What do Dante, Milton and Chaucer have to do with digital texts? Imagine taking courses on hypertext and e-literature. Or writing a Twitter essay. Or producing your own edition of a Shakespearean play with fellow classmates via Google Docs.

Welcome to English Literature & New Media.

Explore the variety of courses below. If you have a question about a particular class — or the program in general — contact program director Jesse Stommel by email or on Twitter @jessifer.

BA in English Literature & New Media
Minimum of 180 total quarter credits
75 credits required for major

Required Core Courses (39 crs.)
Cohorts take these courses together in sequence.
Critical Analysis (on-campus orientation)
Introduction to Literary Studies
Introduction to Digital Humanities
American Literature
British Literature
Literary Theory for Digital Humanities
Literature Seminar (on campus)
Senior Thesis in Digital Humanities

Service Learning Project (6 crs.)
Students develop a tailored service learning project in Service
Learning I. In Service Learning II, students complete and reflect on the service project.
Service Learning I
Service Learning II

Major Coursework (30 crs.)
These courses are open to cohort and non-cohort students.

Choose one advanced digital humanities course:
Hypertext and E-Literature
Special Topics in Digital Humanities

Choose one text:image course:
Literature and Maps
Text:Image
The Graphic Novel
History of the Book: From Scroll to E-Book
Other relevant course with adviser approval.

Choose one period studies or major author course:
Medieval Literature and Culture
Early Modern Literature and Culture
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Literature and Culture of the Romantic Period
Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Modernist Literature and Culture
Postmodern Literature and Culture
Dante, Milton and Blake
Shakespeare
Topics in Literature: Major Authors
Chaucer
Other relevant course with adviser approval.

Choose one science and society course:
Science Fiction
Environmental Writing
Other relevant course with adviser approval.

Choose one ethnic literature or gender studies course:
The Literature of Resistance
Literature in Translation
Women's Literature and Feminist Theory
Topics in Gender Studies
Medieval Women, Medieval Women Writers
Introduction to Queer Studies
Topics in World or Ethnic Literature
Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature
Native American Literature and Culture
Other relevant course with adviser approval.

Choose one media and film studies course:
Introduction to Film
Introduction to Media Studies
Topics in Major Film Directors
Topics in Film Studies (CMS 300-level)
Topics in Film Genre 
Film Theory
Topics in Film Studies (CMS 400-level)
Topics in Literature and Film
Topics in Film Studies (LIT 300-level)
Other relevant course with adviser approval.

Choose one new media production or professional writing course:
Comic Arts Studio
Digital Storytelling
Grant Writing
Writing for Contemporary Media
Other relevant course with adviser approval.

Choose one creative writing seminar:
Writing Seminar I: Creative Nonfiction
Writing Seminar I: Poetry
Writing Seminar I: Short Fiction
Writing Seminar I: Screenwriting

Electives in the major:
Six credits of any literature (LIT), writing (WR) or culture and media studies (CMS) courses may be used to meet this requirement.

Please see the current Marylhurst University catalog for complete information.