The Short Story (ENGL 184) will introduce students to the art of the short story and acquaint them with some of the masters of the craft including Tolstoy, Chekhov, Kafka, Woolf, Hemingway, Hawthorne, O’Connor, and Jackson to name a few. The course is intended to help students learn how to read short fiction, understand it, and talk about it. 

Rhetoric and Composition (ENGL 15) an intensive, rhetorically based experience in reading and writing that will prepare you both to understand the communications that surround you and to succeed in your own communication efforts. Thus, in this course, we will focus specifically on analyzing verbal and visual texts (our reading) as well as on producing such texts (our writing), always in terms of rhetorical principles. ENGL 15 fulfills 3 credits of the writing and speaking requirement for general education.