The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Butler University

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7. All engineering courses taken during the
first three years will be taught at Butler
University along with mathematics,
sciences and other courses.
8. Transportation supported between sites
(Butler and Purdue School of Engineering
and Technology at Indianapolis).
9. Job placement/career services at Butler
University, Purdue School of Engineering
and Technology at Indianapolis, and
Purdue University at West Lafayette will be
available to dual degree students.
The curriculum for the EDDP can be viewed
at www.butler.edu/engineering. Engineering
courses are noted on the Butler University transcript
with a departmental designation of DD.
English Language and
Literature Department
Administration
Hilene Flanzbaum, Ph.D., department chair
Professors
Joseph R. Colavito, Ph.D.; Hilene Flanzbaum,
Ph.D.; Marshall W. Gregory, Ph.D.; Andrew
G. Levy, Ph.D.; Susan Neville, M.F.A.; Carol
Reeves, Ph.D.; William P. Walsh, Ph.D.
Associate Professors
Dan Barden, M.F.A.; Lee Garver, Ph.D.; William
Watts, Ph.D.; Jason Goldsmith, Ph.D.
Assistant Professors
Chris Forhan, M.F.A.; Ania Spyra, Ph.D.;
Brynnar Swenson, Ph.D.
Instructors
Angela Hofstetter, Ph.D.; Alessandra Lynch,
M.F.A.; Rebecca Ries, M.A.; Robert Stapleton,
M.F.A.; Susan Sutherlin, M.A.
Why major in English?
The English major offers students the tools
to master close reading, formal analysis, literary
history, critical theory, research strategies, and
creative expression. English majors enjoy the
beauty of great works of art as they simultaneously
ask important questions about the
relationship between language and the production
of meaning and value. Our students learn
to discuss and write critically about the many
ways literature and language have influenced
the values and lived experiences of societies over
centuries, among genders and classes, races and
ethnicities, and across geographical boundaries.
When English majors head out into the world,
we expect that they will carry with them a
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passion for reading and writing, and a commitment
to use language clearly, purposefully, and
with sophistication and elegance.
Why major in English at Butler?
The English Department at Butler University
balances the study of traditional fields of
English and American literature with a
commitment to interdisciplinary work,
involving contemporary fields such as gender
and sexuality, film studies, comparative literature,
cultural studies, rhetoric of science, and
creative writing. Our full-time faculty includes
formalists and theorists, cultural historians
and rhetoricians, and novelists and poets. Our
course offerings reflect diversity: students can
choose a traditional English major, or the major
with a concentration — Creative Writing or
Theory, Culture and Criticism. In each case,
students will find small classes, dedicated
teachers, and an active and engaged group of
fellow students.
Butler’s English Department is home to one
of the country’s most important Visiting Writers
Series, which encourages a sense of literary
and creative community that goes beyond the
classroom. Recent visitors to the Series have
included Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Russo,
Yusef Kumonyaaka, Elmore Leonard, Jorie
Graham and Junot Diaz. The popular Visiting
Writers Series course offers students the chance
to meet and talk to many of these writers. The
Department’s secondary programs also extend
the opportunities for our majors, including a
city-wide creative writing camp, a large Peer
Tutoring program where students help students
across the university, and an internship program
where students gain experience in classrooms,
pressrooms, and in small and large businesses.
English Student Learning Objectives
Our students graduate as incisive readers,
cogent thinkers, and powerful writers, well
prepared for any profession requiring a rigorous
understanding and mastery of language.
Because of their exposure to a vast array of
human experiences in literature, English majors
are more likely to be able to listen to the voices
of opposition and disagreement; to accept the
persistence in the world of ambiguity and
complexity without resorting to facile simplification,
cliché or stereotypes; to consider
evidence rather than rush to judgment, and to
react to human dilemmas and suffering with
compassion. English majors also carry with