ENGLISH (Major, Minor)
Students who study English learn to read critically, think logically, and speak and write effectively. The English curriculum also offers skills that can be used as an essential part of pre-professional training or for access into government or business. English majors often go on to graduate work in English, law, or business. Others pursue careers in writing, publishing, and management.
Twelve courses are required for the English major.
Requirements for the Major (12)
Core Courses (6)
ENG 201 Major English Writings I
ENG 202 Major English Writings II
ENG 221 Selected Studies in World Literature
ENG 303 American Literature I
ENG 304 American Literature II
ENG 374 Editing Essentials OR ENG 380 Language Studies
Electives in Literature, Writing, or Film (6)
Two at any level
Three at the 300 level or higher
One at the 400 level or higher
Requirements for the Minor (6)
ENG 201 or 202
ENG 303 or 304
Three electives at the 200,300, or 400 level, in literature, writing, or film
One elective in Literature at the 300/400 level
Course Descriptions:
ENG 140 Composition: Writing About Selected Topics
Develops students' ability to write college-level essays by practicing strategies of argumentation and by refining skills of invention, revision, and critical thinking. Leads to writing essays characterized by unity, order, coherence, completeness, clarity, and mechanical correctness. In order to satisfy the College's general education requirement for writing (W), students must receive a grade of C or better in the course. Section topics are designated by individual instructors. This course (or an equivalent) must be taken during the first semester at Rollins. Formerly ENG 101. Does not count as elective credit in the English Major or Minor or the Writing Minor.
ENG 167 Introduction to Creative Writing
Requires writing in a variety of genres including fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Emphasizes peer evaluation, thus requiring that students learn to evaluate the writing of others, as well as their own writing. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 201 Major English Writings I
Covers writers of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, including the Beowulf poet, Chaucer, Spencer, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, and Milton from critical and historical approaches. Second term continues with 18th-century romantic, Victorian, and 20th-century writers: Pope, Swift, Johnson, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Hopkins, Yeats, Joyce, and Eliot. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 202 Major English Writings II
Covers writers of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, including the Beowulf poet, Chaucer, Spencer, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, and Milton from critical and historical approaches. Second term continues with 18th-century romantic, Victorian, and 20th-century writers: Pope, Swift, Johnson, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Hopkins, Yeats, Joyce, and Eliot. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 204 African Literature
Introduces major writers and literary movements of Africa. Suitable for nonmajors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 210 Language and Power
A survey of rhetorical tools leaders have used throughout history to change their societies. Students will analyze how these tools function within speeches, letters, essays, and other literary texts that have persuaded audiences to think, feel, and act in new ways. By modeling such writing in their own essays, students will practice using these tools to address contemporary social issues while discussing the ethical concerns that responsible citizens must consider whenever they use rhetoric. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 221 Topics in World Literature
Introduces major writers in one or more literary traditions other than - or in combination with - British and/or American. Specific topics vary. Suitable for nonmajors. Formerly ENG 208. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 224 Review of English Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage
With direction, students complete a programmed course of study that reviews all aspects of basic English grammar and mechanics. Credit/No Credit only (C/NC). Two credit hours. Offered in fall, spring, and summer terms.
ENG 231 The Bible as Literature
Considers the Old and New Testaments as works of creative literature and includes frequent excursions into poems, plays, music/musicals, and novels influenced by the Bible. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 232 Literature and Experience
This genre course may focus on drama, poetry, fiction, and/or prose. Suitable for nonmajors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 233 Women Writers
Focuses on literary works by women writers. Authors, genres, and historical periods vary. Suitable for nonmajors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 234 Creative Non-Fiction
Examines a wide array of literary works that come under the heading of "creative nonfiction," i.e., the literature of fact. Categories to be examined include the personal essay, memoir, travel writing, literary journalism, nature writing, and social criticism. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 235 Selected Studies in Environmental Literature
Focuses on poets, novelists, and essayists who have spoken out strongly for the preservation of the environment. Readings may include works by Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson, Burroughs, Muir, Austin, Rawlings, Hurston, and Abbey. Suitable for nonmajors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 241 Film and Literature
Focuses on the history and aesthetics of film and its relationship to literature. Suitable for nonmajors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 245 Selected Studies in Popular Culture
Topics vary. May focus on theories, historical periods, themes, and/or genres that reflect and are representative of popular culture. Suitable for nonmajors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 260 Writer's Studio
In this course, you will learn about your creative potential and how to nurture it. You will take up a writing "practice" that includes regular writing and attention to the conditions under which you are most creative and productive. You will learn how to respond effectively to the writing of others. And you will be introduced to some basic techniques of craft that good writers use to achieve effect and meaning. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 264 Exploring the Fringe
Provides an immersion in the Orlando International Fringe Festival (OIFF), an internationally known alternative theater festival. Students attend performances; meet with performers, directors, and playwrights; and write reviews. Discussions cover historical, technical, cultural, and performance issues. Class size is limited to twelve (12) students. Although there are no required texts, a nonrefundable lab fee (covering fringe membership and tickets for all performances) must be paid in full by March 31st. Nota Bene: Because fringe performances often explore controversial topics, the class will encounter adult language, ideas, and situations. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 267 Topics/Techniques in Writing
The topics version of this course offers an introduction to a very specific genre of writing (fiction, autobiography, humor writing, etc.), giving close attention to the defining characteristics of the genre and offering a sequence of short reading and writing assignments designed to develop facility in producing the genre. The techniques version of this course offers a close study of a specific literary technique (point of view, character/dialogue, narrative design, voice), and requires practicing the technique in short, focused writing assignments with emphasis on both literary and technical excellence. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or consent.
ENG 271 Personal Writing
Explores writing as self-discovery and self-expression, as a means of discovering thoughts, feelings, and intuitions that would otherwise remain inchoate. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 273 Journalistic Writing
This writing-intensive course is designed to introduce students to the various kinds of journalistic writing: basic news pieces, features, editorials, and reviews. It will provide them with the skills necessary to produce well written, accurate, insightful stories, and develop the skills necessary to do journalistic investigation and research. Through classroom workshops, students will also learn the basics of story editing, and the way in which generalized themes can be turned into specific, clearly defined journalistic pieces. In addition, they will become familiar with contemporary journalistic practices and issues involving ethics and standards in the media. Students in Journalistic Writing I will be encouraged to submit stories to Sandspur and join Sandspur’s staff. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 275 Selected Studies in Minority Literature
Minority literary studies. Offerings vary year to year. Suitable for non-majors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 276 Writing for the Future
How do we depict ourselves when we're communicating on the internet? How does our understanding of audience shift? This course in the genre of cyberspace writing explores how our own personal reading and writing are being changed by advances in technology, as well as how online forms and practices are reshaping corporate and academic writing. Focusing on new skills we'd like to master, we'll consider whether our ability to learn is affected by our uses of technology. Previous experience is NOT a prerequisite. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 277 Writing in the Community
How do we give voice to private and public concerns in shaping the places we live? How do we become active members influencing decisions in our various communities (political, environmental, religious, social, or intellectual)? This course in the genre of civic writing lets students develop selected forms (letters to the editor, fact-finding summaries, field studies, proposals, documentaries, and other persuasive public project pieces that organizations use to develop cases and gain support), write for a not-for-profit organization, and practice service learning. Formerly ENG 295. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 291 Magical Realism
When a love story filters through the centuries or a man awakens as a giant cockroach (this could happen in Florida); when an owl perches on a window crying sweet warnings or a baron lives his life in the treetops; when a dead baby rises from the grave or the local shopping mall draws us into fairyland--what are we to think? Exploring several works of magical realism, this course offers delightful metaphors, strange dreams, strategies for reading literature, and a whole new way of understanding experience. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 300 Expository Writing
Assumes that writing is a primary way to understand, organize, and give meaning to experience, and is thus an integral part of a liberal arts curriculum. Stresses the need to examine specific rhetorical contexts and develop strategies for writing. In a workshop setting, students study and analyze both professional and student essays, as well as their own. Assumes basic competency in conventional syntax, usage, punctuation, mechanics, and organization. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 301 The Art and Craft of Autobiography as Literary Text
Explores the literary genre of autobiography as personal history, psychological exploration, and imaginative creation. Attention is given to distinguishing between autobiography, memoir, and fiction, and to the rhetorical strategies through which each is shaped. Prerequisite: ENG 300.
ENG 303 American Literature I: Beginnings through 1865
Explores representative works of the period, focusing on the evolution of American literary consciousness and shifting literary strategies, against their historical and cultural backgrounds. Includes traditional canonical works, as well as works that expand that canon. Prerequisite: ENG 140, 201 or 202.
ENG 304 American Literature II: 1865-Present
Explores representative works of the period, focusing on the evolution of American literary consciousness and shifting literary strategies, against their historical and cultural backgrounds. Includes traditional canonical works, as well as works that expand that canon. Prerequisite: ENG 140, 201 or 202.
ENG 306 Special Topics in World Literature
Explores representative works of literatures other than British and American. Specific writers, works, and/or genres vary. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 307 American Literature IV: African American Literature
Surveys African-American literary forms from the seventeenth century through the present time while emphasizing the social, historical, economic, and cultural politics of literary production. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 310 Studies in Early English Literature
Studies literature in the historical context of the Anglo-Saxon and/or Middle English periods, from 600 to 1500, in England. Emphasizes the history of the language, cultural diversity, and the oral-formulaic nature of the poetry. Possibilities for primary focus include "Beowulf", "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", "The Canterbury Tales", and/or "Le Mort d'Arthur". Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 311 Studies in Renaissance Literature
Examines English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, excepting the works of Shakespeare, in the context of the times. Focus varies, sometimes by genre (prose, lyric, epic, drama), sometimes by theme. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 312 Studies in Shakespeare
Focuses on selected plays and/or poems by Shakespeare, examined in the context of history and culture. Satisfies "Major Author" requirement for English Majors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 313 Shakespeare in Text and Film
Focuses on the reading of selected plays in tandem with the viewing of major film adaptations. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 314 Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
Examines major writers and writings of the Restoration and neoclassical periods. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 315 Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Examines major writers and writings of the Romantic and/or Victorian periods. Specific writers, works, and/or genres vary. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 319 Studies in Twentieth-Century British Literature
Examines major writers and writings of the Modernist, Contemporary, and/or Postmodern periods. Specific writers, works, and/or genres vary. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 320 Selected Studies: Literature in Translation
Focuses on literary works created in a language other than English, such as French, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and others. Specific writers, works, and/or genres vary. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 324 Selected Studies in Minority Literature
Focuses on writers and literary works that represent minority groups and/or cultures. Specific topics vary. Possibilities include Native American literature; African-American literature; the literature of British Colonialism and/or Post-Colonialism; Latin American literature; Asian-American literature; gay/lesbian literature. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 325 Modern Drama
Focuses on American, British, and Continental plays written/produced from 1890 to 1945. Representative playwrights include Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Shaw, Synge, O’Neill, Treadwell, Pirandello, and Eliot. Emphasizes critical analysis, historical significance, and issues of performance. Satisfies “Genre Study” requirement for English Majors. Formerly ENG 363. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 327 Literature: The Art of the Personal Essay
Explores the personal essay as a literary genre, studying its historical development and critical status. Writers studied may include E.B. White, George Orwell, Alice Walker, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, Cynthia Ozick, James Baldwin, and Virginia Woolf. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 328 Contemporary American Literature
Focuses on American literature in the last half of the twentieth century, from the end of World War II and the emergence of the Beats, through the tumultuous '60s and '70s, and into the fin de siecle. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 329 Selected Studies in American Literature
Explores one or more specific topics in the American literary tradition. Writers, works, periods, and/or genres vary. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 335 Critical Approaches to Literature
Focuses on major works of critical theory as well as applications of critical theory to literary texts. Includes emphasis on literary terminology. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 341 Film and Literature
Focuses on the history and aesthetics of film and its relationship to literature. Specific topics vary. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 342 Speculative Fiction
Specific topics vary. May focus on science fiction; fantasy; utopias/dystopias; horror and the occult; magical realism; other; a combination thereof. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 344 Literature and Cultural Studies
Specific topics vary. Possibilities include The Postmodern; Visual Culture; Media Mixtures; Interactive Literary Venues; or some combination thereof. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 360A Creative Non-Fiction Workshop: Autobiography
Advanced writing course for upper-level students who wish to extend the basic intellectual, rhetorical, and composition skills necessary to compose clear and substantive prose. Studies various ways that autobiographical sketches, stories, and essays have been structured by contemporary American writers. Develops students’ single autobiographical text. Emphasis on a workshop approach to drafting, revising, and critiquing student writing Prerequisite: ENG 300.
ENG 360B Creative Non-Fiction Workshop: Travel Writing
Students consider the nature of travel and reflect on their journeys while trying out strategies of travel writing in this workshop course. Through conversation, campus (or central Florida) trips, and the shaping of a polished piece of travel writing, the class looks at creation of people and place. Exploring the journey as both meaning and metaphor for the lived experience of travel writers, students recall previous travels or write about their own locales. Extensive travel not expected. Prerequisite: ENG 300.
ENG 361 Writing for the Professions
Make the transition from student to professional. This course gives students experience in developing the writing and presentation skills expected of them in their careers. They will learn and apply specific communication principles underlying the forms and practices of professionals. Appropriate for all majors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 367 Creative Writing Workshop
Alternates focus among various writing genres including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, children's literature. Requires strong, established creative writing skills and experience in writing workshops. Refer to the online Schedule of Courses for topics currently being offered. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 369 Classical Rhetoric: Persuasion
This course offers a close study of the classical tradition of rhetoric. Students will become familiar with the work of the major figures of classical rhetoric (Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Quintilliam), their theories of rhetoric, how those theories differ and overlap and how they have influenced modern notions of persuasiveness. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 370 Spiritual Autobiography
Examines autobiographies by persons who have successfully fostered both social activism and profound spirituality in their own lives. Readings include works by Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Thomas Merton, Frederick Buechner, Elie Weisel, Viktor Frankl, and Annie Dillard. Prerequisite: ENG 300.
ENG 372 Winter With the Writers
Conducted in conjunction with the visiting authors' series, whose work will be the focus of study. Includes biographical research and critical studies in papers and panels in advance of the writers' visits. Provides opportunity to meet these writers and discuss their work in Master Classes. Offers opportunity to combine an academic experience with a deeper involvement in the literary community on the campus. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 373 Journalistic Writing II
This course extends and deepens the skills and approaches introduced in Journalistic Writing I. Prerequisite: ENG 272.
ENG 374 Editing Essentials
A close study of syntax, i.e., how the various components of a sentence combine to create meaning and effect. Focuses on editing for correctness (grammar, usage, punctuation, mechanics) and on editing for precision (unity, order, coherence, emphasis, diction). Prerequisite: ENG 300. Priority to English Majors/Minors and Writing Minors.
ENG 375 The Role of the Critic: Writing Reviews
Examines the role of professional critics as reviewers and shapers of culture. Writing assignments include reviews and review-essays about art, music, cinema, and literature, as well as review essays based on economic and social policies. Prerequisite: ENG 300.
ENG 380 Language Studies: Readers and Writers
Investigates the dynamics of language from historical, sociological, and rhetorical perspectives. Students will learn the best tools for understanding language and for editing their own work and that of others. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 385 Prose Style
Provides practice in the use of stylistic features that help writers achieve desired rhetorical and/or aesthetic effects. Builds on techniques developed in ENG 260 (Writers Studio) and language skills introduced in ENG 374 (Editing Essentials). Prerequisite: ENG 374.
ENG 390 Major Author(s)
Focuses on the works of a single author (excluding Shakespeare) OR a group of closely connected authors. Assigned texts may include secondary sources as well as primary works. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 392 Environmental Writing
Fosters skills in writing argumentative essays, technical reports, book reviews, and personal essays about nature and the environment. Suitable for nonmajors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or consent.
ENG 395 Studies in Nonfiction
Challenges writers to experiment with various forms, themes, and genres of nonfiction prose including biography, environmental writing, food writing, etc. Suitable for nonmajors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 397 Internship in Writing
Interns assist in a variety of activities related to the Rollins Writing Program, i.e., Winter with the Writers; annual student readings; First Friday workshops; and other promotions. Interns are appointed by faculty selection committee. Prerequisite: junior status and consent.
ENG 416 Topic in British Literature
Specific topics vary. Possibilities include a theme; a period; a selection of authors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 430 Topic in American Literature
Specific topics vary. Possibilities include a theme; a period; a selection of authors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 440 Topic in World Literature
Specific topics vary. Possibilities include a theme; a period; a selection of authors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 460 Author Study
Focuses on the work of a single author (excluding Shakespeare) such as Jane Austen or James Joyce or a group of closely connected authors such as the Brontes or the Brownings. May include secondary sources (i.e., biographies, reviews, and critical/analytical essays by other writers) as well as primary works. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 467 Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
Requires strong, established creative writing skills and experience in writing workshops. Encourages submission of selected pieces to appropriate publications. This course may be taken three (3) times for credit. Prerequisite: ENG 367 or ENG 360; or consent.
ENG 482 Writing for Publication
Identifies the requirements and restrictions of various publications and venues (newspapers, magazines, journals, contests, calls for papers). Requires self-selection of target publications, then queries, proposals, and submission of at least two pieces written during the course. Prerequisite: ENG 360 or ENG 367.
ENG 490 Advanced Major Author(s) Study
Focuses on the works of a single author (excluding Shakespeare) OR a group of closely connected authors. Assigned texts include secondary sources as well as primary works. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 497 Internship in Writing
Interns assist in a variety of activities related to the Rollins Writing Program, i.e., Winter with the Writers; annual Student Readings; First Friday workshops; and other promotions. Interns are appointed by faculty selection committee. Prerequisite: senior status and consent.
ENG 498/499 Independent Study/Research
To be eligible for independent study, students must have completed a minimum of 30 semester hours at Rollins College. Prerequisite: approval.
Last Update: September 11, 2008
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