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Elements of Grammar
ENG 4012 / 3 q.h.
June 25 - August 18
Boston Tu 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
By learning about grammar and the way the English language works, students improve their writing through an understanding of the parts of speech, the mechanics of punctuation, and the vagaries of spelling. The course uses exercises in solving problems of number, case, tense, degree, and usage.
(May not be used to satisfy ENG elective requirements for English BA/BS degrees.)
College English 1
ENG 4104 / 3 q.h.
June 25 - August 18
Boston Th 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Online
June 25 - July 21
Boston (Hybrid) M 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Burlington (Hybrid) Sa 9:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Professionals in every area must be able to communicate in writing, and College English develops these writing skills. The College English sequence prepares all School of Professional and Continuing Studies students for college writing in all majors. This course introduces the principles of structured writing with an emphasis on having a clear introductory focus, concrete support, and coherent organization. There will be a special emphasis on peer review and in-class writing. Students complete a required proficiency examination at the end of the course. A writing diagnostic test is given at the first class meeting.
(formerly Critical Writing 1)
College English 2
ENG 4105 / 3 q.h.
June 25 - August 18
Boston Th 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Online
July 23 - August 18
Boston (Hybrid) M 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Burlington (Hybrid) Sa 9:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Students continue examination and development of the principles established in College English 1. The course includes critical reading and written responses to selected essays. Students benefit from a special emphasis on reading comprehension, as well as organized responses posed by assigned readings. The course essays may be organized about a specific theme or themes at the instructor's discretion.
(formerly Critical Writing 2)
Prerequisite: ENG 4104 College English 1.
College English Workshop
ENG 4106 / 3 q.h.
June 25 - August 18
Boston M 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Downtown M 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Burlington Tu 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Online
June 25 - July 21
Boston (Hybrid) Tu 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Students continue to develop writing skills learned in College English 1 and 2 and learn the skills and techniques involved in designing and producing a finished documented paper of ten pages. Students review the principles and methods of organized writing in preparation for the required Competency Examination administered at the end of the Workshop.
(formerly Critical Writing Workshop)
Prerequisite: ENG 4105 College English 2.
English Literature 3
ENG 4122 / 3 q.h.
June 25 - August 18
Online
Students complete their study of English literature by reading work from the Victorian Age through the present, including works by Browning, Tennyson, Dickens, Hardy, Woolf, Lawrence, Lessing, Pinter, and more.
(formerly English Literature: Victorians and Moderns)
American Literature 1
ENG 4123 / 3 q.h.
June 25 - August 18
Online
This course examines the roots of American thought and culture to reach a broad understanding of many of the major currents of contemporary American thought. The sermons of Edwards, the autobiography of Franklin, the captivity narratives of Rowlandson and Equiano, the Transcendental musings of Emerson and Thoreau, the stories of Hawthorne and Melville, and the poetry of Bradstreet, Wheatley, and Taylor help shape the direction of American literature.
(formerly Early American Literature: Faith, Reason, and Nature)
Western World Literature 2
ENG 4133 / 3 q.h.
June 25 - August 18
Boston Tu 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Students examine the literary traditions of the Age of Reason, Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism in such works as Voltaire’s Candide, Goethe’s Faust, Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, and Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle.
(formerly Order and Disorder: Literature of the Moderns)
Expository and Persuasive Writing (Intensive)
ENG 4353 / 6 q.h.
June 25 - August 18
Boston MW 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
This course combines the content of ENG 4349 and ENG 4350 Expository and Persuasive Writing 1 and 2 and is designed to help students perfect already proficient writing skills. From first drafts to revisions, weekly writing assignments concentrate on effective means to achieve added focus, clarity, development, and organization in a variety of expository prose forms. Students continue to develop precise and persuasive writing patterns through experiments with various rhetorical strategies. Students write extensively on topics of current interest to gain fluency and to learn how to target their writing toward different audiences.
Prerequisite: ENG 4106 College English Workshop or equivalent.
Writing for the Professions 1
ENG 4380 / 3 q.h.
June 25 - July 21
Boston (Hybrid) W 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Burlington (Hybrid) Tu 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
June 25 - August 18
Online
This course introduces the vocabulary and philosophy of business communications. Students practice planning, writing, and analyzing effective business letters and memoranda.
Prerequisite: ENG 4106 College English Workshop or equivalent. A writing proficiency test is given at the first class meeting.
Writing for the Professions 2
ENG 4381 / 3 q.h.
July 23 - August 18
Boston (Hybrid) W 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Burlington (Hybrid) Tu 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
June 25 - August 18
Online
Students learn the methods and principles of research and documentation of semi-technical analyses and business reports. The course allows practice in organizing and writing complex forms of business communications.
Prerequisite: ENG 4380 Writing for the Professions 1 or equivalent.
Topics in Literature
ENG 4600 / 3 q.h.
June 25 - August 18
Boston W 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
This course examines a subject or theme as various as the literature that produced it, from The Tragic Hero to Visions of Utopia, from Children’s Literature to The Literature of the Dispossessed. Topics change from quarter to quarter and campus to campus so that students may take this course more than once, provided it is a different topic each time.
Major Figure in Literature
ENG 4604 / 3 q.h.
June 25 - August 18
Boston M 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Studying a major figure in depth provides great joy. This course examines in detail and depth the work of a major writer of poetry, fiction, or drama such as Whitman, Tolstoy, Woolf, or Beckett. Students may take this course more than once, provided they focus on a different figure each time.
The American Short Story
ENG 4610 / 3 q.h.
June 25 - August 18
Boston Th 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Online
Development of the American short story from its nineteenth-century origins to its present forms. Includes such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, James, Hemingway, Roth, and Updike. |
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