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Explain why this change is being made. Address the connection with institutional mission, and/or department, program, and course objectives.
English 202, one of the introductory courses in the writing minor, is becoming more defined with a course title and description change, and this name change is reflected in the minor requirements above (see underlined title above). No other changes to the program have been made to the minor requirements or program objectives.
RATIONALE: Definition of “differing cultural perspectives” will clarify the nature and intent of these courses. English 370 Studies in Literatures of the Americas may be Differing Cultural Perspectives, but is not always.
RATIONALE: This is intended as a correction. All independent studies should require permission of the instructor involved.
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Historically, ENG 202 Expository Writing has served as one of two possible introductory courses in the writing minor and also as an advanced writing course for Keene State College students who had previously taken ENG 101. With the growing popularity of the Writing minor and with the larger collegiate adoption of the Integrative Studies Program and the Thinking and Writing course in particular, the English Department has reassessed the role and function of this 200-level course, and feels that this new direction for the course will better reflect, in part, the way the course is currently being taught. This new course title and description will clarify the purpose of this course for students choosing to minor in Writing as well as other Keene State College students who are interested in taking additional writing courses. This course will also provide an important introduction for students in the minor who intend to focus on writing nonfiction and who plan to take ENG 303: Nonfiction Workshop.
The proposed name change of the course reflects both the larger philosophical shift described above as well as a disciplinary shift in field of English Studies, particularly in creative writing and composition studies. The term “Expository Writing” has become a contested term, as it attempts to describe a mode of writing that is not clearly defined by a particular purpose, audience or tradition. The term “Creative Nonfiction” more clearly describes a well established tradition of writing, one that our writing minors will benefit from learning more about.
This 200-level course has been taught as an interdisciplinary course since it was added to the catalog. For example, in a team-taught version of this course in the Spring of 2007 on “Mountains and Literary Imagination” we had cultural historians and mathematitions visit the class to talk about the cultural history of specific landscapes about which students were reading poems and looking at paintings. Students also compared the representation of mountains in European and American painting with those from Asian cultures. In the Spring of 2006 the book order included both Wordsworth’s poetry and Tom Wessels’s modern classic of forest ecology Reading the Forested Landscape. This change makes this 200-level English course available as an II course in the Integrative Studies program and provides faculty with the opportunity to continue developing courses that invite interdisciplinary collaboration.
This course provides an important contribution to teaching Diversity in our Integrative Studies program. Under the previous catalog, a course with this content was available only in upper-level courses for English majors. With this course addition, both majors and non-majors can be introduced to this field.
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Explain why this change is being made. Address the connection with institutional mission, and/or department, program, and course objectives.
One of the introductory courses is becoming an ISP course, and since ENG 208 is being taught with some frequency and with innovative and appropriate content it should also function as a useful introductory course for the minor.
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This course used to be called “Black American Literature.” Now that the English department is offering a new IS course at the 200-level called “Readings in African American Literature and Culture” we need the catalog to reflect that this important subject matter is available to English majors as a 300-level course that builds on IIENG245. The title “Studies” reflects departmental practice with other 300-level offerings.
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This change in program description reflects the change in several of our 200-level offerings to courses that are part of the Integrative Studies program.
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The English Department is responding to the College’s call for new courses in the Integrative Studies Program by re-categorizing this and several other 200-level courses that have long been an important part of our liberal arts mission as a college.