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Professor Alberto Cacicedo, Ph.D., Chair
Professors Mary Jane Androne, Ph.D. and Richard Androne, Ph.D.
Associate Professors Gary Adlestein, M.A.; Jon Bekken, Ph.D., director of the Communications Program; Teresa Gilliams, Ph.D. Ethan Joella, Ph.D.and Lawrence Morris, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Katherine Lehman, Ph.D.
Instructors Denise Greenwood, M.A.; Margaret Rakus, M.A.; and Marian Wolbers, M.A.
Overview
Albright's English Department is one of the largest and most diverse departments in the College.
The English Department teaches a wide variety of literature and composition courses in support of the College's general studies programs, and its staff provides courses for Albright's American Civilization Program, Women's and Gender Studies Program, and, in conjunction with the Art Department, Film Studies.
Classroom instruction in creative writing is supplemented by opportunities to edit and write for AGON, Albright College's literary magazine. The English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta, organizes literary and social events throughout the academic year.
The department's core offerings in literature include surveys of all periods of English and American literature, selected readings in world and non-western literature and more intensive study of major writers, periods, genres and critical theories.
The mission of the English Department is to develop students' ability to read literary texts in historical and critical context, and to express their conclusions in lucid writing. To that end, the objectives of the various English literature concentrations are: to train majors in the techniques of literary analysis; to offer a broad background in the central historical and formal developments of English and American literature; to provide a range of options for the study of world literature; to afford opportunities for more advanced study of selected authors and topics including the social role of privilege and marginalization; to introduce the study of critical theory; and to provide instruction in the clear and effective expression of thought through written language. Attention is given in selected courses to oral presentation.
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Concentration in English Language and Literature
Requirements:
• Group 1: ENG 201, 202; and 204
• Group 2: two from ENG 352, 354, 355, 356, 357
• Group 3: two from ENG 380, 384, 385, 386 or THR 388
• Group 4: two from ENG 366, 368, 372, 373, 374 or THR 389
• Group 5: two more courses from groups 2, 3 or 4, or from the following (only one 200-level course can be included in this group): ENG 210, 222, 225, 226, 235, 270, 301
• Group 6: ENG 399 and 491
Occasionally the department offers a section of topics in British and American Literature (ENG 390), based on a special area of faculty or student interest. The nature of the topic determines whether ENG 390 satisfies a course requirement in group 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6.
Full concentrators may use one literature course to satisfy both the general studies humanities-literature requirement and a concentration requirement.
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Co-Concentration in English Language and Literature
Requirements:
• ENG 201 and 202
• One of the following: ENG 399 or 491
• One course each from groups 2, 3, 4, and 5, with the exception of ENG 235, listed in the full concentration requirements
Co-concentrators must take English 204 as one of their general studies humanities requirements.
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English and Secondary Education. English concentrators preparing for a career in secondary education take 10 courses and a series of education and other courses specified by the Education Department. Candidates for teacher certification in English should consult the chair of the Education Department for specific course requirements early in their college experience. The English courses fall into three groups:
- ENG 201, 202, 301, 354, 399 and 491
- Two of the following: ENG 380, 384, 385, 386 or THR 388
- Two of the following: ENG 352, 355, 356, 357, 366, 368, 372, 373, 374, 390 or THR 389. In selecting these courses, students wishing to teach in Pennsylvania should be aware of the state requirement that teachers be prepared in world literature as well as in British and American literature.
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English and Early Childhood Education. Early childhood education qualifies as a co-concentration and may be combined with the co-concentration program in English described above. Early childhood education students must also take ENG 233 as one of their general studies humanities requirements. ENG 233 may be used for general studies credit only by early childhood education students.
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