Julie Bowman

Synthesis-focused course that builds on ENL 101. Students sharpen analytical skills by reading complex texts across public and academic genres. Students also create individual research questions, build college-level research skills, compose sophisticated syntheses, and revise their own argumentative, academic contributions to a defined conversation. Students leave the course prepared for intermediate reading and writing tasks in a broad variety of disciplines as well as with improved research skills and the reflective habits of successful, life-long learners.

A course emphasizing the development of skill in organizing materials, the formation of a lively and concrete style and an authentic personal voice, and the growth of useful techniques in the arts of exposition, persuasion, and argumentation.

An exploration of literary works, themes, and genres of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course situates early modern poetry, prose, and drama within a specific topical and/or theoretical focus such as "Imagining the Body in Early Modern England" and "Saints and Sinners on the Early English Stage." Writers may include Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, Herbert, Marlowe, Jonson, Milton, Dryden, and Behn.