ENG 2012 Fall 2024 - Welch

This course is designed to orient you to the field of English Studies and facilitate contemplation of what it means to be an English major. We’ll review the history of the discipline and discuss current practices and areas of inquiry, acquiring skills that will be useful in other courses along the way. Among the things we’ll be working on are annotation and analysis, thesis and argumentation, creative writing, and learning the field’s specialized vocabulary. This class is intended to prepare students to be English majors, to show how English studies can be used both in college and their career choices, and to expose them to the sheer pleasure of reading and writing.