English

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Faculty

• Professors: Rebecca Laroche, Thomas J. Napierkowski, C. Kenneth Pellow, and Susan Taylor
• Professor Emeritus: Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky
• Professor Emerita: Joan Ray
• Associate Professor: Lesley Ginsberg (Chair)
• Assistant Professors: K. Alex Ilyasova (Director of Professional/Technical Writing Program), Katherine Mack, and Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega
• Senior Instructors: Cheryl Birkelo, Jamie Filpi, Susan Finger, Tony Friedhoff, Juliana Frost, Keri Hemenway, Julie Ann Hoffman, Kathleen Johnson, Cecile Malek, Quentin Martin,Melonie McMichael, William Myers, Meghan Tifft, and Sarah Treschl
• Instructors: Mia Alvarado, Gina Baldoni-Rus, Audrey Birkett, Erin Dalton, Elizabeth Edsen, Catherine Grandorff, Catherine Hartmann, Phillip Heasley, Chelsea Lawson, June Loterbauer, Ann O’Brien, Rebecca Posusta, Joshua Ritter, Christine Robinson, Kacey Ross, Benjamin Syn, Thomas Wahl, Andrea Wenker, and Rachelle Womack
• Director, Writing Across the Curriculum/Portfolio Assessment & Assistant Professor Attendant Rank: Michelle Neely

Programs of Study

• English, BA 
• English Literature Minor 
• English Rhetoric/Writing Minor 
• English Professional and Technical Writing Minor 
• English Creative Writing Minor 
• English Rhetoric and Writing Program 

English Department Academic Policies

Levels of Courses

Ordinarily, 1000 level courses are taken prior to 2000 level courses, and so on. Unless otherwise indicated, courses have general prerequisites as follows: for 2000 level courses, 24 prior college credits; for 3000 level courses, 30 college credits; for 4000 level courses, 45 college credits.

Prerequisite for All English Courses

Students must fulfill the ENGL 1310 requirement prior to taking any other English course beyond 1310. For all majors and all tracks, ENGL 2000 is a prerequisite for all other English courses. For English majors, ENGL 2010 is a prerequisite for all other literature courses offered through the Department of English. For non-majors, ENGL 1500 is a prerequisite for all 2000-level and non-major literature courses.

Graduate Course Offerings

In general, courses numbered 4000 may also be taken for graduate credit as a 5000 numbered course. See instructor for details. Courses numbered 5000 and 6000 are for graduate students only.

Honors at Graduation

To graduate with departmental honors in English, a student must compile a 3.75 grade point average in the major and compile a 3.5 grade point average overall.

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