English (ENGL)
English
Prerequisite to all 200-level and above: 3 credits of 100-level English. Prerequisite to all English courses numbered above 302 unless otherwise noted: 3 credits of 100-level English and 3 credits of general education literature. Nonnative speakers of English with limited language proficiency are encouraged to take ENGL 100 instead of ENGL 101. Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 100 and 101.
100 Composition for Non-native Speakers of English (4:4:0) For non-native English speakers with limited language proficiency. Students must attain minimum grade of C to fulfill degree requirements. Intensive practice in drafting, revising, and editing expository essays of some length and complexity. Studies logical, rhetorical, and linguistic structure of expository prose, with attention to particularly difficult aspects of the language for non-native speakers. Methods and conventions of preparing research papers.
101 Composition (3:3:0) Intensive practice in drafting, revising, and editing expository essays of some length and complexity. Studies logical, rhetorical, and linguistic structure of expository prose. Methods and conventions of preparing research papers. Students must attain minimum grade of C to fulfill degree requirements.
201 Reading and Writing about Texts (3:3:0) Close analysis of literary texts, including but not limited to poetry, fiction, and drama. Emphasizes reading and writing exercises to develop basic interpretive skills. Examines figurative language, central ideas, relationship between structure and meaning, narrative point of view.
202 Texts and Contexts (3:3:0) Studies literary texts within the framework of culture. Examines texts within such categories as history, gender, sexuality, religion, race, class, and nation. Builds on reading and writing skills taught in ENGL 201.
203, 204 Western Literary Traditions (3:3:0), (3:3:0) Major works of Western literature in historical progression. ENGL 203 focuses on writers such as Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Dante, Cervantes, Machiavelli, and Montaigne. ENGL 204 covers writers such as Moliere, Mme. de Lafayette, Goethe, Ibsen, Flaubert, Dostoyevski, Tolstoy, Mann, Kafka, Borges, and Soyinka. All readings are in modern English. Courses build on reading and writing skills taught in ENGL 201.
302 Advanced Composition (3:3:0) Prerequisites: completion of 45 credits, requires a grade of C or better. Intensive practice in writing and analyzing expository forms such as essay, article, proposal, and technical or scientific reports with emphasis on research related to student's major field. Schedule of Classes designates particular sections of ENGL 302 in business, humanities, natural sciences and technology, and social sciences.
309 Introduction to Nonfiction Writing (3:3:0) Not to be taken concurrently with ENGL 399 or 489, and not to be taken by students who have taken ENGL 489. Not a remedial course. Advanced practice in analyzing and writing nonfiction forms such as essay, profile, article, and technical or scientific report, depending on student's interests.
311 Writing Ethnography (3:3:0) Study and practice of ethnographic writing. Students conduct ethnographic investigations and practice journal keeping, field note recording, interviewing, transcription, and interpretation. Includes introduction to current issues in ethnographic writing.
322/LING 322 English Grammar (3:3:0) Overview of grammatical structure of English including word classes, phrases, and complex sentences. English grammar analyzed using modern syntactic theory. Students engage in language description through problem solving.
325 Dimensions of Writing and Literature (6:6:0) Open to all students. Required of those majoring or minoring in English, who should take ENGL 325 before taking other 300- or 400-level literature courses, and who must obtain a minimum grade of C to satisfy degree requirements in English major or minor. Examines English as discipline, and develops interpretive skills for further study in the major. All sections cover issues such as form, genre, point of view, figurative language, conventions of close reading and literary interpretation, and how culture shapes texts. Regular class meetings; weekly lectures, performances, or readings.
326 General Linguistics (3:3:0) See LING 326.
327 Introduction to Cultural Studies (3:3:0) Introduces interpretive practices associated with cultural studies.
330 Introduction to Literary Theory (3:3:0) Introduces contemporary theories informing literary and cultural study such as deconstruction, poststructuralism, new historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and contemporary cultural studies.
331 Introduction to Documentary (3:3:0) This introduction to the study of documentary considers fundamental concepts of form, style, and subject matter, ethical considerations, and theories of documentary, and includes close analysis of a series of representative film and television texts.
332 Introduction to Film (3:3:0) Introduces film medium as an art form.
333 Folklore of the Americas (3:3:0) Topics include folktales, personal narratives, legends, proverbs, jokes, folk songs, folk art and craft, and folk architecture. Considers ethnicity, community, family, festival, folklore in literature, and oral history. Discusses traditions in students' own lives.
334 Literary Approaches to Popular Culture (3:3:0) Emphasizes popular fiction and adaptation of popular prose genres to media that have strong verbal and visual elements. Relationship between verbal and nonverbal elements of media such as film, comics, and radio.
335, 336 Shakespeare (3:3:0) Twenty selected plays. ENGL 335 emphasizes histories and comedies; ENGL 336, tragedies and romances.
337 Special Topics in Myth and Literature (3:3:0) Studies how traditional mythologies are reflected in English and American literature and other texts as themes, motifs, and patterns. May be repeated once for credit when course content differs.
338 Cultural Constructions of Sexualities (3:3:0) Introductory survey of cultural, literary, and theoretical constructions of sexuality that seek to complicate traditionally fixed categories of identity. Examines various representations of human sexuality, with particular attention to intersections with gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, and class.
343 Textual Media (3:3:0) Critical reading of new media texts and creation of technology-enriched texts in variety of rhetorical genres. Instructs students in rhetoric of new media, whether produced as hypertext, multimedia, or interactive digital productions. Technology-enriched activities present complex textuality of words, images, word-as-image, and kinetic text.
344 Introduction to Digital Writing in the Genres (3:3:0) Prerequisites: ENGL 396, or permission of instructor. Combined workshop and studio course in technological and aesthetic issues of reading and writing hypermedia texts with emphasis on poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, mixed genre, drama, or performance. Explores how genre meets hypertext and hypermedia in original creative work. Includes techniques in authoring interactive hypermedia projects using digital media tools. May include reading assignments in hypertext and hypermedia theory.
345 Special Topics: Literary Surveys (3:3:0) Advanced introduction to major movements and representative figures of two or more centuries or periods of American, British, European, or world literature. May be repeated once for credit when course content is different.
349 Global Voices (3:3:0) Prerequisite: 45 credits. Studies two cultures other than contemporary British or American culture through exploration of several textual forms such as written literature, oral literature, film, folklore, or popular culture. Specific cultures vary, but at least one is non-Western.
350 The Idea of a World Literature (3:3:0) Prerequisite: 45 credits. Examines history and current status of conceptions of world literature, considering such topics as non-European influences on Western literature, shifting horizons of comparative literature, rise of postcolonial literature, place of translation, and role of international institutions such as UNESCO and the Nobel Prize. Focuses on degree to which these initiatives have been successful in promoting global understanding of literary production.
360, 363 Special Topics in Literature (3:3:0) Studies literature by topics, such as women in literature, science fiction, and literature of the avant garde. Topic changes each time course is offered. May be repeated when course content differs.
368 Beginnings of African American Literature Through 1865 (3:3:0) Concentrating on such poets as Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Lucy Terry, and George Moses Horton, examines significant African American literary, social, and political texts produced through 1865. Special attention to narrative accounts of enslavement and freedom by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Olaudah Equiano; political writings and orations of David Walker and Sojourner Truth; fiction of Harriet Wilson and William Wells Brown; and nonwritten cultural artifacts such as slave songs and spirituals.
369 Women and Literature (3:3:0) Explores experiences of women as both authors and subjects of imaginative literature. May be repeated for credit when subtitle is different.
370 African American Literature: Reconstruction to 1903 (3:3:0) Emphasizes several major writers from Reconstruction to beginning of 20th century, concluding with W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk. Concentrating on evolution of African American fiction and poetry as well as political and social discourses on "race," explores how authors such as Frances E.W. Harper, Charles Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Booker T. Washington, and DuBois shaped the foundation for 20th-century African American literary art and aesthetics.
371 African American Literature Through 1946 (3:3:0) Focusing on fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography, explores evolution of African American literature and aesthetics and major social, cultural, and historical movements such as the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and emergence of black naturalism, realism, and modernism in the 1930s-40s. Major authors include Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Margaret Walker, Chester Himes, Richard Wright, and Ann Petry.
372 Contemporary African American Literature (3:3:0) Encompassing array of genres and forms, examines black writing from mid-20th century to present. Engages textual, critical, political, and theoretical issues related to cardinal literary movements, such as Black Arts Movement of 1960s and Third Renaissance of 1980s-90s. Examines how musical forms such as blues, jazz, and rap shaped literary production. Major authors include Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Gloria Naylor, August Wilson, and Toni Morrison.
380 Recent American Fiction (3:3:0) American short story writers and novelists from World War II to present, including Mailer, Barth, Cheever, Oates, Gass, Beattie, Updike, and Morrison.
390 Recent American Poetry (3:3:0) Major American poets from World War II to present, emphasizing Roethke, Brooks, Rich, Dickey, Lowell, Ammons, Kizer, Sexton, Clifton, Plath, and Piercy.
396 Introduction to Creative Writing (3:3:0) Assignments include writing exercises and original works of poetry and fiction. May also include drama or creative nonfiction. Includes reading assignments in covered genres, and may include oral presentations or in-class performance. Original student work read and discussed in class and conference with instructor.
397 Poetry Writing (3:3:0) Prerequisite: ENGL 396, or permission of instructor. Workshop in reading, writing poetry. Original student work read and discussed in class and conferences with instructor. Technical exercises in craft of poetry; may include reading assignments.
398 Fiction Writing (3:3:0) Prerequisite: ENGL 396, or permission of instructor. Workshop course in reading and writing fiction. Original student work read and discussed in class and conferences with instructor. Includes technical exercises in craft of fiction; may include reading assignments.
399 Creative Nonfiction Writing (3:3:0) Prerequisite: ENGL 309 or 396, or permission of instructor. Workshop in reading and writing of nonfiction that makes use of literary techniques normally thought of in context of fiction, such as evoking senses and use of dialogue. Original student work read and discussed in class and conferences with instructor. Includes technical exercises in artful creating of nonfiction; may include reading assignments.
400 Literature of the Middle Ages (3:3:0) Selected English narrative, dramatic, and homiletic literature written between 1300 and 1500, exclusive of Chaucer.
401 English Poetry and Prose of the 16th Century (3:3:0) Poetry and prose of early Renaissance in England.
402 English Poetry and Prose of the 17th Century (3:3:0) English poetry and prose from 1603 to 1688, excluding Milton.
404 The Augustan Age (3:3:0) English literature from late 17th century to mid-18th century. Includes Dryden, Rochester, Behn, Defoe, Swift, Pope, and Montagu.
405 The Age of Sensibility (3:3:0) English literature of later 18th century, time of American and French Revolutions, including new developments in novel, drama, biography, and poetry. Includes Johnson, Boswell, Blake, Goldsmith, Sterne, Gray, Cowper, Burney, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft.
406 English Poetry of the Romantic Period (3:3:0) Works of major poets of Romantic period: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
407 Prose and Poetry of the Victorian Period (3:3:0) Poetry and nonfiction prose by such authors as Carlyle, Arnold, Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Ruskin, Mill, and Wilde.
408 Special Topics: British Literary Periods (3:3:0) In-depth study of selected period of British literature. In addition to literary examples, materials may be chosen from art, philosophy, or popular culture of the time. When subtitle is different, may be repeated once for credit with permission of department.
410 Technical and Report Writing (3:3:0) Prerequisite: ENGL 302. Intensive study and practice in various forms of technical writing, including formal and informal reports, proposals, and technical correspondence. Emphasizes writing for variety of audiences, both lay and informed, and writing within various professional and organizational contexts.
414 Honors Seminar (3:3:0) Prerequisite: permission of department. Emphasizes growth in awareness of literary scholarship as a discipline, providing opportunity for advanced study in literary and cultural criticism. Covers variety of topics, including consideration of a literary period, genre, author, work, theme, discourse, or critical theory. May be repeated for credit.
415 Honors Thesis Writing Seminar (3:3:0) Prerequisites: permission of department and ENGL 414 or 416. Gives students who wish to write an English honors thesis guidance in research methods, while offering opportunity to share and critique works in progress in workshop format. Students may take thesis seminar concurrently and in coordination with another approved course offered by English Department. In this case, the thesis of about 30 pages explores area covered by second course, and instructor in that course serves as thesis reader and advisor. Students receive credit for thesis seminar and second course; however, thesis work may substitute for some assigned work in second course by arrangement of instructors of thesis seminar and second course.
416 Honors Independent Study (1-3:0:0) Prerequisites: admission to honors program in English, and permission of instructor. Intensive writing course. Honors students concentrating in nonfiction writing and editing may use English 416 to replace English 414 as first course in Honors program. Honors students concentrating in creative writing may use English 416 to replace 415 as second course in Honors program.
421 Topics in Film History (3:3:0) Advanced studies of development of film language, both as cultural practice and medium for formal innovation. Topics might include studies of national cinemas, historical periods, genres, or individual directors. May be repeated once for credit when topic is distinctly different.
422 Topics in Film Theory (3:3:0) Advanced studies of theories about various aspects of production, distribution, and reception of film-mediated experiences. Topics may include theories of spectator, semiotics, feminist film theory, theories of narrativity, structuralist film theory, or deconstruction. May be repeated once for credit when topic distinctly different.
423 Colonial and Federalist American Literature (3:3:0) Works of first 200 years of American literature, including Edwards, Franklin, Irving, Cooper, and Bryant.
425 Literature of the American Renaissance (3:3:0) Major writers of American Renaissance (1830-1865), with emphasis on Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Poe, Stowe, Douglass, and Dickinson.
429 Special Topics: American Literary Periods (3:3:0) In-depth study of selected period of American literature. In addition to literary examples, materials may be chosen from art, philosophy, or popular culture of time. May be repeated once for credit when subtitle is different, with permission of department.
431/HIST 431/FRLN 431 Medieval Intellectual Topics (3:3:0) May be taken for credit by English or history majors. Examines selected topic in intellectual history of Middle Ages. Specific topic may vary. Primary emphasis is literary or historical, depending on discipline of instructor. May consider relevant material from philosophy, theology, and art.
436 Nineteenth-Century Continental Novels in Translation (3:3:0) Selected European novels in translation. Focuses on continental novel from 18th century to end of 19th century. Includes works of Balzac, Goethe, Gogol, Stendhal, Turgenev, Flaubert, Dostoievski, Tolstoy, and Chekhov.
437 Twentieth-Century Continental Novels in Translation (3:3:0) Offered in cooperation with the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. Focuses on continental novel from beginning of 20th century to present. Includes Proust, Mann, Gide, Kafka, Yourcevar, Beauvoir, Calvino, and Garcia Marquez. Attention to influence of this literature on novel in English.
439 Literature in English Other Than British and American (3:3:0) Study of selected topics, periods, genres, or authors in literature written in English, originating in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Asia, or Africa, for example. May be repeated once for credit when subject is different, with permission of department.
440 English Renaissance Drama (3:3:0) Major dramas and dramatists of English Renaissance, such as Lyly, Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, and Ford.
443 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama (3:3:0) Restoration comedy of manners, sentimental comedy, and neoclassical and bourgeois tragedy. Theories of drama and conventions of staging. Includes writers such as Wycherley, Behn, Congreve, and Cowley.
445 English and Irish Drama of the Twentieth Century (3:3:0) English or Irish drama from Yeats to the present. Plays by authors such as Yeats, Synge, O'Casey, Osborne, Wesker, Pinter, Friel, Churchill, and Gems.
447 American Drama of the Twentieth Century (3:3:0) American drama of 20th century, with special attention to playwrights such as Glaspell, O'Neill, Miller, Williams, Fornes, and Albee.
448 Modern Drama (3:3:0) Representative plays of most influential European and American dramatists, with emphasis on dramatic styles such as realism, expressionism, epic, and existentialism. Studies Chekhov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett.
449 Special Topics in Drama (3:3:0) Studies selected topics, periods, or playwrights. May be repeated once for credit when subtitle is different, with permission of department.
450 English Novel of the 18th Century (3:3:0) English novel from its beginnings through turn of 19th century. Covers works by Behn, Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Smollett, and Austen.
452 Development of the American Novel to 1914 (3:3:0) Major American novels of the pre-World War I period with emphasis on Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Howells, James, Crane, Dreiser, Norris, and others.
453 English Novel of the 19th Century (3:3:0) Works by Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot, Trollope, and Hardy.
454 Development of the American Novel since 1914 (3:3:0) Works by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Wolfe, Bellow, and Nabokov.
456 English Novel of the Twentieth Century (3:3:0) Works by Conrad, Forster, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Greene, Lessing, Spark, and Fowles.
458 Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop (3:3:0) Prerequisites: ENGL 398 and manuscript review. Submit 8-10 pages of fiction to instructor. Enrollment is controlled. Workshop; intensive practice in creative writing and study of creative process. Intended for students already writing original creative work. With permission of instructor may be taken a second time for credit.
459 Special Topics in Fiction (3:3:0) Study of selected topics, periods, or authors. May be repeated once for credit when subtitle is different, with permission of department.
462 English Poetry of the Twentieth Century (3:3:0) Emphasizes work of Hardy, Yeats, Lawrence, Graves, Auden, Thomas, and Hughes. Work of fiction employing poetic techniques, such as Joyce's Ulysses, may also be studied.
463 American Poetry of the Twentieth Century (3:3:0) Emphasizes work of Robinson, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Pound, Crane, Eliot, and Lowell. May include work of fiction employing poetic techniques, such as Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.
464 Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop (3:3:0) Prerequisites: ENGL 397 and manuscript review. Submit 8-10 pages of poetry to instructor. Enrollment is controlled. Intensive practice in the craft of poetry and study of the imagination in creative process. Intended for students already writing original poetry. At discretion of instructor, technical exercises and assigned reading may be required. With permission of instructor, may be taken a second time for credit.
468 Special Topics in Poetry (3:3:0) Study of selected topics, periods, or poets. May be repeated once for credit when subtitle is different, with permission of department.
471 Chaucer (3:3:0) Major works of Chaucer, with emphasis on The Canterbury Tales.
472 Spenser (3:3:0) Poetry of Edmund Spenser, with central emphasis on The Faerie Queene.
473 Special Studies in Shakespeare (3:3:0) Study of one aspect of Shakespeare's art or critical issues surrounding his work. May be repeated once for credit when subtitle is different, with permission of department.
474 Milton (3:3:0) Milton's major poetic works, with emphasis on Paradise Lost.
477 Special Topics: British Authors (3:3:0) Study of one or two major figures in British literature. May be repeated once for credit when subtitle is different, with permission of department.
478 Special Topics: American Authors (3:3:0) Study of one or two major figures in American literature. May be repeated once for credit when subtitle is different, with permission of department.
489 Advanced Nonfiction Writing (3:3:0) Prerequisite: ENGL 309 or 399, or permission of instructor. Workshop course. Intensive practice in advanced nonfiction writing; emphasizes writing for publication. Occasional special topics sections in such forms as autobiography and scientific writing.
490 Special Topics in Film (3:3:0) American and foreign films selected by type, period, or director with emphasis varying from year to year. Required viewings, student discussion, and written critiques. May be repeated with permission of department.
491 Special Topics in Folklore (3:3:0) Exploration of various aspects of folklore and folklife such as folklore and literature, folk arts, folk song, and material culture. May be repeated once for credit when subtitle is different, with permission of department.
492 Science Fiction (3:3:0) Major works of science fiction in terms of mode, themes, and narrative techniques, especially role of hypothesis in science fiction. Focuses on novels, short stories from early 19th century to present.
493 Special Topics in Popular Literature (3:3:0) Studies specific topic or theme in popular literature. May be repeated once for credit when subtitle is different, with permission of department.
494 Special Topics in Criticism (3:3:0) Studies selected approach to literary criticism, as announced, with exercises in critical analysis. Includes new criticism, structuralism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. May be repeated with permission of department.
495 Literary Modes (3:3:0) Theory and practice of such modes as tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, romance, and satire, considered in separate semesters and drawn from variety of periods ranging from biblical times to present, with examples from drama, poetry, and fiction. May be repeated with permission of department.
497 Special Topics in Creative Writing (3:3:0) Prerequisite: ENGL 396 or equivalent, and permission of instructor. Students must submit typed manuscript at least one week before registration. Workshop course. Intensive practice in creative writing and study of creative process. Concentrates on specialized literary type other than short story or poetry, such as playwriting, screenwriting, children's literature, travel literature, autobiography, gothic novel, and translation. Concentration announced in department's Course Description Booklet before preregistration. Intended for students already writing original creative work. May be taken second time for credit.
498 Internship: Special Topics (1-3:0:0) Prerequisites: 60 credits including 3 credits of 100-level English course; 6 credits of 200-level English courses; and 3 credits of English 302. English majors need 6 additional credits of upper-level English courses. Non-English majors need 3 additional credits of upper-level English courses, and 3 credits of upper-level courses in the major. Unpaid, approved work-study positions at specific sites. Under supervision of faculty advisor, students work as intern with site supervisor in agency of student's choosing, with advisor's permission. For 3 credits, students work 120 hours on site and write 3,500 words, or the equivalent, given contract with advisor. Contact the English Department one semester prior to enrollment. No more than 3 credits can be counted in concentration or English minor. May be repeated for credit once with permission of department.
499 Independent Study (1-3:0:0) Prerequisites: permission of department and instructor. Individualized section form required. Intensive study of particular author, genre, period, or critical or theoretical problem in literature or linguistics, to be conducted by student in close consultation with instructor. Student produces at least one substantial piece of written work during semester on research findings. With permission of department, course may be taken twice for maximum 6 credits.
With permission of department, qualified undergraduates may enroll in 500-level courses for either undergraduate or reserved graduate credit.
501 Introduction to Professional Writing and Editing (3:3:0) Provides historical and theoretical background in professional writing and editing, including editing in literary tradition and organizational settings. Explores professional writing's emergence as field of scholarship and practice in seminar and practicum format.
503 Theory and Practice of Editing (3:3:0) Prerequisite: 6 credits of English courses numbered above 300, including one of 309, 311, 396, 397, 398, 410, 458, 464, 489, or 497; or permission of department. Instruction in revising, editing, and preparing specialized writing for printing. Emphasizes methods of achieving clarity, accuracy, and completeness. Lecture and discussion on editing and printing techniques; practical exercise in revision, layout, and production.
504 Internship in Writing and Editing (3:0:0) Open to senior English majors, and graduate students pursuing MA in English or MFA. Contact English Department one semester before enrolling. Variable credit and prerequisites. Approved work-study positions in writing or editing established by department with specific employers.
505 Computer-Assisted Publications Writing and Design (3:3:0) Theory and practice of using computer programs to design and produce publications including brochures, fliers, newsletters, and small magazines. Includes readings, writing papers, and producing and editing copy and original publications.
506 Research for Narrative Writing (3:3:0) Prerequisite: ENGL 565 or 566, or permission of instructor. Combines study of basic research tools with field work and writing workshop experience. Helps students develop techniques and skills necessary for writing a research-dependent project of sufficient complexity to be of book or long essay length. Emphasis on finding story behind facts, using material from numerous sources.
507 Field Work in Applied Linguistics (3:0:0) See LING 507.
511 Styles and Modes in Literary History (3:3:0) Prerequisites: 15 credits of advanced undergraduate English courses and permission of department; or baccalaureate degree. Historical consideration of principal styles, modes, and intellectual paradigms in literary and cultural texts.
512/PHIL 512 Issues in Literature and Philosophy (3:3:1) Prerequisites: graduate or senior standing, 6 credits of upper-level English, 6 credits of philosophy, and permission of instructor. Interdisciplinary seminar offering opportunity to arrive at a personal synthesis of work previously done in philosophy and literature. Topic changes yearly, but focuses on themes or methodologies common to both disciplines.
513 Advanced Special Topics in English (3:3:0) Prerequisites: 15 credits of advanced undergraduate English courses and permission of department; or baccalaureate degree. Intensive study of topics involving literary or other texts such as film, television, opera, and folklore. May be repeated for credit with permission of department.
514/CL 514 Theories of Comparative Literature (3:3:0) Prerequisite: CL 300 and senior standing, or baccalaureate degree; or permission of instructor. Intensive study of major theories of comparative literature with special emphasis on development and redefinition of comparative outlook, from Great Books and Western Canon to transnationalism, multiculturalism, and intercultural studies.
520 Descriptive Linguistics (3:3:0) See LING 520.
521 Applied Linguistics: Teaching English as a Second Language (3:3:0) See LING 521.
522 Modern English Grammar (3:3:0) See LING 522.
523 Descriptive Aspects of English Phonetics and Phonology (3:3:0) See LING 523.
526 Special Topics in the History and Criticism of Children's Literature (3:3:0) Focuses on the history and criticism of children's literature, by concentrating on selected historical periods and literary modes such as "Golden Age" children's literature, contemporary fantastic and children's literature, or Romantic and Victorian children's literature. May be repeated once for credit with permission of instructor.
551 Literary Criticism (3:3:0) Studies in selected critical theories pertinent to textual and cultural analysis.
555 Introduction to Cinema Studies (3:3:0) Students who have taken ENGL 332 may not take this course for credit. Advanced introduction to film study, including overview of approaches to study of cinema, methods of close analysis, basic concepts of film form and style, and contemporary theories of film.
564 Form of Poetry (3:3:0) Prerequisites: ENGL 464 or equivalent, and permission of instructor, except for MFA students in the concentration. Students seeking permission must submit typed manuscript of original poetry. Intensive study of and practice in formal elements of poetry through analyzing models and weekly or biweekly writing assignments. Intended for students already writing original poetry. Covers rhyme, meter, rhythm, lineation, stanza pattern, traditional and experimental forms, free verse and open-form composition, lyric, narrative, and dramatic modes.
565 Forms of Nonfiction (3:3:0) Prerequisites: ENGL 489 or equivalent, and permission of instructor, except for MA and MFA candidates in English. Intensive study of and practice in various forms of nonfiction writing through analyzing models and weekly writing assignments. Includes biographies, documentaries, editorials, interviews, reports, reviews, and essays.
566 Forms of Fiction (3:3:0) Prerequisites: ENGL 458 or equivalent, and permission of instructor, except for MFA students in concentration. Students seeking permission must submit typed manuscript of original fiction. Intensive practice in formal elements of fiction through analyzing models and weekly or biweekly writing assignments. Intended for students already writing original fiction. Covers description, narration, plot, dialogue, voice, point of view, style, epiphany, and antifiction techniques.
581 Psycholinguistics (3:3:0) See LING 581.
582 Second Language Acquisition (3:3:0) See LING 582.
591 Special Topics in Folklore (3:3:0) Explores various aspects of folklore and folklife such as narrative and storytelling, folklore and literature, and song and arts. May be repeated once for credit when subtitle is different, with permission of department.
592 Historical Studies of the English Language (3:3:0) Either a chronological survey of development of English from Old and Middle English to Modern English and American English; or intensive study of grammar and syntax of Old English as literary language in representative texts of period. May be repeated for credit with permission of department.
604 Internship in Folklore (1-6:0:0) Prerequisites: undergraduate or graduate course in folklore, which may be taken concurrently. Unpaid, approved work-study positions at specific sites arranged by interested students and their advisor. Under supervision of faculty advisor, student works as intern with site supervisor in agency of student's choosing, given advisor's permission. For 3 credits, students work 120 hours on site and write 3,500 words, or equivalent, given contract with advisor. Contact English Department one semester prior to enrollment.
610 Proseminar in Teaching the Reading of Literature (3:3:0) Methods of teaching literature. Includes study of methods of literary analysis, and ways of developing student responses to literature, with some classroom practice. Does not satisfy Virginia certification requirement in diagnostic or developmental reading.
611 Studies in Rhetoric (3:3:0) Reading and discussion of several major texts that address patterns of discourse, communication, and other issues of rhetoric. Content varies. Recent offerings include 20th century rhetoric, collaborative writing, and computers and rhetoric. May be repeated for credit with permission of department.
612 Cultures of Professional Writing (3:3:0) Students work as ethnographers, studying selected sites where people write professionally, and analyzing ways production and reception of writing contribute to and result from local culture of each site. Lecture and workshop format.
613 Technical and Scientific Writing (3:3:0) Prerequisite: ENGL 565, or permission of department. Intensive study of theory and practice of technical and scientific writing, with emphasis on writing for variety of audiences. Focuses on writing and evaluating formal reports, articles for lay and technical audiences, proposals, theses, manuals, and other forms of technical prose.
614 Internship in the Teaching of Writing (1-3:0:0) Internships provide experience working in teaching program such as school or writing center. Under direction of faculty member, students must secure cooperation of on-site supervisor. Students work minimum 3 hours per week per credit to be awarded, keep a weekly reflective and analytical log, and communicate regularly with faculty director. May not be repeated for credit.
615 Proseminar in Composition Instruction (3:3:0) Methods of teaching expository writing. Includes consideration of planning courses, practice in teaching and grading papers, and study of recent developments in teaching writing.
616 Nonfiction Writing Workshop (1-6:1-6:0) Prerequisites: ENGL 565, which may be taken concurrently, and permission of instructor, except for MFA students in concentration. Intensive practice in craft of nonfiction and study of creative process. Intended for students already familiar with traditional and contemporary nonfiction, and already writing original nonfiction. At discretion of instructor, reading may be required. May be repeated for credit with permission of department.
617 Poetry Writing Workshop (1-6:1-6:0) Prerequisites: ENGL 564, which may be taken concurrently, and permission of instructor, except for MFA students in concentration. Intensive practice in craft of poetry and study of creative process. Intended for students already familiar with traditional and contemporary poetic modes and already writing original poetry. At discretion of instructor, reading may be required. May be repeated for credit with permission of department.
618 Fiction Writing Workshop (1-6:1-6:0) Prerequisites: ENGL 566, which may be taken concurrently, and permission of instructor, except for MFA students in concentration. Intensive practice in craft of fiction and study of creative process. Intended for students already familiar with traditional and contemporary fiction and already writing original fiction. At discretion of instructor, reading may be required. May be repeated for credit with permission of department.
619 Special Topics in Writing (3:3:0) Prerequisite: Two graduate writing courses or permission of instructor, except for MFA students in concentration. Workshop course. Intensive practice in creative writing and study of creative process. Concentrates on specialized literary type other than short story, such as essay, playwriting, film writing, children's literature, travel literature, autobiography, gothic novel, and translation. Concentration is announced in department's Course Description Booklet. Intended for students already writing original creative work. May be repeated for credit with permission of department.
625 British Medieval (3:3:0) Selected literary authors, works, or movements from 1300 to 1500, studied in Middle English. Content varies. May be repeated twice for credit with permission of department.
630 Early Modern (3:3:0) Selected literary authors, works, or movements of English Renaissance. Content varies. May be repeated three times for credit with permission of department.
635 Eighteenth-Century British (3:3:0) Selected English literary authors, works, or movements of 18th century. Content varies. May be repeated twice for credit with permission of department.
640 Nineteenth-Century British (3:3:0) Selected English literary authors, works, or movements of 19th century. Content varies. May be repeated twice for credit with permission of department.
645 Twentieth-Century British (3:3:0) Selected English literary authors, works, or movements of 20th century. Content varies. May be repeated twice for credit with permission of department.
650 Seventeenth-Century American (3:3:0) Selected literary authors, works, or movements of the "new world" before 1800. Content varies. May be repeated once for credit with permission of department.
655 Nineteenth-Century American (3:3:0) Selected American literary authors, works, or movements of 19th century. Content varies. May be repeated twice for credit with permission of department.
660 Twentieth-Century American (3:3:0) Selected American literary authors, works, or movements of the 20th century. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with permission of department.
661 Advanced Survey in African American Literature (3:3:0) Intensive study of period in African-American literature between 1800 and present, with focus to be determined by instructor. Several genres will be considered, including autobiography; fiction; drama; poetry; essays; and oral artifacts such as slave songs, spirituals, and hip-hop. May be repeated for credit with department permission.
665 Texts in Global Contexts (3:3:0) Examines various cultural texts such as literature, drama, film, and folklore in terms of transnational circulation or production and reception in locations around the world other than Britain and United States. Engages with issues arising from globalization of English and interplay of global cultures. Texts studied in English or English translation. May be repeated once for credit with permission of department.
670 Visual Culture: Theories and Histories (3:3:0) Prerequisite: Introductory film course, or permission of instructor. Advanced study in histories of visual representation including film, television, and video, and in theories of production and circulation of meanings in visual culture. May be repeated once for credit with permission of department.
675 Feminist Theory and Criticism (3:3:0) Presents historically based introduction to major debates within feminist theory and criticism. Stressing gender in literature and its interpretation, explores diverse collection of feminist interpretive practices.
676 Introduction to Cultural Studies (3:3:0) Advanced introduction to theoretical practice known as cultural studies, with attention to role in textual studies. Part of interdisciplinary cultural studies PhD and MA in English programs.
685 Selected Topics, Movements, or Genres of Literature in English (3:3:0) Content varies. May be repeated for credit with permission of department.
686 Special Topics in Linguistics (3:3:0) See LING 686.
690 Generative Phonology (3:3:0) See LING 690.
691 Theories of Language (3:3:0) See LING 691.
692 Phonology II (3:3:0) See LING 692.
695/EDUC 695 Northern Virginia Writing Project Inservice Program (1,2,3:0:0) Prerequisite: admission to graduate program, or permission of department. Offered at request of school division or other education agency to assist teachers in improving student writing and use of writing to learn. Content varies. May be repeated once for credit with permission of department.
696/EDUC 696 Northern Virginia Writing Project Teacher/Research Seminar (3:0:0) Prerequisite: ENGL 695/EDUC 695 or NVWP Summer Institute. Acquaints classroom teachers with findings related to composing process and methods of studying writing in school setting. Focuses on developing proposal investigating some aspect of composing process. Teachers who developed proposal before enrolling conduct research during course.
697/EDUC 697 Theory of Composition (3:3:0) Prerequisite: ENGL 615, ENGL 695/EDUC 695, or equivalent. Acquaints classroom teachers with theory relating to writing and teaching composition. Focuses on explaining theories of participants, reading works of leading theorists, and developing statement describing implications of theoretical consistency in teaching writing.
699 Workshop in English (1-3:0:0) Prerequisite: admission to graduate program, or permission of department. Concentrated workshops, educational tours, independent studies, and special seminars dealing with selected topics in writing, linguistics, film, electronic media, and literature written in English. All tours are optional, and may be replaced by specified work conducted on campus. May be repeated for credit with permission of department, but no more than 6 credits of ENGL 699 may be applied to master's degree in English. No more than 3 credits of 699 may be applied to literature requirement for MFA degree.
701 Literary Scholarship (3:3:0) Introduces research in English, including practice in library methods, writing critical bibliography, evaluating issues and problems, and surveying scholarly activities in department.
705 Literary Theory and Criticism (3:3:0) Major theories of literature and methods of analyzing and evaluating literary works. Content varies. May be repeated once for credit with permission of department.
740 Seminar in English/Cultural Studies (3:3:0) Prerequisites: 9 credits of graduate English courses including 701, or permission of department. Analyzes historical shifts in literary and cultural discourse or of relationships between literary and nonliterary elements of culture within specific historical moment. Major research paper required. Specific topics vary. May be repeated once for credit with permission of department.
750 Advanced Workshop in Poetry Writing (3:3:0) Open to MFA students only. Intensive practice in craft of poetry for experienced writers. May be repeated for credit with permission of department.
751 Advanced Workshop in Fiction Writing (1-6:1-6:0) Open to MFA students only. Intensive practice in craft of fiction for experienced writers. May be repeated for credit with permission.
752 Advanced Workshop in Nonfiction Writing (1-6:1-6:0) Open to MFA students only. Intensive practice in craft of nonfiction for experienced writers. May be repeated for credit with permission.
785 Semantics and Pragmatics (3:3:0) See LING 785.
786 Syntax I (3:3:0) See LING 786.
787 Syntax II (3:3:0) See LING 787.
798 Directed Reading and Research (1-3:0:0) Prerequisite: open only to degree students who have preregistered and have completed 15 credits, including ENGL 701. Reading, research, and writing on specific project under direction of department member. Oral or written report required. MA students may repeat once for credit with permission of department. MFA students may present up to 12 credits of ENGL 798 for graduation, but no more than 3 may count toward completing literature requirement.
799 Thesis (1-6:0:0) Students who take ENGL 798 to develop thesis topic and then elect thesis option receive 3 credits for ENGL 799 on completion of thesis. Students who do not take ENGL 798, or who take it to work on project unrelated to thesis, receive up to 6 credits for ENGL 799 on completion of thesis. Graded S/NC.
800 Studies for the Doctor of Philosophy in Education (variable credit) Prerequisite: admission to PhD in education program to study in English. Program of studies designed by discipline director and approved by doctoral committee that prepares student for research and writing in area of interest of discipline director. Enrollment may be repeated.
801 New Developments in English (3:3:0) Designed for students in doctor of arts in community college education program. Focuses on major original texts that have influenced discipline of English in late 20th century. Readings are from literary studies, composition and writing theory, and linguistics.