ENGLISH (ENG)
400-3 PRINCIPLES OF LINGUISTICS. Principles and techniques of linguistic analysis illustrated through survey of major structural components of language. Recommended for those preparing to teach English.
403-3 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Historical survey of major phonological and grammatical changes in English language from its Indo-European antecedents to the present.
404-3 CHAUCER: CANTERBURY TALES. The Canterbury Tales read in Middle English. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
405-3 PRAGMATICS. Study of principles controlling how implicit levels of meaning are expressed in language and how context influences the interpretation of meaning.
406-3 OLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Sounds, grammar, and vocabulary of the Old English Language including readings in Old English poetry and prose.
408-3 PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS. Principles of linguistic analysis and interpretation as applied to sound systems of language. Prerequisite: ENG 400 recommended.
409-3 SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS. Principles of syntactic analysis and interpretation as applied to clause and sentence level structures.
413-3 SPENSER. Reading and analysis of The Faerie Queene, The Shepheardes Calendar, "Amoretti,” and other poems. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
416-3 LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY. Relationships among language, society, and culture, and their implications for education and intercultural communication. Topics include language variation, socialization, and ethnography of communication.
422-3 POETRY AND PROSE OF THE RENAISSANCE. Early Modern English (1500-1600); works by Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, More, Gascoigne, Spenser, Sidney. Dramatic works of Marlowe and Shakespeare excluded. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
423-3 POETRY AND PROSE OF THE 17TH CENTURY. Literature 1600-1660 including Donne, Jonson, Bacon, Burton, Browne, Milton. Dramatic works of Shakespeare excluded. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
424-3 POETRY AND PROSE OF THE RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY. Literature 1660-1784 including Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and Boswell. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
426-3 POETRY AND PROSE OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD. Literature and its revolutionary socio-historical context 1780-1832: Blake, the Wordsworths, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, Keats, Lamb, and other prose writers. Prerequisite: ENG 102 and one prior 200-400 level literature course.
427-3 POETRY AND PROSE OF THE VICTORIAN ERA. Representative poetry and prose (excluding novels) by authors such as Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Carlyle, Ruskin, and the Pre-Raphaelites. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
428-3 BRITISH POETRY AND PROSE OF THE MODERN ERA. Representative poetry and short prose by authors such as Hardy, Housman, Hopkins, Yeats, Woolf, Sitwell, World War I poets, Auden, Larkin, and Hughes. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
432-3 MAJOR AMERICAN WRITERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Short prose by authors such as James, Cather, Faulkner, O'Connor, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Wright. Prererequisite: ENG 102.
434-3 AMERICAN POETRY TO 1900. Works by colonial and 19th century American poets including the Puritans, Longfellow, Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Whitman, and Dickinson. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
435-3 AMERICAN POETRY FROM 1900 TO 1950. Major trends and schools in modern poetry. Poems by authors such as Robinson, Frost, Pound, Eliot, Moore, Cummings, H.D., Stevens, and Roethke. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
437-3 AMERICAN DRAMA. Selected texts from the emergence of the American theatre to the present. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
439-3 AMERICAN NOVEL TO EARLY 20TH CENTURY. Emergence of native themes, characters, and styles. Representative authors including Tyler, Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, James, Crane, Twain, Wharton, Howells, and Dreiser. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
440-3 AMERICAN NOVELS FROM EARLY 20TH CENTURY TO 1950. Literary trends and historical backgrounds of modern fiction beginning with Henry James and ending with such writers as Hemingway, McCullers, and Wright. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
441a,b-3,3 CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE. A survey of major works and important movements from 1950 to present with an emphasis on current writers. Different semesters cover a) poetry or b) fiction. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
443-3 PROSODY. Students will both study and write metrical poetry. All aspects of versification will be considered. For both literature majors and creative writing minors. Prerequisites: ENG 102.
446-3 STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE. Examine the fiction, poetry, short stories, and essays of African American writers within the context of scholarship and criticism dedicated to the study of Black diasporie cultures. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
454-3 18TH CENTURY NOVEL. Representative novelists such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and Austen. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
455-3 VICTORIAN NOVEL. Representative romantic and realistic novels including works by authors such as Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, the Brontes, Trollope, and Hardy. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
456-3 20TH CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL. Survey of major British novelists from 1900 to present: Joyce, Lawrence, Conrad, and selected contemporary authors. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
457-3 TOPICS IN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE AND CRITICISM. Examination of Postcolonial texts—novels, poems, plays, memoirs, speeches, and critical essays with focus on scholarship and theory in Postcolonial studies. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
458-3 TOPICS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Topics in language and literature. May be repeated once for a maximum of six hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
460-3 ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA. Renaissance England, including Marlowe, Jonson, and others such as Beaumont and Fletcher, Middleton, Tourneur, and Webster (excluding Shakespeare). Prerequisite: ENG 102.
461-3 RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY DRAMA. Representative plays from 1660 to 1800 by Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Dryden, Goldsmith, and Sheridan. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
462-3 MODERN BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL DRAMA. European drama since 1870 including Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, Shaw, Brecht, and Pirandello. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
468-3 SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. Examination of issues and theories applicable to understanding process of second language development. Prerequisite: completion of or concurrent enrollment in ENG 400.
470-3 METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR K-12 ESL TEACHING. Examination of techniques and materials for teaching English as a Second Language in K-12 settings.
471a,b-3,3 SHAKESPEARE. (a) Comedies and histories. Comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night; histories such as Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV (Part I), Henry V. (b) Tragedies and non-dramatic works. Tragedies such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra; non-dramatic poetry including The Rape of Lucrece, sonnets. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
472-3 ASSESSMENT AND TESTING IN ESL. Examination of issues and methods for assessing oral and written proficiency in English as a Second Language.
473-3 MILTON. Paradise Lost and other works such as Samson Agonistes, Paradise Regained, “Lycidas,” “Comus,” and selected prose. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
474-3 BILINGUALISM AND BILINGUAL EDUCATION. An introduction to cognitive, linguistic, and social perspectives on bilingualism, and the history and politics of bilingual education in the U.S.
475-3 METHODS OF TEACHING SECONDARY ENGLISH: LITERATURE AND CULTURE. Approaches to and issues in teaching and culture at the secondary level. Prerequisite: must be seeking secondary ELA certification; junior standing; C or better in ENG 102; or consent of the instructor.
476-3 PRACTICUM IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. This course is designed for students who need to gain supervised experience teaching ESL for the purposes of the state ESL endorsement. Prerequisite: ENG 470 or ENG 542.
478-3 STUDIES IN WOMEN, LANGUAGE, AND LITERATURE. Relationships among society, gender, language, and literature; ways women are affected by and depicted in language and literature; literature written by women; feminist criticism. Topic varies; may be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
482-3 TECHNOLOGY AND LITERATURE. Analysis of digital theory and digital literature; short fiction, poetry, and novels created for new media such as CD-ROMs and hypertext. Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
485-3 METHODS OF TEACHING SECONDARY ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LANGUAGE. Approaches to and issues in teaching composition and language usage at the secondary level. Prerequisite: must be seeking secondary ELA certification; junior standing; C or better in ENG 102; or consent of the instructor.
486-3 TEACHING CREATIVE WRITING. Seminar on the teaching of creative writing with an emphasis on poetry and/or fiction. Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
487-3 POLITICS OF COMPOSITION PEDAGOGY. Pedagogical politics of the writing classroom, teacher-student power relations, relations between educational institutions and social order, development of alternative perspectives in pedagogical politics. Prerequisite: junior, senior, or graduate standing.
488-3 HISTORY OF RHETORIC. Major figures, texts, and definitions of rhetoric beginning with Classical origins and continuing into Modern era. Designed for students interested in composition, literature, and criticism. Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
489-3 STYLE AND INTENTIONALITY. A writing course on the study of style. The aim: to study stylistic conventions and innovations. The course is both theoretical and practical. Prerequisite: junior, senior, or graduate student standing.
490-3 ADVANCED COMPOSITION. Writing sophisticated expository prose. Review of grammatical matters as needed; emphasis on clarity, organization, effectiveness, and flexibility. May be repeated once for credit with permission. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
491-3 TECHNICAL AND BUSINESS WRITING. Technical communication, professional correspondence, reports, proposals, descriptions, evaluations, word processing, and graphics software. For students in English, business, engineering, nursing, the sciences, and the social sciences. No experience with software or computers is required. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
492-3 ADVANCED FICTION WRITING. Advanced seminar in short story writing. Includes readings in fiction and a study of the psychology of creativity, fiction markets, experimental fiction. Workshop format. Prerequisite: ENG 392 or consent of instructor.
493-3 ADVANCED POETRY WRITING. Advanced workshop in writing poetry. Examination of poetic expression. Prerequisite: ENG 393 or consent of instructor.
494-3 LITERARY EDITING. Principles of literary editing, primarily of fiction and poetry. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
495-3 HISTORY OF CRITICAL THEORY. Major critical theories from Plato to the present, including practice in writing criticism. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
496-3 SCHOLARLY AND CRITICAL EDITING. Editorial preparation of copy for scholarly and critical journals in English language and literature. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
499-1 to 3 READINGS IN ENGLISH. Independent study in specific area of interest. Extensive reading. For English students only; may be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: approval of department chair and instructor.
501-3 MODERN LITERARY STUDIES. Integrates study of modern literary theory and scholarly editing with instruction in professional research writing and use of electronic data bases. Continuous with ENG 502. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
502-3 MODERN LITERARY THEORY. Continues study of modern literary theory begun in English 501; includes diverse approaches, issues, texts, and thinkers. Prerequisite: ENG 501.
505-3 STUDIES IN OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE. Topics such as Beowulf, Chaucer, Middle English lyric, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Arthurian literature. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
506-3 STUDIES IN RENAISSANCE AND 17TH CENTURY LITERATURE. Topics such as Spenser, Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, Milton, Metaphysical poetry. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
508-3 STUDIES IN RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE. Topics such as satire, Pope, Richardson and Fielding, Boswell and Johnson. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
510-3 STUDIES IN 19TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE. Topics in Romantic and Victorian poetry or prose such as Romantic supernaturalism, gender in Victorian novels, specific focus on one or two writers. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
515-3 STUDIES IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN AND/OR BRITISH LITERATURE. Topics such as Modernism, British drama, American Realism, poetry, Post-war fiction. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
518-3 STUDIES IN COLONIAL AND 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN WRITERS. Topics such as the Puritan writers, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
521-3 TOPICS IN LITERARY STUDY. Literary topics not included in regular course offerings. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
526-3 STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN TEXTS. This course examines African American texts including fiction, poetry, plays, essays, sermons, slave narratives, memories, and speeches, with primary focus on pertinent theory, scholarship, and publications in Black studies. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours, provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
540-3 SEMINAR IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. Examination of advanced topics in the acquisition of English as a second language including universal grammar, lexical development, and conversational analysis. Prerequisites: graduate standing and completion of or concurrent in ENG 400.
541-3 DISCOURSE ANALYSIS. Examination of discourse properties of narrative and expository prose through practice in text analysis. Prerequisite: graduate standing and completion of or concurrent enrollment in ENG 400.
542-3 METHODS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. Analysis of models for teaching ESL in various educational settings. Includes classroom observation and evaluation. For TESL students. Prerequisite: graduate standing and ENG 468.
543-3 GRAMMAR PEDAGOGY. Study of problem areas in the structure, acquisition and teaching of English grammar to non-native speakers. Prerequisites: ENG 542 and graduate standing.
544-3 READING AND WRITING PEDAGOGY IN TESL. Examination of reading and writing processes in second language acquisition and approaches to teaching them to non-native speakers. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
552-3 ACADEMIC WRITING AND RESEARCH METHODS IN COMPOSITION STUDIES. Research methods in composition studies, practice using electronic databases, instruction in professional research writing. Required of students in Teaching of Writing MA specialization. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
554-3 COMPOSITION PEDAGOGY. Introduction to teaching writing. Writing-as-process approach: inventive methods, revision techniques, collaborative learning, and workshops. Design and evaluation of assignments. Planning writing courses. Prerequisites: graduate standing; consent of instructor.
556-3 THEORY OF COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC. Study of theories and historical movements underlying and constituting modern composition pedagogy and rhetorical studies. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
558-3 PRACTICUM IN THE TEACHING OF WRITING. Course focuses on teaching techniques for first-year college writing courses. Working with mentor and supervisory instructors students will observe then teach a writing course. Prerequisite: ENG 554 or consent of instructor.
570-3 TEACHING AFRICAN-AMERICAN ORAL AND WRITTEN LITERATURE. Teaching of African-American oral and written literatures; emphasis on methodology, comparative presentation styles, and textual analysis; scope includes ancient Africa and contemporary America. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
572-3 THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING WRITING WITH COMPUTERS. A study of theoretical principles of computer-mediated composition pedagogy and practical applications of specific technologies in the writing classroom. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
574-3 BASIC AND DEVELOPMENTAL WRITING. Course will focus on theories and practical teaching methods for working in basic and developmental writing courses at the college level. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
576-3 WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM. History, philosophy, pedagogical techniques, and assessment of writing across the curriculum. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
578-3 WOMEN, LANGUAGE, AND PEDAGOGY. Study of recent research into ways gender affects language: speaking, reading, and writing. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
581- 3 TOPICS IN TEACHING WRITING. Workshop or seminar in teaching composition, language, literature, creative writing, and related subjects in education. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
589-3 INTERNSHIP/PRACTICUM IN TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC WRITING. Involvement in developing workplace communications. Supervised by selected faculty member and cooperating corporate site. May be taken in conjunction with ENG 591. Prerequisite: consent of faculty advisor or program director.
591-3 PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT. Preparation of professional portfolio. Restricted to MA candidates within one semester of fulfilling the requirements for the Technical and Scientific Writing specialization. Prerequisite: ENG 589 must be taken prior to or concurrently with ENG 591.
592-3 FICTION WRITING. Emphasis on fiction written by students. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
593-3 POETRY WRITING. Emphasis on poetry written by students. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
594-3 CREATIVE NON-FICTION WRITING. Emphasis on creative non-fiction written by students. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours provided no topic is repeated. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
595-3 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR. Integrating theory and practice of TESL with supervised teaching, collaborative action research, and preparation of exit papers. Prerequisite: students must be within one semester of fulfilling the MA requirements in the non-thesis option for the TESL specialization.
596-3 PREPARATORY READING/TEACHING OF WRITING. Reading of relevant research and writing of three essays under supervision of committee. Restricted to MA candidates within one semester of fulfilling requirements for Teaching of Writing specialization.
597-3 READINGS IN ENGLISH STUDIES. Individual readings in creative writing, linguistics, literature, TESL, or teaching of writing. May be repeated once for a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisites: graduate standing; approval of adviser and instructor.
598-3 PREPARATORY READING/ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE. Reading of relevant research and writing of three essays under supervision of committee. Restricted to MA candidates within one semester of fulfilling requirements for American and English Literature Specialization.
599-3 to 6 THESIS. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing.