2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog | | Learning Outcomes Students will be able to: - Write and compose original texts
- Apply key concepts writing analytically, creatively, and professionally across multiple genres and modes based on audience needs and information design principles
- Identify and summarize foundational concepts in creative writing, literary studies, and rhetorical studies
- Understand and apply concepts and ideas related to issues of diversity such as race, class, sexuality, gender, ethnicity and others to texts across multiple genres and modes
- Analyze the compositional and rhetorical strategies used in texts across multiple genres and modes
- Synthesize primary and secondary sources, using appropriate research and writing methods across genres and modes
- Evaluate the appropriateness of compositional and rhetorical strategies used in texts
RequirementsStudents must earn a C- or better for courses to count toward the English major degree. English majors are encouraged to take some of their electives in additional English courses. Foundation (9 credits)- ENL 258 - Literary Studies Credits: 3
ENL 258 is prerequisite for 300-level literature courses Plus any 200-level creative writing course (3 credits) : - ENL 254 - Autobiographical Writing Credits: 3
- ENL 257 - Rhetoric I: Introduction to Rhetoric Credits: 3
- ENL 262 - Introduction to Journalism Credits: 3
- ENL 268 - Creative Writing: Fiction Credits: 3
Writing Courses (18 credits)Any six writing courses from the list below, with at least four taken at the 300+ level . - ENL 260 - Intermediate Composition Credits: 3
- ENL 267 - Creative Writing: Poetry Credits: 3
- ENL 269 - Creative Writing: Drama Credits: 3
- ENL 341 - Copywriting Credits: 3
- ENL 350 - Report and Proposal Writing Credits: 3
- ENL 351 - Comedy Writing Credits: 3
- ENL 352 - Public Relations Writing Credits: 3
- ENL 353 - Sports Writing Credits: 3
- ENL 354 - Usability Studies Credits: 3
- ENL 359 - Tutoring Writing Credits: 3
- ENL 360 - Special Topics in Writing and Communications Credits: 3
- ENL 361 - Techniques of Critical Writing and Communications Credits: 3
- ENL 362 - Writing Reviews Credits: 3
- ENL 363 - Topics in Journalism Credits: 3
- ENL 364 - Feature Story and Article Writing Credits: 3
- ENL 366 - Creative Writing: Forms of Fiction Credits: 3
- ENL 367 - Multimodal Writing: Theory and Practice Credits: 3
- ENL 368 - Internet Communications and Culture Credits: 3
- ENL 369 - Document Design Credits: 3
- ENL 370 - Women, Writing, and the Media Credits: 3
- ENL 372 - Writing about Popular Culture Credits: 3
- ENL 376 - Digital Filmmaking I Credits: 3
- ENL 378 - Screenwriting Credits: 3
- ENL 379 - Playwriting Credits: 3
- ENL 380 - Magazine Writing Credits: 3
Literature Electives (6 credits)Any two Literature Courses at the 300+ level. - ENL 305 - Topics in Medieval Literature and Culture Credits: 3
- ENL 307 - Topics in Early Modern Literature Credits: 3
- ENL 308 - The Enlightenment Credits: 3
- ENL 309 - Romantic Age Credits: 3
- ENL 310 - Victorian Age Credits: 3
- ENL 311 - Western Literature I Credits: 3
- ENL 314 - Colonial American Lit Credits: 3
- ENL 315 - American Renaissance Credits: 3
- ENL 316 - The 19th Century American Novel Credits: 3
- ENL 317 - 19 Cent American Poetry Credits: 3
- ENL 318 - Chaucer Credits: 3
- ENL 319 - Shakespeare Credits: 3
- ENL 321 - Golden Age of Drama Credits: 3
- ENL 323 - Postcolonial Theory & Criticism Credits: 3
- ENL 326 - Studies in Modern Irish Literature and Culture I Credits: 3
- ENL 328 - Survey of African American Literature I Credits: 3
- ENL 329 - Survey of African American Literature II Credits: 3
- ENL 331 - Postcolonial Literature Credits: 3
- ENL 333 - Modern British Poetry Credits: 3
- ENL 334 - The Victorian Novel Credits: 3
- ENL 335 - 20th Century American Fiction Credits: 3
- ENL 336 - 20th Century American Fiction - 1945 to the Present Credits: 3
- ENL 337 - 20th Century American Poetry Credits: 3
- ENL 338 - Modern Drama Credits: 3
- ENL 339 - American Drama Credits: 3
- ENL 340 - Literature & Psychology Credits: 3
- ENL 345 - Literary Theory Credits: 3
- ENL 373 - World Cinema I: Origins to New Wave Credits: 3
- ENL 374 - World Cinema II: New Wave to the Present Credits: 3
- ENL 377 - Topics:Film & Video Credits: 3
- ENL 385 - Topics in Multicultural Literature Credits: 3
- ENL 390 - Topics in Literary Studies Credits: 3
- ENL 400 - Seminar in American Literature Credits: 3
- ENL 415 - Seminar in a British Author Credits: 3
- ENL 425 - Seminar in Comparative Literature Credits: 3
Capstone Course (3 credits)- ENL 450 - Advanced Poetry Workshop Credits: 3
- ENL 451 - Advanced Fiction Workshop Credits: 3
- ENL 452 - Playwriting Workshop Credits: 3
- ENL 453 - Advanced Writing Workshop Credits: 3
Theory CourseOne course (3 credits) required. May be applied to requirement area listed above that best suits student needs. - ENL 355 - Rhetoric II: Advanced Rhetoric Credits: 3
- ENL 356 - Language and Culture Credits: 3
- ENL 259 - Critical Methods: Theory and Practice Credits: 3
- ENL 357 - Special Topics in Rhetorical Studies Credits: 3
Total Credits: 36- Faculty Issues
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‘Red Wedding’: Storied Stanford Creative Writing Program Laying Off LecturersThe university says creative writing faculty recommended returning its Jones Lectureships to their “original intent” as short-term teaching appointments for talented writers. A lecturer of 20 years said he thinks there’s a “peasants and lords issue” in the program. By Ryan Quinn You have / 5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Stanford University is laying off its current Jones Lecturers. Some Stanford University lecturers are likening it to the “red wedding” in Game of Thrones —a massacre of characters by their supposed allies amid what had been billed as a celebratory feast. Last Wednesday, a dean, a senior associate dean and a co-director of Stanford’s storied and popular creative writing program held a Zoom meeting with the program’s 23 Jones Lecturers, according to some of those lecturers, who were chosen from the ranks of those who have held the university’s prestigious Stegner Fellowship for writers. The university leaders complimented the Jones Lecturers over Zoom. “They praised us to the moon,” Tom Kealey, a lecturer for two decades, told Inside Higher Ed . “Endlessly” praised was how Edward Porter, a lecturer of eight years, put it. Most Popular- Open-access expansion threatens academic publishing industry
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Then, Kealey said, the leaders announced they would all be losing their jobs within the next two academic years. “The worst part is to be praised while you’re being fired,” Porter said. According to notes he took of the meeting, Nicholas Jenkins, the program’s co-director, said something to the effect of “you’re excellent, but others will be excellent in the future.” There was an added sense of betrayal. The deans—Debra Satz, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Gabriella Safran, senior associate dean of humanities and arts—said this wasn’t their decision, according to Kealey. In Medium posts on the ordeal, he wrote that they said it came from “the senior professors of creative writing.” “These are literally our teaching colleagues of the last five to 15 years,” Kealey wrote. “And they decided in a previous secret meeting to fire all 23 of their junior colleagues.” In another post, he wrote that “it was only the MALE professors who voted to fire us.” ( Inside Higher Ed reached out Tuesday to some of the male creative writing professors on Tuesday, but received no responses.) In an unsigned announcement last Wednesday on the university’s website, Stanford said it is returning to the “original intent of the Jones Lectureships: one-year appointments with the possibility of renewal for a limited term.” That announcement said the recommendation came from faculty members on a “Working Group of Creative Writing Academic Council faculty,” but it didn’t name them. Satz, Safran and Jenkins said in an emailed joint statement to Inside Higher Ed that "this change will again allow Stegner Fellows the opportunity to apply to be Jones Lecturers once they have completed their fellowships. Jones Lecturers will have one-year appointments with the possibility of renewal for up to four additional years." While it’s no longer rare for non-tenure-track faculty members to be laid off by higher education institutions facing budget woes, Stanford is a wealthy institution and creative writing is, by its own admission, a popular program. “We have a large number of fully enrolled classes, many with significant waitlists and some where the waitlists are longer than the enrollment roster,” Jenkins said in a February 2023 article on the university’s website. He also said, “We’re in a remarkable period of hiring during which we’re fortunate enough to be bringing to campus an extraordinarily talented array of significant artists and teachers.” But the lecturers say they’re the ones teaching most of the creative writing classes for undergraduates, and that their years of experience improve teaching. Kealey said some lecturers teach five classes a year; others teach four. He wrote on Medium of the senior creative writing professors that “the 10 of them … taught 13 undergraduate classes last year (and 19 overall, less than two classes taught per professor).” The leaders said during the Zoom meeting the decision wasn’t about money, according to Porter. “It’s maddening to have outstanding enrollment and be phased out anyway,” he said. While the university has said it wants to simply return the Jones Lectureships to the short stints they used to be, Kealey suggests the tenured professors in his department had other motives. “I think there’s a peasants and lords issue here,” Kealey said. A Long Time Coming?In 1946, Wallace Stegner, who would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Angle of Repose , founded Stanford’s creative writing program. The Stegner Fellowships are named in his honor. Editors’ Picks- Academic Publishers Threatened By Open-Access Expansion
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E. H. Jones, who had an oil fortune, funded the fellowships and also established the connected Jones Lectureships, according to the university’s announcement from last week. It said these were meant to be “limited, fixed-year teaching appointments, allowing exceptional Stegner Fellows some time and support to prepare a manuscript for publication, hone their teaching skills and transition to a longer-term teaching career elsewhere.” But “over time this framework of term-limited appointments was not followed,” the university said. It did not say when that change occurred. It might have had something to do with Eavan Boland. Boland, an Irish poet, led the creative writing program for 20 years until her sudden death in 2020. “Eavan was just a fierce defender of the program,” Kealey said. He said her death “was a great loss to all of us.” When Boland joined the program, Kealey said, it had maybe 20 or 25 classes. But Boland wanted every student who so desired to be able to take a creative writing class. Kealey said lecturers went to residence halls in early years to speak with students about the program. Over about 15 years, Kealey said, the program grew to offer about 120 classes. Porter said Boland “developed a large cadre of about 20 to 25 lecturers.” Even though they were on one-year contracts, Porter said, they kept getting renewed. He said it’s true that Boland did move the lectureships away from their original intent—but that it was beneficial for students, teaching and the program. “There are a lot of human skills to playing this game, and those don’t come in a year,” Porter said. “We have letters, testimonials from students about how much we’ve meant to them. We’re also very available to them—we talk to them outside of class, there’s a sense of continuing mentorship if they want it.” Now, Porter said, “there is at least the appearance” of the university creating “artificial scarcity,” suggesting there’s no room for the new, younger Stegner Fellows writers to get a leg up by becoming Jones Lecturers “because these crusty old folks are hogging up all the real estate.” Safran, the senior associate dean, said, per Porter’s meeting notes, that “in some years few or no Stegners were able to advance.” Kealey said, “There’s no shortage of space for new Stegner Fellows to be hired into the Jones Lectureships, but, I don’t know, the professors wanted to do a scorched earth with this, and that’s what they’ve done.” The lecturers said they pushed for, and received, raises from the university in September 2023. “Exactly a year later we’re all fired,” so “connect the dots here,” Kealey said. “I think the lords didn’t like that—didn’t like the peasants speaking up.” Porter talked about “balancing one set of values against the other.” He said the tenured or tenure-track “creative writing faculty doesn’t teach many classes and many of them are not involved—they don’t care about the undergraduates. It’s not their job to care; it’s their job to write books, be famous and raise money, and that’s very necessary.” And part of the purpose of the Jones Lectureship program is to give new writers a step up. But Porter worries about the other side of the equation being lost. “It’s our job to care about the undergrads,” he said. A Model for Advancing Institutional Effectiveness via Undergraduate ResearchTo help scale traditional faculty/student models of undergraduate research engagement, institutional leaders can cons Share This ArticleMore from shared governance. New College of Florida Is Dumping Books—and Losing ProfessorsThe conservative transformation of the institution continues, with gender studies texts being tossed and the faculty A Big Chunk of Professors Flunked U of Florida Post-Tenure ReviewAfter the state required post-tenure reviews, roughly one-fifth of the UF professors evaluated in the first round wer The Growing Trend of Attacks on TenureA study of around a decade of legislative proposals to ban tenure finds some common characteristics of states where t - Become a Member
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4 /5 Articles remaining this month. Sign up for a free account or log in.Comedian Steph Tisdell on her debut novel The Skin I'm In and using storytelling to speak truth to powerTopic: Books (Literature) Steph Tisdell says her new book, which explores cultural expectations and responsibilities, is in some ways an ode to an "overthinking, ruminating, anxious, weirdo brain". ( Supplied: Monica Pronk ) Overnight success takes years, but Ydinji comedian-turned-actor Steph Tisdell can almost pinpoint the moment everything changed for her. It was 2019 and Rachel Griffiths ( Total Control , Muriel's Wedding) had just shared a clip of Tisdell's viral Melbourne International Comedy Festival performance . "I was like, 'Did the real Rachel Griffiths just share my stuff?' And so I messaged her on Instagram [to thank her] … and she replied saying: 'I just have a feeling that you and I are going to be besties'," Tisdell tells RN's Awaye! . Griffiths encouraged the then-comedian to consider acting, even going as far as to introduce her to her own agent. Unbeknownst to Tisdell, Griffiths had also already told the writers working on the second season of Total Control (of which she is a creator and the executive producer) that she wanted Tisdell cast as a new character in the show. "And there was a room full of people looking at my life, looking at all of my stuff, and going, 'A character based on this is what we need'. And she wrote me into the show," Tisdell says. That role led directly to Tisdell being invited to audition for Prime Video's post-apocalyptic comedy Class of '07 . "And I got that out of 1,500 people who auditioned for 10 roles. And then it's kind of just been [non-stop] ever since," she says. In the resulting five years, Tisdell has continued to rack up screen credits in shows like Bump and Cooked, as well as films like Love Is in the Air and The Nut Farm. Now, she's taken on a new creative challenge: writing a young adult novel. When you can't help but createTisdell didn't initially set out to have a career in the arts. She studied journalism and law at university in the hopes of becoming a social justice advocate. "I wanted to do politics and policy reform … and I hated it because law is not about justice, it's about law and money," she says. After "accidentally" falling into comedy, Tisdell realised she could use storytelling to speak truth to power and create social change. Tisdell won the Deadly Funny National Grand Final in 2014, and began collecting accolades wherever she went — including in Scotland, where she sharpened her comedic style. "I have something in me that makes me feel compelled to speak in arenas that other people don't feel comfortable to speak in, and it would feel like it was wrong not to use those platforms or that space that I've been lucky enough to be in," Tisdell says. That doesn't mean it's always been a smooth ride. Tisdell has done comedy, acting and now written an entire book. ( Supplied: Jim Lee ) As well as being "a bindi in [her] own foot", the burden of representation and of being herself on stage has taken a real toll on Tisdell. "There is no harder place to be as a sensitive people pleaser than in a space where everybody is able to have an opinion on everything that you do and say," she explains. While working on Love Is in the Air, Tisdell took the opportunity to ask co-star Deltra Goodrem for advice on handling the pressures that come with performing. "She was like: 'If you weren't doing this as your career, would you still be writing, painting, looking for opportunities to make people laugh? Like, wouldn't you still dream of this? … It was the same with me with music. Whether or not I had a career in music, I would be writing music, playing music and singing every day of my life. That is who we are'," Tisdell says. It was a conversation that allowed Tisdell to re-centre her creativity. "The rest of it is just people who don't know you, responding with emotion because you've been able to elicit emotion from them. And that's all that you can ever do," she says. Finding nuance within diversityAlthough Tisdell has taken a break from comedy, she's still driven to tell stories. And it was her reputation as a storyteller that led publishing house Pan Macmillan Australia to approach her about writing a book. The personal essay Tisdell produced as a writing sample became the basis for The Skin I'm In. It's a warm, funny and feisty novel that follows Layla Pinder — a 17-year-old Aboriginal girl whose life (and final year of high school) is disrupted when her cousin Marley comes to stay. The decision to write a novel aimed at teenagers came from Tisdell's publisher. "I am so glad because I think we undermine or overlook teenagers … And there's a lot of self obsession, self absorption and self indulgence we have as teenagers that we grow out of," Tisdell says. "Sitting in that and interrogating my brain as though it was a teenager who didn't have the wisdom was incredible." And by working in fiction, Tisdell was able to take the heat out of exploring themes of identity. Layla is being raised off-Country and, as a result, struggles with feelings of disconnection from her culture and mob. By comparison, Layla's cousin Marley has been living on Country until he moves in with her family, and hasn't had access to the same kinds of opportunities as Layla. "I wanted Layla to be confronted with coming across somebody who has everything that she wants in every way. And then she has everything he wants in other ways. And to sort of make them confront that and realise this is not simple. This is super complex. And whatever story we've been telling has been half-arse," Tisdell says. It's a kind of "diversity within diversity" that Tisdell has increasingly advocated to see recognised and normalised. "Nuance is the most important part of anything in life. That's how you build empathy. And so when we try to simplify experiences or existence … we actually undermine so much about what it means to be human," she says. "There are a million different ways to be Black, and none of them are right or wrong, better or worse than any other. "But to tell people, there's kind of one or two versions of that, and that that's all that it is, is very, very disempowering, and continues to marginalise marginalised people." By contrast, Tisdell admits the villains of The Skin I'm In are so lacking in nuance that they're "nebulous little blobs that are purely there to attach different themes". There's Amy, the silently complicit friend; Layla's teacher, Miss Marks, whose pride outweighs her desire to learn; and Jess, an overtly racist classmate. "The only reason I tell you that is I have a feeling it's quite confronting just how close to home the villains feel," she explains. "And that's kind of the main message. It's really easy to see what goes wrong. And I'm really begging the reader, if they're a Blackfulla, to recognise that they are OK, and they're seen, and they're not the only one. "And I'm imploring white people, or non-Indigenous people, to question their own privilege and recognise how complex issues are, and to have the empathy to dig a bit deeper." "The story is totally fiction but the feelings are very, very, very real," Tisdell says. ( Supplied ) Trusting her processTisdell says the experience of writing has taught her to trust herself and her creative process. It's something she wants to take into other areas of her creative life. "I've always been quite harsh on myself and I've often felt like I should be doing something different … I'm not very good at structure. I'm not very good at organisation ... I really struggle with those things. But I have ideas and concepts and I can fall into spaces that I can happily articulate and recreate for somebody else," Tisdell says. When it came to The Skin I'm In, a turning point was the now-deleted chapter in which Layla catches a bus and makes judgements about the people around her. "I fought for so long to keep this chapter in, but it didn't match the pacing. It didn't match anything … And [eventually] it was like 'oh wait a second. That was for me' …That's when I found Layla as a separate entity. That was when I was able to fully distinguish me from Layla," Tisdell says. Although the scene wasn't necessarily good for the story, it allowed Tisdell to "freefall" into stream-of-consciousness writing. "Weirdly enough, that's actually what I do when it comes to acting and auditioning. I'll often imagine my character doing a TikTok trend or a social media quiz or something so that I can find them," she explains. Having given herself permission to work in ways that felt comfortable, Tisdell not only wrote faster, but better. "Knowing that that works for me, and [proving] that I can still finish something, even if I do it in my own weird way, was really good. It was really affirming to my creative process," Tisdell says. "It was a really big kind of pat on the back for myself to be like, 'It's OK that you're not doing things in a standard way that other people do it'." The Skin I'm In by Steph Tisdell is out now. |
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Comedian-turned-actor Steph Tisdell takes on a new creative challenge: writing a young adult novel that explores "diversity within diversity".