Overview
If you love reading literature, or if you love to write, or if you’re fascinated with the origins of the English language, then you should pursue a degree in English. 这个项目提供了广泛的接触文学、历史和英语文化的机会. You will learn critical thinking skills as well as how to write clearly, persuasively, and creatively. 在大湾的英语学位可以帮助你把你对文学的热爱和你的创造才能转化为一个成功的学术生涯和一个解决现实问题的充实的未来.
Why Great Bay?
大湾大学的英语课程在选修课上提供了很大的灵活性. After completing the basic degree requirements, you’ll be able to focus your studies on literature, writing, film, and the humanities. 其他项目的亮点包括我们的小型讨论和研究型课程,以及完成实习的机会. 大湾英语系目前是新罕布什尔州唯一一所提供人文学科实习的社区学院.
Career Options
- Teacher
- Writer
- Publisher
- Editor
- Communications specialist
- Government consultant
- Lawyer
- Business executive
Related Degrees
Internships
GBCC students enrolled in English, 人文和文科可以注册英语289:人文实习(春季学期开设). 这门3学分的课程旨在为人文专业的学生提供一个写作的机会, communication, critical thinking, creative, 并将他们在课程中培养的协作技能运用到与人文相关的工作中. 学生们将探索“我可以用我的人文学科学位做什么”这个问题的答案?,同时在一个学期的实习项目中专注于种族和/或社会正义方面的工作.
Interested students should contact Dr. Emily M. Hinnov ([email protected]) or Prof. Cindy Walton ([email protected]) for eligibility requirements.
Curriculum Outline
The classes and coursework required is as follows:
First Year: Fall Semester
Course ID | Course | Theory | Lab | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
ENGL110G / 111G | College Composition I / College Comp with Lab | 4 | 0/2 | 4/5 |
CRIT150G | Critical Thinking in the Humanities | 3 | 0 | 3 |
MATH145G / 147G | 4/5 | 0 | 4/5 | |
Or higher in the Applied Math / Statistics Pathway | ||||
English Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
100 Level English Elective, except ENGL117 | ||||
Total Credits | 14 / 16 |
First Year: Spring Semester
Course ID | Course | Theory | Lab | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
ENGL214G | Introduction to Creative Nonfiction | 3 | 0 | 3 |
MATH 225G, 215G or 170G | Math Elective | 4 | ||
ENGL127G | Introduction to Literary Analysis | 3 | 0 | 3 |
200 Level Survey Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
ENGL Survey Course electives choices are ENGL209G, American Literature through the Civil War, ENGL220G, American Literature after the Civil War, ENGL223G British Literature to 1800, and ENGL224G, British Literature from 1800 to the Present. | ||||
Total Credits | 13 |
First Year: Summer Semester
Course ID | Course | Theory | Lab | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Social Science Elective | 3 | 0 | 3-4 | |
Total Credits | 3-4 |
Second Year: Fall Semester
Course ID | Course | Theory | Lab | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
ENGL2XXG | 200 Level Survey Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 |
ENGL2XXG | 200 Level English Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Lab Science Elective | 3 | 2/3 | 4 | |
Social Science Elective | 3 | 0 | 3-4 | |
Foreign Language/Humanities/Fine Arts Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
Total Credits | 16-17 |
Second Year: Spring Semester
Course ID | Course | Theory | Lab | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
ENGL2XXG | 200 Level Survey Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 |
ENGL2XXG | 200 Level English Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 |
ENGL289G or 2XXG | Internship in the Humanities or 200 Level English Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Social Science Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
Lab Science Elective | 3 | 2/3 | 4 | |
Total Credits | 16 |
Total Overall Credits: 62 – 64
Program Outcomes
获得英语副学士学位的学生将能够:
• Understand a comprehensive variety of stylistic periods and genres, as well as the scope and significance of literature written in English.
•运用不同的理论方法在广泛的人类经验范围内研究和分析文学和语言,培养分析和解释的技能.
• Examine how texts are written and received within literary, cultural, 和社会历史背景,同时认识到文学和语言反映和影响文化变革.
• Develop the ability to write effectively, persuasively, and analytically for a wide range of audiences.
•有资格转学到四年制学院或大学,具备必要的英语和/或相关领域的基础,如写作, History, the Humanities, or Political Science.
In-Depth Description
The English 在大湾的主要包括广泛的文学时期,风格和体裁的研究. The requirements provide students with a broad background in American, British, and continental literature written in English, 以及对文学进行严肃的学术研究所必需的分析工具和技巧. 学生可以通过他们的专业选修课来追求专业的文学或写作兴趣. 该计划为在四年制学院和大学进一步学习英语和人文学科提供了坚实的基础.
An English associate degree emphasizes solid, 为热爱文学和语言、探索和发展复杂思想的学生提供适应性强的沟通技巧. The English major also builds important research, writing, 以及批判性思维技能,这些技能转化为在各种领域有价值的工作贡献. Specific career areas may include: teaching, writing, communications, editing, publishing, journalism, education, and the law.
建议学生在第一学期选修以下课程:
- ENGL110G/111G: College Composition I / with Lab
- CRIT150: Critical Thinking
- An introductory literature course (such as ENGL114G: Introduction to Poetry, ENGL115G: Introduction to Film Studies, or ENGL120G: Introduction to African American Literature and Culture)
建议学生在第二学期选修以下课程:
- ENGL127G: Introduction to Literary Analysis
Students are also encouraged to make Lab Science, Math, Humanities/Foreign Language/Fine Arts, 和社会科学选修选择,基于特定的四年制大学转学要求和通识教育核心.
Transfer Opportunities
We offer transfer articulation agreements with UNH to the B.A. in English, English Literature, and Journalism.
What’s New
Faculty Scholarship
Dr. Hinnov他以前的出版物包括各种现代主义作家和艺术家的期刊文章和书籍章节, as well as teaching college composition. Her monograph, Encountering Choran Community: Literary Modernism, Visual Culture, and Political Aesthetics in the Interwar Years, was published by Susquehanna University Press in 2009. 她过去还发表过其他几篇文章,主题包括蒂娜·莫多蒂(Tina Modotti)的母亲照片, 到哈莱姆文艺复兴时期作家伊莉斯·约翰逊·麦克杜戈尔德和玛丽塔·奥的作品. Bonner, 罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森作品中性别和作者身份的表现, to the experience of being a Generation X academic.
她的第二本书计划是与劳雷尔·哈里斯和劳伦·M. Rosenblum called 公共现代主义:21世纪课堂中的20世纪文学与文化教学 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Another chapter, “Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Hannah Höch, Marita O. Bonner, and Nella Larsen,” was published in a collection titled Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English (edited by Janine M. Utell) for the MLA Options for Teaching Series in June of 2021.
她的文章是关于二战时期弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫作品中的女权主义抵抗, Jessica Dismorr, and Elizabeth Bowen, which she presented at the 2022 virtual Woolf conference, will be published in the Selected Papers from the International Conference on Virginia Woolf in 2024. A shorter essay. 《冰球突破豪华版试玩》发表在该杂志上 Feminist Modernist Studies in February 2023.
Additionally, Dr. 欣诺夫很高兴能主持她为国际弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫协会组织的一个名为“伍尔夫的21世纪学术界”的小组讨论,” which was presented remotely at the MLA annual convention in Washington, DC in January 2022. 最近,她为该杂志客座编辑了这一主题的特刊 Virginia Woolf Miscellany, which will appear in 2024. 这一系列文章提出了一种新的教育学,它为我们打开了前进的可能途径——无论是从不稳定的地方还是特权的位置——设想一种新的高等教育,这是伍尔夫在1938年首次提出的.
Finally, Dr. 欣诺夫参加了她第二周的暑期课程——这一次是在克莱尔霍尔学院的“弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的女人”, Cambridge University, in July 2023: http://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-course. 令人兴奋的是,在一些世界知名的伍尔夫冰球突破豪华版试玩的指导下,这项深入的研究如何增强了她在大湾大学对女性文学的教学.
Internship in the Humanities
This 3-credit course, open to English and Humanities students, was first offered in 2019.
这门课程的目的是让学生有机会将他们所学到的技能运用到写作中, communication, critical thinking, 以及将英语和人文学科课程中的创造性合作转化为工作中的实践, 并帮助他们回答这个问题:“我可以用我的人文学位做什么??”. 他们希望这门课能成为大湾区人文学科的学生大使.
Interested students should contact Emily M. Hinnov ([email protected]) or Cindy Walton ([email protected]) for eligibility requirements.