Matthew Lessig, chair
Old Main, Room 112

607-753-4307
Fax: 607-753-5978
Email: molly.mcgowan@cortland.edu
cortland.edu/english

School

Arts and Sciences

Faculty

Karla Alwes, Ross Borden, Victoria Boynton, Tyler Bradway, Debra Brown (Coordinator, AEN), Laura Davies, Bernie Earley, Tim Emerson, David Franke, Alexander Gonzalez, Andrea Harbin, Mario Hernandez, Sarah Hobson, Denise D. Knight, John Leffel, Christine Lemchak, Matthew Lessig, Gailanne Mackenzie, Noralyn Masselink, Emmanuel Nelson, Lisa Neville, Robert Patterson, Jaclyn Pittsley, Deborah Rogers, Linda Rosekrans, Cynthia Sarver,  Karen Stearns, E. Kim Stone, Laureen Wells, Anne Wiegard

Adjunct Faculty

For a listing of adjunct faculty see the Faculty and Administration  section.

Programs Offered

Bachelor of Arts in English
Bachelor of Arts in Adolescence Education: English (7-12)
Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing

Majors Offered

English
Adolescence Education: English (7-12)
Professional Writing

Minors Offered

English with emphasis areas in:
    Literature
    Language and Literature
    Literature and Writing
Professional Writing

Description

English study involves an exploration of human values, their literary expression and the ways in which language and culture shape them. Courses in English are intended to help students read with understanding and enjoyment and write with skill and grace.

English Honors Program  

Students with junior standing who have a grade point average of at least 3.6 in courses taught by the English Department may pursue an honors program designed to stimulate independent work of a high critical and imaginative order. The program involves the "challenging for honors" in two 400-level courses and the writing of a senior thesis. Students may take any English Department 400-level class for honors credit, with approval of the instructor of the course.

Career Potential

• Editor
• Lawyer
• Teacher
• Administrator
• Business
• Librarian
• Writer
• Publisher

Requirements

1. Degree requirements  listed in this catalog apply to the majors offered by this department.
2. Liberal Arts Requirements: 90 credit hours. 

Programs

• Adolescence Education: English (7-12) [AEN]
• English [ENG]
• Professional Writing [PWRT]

• English: Minor with an Emphasis in Language and Literature [ENLL]
• English: Minor with an Emphasis in Literature and Writing [ENLW]
• English: Minor with an Emphasis in Literature [ENL]
• Professional Writing Minor [PWRT]

Courses

• AED 308 - Grammar and the Writing Process
• AED 309 - Participant-Observer Experience: Writing Process
• AED 310 - Writing in Social Studies
• AED 341 - Introduction to English Language Arts
• AED 376 - Student Teaching in English in the Middle School
• AED 377 - Student Teaching in English in the High School
• AED 378 - Student Teaching Colloquia
• AED 408 - Teaching Writing
• AED 409 - Participant-Observer Experience: Teaching Writing
• AED 441 - Methods of Teaching Literature and Critical Literacy

• CPN 100 - Writing Studies I
• CPN 101 - Writing Studies II
• CPN 102 - Writing Studies in the Community I
• CPN 103 - Writing Studies in the Community II

• ENG 200 - Introduction to Literature
• ENG 201 - Introduction to Language Study
• ENG 202 - Introduction to Fiction
• ENG 203 - Introduction to Poetry
• ENG 204 - Introduction to Drama
• ENG 208 - Introduction to Film Analysis
• ENG 220 - Introduction to Western Literature I
• ENG 221 - Introduction to Western Literature II
• ENG 229 - Special Topics in English
• ENG 250 - Introduction to Jewish Authors
• ENG 251 - Introduction to African-American Literature
• ENG 252 - Introduction to Modern American Multicultural Literature
• ENG 254 - Introduction to American Working-Class Literature
• ENG 256 - Introduction to American Indian Literature
• ENG 257 - Introduction to Irish Literature
• ENG 258 - Irish Women Writers
• ENG 260 - Literature of Sports
• ENG 261 - Introduction to Women in Literature
• ENG 262 - War in Literature
• ENG 263 - Ethical Issues in Literature
• ENG 278 - Introduction to Film and Short Fiction
• ENG 280 - Introduction to Mythology and the Bible
• ENG 302 - Writing About Literature
• ENG 305 - Film Criticism
• ENG 306 - Advanced Writing Workshop
• ENG 307 - New Media Literacies and ELA
• ENG 325 - American Literature Before 1900
• ENG 326 - American Literature Since 1900
• ENG 329 - Special Topics in English
• ENG 352 - Early African-American Literature
• ENG 355 - Major Figures in British Literature to 1780
• ENG 356 - Major Figures in British Literature 1780-Present
• ENG 373 - Literature for Children
• ENG 374 - Literature for Adolescence
• ENG 402 - Grammar
• ENG 407 - Study of English Language
• ENG 411 - World Literature
• ENG 417 - American Literature 1820-1865
• ENG 418 - American Literature 1865-1914
• ENG 419 - American Literature 1914-1945
• ENG 421 - African-American Autobiography
• ENG 422 - American Women Writers
• ENG 423 - Post-1945 American Literature
• ENG 425 - African-American Women Novelists
• ENG 429 - Special Topics in English
• ENG 430 - Authors, Movements, Scenes
• ENG 431 - Arthurian Literature
• ENG 432 - Topics in Medieval Literature
• ENG 433 - Shakespeare
• ENG 438 - Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose
• ENG 440 - Eighteenth-Century British Literature
• ENG 442 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
• ENG 445 - The Romantic Age
• ENG 455 - The English Novel to 1900
• ENG 456 - Modern Irish Drama
• ENG 457 - Modern Irish Fiction
• ENG 458 - Modern Irish Poetry
• ENG 470 - Modern British Poetry
• ENG 471 - The Modern English Novel
• ENG 475 - American Multicultural Literature
• ENG 477 - Contemporary Literature
• ENG 480 - Studies in Critical Theory
• ENG 481 - Genre Studies
• ENG 498 - Independent Study
• ENG 499 - Senior Thesis
• ENG 500 - Old English
• ENG 506 - Computers and the Study of English
• ENG 529 - Special Topics in English
• ENG 530 - Chaucer
• ENG 538 - Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
• ENG 539 - Milton
• ENG 547 - 19th Century British Women Writers
• ENG 548 - Studies in British Literature 1950-Present
• ENG 549 - Studies in Irish Literature

• PWR 210 - Writing in the Digital Age
• PWR 212 - Writing Fiction
• PWR 213 - Writing Poetry
• PWR 295 - Introduction to Professional Writing
• PWR 315 - Writing Creative Non-Fiction
• PWR 323 - Writing Children's Literature
• PWR 324 - Grant Writing
• PWR 340 - Writing Sports Literature
• PWR 393 - Technical Writing
• PWR 395 - Revising and Editing
• PWR 397 - Writing for Online Publication
• PWR 398 - Business Writing
• PWR 399 - Rhetoric