2012-2013 - Sweet Briar College

ENVR 143, 203, 244, 309, and 433.
The Engineering Science Minor
(18 semester hours)
Required:
ENGR 110 (4) Designing Our World: An Introduction to Engineering Design
ENGR 120 (1) Foundations of Engineering Analysis
PHYS 171 (4) General Physics I
Choose 9 additional semester credits in engineering at the 200-level or above.
English
The English Department at Sweet Briar College promotes the study of literature, creative and critical
writing, and film. Our immediate objectives are to teach students to read with understanding and to
write with clarity and precision. By stressing imaginative thinking and interpretive rigor we encourage
them to become intellectually independent.
All students read a wide variety of literature written in English including works from different
historical periods, literary genres, and English-speaking cultures. They also study a wide variety of
critical viewpoints and interpretive strategies. In this way they gain a larger historical perspective as
well as the critical skills and cultural awareness needed in a global community. To supplement Sweet
Briar’s program, we urge qualified students to spend at least a part of their junior year in the exchange
programs at the University of London or the University of St. Andrews in Scotland or to participate in
summer study in the Virginia Program at Oxford University.
Students in film courses explore the use of images and words by studying the terminology of film
production, the aesthetic elements of cinema, and film theories. They also examine cinema’s historical
development as an artistic and social force. Courses offered within the interdisciplinary film studies
program focus on specific genres, major directors, national cinemas, and literary adaptation.
Courses in Shakespeare and modern drama contribute to the major in Theatre Arts. The department
encourages other interdepartmental and interdisciplinary studies and supports the Honors Program as
well as the Gender Studies Program.
The study of English gives our students a background in analytical thinking and an ability to
communicate effectively, skills much in demand in a variety of careers today. In recent years they have
gone on to M.F.A. programs in creative writing, to graduate study in English, law, journalism, and
business, and into careers such as teaching, publishing, advertising, journalism, business, finance,
public relations, communications, and library and information science. We believe that the insights
derived from reading and writing are as valuable to students in the natural and social sciences as they
are to those in the humanities.