2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Department of English
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544 O’DOWD HALL
(248) 370-2250
Fax: (248) 370-4429
Department website
Chairperson: Kevin Laam
Distinguished professors emeriti:Jane D. Eberwein, Robert T. Eberwein, Edward Haworth Hoeppner
Professors emeriti: Brian Connery, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Daniel Fullmer, Nigel Hampton, James F. Hoyle, Nancy Joseph, David W. Mascitelli, Donald E. Morse, Brian F. Murphy, Joan G. Rosen, William Schwab
Professors: Natalie Bell Cole, Andrea Eis, Graeme Harper, Niels Herold, Kathleen A. Pfeiffer
Associate professors: Robert F. Anderson, Jeffrey Chapman, Kyle Edwards, Joanne Lipson Freed, Annette M. Gilson, Adam Gould, Kevin T. Grimm, Jeffrey Insko, Andrea Knutson, Brendan Kredell, Kevin Laam, L. Bailey McDaniel, Davis Shaerf, Amanda Stearns-Pfeiffer, M. Hunter Vaughan
Assistant professors: Timothy Donahue, Katie Hartsock, Bridget Kies, Susan McCarty, Megan Peiser, Alison W. Powell, Justin Reifert, Annie Sullivan
Visiting assistant professor: Julia Yezbick
Special instructor: Rachel Smydra
Special lecturers and lecturers: Christopher Apap, Kevin Ball, Susan Beckwith, Jonathan Chappell, Jennifer Gower-Toms, Nathan Koob, Peter Markus, Charlene Meyers, Doris Plantus, Amy Pollard, Kaelie Thompson
English adviser: Robert F. Anderson
STEP adviser: Amanda Stearns-Pfeiffer
Creative writing director: Annette M. Gilson
Creative writing adviser: Annette M. Gilson
Film director: Andrea Eis
Film adviser: Andrea Eis
The Department of English offers undergraduate degree programs in English, Creative Writing, and Film. For complete details concerning the English, B.A., the Creative Writing, B.A., or the Film, B.A. programs, click on the appropriate link. The Department encourages majors to balance their programs with such concentrations as American Studies or Linguistics, or minors or second majors in other disciplines.
The English B.A. program offers courses in British, American, and other Anglophone literatures, introducing students to literary history, genre studies, critical theory, and intensive study of major authors. By majoring in English, students can enhance appreciation of literary texts, gain critical understanding of imaginative writing, and develop sensitivity to the uses of language while developing skills in analysis, research, and communication. Such knowledge enriches all aspects of life, while such skills prepare students for careers in law, business, publishing, medical professions, library science, journalism, government, and education. The English curriculum is flexible; by seeking regular departmental advice and pursuing internship opportunities offered by the department, English students can plan a program leading to many different personal, professional, and academic goals. Through the Secondary Teacher Education Program (STEP), students earn an English B.A. while completing their program leading to recommendation for teacher certification.
The Creative Writing B.A. is designed to help students develop their writing skills and to introduce them to literature and dramatic forms in the genres that interest them. To that end, we offer students a wide variety of workshop courses in the genres of fiction, poetry, dramatic writing, and literary nonfiction. The small size of the workshop classes allows students to present their writing to fellow students for critique in a supportive environment, and also trains them to offer feedback to their fellow writers. Students specialize in one of four genre tracks and take introductory, intermediate, and advanced workshops in that genre, but are also encouraged to explore other genres so that they can experiment with the different conventions that inform each of the modes of creative writing. Students are also required to take a variety of literature and film classes to develop their analytical skills and to introduce them to contemporary work in their focal genre. Through both writing and reading classes, students emerge with a nuanced sense of their own voices, and through the many internships we offer with businesses, nonprofits, and literary journals, students also gain practical experience that allows them to go on to careers wherein they use their writing skills in a wide variety of professional settings. Many alumni also go on to do M.F.A.s and Ph.D.s in creative writing, and are well-prepared to do advanced work in this competitive field.
Film at Oakland University is dedicated to interdisciplinary and creative investigations of how moving image works are produced, experienced, and valued in our culture and around the world. Film students work closely with OU faculty to gain a thorough understanding of film history, critical approaches to film, and filmmaking. Students choose either the B.A. in Film, with its focus on a critical studies perspective, or the B.A. in Film with a Specialization in Filmmaking. These wide-ranging and intensive programs, along with a variety of internship opportunities, will provide Film majors and minors with the critical-thinking, communication, and production skills to enter careers within the film industry and a variety of other professions. In addition, students will be well prepared to pursue cinema studies or other academic disciplines at the graduate level.
For a description of each semester’s course offerings, students should consult the ”Semester Course Descriptions,” available in pre-registration periods through the department’s web site. Faculty advisers provide specific guidance and help students develop comprehensive educational plans. Students should consult their advisers regularly.
Listed are undergraduate programs of study leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in English, a secondary education major in English (STEP), a modified major in English with a Linguistics concentration, a major in Creative Writing, a major in Film, as well as liberal arts minors in English, English in secondary teaching, Creative Writing, and in Film. In addition, the Department offers a program leading to the Master of Arts degree in English; the program and course offerings are described in the online Oakland University Graduate Catalog.
Departmental honors and scholarships
Program honors may be awarded to graduating majors for outstanding achievement in their respective fields.
The department awards several scholarships, including: the Doris J. Dressler Scholarship to an English or humanities major (junior year or beyond) demonstrating academic promise and financial need; the Roger M. and Helen Kyes Scholarship to an outstanding English major; the Eva L. Otto Scholarship for an outstanding nontraditional student majoring in English or other humanities area; and the Jenna Elyse Balabuch Memorial Study-Abroad Award, for English majors planning to study abroad. Information is available in the department office. The deadline for applications will normally be April 1.
Schedule of classes
Specific offerings for each semester may be found in the Schedule of Classes.
Programs- American Studies Concentration
- Creative Writing Minor
- Creative Writing, B.A., Specialization in Fiction
- Creative Writing, B.A., Specialization in Literary Nonfiction
- Creative Writing, B.A., Specialization in Poetry
- Creative Writing, B.A., Specialization in Screenwriting
- English Minor
- English Secondary Teaching Minor
- English, B.A.
- English, B.A. to M.A
- English, STEP
- Film Minor
- Film Production, B.A.
- Film, B.A.
Courses- AMS 3000 - Topics in American Culture
- AMS 4998 - Senior Project
- CIN 1150 - Introduction to Film
- CIN 1600 - Introduction to Filmmaking
- CIN 2100 - Film and Formal Analysis
- CIN 2150 - Methods of Screen Criticism
- CIN 2320 - Masterpieces of World Cinema
- CIN 2600 - Form and Meaning in Filmmaking
- CIN 3150 - Film Theory and Criticism
- CIN 3200 - History of Film: The Silent Era
- CIN 3210 - History of Film: The Sound Era to 1958
- CIN 3220 - History of Film: The New Wave and Beyond
- CIN 3230 - History of Film: Into the 21st Century
- CIN 3300 - Studies in Documentary Film
- CIN 3305 - Adaptation: Fiction, Drama, Film
- CIN 3310 - Experimental and Avant-Garde Film
- CIN 3320 - National Cinemas and Film Cultures
- CIN 3330 - Understanding Media Industries
- CIN 3610 - Documentary Filmmaking
- CIN 3620 - Narrative Filmmaking
- CIN 3630 - Experimental Filmmaking
- CIN 3640 - Design, Motion, Effects
- CIN 3650 - Essay Filmmaking
- CIN 3660 - Short Form Filmmaking
- CIN 3900 - Topics in Film History, Industry, and Technology
- CIN 3901 - Topics in Film Genres
- CIN 3902 - Topics in Film Authors, Authorship, and Aesthetics
- CIN 3905 - Topics in Film
- CIN 3906 - Topics in Filmmaking
- CIN 4900 - Advanced Topics in Film
- CIN 4901 - Advanced Topics in Film Theory
- CIN 4910 - Study Abroad
- CIN 4930 - Field Internship in Cinema Studies
- CIN 4996 - Independent Study
- CIN 4999 - Filmmaking Thesis
- CW 2100 - Introduction to Prose and Poetry Writing
- CW 2400 - Intro to Screen/TV Writing
- CW 2500 - Intro to Literary Nonfiction
- CW 3200 - Workshop in Fiction
- CW 3300 - Workshop in Poetry
- CW 3400 - Screenwriting
- CW 3450 - Writing for Television
- CW 3500 - Workshop Literary Nonfiction
- CW 3600 - Playwriting
- CW 3800 - Editing and Publishing a Literary Journal
- CW 4200 - Advanced Workshop in Fiction
- CW 4300 - Advanced Workshop in Poetry
- CW 4400 - Advanced Screenwriting
- CW 4450 - Advanced Television Writing
- CW 4500 - Advanced Workshop Literary Nonfiction
- CW 4600 - Advanced Playwriting
- CW 4950 - Internship
- CW 4996 - Independent Study
- ENG 1300 - Introduction to Shakespeare
- ENG 1500 - Literature of Ethnic America
- ENG 1700 - Modern/Contemporary Literature
- ENG 1800 - World Literature
- ENG 2100 - Introduction to Literary Studies
- ENG 2110 - Fundamentals of Grammar
- ENG 2300 - British Literature
- ENG 2500 - American Literature
- ENG 2600 - Modes of Self-Narrative
- ENG 2900 - Topics in Literature and Language
- ENG 3100 - History of the English Language
- ENG 3110 - Advanced Critical Writing
- ENG 3200 - British Medieval Literature
- ENG 3210 - British Literature of the Renaissance
- ENG 3220 - British Literature of the Restoration and 18th Century
- ENG 3230 - British Literature of the Romantic Period
- ENG 3240 - British Literature from the Victorian Period to the Early 20th Century
- ENG 3250 - British and Commonwealth Literature since 1900
- ENG 3300 - Chaucer
- ENG 3310 - Shakespeare
- ENG 3320 - Milton
- ENG 3330 - The English Novel
- ENG 3400 - Early American Literature
- ENG 3410 - American Literature 1820-1865
- ENG 3420 - American Literature 1865-1920
- ENG 3430 - American Literature 1920-1950
- ENG 3440 - American Literature 1950 to the Present
- ENG 3510 - Selected Ethnic Literature
- ENG 3520 - African American Literature
- ENG 3600 - Fiction
- ENG 3610 - Poetry
- ENG 3620 - Drama
- ENG 3630 - Studies in Literary Mode
- ENG 3640 - Biography
- ENG 3650 - The Bible as Literature
- ENG 3660 - Classical Mythology
- ENG 3675 - Adaptation: Fiction, Drama, Film
- ENG 3680 - Literary Theory
- ENG 3690 - Literary Nonfiction
- ENG 3700 - Modern Fiction
- ENG 3705 - Contemporary Fiction
- ENG 3710 - Modern Poetry
- ENG 3715 - Contemporary Poetry
- ENG 3720 - Modern Drama
- ENG 3800 - Postcolonial Literature
- ENG 3810 - Irish Literature
- ENG 3900 - Special Topics in Literature and Language
- ENG 3901 - Studies in Literary Nonfiction
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