1000 Level English Course Descriptions

ENGLISH 1001
Essay Writing
This course provides guided experience in writing descriptive, analytical, argumentative, research, and various other types of essays. Students learn a variety of techniques for crafting their own writing through two principal activities: the process of their own writing and the analysis of the writing of others, both students and professional writers.

ENGLISH 1003
Writing Workshop
This course is designed to develop creative and expository writing skills. Emphasis is placed on working with images, literature, and developing a personal narrative.

ENGLISH 1004
Writing for The School Paper
This course is a survey of the forms and techniques of newspaper and magazine writing with an emphasis on journalism in the arts and on writing that is appropriate for the School’s newsmagazine, ƒNewsmagazine.

ENGLISH 1005
First Year Seminar
This is the title of a group of courses in the sequence of English courses. Students are required to take Essay Writing as a first step and are then able to choose between Writing Workshop, Writing for the School Newsmagazine, or First Year Seminar to complete the 6-credit-hour English requirement. Each First Year Seminar is unique. Classes are taught by senior full-time and part-time members of the department from all disciplines, including science, history, psychology, philosophy, and literature. These classes focus on development of the students’ writing skills, but student essays address the issues of the specific discipline studied in the seminar. Examples of prior First Year Seminars include: The Life and Work of Samuel Beckett, Going to Hell: Journeys to the Underworld, The Kennedy Assassination, and The Decay of Lying. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 1001.

ENGLISH 1012
Studio Research Seminar
This course combines a First Year Studio and a First Year Seminar class. The class provides students with an opportunity to explore the creative strategies of historical and contemporary artists, writers, and thinkers, and aims to help students identify the most productive research methods for their current practice. Each section of this class has an individual theme and the curriculum is developed collaboratively between liberal arts and first year studio faculty. In order to help students make useful connections between their academic studies and studio practice, Studio Research Seminar (SRS) involves them in a wide variety of academic and practical research activity. In addition to the studio research activities, the SRS will incorporate a writing intensive component for English credit. Students will use the results of their research as a catalyst for developing an individual final project. The creation of a research archive is an instrumental component of the class. Students receive three liberal arts credits and three FYP studio credits (in lieu of taking 2-D II) for this combined research class. Students must enroll for both the liberal arts and the studio component of this class (FIRYR 1012). Concurrent enrollment in FIRYR 1012 required. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 1001.