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English Honors Program Information Session
GW English Majors: Oxford English Dictionary: Exalted rank or position; dignity, distinction We are now accepting applications for the English Department Honors Program for 2015-16. The program is designed to provide exceptional students with an opportunity to participate in a two-semester seminar culminating in an Honors thesis written in consultation with faculty advisors. English majors are…
Student Feeback on The Course Formerly Known as Critical Methods
Jacques Derrida Critical Methods [newly named Introduction to Critical Theory] is one of the greatest classes I’ve taken at GW. The course involved quite a bit of reading, but every text taught me something new and made me reconsider and analyze the way I read, wrote, and thought. It’s the a class that I think…
Rome Hall and Beyond: English Majors and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation on the Contemporary Writer and Education
As the Spring 2013 semester begins, we asked GW English PhD candidate Elizabeth Pittman, to reflect on her experiences teaching an innovative service learning course. It was a successful semester, marking the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between GW English and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Her reflections on the course are included here. “Create dangerously for…
CCAS E-Magazine Features David Mitchell’s Disability Studies Class
“Disabled People and the Holocaust” class on site in Germany Professor David Mitchell’s course Disabled People and the Holocaust is featured in the latest CCAS E-Magazine. You can read the entire story here. Here are some excerpts: ‘Mitchell, who has a disability, first envisioned the course with women’s studies professor and research partner Sharon Snyder in…
Creative Writing at GW
The English Department at George Washington University includes one of the largest all-undergraduate creative writing programs in the U.S. Each semester between 400 and 500 students study the writing of plays, filmscripts, short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction in small, 15-person classes. About half of these courses are at the introductory level, and appeal to…
Fall 2016 Course: Literature of the Americas
Literature of the Americas examines the history of developments in the representation of indigenous peoples and other minorities in South, Central and North America. We will begin with the Spanish invasion of Mexico (New Spain) and move to stories of encounters with Native Americans during the European colonization of New England. Literature of the Americas…