Bellarmine University Catalog

Code	Name	Description
ENGL-100	Fundamentals of College Writing	This course will prepare students to succeed in future courses in the core curriculum and their majors by introducing fundamental writing concepts and skills. Topics covered will include active reading, summary, synthesis, response, and research-base...
ENGL-101	Introduction to Academic Writing	Students engage in reading and writing arguments in a variety of genres. As writers, they develop their critical and rhetorical abilities to adapt to various audiences, purposes, and contexts. Students practice writing processes, with an emphasis on...
ENGL-101H	Honors Introduction to Academic Writing	Students engage in reading and writing arguments in a variety of genres. As writers, they develop their critical and rhetorical abilities to adapt to various audiences, purposes, and contexts. Students practice writing processes, with an emphasis on...
ENGL-200	Introduction to Literature	Introduction to Literature serves as a common general education course that introduces students to literary texts and contexts, with content that varies across sections and is drawn from diverse ages, cultures, and genres. This course helps students...
ENGL-200H	Honors Introduction to Literature	This course serves as a common general education course that introduces students to literary texts and contexts, with content that varies across sections and is drawn from diverse ages, cultures, and genres. This course helps students develop their a...
ENGL-205	Literary Form and Interpretation	This course provides students with a thorough introduction to literary analysis, focusing on close reading and interpretation and emphasizing theoretical and formal approaches to a variety of genres.
ENGL-206	Critical Writing in English	This course models analyses of literary and critical texts and demonstrates writing practices combining the two. Students engage in deep textual reading while using research methods to enter scholarly conversations and select approaches to writing wi...
ENGL-215	Introduction to Dramatic Literature	This course provides an introduction to the practice of reading and understanding the dramatic text as the basis for production. This class introduces a methodology for investigating a given play's overall structural and aesthetic elements including...
ENGL-225	African American Literature	This course offers a study of modern African American fiction. It traces the discrete and unifying themes of the canonic works of authors such as John Edgar Wideman, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Claudia Rankine, and James Baldwin. Students are...
ENGL-251	Writing Center Theory and Practice	English 251 introduces students to the theory and practice of effective consulting in the Writing Center at Bellarmine University through a combination of reading, writing, and discussion activities. The course includes a practicum component of five...
ENGL-299	Introduction to the Profession of English	This course provides an introduction to the profession of English. Career opportunities and graduate programs in English are addressed in this class, and students develop plans to complete their work in the English Department and to prepare themselve...
ENGL-300	Topics in Writing and Rhetoric	This course explores the dynamic of forms, structures, and styles of genre toward the purposes of professional publication and presentation. This class examines the rhetoric, history, and key issues and approaches around various topics while emphasiz...
ENGL-309	Technical Writing	This course develops the understanding and skills required for technical communication. Material covered includes technical reading and research skills, document design and graphics, recommendation reports, technical proposals, instructions, informat...
ENGL-312	Creative Writing: Poetry	This course is designed to give students with an interest in writing poetry intense practice of the craft, along with the critical and creative feedback that comes with a workshop experience. Students read selected literature and create their own poe...
ENGL-313	Creative Writing: Fiction	This course is designed to give students with an interest in writing fiction intense practice of the craft, along with the critical and creative feedback that comes with a workshop experience. Students will read selected literature and create their o...
ENGL-314	Creative Writing: Non-Fiction	Creative Non-Fiction is a fairly abstract name for a growing body of work in contemporary writing. This course is designed to give students intense practice in the writing of such creative non-fictional genres as memoir, literary journalism, and the...
ENGL-315	Creative Writing Workshop	This course is designed to give students the opportunity to write poetry, fiction, or another genre, in an intense workshop experience. Students will read selected literature for discussion; create a portfolio of original work; and write a critical a...
ENGL-320	Creative Writing: Playwriting	This course will assist students in understanding the elements of writing a play. Through readings and working with elements of playwriting, students will gain experience in writing monologues, dialogues, scenes, and short plays. Students will develo...
ENGL-322	American Modernism	Between 1910 and 1950, experimentation (in form and in theme), psychological realism, psychoanalytic awareness, and "Make it new!" were the rallying cries of key literary figures, and the role of literature shifted from confirming social vision to qu...
ENGL-323	Contemporary American Literature	Across a variety of genres, contemporary American writers extend, revise, argue with, enrich, question, and honor the literary traditions, themes, and structures established by their foremothers and forefathers. Drawing its readings from the past thi...
ENGL-324	Multicultural American Literature	Multicultural American Literature may be offered as a survey of the variety of cultural positions from which American authors have written, or as a course in African American, Native American, Latino/a American, or Asian American literature. Whatever...
ENGL-325	Southern Literature	This course introduces students to literature from and about the American South, examining important aspects of the region's culture and historical context. It explores how southern literature shapes and challenges conflicting perceptions of the Sout...
ENGL-327	Imagining America	This course explores the extent to which the United States, more than any nation before it, was the product of literary imagination. We will look at how a range of authors in the early American, early national, and antebellum periods raised questions...
ENGL-330	Topics in Literature	This class provides for the study of various literatures not addressed in the department's American and British Literature courses. While several of the department's genre courses allow for specialized study, this course provides a venue for a variet...
ENGL-334	The Graphic Novel	This course explores one of our most popular forms of visual storytelling: the graphic novel, or sequential art. With attention to narrative, aesthetic, historical, and thematic elements, this course will introduce students to how comics tell stories...
ENGL-337	Contemporary Caribbean Literature	This course introduces students to some of the principal writers and texts of the English, French, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Through a close reading of novels, short fiction, poetry, and some film, we will explore common themes (colonialism, de...
ENGL-341	Shakespeare	More than 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare remains one of the world's most studied authors and produced playwrights. His dramatic works have been widely adapted across various media and what is known about his life inspires constant deb...
ENGL-345	British Literature in the Century of Revolution	This class focuses on the Romantic age in British literature (roughly 1780 to 1830), a period characterized by political revolutions and changing ideas about the nature of self and the rights of individual men and women. Bounded on one end by the Fre...
ENGL-346	The Victorian Age	This class focuses on British literature and culture during the Victorian era (1832-1901). This period saw the rise of industrialization and imperialism, the advancement of science and religious crisis, class conflict, and social and political reform...
ENGL-350	Contemporary International Literature	The focus of Contemporary International Literature is in-depth study of non-Anglo-American literatures from around the world, examining, for instance, trends in Magical Realism, New Realism, allegory, historical fiction, metafiction, and post-colonia...
ENGL-402	Modern Linguistics	Linguistics is the study of language itself: how it works and how we use it. Students will study its structure, starting with the basic building blocks of sound and meaning, and their combination into morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences. The cla...
ENGL-403	The Teaching of Writing	Focusing on the implications of writing (and not practical application), this course helps students to understand writing processes so that they can teach writing in the future.
ENGL-405	The Harlem Renaissance	The Harlem Renaissance embodies the push that resulted in the Great Migration of African Americans from the South in search of better opportunities. This course introduces students to the literature of the Renaissance, and the aesthetics and politics...
ENGL-406	Native American Literature	Native American Literatures begins in a complex oral tradition, continues in struggles to express indigenousrealities through languages of colonizers, and then flowers in the 1960s into the Native American Renaissance that continues today. Investigat...
ENGL-406H	Native American Literature	Native American Literatures begins in a complex oral tradition, continues in struggles to express indigenousrealities through languages of colonizers, and then flowers in the 1960s into the Native American Renaissance that continues today. Investigat...
ENGL-410	Special Topics Seminar	This class offers a range of special topics in English. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.
ENGL-415	William Faulkner and Social Change	This course considers some of William Faulkner's most enduring works through the lens of social change. Our reading of his work should reveal how the past-Faulkner's, the South's, our own-prepares us to think, reflect, and act responsibly to social c...
ENGL-423	Independent Study	Guided reading or research in an area of special interest under the direction of a faculty member.
ENGL-433	Studies in Genre	In this course, students will examine the development of a particular mode or genre. Examples of possible course topics: the sonnet from the fourteenth century to the present, romance from the twelfth to the nineteenth century, the many expressions o...
ENGL-435	LGBTQ Drama	English 435 studies dramatic literature, primarily from the 20th and 21st centuries, featuring diverse gay, lesbian, and transgender characters and themes. In a given semester, the course may survey changing theatrical representations of sexual orien...
ENGL-436	Women's Literature	Using gender as a lens, this course investigates writing by women in order to ask such questions as the following: What is women's literature? Does gender shape topic, theme, and structure? Is there a "women's tradition" in literature? Typically, the...
ENGL-437	British Fantasy and Adventure Literature	This course focuses on the popular British genres of adventure, mystery and fantasy fiction, from the nineteenth century to the present. In contrast to the dominant British style of realism, which focuses on ordinary individuals and commonplace reali...
ENGL-439	Postmodernism	This course explores postmodern literature and theory through questions of high and low cultural divides,alternate histories, the possibilities of literary form, and meta-narrative. Primary texts will represent a variety of expressions of postmodern...
ENGL-444	Internship	The internship provides the student with an opportunity to apply classroom learning to the workplace and explore potential career interests.
ENGL-450	Capstone	This class asks students to narrate and reflect upon the ways of knowing they have developed as English majors and to articulate that understanding in relation to their education and also the larger frameworks of community and society.
FILM-270	Introduction to Film	Introduction to Film focuses on the medium of film: its genres and styles, the modes of its production, its aesthetics, and some of the social contexts and ideologies that underlie its construction. The course will examine the narrative and formal st...
FILM-271	Classical Hollywood Cinema	Focuses on the history of film; in particular, it theorizes the connections between cultural history and film form. It may be taught as an overview of the history of film from 1895 to the present, or it may focus on a particular historical period (WW...
FILM-370	Topics in Film	Topics in Film provides the study of various topics in film studies. For example, course offerings may include History of Animation or Expressionism and Noir. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.
FILM-371	Literature and Film	Literature and Film focuses on the comparison of literary works and their film adaptations. Central to the course are theories of adaptation, though texts will vary and the course may focus on a particular theme, such as Modernism and Film, or a spec...
FILM-470	Film Genres and Major Figures	Film Genres and Major Figures offers courses about a specific film genre (such as Romantic Comedy, Musicals, or Film Noir) in terms of its narrative and stylistic conventions and its historical and cultural significance. It may also focus on a major...
FILM-471	Advanced Film Studies	Advanced Film Studies is a senior-level seminar that focuses on the integration of classic and contemporary film theory and criticism with individual films. It also allows students to perform sustained independent research on a subject area of their...
WGST-200	An Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies	This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary field and will provide critical frameworks for thinking about the social construction of gender at the personal and at institutional levels. Historical and cross-cultural perspectives on wo...
WGST-305	Body, Self, Identity	This course will engage questions of identity and sense of self as embodied, as something tied to the physical bodies we inhabit. We will look at the impact of advertising, popular culture, film, biology, and other factors on the development of the h...
WGST-341	Special Topics in Women's and Gender Studies	A course to provide for special and in-depth study in the Women's and Gender Studies area.
WGST-444	Internship	Student organized internship at a local agency or organization related to Women's and Gender Studies.
WGST-490	Senior Capstone Seminar in Women's and Gender Studies	History of women's thought and gender studies with emphasis on post-World War II thought; analysis of recent landmark texts and contemporary theories, with attention to the diversity of women's ethnic, class, sexual, and cultural experience; applicat...

Fundamentals of College Writing

This course will prepare students to succeed in future courses in the core curriculum and their majors by introducing fundamental writing concepts and skills. Topics covered will include active reading, summary, synthesis, response, and research-base...

ENGL-101

Introduction to Academic Writing

Students engage in reading and writing arguments in a variety of genres. As writers, they develop their critical and rhetorical abilities to adapt to various audiences, purposes, and contexts. Students practice writing processes, with an emphasis on...

ENGL-101H

Honors Introduction to Academic Writing

Students engage in reading and writing arguments in a variety of genres. As writers, they develop their critical and rhetorical abilities to adapt to various audiences, purposes, and contexts. Students practice writing processes, with an emphasis on...

ENGL-200

Introduction to Literature

Introduction to Literature serves as a common general education course that introduces students to literary texts and contexts, with content that varies across sections and is drawn from diverse ages, cultures, and genres. This course helps students...

ENGL-200H

Honors Introduction to Literature

This course serves as a common general education course that introduces students to literary texts and contexts, with content that varies across sections and is drawn from diverse ages, cultures, and genres. This course helps students develop their a...

ENGL-205

Literary Form and Interpretation

This course provides students with a thorough introduction to literary analysis, focusing on close reading and interpretation and emphasizing theoretical and formal approaches to a variety of genres.

ENGL-206

Critical Writing in English

This course models analyses of literary and critical texts and demonstrates writing practices combining the two. Students engage in deep textual reading while using research methods to enter scholarly conversations and select approaches to writing wi...

ENGL-215

Introduction to Dramatic Literature

This course provides an introduction to the practice of reading and understanding the dramatic text as the basis for production. This class introduces a methodology for investigating a given play's overall structural and aesthetic elements including...

ENGL-225

African American Literature

This course offers a study of modern African American fiction. It traces the discrete and unifying themes of the canonic works of authors such as John Edgar Wideman, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Claudia Rankine, and James Baldwin. Students are...

ENGL-251

Writing Center Theory and Practice

English 251 introduces students to the theory and practice of effective consulting in the Writing Center at Bellarmine University through a combination of reading, writing, and discussion activities. The course includes a practicum component of five...

ENGL-299

Introduction to the Profession of English

This course provides an introduction to the profession of English. Career opportunities and graduate programs in English are addressed in this class, and students develop plans to complete their work in the English Department and to prepare themselve...

ENGL-300

Topics in Writing and Rhetoric

This course explores the dynamic of forms, structures, and styles of genre toward the purposes of professional publication and presentation. This class examines the rhetoric, history, and key issues and approaches around various topics while emphasiz...

ENGL-309

Technical Writing

This course develops the understanding and skills required for technical communication. Material covered includes technical reading and research skills, document design and graphics, recommendation reports, technical proposals, instructions, informat...

ENGL-312

Creative Writing: Poetry

This course is designed to give students with an interest in writing poetry intense practice of the craft, along with the critical and creative feedback that comes with a workshop experience. Students read selected literature and create their own poe...

ENGL-313

Creative Writing: Fiction

This course is designed to give students with an interest in writing fiction intense practice of the craft, along with the critical and creative feedback that comes with a workshop experience. Students will read selected literature and create their o...

ENGL-314

Creative Writing: Non-Fiction

Creative Non-Fiction is a fairly abstract name for a growing body of work in contemporary writing. This course is designed to give students intense practice in the writing of such creative non-fictional genres as memoir, literary journalism, and the...

ENGL-315

Creative Writing Workshop

This course is designed to give students the opportunity to write poetry, fiction, or another genre, in an intense workshop experience. Students will read selected literature for discussion; create a portfolio of original work; and write a critical a...

ENGL-320

Creative Writing: Playwriting

This course will assist students in understanding the elements of writing a play. Through readings and working with elements of playwriting, students will gain experience in writing monologues, dialogues, scenes, and short plays. Students will develo...

ENGL-322

American Modernism

Between 1910 and 1950, experimentation (in form and in theme), psychological realism, psychoanalytic awareness, and "Make it new!" were the rallying cries of key literary figures, and the role of literature shifted from confirming social vision to qu...

ENGL-323

Contemporary American Literature

Across a variety of genres, contemporary American writers extend, revise, argue with, enrich, question, and honor the literary traditions, themes, and structures established by their foremothers and forefathers. Drawing its readings from the past thi...

ENGL-324

Multicultural American Literature

Multicultural American Literature may be offered as a survey of the variety of cultural positions from which American authors have written, or as a course in African American, Native American, Latino/a American, or Asian American literature. Whatever...

ENGL-325

Southern Literature

This course introduces students to literature from and about the American South, examining important aspects of the region's culture and historical context. It explores how southern literature shapes and challenges conflicting perceptions of the Sout...

ENGL-327

Imagining America

This course explores the extent to which the United States, more than any nation before it, was the product of literary imagination. We will look at how a range of authors in the early American, early national, and antebellum periods raised questions...

ENGL-330

Topics in Literature

This class provides for the study of various literatures not addressed in the department's American and British Literature courses. While several of the department's genre courses allow for specialized study, this course provides a venue for a variet...

ENGL-334

The Graphic Novel

This course explores one of our most popular forms of visual storytelling: the graphic novel, or sequential art. With attention to narrative, aesthetic, historical, and thematic elements, this course will introduce students to how comics tell stories...

ENGL-337

Contemporary Caribbean Literature

This course introduces students to some of the principal writers and texts of the English, French, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Through a close reading of novels, short fiction, poetry, and some film, we will explore common themes (colonialism, de...

ENGL-341

Shakespeare

More than 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare remains one of the world's most studied authors and produced playwrights. His dramatic works have been widely adapted across various media and what is known about his life inspires constant deb...

ENGL-345

British Literature in the Century of Revolution

This class focuses on the Romantic age in British literature (roughly 1780 to 1830), a period characterized by political revolutions and changing ideas about the nature of self and the rights of individual men and women. Bounded on one end by the Fre...

ENGL-346

The Victorian Age

This class focuses on British literature and culture during the Victorian era (1832-1901). This period saw the rise of industrialization and imperialism, the advancement of science and religious crisis, class conflict, and social and political reform...

ENGL-350

Contemporary International Literature

The focus of Contemporary International Literature is in-depth study of non-Anglo-American literatures from around the world, examining, for instance, trends in Magical Realism, New Realism, allegory, historical fiction, metafiction, and post-colonia...

ENGL-402

Modern Linguistics

Linguistics is the study of language itself: how it works and how we use it. Students will study its structure, starting with the basic building blocks of sound and meaning, and their combination into morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences. The cla...

ENGL-403

The Teaching of Writing

Focusing on the implications of writing (and not practical application), this course helps students to understand writing processes so that they can teach writing in the future.

ENGL-405

The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance embodies the push that resulted in the Great Migration of African Americans from the South in search of better opportunities. This course introduces students to the literature of the Renaissance, and the aesthetics and politics...

ENGL-406

Native American Literature

Native American Literatures begins in a complex oral tradition, continues in struggles to express indigenousrealities through languages of colonizers, and then flowers in the 1960s into the Native American Renaissance that continues today. Investigat...

ENGL-406H

Native American Literature

Native American Literatures begins in a complex oral tradition, continues in struggles to express indigenousrealities through languages of colonizers, and then flowers in the 1960s into the Native American Renaissance that continues today. Investigat...

ENGL-410

Special Topics Seminar

This class offers a range of special topics in English. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

ENGL-415

William Faulkner and Social Change

This course considers some of William Faulkner's most enduring works through the lens of social change. Our reading of his work should reveal how the past-Faulkner's, the South's, our own-prepares us to think, reflect, and act responsibly to social c...

ENGL-423

Independent Study

Guided reading or research in an area of special interest under the direction of a faculty member.

ENGL-433

Studies in Genre

In this course, students will examine the development of a particular mode or genre. Examples of possible course topics: the sonnet from the fourteenth century to the present, romance from the twelfth to the nineteenth century, the many expressions o...

ENGL-435

LGBTQ Drama

English 435 studies dramatic literature, primarily from the 20th and 21st centuries, featuring diverse gay, lesbian, and transgender characters and themes. In a given semester, the course may survey changing theatrical representations of sexual orien...

ENGL-436

Women's Literature

Using gender as a lens, this course investigates writing by women in order to ask such questions as the following: What is women's literature? Does gender shape topic, theme, and structure? Is there a "women's tradition" in literature? Typically, the...

ENGL-437

British Fantasy and Adventure Literature

This course focuses on the popular British genres of adventure, mystery and fantasy fiction, from the nineteenth century to the present. In contrast to the dominant British style of realism, which focuses on ordinary individuals and commonplace reali...

ENGL-439

Postmodernism

This course explores postmodern literature and theory through questions of high and low cultural divides,alternate histories, the possibilities of literary form, and meta-narrative. Primary texts will represent a variety of expressions of postmodern...

ENGL-444

Internship

The internship provides the student with an opportunity to apply classroom learning to the workplace and explore potential career interests.

ENGL-450

Capstone

This class asks students to narrate and reflect upon the ways of knowing they have developed as English majors and to articulate that understanding in relation to their education and also the larger frameworks of community and society.

FILM-270

Introduction to Film

Introduction to Film focuses on the medium of film: its genres and styles, the modes of its production, its aesthetics, and some of the social contexts and ideologies that underlie its construction. The course will examine the narrative and formal st...

FILM-271

Classical Hollywood Cinema

Focuses on the history of film; in particular, it theorizes the connections between cultural history and film form. It may be taught as an overview of the history of film from 1895 to the present, or it may focus on a particular historical period (WW...

FILM-370

Topics in Film

Topics in Film provides the study of various topics in film studies. For example, course offerings may include History of Animation or Expressionism and Noir. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

FILM-371

Literature and Film

Literature and Film focuses on the comparison of literary works and their film adaptations. Central to the course are theories of adaptation, though texts will vary and the course may focus on a particular theme, such as Modernism and Film, or a spec...

FILM-470

Film Genres and Major Figures

Film Genres and Major Figures offers courses about a specific film genre (such as Romantic Comedy, Musicals, or Film Noir) in terms of its narrative and stylistic conventions and its historical and cultural significance. It may also focus on a major...

FILM-471

Advanced Film Studies

Advanced Film Studies is a senior-level seminar that focuses on the integration of classic and contemporary film theory and criticism with individual films. It also allows students to perform sustained independent research on a subject area of their...

WGST-200

An Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary field and will provide critical frameworks for thinking about the social construction of gender at the personal and at institutional levels. Historical and cross-cultural perspectives on wo...

WGST-305

Body, Self, Identity

This course will engage questions of identity and sense of self as embodied, as something tied to the physical bodies we inhabit. We will look at the impact of advertising, popular culture, film, biology, and other factors on the development of the h...

WGST-341

Special Topics in Women's and Gender Studies

A course to provide for special and in-depth study in the Women's and Gender Studies area.

WGST-444

Internship

Student organized internship at a local agency or organization related to Women's and Gender Studies.

WGST-490

Senior Capstone Seminar in Women's and Gender Studies

History of women's thought and gender studies with emphasis on post-World War II thought; analysis of recent landmark texts and contemporary theories, with attention to the diversity of women's ethnic, class, sexual, and cultural experience; applicat...