English

Program Requirements

English

The English Department offers language, literature and writing studies on several levels. It provides varied experiences in the careful reading of literary texts and it promotes Willamette’s writing culture.

Requirements for the English Major (10 Credits)

Core courses

• ENGL 201 Close Reading (1)
• ENGL 202 (IT; W) Introduction to Literary Theory(1)

Two courses in literature written before 1800, only of which may be a Shakespears course (2)

• ENGL 341 Shakespeare Comedies (1)
• ENGL 342 Shakespeare Tragedies (1)
  ENGL 345 Chaucer (1)
  ENGL 353 The Early Novel (1)
  ENGL 453 Advanced Studies in Lit 1300-1800 (1)
  

One course in American Ethnic or Post-Colonial Literature, at the 300 or 400 leavl (1)

• ENGL 337 African-American Literature I (1)
• ENGL 338 African-American Literature II (1)
  ENGL 357 Ethnicity and Race in American Literature (1)

Four additional courses (4)

• Two additional electives at the 300 or 400 level (2)
  Two additional electives (2 (at least one course besides Sr. project at 400 level)

Senior Experience (1)

• ENGL 490 Independent Study (1) (with permission) or
• ENGL 499 (W) Senior Seminar in English or
• HUM 497 (W) Humanities Senior Seminar (1)

The advisor and the student will develop together a major program that ensures the study of a wide variety of literary texts and varied interpretive strategies.

Individual research is encouraged through Reading and Conference (ENGL 390, 391) and, for students with excellent academic records in their English studies, Independent Study (ENGL 490). Senior evaluation for the English major will usually consist of a senior thesis developed from a Humanities Senior Seminar or in the senior seminar in English. Some advanced students may produce the senior thesis or a directed creative project in Independent Study (ENGL 490).

English majors are encouraged to take courses from the following related fields: theatre, music, religion, classical studies, philosophy, art history, history, and interdisciplinary arts courses.

To be eligible for honors in the department, a student must complete at least two 400-level courses besides the Senior Seminar and have a GPA of 3.8 in the department.

Requirements for the English Minor (5 Credits)

The minor program in English consists of five credits—two required courses and the options listed below—selected in consultation with an English Department advisor from the following:

• ENGL 201 Close Reading (1)
• ENGL 202 (W) Introduction to Literary Theory (1)
• Two credits chosen in consultation with your English Department advisor from English courses numbered above 300 (2)
• One other English credits (1)

Requirements for the Writing Minor (5 Credits)

• ENGL 201 Close Reading (1)
• ENGL 135 (CA, W) Creative Writing (1)

Three of the following courses, two numbered above 300 (3)

• ENGL 137 (W) Writing Workshop (1)
• ENGL 239 (CA) Poetics and Practice (1)
• ENGL 242 (W) The Essay (1)
• ENGL 329 (W) Creative Non-fiction (1)
• ENGL 331 (CA) Imaginative Writing I (1)
• ENGL 332 (CA) Imaginative Writing II

Students who are majoring in English are not eligible for the Minor in Writing.

Faculty

• Gretchen Flesher Moon, Professor of English, Chair and Director of the Writing Center
• Gerard F. Bowers, Professor of English
• Linda G. Bowers, Associate Professor of English
• Carol S. Long, Professor of English and Dean, College of Liberal Arts
• Tobias C. Menely, Assistant Professor of English
• Frann Michel, Associate Professor of English
• Scott Nadelson, Visiting Assistant Professor of English
• Kenneth S. Nolley, Professor of English
• Michael H. Strelow, Professor of English
• Olympia F. Vernon, Writer in Residence and Hallie Brown Ford Chair in Wrirting, Assistant Professor of English