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6.- English (ENGL) Courses
For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
ENGL 4390 (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)
5130 Topics in Composition (0-0-1)
5230 Topics in Composition (0-0-2)
5330 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 5310 and consent of the Director of Graduate Studies.
5197 Master of Arts Research Paper (English and American Literature Concentration) (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.
5300 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.
5301 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.
5302 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.
5303 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.
5304 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.
5305 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.
5306 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.
5310 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.
5311 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.
5312 Technical Writing Proseminar (3-0)
A writing course focusing upon rhetorical techniques for technical writing, graphics, and editing.
5314 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.
5315 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.
5317 Professional Writing Internship (0-3)
Supervised professional writing internship in business, industry, government, or the university. Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
5320 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.
5325 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.
5327 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.
5344 Integrated Teaching Methods (3-0)
An advance course in English teaching methods, stressing research and theory and their classroom applications, and focusing on teaching literature, composition/rhetoric, grammar/usage, and
creative writing in an integrated format.
5345 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.
5350 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.
5351 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.
5352 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.
5353 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.
5354 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.
5355 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.
5356 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.
5364 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.
5365 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.
5366 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.
5367 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.
5368 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.
5370 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.
5371 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.
5375 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.
5395 Writing Practicum (0-0-3)
Initial work on a six-hour professional writing and rhetoric practicum.
5396 Writing Practicum (0-0-3)
Continuous enrollment required while work on the six hour professional writing and rhetoric practicum continues. Prerequisite: ENGL 5395.
5397 Writing Practicum (0-0-3)
Enrollment required in the three hour professional writing and rhetoric practicum. Prerequisite: ENGL 5396.
5398 Thesis (0-0-3)
Initial work on the thesis.
5399 Thesis (0-0-3)
Continuous enrollment required while work on the thesis continues. Prerequisite: ENGL 5398.
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