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ENG1000 Preparatory and Introductory
Composition (4 semester hours)
Develops writing skills both formal and analytical: mechanically sound sentences
and paragraphs, spelling, vocabulary development, and sentence variation. The
course progresses toward sustained work on 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. Placement into the course will be determined by the performance
on the English placement exam by students whose ACT English subscore is below
22; the course is open also to other students seeking help with these English
composition skills.
No prerequisites. Offered every fall.
ENG1010 Composition I: Introduction
to Academic Writing (2 semester hours)
Sentence and paragraph structure and the organization of short analytic 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 performance on the English placement exam for students
with ACT English subscore below 22; an ACT English subscore of 22 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. Offered every fall.
ENG1020 Composition II: Introduction
to Research Writing (4 semester hours)
Continuation of ENG1000 or ENG1010.
ENG1020 is the second course in the
University's Introduction to Writing sequence. Students read and discuss both
fictional and non-fictional prose and prepare related writing assignments, including
a substantial research-based argument paper requiring library research and documentation
and synthesis of materials gathered from diverse sources into a coherently organized
paper.
Prerequisite: ENG1000, ENG1010
or equivalent via transfer or CLEP credit.
Offered every spring.
ENG1060 Introduction to Literary
Study (4 semester hours)
Helps students become more competent and productive readers of literature through
the examination of works from a variety of periods and genres. Through the reading
of novels, short stories, plays and poems from a variety of authors writing
during a variety of eras, the course 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? The course will also aim to provide students
with a basic critical vocabulary for the analysis and discussion of literature.
No prerequisites. Offered annually.
Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" B requirement
ENG/COM1140 Journalism
(3 semester hours)
Cross-listed with COM1140. For description
see COM1140.
ENG/COM2040 Technical and Professional
Writing (4 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: ENG1020. Offered every
other year.
ENG2060 Creative Writing
(4 semester hours)
This course will be primarily concerned with the production and study of creative
fiction. We will study techniques and the imaginative uses of language in short
stories, poems, and drama. Participants will read successful examples by diverse
writers. We will read and critique the creative works produced by members of
the class in a friendly workshop environment.
Prerequisite: ENG1020. Offered every
other year.
ENG2100 Linguistics
(4 semester hours)
The course is designed to introduce a range of topics within the discipline,
from phonetics through phonology, and morphology, to syntax and semantics. Participants
will be exposed to the study of prescriptive and descriptive grammars. We will
also study child language acquisition, language and the brain, historical linguistics
and change over time, social and geographical dialects with a focus on Black
English Vernacular (recently referred to as Ebonics) and English as a Second
Language issues.
Prerequisite: ENG1020. Offered every
other year.
ENG/EDU2180 Multicultural Literature
for Children (3 semester hours)
Cross-listed with EDU2180. For description
see EDU2180.
ENG/EDU2190 Multicultural Literature
for Young Adults (3 semester hours)
Cross-listed with EDU2190. For description
see EDU2190.
ENG2200 The Novel 2 or
(4 semester hours)
Studies the development of the novel from the eighteenth through the twentieth
centuries; the focus will be on the English novel, but some attention will be
given to American and European instances of the form. The course will also explore
a range of critical approaches to the form and to its relationship with the
various contexts that shape the way we read novels.
Prerequisite: ENG1020. Offered every
other year.
Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" B requirement
ENG/THE2220 Drama 2 or
(4 semester hours)
Studies drama and its cultural and theatrical contexts from the Greeks to the
present, with special emphasis on those periods in which the theatre flourished:
fifth-century Athens, Renaissance England, late nineteenth and early twentieth
century Europe. The course will explore a range of critical approaches to plays
both on the page and on the stage.
Prerequisites: ENG1020 or consent of
instructor. Offered every other year.
Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" B requirement
ENG2240 Poetry 2 or
(4 semester hours)
Students will study 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: ENG1020 or consent of
instructor. Offered every other year.
Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" B requirement
ENG3020 Advanced Academic Writing
(4 semester hours)
Analyzes and prepares students to produce prose of the sort expected in upper-level
undergraduate courses or graduate programs, primarily in the humanities and
social sciences. The course emphasizes the development of a flexible and efficient
style and of sophisticated expository and argumentative discourse strategies.
Prerequisite: ENG1020. Offered every
other year.
ENG3200 Comparative Literature
(4 semester hours)
Studies classic works of literature, primarily from the western tradition, ranging
from the Greeks through the modernist period. Versions of the course will be
organized around particular themes or issues: e.g., the Antigone or Faust story,
the development and exhaustion of the epic tradition, the rise of realism in
European literature, etc. The course will also explore a range of critical and
scholarly perspectives on the literature it studies.
Prerequisite: ENG1020. Offered every
other year.
ENG3320 American Literature: Puritanism-1865
(4 semester hours)
American Literature presents a study of Americans in their developing and changing
environment from the Puritanism, to the Colonial and the Romantic periods, to
the end of the Civil War. We will cover a broad range of texts: political essays,
songs, captivity narratives, memoirs, myths and tales, poetry, and the emerging
American novel. Writers studied may include Bradford, Bradstreet, Mather, Franklin,
Jefferson, Wheatly, Douglass, Truth, Melville, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau,
Fuller, and Whitman.
Prerequisite: ENG1020. Offered every
other year.
Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" B requirement
ENG3350 American Literature: 1865-present
(4 semester hours)
Examines the rise of modernism and post-modernism in an ongoing dialog with
our world. The course explores various genres and sub-genres from the Civil
War to the present and pays particular attention to understanding approaches
to criticism within historical, social, political, and philosophical contexts.
Authors studied may include: Twain, Chopin, Crane, Dunbar, Cather, Frost, Sandburg,
Anderson, Eliot, Hughes, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Porter, Williams,
O'Connor, Sexton, Morrison, and Mason.
Prerequisites: ENG1020 or consent of
instructor. Offered every other year.
Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" B requirement
ENG3400 British Literature: Anglo-Saxons
to the Renaissance (4 semester hours)
The course provides a survey of British Literature, beginning with works from
its Anglo-Saxon period, progressing through the Medieval age in the work of
such writers as Chaucer and the Gawain poet, into the height of the Renaissance
in England, as exemplified by the poetry of Spenser, Sidney, and Shakespeare.
Also explores the changes in the English language during this span of time.
The course will also explore critical approaches to literature, especially those
that emphasize the reading of literary texts within historical and cultural
contexts.
Prerequisite: ENG1020. Offered every
other year.
Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" B requirement
ENG3420 British Literature: Renaissance
to the Romantics (4 semester hours)
The course continues the survey of British literature through the study of poetry,
drama, and some of the nonfictional prose written in England between the height
of the Renaissance through the 17th and 18th centuries to arrive at the beginnings
of the Romantic period. Authors studied may include Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton,
the Metaphysical poets, Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and Blake. The course
will also explore critical approaches to literature, particularly those that
emphasize the reading of literary texts within historical and cultural contexts.
Prerequisite: ENG1020. Offered every
other year.
Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" B requirement
ENG3440 British Literature: The Romantics
to the Present (4 semester hours)
The course concludes the survey of British literature by tracing the literary
developments from Romanticism to the Victorian Age to the Modernist period to
the present age. Readings will reflect the popularity of prose fiction during
these centuries. In addition to Wordsworth and the Romantic poets, readings
may include works by Austen, Tennyson, Arnold, Browning, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy,
Conrad, Lawrence, Woolf, and Shaw. Literature of the mid- to late-twentieth
century will also be represented. The course will also explore critical approaches
to literature, particularly those that emphasize the reading of literary texts
within historical and cultural contexts.
Prerequisite: ENG1020. Offered every
other year.
Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" B requirement
ENG3500 Contemporary World Literature
(4 semester hours)
Studies literature since WWII, with special emphasis on the postcolonial and
postmodern strands in the imaginative writing of the last half-century. The
course will also explore a range of critical approaches to this work and to
its relationship with the various contexts that shape the way we read it.
Prerequisite: ENG1020. Offered every
other year.
ENG3520 Racial and Ethnic Themes
in Literature (4 semester hours)
The development of racial or ethnic themes in different literary genres created
in America and the diaspora by African American, Asian/Pacific American, Native
American, Latino/American origin, or writers of other ethnic origin, from the
19th century to the present. We will focus on interpretations of texts, the
world that these texts create as well as our every day world. We will also examine
the sociopolitical, historical, and ethnic foundations underlying the contexts
that shape these texts. Critical approaches to the interpretation of these works
will include Cultural Criticism. Writers studied may include: Douglass, Dunbar,
Hughes, Baldwin, Walker, Angelou, Hong Kingston, Mukherjee, Moraga, Cisneros,
Castilo, Valdez, Alexie, Dandicat, Singer, Erdrich, Momaday, Silko, Allende,
and Kosinski.
Prerequisite: ENG1020. Offered every
other year.
ENG3550 Language, Literacy and Cognition
(4 semester hours )
Studies the ways in which the mind acquires, produces, and understands language;
the origins, development, uses, and consequences-especially the cognitive consequences-of
literacy; the impact of various technologies on literacy and its uses; and the
interaction between literacy and schooling.
Prerequisite: ENG1020. Offered every
other year.
ENG3810 Topics in Language 2 or
(4 semester hours)
Special topics in language offered periodically as the need occurs.
Prerequisite: ENG1020.
ENG4990 Seminar in English
(4 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 3000-level; submission of a portfolio
completed according to program guidelines; senior standing recommended.
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31 December 2003
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