English

ENG075 Preparatory Composition (3 semester hours)
Develops prerequisite skills for ENG101: mechanically sound sentences and paragraphs, spelling, vocabulary development, and sentence variation. Required of all incoming freshmen with ACT English subscores of 17 or below; open to other students seeking help with these English composition skills. Credit earned in this course is in addition to the 40 courses required for graduation.
No prerequisites

ENG101 Composition I: Introduction to Academic Writing (3 semester hours)
Sentence and paragraph structure and the organization of short descriptive and expository essays. Students may read each other's work and the work of professional writers to improve their critical and interpretive skills and to discover subjects and strategies for their own essays.
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of ENG075 or equivalent knowledge and skills as demonstrated by an ACT English subscore of 17 or higher or by a comparable SAT verbal score; where no ACT or SAT scores are available, placement is by consent of the program chair.

ENG102 Composition II: Introduction to Research Writing (3 semester hours)
Continuation of ENG101. Students read and discuss both fictional and non-fictional prose and prepare related writing assignments, including a substantial research paper requiring library research and documentation and synthesis of materials gathered from diverse sources into a coherently organized paper.
Prerequisite: ENG101 or equivalent via transfer or CLEP credit.

ENG106 Reading Literature (3 semester hours)
Helps students become more competent and productive readers of literature through the examination of works from a variety of periods and genres. Addresses such questions as: how does reading literature differ from reading other kinds of writing? how does the experience of literature vary according to the type of work one is reading? what is the use or value of reading literature?
No prerequisites

ENG/COM114 Journalism (3 semester hours)
Cross-listed with COM114. For description see COM114.

ENG/COM204 Technical and Professional Writing (3 semester hours)
Mastery of practical forms of organizational writing: letters, memos, reports, emphasizing the preparation of the long formal report common to business, government, and industrial organizations. Emphasizes mastery of the standard forms of organizational communication.
Prerequisite: ENG102.

ENG206 Creative Writing (3 semester hours)
Gives students interested in writing fiction, poetry, or drama an opportunity to do so in conditions that encourage the development of creativity, self-expression, and personal style.
Prerequisite: ENG102.

ENG210 Linguistics (3 semester hours)
Language as a human speech phenomenon: how speech sounds are formed and heard; how individual speech sounds combine to form units of meaning; how languages are constructed from words; different grammatical systems among the world's languages; learning a foreign language; learning an unwritten language; origin and evolution of words; language families and how their ancient forms can be reconstructed; semantic problems; translation problems; devising a universal language.
Prerequisite: ENG102.

ENG/EDU218 Children's Literature (3 semester hours)
Cross-listed with EDU218. For description see EDU218.

ENG220 The Novel (3 semester hours)
Introduction to the range of forms of the novel and analysis of representative novels.
Prerequisites: ENG102 or consent of instructor.

ENG222 Drama (3 semester hours)
Drama as both art form and social ritual, with special attention to those periods during which the drama flourished with special vigor and brilliance: fifth century Athens, Renaissance England, turn-of-the-century Europe. May include sampling of live theatrical experiences available in Chicago. Cross-listed with THE222.
Prerequisites: ENG102 or consent of instructor.

ENG224 Poetry (3 semester hours)
Poetry written in English during the last four hundred years. Reading in the poetry is supplemented and focused by readings in criticism and poetics. The approach is topical rather than chronological and should develop a student's sense of what kind of thing a poem is and how poems can best be read.
Prerequisites: ENG102 or consent of instructor.

ENG230 American Literature: The Twentieth Century (3 semester hours)
Classic modern American writers and some of their more contemporary, post-modern successors, including works by such authors as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Stevens, Williams, Frost, O'Neill, Williams, Welty, Updike, Bellow, Vonnegut, Barth, Hughes, Sexton, Brooks, Momaday, Cruz, and Shepard.
Prerequisites: ENG102 or consent of instructor.

ENG302 Advanced Academic Writing (3 semester hours)
Explores the varieties of style and organization available to writers whose primary aim is to explain some aspect of themselves or of their world, or to persuade an audience to accept a conclusion; explores the conventions of scholarly writing in a number of disciplines.
Prerequisite: ENG102.

ENG312 Semantics (3 semester hours)
The human capacity to use symbols, especially verbal symbols, in their relations to the things signified and the ensuing thoughts, actions or feelings; this in contrast to examining language as an object of interest in its own right, which is the province of linguistics.
Prerequisite: ENG102.

ENG314 Theories of Grammar (3 semester hours)
This course will examine the grammar of English from several analytic perspectives; it will also explore some of the philosophical and psychological implications of grammatical analysis and study the role of grammar in effective communication.
Prerequisite: ENG102.

ENG332 American Literature: The Nineteenth Century (3 semester hours)
The complementary movements of romanticism and realism in nineteenth century American poetry, fiction, and non-fictional prose, including works by Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Poe, Twain, and James.
Prerequisite: ENG102.

ENG340 British Literature: Beowulf to Spenser (3 semester hours)
The beginnings of English literature, its medieval glories in the work of such writers as Chaucer, Gower, and the Pearl poet, and the early stages of the Renaissance in England, particularly as exemplified by the poetry of Edmund Spenser. Also explores the changes in the English language during this span of time.
Prerequisite: ENG102.

ENG342 British Literature: Spenser to Milton (3 semester hours)
The poetry, drama (excluding Shakespeare), and some of the nonfictional prose written in England between the career of England's first great epic poet and that of its second. In addition to Spenser and Milton, authors studied may include More, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare (the nondramatic poetry), Donne, Browne, Jonson, Webster, and Herbert.
Prerequisite: ENG102.

ENG344 British Literature: Milton to Wordsworth (3 semester hours)
The development of English literature from the epic power and sublimity of Milton, through the efforts at neoclassic equilibrium that mark the eighteenth century in England, to the revival with a difference of the Miltonic mode in the poetry of Wordsworth. In addition to Milton and Wordsworth, may include works by Dryden, Pope, Congreve, Sheridan, Addison, Steele, Swift, Johnson, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, and Blake.
Prerequisite: ENG102.

ENG346 British Literature: Wordsworth to Yeats (3 semester hours)
Traces the movement of English literature from romanticism to modernism, a movement that looks linear from some points of view and circular from others. In addition to Wordsworth and Yeats, may include works by Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Austen, Tennyson, Arnold, Browning, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Conrad, Lawrence, Woolf, and Shaw.
Prerequisite: ENG102.

ENG/THE350 Shakespeare (3 semester hours)
The variety and the coherence of Shakespeare's work as a playwright and also his artistic development over the span of his career. Includes selected plays and relevant background and critical material. Traces the workings of Shakespeare's imagination in the detail of the plays' language and in the structure of their actions.
Prerequisite: ENG102.

ENG352 Racial and Ethnic Themes in Literature (3 semester hours)
The development of racial or ethnic themes in different literary genres, created by African American, Asian American, Native American, Latino American, or writers of other ethnic origin, from the 19th century and 20th century. In addition to Frederick Douglass, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, authors studied may include Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansbserry, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Wakako Yamauchi, Yoko Ota, Amy Tan, Bharati Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Luis Valdez, Sandra Cisneros, and Hector St. Jean De Crevecoeur.
Prerequisite: ENG102.

ENG416 History of the English Language (3 semester hours)
The origins and development of English from Anglo-Saxon to present-day American English: basic components of the English language, its systems of spelling and grammar, and its relation to our country's cultural heritage.
Prerequisites: ENG102; or consent of instructor.

ENG420 Comparative Literature (3 semester hours)
Recurrent themes and myths in classical and modern European literatures, with attention to such forms as the epic and to the problems of translation. Especially recommended for students interested in writing and language, linguistics, anthropology, and religion.
Prerequisites: ENG102; 1 Period and 1 Genre course.

ENG499 Seminar in English (3 semester hours)
This course will survey major theoretical positions on the structure and functions of written texts, literary and otherwise, and on the processes by which they are written and read. It will also examine significant contemporary interactions between English studies and other fields of scholarly inquiry.
Prerequisites: A declared major or minor in English; a minimum of four courses in English, at least two of them at the 300-level; submission of a portfolio completed according to program guidelines; senior standing recommended.