This course is structured to facilitate the observation, recognition, and assessment of facts and overall patterns of the contexts for the behavior and actions of individuals, families, and communities within and across cultures in order to promote appreciation, respect for differences, and effective communication. This course will also explore the role of ethics and ethical behavior when depicted against cultural and or spiritual beliefs. Prerequisite: 301 or concurrent.
This is an intensive, highly student-directed hybrid seminar in legal interpreting. The course will cover different aspects of court interpreting as a profession, including the training needed, job opportunities and sources of work, standard business practices, free-lance status versus staff interpreting, extensive practical work in the three modes of interpretation used in the courtroom, businesses, the professional code of ethics, and professional development activities.
Students in this course will draw from social justice-related literacy theories to read and analyze selections of prose and poetry especially suitable for a middle or high school audience. Readings will be drawn from a range of contemporary diverse authors whose stories and poems represent a variety of cultural and social contexts and viewpoints. Prerequisite: ENGL 104 or105 or 195. SJE
Provides practical training for upper division students who tutor first-year writing students in Viterbos Academic Resource Center. Students build skills necessary for work in publishing, editing, and teaching. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: grade of C or higher in 104 or 105 or 195.
Preparation and public defense of a senior thesis appropriate to the students concentration. Weekly seminar meetings and workshops. Typically one credit of the course in the fall involves developing a proposal with an annotated bibliography and beginning drafting of the project, under the mentorship of two faculty members in the department. Typically, two credits of the course in the spring involve drafting, revising, and presenting the project in a public forum. May be repeated for credit.
Courses on topics of interest to English students offered on the basis of need, interest, or timeliness. Prerequisites as determined by instructor. Restricted to students with junior standing or higher. May be repeated for credit. For specific section description, click to the Section Details in VitNet.
Non-classroom experiences in the field of English. Placements are off-campus, and may be full- or part-time, and with or without pay. Credit for experiences must be sought prior to occurance, and learning contracts must be submitted before the end of the first week of the semester. See the experiential learning: internship section of this catalog for more details. Restricted to students with junior standing or higher. Graded CR/NC.
Independent reading and/or research under the guidance of an English faculty member. Refer to the academic policy section for independent study policy. Independent study contract is required. May be repeated for credit.
An introductory course for the student with no previous foreign language study. Pair work and small group activities using culturally authentic materials are used to develop skills for everyday communication with an emphasis in culture and pronunciation. Prerequisite for 102: 101.
Intensive study of prose and/or poetry by English and American women after 1700 including such authors as Charlotte Lenox, Clara Reeve, Fanny Burney, Anne Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Willa Carter, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker, Angela Carter, Julia Alvarez, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, Paule Marshall, Leslie Marmon Silko. Attention to gender, race, and class situated in a historical context, and brief consideration of feminist literacy theory.