English
Mission
Education is that life-long adventure wherein a person begins to learn how to learn . . . .
The English Department is dedicated to providing quality education to students for the contemporary world. The curriculum, designed and implemented by our faculty, blends a variety of innovative methodologies to provide a diverse student population with the reading, writing, communication, creative and critical thinking skills for success in college and the workplace, and for meaningful participation in society and life. Through literature, we encourage an appreciation of diverse cultures and peoples, a deeper understanding of history and a more reflective self-awareness.
Programs of Study
A high school diploma, GED, or passing score on a
federally approved Ability To Benefit Test is required for admission
to all programs. Contact the Admissions Office
for more information.
HOORAY! We now have a web page . . . .
Web Resources
Hawthorne in Salem Website
A web site on the life and works of Nathaniel Hawthorne developed by Professor Terri Whitney, regional faculty, and Hawthorne scholars with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
John Greenleaf Whittier: Essex County's Famous Son
Developed as a T.A.C. project by Professor Emerita, Susan Herman
Photo Gallery
Web gallery of photographs developed as a T.A.C. project by Professor Emerita, Jean Hodgin, available for use by members of the faculty and staff.
Poetry of Places in Essex County
A website developed as a T.A.C. project by Professor Carl Carlsen of poetry about Gloucester and Dogtown published in the last two centuries, accompanied by photographs, paintings, and postcards, as well as geographic and historical information.
The Poetry of Rhina P. Espaillat
Developed as a T.A.C. project by Michele Leavitt, adjunct instructor
Online courses
Our department provides several courses online. These include:
Composition I
Composition II: Introduction to Literature
Composition 126: Film Studies
Composition 190: Creative Writing
Literature 206: World Literature I
Literature 208: World Literature II
Literature 210: American Literature I
Literature 212: American Literature II
Welcome from the department chairperson, Lisa Altomari
The English Department welcomes you! Our exceptional faculty is committed to providing exciting and rigorous courses in both writing and literature during your tenure at North Shore Community College. We hope that you will take advantage of all our Department has to offer.
Consider the following words of inspiration as you begin your college experience:
The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -Mark Twain
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. -Lord Byron
I cannot live without books. -Thomas Jefferson
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
-Oscar Wilde
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ectasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. -Ernest Hemingway
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Only a novel ... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varities, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. -Jane Austen
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart ...
-William Wordsworth
Questions or comments to laltomar@northshore.edu.
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