2. English (ENGL)
0310 Introduction to Writing (3-0)
Integrated instruction in the reading and writing processes. Emphasis is on (1) the connected nature of reading and writing, (2) the development of literal, inferential, analytical, and evaluative comprehension, and (3) the composition of essays addressing specific audiences and purposes. This course is designed as an introduction to English 0311 and may not be used to satisfy any institutional degree requirements.
0311 Basic English Composition (3-0)
Introduction to the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revision, and editing/proofreading; emphasis on adapting the writer's ideas and purpose to an audience. Editing skills (punctuation, spelling, grammar/usage) are presented within the context of the students' own writing. The course is designed as an introduction to English 1311 or English 1611. Prerequisite: ENGL 0310 with a grade of "C" or better or placement by examination. (ESOL 1510 may be substituted by non-native English speakers.)
1311 Expository English Composition (3-0)
(Common Course Number ENGL 1301)
Instruction in addressing academic writing tasks through the composing process, with emphasis on strategic use of language, of rhetorical form, and of authorial voice and point-of-view to inform and persuade effectively; development of critical thought through writing and reading complex discourse. Prerequisite: ENGL 0311 with a grade of "C" or better or placement by examination. (Non-native English speakers may substitute ESOL 1311).
1312 Research and Critical Writing (3-0)
(Common Course Number ENGL 1302)
Instruction in incorporating research into writing, with emphasis on 1) focusing questions, 2) using academic methods and resources, 3) learning to comprehend, analyze, synthesize, and critically evaluate materials, 4) shaping materials into coherent pieces of persuasive discourse appropriate to the writer's purpose and audience, and 5) understanding the logic and forms of documentation. Prerequisite: ENGL 1311, ENGL 1611, or COMM 1611, with a grade of "C" or better, or placement by examination. (Non-native English speakers may substitute ESOL 1312.)
1313 Writing about Literature (3-0)
A research and writing course in the analysis and interpretation of literature, progressing from basic exegesis of diction and syntax to the broad range of critical and stylistic approaches to literary works. Strongly suggested as preparation for junior and senior level courses in literature. Required of all English majors in lieu of English 1312. Strongly advised for all English Education students. Fulfills the catalog requirements for English 1312. Prerequisite: ENGL 1311, ENGL 1611, or COMM 1611, with a grade of "C" or better, or placement by examination.
1611 Written and Oral Communication (6-0)
Integrated study of and practice in oral and written communication, with emphasis on the processes leading to the creation of effective essays and speeches. Students are offered the opportunity to develop complementary skills of reading and listening through extensive response to others' written and spoken work. Counts for ENGL 1311 and COMM 1301. Prerequisite: ENGL 0311 with a grade of "C" or better or placement by examination.
2311 English Literature (3-0)
(Common Course Number ENGL 2322)
English literature from its beginning through the eighteenth century. Prerequisite:
ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
2312 English Literature (3-0)
(Common Course Number ENGL 2323)
English literature from the Romantics to the present. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or
ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
2313 Introduction to American Fiction (3-0)
(Common Course Number ENGL 2327)
Contemporary works as well as the historical development of the short story and the novel. Emphasis on American fiction. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
2314 Introduction to American Drama (3-0)
(Common Course Number ENGL 2328)
Study of the nature and variety of drama through examination of the contemporary Theatre and its historical development. Emphasis on American drama. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
2315 World Literature in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Renaissance Times (3-0)
(Common Course Number ENGL 2332)
Ancient literatures such as the works of Homer, the Bible, Greek tragedy and comedy, up to Cervantes' Don Quixote. All foreign literatures are read in contemporary translation. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
2316 World Literature from the Late Renaissance to the Present (3-0)
(Common Course Number ENGL 2333)
Great writers from the late Renaissance to such modern authors as Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hesse, and Solzhenitsyn. All foreign literatures are read in contemporary translation. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
2318 Introduction to American Poetry (3-0)
(Common Course Number ENGL 2326)
Study of the nature and forms of poetry through examination of modern poetry and its historical antecedents. Emphasis on American poetry. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
General Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312 and junior standing are recommended for all 3300 and 4300-level courses.
3300 Introduction to Literary Studies (3-0)
An overview of various types of literary criticism, with particular attention to analysis of literary texts. Required of all majors in English and American literature. For English majors only, except by special permission.
3301 Literary Studies (3-0)
A study of special literary subjects of interest to non-English majors. Topic varies with the instructor. May be repeated once for credit when subject changes. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3302 Text and Cinema (3-0)
This course examines literature and film as two historically connected art forms. Grounded in textual analysis and literary critical strategies, the course will study the art of the adaptation of literature into film: how a text is turned into a film, how the shaping devices of each genre affect the narrative, and how the medium affects the message. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3303 English Grammar and Usage (3-0)
Concepts and terminology of traditional grammar, the conventions of the written language, issues in contemporary usage. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3304 Gothic Literature (3-0)
A study of gothic literature, with examples from American, British, and continental literatures, with focus on poetry, drama, and short story, and addressing such writers as Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Stephen Crane, Stephen King, and Anne Rice. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3305 Children's Literature (3-0)
A survey of the major genres of literature for children from the seventeenth century to the present, including traditional to contemporary poetry, folk and fairy tales, fantasy, realistic fiction, biography, and informational books. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3306 Young Adult Fiction (3-0)
Study of major works of fiction that appeal to the young adult reader, with emphasis on contemporary novels and short stories. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3309 Detective Fiction (3-0)
A study of detective fiction and its relationship to the development of cultural and literary attitudes. Examines ways detective fiction shapes and reflects constructs of gender, race, and ethnicity. Includes discussion of genre, literary theory, and literary criticism. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312, ENGL 1313, or ESOL 1312.
3310 Chicano Literature (3-0)
Study of representative Chicano works, in prose, poetry, drama, and folklore, from 1848 to the present. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3311 American Literature to 1860 (3-0)
Representative writers from the Pre-Colonial period to 1860. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3312 American Literature since 1860 (3-0)
Representative writers from the Civil War to the present, with emphasis on major figures. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3315 African-American Literature (3-0)
Study of representative African-American prose and poetry from the Colonial period to the present. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3316 Native American Literature (3-0)
A study of Native American literature representing various tribes of North America. The course includes poetry, short stories, novels, and other genres of Native American writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3317 Introduction to Postcolonial Literature (3-0)
The study of literatures written in English from countries formerly in the British Empire/ Commonwealth such as Nigeria, Kenya, India, Pakistan, the Caribbean, and other postcolonial areas.
3319 Sixteenth-Century Prose and Poetry (3-0)
The study of the major non-dramatic prose and poetry from More through Drayton, with special emphasis on the period of Spenser. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3320 Shakespeare's Major Plays (3-0)
Detailed study of the major plays, including Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest, and others. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3321 Representative Shakespearean Works (3-0)
Detailed study of Shakespeare's other well-known plays, such as Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, as well as non-dramatic works such as the Sonnets. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3323 Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetry (3-0)
A study of the major poets and prose writers, with emphasis on such authors as Donne, Jonson, the Cavalier Poets, Milton, Bacon, Browne, and Hobbes. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3325 Literature of the Bible (3-0)
A study of the English Bible as a collection of literary texts and as an important source of ideas and allusions in English and American literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3330 Neo-Classical Literature (3-0)
A study of major poets and prose writers from 1660 to the end of the eighteenth century, with emphasis on such authors as Rochester, Dryden, Pope, Swift, Gay, Fielding, Johnson, Collins, and Cowper. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3333 Romantic Literature (3-0)
A study of the major poets and prose writers, with emphasis on such authors as Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Landor, and DeQuincey. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3337 Victorian Literature (3-0)
A study of the major poets and prose writers, with emphasis on such authors as Tennyson, Browning, Macaulay, Carlyle, Arnold, Newman, Ruskin, Pater, Stevenson, Rossetti, Meredith, Morris, Swinburne, Hardy, Hopkins, and Housman. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3343 Twentieth-Century British Poetry (3-0)
A study of British poetry of the twentieth century. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL
1313 or ESOL 1312.
3344 Twentieth-Century American Poetry (3-0)
A study of American poetry of the twentieth century. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3355 Business Communications (3-0)
A course that focuses on critical decision making in professional contexts. Principles of professional rhetoric are applied to the composing process; strategies for planning, organizing, drafting, and presenting written and oral communication for a workplace context are emphasized. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3357 Computers and Writing (3-0)
A variable topics writing class exploring the connections between computers and writing.
Course may be repeated when topic changes. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3358 Special Topics in Writing (3-0)
An advanced writing course emphasizing topics in professional writing and rhetoric. Course may be repeated when the topic changes. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3359 Technical Writing (3-0)
A professionally oriented communication course centered on assembling, organizing, drafting, revising, and presenting technical information for generating written documents and oral reports. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3360 Women in Literature (3-0)
A study of women writers and images of women in literature. Topic varies with the instructor. May be repeated once for credit when the topic changes. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3361 Introduction to Creative Writing: Forms and Techniques (3- 0)
An introduction to creative writing, with emphasis on reading and analysis of recent poetry, fiction, and non-fiction to determine how form and technique are used to achieve desired effects and how a given work is put together. Analysis and writing assignments in each genre are designed to give students the opportunity to gain a working knowledge of fundamental elements such as visualization, freewriting, journal writing, prosody, concrete versus abstract language, imagery, characterization, dialogue, and narration. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3362 Creative Writing Workshop: Introduction to Fiction and Poetry Writing (3-0)
An extension of techniques in 3361, continued in workshop format and aimed towards an understanding of writing as a process that involves the conception, structuring, and revision of complete poems and stories. Students will be asked to critique one another's work and to use critiques of their own work towards making revisions. Prerequisite: ENGL 3361.
3365 Advanced Composition and Rhetoric (3-0)
Study of classical and contemporary rhetorical theory with emphasis upon the aims and modes of contemporary discourse; practice in techniques of invention, organization, and style as applied to written composition. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312. Open to freshmen exempted from ENGL 1312.
3367 Creative Writing: Fiction Techniques (3-0)
Study and practice in the techniques of contemporary fiction writing, emphasizing such matters as point of view, tone, characterization, plot, setting, and diction, with assignments requiring the resolution of fiction writing problems. Prerequisite: ENGL 3362.
3368 Creative Writing: Commercial Fiction (3-0)
Emphasis on writing contemporary fiction for commercial publication. Attention is given to the techniques necessary for the freelance writer to meet the requirements at various levels of the ever-changing literary marketplace. Prerequisite: ENGL 3362.
3369 Creative Writing: Television and Screenplay Writing (3-0)
Basic techniques for conceiving and writing the contemporary television and screen play with assignments devoted to resolving specific problems. Prerequisite: ENGL 3362.
3370 Creative Writing: Poetry Techniques (3-0)
Study and practice in writing and critiquing poetry, with attention to basic elements such as imagery, the line, and use of formal techniques. Prerequisite: ENGL 3362.
3371 Life and Literature of the Southwest (3-0)
The social background of the Southwest and its reflection in literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3372 Folklore (3-0)
The types and characteristics of folk literature with particular emphasis on the folklore of the Southwest and Mexico. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3374 Folklore of the Mexican American (3-0)
A study of folklore theory and Mexican-American folk genres, with background readings on Mexico and with a special emphasis on the folklore of the border. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3381 Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature in Translation (3-0)
Prose fiction beginning with Pushkin and extending through the Golden Age of the nineteenth century, with special emphasis on Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Andreyev, and Gorky. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3382 Twentieth-Century Russian Literature in Translation (3-0)
Emphasis on prose fiction from the 1917 Revolution to the present day. Covers such writers as Blok, Babel, Sholokhov, Bulgakov, Pasternak, Yevtushenko, and Solzhenitsyn. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
3386 Background Readings (3-0)
A course of variable content that will provide readings of foreign literature in translation as background support for significant portions of English and American literature. May be repeated once for credit when the topic varies. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4300 Senior Writing Practicum (3-0)
Required for Professional Writing and Rhetoric minors. Directed study to be taught with the consent of the professor and with the approval of the Department Chairperson. Advanced writing Practicum aimed toward design and completion of a senior project. Students will submit a Practicum proposal and engage in all aspects of a professional-level writing project. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4308 Chaucer (3-0)
A survey of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer with emphasis on The Canterbury Tales and on the relationship of Chaucer's poetry to the literary tradition of his time. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4309 Milton (3-0)
An introduction to the works of John Milton, with emphasis on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4314 Literary Criticism (3-0)
The theory and practice of the major critical approaches to literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4316 American Nonfiction and Poetry through the Nineteenth Century (3-0)
A study of American nonfiction and/or poetry through the nineteenth century. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4317 American Fiction to 1900 (3-0)
A study of representative works of fiction in America from their beginnings through early naturalism, with emphasis on such writers as Brown, Cooper, Melville, Hawthorne, Twain, James, Howells, Wharton, and Crane. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4318 Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction (3-0)
A study of representative works of American fiction from the successors of Stephen Crane to 1945, with emphasis on such writers as Dreiser, Norris, London, Glasgow, Cather, Lewis, Anderson, Porter, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Faulkner. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4319 American Fiction since 1945 (3-0)
A study of representative works of contemporary American writers with emphasis on such writers as Wright, Ellison, Heller, Barth, O'Connor, Bellow, Welty, and Oates. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4322 American Drama (3-0)
Drama from the Colonial and Revolutionary periods to modern times, with special attention to the mature period in American drama from Eugene O'Neill to the present. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4325 British Drama since 1880 (3-0)
Historical study of dramatic theory and practice in England during the modern era, through reading of representative plays. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4340 Advanced Literary Studies (3-0)
Seminar involving intensified study of a particular author or topic, to vary with the professor in charge. May be repeated once for credit when the topic varies. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4341 Advanced Studies: Creative Writing (3-0)
A creative writing course, the genre to vary with the professor in charge. May be repeated once for credit when topic varies. Prerequisite: ENGL 3362.
4347 The English Novel through the Eighteenth Century (3-0)
Prose fiction in England from the Middle Ages through the eighteenth century, with emphasis on such authors as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Walpole, Burney, and Austen. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4348 The English Novel: Nineteenth Century (3-0)
A continuation of English 4347, with emphasis on such authors as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4349 The English Novel: Twentieth Century (3-0)
The important English novelists of the twentieth century, with emphasis on such authors as Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Forster, Waugh, Woolf, Greene, Cary, Golding, Burgess, and Murdoch. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4350 Major Individual American Author (3-0)
Close study of the work, life, and critical reputation of a major American author chosen from such authors as Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Cather, O'Neill, Frost, Faulkner, Steinbeck, and Hemingway. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4354 Writing Processes of Children (3-0)
Current theory and practice in K-8 writing development; review of applicable rhetorical and linguistic theories; evaluation and assessment of written work; relationships between reading and composition. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4355 Teaching Composition and Literature in the Secondary School (3-0)
Current theory and practice in teaching writing and literature in the secondary schools; review of applicable research along with practices for teaching literature and the composing process. Field experience may be required. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4357 Special Subjects in English for Teachers (3-0)
Special subjects in teaching elementary or secondary school English language arts. Topic may vary with professor in charge. May be repeated for credit when the topic varies.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 or ENGL 1313 or ESOL 1312.
4360 Creative Writing: The Literary Essay (3-0)
An essay course which emphasizes the use of fictional techniques and imagery as a means to exposition and persuasion through autobiographical form such as the memoir and personal essay, and through more journalistic forms such as the profile, the interview, and historical account. Prerequisite: ENGL 3362.
4390 Directed Study (3-0)
Individual directed study on an approved topic, to be taught with the consent of the professor and with the approval of the Department Chairperson. For English majors only.
LING 2330 and LING 3308 may be taken for English credit (see advisor for special prerequisites).
Students majoring in English are also encouraged to consider taking courses, or to fulfill requirements for the minor, in Translation (TRAN). See the Translation section of the Department of Languages and Linguistics course offerings for details.
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