English (ENGL)

Professors Wheeler, Conner, Craun, Dobin, Keen, Warren
Associate Professors Adams, Braunschneider, Miranda, Smout
Assistant Professors Darznik, Gertz, Jirsa, Pickett

The English faculty urges majors to craft their courses of study to include lyric poetry, narrative, nonfiction prose, and drama.

Students may petition the chair to include one cognate course at any level in the English major; this elective credit cannot count in a distribution area. Courses that may be appropriate for such credit, such as some literature courses in languages other than English, must:

1. focus on reading literature closely and recognizing subtle and complex differences in language use;
2. require at least 15 formal graded pages of writing about literature or a substantial portfolio of creative writing.

HONORS: An Honors Program in English is offered for qualified students; see the English Department Web site (english.wlu.edu) for details.

Degrees/Majors/Minors

Major

• •  English major leading to BA degree

Minor

• •  Creative Writing minor

Courses

• •  ENGL 101 - Expository Writing
• •  ENGL 105 - Composition and Literature
• •  ENGL 201 - Advanced Expository Writing
• •  ENGL 203 - Topics in Creative Writing: Fiction
• •  ENGL 204 - Topics in Creative Writing: Poetry
• •  ENGL 205 - Poetic Forms
• •  ENGL 230 - Poetry
• •  ENGL 231 - Drama
• •  ENGL 232 - The Novel
• •  ENGL 233 - Film
• •  ENGL 234 - Children’s Literature
• •  ENGL 234 - Children’s Literature
• •  ENGL 235 - Fantasy
• •  ENGL 236 - The Bible as English Literature
• •  ENGL 237 - The Bible as Literature: Exile and Return
• •  ENGL 240 - Arthurian Legend
• •  ENGL 242 - Individual Shakespeare Play
• •  ENGL 250 - British Literature: Medieval and Early Modern
• •  ENGL 251 - British Literature in an Age of Global Expansion, 1660s-1790s
• •  ENGL 252 - Shakespeare
• •  ENGL 253 - Southern American Literature
• •  ENGL 254 - Jane Austen: The Works and the Phenomenon
• •  ENGL 255 - Superheroes
• •  ENGL 256 - Southern Women Writers
• •  ENGL 260 - Literary Approaches to Poverty
• •  ENGL 261 - Reading Gender
• •  ENGL 262 - Literature, Race, and Ethnicity
• •  ENGL 285 - Reading Lolita in Lexington
• •  ENGL 291 - Seminar
• •  ENGL 292 - Topics in British Literature
• •  ENGL 293 - Topics in American Literature
• •  ENGL 294 - Topics in Environmental Literature
• •  ENGL 295 - Spring-Term Seminar in Literary Studies
• •  ENGL 299 - Seminar for Prospective Majors
• •  ENGL 307 - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
• •  ENGL 308 - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
• •  ENGL 309 - Advanced Creative Writing: Memoir
• •  ENGL 311 - History of the English Language
• •  ENGL 312 - Chaucer, Dante, Langland: Vision and Life
• •  ENGL 313 - Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
• •  ENGL 317 - Fantasies of Untamed Nature
• •  ENGL 318 - Medieval and Renaissance Drama
• •  ENGL 319 - Shakespeare and Company
• •  ENGL 320 - Shakespearean Genres
• •  ENGL 326 - 17th-Century Poetry
• •  ENGL 330 - Milton
• •  ENGL 333 - Studies in Restoration and Early 18th-Century Literature
• •  ENGL 334 - Studies in Later 18th-Century Literature
• •  ENGL 335 - 18th-Century Novels
• •  ENGL 341 - Romantic Poetry and Prose
• •  ENGL 342 - Modern Epic
• •  ENGL 345 - Studies in the 19th-Century British Novel
• •  ENGL 348 - Victorian Poetry
• •  ENGL 350 - Postcolonial Literature
• •  ENGL 351 - World Fiction in English
• •  ENGL 352 - Modern Irish Literature
• •  ENGL 353 - 20th-Century British Poetry
• •  ENGL 354 - Contemporary British and American Drama
• •  ENGL 355 - Studies in British Fiction Since 1900
• •  ENGL 358 - Literature by Women Before 1800
• •  ENGL 359 - Literature by Women of Color
• •  ENGL 361 - Native American Literatures
• •  ENGL 362 - American Romanticism
• •  ENGL 363 - American Poetry from 1900 to 1950
• •  ENGL 364 - American Poetry from 1950 to the Present
• •  ENGL 365 - African-American Literature
• •  ENGL 367 - 19th-Century American Novel
• •  ENGL 368 - The Modern American Novel
• •  ENGL 369 - The American Novel from World War II to the Present
• •  ENGL 370 - Literary Theory
• •  ENGL 373 - Hitchcock
• •  ENGL 380 - Advanced Seminar
• •  ENGL 385 - Preparatory Reading for Study Abroad
• •  ENGL 386 - Supervised Study in Great Britain
• •  ENGL 387 - Supervised Study in Ireland
• •  ENGL 388 - Exploring the West of Ireland
• •  ENGL 403 - Directed Individual Study
• •  ENGL 413 - Senior Research and Writing
• •  ENGL 453 - Internship in Literary Editing with Shenandoah
• •  ENGL 493 - Honors Thesis