly portfolio comments, the mentor will write an end-of-semester evaluation detailing the students’ strengths, weaknesses, and progress in the program.
ENG 570: CREATIVE WRITING II
Credits 3In this individual study, the student will work one-on-one with a mentor to continue to develop elements of writing craft. The student will be expected to demonstrate substantial progress in his or her mastery of structure, form, image, style, diction, tone, voice, character and plot. The student will submit monthly portfolios of work to the mentor for comments and will revise in response to the mentor’s suggestions. The student and the mentor will draft a timetable of due dates and logistical processes at the beginning of each semester. Additionally, the instructor will introduce the student to resources for calls for submissions and require the student to compose a query letter and submit at least one piece of work for publication. In addition to monthly portfolio comments, the mentor will write an end-of-semester evaluation detailing the students’ strengths, weaknesses, and progress in the program.
ENG 580: CREATIVE WRITING III
Credits 3In this individual study, the student will work one-on-one with a mentor to continue to develop elements of writing craft. The student will be expected to demonstrate mastery of structure, form, image, style, diction, tone, voice, character and plot. The student will submit monthly portfolios of work to the mentor for comments and will revise in response to the mentor’s suggestions. The student and the mentor will draft a timetable of due dates and logistical processes at the beginning of each semester. Additionally, the instructor will familiarize the student with resources for calls for submissions and require the student to compose a query letter and submit at least one piece of work for publication. In addition to monthly portfolio comments, the mentor will write an end-of-semester evaluation detailing the students’ strengths, weaknesses, and progress in the program.
ENG 581: CREATIVE WRITING IV INDV STUDY
Credits 3In this individual study, the student will work one-on-one with a mentor to continue to develop elements of writing craft. The student will be expected to demonstrate mastery of structure, form, image, style, diction, tone, voice, character and plot.
ENG 585: CRITICAL THESIS WORKSHOP
Credits 1In this hands-on class required for students during the Residency prior to their Critical Thesis semester, students will meet five times to workshop their Critical Thesis outlines and to locate a minimum of eight scholarly secondary sources for the thesis. Students will receive instruction and feedback in formulating a workable and persuasive argument about specific craft element in the work of one or more authors. Students will receive instruction in the scholarly databases held by Reinhardt University as well as other potential ways to access sources, including Interlibrary Loan. During the Residency, the instructor will work one-on-one with students to locate and approve their eight (minimum) scholarly sources and to get Interlibrary Loans in motion. After the Residency, students must submit two-page summaries of each of the eight secondary sources prior to beginning the Critical Thesis.
ENG 590: MFA INTERNSHIP
Credits 3Students will learn practical skills for jobs in the world of writing and publishing through an with one of the following: The James Dickey Review, the poetry-based radio program Melodically Challenged, the Southern Anthology of Poetry or Creative Nonfiction series, Shenandoah, Town Creek Poetry or Hard Liines, The Georgia Review, The Blue Mountain Review, a writing service organization, or any other journal or literary project the student can find.
ENG 599: CAPSTONE CRAFT INTENSIVE
Credits 3During their final Residency, graduating students will participate in a Capstone Craft Intensive in which they will examine a craft element through intensive study of a particular author’s (or authors’) work. The topic will vary from year to year depending upon the availability of instructors and the interests of that particular graduating group. Examples of topics would be: image in Plath, Sexton and Boland; the unreliable narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper” to Fight Club; experimental chronology from “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” to Memento; dialogue in Raymond Carver and Denis Johnson; drafts and revisions of The Great Gatsby and The Wasteland; Southern Gothic in O’Connor and Faulkner; the one-act play. Students will complete a set of readings prior to the Residency and will complete three 5-page reflections on the readings prior to the Residency. Each student will also give a presentation on a designated reading. Additionally, students will respond to writing prompts related to the capstone topic and develop a portfolio of drafts to share with the class and submit to the instructor.
ENG 600: THESIS PART I
Credits 6In this class, students work on-on-one with a mentor in writing a 40-page critical essay on a craft element in the work of a selected writer in their genre. The student will produce a research-based paper in which he or she crafts an original argument about the writer’s use of a certain craft element and supports his or her argument with quotations from scholarly secondary sources. Students are expected to write using the conventions of formal academic prose, including correct use of quotations and citations. Students will combine a close reading of the primary texts by their chosen writer with relevant points made by other critics. The critical essay will be graded on the originality and complexity of the student’s analysis; the quality of the student’s research; the use of the conventions of academic writing, including organization, structure, quotations and citations; and the quality of the student’s prose, including elements such as syntax, diction and style. The student will submit monthly portfolios of work to the mentor for comments and will revise in response to the mentor’s suggestions. The student and the mentor will draft a timetable of due dates and logistical processes at the beginning of each semester. In addition to monthly portfolio comments, the mentor will write an end-of-semester evaluation detailing the students’ strengths, weaknesses, and progress in the program.
ENG 610: GRADUATION READING
Credits 1At their final Residency, graduating students will give a public reading of their work in the evening as part of the Residency reading series. Additionally, they will give a one hour lecture on a craft element based on their critical thesis. Thirdly, as a capstone assessment, graduating students will write a five-page essay reflecting on their experiences and progress through their MFA program.
ENG 650: THESIS PART II
Credits 9The student will work one-on-one with the mentor to produce a book-length manuscript in their genre, with a minimum of fifty pages. The manuscript should be a collection of poems, a collection of short stories, a collection of creative nonfiction essays, a novella, a large portion of a novel, or a complete screenplay. The work should be of publishable quality in its use of all of the craft elements the student has learned throughout the program: structure, form, image, style, diction, tone, voice, character and plot. It should demonstrate a mastery of each of these elements according to the conventions of the student’s chosen genre. The manuscript must demonstrate not only attention to the quality of the individual pieces or sections, but also awareness of the larger structure of the book. The student will submit monthly portfolios of work to the mentor for comments and will revise in response to the mentor’s suggestions. The student and the mentor will draft a timetable of due dates and logistical processes at the beginning of each semester. In addition to monthly portfolio comments, the mentor will write an end-of-semester evaluation detailing the students’ strengths, weaknesses, and progress in the program.