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Department Chair: Becky Jo Gesteland
Location: Elizabeth Hall, Room 435
Telephone Contact: Emily Evensen 801-626-6251 
 

Professors: James Russell Burrows, Hal Crimmel, Becky Jo Gesteland, Siân Griffiths, Mark LeTourneau, Karen Marguerite Moloney, Scott Rogers, Sally Bishop Shigley, Mahalingam Subbiah, Michael Wutz; Associate Professors: Christy Call, Courtney Craggett, Rebekah Cumpsty, David Hartwig, Emily January, Susan McKay, Ryan Ridge, Abraham Smith, Shelley Thomas, Megan McDonald Van Deventer; Assistant Professors: Jace Brown, Ashley Caranto Morford, Ukamaka Olisakwe, Chris Scheidler, Marisa Yerace; Instructors: Toni Asay, Ryan Evans, Kristin Friederichs Champi, Jan Hamer, Kyra Hudson, Clint Johnson, Brooke Kelly, Becky Marchant, Sylvia Newman, Daniel Paul, William Pollett, Laura Stott, Sarah Vause, Sunni Wilkinson

The Department of English Language and Literature offers a broad spectrum of language, literature, and writing courses. English majors and minors, English Teaching majors and minors, English majors with Professional and Technical writing emphasis and Professional and Technical writing minors, English majors with Creative Writing emphasis, and Literary Editing minors and Screenwriting minors, as well as Associate of Arts in English students, in consultation with English department advisors, can select programs individually designed to satisfy academic requirements. Furthermore, students preparing for careers in law, medicine, business, public relations and government service may find departmental courses highly beneficial. The English Department also offers courses for the general student in literature, creative writing, and introductory and intermediate writing.

Students transferring to Weber State as English majors, with most of their junior and senior status completed, are required to take a minimum of 9 upper division credit hours, minors a minimum of 6 upper division credit hours. This requirement also applies to transfer graduate students.

English Composition Requirement

Students seeking the Associate of Applied Science degree must pass ENGL 1010  or ENGL 1005  or ENGL 1006  and ENGL 1007  with a “C” grade (2.0) or better in order to satisfy the composition requirement. Students seeking any other degree must successfully complete ENGL 2010  or ENGL 2015  with a grade of “C” or higher. Students placed in developmental English courses ENGL 0900  must also pass that course with a grade of “C” or higher. Please note that English composition courses, whether developmental or not, are sequential and can not be taken out of numerical order.

Successful completion of ENGL 2015  or ENGL 2010  with a grade of C or better satisfies the University core requirement for Composition. Entrance into ENGL 2015  or ENGL 2010   can be accomplished in the following ways: 1) passing ENGL 1005  or ENGL 1010  or ENGL 1006  and ENGL 1007  with a grade of C or better, 2) passing the AP Language and Composition or Literature and Composition examination with a score of 3 or better, 3) achieving an ACT English and Reading score of 29 or better, 4) a CLEP with essay test with a score of 50 or better, or 5) articulated transfer credit from another regionally accredited college or university.

English Placement

Students are placed in the English developmental/composition sequence of courses either by ACT sub-scores or by Accuplacer scores. As of 2019, there is a new version. If you took the Accuplacer test prior to 2019, contact the Department of English for details.

*ACT scores in English and Reading expire after 4 years.  ACCUPLACER scores expire after 48 months.

International students must provide ACT, SAT or Accuplacer scores for English placement. If scores are missing, students will be
placed into ENGL 0900 .

Pathways for Completing your Composition Requirement

Your placement shows where you need to begin in one of these course sequences to fulfill your English Composition requirement:

ENGL 0900 → ENGL 1005 → ENGL 2010 or

ENGL 0900 → ENGL 1005 → ENGL 2015 or

ENGL 0900 → ENGL 1006 → ENGL 1007 → ENGL 2010 or

ENGL 0900 → ENGL 1006 → ENGL 1007 → ENGL 2015 or

ENGL 1010 → ENGL 2010 or

ENGL 1010 → ENGL 2015

Interdisciplinary Minors

The English Department participates in the Asian Studies , Environmental Studies  and Linguistics Minor/BIS  Programs. Students who wish to enroll in one of these programs should indicate their desire to do so with the program coordinator who will help them work out a proper combination of courses to fit their particular needs. (See the Engaged Learning, Honors, and Interdisciplinary Programs  section of this catalog.)

Interdisciplinary Associate’s

The English Language and Literature Department participates in the interdisciplinary associate’s degree in Workplace Communication and Writing (AS) . Students who wish to enroll in this program should contact the English Language and Literature Department or one of the college advisors for the College of Arts & Humanities who will help them work out a schedule.

The English Department offers Face-to-Face (F2F), Hybrid, and Online (OL) classes.

The following definitions are intended to help faculty and students understand the differences between Face-to-Face (F2F), Hybrid, and Online (OL) classes taught in the English Department.

1. If less than 15% of the class sessions are online, a course will be designated Face-to-Face (F2F)-the current default for courses.
2. If 30−70% of class sessions are conducted online, normally but not exclusively in Canvas, courses will be designated Hybrid. This is consistent with WSU Online’s definition.
3. Classes that are 100% online will be defined as Online (OL).
4. Classes will be designated as F2F, Hybrid, or OL prior to the time the department finalizes schedules for any given semester. The designation may not be changed once registration has opened or during the semester except in the event of extenuating circumstances such as injury, illness or university closure; Department Chair approval is required.
5. Within the various categories (F2F, Hybrid, Online) the table below illustrates how many online class sessions students can expect in each category. This number is dependent on how often a class meets: once a week (mainly evening classes), twice a week (TR or MW), and three times a week (MWF):

Courses

English Course Descriptions  

Programs

• English (AA)

• Professional and Technical Writing Certificate of Proficiency

• English (BA)
• English (BA), Creative Writing Emphasis
• English (BA), Professional & Technical Writing Emphasis
• English Teaching (BA)

   BIS emphases are also offered for most programs with a minor.

• English (BIS)

• English Minor
• Literary Editing Minor
• Professional and Technical Writing Minor/BIS
• Screenwriting Minor

• English Teaching Minor

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