This is an intensive, highly student-directed hybrid seminar in legal interpreting. The course will cover different aspects of court interpreting as a profession, including the training needed, job opportunities and sources of work, standard business practices, free-lance status versus staff interpreting, extensive practical work in the three modes of interpretation used in the courtroom, businesses, the professional code of ethics, and professional development activities.

An introductory course for the student with no previous foreign language study. Pair work and small group activities using culturally authentic materials are used to develop skills for everyday communication with an emphasis in culture and pronunciation. Prerequisite for 102: 101.

Intensive study of prose and/or poetry by English and American women after 1700 including such authors as Charlotte Lenox, Clara Reeve, Fanny Burney, Anne Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Willa Carter, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker, Angela Carter, Julia Alvarez, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, Paule Marshall, Leslie Marmon Silko. Attention to gender, race, and class situated in a historical context, and brief consideration of feminist literacy theory.

Examines a recurrent theme, symbol, or image in American literature to consider how texts reveal, respond to, and influence change in American culture or society over time. Topics will vary in their specificity and may explore more than one genre, literary-historical period, or non-Western culture. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need upper division credit.

Examines a recurrent theme, symbol, or image in British literature to consider how texts reveal, respond to, and influence change in British culture or society over time. Topics will vary in their specificity and may explore more than one genre, literary-historical period, or non-Western culture. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need UD credit. Concurrent enrollment in Advanced Writing Tutorial required.

Examines a theme, symbol, or image in Western and/or non-Western literature to consider how texts reveal, respond to, and influence culture or cultural change over time. Topics will vary in specificity and may explore more than one genre, literary-historical period, or culture. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need UD credit. Concurrent enrollment in the Advanced Writing Tutorial required.

This course introduces students to digital rhetoric, critical AI literacy, and what it means to compose and read digital texts through human-computer interaction and the way that affects both writers and readers. Based on a critical-ethical stance for generative AI engagement, students are also introduced to AI ethics as they relate to reading and writing, and they gain experience with practical applications for using AI in the writing process.

Course will be flexible to allow focus on a survey of women poets, on regional writers, on North and South American poets, or on a single theme or topic. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need UD credit. Concurrent enrollment in the Advanced Writing Tutorial required. Consent of department required. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195.

The workshop-based writing tutorial runs concurrently with all English 300-level literature courses. In this course, students will advance the knowledge they receive in their literature classes and receive attentive faculty support to develop the writing and literary-analytical skills necessary to succeed as an English major. Department consent required. Concurrent enrollment in at least one 300-level literature class. Required of all students enrolled in 300-level literature classes.

Students in this course will draw from social justice-related literacy theories to read and analyze selections of prose and poetry especially suitable for a middle or high school audience. Readings will be drawn from a range of contemporary diverse authors whose stories and poems represent a variety of cultural and social contexts and viewpoints. Prerequisite: ENGL 104 or105 or 195. SJE