May 04, 2024

2014-15 Undergraduate Catalog

2014-15 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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	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. Grade of C- is required to earn credit. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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 for credit. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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 for credit. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Required for English majors and minors. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 3010 - British Literature I: Beginnings to the Restoration 3 credit hours Open only to English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 3000 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 its beginnings to the restoration. Emphasis on the literary tradition, genres, major figures, and relevant critical and theoretical approaches. Required for English majors. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 3020 - British Literature II: Restoration to the Present 3 credit hours Open only to English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 3000 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 Restoration to the present. Emphasis on literary tradition, genres, major figures, and relevant critical and theoretical approaches. Required for English majors. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 3030 - American Literature: Colonial Era to the Present 3 credit hours Open only to English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 3000 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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 3160 - English Drama: 1475-1642 (excluding Shakespeare) 3 credit hours Prerequisite: ENGL 2020 , ENGL 2030 , AAS 2020 , or HUM 2610 . Plays written by Shakespeare’s predecessors, contemporaries, and immediate successors. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 3350 - The 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 short story from Poe and Irving to the experimental writers of the 1970s. Intensive reading of American writers with some exposure to British and continental authors. Critical essays on short story form. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 3365 - Hispanic Writers in American Literature 3 credit hours (Same as HUM 3365 .) 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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 3580 - Teaching Internship 1 credit hour Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better; admission to teacher education 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 classrooms. May not be used to satisfy English minor requirements. May not be repeated for major credit. Pass/Fail grading. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 3605 - Applied Writing 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Develops reading and writing strategies for examining individual writing processes and solving writing problems posed in university studies across the disciplines: essays, reports, reviews, analyses, memos, proposals. May not be used toward the English major, English minor, or Writing minor. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 3620 - Professional Writing 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1020 or ENGL 3605 with a B or better. A specialized composition course for students planning to enter the professional workplace, including industry, science, and government. Collaborative practice in the discourse and conventions of professional and technical writing: employment packages, memoranda, instructions, proposals, and reports. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 3630 - Essay Writing Workshop 3 credit hours Prerequisite: 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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 3665 - Play 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 writing course focusing on the appreciation and realization of the dramatic form. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 3760 - Introduction to Folklore 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Traditional lore and culture (literature, ballads, beliefs, materials) with primary attention to the American scene. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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 and ENGL 2020 , ENGL 2030 , AAS 2020 , or HUM 2610 ; for juniors and seniors only. 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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 4240 - Modern British Literature 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better; for juniors and seniors only. 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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 4410 - Literary Criticism 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better; for juniors and seniors only. Critical theories: Classical, Neoclassical, Romantic, and Modern. Practical criticism: the technical analysis of poetry and prose. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 4470 - Modern Drama 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. World drama from 1880 to the present. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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 and permission of department; for juniors and seniors only. 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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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; for juniors and seniors only. Traditional English grammar and the principles upon which grammatical analysis is based. Satisfies teacher licensure grammar requirement. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 4540 - Approaches to Teaching ESL Grammar and Writing 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better and ENGL 4510 or equivalent. 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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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; ENGL 3570 , ANTH 3410 , PSY 4820 , or CDIS 3250 . Selected topic in theoretical linguistics. Content varies from semester to semester. May be repeated under a different subtitle. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 4600 - Writing Internship 1 to 6 credit hours Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better and permission of department; for juniors and seniors only. A special course in which students work for a publishing company or other business or organization involved in professional writing. Enrollment open to English majors, Writing minors, and other students with permission of the internship director. Only 3 hours may count toward the English major and 3 hours toward the Writing or English minor. Arrangements for this course must be made in advance with the internship director through the Upper-Division office. Pass/Fail. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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; for juniors and seniors only. Approaches to various writing problems posed in advanced university studies and nontechnical professions: essays, proposals, critical reviews, analyses. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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; for juniors and seniors only. An intensive study in one specialized form of writing. The form of writing will vary with the instructor teaching the course. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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; for juniors and seniors only. 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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 4780 - Topics in War and Literature 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better; for juniors and seniors only. A selected author, genre, period, tradition, or context of literary inquiry in the subject of war. Topic will vary with instructor. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 4785 - Law and Literature 3 credit hours Prerequisites:Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better; ENGL 2020 , ENGL 2030 , AAS 2020 , or HUM 2610 ; for juniors and seniors only. Introduces interrelations of law and literature as seen in a variety of literary texts and classic writings of great jurists. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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; for juniors and seniors only. A survey of the major theoretical approaches to film, including montage, mise-en-scene, and structuralist theory. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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; for juniors and seniors only. A selected author, genre, period, tradition, or context of literary or linguistic inquiry. The field will vary with instructor. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 4910 - Studies in Poetry 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better; for juniors and seniors only. 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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 4920 - Studies in Drama 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better; for juniors and seniors only. Works of drama linked by historical period, region or culture, author(s), subject matter, or other connective thread. Topic will vary with instructor. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 4930 - Studies in Prose Fiction 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better; for juniors and seniors only. Selected topics in the novel and other forms of prose fiction. Focuses on works and writers from the U.S., Britain, and Europe during the eighteenth- through twenty-first centuries, although other regions and eras may be included as supplemental features. Topics vary each semester. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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; for juniors and seniors only. Examines works of nonfiction such as autobiography, journals, essays, etc. Specific topics will vary. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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; for juniors and seniors only. A selected genre, author, theme, or nation, with a focus on literature after World War II. Subject will vary with instructor. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 4999 - Senior Portfolio 0 credit hours Prerequisites: ENGL 3000 , ENGL 3010 , ENGL 3020 , and ENGL 3030 . Required of all English majors for graduation beginning Spring 2016. Open only to graduating seniors or to students who have completed 24 upper-division English hours. Students will compile and submit a portfolio of at least three different essays representing their progress through the program. Pass-Fail. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes

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ENGL 1008 - Writing for English as Second Language (ESL) Students

ENGL 1009 - Introduction to University Writing

ENGL 1010 - Expository Writing

ENGL 1020 - Research and Argumentative Writing

ENGL 2020 - Themes in Literature and Culture

ENGL 2030 - The Experience of Literature

ENGL 2500 - Introduction to Creative Writing

ENGL 2550 - Introduction to Peer Tutoring in Writing: Theory and Methods

ENGL 2580 - Teaching Internship

ENGL 3000 - Introduction to Literary Studies

ENGL 3010 - British Literature I: Beginnings to the Restoration

ENGL 3020 - British Literature II: Restoration to the Present

ENGL 3030 - American Literature: Colonial Era to the Present

ENGL 3110 - English Literature: The Medieval Period

ENGL 3120 - English Literature: The Sixteenth Century

ENGL 3130 - English Literature: The Seventeenth Century

ENGL 3135 - Introduction to Shakespeare

ENGL 3160 - English Drama: 1475-1642 (excluding Shakespeare)

ENGL 3210 - English Literature: Restoration and Eighteenth Century

ENGL 3220 - English Literature: 1790-1850

ENGL 3230 - English Literature: The Victorian Period

ENGL 3300 - Native American Literature

ENGL 3305 - Early American Literature

ENGL 3310 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature

ENGL 3320 - Twentieth-Century American Literature

ENGL 3330 - Southern Literature

ENGL 3340 - African American Literature

ENGL 3350 - The American Short Story in Context

ENGL 3360 - Multicultural Literature of the United States

ENGL 3365 - Hispanic Writers in American Literature

ENGL 3370 - Modern American Poetry

ENGL 3400 - European Literature to 1400

ENGL 3410 - Classical Mythology

ENGL 3420 - European Literature: 1400-1800

ENGL 3430 - Modern European Literature

ENGL 3440 - The Bible as Literature

ENGL 3450 - Studies in Narrative

ENGL 3510 - English Grammar and Usage for Educators

ENGL 3570 - Introduction to Linguistics

ENGL 3580 - Teaching Internship

ENGL 3605 - Applied Writing

ENGL 3620 - Professional Writing

ENGL 3630 - Essay Writing Workshop

ENGL 3645 - Fiction Writing

ENGL 3655 - Poetry Writing

ENGL 3665 - Play Writing

ENGL 3690 - Individualized Writing Project

ENGL 3720 - Early Women Writers

ENGL 3725 - Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

ENGL 3730 - Twentieth-Century Women Writers

ENGL 3735 - Black Women as Writers

ENGL 3740 - Children’s Literature

ENGL 3745 - Literature for Adolescents

ENGL 3755 - Folk/Fairy Tales, Legends, Myths, Ancient Stories

ENGL 3760 - Introduction to Folklore

ENGL 3810 - British Popular Culture

ENGL 3815 - Survey of Popular Culture

ENGL 3825 - Contemporary Satire

ENGL 3840 - Science Fiction

ENGL 3850 - Literature and Film

ENGL 3860 - Film Genre

ENGL 3870 - Film History

ENGL 3885 - Topics in Gender and Film

ENGL 4110 - Chaucer: Canterbury Tales

ENGL 4130 - Shakespeare: The Sixteenth-Century Plays

ENGL 4140 - Shakespeare: The Seventeenth-Century Plays

ENGL 4180 - Milton

ENGL 4230 - Selected British Writers after the Restoration

ENGL 4240 - Modern British Literature

ENGL 4270 - Contemporary British and Commonwealth Literature

ENGL 4310 - The American Renaissance

ENGL 4320 - Selected American Writers

ENGL 4410 - Literary Criticism

ENGL 4425 - Backgrounds of Modern Literature

ENGL 4470 - Modern Drama

ENGL 4500 - Methods of Teaching Secondary English

ENGL 4510 - Modern English Grammar and Usage

ENGL 4520 - The Structure of English

ENGL 4530 - History of the English Language