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  • ENGL 360: Studies in Popular Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    This writing-intensive course provides an in-depth study of the relationship between literature and culture. Students will examine consumption and influences of popular culture, or the ways social structures (such as power, race, ability, or gender and sexuality) influence the construction of texts and our response to them. Specific topic will vary by instructor and may include: film noir, global hip hop, and pulp fiction. Course work will include discussion and research of relevant cultural and historical matters, frequent written analyses of course texts and contexts, sustained analytic essays, and student-led discussion and/or class presentations. Prerequisite:    ENGL 130
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  • ENGL 362: Studies in Disability & Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    This writing-intensive course provides an in-depth study of literature written about and by people with various disabilities. Students will be introduced to the foundational elements of Disability Studies as an interdisciplinary and theoretical approach and will analyze how literary texts engage with disability as a complex social, cultural, and political identity. Specific topics will vary by instructor and may include: examining the role literature has played in both producing and resisting cultural stereotypes about disability; highlighting how literary productions by authors with disabilities foster disability culture; and exploring how the concerns of the disability community intersect with those of a range of other marginalized social groups. Course work will include discussion and research of relevant cultural and historical matters, frequent written analyses of course texts and contexts, sustained analytic essays, and student-led discussion and/or class presentations.
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  • ENGL 366: History and Structure of the English Language

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    Engages students in study and practice of structural grammar, the history of English language development, and concepts and debates in sociolinguistics. Focus may vary by instructor. Course is open to any major, but course is intended to engage with some content Secondary Certification majors will encounter on PRAXIS/PAPA tests.
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  • ENGL 370: Studies in Queer Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    This writing-intensive course provides in-depth study of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and/or transgender literature and/or film in the historical context of GLBT social and political movements as well as the development of queer theory. Focus may vary by instructor. Some topics might include the impact of heteronormativity, response to social stigma, subcultural discovery and transmission, and the constructed-versus-essential nature of sexuality and gender. Students will propose, prepare, and manage independent research to produce a writing-intensive critical project that will support their professional development. Other coursework will include discussion and research of relevant cultural and historical matters, frequent written analyses of course texts and contexts, and student-led discussion and/or class presentations.
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  • ENGL 375: Studies in African American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    This writing-intensive course provides in-depth study of the African American literary tradition from the 18th century to the present day. Students may read a variety of genres, including autobiographies, poems, novels, and essays, as well as relevant scholarship and theory. Topics will vary by instructor and may include readings in the slave narrative tradition, the New Negro Renaissance, or the Black Arts movement. Course work will include discussion and research of relevant cultural and historical matters, frequent written analyses of course texts and contexts, sustained analytic essays, and student-led discussion and/or class presentations.
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  • ENGL 378: Studies in Early American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    This writing-intensive course focuses on a sustained and in-depth analysis of American literature before 1830, including pre-colonization, colonial, and early national periods. Specific content will vary according to the instructor and might include: gender and race, domesticity and agency, captivity and abduction, and slavery and freedom. Course work will include discussion and research of relevant cultural and historical matters, frequent written analyses of course texts and contexts, sustained analytic essays, and student-led discussion and/or class presentations.
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  • ENGL 380: Studies in Later British Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    This writing-intensive course focuses on sustained and in-depth analysis of British literature and may cover topics from 1800 to the present. Specific topic will vary according to the instructor and might include: Romantic-era poetry, Victorian novels, Modernist poetry, or contemporary British plays. Course work will include discussion and research of relevant cultural and historical matters, frequent written analyses of course texts and contexts, sustained analytic essays, and student-led discussion and/or class presentations. Prerequisite:    ENGL 130
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  • ENGL 381: Studies in Later American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    This writing-intensive course focuses on a sustained and in-depth analysis of American literature since the middle of the nineteenth century, including the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Harlem Renaissance, through to the 21st century. Specific content will vary according to the instructor and might include: regionalism, World War II literature, modernism, or digital poetics in the internet age. Course work will include discussion and research of relevant cultural and historical matters, frequent written analyses of course texts and contexts, sustained analytic essays, and student-led discussion and/or class presentations.
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  • ENGL 385: Studies in Postcolonial Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    This writing-intensive course provides a focused study of works by authors from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Latin America, and/or the Middle East writing after the age of European colonial rule. Specific topic will vary by instructor and may include: the poetics of decolonization, the Negritude movement, or the South Asian novel. Course work will include discussion and research of relevant cultural and historical matters, frequent written analyses of course texts and contexts, sustained analytic essays, and student-led discussion and/or class presentations. Prerequisite:    ENGL 130
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  • ENGL 387: English Internship I

    1.00 - 9.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    Contact department for further information on internships.
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