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