ENG 366 The Victorians
The Victorians experienced cataclysmic changes in science, economics and industry, national identity, gender roles, and faith. Novelists wrestled with these changes, chronicling the broad social world and the schisms that divided it. Poets of the period registered extremes of doubt, or returned to an idealized past, or looked forward to developments like the liberation of women. Representative authors may include the Brontes, Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, Tennyson, and Barrett Browning.

ENG 239 Tales of the Sea
This J-Term course in the Virgin Islands involves reading the literature of the sea while sailing on a two-masted schooner. Students will stay aboard the windjammer, Roseway, home of the World Ocean School, where they will read the stories of lives and characters transformed by the challenges of the sea. Texts will include classic works such as The Odyssey and Conrad's The Shadow Line, as well as contemporary texts like H.M.S. Surprise. During the course students will learn some basic elements of seamanship and navigation, and also learn to sail a small craft. 

ENG 230 The Writer's Voice
When writers write, they sing, whisper, and shout. This course, an introduction to the English major, emphasizes literature and writing as forms of personal and cultural expression. Our central literary focus is on poetry, by may include fiction, drama, or non-fiction. The course also gives extended attention to student writing as a performative act, conscious of voice, audience, and purpose.

Paideia 450 U.S. Schools
This course examines issues about schooling in the United States and explores the questions which educators, citizens, parents and students face regarding education. In addition to looking at features of schools, students examine the relationship between religion, politics and economics in the schools of our nation. Students explore religious and secular values and their effect on educational decisions and behaviors, particularly as those values related to ethnicity, race, class and gender. The course also discusses how contemporary educators, parents, citizens and students must understand the legacy of historical decisions about schools that continue to influence modern systems of education.