Academics

Communication Arts

We recognize the core of communication is the exchange of ideas.

"Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."

- Francis Bacon

Faculty

Mr. Moscatello*
Ms. Bachmann
Mr. Galeno
Mr. Jankowski
Mrs. Mallek
Ms. McDonald
Mrs. Truby
Mr. Vitale

Summer Reading Selections

The English Department has announced its summer reading selections for the 2008-2009 academic year. These readings are required of all students and should be completed upon returning to Notre Dame for the first day of school.

Summer reading selections can be ordered online by visiting www.cbsbooks.com/207896.

Incoming Freshmen: All will read And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie.
Sophomores: All will read I Heard the Owl Call My Name, by Margaret Craven—Honors will also read All Quiet on the Western Front, byErich Maria Remarque.
Juniors: All will read Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck—Honors will also read The Ox- Bow Incident, by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
Seniors: All will read either The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham or The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester.

English A.P. Summer Reading Program

I. Fiction:

White Noise by Don DeLillo
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Death of Ivan Illych by Leo Tolstoi

II. Modern Drama

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Becket by Jean Anouilh
True West by Sam Shepard

III. Short Story Collection:

J.D. Salinger
Joseph Conrad (excluding Heart of Darkness)
Franz Kafka
Vladimir Nabokov

Read any three works (one from each category) from the above list and keep a reader's journal on each work.

There will be an oral and written test on the works the first week of class in the fall.

Course Descriptions
Course Sequencing (.pdf)

*Department Head