English

This course provides students with focused study of process-based writing and emphasizes critical reading and the ability to respond clearly and effectively to a variety of rhetorical situations. Students learn to read as writers and write for an assortment of purposes and audiences. Through holistic instruction and weekly workshops, students actively engage in and produce effective writing.

This course focuses on writing as a means of discovery and inquiry. Students read and examine texts in order to evaluate the choices writers make and to develop their own perspectives and rhetorical authority. By exploring how writing functions in a range of academic, professional, and public contexts, students gain practice composing in a variety of modalities. Students give and receive feedback, revise their work, reflect on their growth as writers, and improve basic digital and information literacy skills.

This course focuses on writing as research-based argument. As a means of arriving at and writing from committed stances, student writers learn to seek out, interrogate, and effectively use a variety of popular and academic sources. Students write in academic and professional modes, putting their own ideas in conversation with the ideas of others, and shaping arguments for multiple purposes and audiences. Particular emphasis is placed on advanced digital and information literacy skills.

This course focuses on writing as research-based argument. As a means of arriving at and writing from committed stances, student writers learn to seek out, interrogate, and effectively use a variety of popular and academic sources. Students write in academic and professional modes, putting their own ideas in conversation with the ideas of others, and shaping arguments for multiple purposes and audiences. Particular emphasis is placed on advanced digital and information literacy skills. The Honors section of this course includes additional experiential learning, field-based research, and the production of a public-facing composition.

An introduction to the three most recognizable genres of literature: poetry, drama, and prose. Course focuses on reading texts from a variety of historical periods, cultural traditions, and critical perspectives. Approach may be topical or thematic and may vary from semester to semester.

We will examine how stories represent and respond to the human experience and develop skills of interpretation, analysis, and critical evaluation.

This course examines great works of literature that shaped or have been shaped by the Western literary tradition. Representative texts selected from the Judeo-Christian scriptures, the classical tradition of Greek and Roman literature, and/or from the early modern period to the present. This course evaluates works through understanding cultural contexts, influences, and genres.

This course treats the script to screen process as a problem to be solved. Students study the language of film and filmmaking in order to understand how stories, words, and ideas are translated into images and actions on the big screen. By focusing specifically on films developed from books and plays, students learn to evaluate, interpret, and analyze the purpose, context, and audience of textual and visual media.

This course focuses on works of imaginative literature from the state of New York and challenges students to consider the implications and consequences of historical and cultural constructions of place. Through reading, discussing, and writing about literature that specifically considers human interactions with their physical environments, students explore the means by which the natural world is understood and represented, and they interrogate the ways physical spaces are reorganized into cultural places.

This course focuses on works of imaginative literature from the state of New York and challenges students to consider the implications and consequences of historical and cultural constructions of place. Through reading, discussing, and writing about literature that specifically considers human interactions with their physical environments, students explore the means by which the natural world is understood and represented, and they interrogate the ways physical spaces are reorganized into cultural places. The Honors section includes additional experiential learning, co-curricular elements, and applied community activities, including trips to visit locations depicted in the literature.

This intermediate level academic English course is intended for nonnative English speaking international students entering Keuka College as Junior or Senior level transfer students or who have already completed the basic English requirements. The course provides nonnative English speaking international students with the skills and strategies needed to meet the academic demands of their courses in a US institution of higher education. The focus is primarily on academic reading, listening, and speaking, according to students' needs. A grade of C- or higher is required to pass this course.

This course provides a compelling look into the nature and uses of the English language. It addresses such questions as: Where does English come from? How does the language work? How and why has English changed over time? How have authors made use of, and extended the capabilities of, the English language?

An introduction to the study of literature through the analysis of representative works from the contemporary (20th and 21st centuries) narrative tradition of Latin America. Analysis will focus not only on literary perspectives but also engage with historical, social, cultural, and geographic frameworks.

A survey of quality literature past and present for children and young adults.

This course introduces student writers to the fundamentals of writing fiction and poetry. Through instructor facilitated discussion and workshops, student writers analyze models, experiment with technique and form, review and discuss peer compositions, and cultivate their own writing voices.

This course is about reading. It is not just about reading to comprehend. It is about interpretation, analysis, and the use of material, visual, and digital texts. How do art, architecture, clothing, media, and music influence what we do, believe, and think? How do history and culture shape what we see and read? How do we use culture and ideology to persuade others to change their minds or take action? This course introduces and puts into practice the fundamentals of rhetorical theory and analysis. Emphasis is placed on applying critical and rhetorical perspectives to contemporary contexts and artifacts-art, music, film and television, digital and social media.

An examination of a variety of perspectives that define American literature in relation to their historical, linguistic, and cultural contexts.

An examination of British works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical, linguistic, and cultural contexts.

Off-campus experiential education opportunity that allows the student to apply his/her academic knowledge to a real-career setting.

An introductory study of a specific topic in English. Intended for freshmen and sophomores, or for students with little background in the subject. The student may repeat the course, but not the same topic.

This course focuses on the fundamentals of print and digital editing and publishing. Students develop line editing and peer review skills, explore the various roles of editors and publishers, and examine the ways writers negotiate the complex world of publishing. Familiarizes students with a range of writing-related careers.

Advanced study and practice of forms of creative nonfiction, such as the essay, literary journalism, travel writing, and memoir.

Advanced study of a topic, theme, or genre  through intensive study of representative works of literature.

Off-campus experiential education opportunity that allows the student to apply his/her academic knowledge to a real-career setting.

An in-depth, self-directed study for Junior- or Senior- level students under the guidance of a sponsoring faculty member on a planned topic that is not covered by an existing Keuka College course.

An advanced study of a specific topic in English. Intended for juniors and seniors or for students with an appropriate background in the subject. The student may repeat the course, but not the same topic.