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ENGLISH
ENGLISH
JOHN YOUNG, Chairperson
FACULTY: Professors: Philip H. Kelly, Associate Professors: Sally LeVan,
Berwyn Moore, Patrick O’Connell, John Young, Assistant Professors:
Thomas Hothem, Douglas King, John Kupetz, Catherine Marsters, Penelope Smith,
Michael Tkach, Lecturers: Dennis Fletcher, Emmett Lombard, Sr. James Francis
Mulligan, S.S.J., Mary Wagner, Retired Professors: Edward B. Babowicz, Paul
J. DeSante, Walter Minot, John S. Rouch.
Mission Statement:
The Gannon University English Department inspires students to be informed readers and
seasoned writers. Guided by the belief that the study of language and literature enriches the
imagination, promotes lifelong learning, and enhances appreciation of diversity, it engages
students in ongoing critical and cultural debates whose implications extend beyond the
classroom.
Program Description:
The Department offers four different emphases for its majors: literature,
writing, applied communications, and English secondary education. All emphases
cultivate the student’s ability to write in a variety of genres for different
audiences and purposes. The Department also offers students a variety of
internships, and a 3-3 program in legal studies with Duquesne University, and
features student-run publications such as the Gannon Knight (the university
newspaper) and Totem (a literary magazine). Whether they seek careers in
education, publishing, journalism, media, public relations, government,
business, industry or law, Gannon English Majors acquire the scholarly focus,
broad preparation and intellectual awareness that form the basis of an intensive
liberal arts education.
A major in this program requires 12 upper level courses including the Senior Research Project and Oral Exam (ENGL 400); this totals 36 credits.
LENG 111, LENG 112, and LENG 247 are normally prerequisites for upper level literature courses; for advanced writing courses, only LENG 111 and LENG 112 are prerequisite.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS:
LENG 111, 112, 241, 243, 245, 247, 255are courses taught by the
English Department. See the section on Core of Discovery for course descriptions
of these courses.
ENGL 210: Creative Writing
An introductory course providing instruction and practice in the techniques and
principles of writing poetry and short fiction.
3 credits
ENGL 211: Advanced Composition
A rhetorical approach to problems of written communication. Although primary
stress will be on developing the student’s writing ability, knowledge of
rhetorical theory and of critical norms for prose will be required.
3 credits
ENGL 212: Business and Professional Communications
A detailed study of the various methods of communication used in the
professions, business, and industry, for audiences both within and outside the
organization. Numerous written exercises. (This course is also listed as BCOR
231).
3 credits
ENGL 213: Technical Writing
The communication of technical information in business, the sciences, and the
social sciences to specialist or non-specialist audiences. Emphasizes basic
principles and most commonly used report formats.
3 credits
ENGL 214: Writing for News Media
This course introduces new students to the basics of journalistic reporting and writing.
Students will get practice in how to identify, gather, and write news. The course should help
students who want to work for newspapers and magazines as well as for broadcast and
online media. The class includes a three-hour writing and reporting lab. This course is a
prerequisite for ENGL 215 and ENGL 216.
Prerequisite: LENG 111, 112
4 credits
ENGL 215: Editing for the Print Media
The course introduces students to the production of printed material, whether
for newspaper, magazines, advertising, in-house publications, brochures, books,
or anything else on paper.
Prerequisite: ENGL 214
3 credits
ENGL 216: Advanced and Specialized Reporting
This course is a workshop in advanced reporting, especially of features, news-features and indepth
coverage. It includes writing such articles as profiles and trend stories and for specialized
sections, including editorials. Students will have an opportunity to pursue coverage of such
specialized areas of interest as technology, sports, entertainment, business, and science.
Prerequisite: ENGL 214
3 credits
ENGL 217: Introduction to Linguistics
An introduction to the basic concepts of linguistics with an emphasis on both
theory and application of linguistic principles. Topics include origin,
structure, morphology, syntax, dialects, oral, and written language.
3 credits
ENGL 225: Special Topics
1 credit
ENGL 250: Introduction to Photography and Photojournalism
Taking effective and well-composed photographs; using the 35mm camera, its
lenses, filters, and flash; developing black and white film; printing artistic
enlargements.
3 credits
ENGL 251: Photography Lab
0 credit
ENGL 301: Workshop: Special Topics in Writing
Specialized forms of writing in a workshop format for advanced writing.
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 or 211
3 credits
ENGL 311: Advanced Prose Style
An advanced writing course with emphasis on style: sentences, words, metaphors,
and other fine points.
Prerequisites: ENGL 210, 211, 212, 213, 214 or 216
3 credits
ENGL 312: Poetry Writing Workshop
An advanced seminar and workshop focusing on student’s original poetic
composition. Prerequisite: ENGL 210 or permission of instructor.
3 credits
ENGL 313: Fiction Writing Workshop
An advanced seminar and workshop focusing on student’s original composition of
short fiction. Prerequisite: ENGL 210 or permission of instructor.
3 credits
ENGL 321: Literature For Young Adults
A study of distinguished literature for young adults and of the historical
development and current trends in adolescent literature.
3 credits
ENGL 331: American Literature to 1865
American prose and poetry to 1865. Major figures include Taylor, Edwards,
Franklin, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, and Thoreau.
3 credits
ENGL 332: American Literature, 1865 to 1914
American prose and poetry from the Civil War to World War I. Major figures
include Whitman, Twain, James, Dickinson, Crane, Dreiser.
3 credits
ENGL 333: American Literature, 1915 to 1945
American prose, poetry and drama between the World Wars. Major figures include
Frost, Hemingway, O’Neill, Faulkner.
3 credits
ENGL 334: American Literature after 1945
American prose and poetry from WW II to the present. Major figures include
Arthur Miller, Ralph Ellison, Sylvia Plath, Flannery O’Connor, Toni Morrison,
and Thomas Pynchon.
3 credits
ENGL 341: British Literature: Medieval and Renaissance
The dramatic and non-dramatic literature of the Medieval Period and non-dramatic
literature of the Renaissance, with emphasis on the works of Chaucer, More,
Sidney, Spenser, Milton, Donne, and Jonson.
3 credits
ENGL 342: British Literature: Classic and Romantic
The major writers involved in the shift from classicism to romanticism, with
emphasis on Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Swift, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and
Keats.
3 credits
ENGL 343: British Literature: Victorian and Modern
Major writers of the Victorian and Modern periods, with emphasis on Dickens,
Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, and Rhys.
3 credits
ENGL 350: Drama of Shakespeare
An historical-critical approach to selected plays in terms of the intellectual
assumptions, native traditions, and theatrical conventions of the
Elizabethan-Jacobean periods.
3 credits
ENGL 352: Modern/Contemporary Drama
A critical approach to significant drama from Ibsen to the present and to the
intellectual forces and assumptions that contribute to their development.
3 credits
ENGL 362: History of the English Language
Phonological and morphological development of Modern English from the
Indo-European period. Methodology of historical linguistics.
3 credits
ENGL 363: The Structure of English
Rationale and application of transformational grammar to linguistic and
stylistic analysis.
3 credits
ENGL 371: Mass Media and Popular Culture
This course covers the history, organization and management of mass media. It
also covers the concepts and theories of popular culture and mass media,
including advertising and public relations as well as news organizations. It
examines critical approaches to newspapers, magazines and broadcast and online
media as sources of information and entertainment. Among its focuses are the
ethical and legal issues faced by news organizations.
3 credits
ENGL 372: Public Relations
Strategies and communication tools of public relations as a link between an
institution and its external and internal public. Cross-listed with ADVC 372.
3 credits
ENGL 375: English Practicum
A semester-long internship providing field experience in areas related to the
student’s concentration. Students may use no more than 6 practicum credits
toward graduation requirement.
1-6 credits
ENGL 376: Journalism Practicum
A semester-long practicum in which the student works in an editorial capacity
for a campus or professional medium.
0 credits
ENGL 381: Literary Criticism
Historical and analytical study of critical theory isolating the central
critical problems and evaluating some answers that theorists and critics have
provided.
3 credits
ENGL 386: Modern Poetry
An aesthetic and historical survey of poetry from Whitman to the present,
including multicultural selections.
3 credits
ENGL 389: Methods of Teaching English
Cross listed as EDCR 325, methods of teaching literature, writing, critical
reading, and grammar in the classroom. Replaces EDCR 324 for English secondary
education students only. Prerequisites: EDCR 101, 103, 330
3 credits
ENGL 390-394: Special Topics
1-3 credits
ENGL 395-398: Independent Study
1-3 credits
ENGL 400: Senior Research Project and Oral Exam
3 credits
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English Curriculum
(Numerals in front of courses indicate credits)
| FRESHMAN |
| Fall Semester |
| Spring
Semester |
| 3 | College Composition/LENG 111 |
| 3 | Modern Language |
| 3 | Hist of West & World/LHST 111 |
| 3 | Psychology/PSYC 111 |
| 3 | Invitation to Philosophy/LPHI 231 |
| 15 | Credits |
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| 3 | Crit. Analysis & Comp/LENG 112 |
| 3 | Modern Language |
| 3 | Sacred Scriptures/LTHE 121 |
| 3 | Sociology/SOCI 110 |
| 3 | LS Science |
| 15 | Credits |
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| SOPHOMORE |
| Fall Semester |
| Spring
Semester |
| 3 | Literature Series/LENG |
| 3 | Theology Series II/LTHE |
| 3 | Elective |
| 3 | Math |
| 3 | US History/HIST 121 or English Hist/HIST 241 or US Government/POLI 111 or Public Policy/POLI 122
or Minority Groups/SOCI 230 |
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| 15 | Credits |
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| 3 | Literature Level 300/ENGL 3XX |
| 3 | Philosophy Series II/LPHI |
| 3 | Speech/SPCH 111 |
| 3 | Fine Art Series/LFIN |
| 3 | Linguistics/ENGL 217 |
| 3 | US History/HIST 122 or English Hist/HIST 242 or US Government/POLI 111 or Public Policy/POLI 122
or Minority Groups/SOCI 230 |
| 18 | Credits |
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| JUNIOR |
| Fall Semester |
| Spring
Semester |
| 3 | Theology or Phil Series III/LTHE 227 or LPHI 237 |
| 3 | ENGL 200-level writing |
| 3 | ENGL 300-level literature |
| 3 | Speech/SPCH 313 |
| 3 | Cognates |
| 3 | Electives |
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| 18 | Credits |
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| 3 | Mgmt/BCOR 251 or Psych/PSYC 211or Mrkt/BCOR 241 |
| 3 | ENGL 353 or ENGL 362 or ENGL 363 or ENGL 371 or ENGL 381 or ENGL 300-level linguistics |
| 3 | ENGL 300-level literature |
| 3 | English Track |
| 6 | Electives |
| 18 | Credits |
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| SENIOR |
| Fall Semester |
| Spring
Semester |
| 3 | ENGL 300-level literature |
| 3 | English Track |
| 3 | Cognates |
| 6 | Electives |
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| 15 | Credits |
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| 3 | ENGL 300-level literature |
| 3 | ENGL 400 Senior Project |
| 3 | English Track |
| 3 | Cognates |
| 2 | Electives |
| 14 | Credits |
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*Cognate Subjects: Cognates include all courses in the humanities or social
sciences, or those courses directly related to the student’s career goal. In
all cases, however, the student must have the permission of his advisor in
selecting cognate subject.
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AREAS OF EMPHASIS: each student must choose three courses (9 credits) in one area: these courses are in addition to those taken to satisfy major requirements.
Literature Track (9 credits):
3 ENGL 300-level literature courses, ENGL 381 is required.
Writing Track (9 credits):
3 ENGL 200- or ENGL 300-level writing courses (could include ENGL 372).
Applied Communications Track (9 credits):
3 courses from among the following: ENGL 250, ENGL 371, ENGL 372, ENGL 215,
ENGL
362, ENGL 363, or other linguistics course.
Secondary Education Track (9 credits):
ENGL 321, ENGL 371, and ENGL 381.
ENGLISH MINOR
A minor in English will consist of 18 hours other than the Core of Discovery
required courses. At least 3 of the credits will be in literature, 3 credits in linguistics and 3 credits
in writing. the remaining hours will be in any ENGL designated credits.
JOURNALISM MINOR
A minor in Journalism will consist of 16 credits.
Required:
ENGL 214 Writing for News Media
ENGL 215 Editing for Print Media
ENGL 371 Mass Media and Popular Culture
ENGL 376 Journalism Practicum
Plus six credits of electives with advisor’s approval.
The Gannon University – Duquesne School of Law, 3+3 Early Admissions Program has
been designed for qualified students to earn an undergraduate and a law degree
in six years rather than seven. Under the early admissions program students may
receive a Bachelors Degree in English after three years of undergraduate work
and the successful completion of the first year of full time study at the
Duquesne School of Law. The student would then receive their Law Degree after
successful completion of the second year at Duquesne School of Law. Qualified
students may wish to pursue this option.
THE NEXT STEP
Baccalaureate Degree Program for Graduates of Two Year Colleges
English
(Numerals in front of courses indicate credits)
| Pre-Senior Year |
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Senior Year
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| 3 | Intro to Lit/LENG 247 |
| 3 | Invitation to Philosophy/LPHI 231 |
| 3 | Sacred Scriptures/LTHE 121 |
| 6 | U.S. History/HIST 221 or 222 or English History/HIST 241 or 242 or U.S. Govt/POLI 111 or Public Policy POLI 122 or Minority Groups/SOCI 230 |
| 3 | ENGL 200- or ENGL 300-level writing course |
| 3 | ENGL 362, ENGL 363, or ENGL 300-level linguistics course |
| 6 | ENGL 300-level literature course |
| 3 | Intro to Linguistics/ENGL 217 |
| 30 | Credits |
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| 6 | Foreign Language |
| 3 | Fine Art Series |
| 3 | ENGL 400 Senior Project |
| 3 | Theology or Phil Series III/LTHE or LPHI |
| 9 | ENGL 300-level literature courses |
| 6 | English Track |
| 1 | Elective or cognate |
| 3 | ENGL 200 or 300 level elective |
| 34 | Credits |
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Students will be permitted to take other courses in substitution for any of the
courses listed above which they have satisfactorily completed prior to admission
to this program. Students will be required to complete 18 credits in the Core of
Discovery Program at Gannon.
All students graduating from the College of Humanities must have completed six
credits of a Modern Foreign Language.
Prerequisite:
Introductory Literature course (in lieu of LENG 241, 243, or 247).
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