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Minor in Screen Cultures

The minor in Screen Cultures explores mass culture in its visual manifestations and helps students develop an informed awareness of culture and media, ideological tendencies, and effects on daily experience. Committed to interdisciplinary studies, the program addresses the increasing complexity and m...

ENGH 470-001: Media, Politics, & Melodrama

Fall 2024 -  Hatim El-Hibri 

Research Capstone Course This course explores the near-ubiquitous presence of melodramatic form in modern culture. It will examine melodrama to open up critical questions about the inter-relationship of politics, aesthetics, social injustice, and the place of media in society. The course will draw o...

ENGH 513-C01: Teaching The Crucible

Summer 2024 -  Samaine Lockwood 

Arthur Miller’s 1953 play The Crucible has been a staple of the public-school curriculum for decades. Miller’s play is most often approached as a commentary on McCarthyism (i.e., the “hunt” for communists) undertaken in the United States in the mid-20th-century. In this course, we will explore other ...

Minor in Community and Public Writing

BA in English

Mason’s English degree is not a conventional one. As an English major, you can study the poetry of Milton and learn to write digital poetry. You can specialize in Renaissance literature or modern world literature. You can take courses on the folklore of Mexico or the films of Bollywood. You can learn...