Overview
如果你喜欢阅读文学作品, 或者如果你喜欢写作, 或者如果你对英语的起源着迷, 那么你应该攻读英语学位. This program offers broad exposure to the literature, history, and culture of the English language. 你将学习批判性思维技能以及如何清晰地写作, persuasively, and creatively. An English degree at Great Bay helps you translate your love for literature and your creative talents into a successful academic career and a fulfilling future solving real-world problems.
Why Great Bay?
The English program at Great Bay offers a good deal of flexibility in choosing electives. 完成基本学位要求后, 你可以把学习的重点放在文学上, writing, film, and the humanities. Other program highlights include our small discussion- and research-oriented classes and the opportunity to complete an internship. The Great Bay English department is currently the only community college in New Hampshire to offer an internship in the humanities course.
Career Options
- Teacher
- Writer
- Publisher
- Editor
- 通信专家
- 政府顾问
- Lawyer
- Business executive
Related Degrees
Internships
GBCC学生入读英语专业, Humanities and Liberal Arts can register for English 289: 人文学科实习 (offered in the Spring semester). This 3-credit course is designed to offer humanities majors an opportunity to put the writing, communication, critical thinking, creative, and collaborative skills developed in their coursework into practice in the world of humanities-related work. Students will explore answers to the question “What can I do with my humanities degree?” while ideally focusing on racial and/or social justice work in a semester-long internship project.
有兴趣的学生可以联系博士. Emily M. Hinnov ([email protected]) or Prof. Cindy Walton ([email protected])查阅资格要求.
总学分: 62 – 64
Program Outcomes
Students graduating with the Associate of Arts degree in English will be able to:
•理解各种风格时期和体裁, 以及英语文学作品的范围和意义.
• Develop skills of analysis and interpretation using different theoretical approaches to study and analyze literature and language within the broad range of human experience.
•检查文本是如何写的，并在文学中接受, cultural, and socio-historical contexts while recognizing that literature and language reflect and impact cultural change.
•培养有效写作的能力, persuasively, 并分析广泛的观众.
• Qualify for transfer to a four-year college or university with the necessary foundation in English and/or related fields such as Writing, History, the Humanities, 或政治学.
深入的描述
The English major at Great Bay encompasses the study of a wide range of literary periods, styles, and genres. 这些要求为学生提供了广泛的美国背景, British, 以及用英语写的大陆文学, as well as the analytical tools and skills necessary for the serious academic study of literature. Students can pursue specialized literary or writing interests through their major electives. The program provides a strong foundation for further study of English and the humanities at four-year colleges and universities.
英语副学士强调扎实, adaptable communication skills for students who love literature and language and the exploration and development of complex ideas. 英语专业也建立了重要的研究, writing, and critical thinking skills that translate into valuable workplace contributions in a wide variety of fields. 具体的职业领域可能包括:教学, writing, communications, editing, publishing, journalism, education, and the law.
It is recommended that students take the following in their first semester:
- 英语110g /111G:大学作文I /带实验
- 评判150:批判性思维
- 文学导论课程 (如ENGL114G:诗歌导论), 英语:电影研究概论, 或ENGL120G:非裔美国文学与文化概论)
It is recommended that students take the following in the second semester:
- 英语127g:文学分析导论
学生也被鼓励做实验科学, Math, 人文/外语/美术, and 社会科学选修课 choices based upon particular four-year college’s transfer requirements and general education cores.
转移的机会
我们提供与UNH的转学协议 B.A. in English, English Literature, and Journalism.
What’s New
Faculty Scholarship
Dr. Hinnov‘s previous publications include journal articles and book chapters on various modernists writers and artists, 同时教授大学作文. Her monograph, 与Choran社区相遇:文学现代主义, Visual Culture, 以及两次世界大战期间的政治美学该书于2009年由萨斯奎哈纳大学出版社出版. She has several other past publications on subjects ranging from the maternally-focused photographs of Tina Modotti, to the underrepresented work of Harlem Renaissance era writers Elise Johnson McDougald and Marita O. Bonner, to representations of gender and authorship in the work of Robert Louis Stevenson, 作为一名X一代冰球突破豪华版试玩的经历.
Her second book project is a volume co-edited with Laurel Harris and Lauren M. Rosenblum called Communal Modernisms: Teaching Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Twenty-first Century Classroom (Palgrave Macmillan出版社，2013).
另一章，“教授哈莱姆文艺复兴:汉娜Höch，玛丽塔O. Bonner和Nella Larsen的作品，出版在一本名为 现代主义女性英语写作教学 (edited by Janine M. 在2021年6月的MLA教学系列选项.
Her essay about World War II era feminist resistance in the work of Virginia Woolf, Jessica Dismorr, and Elizabeth Bowen, 她在2022年的虚拟伍尔夫会议上展示的, 将在 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫国际会议论文选集 in 2024. A shorter essay. “‘Thinking Peace Into Existence: Virginia Woolf and Jessica Dismorr,” was published in the journal 女性主义现代主义研究 in February 2023.
Additionally, Dr. Hinnov was elated to preside over a panel she organized for the International Virginia Woolf Society titled “Woolf’s 21st-Century Academia,，这是在华盛顿举行的MLA年会上远程提出的, DC in January 2022. Most recently, she has worked on guest editing a special issue on this topic for the journal 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫杂记这部电影将于2024年上映. This series of essays proposes a renewed pedagogy that opens us to possible ways of moving forward—whether that be from places of precarity or positions of privilege—to envision a new kind of higher education which Woolf first proposed in 1938.
Finally, Dr. Hinnov attended her second week-long summer course–this time on “Virginia Woolf’s Women” at Clare Hall College, 剑桥大学, in July 2023: http://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-course. It was exciting to see how this in-depth study—taught by some world-renowned Woolf scholars—enhanced her teaching of women’s literature at Great Bay.
人文学科实习
This 3-credit course该课程于2019年首次向英语和人文学科的学生开放.
The course is designed to give students an opportunity to put the skills they have developed in writing, communication, critical thinking, and creative collaboration in their English and Humanities courses into practice in the world of work, and help them answer the question “What can I do with my humanities degree?”. They hope that this course this will create student ambassadors for the humanities at Great Bay.
感兴趣的学生可以联系Emily M. Hinnov ([email protected]) or Cindy Walton ([email protected])查阅资格要求.
