ENG 5960 - Senior Seminar

Goals: This course provides the capstone experience in the major. The goal of this course is to practice and polish previously learned skills and experiences to produce a textual analysis of article length and quality. This essay marks the student’s entrance into the profession as a participant in an on-going and dynamic conversation about specific works and the discipline as a whole.

Content: Varies from year to year. Recent examples: Twice-Told Tales; Salman Rushdie and Transnationalism; There is No Place Like Home: Literature of Exile; Slavery, Women and the Literary Imagination; Narratives of National Trauma; Propaganda and the Literature of Commitment; 20th Century Drama; Hard-Boiled Fiction; Hawthorne and “a Mob of Scribbling Women”; Renaissance Self-Fashioning; American Melancholy: Readings of Race, Sexuality and Performance Culture.

Taught: Fall and spring

Prerequisites: ENG 3020 and at least one 3000-level literature course and consent of instructor. Grade of C- or better required for said courses.

Credits: 4