English (ENGL) - For a syllabus or more detailed course information, please contact the department at 610-758-3310.

 

Course Listings

Course#                    Course Title (Credit Hours)                      CRN       Day/Time      Location    Session  Instructor

1-011* Composition & Literature (3) 20676 Online   Full Staff
95-010* Writing for Show: Grammar Workshop (1) 20672 Online   First Staff
183-010 Independent Study (1-4) 20107 Hours Arranged   First Staff
183-011 Independent Study (1-4) 20343 Hours Arranged   Second Staff
187-010 Second Life (4) 20674 T/Th 1:10-4:00pm TBD First Gallagher
189-010 Eat, Pray, Love (4) 20108 M-Th 9-10:35am DR 019 First Kroll
189-011 From the Barrio to the Boardroom (4) 20344 M/W 4-7:00pm DR 102A Second Fifer
191-010 Combat Films: Wars in the Pacific (4) 20675 Online   First Kroll
281-010 Writing Internship (1-4) 20109 Hours Arranged   First Kroll
281-011 Writing Internship (1-4) 20345 Hours Arranged   Second Kroll
282-010 Professional Internship (2-4) 20110 Hours Arranged   First Kroll
282-011 Professional Internship (2-4) 20346 Hours Arranged   Second Kroll
318-010 African American Literature (3-4) 20111 M/W 4-7:00pm DR 209 First Whitley
388-010 Independent Study (1-4) 20113 Hours Arranged   First Staff
388-011 Independent Study (1-4) 20347 Hours Arranged   Second Staff
391-010 Literatue and the World-wide Web (3-4) 20114 Online   Second Whitley
391-011 Literature and the World-wide Web (3-4) 20115 Online   Second Whitley
397-010/WS 397-010/AMST 397-010 Feminist Theory in Television (4) 20446 T/Th 4-7:00pm DR 209 First Keetley
397-011/WS 397-011/AMST 397-011 Feminist Theory in Television (3) 20447 T/Th 4-7:00pm DR 209 First Keetley
400-010 Supervised Teaching (1) 20118 Hours Arranged   First Staff
400-011 Supervised Teaching (1) 20349 Hours Arranged   Second Staff
478-010 And They Laughed and Laughed: 20th Century American Comic Drama (3) 20348 T/Th 4:10-7:00pm DR 102A Second Fifer
495-010 Independent Study (3) 20119 Hours Arranged   First Staff
495-011 Independent Study (3) 20350 Hours Arranged   Second Staff

Course Descriptions

1. Composition and Literature I: Emphasis on the writing process, especially on revising for cogency and clarity. Topics drawn mainly from everyday life and culture. Students must receive a grade of C- or higher to advance to English 2.  *Online section requires use of Blackboard.

95. Writing for Show: Grammar Workshop: Feeling a little shaky about editing your written work? Don't have the confidence in your knowledge of grammar that you need to be a complete writer! This online course aims to help. We'll work together on a series of widely recognized common grammar errors as well as focusing individually on your personal problem spots. Gather some of your recent writing for diagnostic purposes. Compile a list of grammar questions. Appropriate for anyone -- staff as well as students -- needing a refresher or a brush-up. Drills and exercises, yes, but personal comfort, consolation, and consultations with Conan, the Grammarian assured. May be repeated for credit.  *Online section requires use of Blackboard.

183. Independent Study: Individually supervised study of a topic in literature, film, or writing not covered in regularly listed courses. Prerequisite: consent of the department chairperson. HU

187-10. Second Life:  Arguably, the latest technological frontier for education is virtual reality.  So let’s explore.  In ways yet to be determined as this catalog goes to press months before this brand-new class begins, we will explore the educational potential of Second Life, an online 3D virtual world created entirely by its residents.  No experience in virtual worlds is necessary, but we hope for students from a range of disciplines who might imagine how, if at all, virtual reality might be valuable to their fields of study.   

 

189-010. Eat, Pray, Love:  This will be a hybrid course, involving reading and also writing of personal narratives. The framework---Eat, Pray, Love---comes from a book that we’ll read by Elizabeth Gilbert.  You’ll be asked to read and write nonfiction narratives about food (“eat”), spiritual exploration (“pray”), and personal relationships (“love”).

     

189-011. From the Barrio to the Boardroom:  This course will examine multicultural fiction and film about success in America.  Our authors have different definitions of success and follow different paths to their goal.  We will read short stories and novels by such authors as Jessica Hagedorn, Gloria Anzaldua, Frank Chin, Toni Cade Bambara, Ishmael Reed, Gerald Vizenor, and others that explore the effects of immigration, class, education, acculturation, and assimilation on identity.

 

191-10. Combat Films: Wars in the Pacific:  A comparative study of about six combat films depicting WWII (Pacific), Korea, and Vietnam.  Work will include responses, discussion board posts, assigned articles, and short essays on each film. Taught on-line with daily assignments and strictly enforced deadlines. Students must purchase all films before start of the session.  Online section requires use of Blackboard. 

 

281. Writing Internship: Projects on- or off-campus in professional, governmental, or service organizations. Experience must include extensive writing that can be submitted for review. Enrollment limited to juniors or seniors with a major or minor in English. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: approval of department internship adviser or department chair.

282. Professional Internship: Supervised projects, on- or off-campus, in professional, government, or service organizations. An interested student must submit a proposal, demonstrating the project's relevance to the study of language, texts, or communication, to the department's internship adviser. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits. Internship credits do not count toward major in English. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing and approval by department internship adviser.

318.  African American Literature:  This survey of African American literature from the nineteenth century to the present begins with the slave narratives of the antebellum period, continues with the novels from the turn-of-the-century, and examines the debates about representing the African American experience during the Harlem Renaissance as well as today’s postmodern era.   BOTH IN CLASS AND ONLINE.

388. Independent Study: Individually supervised study of a topic in literature, film, or writing not covered in regularly listed courses. Prerequisite: consent of department chairperson.

391.  Literature and the World-wide Web:  How has literature changed since the Internet became a part of our everyday lives? This class considers literary texts written for the Internet as well as online archives of nineteenth-century literature as we think about how literature differs in the “old” media of print and the new digital medium.     Online; requires use of Blackboard.   

397/WS 397/AMST 397. Feminist Theory in Television: This course will explore the ways in which feminist theory gets disseminated within popular television shows, beginning with the feminism of the 1970s in relation to shows such as "Mary Tyler Moore" and "One Day at a Time" and moving through what has been called by many the "postfeminist" era with "Murphy Brown" and "Ally McBeal." We will pay particular attention to 90s shows "Sex and the City" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." We will focus on issues that have centrality preoccupied both feminist theory and television, including women's equality with and difference from men; women's role in marriage, the family and in the workplace; sexual desire; female friendships; and agency, power, and violence. We will read feminist theorists from the 1970s to the present along with the following books: Bonnie Dow, Prime-Time Feminism ; Charlotte Brunsdon, ed., Feminist Television Criticism ; Kim Akass and Janet McCabe, eds., Reading Sex and the City ; and Lorna Jewett, Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for The Buffy Fan .

400. Supervised Teaching: Practical experience in teaching through assisting a faculty teacher in conduct of a regularly scheduled undergraduate course. Open only to graduate students with at least one semester of graduate course work at Lehigh University and a GPA of at least 3.5. Usually rostered in conjunction with 485. Prerequisite: consent of the department chairperson.

391/WS 391/AMST 391.  Feminist Theory in Television:  Will explore how feminism gets disseminated within popular television shows, from the 1970s through the present. We will focus on issues that have preoccupied both feminism and TV: the institutions of marriage, the family, and the workplace; love and sexual desire; female friendship; and, more generally, female empowerment. Shows watched include: Mary Tyler Moore, Murphy Brown, Designing Women, Commander in Chief, Sex and the City, Girlfriends, The L Word.

 

400.  Supervised Teaching:  Practical experience in teaching through assisting a faculty teacher in conduct of a regularly scheduled undergraduate course.  Open only to graduate students with at least one semester of graduate course work at Lehigh University and a GPA of at least 3.5.  Usually rostered in conjunction with 485.  Prerequisite: consent of the department chairperson.

 

478.  And They Laughed and Laughed: 20th Century American Comic Drama:  In this course we will read the best of recent comedy—from realism to the absurd and the avant-garde.  We will also see films of several of the plays we are reading.  Playwrights may include Tina Howe, John Guare, Jules Feiffer, Christopher Durang, Cherrie Moraga, Emily Mann, Paula Vogel, Maria Irene Fornes, Adrienne Kennedy, David Mamet, Arthur Kopit, Beth Henley, A.R.  Gurney, Wendy Wasserstein, and others. Possible topics will be education, politics, history, gender, religion, sexuality, class, and more.

 

495. Independent Study: Individually supervised course in an area of literature, film or writing not covered in regularly listed courses. Prerequisite: consent of the graduate program coordinator.

*Blackboard is the online course management system used at Lehigh.  Access to Blackboard requires a Lehigh computing account.