English


English 0711 (formerly 0041): Introduction to Academic Discourse-ESL
4 credit hours

A focus on writing within a single theme and disciplinary approach. This course follows the guidelines for English 0040. Students create a portfolio of work, including at least six sequenced assignments, culminating in a final project made up of parts with independent due dates and ungraded assignments, such as journal entries. But in the ESL writing classroom, there are cross-cultural implications of what it means to do academic work and of what it means to share historical and cultural knowledge. Oral participation is encouraged as a way of heightening fluency and enhancing comfort with participation in American academic settings. Classes are smaller than in English 0040, and teachers spend extended time in tutorial conferences with students. Note, English 0711 is designed to accommodate the needs of the ESL learner, and until students have completed their English 0711 requirement they may not enroll in English 1002, English 1012, or English 1022. This course may not be withdrawn from unless the student withdraws from all semester coursework.



English 1002/1022 (formerly C050/R050): College Composition
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: Passing the Writing Placement Examination or satisfactorily completing the appropriate ELECT or English 0040-level course

An introductory course in expository writing that teaches the effective presentation of information and ideas. Assignments include approximately seven essays of 500 words each, with work in impromptu writing. Goals include the development of college-level thinking and writing; progress from personal essays to expository prose; and experience with critical analysis in reading. Note, this course is required of all students and should be taken in the first semester or immediately upon completing English 0040-level course (previously the ELECT course) writing requirements, a prerequisite for IH 1196 and IH 1297. Satisfactory completion of English 1002, English 1022, or the equivalent is a prerequisite for all other English courses numbered 0050 or above. English 1022 involves writing primarily about race and racial issues and was formerly Composition C050/R050.



English 1012 (formerly C051): College Composition
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: Passing the Writing Placement Examination or satisfactorily completing the appropriate ELECT or English 0040-level course

A course designed to accommodate the needs of the ESL learner. The guidelines for English 1002 are followed in this course, but in the ESL writing classroom there are cross-cultural implications of what it means to do academic work and of what it means to share historical and cultural knowledge. Oral participation is encouraged as a way of heightening fluency and enhancing comfort with participation in American academic settings. Note, this course is required of all students and should be taken in the first semester or immediately upon completing English 0040-level course (previously the ELECT course) writing requirements, a prerequisite for IH 1196 and IH 1297. Satisfactory completion of English 1002, English 1022, or the equivalent is a prerequisite for all other English courses numbered 0050 or above.



English 1301 (formerly C056): American Literature
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A study of the U.S. literary classics from a chronological perspective, beginning in the seventeenth century and continuing through today. Learn how the genres, themes, and images of American literature reflect the general historical, political, psychological, and cultural settings from which they emerge. This study reveals how specific works of American literature typify the specific historical periods and regional concerns of the areas of the country in which they were written.



English 1198 (formerly W082): Introduction to Fiction
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

An introduction to various forms of fiction: tales, fables, stories, and novels. This course focuses on close reading and analysis to develop an appreciation of creative works of fiction and skills in critical reading.



English 1197 (formerly X084): Introduction to Literature
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

An introduction to the major literary genres: poetry, fiction, and drama. Students concentrate on interpretation and on building the foundation of a critical vocabulary and method. We study what to look for in poems, stories, and plays and how to convey what we have found to other people.



English 2496 (formerly W101): Developing Prose Style
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A course for students who feel secure in the fundamentals but who want additional instruction beyond the introductory composition courses to improve their writing. Develops powers of analysis and expression as well as awareness of what constitutes effective writing. Readings are assigned in accordance with these goals. Students write a total of about 5,000 words.



English 2796 (formerly W103): Research and Critical Thinking
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A course designed to help students improve their writing skills in general, to use library resources, to conduct research, and to organize and present the information acquired effectively.



English 2596 (formerly W104): Writing for Business and Industry
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

An introduction to the organization, styles, and formats of technical and business writing that encourages clear, logical, work-oriented prose and independent, empirical research. Among the types of writing students will be expected to produce are memoranda, business letters, resumes, proposals, progress reports, and feasibility study reports. Students will also be expected to include various types of graphical elements in certain types of reports.



English 2196 (formerly W107): Creative Writing: Poetry
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A workshop in which students read and discuss one another's material and develop skills as writers and readers. Students may read selected contemporary American poets, but the main texts will be those produced by members of the class.



English 2296 (formerly W108): Creative Writing: Fiction
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A workshop in which students read and discuss one another's material and develop skills as writers and readers. Students may read selected contemporary American works of fiction, but the main texts will be those produced by members of the class. Beginning writers are welcome, but a thorough grounding in the conventions of grammar, spelling, and punctuation are essential.



English 2822 (formerly R110): Language and Race
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

An investigation of language and race that accurately and objectively evaluates many common beliefs about their connections. The course covers how all languages systematically organize sounds, grammar, and meanings, with a special emphasis on the structure of African American English; how particular ways of speaking may or may not affect one's thought patterns or social identity; and how public policy issues involve language and race.



English 2821 (formerly 0111): Introduction to Linguistics
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A look at the nature and structure of human language: the universal properties of language, how languages resemble each other, how children learn languages, how sound and meaning are related to each other, how the mind processes language, and how geographic and social factors affect language. Attention is paid to the scientific methods linguists use to test hypotheses. Note, this course is not recommended for students who have taken Anthropology 0127 and Speech, Language, Hearing 0108 or the equivalent.



English 2201 (formerly 0114): Survey of English Literature: Beginnings to 1660
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A required study for all English majors of the principal works of English literature from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in their historical and social settings. Includes an analysis of individual characteristics and lasting literary value. Readings include Beowulf, Chaucer, Sir Gawain, Sidney, Jonson, Donne and Marvell and other metaphysical poets, and Shakespeare and Milton.



English 2202 (formerly 0115): Survey of English Literature: 1660-1900
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A continuation of English 2201 that covers themes, genres, and major literary works in their historical and social settings from the Restoration through the eighteenth century, the romantic period, and the Victorian era. Readings include Dryden, Swift, Pope, Jonson, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, Wilde, and other masters. Note, this is a required course for all English majors.



English W116: Survey of American Literature I
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A course that includes readings from the colonial and federalist periods and from the New England renaissance of the mid-nineteenth century. Authors include Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Emerson, Thoreau, Stowe, and Douglas, with an emphasis on Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, and Dickinson. Note, this is a required course for all English majors.



English 2302 (formerly 0117): Survey of American Literature II
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A continuation of the American literature survey that deals with the age of realism and naturalism and with the beginning of the modern period. Includes such themes as industrialization, the urban consciousness, the loss of innocence, and the loss of traditional moral and literary values. Authors may include Whitman, Twain, Howells, Crane, Dreiser, James, Robinson, Frost, Eliot, and Hemingway.



English 2401 (formerly R125): Afro American Literature I
3 credit hours

A survey of African American poetry, fiction, drama, and memoirs, from their origins in the eighteenth century to the present. Authors include Frederick Douglas, Booker Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Ralph Ellison, and others.



English 2402 (formerly R126): Afro American Literature II
3 credit hours

A survey of African American literature from 1915 to the present, including poetry, prose, fiction, and drama. Analyzes developments in racial consciousness, from race pride to the black aesthetic and the influence on literature brought about by interracial conflicts; social and historical concepts, such as assimilation and integration; and changing notions of culture. Authors include Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Sterling Brown, Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Ralph Ellison, and contemporary writers Baraka, Morrison, and others.



English 2297 (formerly W133): Shakespeare
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A study of major plays of Shakespeare, usually chosen from among the comedies, tragedies, and histories. Teaches appropriate principles of literary analysis, with some attention to social and intellectual background and Elizabethan stage techniques. May focus primarily on the plays as literature, or may study them as performed texts.



English 2111 (formerly 0157): The Short Story
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A reading, discussion, and writing class centered on short stories, mostly by American writers, including Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Katherine Anne Porter. You will also watch short films based on the stories to help you visualize characters and settings. In addition to becoming familiar with major works by major writers, you will have a chance to develop your critical abilities through discussion and writing. You will learn how stories are constructed, knowledge that will be useful in understanding and appreciating narrative wherever you find it, in literature and in movies, TV drama, and manga representations. Since many stories are realistic depictions of American society, you will have a chance to widen your knowledge of American history and culture.



English 3401 (formerly 0201): Advanced Composition
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A course designed to help students improve their writing style. Students will write a minimum of one, five-page paper per week (not including revision) on a topic in the humanities and social sciences. The instructor will assign readings and research assignments for each topic.



English 3296 (formerly W202): Advanced Creative Writing
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: Successful completion of one lower level writing course, one upper level literature course, and permission of instructor

Workshop intended to help advanced writers produce, revise and critique fiction. In addition to producing original work, students may read and discuss certain contemporary writers and theories of fiction.



English 3823 (formerly 0213): History of the English Language
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A survey of the historical development of the English language through a focus on literary texts. The course seeks to demonstrate how useful a historical grasp of language is to the appreciation of literature. How and why did the language of Beowulf turn into the language of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Swift, James, and Hemingway?



English 3241 (formerly 0242): English Romanticism
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A study of the first- and second-generation romantics, especially Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats and their literary, historical, social, and cultural milieu. The course looks at the ideas and issues that contributed to shaping their imaginations and their works.



English 3251 (formerly 0243): Victorian Literature
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

An introduction to the masterpieces of Victorian poetry and prose, excluding the novel. The course examines the works of Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Arnold, Pater, Dante, Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Oscar Wilde, Ruskin, and others.



English 3513 (formerly 0257): Modern World Fiction
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A study of significant literary works and developments in fiction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Representative authors range from Flaubert, Dostoevski, and Camus to Tanizaki, Kawabata, Mishima, and Oe.



English 3010 (formerly 0281): Special Topics I
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A variable-content course involving advanced study in a specific area. The concentration is on pre-1900 works.



English 3020 (formerly 0282): Special Topics II
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: English 1002 or equivalent

A variable-content course involving advanced study in a specific area. The concentration is on pre-1900 works.



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