A first-year writing and critical thinking skills development course introducing the conventions of academic argumentation. The course focuses on the study of genre conventions and rhetorical contexts of academic writing and the practice of composing arguments that respond to specific rhetorical situations. A process-based approach to writing, critical thinking, and self-reflection and analysis is emphasized in a collaborative workshop setting.
3.0 Credits

This course provides a review of grammar and punctuation principles that prepares students for stronger academic and professional writing. It is conducted as a workshop. Pass/Fail grading.
1.0 Credits

An introduction to fiction, poetry, and drama, to techniques of literary interpretations and analysis, and to literary criticism and research.
3.0 Credits

A course introducing students to the genre of science fiction and fantasy. (P: ENG 101).
3.0 Credits

This course is a survey of major British authors—poets and prose writers—from the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) to the Romantic periods. As such, it provides an extensive and representational sampling of writing from the period ranging from c. 450-1800 C.E. and familiarizes students with the variety literary genres that dominated this time frame. This course ends with 18th-century literature; ENG 220 covers 19th- and 20th-century literature. These two survey courses provide the historical framework within which literary works can be understood. (P: ENG 101)
3.0 Credits

Creative nonfiction is a technical course treating the theoretical and practical aspects of various genres of magazine writing and creative nonfiction such as the personal essay, travel writing, biography, autobiography, the memoir, and literary journalism. (P: ENG 101 or permission of the instructor).
3.0 Credits

This course is a survey of major British authors—poets and prose writers—from the Romanticism to Contemporary periods. As such, it provides an extensive and representational sampling of writing from the period ranging from 1789-2021 C.E. and familiarizes students with the variety literary genres that dominated this time frame. This course also parallels the historical, philosophical, artistic, religious, sociological, and political developments of British culture by exploring the literary recordings of the human spirit from the Romantic Age to the present day, by authors living in the “British” Isles: England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. (P: ENG 101)
3.0 Credits

A hybrid course of equal parts analysis, research, and performance intended to simultaneously highlight some of the Bard’s lesser-known (to scholars and actors alike) while helping students develop critical and creative thinking, scholarly writing skills, and performance technique. This course fulfills Thiel College’s creative core requirement. (P: ENG 101).
3.0 Credits