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English department


Academics

Student conversation at the 2012 Writers' Retreat

Overview of the department

The English department offers three majors: linguistics, literature, and writing.

This handout summarizes the requirements for the linguistics, literature, and writing majors and also includes tables for converting old course numbers to new (and vice versa).

Internships

The Career Development page offers plenty of general information on internships.

You can search for a specific internship by logging into CalvinLink.


News and Events

Featured Courses (Fall 2012)

Check out some featured topical courses among English department offerings next fall:

Honors Cluster:
British Literature (ENGL 214) & Written Rhetoric (ENGL 101)
Written Rhetoric sections:
"Food Matters"
"Quests for God in the Movies"
"English 101 for Engineers"
Global Lit sections:
"Mostly Epic Adventures"
"Home and Exile"
Other Highlights:
"Ethnicity and American Literature"
"Understanding Literature / Environmental Literature"
"Film as a Narrative Art"
"J.R.R. Tolkien"
"The Novel"
"Poetry"

Information on any and all of these courses is available here.

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Books to Read

Brothers and Keepers

Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman. In this autobiographical work, Wideman attempts to make sense of how he and his brother—both raised in the same home in Pittsburgh—could have ended up in such different places in life, with Wideman as a professor and prolific author, his brother as a thief and murderer. This may not be the most uplifting of summer reads, but it is powerful. ~Shelly LeMahieu Dunn


Reviews

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