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6.- English (ENGL) Courses
For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
ENGL 3490 (Directed Study) has been approved for graduate credit. Students
wishing to take this course for credit should see the Graduate Advisor for
further information.
For Graduate Students Only
English (ENGL)
1530 Topics in Composition (0-0-1)
2530 Topics in Composition (0-0-2)
3530 Topics in Composition (0-0-3)
Discussion, from a basis in discourse theory, of problems surfacing in the
teaching of English composition and the application of strategies in the
self-contained classroom and other instructional formats. Students may
enroll for 1 to 3 hours; the course may be repeated; grading will be
pass/fail. Prerequisites: ENGL 3510 and consent of the Director of Graduate
Studies.
1597 Master of Arts Research Paper (ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE OPTION) (0-0-1)
The student submits to the Director of Graduate Studies a proposal for
expansion and revision of a graduate research paper under the supervision
of a director, English Department reader, and an outside reader, and then
follows the Graduate School guidelines for preparing and submitting the
paper.
3500 Introduction to Graduate Studies in English (3-0)
Introduces students to the range of scholarly endeavors in English studies,
to the standards, methods, and tools of research in the field, and to
theoretical assumptions implicit in the various analytical and critical
approaches to texts. Course work will include a substantial research
project carried out under close faculty supervision.
3501 British Literature to 1485 (3-0)
Survey of Old English and Middle English literature ranging from Beowulf to
the Arthurian romances and covering such writers as Chaucer, the Gawain
poet, and Malory.
3502 British Literature 1485-1660 (3-0)
Survey of representative writers, literary trends, and the social and
intellectual background from the early Renaissance to the Restoration. Such
writers as More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert,
Milton, and Marvell, and such issues as Humanism, Petrarchanism,
Neoplatonism, and Metaphysical poetics may be discussed. Emphasis will vary
with the instructor.
3503 British Literature 1660-1832 (3-0)
Survey of literature from the Restoration through the Romantic period. Such
writers as Dryden, Swift, Pope, Richardson, Fielding, Johnson, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Keats, and Byron, and such subjects as Restoration Theatre,
Neoclassicism, the novel, Gothicism, and the Romantic aesthetic may be
covered. Emphasis will vary with the instructor.
3504 British Literature 1832-Present (3-0)
Survey of representative writers and literary trends from the Victorian
period to the present. Such writers as Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, Bronte,
Eliot, Wilde, Shaw, Joyce, Woolf, Yeats, Lawrence, Lessing, and Fowles, and
such issues as social reform, religious turmoil, industrialism, Darwinism,
Marxism, and existentialism may be discussed. Emphasis will vary with the
instructor.
3505 American Literature to 1860 (3-0)
Survey of representative writers, literary trends, and the social and
intellectual background from the colonial period to 1860. Such writers as
Bradford, Franklin, Jefferson, Bryant, Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne,
Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau, and Melville, and such issues as Puritanism,
national self-realization, and Transcendentalism may be discussed. Emphasis
will vary with the instructor.
3506 American Literature since 1860 (3-0)
Survey of representative writers and literary trends from the Civil War to
the present. Such writers as Twain, James, Crane, Dickinson, Cather, Frost,
Cummings, Pound, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Porter,
Ellison, and Plath, and such subjects as Realism, Naturalism, Marxism,
Freudianism, sexism, racism, Modernism, the World Wars, and regional
writing may be discussed. Emphasis will vary with the instructor.
3510 Rhetorical Theory (3-0)
An exploration of the three major schools of rhetorical theory, including
that of Ancient Greece and Rome, the 18th century, and the modern
theorists. To include discussion of the major rhetoricians of each period
such as Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian; Blair, Campbell, and Whately;
I.A. Richards, Burke, Toulmin, Perelman, Foucault, Bakhtin, Kinneavey,
Moffett, and Britton. The course will also include some rhetorical
analyses.
3511 Persuasion and Argument (3-0)
A writing course stressing the application of classical and contemporary
rhetorical theory to a variety of practical writing tasks involving
argument and persuasion.
3512 Technical Writing Proseminar (3-0)
A writing course focusing upon rhetorical techniques for technical writing,
graphics, and editing.
3514 Computers and Writing Seminar (3-0)
A variable topics course focusing on the application of computers to
professional writing. May be repeated when topic varies.
3515 Professional Writing Seminar (3-0)
Intensive study and practice in a range of professional writing fields,
such as organizational and managerial communication, report writing,
writing for publication, biography, and translation. May be repeated once
when topic varies.
3517 Professional Writing Internship (0-3)
Supervised professional writing internship in business, industry,
government, or the university. Consent of the instructor required.
3520 Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice (3-0)
A survey of the basic critical texts and arguments about literature in the
Western tradition. Students will examine and practice the translation of
these arguments into practical readings and valuation of selected literary
texts. Course work includes at least one substantial research project
carried out under close faculty supervision.
3525 Genre: Theory and Practice (3-0)
Studies in the theory of genre with focus on one genre, such as the novel,
the lyric, comedy, or the epic. Course may be repeated when the topic
varies.
3527 Variable Topics in Contemporary Literature (3-0)
Detailed study of contemporary works in fiction, poetry, or non-fiction,
often with bicultural emphasis. The course will stress close analysis of
text and technique. May be repeated when the topic varies.
3545 English Teaching Methods (3-0)
An advanced course in English teaching methods, stressing theory and its
classroom applications, and focusing alternately on such topics as teaching
literature, composition, grammar, creative writing, or appropriate
combinations of these. May be repeated when topic varies.
3550 Seminar: Special Topics (3-0)
Studies in comparative literature, current literary thought or techniques,
or a focus on a prescribed area such as a subgenre or literary group.
3551 Seminar: Studies in British Literature to 1485 (3-0)
Detailed study of one or more major authors, schools, literary trends, or
genres from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Renaissance.
3552 Seminar: Studies in British Literature 1485-1660 (3-0)
Detailed study of one or more major authors, schools, literary trends, or
genres from the early Renaissance to the Restoration.
3553 Seminar: Studies in British Literature 1660-1832 (3-0)
Detailed study of one or more major authors, schools, literary trends, or
genres from the Restoration through the Romantics.
3554 Seminar: Studies in British Literature 1832-Present (3-0)
Detailed study of one or more major authors, schools, literary trends, or
genres from the Victorian period to the present.
3555 Seminar: Studies in American Literature to 1860 (3-0)
Detailed study of one or more major authors, schools, literary trends, or
genres from the Colonial period to the Civil War.
3556 Seminar: Studies in American Literature Since 1860 (3-0)
Detailed study of one or more major authors, schools, literary trends, or
genres from the Civil War to the present.
3564 Forms and Techniques of Fiction (3-0)
A course in directed reading and writing that leads the student to an
understanding of the creative process through analysis and imitation of
important contemporary works of fiction. May be repeated once.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
3565 Forms and Techniques of Poetry (3-0)
A course in directed reading and writing that leads the student to an
understanding of the creative process through analysis and imitation of
important contemporary works of poetry. May be repeated once. Prerequisite:
Department approval.
3566 Advanced Fiction Writing (3-0)
Intensive study and practice in the various forms and approaches of fiction
writing, including workshop discussion of individual student manuscripts.
May be repeated once. Prerequisite: Department approval.
3567 Advanced Poetry Writing (3-0)
Intensive study and practice in the various forms and approaches within the
writing of poetry, including workshop discussion of individual student
poems. May be repeated once. Prerequisite: Department approval.
3568 Creative Writing Seminar (3-0)
A variable topics course that provides intensive practice and study in one
of the genres of imaginative writing, such as novel writing, screenwriting,
non-fiction freelancing, or biography/autobiography. May be repeated when
topic varies. Prerequisite: Department approval.
3570 Tutorial in Fiction (3-0)
Advanced workshop course in which the student is guided towards the
production of works of fiction of professional quality. May be repeated
once. Prerequisite: Department approval.
3571 Tutorial in Poetry (3-0)
Advanced workshop course in which the student is guided towards the
production of works of poetry of professional quality. May be repeated
once. Prerequisite: Department approval.
3575 Creative Writing Workshop (3-0)
A workshop designed for non-MFA students in either fiction, poetry,
creative non-fiction, dramatic forms, or some
combination of the above, depending on the instructor, for students in any
discipline. Submission of writing sample and permission of the instructor
required. May be repeated when topic varies.
3595 Writing Practicum (0-0-3)
Initial work on a six-hour professional writing and rhetoric practicum.
3596 Writing Practicum (0-0-3)
Continuous enrollment required while work on the six hour professional
writing and rhetoric practicum continues. Prerequisite: ENGL 3595.
3597 Writing Practicum (0-0-3)
Enrollment required in the three hour professional writing and rhetoric
practicum. Prerequisite: ENGL 3596.
3598 Thesis (0-0-3)
Initial work on the thesis.
3599 Thesis (0-0-3)
Continuous enrollment required while work on the thesis continues.
Prerequisite: ENGL 3598.
