Department of English
By encouraging disciplined inquiry and critical thinking, English courses challenge students to examine their cultural and historical positions and to organize and articulate their discoveries.
Curriculum
The program exposes students to a variety of texts so that they can see the relationships among those texts, the contexts from which those texts emerge, and the connections between those texts and their own intellectual and social concerns.
By encouraging disciplined inquiry and critical thinking, English courses challenge students to examine their cultural and historical positions and to organize and articulate their discoveries. All courses require oral and written work in the form of class participation and individual papers. The program provides students with an understanding of traditional literary history and of the histories that have been left out of "the tradition."
Program Objectives
The purpose of the program in English is not to legitimate one critical position (what is "worth knowing") but to consider the consequences of "knowing" within the academic disciplines, to recognize the options involved in adopting a critical stance about the written and performance texts that have shaped individual and community experience, and to understand the conventions and practices that have shaped those texts.
Requirements & Course Offerings
To review English program requirements and course offerings, please visit our College Catalog (Hill Book).
Department News
February 7 | Professor Launches iTunes U CourseAssociate Professor of English Scott Cohen’s latest technological venture has landed the College on the iTunes U map.
October 26 | A Journey Through the Classics with Daniel MendelsohnAuthor Daniel Mendelsohn took his Stonehill audience on a journey through the Classics when he gave the 12th annual Chet Raymo Literary Series Lecture on Oct. 26 in the Martin Institute.
October 18 | Exhibit at Stonehill Features Painter Daisy RockwellDaisy Rockwell, granddaughter of Norman Rockwell, will feature her paintings of contemporary media events, including portraits of international terrorists and the late Whitney Houston, in new display from October 25-December 7.