From Shakespeare to Tarantino, Socrates to Stephen King, the English and Humanities Department course offerings open up a world of literature, language, philosophy, and religion. Students majoring in our department have the opportunity to study the great traditions of Western philosophy, American, British, and European literature, the languages and literatures of ancient and modern cultures. In previous semesters, students have explored the intrigues of Renaissance culture and society through a study of Shakespeare, thought about complex metaphysical issues as they arise in science fiction, exercised their creative talents in acting, text performance, and creative writing courses, and explored the Hispanic culture through its representative literary works. Students in Advanced Composition have created a departmental newsletter while students in upper division courses have an opportunity to present their work during the College's annual Student Scholarship day, held each May.
A sampling of some of the department's more popular courses includes:
- African American Literature
- Technical Writing
- Acting
- Journalism
- The Short Story
- Creating Writing
- Shakespeare I and II
- Literature and Psychology
- The Bible as Literature
- The Comic Tradition
- Love and Sex in Literature
- The Literature of Terror
- Women in Literature
- Latin American Literature
- 19th Century Spanish Literature
- German Literature
- French Literature
- Environmental Ethics
- Feminist Thought
- The Digital Culture
- Philosophy and Human Nature
- Religion and Science
