English
Flagler College's Department of English offers a comprehensive curriculum in literature, composition and creative writing which allows students to pursue a vast array of areas of interest.
Students majoring in English can take courses ranging from Chaucer to Modern Poetry, from Grammar Theory to Fiction into Film while students in the creative writing minor take courses in poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and have the opportunity to present their creative work to other practicing writers both at Flagler and in the community at large via a Portfolio Workshop.
Every student graduating as an English major will take courses that develop skills in critical thinking and critical analysis, written and oral communication, and research; as such, our students are able to continue their education in graduate school or embark on various career paths, including editing, journalism, professional writing, teaching, and others.
Majors/Minors
ENGLISH MAJOR
Students majoring in English are required to take a minimum of 42 hours as indicated below. Note that ENG 311, ENG 341 and ENG 473 are required of all majors.
12 hours from:
ENG 211 - Introduction to English Literature I
ENG 212 - Introduction to English Literature II
ENG 221 - Introduction to American Literature I
ENG 222 - Introduction to American Literature II
3 hours from:
ENG 301 - Grammar Theory
ENG 304 - The Art of Non-Fiction
3 hours from:
ENG 321 - Southern Writers
ENG 322 - Great Short Stories
3 hours from:
ENG 331 - Great Works of World Literature
ENG 332 - Great Works of Western Literature
6 hours from:
ENG 311 - Advanced Expository Writing (3rd yr)
ENG 341 - Literary Criticism (3rd yr)
3 hours from:
ENG 401 - Renaissance Literature
ENG 410 - Chaucer
ENG 415 - Shakespeare I
ENG 416 - Shakespeare II
3 hours from:
ENG 403 - Restoration & 18th Century Literature
ENG 405 - Romantic and Victorian Literature
ENG 417 - Milton
ENG 441 - English Novel
3 hours from:
ENG 421 - American Masterpieces I
ENG 422 - American Masterpieces II
ENG 423 - Contemporary American Novel
ENG 453 - Contemporary Poetry
3 hours from:
ENG 450 - Modern Fiction
ENG 451 - Modern Poetry
ENG 454 - Literature and Women
ENG 461 - Film Literature
3 hours from:
ENG 473 - Senior Seminar (4th yr)
NOTE: Most 400-level courses are usually rotated every second year (excluding ENG 415 and ENG 416). Students are advised to plan ahead to make sure their major in English is well-balanced and the courses they wish to take are available.
Additionally, English majors will be allowed to replace one of the above 400-level courses with an appropriate ENG 440 course offering. THis option must be cleared with the student's academic advisor pror to registration for ENG 440. Likewise, an apropriate ENG 340 course offering may be substituted for a 300-level requirement
ENGLISH MINOR
Students minoring in English are required to earn 18 semester hours in English from the following groups of courses:
6 hours from:
ENG 211 - Introduction to English Literature I
ENG 212 - Introduction to English Literature II
ENG 221 - Introduction to American Literature I
ENG 222 - Introduction to American Literature II
6 hours from:
ENG 304 - The Art of Non-Fiction
ENG 311 - Advanced Expository Writing
ENG 321 - Southern Writers
ENG 322 - Great Short Stories
ENG 331 - Great Works of World Literature
ENG 332 - Great Works of Western Literature
ENG 341 - Literary Criticism
6 hours from:
Any 400-level courses listed above
CREATIVE WRITING MINOR
Students minoring in creative writing are required to earn 18 semester hours:
6 hours from:
ENG 205 Introduction to Poetry Writing (3)
ENG 206 Introduction to Short Story Writing (3)
After prerequisites in poetry and in short story, students will earn at least 9 semester hours from the following options:
ENG 303 – Screenwriting
ENG 304 - The Art of Nonfiction
ENG 306 - Advanced Poetry Writing
ENG 307 - Magazine Writing
ENG 312 - Advanced Fiction Writing
ENG 340 - Selected Topics in Creative Writing
(e.g., film script and drama)
Students may earn 3 semester hours of credit in exceptional alternatives, including a publisher’s contract or an internship at a professional journal. Students who have earned at least 15 hours of credit, as outlined above, will complete the final 3 semester hours in the creative writing minor:
ENG 412 - Manuscript in Creative Writing
Course Offerings
Sample of Courses offered in a Semester
ENG 010 - Basic Writing (3)
ENG 020 - CLAST Prep. Language Skills (1)
ENG 021 - CLAST Prep. Essay (1)
ENG 101 - English Composition I (3)
ENG 102 - English Composition II (3)
ENG 191 - Honors Composition I (3)
ENG 205 - Introduction to Poetry Writing (3)
ENG 211 - Intro. to English Literature I (3)
ENG 221 - Intro. to American Literature I (3)
ENG 293 - Writing Center Peer-Tutoring (1-3)
ENG 301 - Grammar Theory (3)
ENG 307 - Magazine Writing (3)
ENG 312 - Advanced Fiction Writing (3)
ENG 341 - Literary Criticism (3)
ENG 401 - Renaissance Literature (3)
ENG 415 - Shakespeare I (3)
ENG 453 - Contemporary Poetry (3)
ENG 454 - Literature and Women (3)
ENG 461 - Film Literature (3)
ENG 473 - English Senior Seminar (3)
ENG 481-482-483 - Career Prep. Internship (3-6)
Other Courses Offered
ENG 192 - Honors Composition II (3)
ENG 212 - Intro. to English Literature II (3)
ENG 222 - Intro. to American Literature II (3)
ENG 304 - The Art of Non-Fiction (3)
ENG 403 - Restoration & 18th C. Literature (3)
ENG 412 - Creative Writing Portfolio (3)
ENG 416 - Shakespeare II (3)
Internship Program
ENG 483 - CAREER PREPARATION
Professor: Dr. Carl S. Horner
In ENG 483, students explore actual career tendencies or possibilities, applying and developing writing talents that may be marketed subsequent to degree work at Flagler College. The purpose of the internship is to provide an opportunity not merely to observe but actually to participate in the productivity of regular employees.
Students will explore a career tendency in an actual industrial or institutional setting, learning duties required by the position, reinforcing writing skills taught at Flagler College, and therefore developing experience that can be marketed subsequent to undergraduate degree work.
Students will practice the standards of critical thinking and writing, grappling for insight and assertion and for the argument that explains (analysis) and defends (evidence) thinking.
Students will make board-room, camera-ready presentations, practicing the psychology of communication and using the effects of appropriate audio-video tapes and graphics.
At the end of the course, students should realize the following results:
to perform the duties required in their career-related work;
to present both evidence of experience and a portfolio of their work when they apply and interview for jobs subsequent to undergraduate degree work;
to learn that the assertion/argument essay is used as a medium not only for expression but also for thought;
to develop the thinking that engages both writers and readers in the making of meaning -- the thinking that generates writing with assertion, insight, knowledge, analysis, evidence, believability, significance and voice;
to find, organize, assess, synthesize and document research;
to organize material, construct coherent paragraphs and essays, dress thought, write standard English language, and format composition;
to make board-room, camera-ready presentations to clients, management teams and public audiences, complete with audio-video and graphics effects;
to implement the psychology of oral communication.
FULL-TIME FACULTY
(YEAR OF HIRE)
Dr. Darien Andreu (1987)
Associate Professor
B.A. - Florida State University
M.A. - Florida State University
Ph.D.- Florida State University
Dr. Carl Horner (1989)
Professor; Director of Creative Writing
B.A. - Eastern Kentucky University
M.A. - Indiana University
Ph.D. - Florida State University
Dr. Hadley J. Mozer (2006)
Assistant Professor
B.A. - Houston Baptist University
M.A. - Baylor University
Ph.D. - Baylor University
Dr. Liz Robbins (2006)
Assistant Professor
B.A. - College of Charleston
M.A. - University of North Florida
Ph.D. - Georgia State University
Dr. Constantine Santas (1971; retired 2002)
Professor Emeritus
B.A. - Knox College
M.A. - University of Illinois
Ph.D. - Northwestern University
Connie Marie St. Clair-Andrews (2002)
Instructor, Director of Composition
B.A. - Flagler College
M.A. - University of North Florida
Dr. James M. Wilson (2002)
Associate Professor
B.A. - Dakota Wesleyan University
M.A. - University of South Dakota
Ph.D. - University of Southwestern Louisiana
Dr. Tamara Wilson (2000)
Associate Professor; Department Chair
B.A. - Indiana University
M.A. - San Jose State University
Ph.D. - University of Southwestern Louisiana
FACULTY BIOS
Dr . DARIEN ANDREU
Darien Andreu, Associate Professor, teaches American literature, literature of the South, and creative writing (fiction). A former director of the Flagler College Composition Program, Dr. Andreu has been honored as Phi Alpha Omega Woman of the Year and Flagler College Student Government Association Teacher of the Year. She has also published short fiction and non-fiction in the Princeton Arts Review; Apalachee Quarterly; and Cultures, a Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich text.
DR. CARL HORNER
Professor Carl S. Horner teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature, host the Colloquium in English Studies, teaches poetry writing, directs the creative writing program, including Writers-in-Residence, and edits The Flagler Review. Dr. Horner has published The Boy Inside the American Businessman, a socio-economic study of twentieth-century American novel and drama, as well as articles, reviews, and poetry in national journals, including War, Literature, and the Arts; American Literature; Paintbrush; Apalachee Quarterly; and Mid-American Review. His poetry has also appeared in the anthology North of Wakulla.
Three new publications for 2005:
A Hole in the Wind available at Barnes and Noble Booksellers nationally, BN.com, amazon.com, and Gescomm.com. Recently
"Misfit as Metaphor: The Question and the Contradiction of Lupus in Flannery O'Connor's ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’" published fall 2005 DSQ: Disability Studies Quarterly
"Challenging the Law of Courage and Heroic Identification in Tim O’Brien’s If I Die in a Combat Zone and The Things They Carried" published by Thompson-Gale summer 2005 in Short Story Criticism Vol. 74
Dr. Horner was featured in the Fall 2005 edition of Flagler Magazine. You can read the story online by clicking the following link: Welcome to Hornerland.
DR. HADLEY J. MOZER
Dr. Hadley J. Mozer received his M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (2003) from Baylor University, where he specialized in nineteenth-century British literature and wrote his dissertation on Lord Byron and the rise of advertising. He has published in Studies in Romanticism ("'I WANT a hero': Advertising for an Epic Hero in Don Juan," SiR 44.2 [Summer 2005]: 239-60) and Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia and presented papers at the International Conference on Romanticism, the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, and the Northeast Modern Language Association, among others. Expanding on his dissertation, his current scholarship explores the fecund ways that commercial culture—especially marketing, advertising, and publicity—and high Romantic literature mutually inflect and inform one another. He has taught a variety of courses, including Freshman Composition, World Literature II, British Literature II, Literary Criticism, The English Novel, The Romantic Period, and The Victorian Period. He enjoys surfing, sunsets, skiing, trips to Santa Barbara to see "lil bro," two-stepping, coffee, cats, free wireless, and, of course, reading and writing.
DR. LIZ ROBBINS
Dr. Liz Robbins, Assistant Professor, joined the full-time faculty in Fall 2006. She received her Ph.D in creative writing from Georgia State University in 2004. Poems from her first book, Hope, As the World Is a Scorpion Fish, have been featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac and Verse Daily. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Harpur Palate, Margie, Puerto del Sol, Rattle, and storySouth.She is the recipient of the Florida First Coast Poetry Award, judged by Robert Bly, and has been nominated for Best New Poets and a Pushcart Prize. She has presented papers and poetry at conferences such as the National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association.
DR. CONSTANTINE SANTAS
Dr. Constantine Santas, Professor, came to Flagler College in 1971 after having taught at Milwaukee-Downer College and the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Dr. Santas served as chair of the English Department throughout his tenure at Flagler and has taught courses ranging from Basic Writing to Literature into Film. He has published articles on Greek authors and themes, translated a number of Greek poems and works, translated and/or adapated plays by Euripides and Sophocles and has recently completed work on Responding to Film, a textbook for university-level classes on film. Dr. Santas has also written a novel and a number of original poems and is an Advisory Council Member for the Center for Greek Studies at the University of Florida.
MS. CONNIE MARIE ST. CLAIR-ANDREWS
Connie St. Clair-Andrews, Instructor, first came to Flagler College as a student, where she received her B.A. in Secondary English Education. She went on to receive her M.A. at the University of North Florida, before coming back to Flagler in 1996 as an adjunct instructor. In addition to teaching in St. Johns County secondary schools, she has also taught as an adjunct at the University of North Florida and as a full-time teacher at St. Johns River Community College. Composition is her specialty, and she is a member of several professional and writer’s organizations. She is a United States Air Force veteran and a multi-year winner of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. She serves as Coordinator of the First-Year Composition Program.
DR. JIM WILSON
Dr. Jim Wilson was hired as a full-time faculty member in January 2002. He completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1997. He has had six short stories in various publications, including two in the Southwestern Review. He is a member of the Modern Languages Association, the Associated Writing Programs, the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and the English honor society Sigma Tau Delta.
DR. TAMARA WILSON
Dr. Tamara Wilson, Chair of the English Department, is an associate professor who received her Ph.D. from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1999, emphasis in Renaissance studies. Her other areas of academic study include women's literature, science fiction/fantasy and folklore. Prior to Lafayette, Dr. Wilson worked in the business community of San Jose, CA, while pursuing her MA at San Jose State. Since coming to Flagler College, Dr. Wilson has presented a number of papers for the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts and the Popular Culture Conference, among others, on a range of topics: classroom response to feminist utopias; female heroes, the works of Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Dollhouse). In August of 2005 Dr. Wilson was a panel member and presenter at the Oxford Roundtable on Leadership and Women.
Honor Society
SIGMA TAU DELTA
"Sigma Tau Delta's central purpose is to confer distinction upon students of the English language and literature in undergraduate, graduate and professional studies. Sigma Tau Delta also recognizes the accomplishments of professional writers who have contributed to the fields of language and literature." - Sigma Tau Delta