Undergraduate Bulletin 2022-2023 Archived Bulletin
Course Descriptions
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L.ENG 105 - College Writing-WC
Credits: 3
An aims-based writing course focusing on informative, analytical, argumentative, and expressive writing. Includes instruction on research-based writing. Emphasizes pre-writing, organization, revision, and editing.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Written Communication-WC
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L.ENG 111 - Critical Writing-WC
Credits: 3
A writing course which includes the analysis of short and/or long fiction, creative nonfiction, and emerging forms of public and/or popular culture writing, this class also stresses persuasion, argumentation, and research. Fulfills college writing requirement for students of advanced standing in English.
Prerequisite: Advanced standing in English
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Written Communication-WC
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L.ENG 135 - Intro to Creative Writing-EC
Credits: 3
In ENG 135: Introduction to Creative Writing, students will learn how to both reflect and give shape to human experience in their writing, by practicing fundamental techniques for writing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. They will write and extensively revise their own work in all three genres, and will learn the professional skill of giving and accepting critical and constructive feedback through class workshops. This course also introduces students to the history of the various genres of creative writing, as well as vocational and historical opportunities for creative writers.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 145 - Literature and Public Life-EI
Credits: 3
This course introduces literary studies: writing, literature, public humanities, and critical theory in the context of contemporary issues. Literature actively engages with the world, and helps us examine our place in it. In addition to mastering the skills of analysis, inquiry, and argument, you will see how literature relates to the most pressing issues of our human experience, such as class, gender, ethnicity, race, immigration, political life, environmental concerns, sexuality, and many others. Through our practice of close and critical reading, we will see how literature in various forms and genres, and writing and speaking, prepare us for life as engaged citizens in professional roles. In this way, the course introduces students to the study of literature, and the pathways it opens into careers in law, journalism, communication, social justice, and management.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, and Society-EI
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L.ENG 201 - Poetry in Performance
Credits: 3
An in-depth study of lyric and dramatic poetry for students who would like to approach the subject in an experiential way. Students will learn to understand and appreciate poetry by writing about poems, and by making poetry physically part of themselves through memorization and performance. They will learn to read aloud and recite poems in a way that develops their skills for reading expressively, and for public speaking. Topics will include the application of fundamental concepts in poetics, including image, trope, scheme, lineation, syntax, tone, sound, prosody, speaker, and addressee, and fundamental acting techniques, including control and variation of volume, tone, inflection, pitch, pacing, eye-contact, facial expression, gesture, body-language, and gaze. The course is open to all students who have taken one of the possible prerequisites, but would be of particular interest to those majoring or thinking of majoring in English Literature or Creative Writing (or minoring in English or Theater), as well as any student wishing to learn about poetry and develop their abilities in critical and expressive reading, critical writing, memorization, and public speaking.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 221 - World Literature: Beginnings to Middle Ages-EC
Credits: 3
An in-depth study of selected works from classical Greece, India and China, and from medieval Arabia, Europe and Japan.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 222 - World Literature: Renaissance to Modern
Credits: 3
Selected works from European, Native and Latin American, African, South Asian and Asian cultures.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 224 - African American Literature
Credits: 3
This course surveys nineteenth- and twentieth- century African American literature. Poetry, speeches, fiction, folk tales, song, essays and autobiography will be examined, and an experiential, community-based component will be incorporated.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 234 - The Fractured Fairy Tale-EC
Credits: 3
This course is a hybrid of multiple genres (history, folklore, sociology, literature, and creative writing) which will explore the moral and sociological themes present in familiar canonical fairy tales such as “Snow White,” “Beauty And The Beast,” “Cinderella,” and “Little Red Riding Hood,” some of which linger to this day. These, however, will be coupled with more contemporary retellings that challenge some of the moral and gender-based prescriptions of the original stories. Lastly, as an additional way of understanding these texts, we will be choosing an original fairy tale and writing a revisionist response ourselves.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
Pre or Co-requisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 236 - Writing the Midwest Landscape-EC
Credits: 3
Writing the Midwest Landscape is an introductory level creative nonfiction writing workshop focusing on Midwest nature writing. Students read published works of creative nonfiction thematically connected to the Midwestern landscape and workshop their own nonfiction writings, including a video-essay. Required full-day sessions include two required winter hikes to locations within a 15-minute drive for digital photography and a day-long writing retreat at Sinsinawa Mound.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 237 - Fiction Writing
Credits: 3
An introductory creative writing class focused on the short story. The class is conducted as a workshop/seminar of approximately 15 students, with heavy emphasis on student-composed fiction. To complete the course, students must write three short stories for a cumulative total of at least 25 final pages, participate actively in class, and critique other students’ work in writing.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 238 - Poetry Writing
Credits: 3
An introductory workshop course in the art of writing poetry, and an introduction to poetics. Students will develop techniques for writing vivid descriptions and figures of speech, using precise diction, achieving rhythm and other pleasurable sound effects, deploying the energy of syntax, choosing rhetorical moods for emotional effect, and writing satisfying endings.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 239 - Creative Nonfiction Writing-EC
Credits: 3
An introductory level workshop in which students write, workshop, and receive feedback on creative nonfiction essay forms in a writing workshop setting. Students also analyze the writing techniques of published authors.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 240 - The Nature of Nature in Ireland-EC
Credits: 3
This course examines the intersection of the Irish people and landscape throughout history through creative nonfiction accounts and through informative readings and discussions about mythology, history, archaeology, and geology. Topics include the Neolithic, Celtic, and early Christian Irish people’s interactions with nature, and the impact of British colonial occupation and modern commercialism on the landscape. A final project has students write about place in their own local landscapes.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 241 - Mississippi River: Lore & Legacy-EC
Credits: 3
Writing the Mississippi helps students establish a sense of local place focused around North America’s most prominent river as groundwork for developing a sustainability ethic. Students read both literary (mostly creative nonfiction) and informational works to understand the river’s impact on individual lives as well as the geology, ecology, human history and culture surrounding it. Students write in the creative nonfiction genre to communicate an informed understanding and personal interaction with the river. The course requires two out-of-class local environmental study trips led by a cooperating faculty member.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 251 - Literature of the Frontier & American West-EC
Credits: 3
Students will focus on and discuss the aesthetic and cultural significance of the literature of discovery, conflict, adventure, and travel in the land west of the Mississippi River. They will examine the relationships between nonfiction (i.e., personal narratives, newspaper writing, diaries, letters, and travel logs) and fiction (short stories, myths and legends, oral narratives, and novels). Students will also explore the ways in which genre, environment, language and bilingualism, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and personal politics all shape, reflect, and restrict artistic expression during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Representative authors: Bret Hart, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Hunter Austin, Stephen Crane, Zane Grey, Frank Norris, Hamlin Garland, Zitkala-Sa, Kate Chopin, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 252 - The Law in American Film & Fiction-EI
Credits: 3
Students will study the law in American literature and film, focusing on the issues and consequences of creating, breaking, enforcing, and challenging the law and/or legal system(s). They will consider the relationships between legal literature/film and such issues as humanity, justice, love, ethics, citizenship, community, criminality, victimhood, environment, revenge, and social responsibility. They will also participate in a mock trial.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.ENG 253 - Native Voices Native Lives-EC
Credits: 3
This online literature and culture course encourages students to examine-through encounters with historical and popular literature and film, self-narrative reading and writing, and mythology-several aspects of Native American culture and its depiction. Topics include spirituality and religion, history and tradition, gender and identity, Native laws and US governance, and the importance of language, storytelling, and communication to those inside and outside of “the Reservation.” Students will read, reflect, write about, and discuss the impact of fiction and creative non-fiction written by and about Native/Indigenous people, including but not limited to the Cherokee, Ho-Chunk, and Oglala, and they will make direct connections to their own lives and lived experiences.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 267 - Gender, Disability, and War-EI
Credits: 3
This course traces cultural understandings of national, gender, and personal identity by examining texts that focus on the relationship between society and war, and on the resonance of these issues in American culture. Students will explore these issues by engaging with guest speakers, a day trip to the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison, WI, and through community-based learning with the Veteran Community in Dubuque.
Approved for Community Based Learning.
Prerequisite: Not open to first year students
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.ENG 270 - Bleak House in Context
Credits: 3
This course is an in-depth study course on a major British novel and author-Charles Dickens’ Bleak House. Students will read the novel in context: in the installment form (fortunately available in the Special Collections of Loras’ ARC), alongside other Victorian publications and cultural artifacts, and through “contact” with the Victorians via role play. The course will simulate the Victorian methodology of reading narratives in serial format. Students will generate a class e-periodical which involves assuming the “roles” or voices of particular Victorian figures as found through their wider reading in the Special Collections resources of All the Year Round and Household Words (both journals edited by Dickens), the Newgate Journal and other Victorian texts. They will also have the opportunity to present their research, role play, and reading experiences in the display cases outside of the Special Collections room in the ARC.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 277 - Rhetoric and Political Engagement-EI
Credits: 3
This course surveys the field of rhetoric (the study of argumentation), observing how these long-revered concepts come to life in political rhetoric of the twenty-first century.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.ENG 278 - Grant and Proposal Writing
Credits: 3
In this course students explore and learn the complex process of securing funding for non-profit organizations. Students gain actual experience in grant writing through partnerships with community organizations.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 279 - Writing for New Media
Credits: 3
This course focuses on concepts of effective online writing. Although specific writing platforms (websites, blogs, social media, etc.) change constantly, these concepts prepare students to adapt to these changes thoughtfully, ethically, and strategically.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 285 - Modern Irish Literature & Culture
Credits: 3
The course undertakes a literary oriented investigation and interrogation of modern Irish culture. Through the reading and discussion of selected 19th and 20th century Irish literary works, students in the course will explore various essential aspects of Irish communal life in order to apprehend the continuity and transformation of Irish culture over the last two centuries. Topics covered will include family structure, religious practice, economic conditions, education, attitudes toward land and language, relationships between the colonized and the colonizers, between classes, and between sectarian groups. Representative authors include Maria Edgeworth, Lady Gregory, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Brian Friel, Seamus Deane, Connor MacPherson, and Roddy Doyle.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 286 - Ireland in Film
Credits: 3
This course surveys a wide range of Irish-themed films in order to develop a deeper understanding of modern Irish cultural identity. Major thematic areas explored in the course include representations of the Irish West, the political struggle for independence, the role of Catholicism in Irish society, the status of minority groups such as the Irish travelers, and the urban working class in Ireland.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 287 - Irish Women’s Writing-EI
Credits: 3
In this course, we will focus completely on reading texts by Irish women writers, placing various literary genres within the context of the socio-political and religious experience of Irish women. The diverse narratives represented highlight particular themes that featured in Irish women’s experience: religious oppression, motherhood, sexual abuse, marriage, education and work, political activism and repression, and individual rebellion. We will look at the wider literary and cultural contexts as we seek to understand the history, contributions and influence of Irish women’s writing.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.ENG 290 - Canadian Imagination-EC
Credits: 3
An introductory course in Canadian literature, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, with a focus on understanding the fundamental nature and conventions of literature as an art form and field of study, including the ways in which literature both reflects and shapes human experience. Students will engage with the literary works they read by asking questions and discussing them, by writing critical and personal essays, and also, in the case of poetry and drama, by memorizing and reciting poems and passages from plays using performance techniques. Authors may include Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Sheila Heti, Northrop Frye, Daryl Hine, P. K. Page, George F. Walker, Anne-Marie MacDonald, Gabrielle Roy, Marie-Claire Blais, Tomson Highway, John Glassco, Thomas King, Michel Tremblay, Robertson Davies.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 291 - Ancient Greek Literature-EC
Credits: 3
An introductory course in ancient Greek literature in English translation, with a focus on understanding the fundamental nature and conventions of literature as an art form and field of study, including the ways in which literature both reflects and shapes human experience. Readings will include epic and lyric poems, tragic and comic plays, and ancient critical works about literature. Authors may include Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Menander, and Theocritus. Students will engage with the literary works they read by asking questions and discussing them, by writing critical and personal essays, and also by memorizing and reciting poems or passages from plays using performance techniques.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 292 - Ancient Latin Literature-EC
Credits: 3
An introductory course in ancient Latin literature in English translation, with a focus on understanding the fundamental nature and conventions of literature as an art form and field of study, including the ways in which literature both reflects and shapes human experience. Readings will include epic and lyric poems, tragic and comic plays, and ancient critical works about literature. Authors may include Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Longinus, Catullus, Plautus, Terence, Seneca, and Propertius. Students will engage with the literary works they read by asking questions and discussing them, by writing critical and personal essays, and also by memorizing and reciting poems or passages from plays using performance techniques.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 293 - Art of Living Ethics & Literature-VX
Credits: 3
This course explores the question of how to live by reading great works of world literature that present a variety of ethical world-views, including, for example, Catholicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, Taoism, Hinduism, Existentialism, and Feminism. Students will develop the ability to make decisions by applying, analyzing, and reflecting on ethical values and principles drawn from some of the world’s great wisdom literature.
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Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Values in Action-VX
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L.ENG 325 - American Literature: 1820-1860
Credits: 3
This course surveys the literature and culture of the American Renaissance, focusing on Romantic and Transcendental writers and texts, as well as on the literature of Abolition and of women’s rights. Short stories, novels, creative nonfiction, essays, and political documents will be examined. Representative authors: Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson, Sedgwick, Melville, Thoreau, Stowe, Dickinson, Fuller, Whitman.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 326 - American Literature: 1861-1900
Credits: 3
This course surveys the literature and culture of the Civil War and Reconstruction era, focusing on the slave narrative, Realism, Naturalism, Children’s fiction, and the American Gothic. Psychology, gender, race, class, religion, and other themes are considered as they influenced writers and literature from the time period. Representative authors: Howells, Alcott, Twain, James, Crane, Chopin, Gillman.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 328 - American Literature: Modern & Contemporary Poetry
Credits: 3
An intensive study of several major twentieth-century American poets, such as Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, Robert Hayden, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, and Sylvia Plath. The focus will be on learning how to read, understand, and take pleasure in each of these poets by exploring his or her characteristic techniques and themes in the context of his or her life and literary milieu. The course will include online films as well as student-led classroom discussions and much challenging and rewarding reading. Assignments may include memorization and performance of poems, a narrative-critical essay, a written abstract and oral summary of a critical essay, an oral interpretation of a poem, a critical paper, and a final exam.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 329 - American Literature: Modern & Contemporary Drama
Credits: 3
Representative dramatists: O’Neill, Glaspell, Hellman, Williams, Shange, Miller, Albee, Rabe, Wilson, Howe, Wasserstein.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 330 - American Literature: Modern Prose, 1900-1945
Credits: 3
Representative authors: Wharton, Dreiser, Cather, Stein, Anderson, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wright, Porter.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 331 - American Literature: Contemporary Prose, 1945-Present
Credits: 3
Representative authors: Ellison, Baldwin, Malamud, Bellow, Welty, Carver, Cheever, Oates, Tyler, Mason, Walker, Morrison, Kincaid.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 332 - Major American Authors
Credits: 3
A study of significant authors, their texts and recent critical biographies. Authors vary. Students may take this course twice, for different authors.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 333 - Shakespeare Before 1600
Credits: 3
An intensive study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and some of the plays Shakespeare wrote before the year 1600, such as Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Much Ado about Nothing, Julius Caesar, and As You Like It. The focus will be on learning how to read, understand, and take pleasure in these poems and plays by exploring Shakespeare’s characteristic techniques and themes in the context of his linguistic, theatrical, and literary milieu. The course will include films as well as classroom discussions and much challenging and rewarding reading. Assignments may include memorization and performance of sonnets and passages from the plays, a narrative-critical essay, a written abstract and oral summary of a published critical essay, an oral interpretation of a scene from a play, a critical paper, and a final exam.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 334 - Shakespeare After 1600
Credits: 3
An intensive study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and some of the plays Shakespeare wrote around and after the year 1600, such as Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest. The focus will be on learning how to read, understand, and take pleasure in these poems and plays by exploring Shakespeare’s characteristic techniques and themes in the context of his linguistic, theatrical, and literary milieu. The course will include films as well as classroom discussions and much challenging and rewarding reading. Assignments may include memorization and performance of sonnets and passages from the plays, a narrative-critical essay, a written abstract and oral summary of a published critical essay, an oral interpretation of a scene from a play, a critical paper, and a final exam.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 337 - Medieval & Renaissance British Literature
Credits: 3
A study of British literature from Beowulf to Spenser, in modern translation from Irish, Welsh, Latin, French, and Old and Middle English, as well as some in the original Middle English and much in early modern English. Representative authors: Bede, the Beowulf-poet, Marie de France, Langland, Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, Malory, Julian of Norwich, More, Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Raleigh, Campion, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 340 - Romantic Age: 1798-1832
Credits: 3
A study of English romantic theory and practice. Representative authors: Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, P. Shelley, M. Shelley, Keats.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 341 - Victorian Age: 1832-1901
Credits: 3
A study of the poetry and prose of the age. Representative authors: Carlyle, Mill, Tennyson, Browning, Barrett Browning, Arnold, C. Rossetti, Ruskin.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 342 - Victorian Age Novel
Credits: 3
Focuses primarily on the Victorian Age novel. Representative authors: Brontes, Dickens, Collins, Eliot, Hardy.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 343 - British/Irish Poetry 1900-Present
Credits: 3
Representative authors: W.B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen, T.S. Eliot, Patrick Kavanagh, W.H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 344 - British Fiction 1900-Present
Credits: 3
Representative authors: Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Huxley, Greene, Rhys, Lessing, Fowles, Byatt.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 345 - British Drama 1890-Present
Credits: 3
Representative authors: Wilde, Shaw, Osborne, Delaney, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Shaffer.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 351 - Milton & 17th Century Literature
Credits: 3
A survey of 17th century English poetry with emphasis on Milton’s Paradise Lost. Representative authors include Donne, Herbert, Jonson, Herrick, Lovelace, Marvell, Mary Sidney Wroth, and Katherine Philips.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 352 - 18th Century British Literature
Credits: 3
A survey of 18th-century English literature. Representative authors include Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Blake, Mary Wortley Montagu and selected women poets.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 355 - English Novel: 1800-1840
Credits: 3
A study of pre-Victorian trends in the novel. Representative authors include Austen, Edgeworth, Godwin, Scott, Shelley.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 370 - Fantastic Fiction
Credits: 3
A creative writing workshop in which students will study, write, revise and critique genre fiction and/or literary fiction informed by genre tropes. Specifically, the course will focus on science fiction, fantasy, and horror, or work that combines elements of literary fiction with these genres. Students will write three original works which will be submitted to, and critiqued by, the class, in addition to reading a variety of genre fiction with the purpose of learning the conventions of each genre and critiquing one another’s work in formal assignments presented to the class. Lastly, students will learn the protocols of submitting genre work to reputable markets.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 371 - Screenwriting
Credits: 3
A writing workshop focusing on the creation, critique, and revision of an original screenplay in this case, for a short film. This will involve learning the industry-appropriate format and terms and learning the conventions of writing in screenplay form. ENG 371 also carries a critical component, in which students will analyze the themes, techniques, and style of a particular multi-credited screenwriter, and analyze the structure and strengths/weaknesses of an already-produced short film.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 380 - Nature Writing
Credits: 3
An advanced-level workshop course in nonfiction nature writing. Students write in various subgenres of creative nonfiction, and also study technique and theme in contemporary nonfiction nature writing.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 383 - Nonfiction Literature & Workshop
Credits: 3
An advanced-level workshop in which students write memoir, meditative, and literary journalism essays while analyzing the works of published authors.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 384 - Advanced Fiction Writing
Credits: 3
An advanced course in the art and craft of writing fiction.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 237 or equivalent
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
Repeatable May be taken twice.
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L.ENG 385 - Advanced Poetry Writing
Credits: 3
This is an advanced workshop course in the art of writing poetry, with an emphasis on poetics and technique. There will be regular reading and writing assignments, and three individual conferences with the professor. The course is open to any student who has passed L.ENG 238 - Poetry Writing .
Prerequisite: L.ENG 238 or equivalent; OR Instructor Permission
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
Repeatable May be taken twice.
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L.ENG 389 - Revision, Editing & Publishing
Credits: 3
An advanced workshop seminar devoted to a detailed study of writing style, grammar and mechanics, based on original and extensively revised student work.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 ; at least one (1) 200-level writing class; Recommended: one (1) 300-level writing class
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 390 - Writing as Social Action
Credits: 3
In this course students learn how to apply rhetorical concepts to community needs by partnering with local organizations on projects related to social justice, civic engagement, and public dialogue.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 391 - Language Theory & Teaching of Writing
Credits: 3
An exploration of language and composition theory, research and pedagogy.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 468 - Thinkers, Critics, and Public Intellectuals
Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the advanced study of literature, to prepare them for civic engagement, social contribution, and professional life. Students will read works from different genres and periods. They will also learn and apply a variety of practical critical approaches, and consider the values and purposes of these approaches in various social contexts. The course introduces students to several critical schools and methods, with the aim both of familiarizing them with these methods in the work of other critics, and of enabling them to make use of these approaches in their own critical writing. By studying the influential ideas of past and present literary theorists, rhetoricians, critics, book reviewers, and public intellectuals, as well as such ethical values as intellectual integrity and the critic’s obligations to the reader, students will reflect more deeply on their own practices as readers and writers, and more fully understand the fundamental history, methods, and values of their discipline. This course is a requirement for both the Literature and Creative Writing majors.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 145
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 490 - Senior Literature Capstone-IN
Credits: 3
This course is the required capstone for English literature majors. It is designed to assist students in demonstrating the transferable knowledge and skills that they have developed through their liberal arts education at Loras College. This is an opportunity for students to refine and expand an essay they have already written. In addition, the course provides students with the opportunity to professionally present their strengths and accomplishments through the development of a cover letter and resume. Completion of College portfolio. Culminates in Capstone Defense.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing
Co-requisite: L.ENG 490D
General Education Classification: Integrative Capstone-IN
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L.ENG 490D - Capstone Defense
Credits: 0
Students should register for ENG 490D Capstone Defense in the fall or spring, whichever semester they will defend the Capstone Project undertaken in L.ENG 490 .
Prerequisite: Senior Standing
Co-requisite: L.ENG 490
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 491 - Senior Thesis Seminar-IN
Credits: 3
Students will workshop thesis drafts and reflective essays in a workshop setting in consultation with a thesis director. Culminates in Thesis Defense.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing; English: Creative Writing Majors Only
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Integrative Capstone-IN
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L.ENG 491D - Thesis Defense
Credits: 0
Students should register for ENG 491D Thesis Defense in the fall or spring, whichever semester they will defend the creative thesis undertaken in L.ENG 491 .
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 493 - English Practicum: Literary Journal Editing & Production
Credits: 1
This course is an experiential learning practicum wherein students will contribute to the production of a nationally-read, undergraduate-only literary journal. Students will take part in every aspect of the publishing process: solicitation, selection of submissions, ordering, layout, proofing, and final publication. Catfish Creek is a unique opportunity for students to experience the publishing process from the other side of the submissions queue. Instructor permission required.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
Repeatable Can be repeated up to four times for credit.
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