English
ENGL 1008 - Writing for English as Second Language (ESL) Students
3 credit hours
Open only to students whose native language is not English. Prerequisite to General Education English courses for ESL students who do not perform satisfactorily on diagnostic test given by the department. Introduces the ESL student to the process of English composition. Three lecture hours and two one-half hour lab sessions. Does not fulfill General Education English requirement.
ENGL 1009 - Introduction to University Writing
3 credit hours
An introduction to the practices of university writing. Required for students whose writing assessment indicates placement. Emphasis on developing rhetorical knowledge; critical thinking, reading, and writing skills; understanding of the processes of writing; and knowledge of conventions. Does not fulfill General Education English requirements.
ENGL 1010 - Expository Writing
3 credit hours
The first General Education English course. Emphasis on learning to adapt composing processes to a variety of expository and analytic writing assignments. Minimum grade of C- required to meet degree requirements.
ENGL 1020 - Research and Argumentative Writing
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 1010. The second General Education English course. Emphasis on analytic and argumentative writing and on locating, organizing, and using library resource materials in the writing. Minimum grade of C- required to meet degree requirements.
ENGL 2020 - Themes in Literature and Culture
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020. Traces a specific theme or idea through a number of literary texts that reflect different historical and cultural contexts. Subject will vary.
ENGL 2030 - The Experience of Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020. The reading of a variety of literary types which illuminate themes and experiences common to human existence.
ENGL 2500 - Introduction to Creative Writing
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 2020, ENGL 2030, or HUM 2610. A creative writing workshop that introduces multiple genres and encourages students to experiment with technique and form.
ENGL 2550 - Introduction to Peer Tutoring in Writing: Theory and Methods
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: B or better in ENGL 1020 or permission of the instructor. Techniques of tutoring with a variety of writers and genres and the theoretical and practical components of writing center work with a focus on how collaboration, composition, and learning theories and methods can be applied to tutoring in college as well as high school and middle school settings.
ENGL 2580 - Teaching Internship
1 credit hour
Prerequisites: Permission of the internship director and completion of twelve (12) hours of academic coursework, including ENGL 1010. A special elective course in which the student, under the supervision of an English Department faculty member and a partnering teacher in a community school, serves as an intern in a secondary school classroom. Students may not use this course to satisfy English major or minor requirements.
ENGL 3000 - Introduction to Literary Studies
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. An introduction to the study of literature. Focus on strategies for sophisticated reading, literary genres, literary criticism and research.
ENGL 3007 - Writing and the Literary Imagination
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 2020 or ENGL 2030. Focuses on the relationship between literature, the imagination and culture, Uses different types of writing and reading to develop students' ability to think critically about literature. Required of English minors.
ENGL 3010 - British Literature I: Beginnings to 1700
3 credit hours
Open only to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 3000 or ENGL 3007 with a grade of C- or better. Building on knowledge acquired in ENGL 3000, applies the procedures and practices of literary study to the study of British literature from the beginnings to the end of the seventeenth century. Emphasis on the literary tradition, genres, major figures, and relevant critical and theoretical approaches. Required for English majors.
ENGL 3020 - British Literature II: 1700-1918
3 credit hours
Open only to English majors and minors. Prerequisite:ENGL 3000 or ENGL 3007 with a grade of C- or better. Building on knowledge acquired in ENGL 3000, applies the procedures and practices of literary study to the study of British literature from 1700 to 1918 with some reference to earlier and later works. Emphasis on literary tradition, genres, major figures, and relevant critical and theoretical approaches. Required for English majors.
ENGL 3030 - American Literature: Colonial Era to the Present
3 credit hours
Open only to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 3000 or ENGL 3007 with a grade of C- or better. Building on knowledge acquired in ENGL 3000, applies the procedures and practices of literary study to the study of American literature from colonial times to the present. Emphasis on the literary tradition, genres, major figures, and relevant critical and theoretical approaches. Required for English majors.
ENGL 3110 - English Literature: The Medieval Period
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A reading of selected works from Old English literature, especially Beowulf, and Middle English literature, with emphasis on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and medieval drama.
ENGL 3120 - English Literature: The Sixteenth Century
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Readings in the major authors (More, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne) and genres (prose fiction, romance, epic, sonnet, lyric). Effects of cultural, political, and religious influences on the literature.
ENGL 3130 - English Literature: The Seventeenth Century
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Readings in the major authors (Bacon, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Herrick, Marvell, Crashaw, Vaughan, Milton) and genres (essay, epic, lyric, sermon). Effects of cultural, political, and religious influences on the literature.
ENGL 3135 - Introduction to Shakespeare
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000- level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Focuses on Shakespeare's major plays which will be considered both as products of their author's time and as enduring cultural artifacts. Special attention will be given to Shakespeare's development as a dramatist and to his depiction of character, theme, and imagery.
ENGL 3160 - English Drama: 1475-1642 (excluding Shakespeare)
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000- level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Plays written by Shakespeare's predecessors, contemporaries, and immediate successors.
ENGL 3210 - English Literature: Restoration and Eighteenth Century
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Emphasizing writings which reflected or influenced historical and literary developments 1660-1800.
ENGL 3220 - English Literature: 1790-1850
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A definition of English Romanticism and a study of works--mainly poems--by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
ENGL 3230 - English Literature: The Victorian Period
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. The literature of England, 1830-1900. Emphasis on poetry and the novel.
ENGL 3300 - Native American Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Introduces oral and written literature of native America in its cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts, with special emphasis on fiction, poetry, and autobiography.
ENGL 3305 - Early American Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A survey of American literature from the first European encounters with the New World to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
ENGL 3310 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Survey of American literature from Washington Irving to Henry James. Concentration on Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Pragmatism. Selected novels.
ENGL 3320 - Twentieth-Century American Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Survey of American literature from Theodore Dreiser to the present. Concentration on major authors. Selected novels.
ENGL 3330 - Southern Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Early and modern Southern writers. Emphasis on the period 1920-present.
ENGL 3335 - Special Topics in Southern Literature and Culture
3 credit hours
Interdisciplinary course which draws upon literature produced in and about the southern regions, with perspectives gleaned from anthropology, history, and sociology; gender and race studies; film, documentary, and media studies; music; and folklore.
ENGL 3340 - African American Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Defines and traces the development and transformations of the African American literary tradition. Emphasis on analysis of historical, literary, philosophical, and cultural contexts.
ENGL 3350 - American Short Story in Context
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Traces development of the American short story from colonial to contemporary times. Intensive reading of stories from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. Critical essays on short story form.
ENGL 3360 - Multicultural Literature of the United States
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Writers, genres, and criticism in Native American, African American, Hispanic American, and Asian American literatures.
ENGL 3365 - Hispanic Writers in American Literature
3 credit hours
(Same as HUM 3365.) Prerequisites: Completion of 1000-level English and 2000-level literature requirements with a grade of C- or better. Acquaints students with the literary works of Hispanic Americans writing in English. Emphasis on analysis of the intersection of cultures and traditions and the formation of Hispanic American identity.
ENGL 3370 - Modern American Poetry
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A survey of the lives, times, and works of the major American poets since 1860: Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Pound, Moore, Eliot, Crane, Hughes, Bishop, Lowell, Plath.
ENGL 3400 - European Literature to 1400
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Selections from Greek and Roman literature and Dante; emphasis on epic, drama, mythology; comparison of values commended by our literary ancestors.
ENGL 3410 - Classical Mythology
3 credit hours
Prerequisite of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Survey of the major myths and legends of the classical world with an emphasis on Greek mythology.
ENGL 3420 - European Literature: 1400-1800
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Survey of continental literature (in translation) of the Renaissance, Neoclassical, and Enlightenment periods. Emphasis on Rabelais, Cervantes, Moliere, and Voltaire.
ENGL 3430 - Modern European Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Survey of continental literature (in translation) from 1800 to the present, including Goethe, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Ibsen, and Mann.
ENGL 3440 - The Bible as Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Origin and nature of the Bible; cultural and historical backgrounds, influence on English language and literature; history of texts and canon; major religious and philosophical concepts and literary features.
ENGL 3450 - Studies in Narrative
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Examines the chronological and/or thematic development of at least two different types of narrative, representing at least two different continents.
ENGL 3505 - Writing Workshop Methodologies
3 credit hours
Introduces the methodologies of the writing workshop method with an emphasis on applications in a English/Language Arts (ELA) classroom setting.
ENGL 3510 - English Grammar and Usage for Educators
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Introduction to English grammar and usage, English varieties, and grammatical analysis. Fulfills the grammar and usage requirement for English majors seeking teacher licensure.
ENGL 3555 - Tutoring Writing: Theories and Methods
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 with B or better or permission of the instructor. Examines theoretically informed writing tutoring practices that can be applied to working in writing centers and peer tutoring contexts in universities, secondary schools, and international settings. Expands genre knowledge, cultural and linguistic knowledge, and problem-solving daily challenges of tutoring writing.
ENGL 3570 - Introduction to Linguistics
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Anatomy of sound production, levels of structure in language: phonological (sound), morphological (meaningful segments), syntactic (interrelation of words in a sentence). Various meanings of language.
ENGL 3575 - The Sound Patterns of English
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Introduces phonetics and phonology. Describes speech sounds in terms of articulation an acoustics. Sound patterns of English in relation to other languages. Introduce speech technology.
ENGL 3580 - Teaching Internship
1 to 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better and permission of internship director. Students, under supervision of English Department faculty members and partnering teachers in community schools, serve as interns in secondary school or college composition/literature classrooms. May not be repeated for major credit. Pass/Fail grading.
ENGL 3595 - Sociolinguistics
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Focuses on the role of language as a central means of locating ourselves in the world. Topics include dialect, accent, style, multilingualism, code switching, language in social media, language discrimination, language and national identity, language and gender, and English globalization.
ENGL 3605 - Applied Writing
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020 with C- or better. Focuses on helping students develop writing and reading skills relevant to the particular disciplines they will write in during and beyond their academic career. Students will read about, research, and write in genres relevant to their fields of study, including but not limited to things like literature reviews, reports, proposals, and educational materials.
ENGL 3620 - Professional Writing
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements. A specialized writing course for students planning to work in technology, engineering, science, and government industries. Provides individual and collaborative practice in the discourse and conventions of professional and technical writing (PTW) genres including emails, memos, analyses, instructions, proposals, reports as well as PTW skills like user experience design and content strategy basics. Supplementary materials provided for employment packages (e.g., cover letters, resumes) and tips provided for LinkedIn and LinkedIn Learning. Students can expect to complete three major writing projects (20 points possible) and 10 discussion boards (30 points possible) that expose them to the contexts, communities, and cultures of professional writing. Counts toward English writing concentration, writing minor, and Public Writing and Rhetoric major.
ENGL 3625 - In Process Workshop
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 2020 or ENGL 2030. A complement to ENGL 3635, this class focuses on the works of in-process authors and provides students with opportunities to interact with professional writers and to study and create new work.
ENGL 3630 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Complete of English and literature General Education requirements; ENGL 1020 or ENGL 3605 with a B or better. Through a process-based workshop approach students will be provided the opportunity to improve their ability to write essays for different purposes. Explores the cross-disciplinary nature of essay writing as it engages students in practical exercises in written communication.
ENGL 3635 - Creative Writing Event Series
1 credit hour
Students attend a series of craft lectures and/or readings by creative writers, respond to each event, and ultimately participate as presenters themselves. Does not count for the English major or minor without advisor approval.
ENGL 3645 - Fiction Writing
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better and permission of instructor. A specialized seminar in which students study and create works of fiction.
ENGL 3655 - Poetry Writing
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better and permission of instructor. A specialized seminar in which students study and create poetry.
ENGL 3665 - Playwriting
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better and permission of instructor. A specialized writing course focusing on the appreciation and realization of the dramatic form.
ENGL 3675 - Multi-genre Creative Writing
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 2020 or ENGL 2030. The opportunity to experiment in writing multiple literary genres and to develop creative and critical skills in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and/or drama.
ENGL 3685 - Beyond Flash Fiction
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 2020 or ENGL 2030. A creative writing workshop. Students read and write flash fictions, prose poems, lyric essays, and hybrid writings. Writing intensive. Workshops where student writers develop a community focused on creativity, craft, and feedback.
ENGL 3690 - Individualized Writing Project
1 credit hour
Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better and permission of instructor. A small-group writing tutorial which allows work on a major writing project from any major or field of interest. Does not count for the English major or minor without advisor approval. Pass/Fail depending on attendance, participation, and progress. May be repeated twice for a total of three (3) credits.
ENGL 3691 - Independent Literary Event Attendance Series
1 credit hour
Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better and permission of instructor. Students independently attend readings and/or lectures by visiting writers, plenary sessions at creative-writing conferences, and/or performances of plays. Does not count for the English major or minor without advisor approval. Pass/Fail depending on the quality of written responses. May be repeated twice for a total of three (3) credits.
ENGL 3720 - Early Women Writers
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. An introduction to British/American/world literature by women through the eighteenth century.
ENGL 3725 - Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Examines works by British and American writers in the context of a female literary tradition. Writers studied may include Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Emily Dickinson.
ENGL 3730 - Twentieth-Century Women Writers
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Literature of major women writers of the period. Divided by genre and primarily includes the fiction, poetry, and drama of British and American women.
ENGL 3735 - Black Women as Writers
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A survey of black women's literary expressions and the historical and sociocultural factors that shape these women's artistic sensibilities and thematic concerns. Emphasis will be given to U.S. women writers.
ENGL 3740 - Children's Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A survey of literature for children based on wide reading in the field.
ENGL 3745 - Literature for Adolescents
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Surveys literature for adolescents, historical and contemporary; analysis of contemporary issues in the field. Required for English majors seeking teacher licensure.
ENGL 3755 - Folk/Fairy Tales, Legends, Myths, Ancient Stories
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Introduces folk/fairy tales, myths, epics, legends, and verse from a variety of languages, cultures, ethnic groups, and historical periods.
ENGL 3760 - Introduction to Folklore
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Contemporary folklife studies emphasizing traditional and new vernacular expression through vocal, performance, and material culture creations as they relate to the diverse communities that practice them.
ENGL 3770 - LGBTQIA+ Literature and Culture
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Surveys diverse literature and cultural artifacts by and about sexual minority groups. Features fiction and nonfiction, poetry, song, film, among other cultural texts and artifacts. Emphasizes cultural and historical context and intersectionality in cultural production.
ENGL 3810 - British Popular Culture
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A cultural survey of Great Britain since 1945, including history, music, film, and literature.
ENGL 3815 - Survey of Popular Culture
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. An overview of literature and media reflecting the mass culture of America from 1900 to the present: westerns, mysteries, science fiction, popular music, film, and television.
ENGL 3825 - Contemporary Satire
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a C- or better. Uses prose fiction, poetry, film, and popular culture artistic expressions such as song lyrics and TV to explore the wide variety of modes in which satire is expressed in modern and contemporary culture.
ENGL 3840 - Science Fiction
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. The science fiction genre, emphasizing significant themes, recurrent images and conventions, and historical and cultural context.
ENGL 3850 - Literature and Film
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. The relationship between literature and film with emphasis on narration, characterization, point of view, and setting.
ENGL 3860 - Film Genre
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. One or more groups of films linked through narrative, stylistic, and/or thematic characteristics.
ENGL 3870 - Film History
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. History of world film from its inception through the 1990s.
ENGL 3885 - Topics in Gender and Film
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A selected subject or focus within gender and film studies. Topic will vary each time course is taught. Possible topics include representation of women in film, history of gender representation in film, women directors; Hollywood and gender; queer film studies; gender and international cinema; gender, race, and Hollywood, etc. May be repeated up to four times with different topics.
ENGL 4110 - Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. An intensive study of The Canterbury Tales and the background out of which they were written.
ENGL 4130 - Shakespeare: The Sixteenth-Century Plays
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Focuses on the first half of Shakespeare's career. Works considered both as products of their author's time and as enduring cultural artifacts. Special attention given to Shakespeare's development as a dramatist and to his depiction of character, theme, and imagery.
ENGL 4140 - Shakespeare: The Seventeenth-Century Plays
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Focuses on the second half of Shakespeare's career. The works will be considered both as products of their author's time and as enduring cultural artifacts. Special attention will be given to Shakespeare's development as a dramatist and to his depiction of character, theme, and imagery.
ENGL 4180 - Milton
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. An intensive study of Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, "Lycidas," Areopagitica, and the minor poetry.
ENGL 4230 - Selected British Writers after the Restoration
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Focuses on the work of at most three authors in a cultural and literary context. Specific authors will vary. May be repeated for up to six credits.
ENGL 4240 - Modern British Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction written in Britain from approximately 1910 to 1939. Representative works of major British writers in the context of contemporary social and literary history.
ENGL 4270 - Contemporary British and Commonwealth Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Contemporary British and Commonwealth novels in the context of social and literary history.
ENGL 4310 - The American Renaissance
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. American Romanticism in the selected writings of Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Melville.
ENGL 4320 - Selected American Writers
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Focuses on the work of at most three American authors in a cultural and literary context. Specific authors will vary.
ENGL 4350 - American Popular Literature of the 19th Century
3 credit hours
Focuses on literature that was popular, in form and/or readership, in 19th century America. Places texts in historical and cultural contexts exploring the relationships between texts and key social, political, intellectual, and literary ideas and philosophies of the era. Examines various genres and styles and discusses ideas of canonicity. Works covered will range from novels to gift books, tracts, magazine pieces, and utopian texts.
ENGL 4410 - Literary Criticism
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Critical theories: Classical, Neoclassical, Romantic, and Modern. Practical criticism: the technical analysis of poetry and prose.
ENGL 4425 - Backgrounds of Modern Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Readings in the intellectual history of modern literature. Selected literary figures, major aesthetic movements, and pivotal ideas of modern Western culture, including Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud, Sartre. Course divided by themes representing disciplines or modes of thought.
ENGL 4435 - Global English Literatures
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000- level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Plays written by Shakespeare's predecessors, contemporaries, and immediate successors. Study of global Anglophone literature in cultural, historical, and sociopolitical contexts.
ENGL 4470 - Modern Drama
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better; junior standing. World drama from 1880 to the present.
ENGL 4500 - Methods of Teaching Secondary English
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better; YOED 3000 or YOED 3500 or equivalent and permission of department. An intensive study of both grammar and composition for the teacher, the writer, and the editor: writing, analyzing, and judging composition. Required for English majors seeking teacher licensure.
ENGL 4510 - Modern English Grammar and Usage
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Traditional English grammar and the principles upon which grammatical analysis is based. Satisfies teacher licensure grammar requirement.
ENGL 4520 - The Structure of English
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Structure of modern English and overview of current syntactic theories.
ENGL 4530 - History of the English Language
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Political, social, intellectual forces determining historical development of English; internal structural changes--sounds, inflections--resulting from those forces.
ENGL 4540 - Second Language Writing
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Background and basic methods needed to teach English grammar and composition to students for whom English is a second language. Emphasizes understanding of problems that non-native speakers face and develops techniques for helping non-native speakers express themselves in written English.
ENGL 4570 - Special Topics in Linguistics
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Selected topic in theoretical linguistics. Content varies from semester to semester. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
ENGL 4590 - Directed Undergraduate Research in Linguistics
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Senior standing with a concentration in English Language Linguistics or permission of instructor. Research in linguistics under faculty guidance.
ENGL 4600 - Writing Internship
1 to 6 credit hours
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing and a 3.00 GPA in English required. Others by permission of internship coordinator. Open to English majors and minors and writing minors. An internship in which students apply their writing and communication skills in a professional setting. Arrangements for the internship are made in advance with the internship coordinator through the English Upper Division office. Maximum of 3 hours toward the Writing or English minor. Pass/Fail.
ENGL 4605 - Advanced Composition
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better, and ENGL 1020 or ENGL 3605 with a B- or better. Approaches to various writing problems posed in advanced university studies and nontechnical professions: essays, proposals, critical reviews, analyses.
ENGL 4640 - Advanced Topics in Technical Writing and Communication
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020. Explores advanced issues in technical writing, technical communication, and scientific discourse such as ethics and visual design, navigating the grant and proposal writing process, and theoretical examination of documents and discourse related to the job-search process. May be repeated once when the primary topic varies for a maximum of six credit hours.
ENGL 4645 - Advanced Fiction Writing
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 3645 or permission of instructor. Advanced fiction writing. Emphasis on peer critique in a workshop setting. Students develop a critical vocabulary for discussing and writing fiction, including elements of craft, and narrative techniques, while knowing more critically and imaginatively their individual art and craft.
ENGL 4670 - Special Topics in Writing
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. An intensive study in one specialized form of writing. The form of writing will vary with the instructor teaching the course.
ENGL 4685 - Special Topics in Creative Writing
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 2020 or ENGL 2030. An intensive study in one specialized form of creative writing. The form of writing will vary with the instructor teaching the course.
ENGL 4750 - Special Topics in Children's Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Selected genre, period, ethnicity, tradition, or literary focus in children's and/or young adult literature. Subject will vary with instructor.
ENGL 4760 - Special Topics in Folklore
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better; ENGL 3760 recommended. An intensive study on a selected topic of folklore. Content varies from semester to semester and will reflect the interests and expertise of the instructor.
ENGL 4780 - Topics in War and Culture
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. An inquiry into war or related conflict through the study of literature, film, and/or popular culture. Topic will vary by term.
ENGL 4785 - Law and Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Introduces interrelations of law and literature as seen in a variety of literary texts and classic writings of great jurists.
ENGL 4855 - Film Theory and Criticism
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A survey of the major theoretical approaches to film, including montage, mise-en-scene, and structuralist theory.
ENGL 4860 - Special Topics in Film Studies
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A selected director, genre, period, aspect, or theme. The subject will vary each time course is taught.
ENGL 4900 - Selected Topics in Literature and Language
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A selected author, genre, period, tradition, or context of literary or linguistic inquiry. The field will vary with instructor.
ENGL 4910 - Studies in Poetry
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Selected topics in poetry. Topics may include the poetic works of a single author, those of a number of authors, a particular style of poetry, poetic works linked by period, culture, or subject matter, or any combination of the above. Topics will vary.
ENGL 4920 - Studies in Drama
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Works of drama linked by historical period, region or culture, author(s), subject matter, or other connective thread. Topic will vary with instructor.
ENGL 4930 - Studies in the Novel
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Studies in the novel, with topics varying from semester to semester. May focus on the historical development and theory of the novel, or a particular period, author, form, theme, etc.
ENGL 4940 - Studies in Prose Non-Fiction
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Examines works of nonfiction such as autobiography, journals, essays, etc. Specific topics will vary.
ENGL 4950 - Selected Topics in Contemporary Literature
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A selected genre, author, theme, or nation, with a focus on literature after World War II. Subject will vary with instructor.
ENGL 4980 - English Studies Abroad
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Selected genre(s), period(s), tradition(s), or literary focus combined with study abroad. Subject will vary with instructor. Courses may be taken multiple times with different topics.
ENGL 4999 - Senior Portfolio
0 credit hours
Prerequisite: Open only to graduating seniors or to students who have completed 24 upper-division English hours. Required of all English majors for graduation beginning Spring 2016. Students will compile and submit a portfolio of at least three different essays representing their progress through the program. Pass-Fail.
