Academic Catalog 2018-2019

Jewish, and Appalachian authors. This course fulfills the general education requirement. (Every Spring) ENG 3111, 3112, 3113 English Internship This internship provides the opportunity for juniors and seniors to participate in a career- related professional experience. See Criteria for internships on p. 70. The two primary internships are: 1) Tutoring Writing-the study and practice of tutoring peers through the writing process. In addition to classroom work, students will serve as peer tutors in the Academic Center for Excellence. (Every Semester) 2) Editing a literary magazine-students will select material for, edit, and layout the Bluefield College literary magazine, The Blue- stone Review . (Every Spring) ENG 3203 Literature and Healing This course will explore the power of fiction, poetry, memoir and expressive writing to en- gage the mind, body and spirit; to foster personal growth; to promote personal healing; and to increase empathy and awareness for cultural healing. You will be encouraged to imagine ways to incorporate literature and creative expression into the work you do or will do in educational, community, mental health, medical, pastoral ministry or business settings. The course involves our reading the creative and empirical work of others and our own creative and analytical writing. This courses fulfills the general education literature requirement. (Odd Spring) ENG 3213 The Meaning of Myth This class will engage the basic mythological themes such as cosmogony, the flood, the hero/heroine, the trickster, the afterlife, and the apocalypse. We will focus on the concept of deity in different traditions ranging from Greek and Roman, to Babylonian and Egyptian, as well as Indian, African, Middle Eastern, Native Northern American and Mesoamerican mythology. This course fulfills the general education literature requirement. (Odd Fall) ENG 3223 Literature of the Quest This course will explore the themes of journey and quest in world literature with particular attention to the religious dimensions of those themes. Through close reading of literary works from a variety of contexts and genres, we will consider the relationship between interior journeys and journeys through external landscapes, between home and exile, be- tween bewilderment and certainty, and between the religious and aesthetic dimensions of literature. This course fulfills the general education literature requirement. (Even Spring) ENG 3233 Fairy Tales This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary context of major French and Ger- man fairy tales. The literary fairy tale developed as a specific genre in the eighteenth and nineteenth century in France and Germany. This course explores the evolution of fairy tales, emphasizing the transformation this literary genre into various media. Positioning specific fairy tales in their linguistic, national, and sociocultural context will allow students to map both the evolution and cultural impact of these narratives. Fairy tales will be paired with major fairy tale theories, introducing students to different veins of critical thought about these texts. This course fulfills the general education literature requirement. (Even Fall) ENG 3243 Science Fiction This course is an introductory study of science fiction and is designed to give students an appreciation of this literary genre that is often overlooked by the literary establishment.

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