Department of English
ENG 1113 - English Composition
This course provides instruction in college level writing, covering grammatical skills, rhetorical issues, and cognitive abilities necessary to produce effective academic prose. The primary purpose of first-year English is to produce writers of competent expository prose by providing an environment, which acts as an initiation into the academic world. Credit may be earned in only one course from ENG 1113, 1143, 1153, or 1173.
ENG 1143 - Composition & Community Service
This course is the same as ENG 1113 but incorporates community service. Students are required to volunteer for service learning projects as part of this course. Credit may be earned in only one course from ENG 1113, 1143, 1153, or 1173.
ENG 1153 - English Composition - International
This course is the same as ENG 1113 but designed for international students. Credit may be earned in only one course from ENG 1113, 1143, 1153, or 1173.
ENG 1173 - English Composition: Honors
This course is the same as ENG 1113 but focuses on the literary needs of honor students. Credit may be earned in only one course from ENG 1113, 1143, 1153, or 1173.
ENG 1213 - English Composition & Research
The primary purpose of this course is to help students write clear, concise, and coherent academic prose in both expository and persuasive modes. The major emphasis of the course will be in improving research and investigative skills. Credit may be earned in only one course from ENG 1213, 1223, 1233, or 1243. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 or 1143 or 1153 or 1173.
ENG 1223 - English Composition & Research: International
This course is the same as ENG 1213 but designed for international students. Credit may be earned in only one course from ENG 1213, 1223, 1233, or 1243. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 or 1143 or 1153 or 1173.
ENG 1233 - Composition & Research: Honors
This course is the same as ENG 1213 but designed for honors students. Credit may be earned in only one course from ENG 1213, 1223, 1233, or 1243. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 or 1143 or 1153 or 1173.
ENG 1243 - Composition, Community & Research
This course is the same as ENG 1213 but incorporates community service. Students are required to volunteer for service learning projects as part of this class. Credit may be earned in only one course from ENG 1213, 1223, 1233, or 1243. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 or 1143 or 1153 or 1173.
ENG 1252 - Vocabulary Building
This course examines prefixes, suffixes, and etymologies as a means of increasing students' reading comprehension and writing competency. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113, 1213.
ENG 2000 - Topics In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 4 hours. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study.
ENG 2213 - Introduction To Women Studies
An introduction to the academic discipline of women's studies, this course defines terms appropriate to that discipline, surveys the significance of women in history and culture, and examines the social roles of women in economics, politics, education, health concerns, language, and art forms. Prerequisite(s): 12 hours college credit.
ENG 2223 - Introduction To Film Studies
This course briefly outlines the history of film, introduces students to basic film terms and techniques such as script, shots, sequence, and animation, and summarizes the theory and practice of film criticism. This course replaces ENG 3043. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 &1213.
ENG 2303 - English Cornerstone
This course provides a broad and essential introduction to literary terms, genres, and critical theory. In addition, students will be introduced to basic literary research and refine their analytical writing skills. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 &1213.
ENG 2413 - Fundamentals Of Literature
This course offers a concentrated study of the principles and forms of literature.
ENG 2543 - English Literature To 1800
This course provides a survey of the major texts and authors in the British literary tradition from its origins to the end of the eighteenth century.
ENG 2653 - English Literature Since 1800
This course provides a survey of British literature and British literary movements from 1800 to the present with the emphasis evenly distributed.
ENG 2693 - Survey Black American Fiction
This course will involve a study of the significant fiction produced by black writers in the 20th century.
ENG 2713 - Black American Poetry/Drama/Nonfiction
This course will involve a study of significant black contributions in the areas of poetry, drama, and nonfiction from the seventeenth century to the present.
ENG 2773 - American Literature To 1865
This course provides a historical survey from colonial times to Walt Whitman; extensive reading.
ENG 2883 - American Literature Since 1865
This course is a continuation of ENG 2773 from Walt Whitman to the present.
ENG 3000 - Workshop In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 6 hours. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study. Normally involves lecture, films, guest speaker, etc. A grade of "P" or "F" is given. No more than 6 hours of workshop may be counted toward a bachelor's degree.
ENG 3013 - Shakespeare
This course focuses on representative Shakespearean comedies, histories, tragedies, and their background.
ENG 3033 - Shakespeare
This course examines Shakespearean dramas other than those studied in ENG 3013.
ENG 3053 - Greek Drama In English Translation
This course is a study of the significant dramas of Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, and Sophocles. Some consideration will be given to the patterns of early Greek drama, the style of setting, and the structure of the early Greek theatres. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113, 1213.
ENG 3063 - Introduction To Grammar
This course offers a study of the traditional concepts of English grammar and an introduction to modern methods of syntactic analysis. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 3073 - Recent World Drama
This course exposes students to world drama from Ibsen to the present.
ENG 3093 - Wordsworth And Coleridge
this course presents a study of the major poetry and literary criticism of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
ENG 3113 - Byron-Shelley-Keats
This course focuses on the major poetry of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats.
ENG 3133 - Tennyson And Browning
This course focuses on the poems of Tennyson and Browning.
ENG 3153 - Victorian Age
This course focuses on the prose and poetry of the Victorian period.
ENG 3173 - Short Story
This course examines the origin, traces the development, and analyses the techniques of the short story. Extensive reading is required.
ENG 3193 - World Literature I
This course is a survey of literary masterpieces from the ancient world to the 16th century, including both western and non-western works.
ENG 3213 - World Literature II
This course examines the world masterpieces of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas from the 17th century to the current century.
ENG 3243 - Women In Film
This course provides an introduction to the genre of the women's film, exploring its unique characteristics, purposes, and motifs. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 &1213.
ENG 3313 - Early European Drama
This course examines miracles, moralities, masques, and the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries.
ENG 3333 - American Drama
This course examines drama and the theatre in the United States to 1915.
ENG 3373 - Literary Study New Testament
This course offers a study of the New Testament as literature.
ENG 3393 - Mythology
This course examines the more important myths, legends and folk tales and includes extensive readings in classic literature in translation.
ENG 3413 - Literary Study Old Testament
This course offers a study of the Old Testament as literature.
ENG 3423 - Women Of The Bible
This course will provide coverage of the women of the Bible from a literary viewpoint. Emphasis will be on the literary genres, archetypes, motifs, and themes of their stories. Allusions and parallels to their stories found in other literature will be explored. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 3493 - Literature Of American Southwest To 1900
This course examines the folklore traditions of the American Southwest as expressed in oral and written literature.
ENG 3503 - Literature Of American Southwest Since 1900
This course will focus attention on writers who especially reflect the authentic traditions and folklore of the American Southwest.
ENG 3523 - Nonfiction Prose Of Modern America
This course examines the diverse forms of modern nonfiction prose of America, examining various genres and sub-genres such as biography, autobiography, travel literature, belletristic journalism, polemical reporting, the "nonfiction novel" and mixtures of these forms.
ENG 3533 - Science Fiction
This course will provide coverage of the genre, of science fiction, including the genre's development and position in literature, its forms, its influence on other genres, its inheritance of the epic tradition, and its characteristics. This course emphasizes literary interpretation, motifs, devices, archetypes, myths, recurring themes, and the authors who have shaped the genre. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 &1213.
ENG 3543 - Male And Female Rhetoric
This course explores the different ways men and women use language. Students explore these differences through scholarly research by linguists, popular publications, short stories, and movies. Prerequisites(s): ENG 1113 &1213.
ENG 3643 - American Indian Literature
With their literature at its center, this course explores the art, ceremonies, history, religion and other parts of the tribal life of the American Indian.
ENG 3990 - Advanced Topics In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 4 hours. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113, 1213.
ENG 4013 - A Literary Study Of The Bible
This course is a comprehensive study of the Bible as literature. Major literary genres, biblical backgrounds, themes, archetypes, rhetorical modes, a study of biblical poetry and narrative constitute the emphases of study. The tools of literary criticism (historical criticism, anthropological, mythological, and linguistic) enable students to formulate models of interpreting the Bible as literature. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 &1213.
ENG 4023 - Technical Writing
This course provides a study of basic composition principles and will equip students in various disciplines to write clear technical expository prose, including reports, memorandums, proposals, brochures, and other technical communication formats, designed for specific audiences in each specific professional area. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4033 - Issues In Technical Writing
This course offers an intensive study of a specific topic within the discipline of technical writing. Content will vary within the limits of the discipline. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 &1213.
ENG 4043 - Colonial American Literature
The course provides a study of colonial, regional, and revolutionary American literature to examine the historical narratives, essays, fiction, sermons, political tracts, and poetry which formed and continue to influence American culture. Prerequisite(s): ENG 2773 and 2883.
ENG 4053 - Vietnam War Film & Literature
This course examines the cinematic and literary perspectives of the Vietnam War from gender, ethnic and nationalistic perspectives. Students will discuss the historical, social and political aspects of the war in comparison to films and literary works from other American wars. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213. Senior standing.
ENG 4063 - Women In Science/Technical Writing
This class will cover the history of scientific and technical writing of women writers from Renaissance through the twentieth century. It will be an historical survey; we will seek thematic links between different historical periods, and move beyond the concepts of scientific "breakthroughs" or "revolutions" to try to understand how women influenced the changes and "breakthroughs" of science and technical writing. We will analyze the texts that women produced, and discuss how these texts interacted with and changed the societies that produced them. Disciplines and professions surveyed include: engineering, physics, chemistry, nursing, medicine, and education. The final goal of the class is an understanding of the general history of science and how science both shapes and is shaped by women. We will also focus on stylistic changes to scientific and technical writing that paralleled changes in scientific and technical thought. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1213 and 1223 with a minimum grade of "C". Junior or senior standing.
ENG 4073 - 19th Century British Women Writers
This course examines the works of major British women writers of the nineteenth century, focusing on the female literary tradition inherent in their novels and poetry. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213. Junior or senior standing.
ENG 4083 - Early American Gothic Fiction
This course examines the gothic tradition in works of American fiction written during the 18th and 19th centuries, focusing on the way in which this tradition responds to American ideology and events in American history. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213. Junior or senior standing.
ENG 4093 - 20th Century American Womens Autobiography
This course examines autobiographies written by women during the twentieth century. The course will concentrate on providing a theoretical background and strategies for analyzing women's life writing. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213. Junior or senior standing.
ENG 4103 - 18th Century British Novel
This course examines the backgrounds, beginnings, and rise of the English novel as an art form from Elizabethan narrative forms through Scott and Austen.
ENG 4123 - 19th Century British Novel
This course examines the emergence of the novel as a significant art form during the Victorian period, from the Brontes to Hardy.
ENG 4143 - British Novel 1900-1940
This course examines the cultural influences and major British novelists prior to World War II, from John Galsworthy to Graham Greene.
ENG 4153 - Victorian Literature
This course analyzes the works of major British authors, 1830-1901. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4173 - The Romantic Imagination
A study of the major writers of the British Romantic period from the 1780s to the 1820s, this course is designed to introduce students to the major literary criticism of the Romantic period and to increase their understanding of the British Romantic writers' ideals and artistic themes. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4183 - Restoration/18th Century British Literature
This course offers a comprehensive study of the major authors, genres, and thematic concerns of restoration and early 18th-century British literature. Readings are drawn from a variety of genres, including poetry, drama, prose fiction, and non-fiction prose, and reflect the diverse interests of British writers from the restoration to the Augustan Age. This course also introduces students to recent developments in the study of restoration and early 18th-century British literature and culture, including the work of feminist, comparativist, and cultural critics.
ENG 4203 - The Age Of Johnson
Taking the writings of Samuel Johnson as a point of departure, this course examines the major authors, genres, and thematic concerns of British literature during the period 1737-84. Readings are drawn from a variety of genres, including poetry, drama, prose fiction, and non-fiction prose, and reflect the diversity of interests that characterizes British writing of the middle decades of the 18th century. This course also addresses recent critical developments in the study of mid-18th-century British literature.
ENG 4223 - Contemporary Literature & Culture
This course examines the influence of modern philosophical movements on twentieth century literature.
ENG 4233 - American Novel I
This course focuses on the nineteenth-century American novel in the United States.
ENG 4243 - Chaucer
The course examines the language and poetry of Chaucer.
ENG 4253 - American Novel II
This coure focuses on the twentieth-century American novel in the United States to World War II.
ENG 4263 - Literary Criticism
This course examines the standards used in the evaluation of literature. This course replaces 4262.
ENG 4273 - American Fiction Since WW II
This course offers a critical study of the important movements and writers of contemporary fiction in the United States.
ENG 4283 - English Grammar And Usage
This course offers an intensive study of the rules of English grammar and their application to speaking and writing.
ENG 4313 - Cinema Of The Seventies
This course will examine the development of American cinema over the course of the 1970s. It will analyze films concerning the themes of the environment, freedom, the future, gender, humor (especially dark humor), melancholy, neuroses, police, race, restlessness, and violence. In addition, it will examine the film style of the major directors of the period including Hal Ashby, Francis Ford Coppola, Sidney Lumet, Sam Peckinpah, Bob Rafelson, and Martin Scorsese. Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing.
ENG 4323 - History Of English Language
This course presents the ancestry of the English language and of the evolution that has occurred and is occurring in the language.
ENG 4333 - Teaching Shakespeare
This is a course in the methods of teaching Shakespeare. In-depth study of four plays, including the study of literary criticism pertinent to each play, is combined with pedagogical theory and practice. The "performance method" of teaching Shakespeare, defined by Michael Tolaydo and the Folger Teaching Shakespeare Institute, is given special consideration. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 &1213.
ENG 4343 - Linguistics
This course offers a comprehensive study of the English language from sounds (phonetics and phonology) to words (morphology) to structure (syntax) to meaning (semantics). The course also examines some social aspects of language (espectially dialectology).
ENG 4353 - Issues In Linguistics
This course offers an intensive study of a specific topic within the discipline of linguistics. Content will vary within the limits of the discipline. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 &1213.
ENG 4383 - Modern American Poetry
This course offers a one-semester survey of the major figures in modernist American poetry, including Frost, Pound, Stevens, and Williams. The course examines the prose criticism of these writers as well as their poetry and assesses their contributions to the development of twentieth-century literary theory. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4393 - Contemporary Poetry
This course offers a detailed study of recent poetry, chiefly American. Prerequisitie(s): ENG 1113 and 1213. This course replaces ENG 4382.
ENG 4403 - Modern Drama
This one-semester course in world drama, covering about twenty-four plays, starts with Ibsen, the late nineteenth century father of modern drama, and proceeds to several contemporary plays, focusing on major world dramatists and dramatic movements.
ENG 4413 - TESL Grammar
This course helps students learn how to use grammar in teaching English as a second language (TESL), providing students with the opportunity to build a solid foundation in grammar and grammatical theory as they practice the presentation of grammatical concepts. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4423 - Studies In The Classical Epic
Selected works of Homer, Virgil, and others will be studied in detail with some attention to their influence.
ENG 4433 - Southern Women Writers
This course offers a survey of 20th-century American women writers, including Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Kate Chopin, Carson McCullers, Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4443 - Medieval Romance
This course will cover the romances of medieval England and continental Europe.
ENG 4453 - African-American Women Writers
This course offers a survey of African-American women writers. In addition to slave narratives, writers included are Zora Neale Hurston, Terry McMillan, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4463 - Native American Indian Literature
This course will provide a broad cultural background study of Native Americans and their literature in the United States from pre-contact times to the present, with critical study of works by American Indian authors, of Native American mythology and folklore, and of the integration of related music, visual arts, and tribal histories. This course will include traditional, transitional, and modern works. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4473 - Advanced Composition
This course provides students with practice in expository types with emphasis on style and critical analysis.
ENG 4483 - Milton
This course examines the major poems and selected minor poetry and prose of John Milton.
ENG 4503 - 16th Century British Literature
This course provides a survey of sixteenth-century British prose, poetry, and drama. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4513 - Literary Works Of C.S. Lewis
This course will provide coverage of the literary works of C.S. Lewis and a brief look at related criticism. This course will include literary interpretation, genres, motifs, literary devices, and themes of the works. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4523 - Major Figures & Movements
This course offers an intensive study of specific authors or literary movements. Special attention will be paid to the literary, historical, and critical contexts of the authors or movements selected for study. Content will vary within the department's field of study. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 &1213.
ENG 4533 - Genres In Film
This course provides an in-depth study of a specific film genre. This course focuses on describing the characteristics, purpose, and themes of a specific genre and provides students with a theoretical background for viewing genre-specific films. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113, 1213, and 2223.
ENG 4543 - Film As Literature
This course is an introduction to literary and film genres. The chief film forms are presented, through historical and contemporary examples-the western, the comedy, the fantasy, the detective, the musical and Gothic story type. Each is represented by both a literary work and a representative film. Through such a study the student encounters the demands and difficulties of transferring a story from one medium to another.
ENG 4553 - History Rhetoric To 1700
This course examines the history of argumentation, its forms and uses, and the theories behind the practices. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4563 - Modern British Poetry
This course offers a one-semester survey of the work of the following British poets: William Butler Yeats, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A. W. Housman, D. H. Lawrence, W. H. Auden, and Dylan Thomas. The course will set these poets in historical and critical perspective as well as offer analyses of the poetry. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4573 - British Novel Since WW II
This course offers a study of the British novel and its cultural contexts since 1945. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4583 - 17th Century Prose & Poetry
This course offers a comprehensive study of major prose writers and poets of the seventeenth century including Frances Bacon, John Donne, Robert Burton, Sir Thomas Browne, George Herbert, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, Aphra Behn. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4603 - Major Figures In American Film
This course provides an in-depth study of a particular filmmaker or selected groups/movements of filmmakers, surveying their works, examining the critical issues raised by their films, and positioning them within the contexts of film history, theory, and criticism. The content will vary within the limits of the discipline. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or above.
ENG 4613 - 18th Century Poetry: Pope To Cowper
This course offers an in-depth survey of the works of the major poets of 18th-century Britain, including Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and William Cowper. This course also provides an overview of the major genres and thematic concerns of 18th-century British poetry and traces the development of British cultural attitudes and esthetic sensibilities from the Augustan Age to the beginning of the Romantic Period.
ENG 4623 - Shakespeare's Tragedies
This course offers an in-depth study of a selection of Shakespeare's tragedies. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4633 - Old English Literature
This course offers an in-depth survey of the major works of Old English literature, including heroic and religious poetry, homilectic prose, riddles, elegies, and saints' lives. In addition, this course provides an overview of Anglo-Saxon history and culture and an introduction to Old English grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Prerequisite(s): ENG 2303.
ENG 4643 - Classic Young Adult Literature
This course will explore literature written specifically for or taught to an adolescent audience and will focus on texts written before 1980. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4653 - History Rhetoric Since 1700
This course examines the history of rhetoric in western culture from 1700 to the present. The course begins with the rhetoric of the Enlightenment, while the second half covers the rhetorics of the twentieth century, including electronic rhetoric. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4663 - The Beat Movement
This course examines the works of many of the most significant writers of the beat movement in American literature of the 1950s and 1960s, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4673 - Contemporary Young Adult Literature
This course explores literature written specifically for or taught to an adolescent audience and will focus on texts written after 1980. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4683 - Women In Literature
This course provides an in-depth survey of literature written by women, analysis of the importance of gender in evaluating English, American, and World literature, and literary criticism by women writers. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213 and sophomore standing or above.
ENG 4693 - Films Of Akira Kurosawa
This course explores the works of Akira Kurosawa by examining his life, his films, and the impact of his greatest works on world cinema. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213. Senior standing.
ENG 4703 - Kung Fu Films & Literature
This course examines kung fu films, focusing primarily o Hong Kong films. Students will identify the conventions of this genre. Students will formulate how the Chinese philosophies of Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism are used in such films. Finally, students will assess how kung fu films become recognized as an influential global cinema. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing.
ENG 4713 - 19th Century American Women Writers
This course provides an introduction to the major American female writers of the nineteenth century. This course focuses on novels, but includes short stories and poetry. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4723 - Composition Pedagogies
This class examines practical strategies for helping students improve their composition skills by exploring established and emerging pedagogies. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113, 1213, and 4473.
ENG 4733 - TESL Pedagogy
This course prepares students to work in the field of teaching English as a second language (TESL). First, students will investigate TESL methods, including the creation of games and simulations for the classroom. Second, students will develop computer-assisted language exercises and simulations. Finally, students will present their research and projects to the class. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113, 1213.
ENG 4753 - Issues In Rhetoric
This course offers an intensive study of a specific topic within the canon of rhetoric. Content will vary within the limits of the discipline. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 &1213.
ENG 4763 - American Literature 1800-1865
This course is a comprehensive study of the "flowering of American literature" from the beginning of the 19th century to the close of the Civil War. Special consideration is given to many important forms other than the novel, such as poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction prose. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4773 - American Literature 1865-1900
This course is a comprehensive study of American literature from the close of the Civil War to the beginning of the 20th century. Special consideration is given to many important forms other than the novel, particularly the short fiction of the writers of regionalism, realism and naturalism. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4823 - Ethnic American Literature
This course deals with the literature of at least four identifiable American ethnic groups (those usually recognized by society in general or by the government). Emphasis is placed on social origin and literary genre of each group. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 &1213.
ENG 4833 - Cyberpunk Film And Literature
Students will explore the visual and literary sub-genre of science fiction called cyberpunk. Student will learn to define the genre according to the themes of the invasion of the mind, the ontology of cyborgs, and the paranoia of oppressive politics: our current reality. Finally, students will assess the value this genre has in postmodern world fiction. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213. Senior standing.
ENG 4843 - Teaching Grammar/Composition/Literature In Secondary Schools
This course involves students in the problems and methods of teaching English grammar and composition and literature in secondary schools. Prerequisite(s): Admission to Teacher Education.
ENG 4853 - Shakespeare's Comedies
This course offers an in-depth study of six of Shakespeare's comedies. In addition to studying the secondary criticism, students will correlate films/productions with their reading of the primary texts. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213.
ENG 4863 - Shakespeare's History Plays
This course provides an in-depth study of Shakespeare's history plays and their literary and cultural contexts. Prior knowledge of British literature tradition is presumed. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 &1213.
ENG 4883 - Asian American Literature
In this course, students will analyze and evaluate the contributions that Asian Americans have made to American literature. Students will discuss the perceptions Euro- Americans had toward individual Asian cultures due to historical events, the effect of those perceptions on the way Asian Americans were treated, and the record of this treatment in the literature. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 and 1213. Senior standing.
ENG 4893 - English Capstone
This course provides senior students with a capstone experience to help them make the transition into the workforce or graduate school. Prerequisite(s): 24 hours of 4000-level English courses and ENG 2303.
ENG 4900 - Practicum In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 4 hours. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study.
ENG 4910 - Seminar In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 4 hours. Directed intensive study on selected problems or special topics. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1113 &1213.
ENG 4930 - Individual Study In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 4 hours. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study.
ENG 4940 - Field Study In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 6 hours. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study.
ENG 4950 - Internship In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 8 hours.
ENG 4960 - Institute In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 8 hours. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study.
ENG 4970 - Study Tour In English
Credit will vary. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study.
ENG 4980 - Workshop In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 4 hours. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study. Normally involves lecture, films, guest speaker, etc. A grade of "P" or "F" is given. No more than 6 hours or workshop may be counted toward a bachelor's degree.
ENG 5000 - Workshop In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 4 hours. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study. Normally involves lecture, films, guest speaker, etc. A grade of "P" or "F" is given. No more than 2 hours of workshop may be counted on a master's degree.
ENG 5013 - Bibliography & Methods Of Research
This course exposes students to both the theory and the practice of advanced scholarly research in literary studies.
ENG 5023 - Advanced Technical Writing
This course will provide comprehensive guidance to skills in clear, direct and effective writing in each specific professional area. Students will become familiar with reports, proposals, partition or mechanism descriptions, process descriptions, instructions, specifications, resumes, letters, memorandums and other technical communication formats.
ENG 5033 - Issues In Technical Writing
This course offers an intensive study of a specific topic within the discipline of technical writing. Content will vary within the limits of the discipline.
ENG 5043 - Colonial American Literature
The course examines the colonial, regional, and revolutionary literature of America to identify the history, ideologies, myths, poetry, essays, and drama which shaped and continue to influence American culture.
ENG 5053 - Vietnam War Film & Literature
This course examines the cinematic and literary perspectives of the Vietnam War from gender, ethnic and nationalistic perspectives. Students will discuss the historical, social and political aspects of the war in comparison to films and literary works from other American wars. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
ENG 5063 - Women In Science/Technical Writing
This class will cover the history of scientific and technical writing of women writers from Renaissance through the twentieth century.
ENG 5073 - 19th Century British Women Writers
This course examines the works of major British women writers of the nineteenth century, focusing on the female literary tradition inherent in their novels and poetry.
ENG 5083 - Early American Gothic Fiction
This course examines the Gothic tradition in works of American fiction written during the 18th and 19th centuries, focusing on the way in which this tradition responds to American ideology and events in American history.
ENG 5093 - 20th Century American Womens Autobiography
This course examines autobiographies written by women during the twentieth century. The course will concentrate on providing a theoretical background and strategies for analyzing women's life writing.
ENG 5103 - Modern Drama
This one-semester course in world drama, covering about twenty-four plays, starts with Ibsen, the late nineteenth-century father of modern drama, and proceeds to several contemporary plays, focusing on major world dramatists and dramatic movements.
ENG 5113 - Studies In Literary Criticism
This course features advanced studies in literary theory with emphasis on twentieth century criticism and practice in the various modes of literary analysis.
ENG 5133 - 19th Century British Novel
This course will provide an intensive examination of novels by British fiction writers during the 19th Century. With an emphasis on context and an attempt to understand the intellectual, political, and artistic preoccupations of Britain's 19th Century, the course will direct attention to themes and social commentary in an artistic literary approach to 19th Century British fiction. .
ENG 5153 - Victorian Literature
This course on the major British literary figures during of the Victorian period (1832-1901) is designed to introduce students to the use of Victorian periodicals and to the terminology and aims of modern schools of criticism.
ENG 5173 - Romantic Literature
A study of the major writers of the British Romantic period from the 1780's to the 1820's, this course is designed to introduce students to the major literary criticism on the Romantic period as to increase their understanding of the British Romantic writers' ideals and artistic themes.
ENG 5183 - Restoration/18th Century British Literature
This course offers a comprehensive study of the major authors, genres, and thematic concerns of Restoration and early 18th-century British literature.
ENG 5193 - British Novel 1900-1940
This course on the work of the major British novelists from approximately 1900 to 1940 focuses on the Modernist movement in British literature.
ENG 5203 - The Age Of Johnson
Taking the writing of Samuel Johnson as a point of departure, this course examines the major authors, genres, and thematic concerns of British literature during the period 1737-84.
ENG 5213 - 18th Century British Novel
This course on the work of the major British novelists of the eighteenth century focuses on the rise of the British novel and deals with the major antecedent of the novel as a genre.
ENG 5223 - Southern Women Writers
This course offers a survey of twentieth-century American women writers including Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Kate Chopin, Carson McCullers, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston and such contemporary writers as Shirley Ann Grace and Elizabeth Spencer.
ENG 5233 - American Novel I
The course will cover the development of the American novel from its' beginnings in the late 18th Century through the romantic, realist, and naturalist periods.
ENG 5243 - Chaucer
This one-semester course on the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde presents Chaucer's text in Middle English, but students are allowed to use a translation as an aid to understanding his language.
ENG 5253 - American Novel II
This one-semester course on the evolution of the American novel from 1900 to World War II examines a range of literary styles and analyzes the characteristics of realism, naturalism, and modernism in a representative sampling of important texts.
ENG 5273 - American Fiction Since WW II
This one-semester course in the development of postmodern American fiction begins with two prewar novels and contrasts later, radical texts with more conservative ones, charting the major characteristics of postwar fiction and seting it within the historical and aesthetic context of American literature.
ENG 5283 - English Grammar And Usage
This one semester course provides a detailed scholarly analysis of contemporary English. Although the approach is descriptive rather than prescriptive, a distinction is made between formal and informal usage. Textbook analysis are supplemented by workbook exercises and readings in scholarly journals.
ENG 5313 - Cinema Of The Seventies
This course examines the development of American cinema during the 1970s, including unique themes of the environment and major directors of the period.
ENG 5323 - History English Language
The course examines the origins and historical development of the English language, including vocabulary, phonology, syntax, orthography, and morphology throughout the three main periods of development - Old English, Middle English, and Modern English. Students in this class will consider the time periods, explore the major influences on and characteristics of the language in each period, and study how the language influenced, was influenced by, and is reflected in the literature of each period.
ENG 5333 - Teaching Shakespeare
This is a course in the methods of teaching Shakespeare. In-depth study of four plays, including the study of literary criticism pertinent to each play, is combined with pedagogical theory and practice. The "performance method" of teaching Shakespeare, defined by Michael Tolaydo and the Folger Teaching Shakespeare Institute, is given special consideration.
ENG 5343 - Linguistics
The course is a comprehensive study of the English language from sounds (phonetics and phonology) to words (morphology) to structure (syntax) to meaning (semantics). The course also examines some social aspects of language (especially dialectology) as well as some applications of linguistic theory to other fields.
ENG 5353 - Issues In Linguistics
This course offers an intensive study of a specific topic within the discipline of linguistics. Content will vary within the limits of discipline.
ENG 5363 - Theories Of Film History
This course examines various philosophies of history and current theoretical approaches to historical and cultural study as well as exploring questions of aesthetics, economics, social practice, and cultural history. In addition, the work of several generations of film historians is surveyed.
ENG 5373 - Methods Of Film Research
This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of advanced scholarly research in film studies, providing the professional skills essential for researching the critical and cultural history of the cinema.
ENG 5383 - Modern American Poetry
This one-semester course surveys the major figures in Modernist American Poetry, including Frost, Pound, Stevens, and Williams. The seminar examines the prose criticism of these writers as well as their poetry, and assesses their contributions to the development of twentieth-century literary theory.
ENG 5413 - TESL Grammar
The course will allow graduate students to study the practical application of grammatical theories in English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction through both primary and secondary research.
ENG 5423 - A Literary Study Of The Bible
This course offers a study of the Bible as literature and provides an overview of current historical, anthropological, archetypal, and linguistic approaches to the study of the Bible. Students in this course study the forms of the biblical texts, as well as the development of these forms in a historical context. Contemporary literary criticism of the Bible is an integral part of the study of the biblical texts.
ENG 5433 - Classical Hollywood Cinema
This course offers students an advanced understanding of the aesthetic and industrial practices that have defined the classical Hollywood cinema.
ENG 5463 - American Indian Literature
This course will provide a broad cultural background study of Native Americans and their literature in the United States from pre-contact times to the present, with critical study of works by American Indian authors, of Native American mythology and folklore, and of the integration of related music, visual art, and tribal histories. This course will include traditional, transitional, and modern works.
ENG 5473 - Advanced Composition
This course presents the principles of effective writing and affords students the opportunity to apply these principles through extensive writing practice.
ENG 5483 - Milton: Poetry And Prose
This course examines the major poems and selected minor poetry and prose of John Milton, the great Seventeenth Century poet, puritan and revolutionary. Through close critical readings of Milton's work, the class will examine such Miltonic themes as loss, guilt, patience, choice, trial, free will, the relationship between men and women and their relationship with God. The class will study the literary genres which Milton adopts and adapts (epic, tragedy, pastoral, masque, etc.), and the poetics, aesthetics, and ethics which inform his work. The course will analyze Milton in his various roles of farsighted politician, profound theologian, and visionary poet.
ENG 5503 - 16th Century British Literature
The course provides a survey of sixteenth century British prose, poetry, and drama. It will provide an extensive examination of writers and literary forms arising during Britain's 16th Century, each of which demonstrates continuing literary and historical importance to literature in English.
ENG 5513 - Literary Works Of C.S. Lewis
This course will provide comprehensive coverage of the literary works of C. S. Lewis and a brief look at related criticism. The course will include literary interpretation, genres, motifs, literary devices, and themes of the works.
ENG 5523 - Major Figures & Movements
This course offers an intensive study of specific authors literary movements. Special attention will be paid to the literary, historical, and critical contexts of the authors or movements selected for study. Content will vary within the department's field of study.
ENG 5533 - Teaching Methods For Teaching Assistants
This course provides teaching assistants with the training necessary to teach first year composition. Students will focus on the pedagogical concerns involved in teaching the writing process and will come to understand the effects that professional attitude, grading procedures, conferring with students, and the use of technology have on the objectives of the class as a whole. Prerequisite(s): Students must be accepted into the Teaching Assistant program. Written permission required.
ENG 5553 - History Rhetoric To 1700
This course surveys the history of rhetoric in western Europe from the fifth century B.C. through the seventeenth century. The first half of the course covers the major theories and pedagogics of classical rhetoric, from Homer through Quintilian, and the second half covers rhetoric in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
ENG 5563 - Modern British Poetry
This one-semester course examining the works of the major British poets from before World War I to the contemporary era.
ENG 5573 - British Novel Since WW II
This course examines the major British novelists and their work from approximately 1940 to 1990, focusing on "post-modernism" as a major literary movement in England following World War II.
ENG 5583 - 17th Century British Literature
This course surveys British literature of the seventeenth century, focusing on, among others, the prose writers Browne, Burton, Donne, and Walton, novelists Defoe and Behn, and the poets Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Vaughan, and Traherne. Prerequisite(s): 6 hours grammar and composition.
ENG 5613 - 18th Century Poetry: Pope To Cowper
This course offers an in-depth survey of the works of the major poets of 18th -Century Britain, including Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and William Cowper. This course also provides an overview of the major genres and thematic concerns of the 18th-Century British Poetry and traces the development of British cultural attitudes and esthetic sensibilities from the Augustan age to the beginning of the Romantic Period.
ENG 5623 - Shakespeare Tragedies
This one-semester course offers an in-depth study of a selection of Shakespeare's tragedies.
ENG 5633 - Old English Literature
This course offers an in-depth survey of the major works of Old English literature, including heroic and religious poetry, homilectic prose, riddles, elegies, and saints' lives. This course also provides an overview of Anglo-Saxon history and culture and an introduction to Old English grammar, syntax, and vocabulary.
ENG 5643 - Classic Young Adult Literature
This course will explore literature written specifically for or taught to an adolescent audience and will focus on texts written before 1980.
ENG 5653 - History Rhetoric Since 1700
This course surveys the history of rhetoric in western Europe from 1700 to the Present. The first half of the course covers the rhetorics of The Enlightenment, 1700 to 1900, and the second half covers the rhetorics of the twentieth century.
ENG 5663 - The Beat Movement
This course examines the works of many of the most significant writers of the Beat Movement in American literature of the 1950s and 1960s, including Allen Ginsberg, Jace Kerouac, and William Burroughs.
ENG 5673 - Contemporary Young Adult Literature
This course explores literature written specifically for or taught to an adolescent audience and will focus on texts written after 1980.
ENG 5693 - Films Of Akira Kurosawa
This course explores the works of Akira Kurosawa by examining his life, his films, and the impact of his greatest works on the world cinema. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
ENG 5703 - Kung Fu Films & Literature
This course examines Asian martial arts films, focusing primarily on Hong Kong films, by exploring such film icons as Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan; by analyzing the works of directors such as Ang lee and Chang Cheh; and by evaluating the Chinese philosophies of Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism in such films.
ENG 5713 - 19th Century American Women Writers
This course provides an introduction to the major American female writers of the nineteenth century. This course focuses on novels, but includes short stories and poetry.
ENG 5723 - Composition Pedagogies
This class examines practical strategies for helping students improve their composition skills by exploring established and emerging pedagogies.
ENG 5733 - TESL Pedagogy
Future teachers of English as a second language (TESL) examine how creativity and research canhelp develop effective games and simulations forpedagogical purposes. First, students investigate methodologies for creating language games and simulations for the classroom. Second, they develop that knowledge into computer assisted language exercises. Finally, students will present their research and scholarly projects in a class symposium. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
ENG 5753 - Issues In Rhetoric
This course offers an intensive study of a specific topic within the canon of rhetoric. Content will vary within the limits of the discipline.
ENG 5763 - American Literature 1800-1865
This course is a comprehensive study of the "flowering of American literature" from the beginning of the 19th century to the close of the Civil War. Special consideration is given to many important forms other than novel, such as poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction prose.
ENG 5773 - American Literature 1865-1900
This course is a comprehensive study of American literature from the close of the Civil War to the beginning of the 20th century. Special consideration is given to many important forms other than the novel, particularly the short fiction of the writers of regionalism, realism and naturalism.
ENG 5783 - Composition Theory & Research
This course provides an in-depth study of the scope of composition theory, the methods of composition research, and the work of individual theorists.
ENG 5823 - Ethnic American Literature
This one-semester course focuses on the literature of African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, and European Americans.
ENG 5833 - Cyberpunk Film And Literature
In this course, students will explore the visual and literary sub-genre of cyberpunk science fiction. Students will define the genre according to the themes of the invasion of the mind, the ontology of cyborgs, and the paranoia of oppressive politics. Students will also assess the value this genre has in postmodern world fiction. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
ENG 5843 - Teaching Secondary English
This course is methodology course which links educational philosophy or theory to the formulation of units, behavioral objectives, and daily lesson planning relative to teaching grammar, composition, literature in the secondary schools. Prerequisite(s): Bachelor in Education or admitted to a certification program with graduate standing.
ENG 5853 - Shakespeare Comedies
This one-semester course offers an in-depth study of six of Shakespeare's comedies. In addition to studying the secondary criticism, students will correlate films and stage productions with their reading of the primary texts.
ENG 5863 - Shakespeare's History Plays
This course provides extensive research into the plays and background of the early Kings of England through literary analysis.
ENG 5883 - Asian American Literature
In this course, students will analyze and evaluate the contributions that Asian Americans made to American literature. Students will discuss the perceptions Euro- Americans have towards individual Asian cultures due to historical events and how that affected the way Asian Americans were treated and how they recorded this treatment in the literature. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
ENG 5891 - Comprehensive Examination
This course, taken during the student's last semester in the program, will prepare the student for and will assist the student in successfully completing the Comprehensive Examination.
ENG 5900 - Practicum In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 4 hours. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study.
ENG 5910 - Seminar / Special Topics
Credit will vary from 1 to 4 hours. Directed intensive study on selected problems or special topics.
ENG 5930 - Individual Study In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 4 hours. Directed intensive study on definite problems or special subjects based on approved outlines or plans; conferences, oral and written reports.
ENG 5950 - Internship In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 8 hours. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study. Supervised practical experience gained in a professional field by an advanced or graduate student.
ENG 5960 - Institute In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 8 hours. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study.
ENG 5970 - Study Tour
Credit will vary. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study.
ENG 5990 - Thesis In English
Credit will vary from 1 to 6 hours. Subject matter will vary within the department's field of study.