The study of literature and language encourages clarity and originality of thought and expression and fosters the growth of individual moral and aesthetic judgment. Brescia English majors are employed in a variety of satisfying careers, including teaching, public relations, creative writing, college administration, business, library science, and law. English faculty sponsor the Ichabod Society, which organizes social and cultural events throughout the academic year, as well as a literary journal that publishes creative writing produced by Brescia University students.
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Eng 204: Introduction to Literature
An introduction to the principal forms of literature — fiction, poetry, and drama — through study of selected works.
Eng 300: Advanced Writing
Students review and polish writing skills and explore various forms of writing, including writing about self and others, social commentary, writing about education, sports, literature, film and television, and science and technology. Some assignments include research. Open to all students; especially recommended for students pursuing graduate or professional studies.
Eng 301-4: Creative Writing
Recommended for English majors and minors and anyone with an interest in producing creative writing. The focus of instruction is on techniques of fiction and poetry writing, but participants are encouraged to pursue whatever type of imaginative writing interests them, from songs to screenplays. The best writings produced each year appear in Brescia’s literary magazine, URSULA MAJOR.
Eng 306: Linguistics
An overview of the study of language, including such topics as the nature of human language, its grammatical aspects (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, writing), its social and historical aspects (dialect, slang, sexism), and its biological aspects (language acquisition, language and the brain). Designed chiefly to meet Kentucky secondary teacher certification, as a requirement for the ESL Teaching Endorsement, and as an elective in primary and middle school education programs with areas of emphasis in English or language arts. It may be taken as an elective by any interested student.
Eng 321: English Literature I
A chronological study of the major movements and authors of English literature from Old English poetry and prose through the major writers of the Eighteenth Century.
Eng 322: English Literature II
A chronological study of the major movements and authors of English literature from the Romantic era to Victorian and modern writers.
Eng 341: American Literature I
An introduction to the major American writers from the Puritans to the Civil War era.
Eng 342: American Literature II
An introduction to the major American writers from the Realists of the post-Civil War era to contemporary authors.
Eng 390: Advanced Grammar and Editing
This course reviews the basic sentence structure of the English language, the principles of sentence formation and combining, the basic rules for punctuation, and the standards for writing correct English prose. Students learn to edit their own writing with a goal to produce clear, correct prose.
Eng 432: Shakespeare
A thorough study of Shakespearean drama, including representative major histories, comedies, and tragedies. Consent of instructor generally required.
Eng 292: Introduction to Journalism
News, feature, and opinion writing; design and layout; production of Brescia Broadcast.
Eng 392: Advanced Journalism
Advanced news, feature, and opinion writing; production of the Brescia Broadcast.
Eng 498: Practicum
English majors and minors use their writing and organizational skills in a supervised work experience. Students work sixty (60) hours a semester at the location of their placement position. Students work an additional sixty (60) hours keeping a journal and portfolio of their experience, planning their job or graduate school search, and meeting with their faculty sponsor on a weekly basis.
Eng 413: World Novel
Masterpieces of the novel in translation including selections from such writers as Cervantes, Voltaire, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, and Solzhenitsyn.
Eng 428: Modern British Fiction
A course stressing the aesthetic and thematic developments of the British novel in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Authors include Hardy, Conrad, Lawrence, Woolf, Forster, and Waugh.
Eng 446: Modern American Fiction
This course explores and evaluates the fiction of major American authors from the late nineteenth century to the present, including such writers as James, Drieser, Cather, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Steinbeck.
Eng 448: Contemporary and Postmodern American Novel
Major American novelists from 1950 to the present.
Eng 490: Classical Literature
A study of major writings in translation from the Ancient World through the Middle Ages, including Greek and Roman dramatists, Homer and Dante.
Eng 495: Modern World Literature
A survey of the major literary developments of the twentieth century, including such writers as Eliot, Pirandello, Kafka, Silone, Camus, and Mann.
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Jamie Alvey
Assistant Professor of English
Walter Bosse
Associate Professor of English
Molly Jasper
Assistant Professor of English