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2017 Summer Course Offerings

Courses Abroad

ENGL 670: Literary Landscapes

  • Professor Michele Tarter
  • Harlaxton/England and Italy, France, and Spain
  • 1 unit – 4 credits, Liberal Learning Elective in Literary, Visual and Performing Arts
  • Come with us and bring literature to life! (Visit 4 Countries in 3 weeks!)

Would you like to live in a castle set in the English countryside – where we will have class in the Gold Room, enjoy High Tea in the Conservatory, and have a formal banquet in the Great Hall? We will also travel to Stratford-upon-Avon and London in England; then onto Europe, where we will study Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in Verona, Italy; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night on the French Riviera; and Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises in Pamplona, Spain.

  • No Pre-Requisites, Language Requirements, or GPA Restrictions – Open to all students
  • Dates: June 19 – July 11, 2017
  • http://cge.tcnj.edu/tcnj-england-summer-2013/
  • INFO SESSION: Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 from 12pm to 12:30pm in Bliss 148

 

ENGL 670: The Magic of Archival Research in Cornwall 

  • Professor Michele Tarter
  • Cornwall, England
  • 1 unit – 4 credits, Liberal Learning Elective in Literary, Visual and Performing Arts

Would you like to travel back in time to the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table? Or have class in Merlin’s Cave, walk in medieval Druid forests, and visit ancient stone circles and holy wells? And, most importantly, conduct archival research in the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, learning about the earliest healers, spells, and magic? Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime class in Cornwall, England this summer!

  • No Pre-Requisites, Language Requirements, or GPA Restrictions – Open to all students
  • Dates: July 10 – 28, 2017
  • http://cge.tcnj.edu/tcnj-cornwall-summer-2013/
  • INFO SESSION: Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 from 12:30pm to 1pm in Bliss 148

 

TCNJ Summer Sessions

ENGL 510: Structure of English – The Politics of Standard English

Professor Felicia Steele

Monday/Tuesday/Thursday (6/12/17 – 7/13/17)

5pm to 7:30pm

This course examines the ways in which Standard English usage has become a site for ideological conflict in American and British culture; in addition, students will explore current linguistic and pedagogical approaches to English and its dialects. By the end of the course, students will understand and have a vocabulary to describe the grammatical features of English and the ideological and cultural foundations of current discussions of grammar, usage, and mechanics. Students will also learn to formulate actionable research related to language and composition instruction.

 

ENGL 554: Seminar in Prose Fiction – The Contemporary Short Story

Professor Jo Carney

Monday/Tuesday/Thursday (7/14/17 – 8/20/17)

5pm to 7:30pm

Many of the most interesting voices in our current literary landscape are practitioners of short fiction:  Chimamanda Adichie, Lydia Davis, Nathan Englander, Edward P. Jones, Ben Marcus, David Means, Karen Russell, George Saunders, among several others.In this seminar we will explore the style and substance of a variety of recent short stories, a genre that has moved far beyond the maximalism v. minimalism divide of the late 20th century.  Realism, magical realism, fabulism, absurdism, slipstream, mainstream, fairy tale, flash fiction, gothic: we will explore how the contemporary short story both exhibits and subverts categorization.

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