Literature and Social Justice

Why do we study literature? What is its importance to your life (now and beyond college) and to the world we live in? This class is for students who answer these questions by drawing a connection between literature and social justice. It takes the view that literature contributes to social justice in the world in a variety of ways--which each individual defines differently.

VirtMedvl:Fict&Fant/MiddleAges

What is medieval? Most people learn very little about the foggy period that lies between the end of the Classical era and the start of the Renaissance. What we do learn usually consists of stereotypes. Jousting, chivalry, repression of women, religious fervor, medical ignorance, lice, Crusades, King Arthur, economic injustice, knights, ladies, and plague: such words, concepts, images predominate. How were these stereotypes produced? How are they reinforced or challenged on-line? What is their relationship to the ways the medieval world saw itself?

Writing,Identity&EngStudies

The Integrative Experience at UMass Amherst is a required upper-division course that asks students to reflect on and integrate their learning, from their major to their General Education courses to their extracurricular experiences; to further practice key Gen Ed objectives, such as oral communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and interdisciplinary perspective-taking; and to begin to apply what they've learned at UMass to new situations, challenging questions, and real world problems. This course is a writing-intensive version of the IE, designed specifically for BA-English majors.

S- The Major and Beyond

This course helps English majors find their way to the post-graduate life they want. Students practice important job search skills, learn to articulate the worth of their major, and leave the course with a better sense of their vocational direction. In addition to receiving individualized guidance in creating cover letters and resumes of immediate use, students work on multiple other assignments: attendance at career events, interviews with professionals from fields of interest, a professional presentation, a short paper researching professions, and participation in a mock interview.
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