Basic Writing Courses:
Awards:
- For students who need an individualized writing course, we offer developmental composition (W031 Pre-composition). Students are placed into W031 through the IUN Placement Procedure.
- Added this year is the Stretch Program where students are placed into two writing classes (W130 Principals of Composition/W131 Elementary Composition I) which span two semesters with the same instructor and student group.
- W131, the required first year writing course, is offered to students who place into it.
Each year the Allen C. Austin Award is presented to the best English student(s). This prestigious monetary award is accompanied by a separtate hand-picked gift from the Department. In addition to the Austin Award, the Department also sponsors an essay contest each semester (the George N. Thoma Essay Contest), which awards monetary prizes to the best essays written by freshman composition (W131) students.
Writing Internships:
Students may want to take advantage of the opportunity for hands-on experience as they develop their writing skills on the job through Internship programs arranged by Dr. Richard Hull, Associate Professor of English.
The Department of English at IUN teaches the history and analysis of English and American literature. The Department regularly offers courses in Shakespeare and Chaucer as well as Renaissance, Restoration and 18th Century Romantic, Victorian, and modern British and American literature. Equally important to the curriculum is the study of language and writing. The Department's objectives are to help students write clearly and forcefully and to approach literature in a way that reveals its most compelling values. Literature
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