Programs

Areas of concentration in literature and
culture and rhetoric, writing, and culture
are readily combined with a third area
such as in history, languages, education, speech/com/theatre, and related arts and sciences fields.

Graduate Minor

Graduate Minors in the School of Writing, Literature,
and Film are offered for both PhD students (who
must take 18 credits in our program) and MA students
(who must take 15 credits in our program). Students
who wish to minor in either Literature & Culture or
Rhetoric, Writing, & Culture make independent
arrangements for advising with the member of our
graduate faculty with whom they plan to work. That
person oversees their course selections and must sit
as a full voting member on their graduate committee.

In the School of Writing, Literature, and Film we pride ourselves on providing vibrant and forward-looking learning environments for the study of textual disciplines and complex literacies.

We offer a variety of undergraduate programs, including an English major grounded in both historical study and inter-cultural connections across periods and genres. We offer a writing minor (oncampus and ecampus) with broad applicability to law, science, or technical fields, as well as creative fields of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction writing.

We make English, writing, and film studies go to work. Our exit surveys since 2008 tell us that are students are planning—and succeeding—in challenging professions and careers in education, writing, journalism, publishing, medicine, library and information sciences, law, and technical research.

The School is home to some of the largest and most long-established undergraduate and graduate programs in the College of Liberal Arts.

As of fall term, 2011, we have over 360 English undergraduate majors and writing minors (combined).

As of fall term, 2011, we have 48 graduate students (MA, MFA, MAIS combined). The majority of MA and all MFA students receive full funding through graduate teaching assistantships or grants and fellowships. Graduate students also have opportunities for internships in a wide variety of interdisciplinary programs and centers, including the Writing Intensive Curriculum, the Women’s Center, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Academic Success Center.

Our students come from fifty states and ten countries.

Our undergraduate and graduate programs distinctively emphasize—

Interdisciplinary approaches that connect English to fields of study across the arts and sciences
High-impact learning opportunities through a range of internships, teaching and tutorial experience, and study abroad programs
A productive and nationally-visible faculty of scholars and teachers dedicated to student success
Opportunities for participation in a rich cultural life in OSU/Corvallis and up and down the Willamette Valley, with an engaged community of readers, writers and film-goers and multiple readings, performances, lectures, and cinema events

Film

The School of Writing, Literature, and Film offers courses in critical studies in film and screenwriting. The film portal serves as a clearinghouse and information resource for term by term of credit-bearing cinema courses and film events for OSU campus and community. If you wish to list a course or cinema event here, please contact Jon Lewis (jlewis@regonstate.edu) or webmaster Felicia Phillips (Felicia.Phillips@oregonstate.edu).

Film in English at OSU has a distinguished history. From 2002 – to 2007 OSU/English was home to the Cinema Journal, edited by School of Writing, Literature, and Film faculty member Jon Lewis, representing the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, a professional organization of film and television scholars with more than 3,000 members throughout the world.

Interdisciplinary in approach, film has evolved as a co-discipline of literary studies and as a focused field of study which lends itself to OSU’s aspiration to become a truly global university. In baccalaureate core courses in film, students learn to recognize the genres, traditions, and forms of cinematic expression and the cultural contexts in which they have evolved. Building on new literacies and technologies, they learn skills of critical thinking, writing, and research. Advanced film courses contribute to the Literature and Culture area of the MA in English and to interdisciplinary MAIS programs in CLA. Elective courses in critical film studies are popular elective choices for students majoring or minoring in arts, women’s and ethnic studies, arts, foreign languages, anthropology, theater, and English.

Announcements

Cengage Learning scholarship

Attention student videographers: The textbook publisher Cengage Learning is offering a $2500 scholarship for the best short video illustrating what makes you "a unique learner." http://www.cengagesites.com/CL/1270/slice/
Deadline: April 19, 2013

Internship opportunity for film and media students

There is an excellent opportunity for film and media students to participate in an IE3 Global Internship (if you are unfamiliar with IE3, it is an internship program offered through OUS International Programs, located on the OSU campus and supported by OSU: http://oregonstate.edu/international/studyabroad/internships/ie3) in Nicaragua in Fall 2013 working as a documentary film-maker with the end product of a film being entered in film festivals!

The internship is a 10 week intensive documentary production experience administered through Actuality Media and set in Nicaragua. Students will be placed in groups of four and will have the chance to experience leading each component of the production of a short film. By the end of the internship these short films will be ready to enter festivals, and will be distributed to several internet channels, including Social Earth and Documentary Tube.

Students will earn 12 OSU elective credits for the internship, and will have access to their financial aid package to pay the costs of the program and travel. Spanish language skills are not necessary.

The preferred deadline to apply is April 15^th.

Please see the profile page of the internship for more information: http://ie3global.ous.edu/positions/actuality_media/

Film Courses

Film Faculty

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English Major Requirements

THE ENGLISH MAJOR

Required Coursework

Lower Division – 21 Credits of 200-level courses

From one of the following sequences, 8 credits:
Survey of British Literature (ENG 204, ENG 205, ENG 206)
Survey of American Literature (ENG 253, ENG 254)

From one of the following, 12 additional credits (at least 4 credits pre-1800*):
Survey of British Literature (ENG 204*, ENG 205, ENG 206)
Survey of American Literature (ENG 253, ENG 254)
Literature of Western Civilization (ENG 207*, ENG 208)
Literatures of the World (ENG 210, ENG 211, ENG 212, ENG 213)
Shakespeare (ENG 201*, ENG 202*)

Library Skills for Literary Studies (ENG 200, 1 credit)

Upper Division – 32 Credits of 300/400-level courses

Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory (ENG 345) 4 credits
Pre-1800 Literature (minimum 2 courses) 8 credits
Post-1800 Literature (minimum 2 courses) 8 credits
Electives (from upper division ENG or WR, 3 courses) 12 credits

TOTAL 53 credits

Writing Intensive Course (WIC): At least one of your upper-division courses must be a WIC.

Also Note:
Courses taken to satisfy major requirements may not be taken for an S/U grade.

Undergraduate English majors must attain proficiency in a foreign language, as certified by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, equivalent to that assumed at the end of the second-year language course.

Classification of Upper-Division Courses for English Majors:

Pre-1800
ENG 412	Studies in British Theater and Society
ENG 417	The English Novel
ENG 425	Studies in Medieval Literature
ENG 426	Studies in Chaucer
ENG 429	Studies in Early Modern Literature
ENG 430	Studies in Seventeenth-Century Literature
ENG 433	Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century
ENG 435	Studies in Shakespeare
ENG 490	History of the English Language

Post-1800
ENG 317, 318, 319	The American Novel
ENG 320	Studies in Page, Stage and Screen
ENG 321	Studies in Word, Object and Image
ENG 322	Studies in Globalism, Text and Event
ENG 330	The Holocaust in Literature and Film
ENG 355	Continental European Literature: Nineteenth Century
ENG 356	Continental European Literature: Twentieth/Twenty-First Century
ENG 360	Native American Literature
ENG 362	American Women Writers
ENG 374	The Modern Short Story
ENG 375	Children's Literature
ENG 418, 419	The English Novel
ENG 434	Studies in Romanticism
ENG 436	Studies in Victorian Literature
ENG 438	Studies in Modernism
ENG 440	Studies in Modern Irish Literature
ENG 450	Studies in Short Fiction
FILM 452	Studies in Film (WIC)
ENG 457, 458	Comparative Literature: Colonialism/Postcolonialism
ENG 482	Studies in American Literature, Culture, and the Environment
ENG 485	Studies in American Literature (WIC)
ENG 489	Writing, Literature, and Medicine
ENG 495	Language, Technology, and Culture

Course Classified by Term According to Date of Materials Studies:
ENG 311, 312, 313	Studies in British Prose/Drama/Poetry (WIC)
ENG 399	Selected Topics
ENG 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407	Research, Independent Study, Thesis, etc.
ENG 416	Power and Representation
ENG 445	Studies in Non-Fiction (WIC)
ENG 454	Major Authors
ENG 460	Studies in Drama
ENG 465	Studies in the Novel
ENG 470	Studies in Poetry (WIC)
ENG 475	Studies in Criticism
ENG 480	Studies in Literature, Culture, and Society
ENG 486	Studies in British Literature
ENG 497	International Women's Voices
ENG 498	Women and Literature

English Minor

THE ENGLISH MINOR

28 Credits Required; two options, A or B, below

A. (8 Credits):

Survey of American Literature:
ENG 253 and ENG 254
or
Survey of British Literature: Choose 2 of the following:
ENG 204
ENG 205
ENG 206

B. (12 Credits)

Any Three Upper-Division (300 or 400-level) English Courses

C. (8 Credits)

Choose from Upper- or Lower-Division English or Upper-Division Writing Courses

Writing

Undergraduate Writing Minor

Graduate Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing