| ENG 100 | Introduction to Academic Writing | 4(4-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| Intensive introduction to critical writing and reading in academic contexts. Exploration of writing processes and academic literacy skills: interpreting assignments; comprehending, analyzing, and evaluating college-level texts; inventing, drafting,and revising; seeking, providing, and responding to constructive feedback; collaborating effectively under varied learning models. Extensive writing practice and individualized coaching. Attention to grammar and conventions of standard written English. Intended as preparation for ENG 101. Successful completion of ENG 100 requires a grade of C- or better. Credit for ENG 100 is not allowed if student has prior credit for ENG 101. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 101 | Academic Writing and Research | 4(4-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| Preq: Grade of C- or better in ENG 100 or placement via English Department guidelines | ||
| Intensive instruction in academic writing and research. Basic principles of rhetoric and strategies for academic inquiry and argument. Instruction and practice in critical reading, including the generative and responsible use of print and electronic sources for academic research. Exploration of literate practices across a range of academic domains, laying the foundation for further writing development in college. Continued attention to grammar and conventions of standard written English. Successful completion of ENG 101 requires a grade of C- or better. Credit for ENG 101 is not allowed if the student has already fulfilled the first-year writing requirement. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 201 | Writing Literary Analysis | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| Writing about literature for a variety of audiences. Strategies for writing close textual analysis - including attention to versification, narrative technique, and dramatic structure - and for articulating biographical, literary-historical, and cultural-historical contexts. Conventional genres of literary analysis, including "close readings," reviews, and editorial introductions; conventions of organization and prose style in both academic and professional literary discourse; MLA conventions for prose style and documentation. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 206 | Studies In Drama | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Selected drama from the classical period to the present. Emphasis on reading for enjoyment as well as understanding theory and development of tragedy, comedy, and other modes of dramatic expression. Writers such as Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Shaw, and contemporary playwrights. | ||
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| ENG 207 | Studies in Poetry | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Main features of poetry such as tone, voice, form, diction, figurative language, and sound patterns. Reading of poetry from different periods with the goal of learning how to understand, appreciate, and analyze different kinds of poems. | ||
| Course Offerings: sum1 sum2 | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 208 | Studies In Fiction | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| Representative examples of novels and short stories from different periods, emphasizing understanding and appreciation of fiction as a genre, a knowledge of the features and techniques of fiction, and a sense of the development of the genre. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 209 | Introduction to Shakespeare | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Shakespeare for non-English majors. Seven to ten major plays, including representative comedies, such as The Taming of the Shrew; histories, such as Richard III; tragedies, such as Hamlet; and romances, such as The Tempest.Does not satisfy requirements for English major. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 210 | Introduction to Language and Linguistics | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Linguistics theory and method. Topics include the English sound system, morphology, syntactic structure, semantics, and historical and contemporary dialect variation. Language acquisition, language and the brain, and computer processing and human language. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 214 | Introduction to Editing | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Basic editorial skills with a wide range of publications. Stylistic editing (conventions of written English, consistency, effectiveness of syntax, appropriateness of diction), substantive editing (accuracy, legal issues, ethics), and production editing (layout, typography, electronic publication processing). Introduction to resources such as standard reference works and professional organizations. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 215 | Principles of News and Article Writing | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Techniques of writing news stories and feature articles. Components of newsworthiness, examination of evidence, interview techniques, varied writing styles. Role of newspapers and journalism in America. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 216 | Technologies for Texts | 3(1-4-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Uses of computers for creating, designing, analyzing, and disseminating texts, both on desktops and on the Internet. Overview of technologies that facilitate reading, writing, and communication; development of skill with various applications and understanding of their capabilities, limitations, and historical analogues. Recommended for students in journalism and technical writing. | ||
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| ENG (FL) 219 | Studies in Great Works of Non-Western Literature | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Readings, in English translation, or non-Western literary masterpieces from the beginnings of literacy in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa to the modern period, including excerpts from texts such as the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Sundiata, Gilgamesh, A Thousand and One Nights, and the Quran and such authors as Confucius, Oe Kenzaburo, Omar Khayyam, Rumi, and Amos Oz. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | ||
| ENG (FL) 220 | Studies in Great Works of Western Literature | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| Readings, in English translation, of Western literary masterpieces, from the beginnings of literacy in the Middle East and Europe towards the present, including such authors as Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Ovid, Augustine, Danta, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Moliere, Voltaire, Goethe, Austen, Flaubert, Dickinson, Tolstoy, Kafka, and Woolf.Credit will not be given for both ENG/FL 220 and either ENG/FL 221 or ENG/FL 222 | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG (FL) 221 | Literature of the Western World I | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Readings from English translations of Biblical, Classical, Medieval, and Early Renaissance literature, including works by such authors as Homer, Plato, Virgil, Ovid, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Marie de France, and Dante. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 222 | Literature of the Western World II | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Readings from English translations of Renaissance, Neo-Classical, Romantic, and Early Modern literature, emphasizing the cultures of continental Europe from the Renaissance to 1900, and including such authors as Petrarch, Erasmus, Rabelais, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Moliere, Voltaire, Rousseau, Goethe, Flaubert, and Tolstoy. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG (FL) 223 | Contemporary World Literature I | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Twentieth-century literature of some of the following cultures: Russian, Eastern European, Western European, Latin American, Canadian, Australian. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG (FL) 224 | Contemporary World Literature II | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Twentieth-century literature of some of the following cultures: Asian, Arabian, African, Caribbean, Native-American. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 232 | Literature and Medicine | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Study of literature about illness, epidemics, and the science and practice of medicine. Readings will include works by authors such as Boccaccio, Defoe, George Eliot, Kafka, William Carlos Williams, Susan Sontag, and Tony Kushner. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 233 | The Literature of Agriculture | 3(3-0-0) S |
| A study of writings on the role of farming in the creation of culture and on the connection between the attention to words necessary for good writing and the attention to the land necessary for good farming. Readings may include ancient and modern texts from a variety of cultures and genres. Possible authors include Virgil, Jefferson, Hardy, Cather. | ||
| ENG 246 | Literature of the Holocaust | 3(3-0-0) S, Alt yrs |
| Fictional and nonfictional versions of the Holocaust, focusing on themes of survival, justice, theology, and the limits of human endurance. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG (AFS) 248 | Survey of African-American Literature | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| African-American writing and its relationships to American culture and history. Covers such writers as Wheatley, Douglass, Chesnutt, Dunbar, DuBois, Hughes, Hurston, Wright, and Morrison. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 249 | Native American Literature | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| A survey of Native American literatures from before contact with Europeans to contemporary culture. Writers may include: Apess (Pequot), Ridge (Cherokee), Silko (Laguna Pueblo), Momaday (Kiowa), Power (Sioux) Gunn Allen (Laguna-Sioux), Harjo (Creek), and Erdrich (Anishinaabe). | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| ENG 251 | Major British Writers | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| Significant British authors chosen from among such figures as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Pope, Austen, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Bronte, Dickens, Joyce, Eliot, Woolf, and Yeats.Credit will not be given for both ENG 251 andeither ENG 261 or 262. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 252 | Major American Writers | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| Significant American authors chosen from among such figures as Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, Stowe, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, James, Frost, Faulkner, Hemingway, and Morrison.Credit will not be given for both ENG 252 and either ENG 265 or 266. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 260 | Introduction to Literary Study | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Introduces fundamental questions in literary history and critical theory. Emphasizes critical reading skills and prepares students for the kinds of courses--surveys, genre courses, author courses, problem-based courses--that are part of the Englishmajor. Papers prepared using standard word processing programs. | ||
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| ENG 261 | English Literature I | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| A survey of English literature to 1660, including Old English, Middle English, and Renaissance writing, focusing on such central authors as Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, and Milton. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 262 | English Literature II | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| A survey of English literature from 1660 to the present. Poetry, fiction, drama and intellectual prose by such central writers as Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Bronte, Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce and Eliot. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 265 | American Literature I | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| A survey of American literature from the beginnings to the Civil War, including such central authors as Edwards, Franklin, Irving, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Stowe, Douglass, Thoreau, and Whitman. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 266 | American Literature II | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| A survey of American literature from the Civil War to the present, including such central authors as Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, James, Crane, Wharton, Frost, Eliot, Hemingway, Hurston, Faulkner, Wright, O'Connor, and Morrison. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 272 | Writing About Film | 3(3-0-0) F, S |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Comprehensive study of various approaches to writing about film. Primary focus is on the critical and evaluative practice involved in writing film criticism for non-academic audiences. Film screenings, discussion of assigned readings, and in-classwriting workshops aid students in preparing a portfolio of film writing that includes film reviews of various lengths. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 282 | Introduction to Film | 3(2-2-0) F,S |
| Examination of basic film techniques and basic methods of film analysis. Emphasis on understanding and appreciating film as a major art form. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 283 | Introduction to American Folklore | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Principal types of folklore; field work in collecting and assimilating material from various cultural traditions. Emphasis on American folklore and its origins. | ||
| ENG 287 | Explorations in Creative Writing | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Introduction to the basic elements and principles of three genres of creative writing: poetry, fiction and drama. Reading and class discussion of student work. Recommended for students with no prior experience in creative writing. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 288 | Fiction Writing | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Experience in writing short prose fiction. Class critiquing of student work and instruction in techniques of fiction. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 289 | Poetry Writing | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Experience in writing poetry. Class critiquing of student work and instruction in techniques of poetry. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 298 | Special Projects in English | 1-3 F,S,Sum |
| Faculty-guided independent study, or courses on special topics determined by departmental interest or need. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 301 | Critical Approaches to Reading Literature | 3(3-0-0) F, S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Intensive study of criticism from the Ancient world through the contemporary period, including ancient, medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, and early modern theories; the modern period is represented by the dominant schools of twentieth-century criticism (e.g. Formalism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism and Deconstruction, Narratology, traditional Historicism, New Historicism, Marxism and Feminism). | ||
| ENG (WGS) 305 | Women and Literature | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Nineteenth- and twentieth-century womens' literature, as shaped by the intersecting and competing claims of gender, race, sexuality, and culture. Focus on fiction, accompanied by critical readings from American studies, feminist literary criticism,and postmodern theory. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 314 | Technical Document Design and Editing | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| Preq: ENG 214 | ||
| Layout and design principles for written documents; desktop building; legibility, readability testing; conventions of proposals, instructions, and reports; basics of technical editing: usage, vocabulary, style manuals, editing mathematical equations, graphs, tables. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 315 | Advanced News and Article Writing | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 215 | ||
| Advanced work in writing news stories, profiles, features, and investigative stories. Includes analysis and critical reading of print media. Assumes thorough knowledge of AP style and rudiments of news and feature writing. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 317 | Designing Web Communication | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: ENG 214, or ENG 216, or ENG 314 | ||
| A course in the layout, design, and composition of web-based communication. Students will learn to analyze audiences and their uses of information in order to plan, compose, and critically evaluate web-based communication. Students will acquire skill with HTML coding, screen design, and multimedia authoring and will apply those skills to the composition of a variety of web texts (i.e. websites). Course work will require students to become proficient with commercially available HTML and photoeditors. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG (COM) 321 | Survey of Rhetorical Theory | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: COM 201 | ||
| Principles of rhetorical theory from its classical origins through the modern period to the present time. Key concepts and theories that provide a critical understanding of the processes of persuasive symbol use. | ||
| ENG 323 | Writing in the Rhetorical Tradition | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| A writing course based on the study of rhetoric. Readings on the principles of invention, arrangement, and style; analysis of written texts; writing of persuasive texts for a variety of audiences and purposes. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 324 | Modern English | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Study of Modern English at the sentence level. Analysis of grammatical structure. Consideration of language variation in English. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG (FL) 325 | Spoken and Written Traditions of American English Dialects | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Spoken and written traditions of American English. Historical and current factors in dialect diversity, including regional, social, ethnic and stylistic differences. Special attention to African-American and Southern English in both spoken and literary representations of dialects. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | ||
| ENG 326 | History of the English Language | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Development of the English language from its Indo-European origins to the present. Emphasis on historical and comparative linguistic methodology and on changes in sound, syntax, and meaning. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG (WGS) 327 | Language and Gender | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Introduction to the use of language by men and women. Research in Linguistics and Women's Studies addressing issues such as the acquisition of gender-differentiated language, gender and conversational interaction, sexism in language, gender issues in society, and the relationship between language, gender, and other social constructs (e.g., class, culture, and ethnicity). | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | ||
| ENG 328 | Language and Writing | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Study of language structure; specific attention to differences between spoken and written language; print conventions; error analysis; and the application of linguistics to rhetoric and composition. Analysis of a variety of grammatical approaches; how to evaluate grammar textbooks and compositions. Intended for English Education majors.Credit will not be awarded for both ENG 328 and ENG 324. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 331 | Communication for Engineering and Technology | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| Preq: Junior standing | ||
| Written communication in industrial and technical organizations, emphasizing internal communication with managers and technical personnel and including external communication with regulators, vendors, and clients. Intensive practice in writing; relationship of writing to oral and visual communication. For students in engineering and other primarily technological curricula.Credit is not allowed for more than one of ENG 331, ENG 332, and ENG 333. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 332 | Communication for Business and Management | 3(3-0-0) F,S,Sum |
| Preq: Junior standing | ||
| Written communication in business and public organizations, including both internal communication (such as instructions, policies, management reports) and external communication with clients, vendors, and publics. Intensive practice in writing; relationship of writing to oral and visual communication. For students in business and management-related programs.Credit is not allowed for more than one of ENG 331, ENG 332, and ENG 333. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 333 | Communication for Science and Research | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: Junior standing | ||
| Written communication in scientific and research contexts, emphasizing relationship between research and writing in problem formulation, interpretation of results, and support and acceptance of research. Intensive practice in writing; relationship of writing to oral and visual communication. For students who plan careers in scientific research.Credit is not allowed for more than one of ENG 331, 332, and 333. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG (AFS) 349 | African Literature in English | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Anglophone literature in Africa. Emphasis on the relationship between the African world-view and literary production and the persistent trend by African writers to connect literature with politics. Writers such as Achebe, Ngugi, Soyinka, and Serote. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| ENG 350 | Internship in Writing and Editing | 3(1-10-0) F,S |
| Preq: Any two ENG 214, ENG 215, ENG 216, ENG 314, ENG 315, ENG 317, ENG 421 | ||
| Directed work experience for English majors including work-site mentoring and evaluation. Department supervision includes course work directed toward designing employment application materials, developing a portfolio of professional work, and reading the literature on workplace socialization. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 362 | The British Novel of the 18th Century | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Emphasizes major novelists such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, and Austen. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | ||
| ENG 363 | The British Novel of the 19th Century | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Emphasizes major novelists such as Dickens, Trollope, the Brontes, Eliot, and Hardy. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG (COM) 364 | History of Film to 1940 | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Junior standing | ||
| Technological developments and aesthetic movements that shaped cinema production and direction from the beginning of the industry to 1940. Evolution in camera movement, editing, sound storyline, and the documentary. Rise to prominence of the Hollywood studio systems and the contributions of foreign filmmakers. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 368 | American Poetry to 1900 | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| American poetry written in English from the colonial period to 1900. Development of styles and themes in relation to historical context. Emphasis on poets such as Bradstreet, Taylor, Wheatley, Poe, Sigourney, Emerson, Longfellow, Whitman, Dickinson, and Robinson. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 369 | The American Novel of the 19th Century | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Major novels illustrating the development of American fiction from Romanticism to Realism and Naturalism. Works by such writers as Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, Melville, Twain, Howells, James, Norris, Crane, Chopin, and Dreiser. | ||
| ENG 370 | Early Twentieth-Century Fiction | 3(3-0-0) S, Alt yrs |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Study of narrative fiction written during the first half of the twentieth century. Typical subjects: James, Conrad, Stein, Hemingway, Woolf, Faulkner, Hurston, Wright, Beckett. | ||
| ENG 371 | Late Twentieth-Century Fiction | 3(3-0-0) S, Alt yrs |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Study of narrative fiction written during the second half of the twentieth century. Typical subjects: Beckett, O'Brien, Welty, O'Connor, Naipaul, Lessing, Gordimer, Morrison, Rushdie, DeLillo, Pynchon, McCarthy. | ||
| ENG 372 | Early Twentieth-Century Poetry | 3(3-0-0) F, Alt yrs |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Study of poetry written in English during the first half of the twentieth century. Typical subjects: Hardy, Robinson, Yeats, Eliot, Pound, H.D., Williams, Hughes, Moore, Stevens. | ||
| ENG 373 | Late Twentieth-Century Poetry | 3(3-0-0) F, Alt yrs |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Study of poetry written in English during the second half of the twentieth century. Typical subjects: Auden, Lowell, Larkin, Olson, Heaney, Plath, Ginsberg, Smith, Ashbery, Rich, Brooks, Walcott, Lorde. | ||
| ENG (COM) 374 | History of Film From 1940 | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Junior standing | ||
| Technological developments and aesthetic movements that have shaped cinema production and direction from 1940 to the present. Evolution in camera movement, editing, sound, storyline, and the documentary. Post-war decline and re-emergence of the Hollywood film industry and the contributions of foreign filmmakers. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG (AFS) 375 | African American Cinema | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Survey and analysis of African American film culture from 1900-present. Examination of pre-Hollywood, classical Hollywood, and Independent filmmaking. Particular focus on independent filmmakers' response to dominant industry representations and the work of filmmakers who seek to create a specifically African American cinematic style. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | ||
| ENG 376 | Science Fiction | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Representative works of science fiction. Emphasis on works written in the twentieth century, with some attention to the history and development of the genre. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 377 | Fantasy | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Representative works in the genre of fantasy. Emphasis on works of 19th and 20th centuries. Authors such as Carroll, Lewis, Tolkien, Borges, LeGuin, and Gardner. | ||
| ENG 380 | Modern Drama | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Major plays and playwrights from Ibsen to Pinter, including at least some of the following: Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, O'Neill, Hellman, Pirandello, Brecht, Williams, Miller, Albee. | ||
| ENG 381 | Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: ENG 215, 287, 288, or 289 | ||
| A workshop in creative nonfiction (literary or magazine journalism) for the student with demonstrated understanding of the basic techniques of creative writing and journalism. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | ||
| ENG 382 | Film and Literature | 3(2-2-0) F |
| Ways of adapting literary works to film form. Similarities and differences between these two media. Emphasis on the practical art of transforming literature into film. Attention to the impact of film upon literature. | ||
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| ENG 383 | Folklore and Literature | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Relationships between traditional culture and written literature. Genre theory; interchanges between print media and oral tradition; nature of plot, character, and form in Western and non-Western cultural traditions; performance theory. Influence of regional traditions and American literature. | ||
| ENG 384 | Film Theory | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: ENG 282 | ||
| Survey of critical approaches to film art. Application of theoretical paradigms--formalist, realist, psychoanalytic, feminist, poststructuralist--to individual films, genres, national cinemas and directors. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 385 | Biblical Backgrounds of English Literature | 3(3-0-0) F, Alt. yrs |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Influences of the Bible-principal forms, genres, and texts-on major English and American writers such as Milton, Spenser, Melville, Eliot, and Faulkner. | ||
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| ENG 388 | Intermediate Fiction Writing Workshop | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: ENG 288;Students must have earned a "B" or better in ENG 288. | ||
| An intermediate workshop in creative writing for students with demonstrated understanding of the basic techniques of writing prose fiction. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | ||
| ENG 389 | Intermediate Poetry Writing Workshop | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: ENG 289;Students must have earned a "B" or better in ENG 289. | ||
| An intermediate workshop in creative writing for students with demonstrated understanding of the basic techniques of writing poetry. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| ENG 390 | Classical Backgrounds of English Literature | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Literature of the ancient Western world and its influence on English and American writing. Emphasis on the connections between the two bodies of literature. Covers such writers as Plato, Horace, Virgil, and St. Augustine. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 391 | Special Topics in Modern Drama | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Various topics in modern drama covering different cultures, issues, and theatrical practices within the last 100 years. Modern American drama, modern British drama, modern World Drama, and European theatre from World War II to the present. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | ||
| ENG (FL) 392 | Major World Author | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Intensive study in English, of the writings of one (or two) author(s) from outside the English and American traditions. Sample subjects: Homer, Virgil and Ovid, Lady Murasaki, Marie de France and Christine de Pizan, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, Balzacand Flaubert, Kafka, Proust, Lessing and Gordimer, Borges and Marquez, Neruda, Ache be, Soyinka, Calvino, Walcott and Naipaul. Topics will vary from semester to semester.May be repeated for credit with new topic. | ||
| ENG (FL) 393 | Studies in Literary Genre | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Concentrated treatment of one literary genre, such as the epic, the lyric, the drama, satire, romance, autobiography, the essay, the novel, or the short story. Treatment of materials from several national or ethnic cultures and several periods. All readings in English. Course may be taken three times for credit.Course may be taken 3 times in different genres. | ||
| ENG (FL) 394 | Studies in World Literature | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Study of a subject in world literature; for example, African literature, Asian literature, Hispanic literature, East European literature, comedy, the epic, the lyric, autobiography, the Faust legend, or metamorphosis. Subjects vary according to availability of faculty. Readings in English translation. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | ||
| ENG 398 | Contemporary Literature I (1900 to 1940) | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| British and American literature from 1900 to World War II, with representative authors such as Conrad, Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Shaw, Stein, O'Neill, and Wright. For comparative purposes, continental authors such as Kafka and Mann. | ||
| ENG 399 | Contemporary Literature II (1940 to Present) | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Literature from World War II to the present, with representative authors such as Murdoch, Beckett, Nabokov, Ginsberg, Achebe, Fuentes, Kundera, Naipaul, and Morrison. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | ||
| ENG 400 | Applied Criticism | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: LTN Majors, Senior standing, formal admission to the methods and student teaching courses | ||
| Coreq: ECI 450 | ||
| Types and methods of literary criticism designed specifically for students intending to teach English in high school. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG (ECI) 405 | Literature for Adolescents | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Junior standing | ||
| The history, types, and characteristics of literature for adolescents. Emphasizes reading and analyzing the literature by exploring the themes, literary elements, and rationale for teaching literature for adolescents. Addresses ways in which this literature can be integrated and implemented in English/Language Arts curriculum. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | ||
| ENG (FL) 406 | Modernism | F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| International Modernist movement in literature, from its nineteenth-century origins to its culmination in the early twentieth century. Definitions of modernity, as embodied in a variety of genres. Placement of Modernist texts within a variety of cultures that produced them. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| ENG (FL) 407 | Postmodernism | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Literary expressions of Postmodernism, from its origins in the Modernist movement through its culmination in the later decades of the twentieth century. Definitions of postmodernity, as embodied in a variety of genres. Placement of Postmodernist texts within a variety of cultures that have produced them. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | ||
| ENG (WGS) 410 | Studies in Gender and Genre | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| This course examines the ways in which writers have revised the literary genres to include gendered experience. It will focus on a different generic area, such as poetry, fiction, drama or autobiography, depending on its instructor. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | ||
| ENG (COM) 411 | Rhetorical Criticism | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Rhetorical analysis of public speeches, social movements, political campaigns, popular music, advertising, and religious communication. Neo-Aristotelian criticism, movement studies, genre criticism, dramatistic analysis, content analysis, fantasy theme analysis. | ||
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| ENG 417 | Editorial and Opinion Writing | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 214, ENG 215 | ||
| Discussing and writing newspaper and magazine editorials, with added attention to other forms of opinion in print, such as columns and books and music reviews. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 420 | Major American Author | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Intensive study of the writings of one (or two) American author(s). Developments across the career, relationships between the writing and the life, the writer's participation in a culture and an historical moment. Sample subjects: Emerson and Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, Stowe and Douglass, Dickinson, Twain, James and Wharton, Frost, O'Neill, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Faulkner, Hurston and Wright, O'Conner, Morrison. | ||
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| ENG 421 | Computer Documentation Design | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: ENG 314, 331, 332 or ENG 333 | ||
| Theory and design of documentation for computer hardware and software, including user guides, reference manuals, quick reference guides, tutorials, online documentation, and CD-based media delivery. Training in alternative documentation testing procedures, usability testing, and collaborative revision. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 422 | Writing Theory and the Writing Process | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Theory and research on the processes and contexts of written discourse; cognitive, socio-cultural, educational perspectives; reflective and research-based accounts of the writing process; analysis of discourse contexts and communities. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 425 | Analysis of Scientific and Technical Writing | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 314, 331, 332, or 333 | ||
| The role of communication in the creation of scientific knowledge and technical designs and artifacts; methods of analyzing texts and of studying their creation and use; relationships between writing and other forms of communication. Field research in a scientific or technological setting. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 426 | Analyzing Style | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| Development of a greater understanding of and facility with style in written discourse. Theories of style, stylistic features; methods of analysis, imitation. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 433 | Screenwriting | 3(3-0-0) S, Alt yrs |
| Preq: 6 credit hours from courses in writing for media, creative writing, or Film Studies | ||
| Writing for films, story planning, character development, communicating information, building scenes, relationships between script and cinematic dimensions, working with studios and editors. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sum2 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 439 | 17th-Century English Literature | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Works of major nondramatic literary figures in England during the period 1600-1700, such as Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell, Bacon, and Browne. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG (AFS) 448 | African-American Literature | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Junior standing | ||
| Survey of African-American literature and its relationships to American culture, with an emphasis on fiction and poetry since 1945. Writers such as Bontemps, Morrison, Huston, Baldwin, Hayden, Brooks, Naylor, Harper, and Dove. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 449 | 16th-Century English Literature | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Nondramatic prose and poetry of the sixteenth century, with consideration of literary types and movements. Emphasis on major authors, including Sidney and Spenser. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 451 | Chaucer | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Introduction to the study of Chaucer through an intensive reading of The Canterbury Tales. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 452 | Medieval British Literature | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Readings in the rich poetic, thematic, and generic diversity of Medieval British literature. Representative selections from romance, dream-vision, allegory, fabliau, lyric, chronicle, saint's life, satire, in historical and cultural contexts. Priorknowledge of Middle English unnecessary. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| ENG 453 | The Romantic Period | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Emphasis on the major poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, with selected readings from other poets, prose writers, and dramatists of the period. | ||
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| ENG 455 | Literacy in the U.S. | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 101; Junior or senior standing. | ||
| Academic study of the nature, functions, acquisition, institutionalization, and present state of literacy in the U.S., with special focus on issues of cultural diversity and social inequity. Three contexts for literacy - personal, academic, and home/community - provide a range of readings, investigations, and opportunities for reflection and further study. Service-learning component links this academic study to required tutoring (2 hours per week) of children and adults in local community service agencies in addition to attending class. Students will need to provide their own transportation. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 460 | Major British Author | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| In-depth study of the works of one (or two) British author(s) within their historical and literary-historical context. Sample authors might include; Spencer and Sidney, Swift and Pope, Austen, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Keats and Shelley, the Brontes, the Brownings, Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, Joyce, Woolf. | ||
| ENG 462 | 18th-Century English Literature | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Major figures in English literature between 1660 and 1790. Works studied in relation to social, cultural, political, and religious developments. Emphasis on writers such as Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 463 | The Victorian Period | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Significant British poets, writers of prose non-fiction, and novelists studied in the social, economic, scientific, intellectual, and theological contexts of the Victorian era. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | ||
| ENG 464 | British Literature, 1900-1945 | 3(3-0-0) S, Alt. yrs |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Variety of writings by British authors between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of World War II. Typical subjects: Hardy, Conrad, Shaw, Yeats, Forster, Joyce, Lawrence, Eliot, Woolf, Beckett. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| ENG 465 | British Literature, Since 1945 | 3(3-0-0) S, Alt. yrs |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Study of a variety of writings by British authors since World War II. Typical subjects: Beckett, O'Brien, Orwell, Lessing, Murdoch, Rhys, Auden, Larkin, Osborne, Rushdie. | ||
| ENG 467 | American Colonial Literature | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Survey of American literature and thought from its beginnings to the adoption of the Constitution. Representative works such as travel and exploration reports, Indian captivity narratives, diaries, journals, autobiographies, sermons, and poetry. | ||
| ENG 468 | American Romantics | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Major American writers from 1825 to 1865. Relationship between literary developments and social change. Emphasis on such writers as Emerson, Hawthorne, Cooper, Poe, Melville, Douglass, Stowe, Thoreau, and Whitman. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| ENG 469 | American Realism and Naturalism | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Major American writers from 1865 to 1914, with emphasis on novelists such as Twain, James, Howells, Chopin, and Dreiser. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 470 | American Literature, 1914-1945 | 3(3-0-0) F, Alt yrs |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Variety of writings by U.S. authors from World War I to World War II. Typical subjects: Stein, Adams, Anderson, Williams, Cullen, Hilda Doolittle, Faulkner, Hurston, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Frost, O'Neill. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 471 | American Literature, Since 1945 | 3(3-0-0) F, Alt yrs |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Study of a variety of writings by U.S. authors since World War II. Typical subjects: Ellison, Lowell, Williams, Welty, Bellow, Baldwin, O'Conner, Barthelme, Albee, Mailer, Ashbery, Morrison, McDermott, DeLillo. | ||
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| ENG 475 | Literature, the Arts, and Mass Culture | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| A review of the debate regarding art and mass culture, with attention to recent developments in cultural theory and practice. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| ENG 476 | Southern Literature | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Literary traditions of the Southeastern United States from colonization through the present, including study of such major writers as Byrd, Jefferson, Simms, Poe, Douglass, Twain, Chesnutt, Glasgow, Hurston, Tate, Wolfe, Faulkner, Warren, Wright, Welty, Williams, O'Conner, Percy, and Lee Smith. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 486 | Shakespeare, The Earlier Plays | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Shakespeare's major works before 1600 with emphasis on his development as a playwright. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 487 | Shakespeare, The Later Plays | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Shakespeare's major works after 1600 with emphasis on his tragedies and the late romances. | ||
| Course Offerings: sum1 sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 488 | Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 388 | ||
| An advanced workshop in creative writing for students with demonstrated understanding and accomplishment in the techniques of writing prose fiction.This course is restricted to juniors and seniors. Departmental approval required. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | ||
| ENG 489 | Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 389 | ||
| An advanced workshop in creative writing for the students with demonstrated understanding and accomplishment in the techniques of writing poetry.This course is restricted to juniors and seniors. Departmental approval required. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 490 | Studies in Medieval Literature | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Topics (in rotation) in medieval English and continental literature, such as Arthurian legend and literature; women in medieval society and literature; the self in the late Middle Ages. Focus on special areas of interest, with attention to culturaland historical backgrounds and contemporary scholarship. Some texts in Middle English, some in translation; no prior knowledge of Middle English needed. | ||
| ENG 491 | Honors in English | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: English Majors | ||
| Intensive course or independent study project designed as one portion of the Honors Program in English. Subject varies. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | ||
| ENG 492 | Special Topics in Film Styles and Genres | 3(2-2-0) S |
| Critical approaches to focused film topics involving film genres, directorial styles, or trends within a national cinema. Topics will vary from semester to semester. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | ||
| ENG 493 | Special Topics in Folklore | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Topics and genres in folklore, such as Folktale and Legend, Folklore and Religion, African-American Folklore. Topics will vary from semester to semester. | ||
| ENG 494 | Special Topics in Linguistics | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 101 | ||
| (May be repeated for credit with new topic.) Methodology and analysis within various branches of linguistics, e.g. syntax, semantics, computational linguistics, phonology, dialectology, historical linguistics, discourse analysis. Examination of topic's basic methods, controversial issues, analysis of linguistic data. Projects may include novel analyses of English constructions, parsing programs, field work reports. | ||
| ENG 495 | Seminar in Writing and Editing | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: Senior standing in LWE | ||
| Applies principles and experiences gained in previous study to practical problems and projects such as document design and production, document testing, professional ethics, literacy education, and style analysis and evaluation. | ||
| ENG 496 | Seminar in Literary Criticism | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: 9 hours of literature at the 300 level or above | ||
| Introduction to theoretical and applied criticism of literature, primarily for English majors and minors. May include traditional theory from Plato and Aristotle to New Criticism, as well as contemporary psychoanalytical, social, historical, and linguistic approaches to literature. | ||
| ENG (FL) 497 | Senior Seminar in World Literature | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Junior standing or Senior standing | ||
| Rotating topics in world literature, including treatment of materials from more than one culture and including consideration of the subject's theoretical or methodological framework. Readings in English (original languages encouraged but not required). | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | ||
| ENG 498 | Special Topics in English | 1-6 F,S,Sum |
| Preq: Six hours in ENG above the 100 level | ||
| Directed individual study or experimental course offerings in language or literature. Individual study arranged through consultation with faculty member and Director of Undergraduate Studies. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sum1 sum2 sprg | ||
| ENG 499 | Special Topics in Creative Writing | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: ENG 288 or ENG 289 ; Students must have earned a grade of "B" or better in 288 or 289 or they must have demonstrated competence in creative writing as determined by instructor. | ||
| Techniques and practice in writing a particular form within the traditional genres of poetry, prose, or drama, such as "Creative Non-Fiction," "Science Fiction," "The Novella," or "The Satirical Poem." Topics vary from semester to semester. | ||
| ENG 507 | Writing for Health and Environmental Sciences | 3(3-0-0) F, Alt. yrs.(odd) |
| Preq: Graduate standing, Doctoral student, Master's student | ||
| Readings, on-site research, document gathering, and analysis of writing in health and environmental science fields. Students study, practice, and present major forms of writing in their profession. Professional portfolio due at the end of the semester. Intended for students interested in exploring or pursuing writing careers in medicine, pharmaceuticals, nutrition, agriculture, ecology, or other health and environmental science-related industries, or professionals who wish to improve knowledge and skills. | ||
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| ENG 508 | Usability Studies for Technical Communication | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 517 | ||
| Advanced study of usability inspection, inquiry, and testing theories and practices related to instrumental and instructive texts (i.e., computer-related, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, financial, etc.). Practical experience testing a variety of texts using several testing methods, including completion of a substantial, lab-based usability test. For students planning careers in technical communication, human factors, software design, and multimedia design. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 509 | Old English Literature | 3(3-0-0) S, Alt. Yrs. |
| Study of Old English language with selections from important poems including Beowulf. Examination of the poetry in the light of various modern critical approaches. | ||
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| ENG 510 | Middle English Literature | 3(3-0-0) S, Alt. Yrs. |
| Study of major works of medieval English literature (exclusive of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) in historical context, as reflections of and influences on social and cultural change. Includes works such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Langland's Piers Plowman and Malory's Morte d'Arthur. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | ||
| ENG 511 | Theory and Research In Composition | 3(3-0-0) |
| Research and scholarship in composition and the teaching of writing. Major theoretical perspectives (such as expressive, social, cognitive, feminist), current issues (such as audience, invention, revision, evaluation) and various research methods. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 512 | Theory and Research In Professional Writing | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Coreq: ENG 666 | ||
| Introduction to research and scholarship in professional writing and writing in the workplace. Major theoretical perspectives for studying writing; current issues (such as usability, readability, collaboration, gender, authorship); and various research methods. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 513 | Empirical Research In Composition | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Reading and evaluation of empirical research in written composition; guided practice in qualitative and quantitative methods. Basic principles of research; problem definition, research design and statistical analysis, description and assessment of written products and processes. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| ENG (COM) 514 | History Of Rhetoric | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Contemporary rhetorical theory and its development from classical rhetoric; emphasis on differences between oral and written communication and the relevance of traditional theory to purposes and constraints of writing. Special attention to current issues: revival of invention, argumentation and truth, contributions of research in composition. | ||
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| ENG 515 | Rhetoric Of Science and Technology | 3(3-0-0) S |
| The relationships among rhetoric, scientific knowledge and technological development and of changes in how these relationships understood historically. Practice in critical analysis of scientific and technical discourse. Consideration of scientific and technical language and of public controversy concerning science and technology. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG (COM) 516 | Rhetorical Criticism: Theory and Practice | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: COM 321 or 411 or ENG 514 or 515 | ||
| Development, achievements, limitation of major critical methods in the 20th century, including neo-Aristotelian, generic, metaphoric, dramatistic, feminist, social-movement, fantasy-theme and postmodern approaches. Criticism of political discourse,institutional discourse, discourses of law, medicine, religion, education, science, the media. Relations between rhetorical and literary criticism and other forms of cultural analysis. | ||
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| ENG 517 | Advanced Technical Writing, Editing and Document Design | 3(2-1-0) F |
| Preq: ENG 314 | ||
| Advanced study of document design, technical editing and usability. For students planning careers as technical communicators. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 518 | Publication Management for Technical Communicators | 3(2-1-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 517 | ||
| Advanced study of publication and team management issues such as staffing, scheduling, cost-reduction and subcontracting. For students planning careers as technical communicators. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 519 | Online Information Design and Evaluation | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 517 | ||
| Concepts and practices related to multimedia information design, information architectures, human-computer interaction, and genre for complex websites. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 520 | Science Writing for the Media | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Coverage of three areas: how to write science articles for a variety of mass media, how to think critically about how mass media cover science, and how to think critically about science itself. Preparation for careers not only in mass media, but also in scientific and technological organizations. | ||
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| ENG 521 | Modern English Usage | 3(2-1-0) F, Alt. Yrs. |
| Preq: ENG 524 | ||
| Analysis of what "usage" means, a look at the shaping of attitudes about English in the twentieth century and the service of language during that period to form social groups. Attention to the transmission of these attitudes and to the role of the schools in that transmission. | ||
| ENG 522 | Linguistics and Literacy | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: One course in linguistics or reading | ||
| Focus on two-way relationship between linguistic theory and literacy. Metalinguistic awareness and acquisition of literacy, orthography and phonology, oral vs. written language, oral vs. literate cultures, and metalinguistic assumptions in linguistic theory. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | ||
| ENG 523 | Language Variation Research Seminar | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: ENG 525 | ||
| Field-initiated research. Group and individual research topics focused on current sociolinguistic issues related to language variation and changes. Ethnographic and quantitative methods of analysis. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | ||
| ENG 524 | Introduction to Linguistics | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Graduate standing or 12 hrs. in ENG | ||
| Introduction to theoretical linguistics, especially for students in language, writing and literature curricula. Phonology, syntax, semantics, history of linguistics; relation of linguistics to philosophy, sociology and psychology; application of theory to analysis of texts. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 525 | Variety In Language | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Graduate standing or 12 hrs. in ENG | ||
| Language variation description, theory, method and application; focus on regional, social, ethnic and gender varieties; sociolinguistic analysis, basic discourse analysis. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 526 | History Of the English Language | 3(3-0-0) F, Alt. Yrs. |
| A survey of the growth and development of the language from its Indo-European beginnings to the present. | ||
| ENG 527 | Discourse Analysis | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Graduate standing | ||
| Introduction to pragmatic and discourse-analytic theories concerning units of language beyond the sentence; application of methods of discourse analysis to different varieties of text. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | ||
| ENG 528 | Language Change Research Seminar | 3(3-0-0) S, Alt. Yrs. |
| Preq: ENG 526 | ||
| Study of English development and English dialects; processes of language change; historical linguistic methodology; field research; language variation and change. | ||
| ENG 529 | 16th-Century Non-Dramatic English Literature | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Prose and poetry of the English Renaissance, excluding drama. Special attention to major authors, including Spenser and Sidney, and to intellectual, cultural and literary backgrounds and developments. Introduction to pertinent methods and issues of scholarly inquiry and critical interpretation. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 530 | 17TH-Century English Literature | 3(3-0-0) S |
| A close examination of the literature of England from 1600 to 1660 with emphasis on major literary figures and movements, development of important literary forms and genres and relationship between literary texts of this period and their philosophical, political and theological contexts. Some bibliographical and textural assignments. Content and focus varies according to instructor's emphasis, but writers covered usually include Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Marvell and Browne. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 531 | American Colonial Literature | 3(3-0-0) S, Alt. Yrs. |
| Survey of American literature and thought from the beginning to adoption of the constitution. Representative works such as travel and exploration reports, Indian captivity narratives, diaries, journals, auto biographies, sermons and poetry. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 532 | Narrative Analysis | 3(3-0-0) F, Alt yrs(even) |
| Preq: Graduate standing | ||
| Introduction to theories concerning the structure, use, and interpretation of narratively organized discourse; application of methods of narrative analysis to both spoken and written narratives. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| ENG 533 | Bilingualism and Language Contact | 3(3-0-0) S, (ALTYREVEN) |
| Linguistic, cultural and socio-political aspects of bi- and mulitlingualism in a global context. Issues and implications of bilingualism from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Topics inlcude: language maintenance and shift; child and adult bilingualism; relationship between language, culture and identity in bi- and multilingual situations; psycholinguistic aspects and lingustic outcomes of bilingual contact, such as code-switching, convergence and language attrition; language ideology, the politics of language choice and language policy; globalization and intercultural communication. Must hold graduate standing or get consent of instructor for advanced undergraduate students. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| ENG (FL) 539 | Seminar In World Literature | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Rotating topics in world literature, including treatment of the subject's theoretical or methodological framework. Possible subjects: colonialism and literature; orality and literature; the Renaissance; the Enlightenment; translation; comparison ofNorth and South American literatures; African literary traditions; post-modernism and gender. Readings in English(original languages encouraged but not required). | ||
| Course Offerings: fall sprg | ||
| ENG 540 | History Of Literary Criticism | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Graduate standing or PBS status | ||
| Survey of the history of literary criticism from Antiquity to early Modern period. Introduction to major theoretical definitions of literature and modes of practical criticism. Close study of Aristotle's Poetics, Sidney's Apology for Poetry, Pope's Essay on Criticism, Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, Eliot's essays and other landmark works in development of literary criticism. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG (FL) 541 | Critical Approaches to Literature and Culture | 3(3-0-0) F, S |
| A survey of literary theory in the 20th century from New Criticism to postmodernism. Examines the virtues and pitfalls of theses approaches to the study of culture and literature. A course on issues, concepts, theorists and the sociohistorical and political context in which the theorists are writing.Taught in English. No formal pre-requisites. However, students who have not had advanced literature will be disadvantaged. | ||
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| ENG 548 | African-American Literature | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: Grad. standing | ||
| Advanced study of critical theories of African-American literature, the contexts of cultural criticism and 20th-century novels of African-American writers within these frames. | ||
| Course Offerings: sprg | WolfWare Info | |
| ENG 549 | Modern African Literature | 3(3-0-0) S, Alt. Yrs. |
| The works of the most important writers shaping modern African literature in English (and English translation). Selections from East, West, North and South Africa, spanning colonial through post-colonial Africa--from literature of protest and culture conflict to that of disillusionment, reappraisal and feminism. | ||
| ENG 550 | English Romantic Period | 3(3-0-0) F |
| A detailed study of the six major romantic poets--Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats; some attention as well to the political, social and literary background and to a few minor writers and critics. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| ENG 551 | Chaucer | 3(3-0-0) F |
| Preq: ENG 451, Graduate standing | ||
| Intensive study of the works of Chaucer in the light of medieval literary traditions, medieval history and a variety of medieval and modern critical approaches. | ||
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| ENG 555 | American Romantic Period | 3(3-0-0) F |
| The literary | ||