Eastern Connecticut State University

Senior Seminars

Each semester, the Department of English at Eastern Connecticut State University offers at least two different senior seminars.

Each seminar continues into the following semester for a total of six credit hours.

Prerequisites for Eng 461: English 203 with a grade of C or above; senior status

Prerequisites for Eng 462: English 461 with a grade of C or above

We leave a few previous seminar descriptions here so that you may see the variety of possible seminar topics.

Senior Seminars
Fall 2012	Spring 2013
ENG 461-01 Rhetorics of Conversion: Stories of Becoming Dr. Barbara Liu
ENG 461-02 Social and Political Issues in African Literature Dr. Raouf Mama
ENG 461-03 The Figure of the Pirate Dr. Benjamin Pauley
Fall 2011	Spring 2012
ENG 461-01 Literature of the Wild West Dr. Meredith James	ENG 461-01 Memoir: Exploring the Private/Public “I” Dr. Susan DeRosa
ENG 461-02 The Rhetoric of Crime Dr. Rita Malenczyk	ENG 461-02 Conceptual Metaphor & Literature Dr. Elena Tapia
ENG 461-03 Crash Course in the Novel Dr. Christopher Torockio
ENG 461-04 Medieval Queens and Nobel Women Dr. Meredith Clermont-Ferrand
Fall 2010	Spring 2011
ENG 461-01 The Rhetoric of Place Dr. Stephen Ferruci	ENG 461-01 The Culture of War Dr. Kenneth McNeil
ENG 461-02 Community Literacy Studies Dr. Lauren Rosenberg	ENG 461-02 The Comic Tradition Dr. Miriam Chirico
ENG 461-03 Shakespeare in Print & Film Dr. Meg Lota Brown
Fall 2009	Spring 2010
ENG 461-01 Social and Political Issues in African Literature Dr. Raouf Mama	ENG 461-01 Literature and Culture of Vietnam War Dr. Daniel Donaghy
ENG 461-03 The African American Sonnet: Reading and Writing Metrical Verse Dr. Reginal Flood	ENG 461-02 Adaptation and Ideology Dr. Lisa Rowe Fraustino
ENG 461-05 Monstrous Women Dr. Maureen McDonnell
Fall 2008	Spring 2009
ENG 461-03 Social and Political Issues in African Literature Dr. Raouf Mama	ENG 461-01 Rhetoric and Popular Fictions Dr. Rita Malenczyk
ENG 461-04 Medieval Heretics & Outlaws Dr. Meredith Clermont-Ferrand	ENG 461-02 Crash Course in the Novel Dr. Christopher Torockio
ENG 461-05 The Figure of the Pirate Dr. Benjamin Pauley
ENG 461-06 The Sociolinguistics of Dialect in Literature Dr. Elena Tapia
ENG 461-07 Secular Scriptures Dr. Barbara Liu
Fall 2007	Spring 2008
ENG 461-01 The Rhetoric of Place Dr. Stephen Ferruci	ENG 461-01 Gender and Literary Representation in the Great War Dr. Marcia McGowan
ENG 461-02 Studies in Dramatic Comedy Dr. Miriam Chirico	ENG 461-02 Walt Whitman Dr. Jian-Zhong Lin
ENG 461-03 Secular Scriptures: Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary Fiction Dr. Barbara Liu
ENG 461-04 The Culture of War Dr. Kenneth McNeil

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