Courses
ENG 111 — Introduction to the
Short Story
3 hours
The short story as an artistic
literary form as seen in the work of representative world
writers.
ENG 152 — Academic Writing:
Non-Native Speakers
3 hours
Academic Writing: Non-Native
Speakers. A writing course for students whose native
language is not English. Emphasis is on developing
competencies for meeting the demands of writing in an
academic setting. These include: advanced reading
strategies, critical thinking, writing conventions of
English, and intercultural issues. Vocabulary development
and grammar are integrated into the course. Prerequisite:
Placement Exam. Contact International Student Affairs.
ENG 154—Academic
Speaking: Non-Native Speakers
3hours
A speaking course for students whose native language is not
English. Emphasis is on developing competencies for meeting
the demands of oral participation in an academic setting.
These include: advanced listening strategies, individual and
group presentations, and classroom interaction. Vocabulary
and grammar are integrated into the course. Prerequisite:
Placement Exam. Contact the International Student Office.
ENG 190 — Writing as Critical
Thinking
3 hours
Writing as Critical Thinking requires
students to read, think, and write carefully and critically,
using instructor and peer response as well as
self-assessment for revision. Students generate topics that
are of interest to them as well as to the communities to
which they belong, at Truman State University and beyond.
Students are expected to anticipate the demands of various
audiences and purposes as they explore questions and issues
raised in readings and discussion. Academic honesty and the
conventional use of academic sources are also expected, as
is the skilled use of academic prose. Excellent writers can
“challenge” this course and satisfy the essential writing
skills requirement by presenting a portfolio of
college-level writing for assessment. Contact the Department
Chair for more information about the challenge procedure.
ENG 190 — Writing as Critical
Thinking: American Studies w/ Sack (Spring 2009)
3 hours
The focus for WACT: American Studies is
looking at current events in American culture/politics, examining how these
changes/issues came about, and challenging students to research and decide where
each person stands on these issues. It's a class about what it means to be an
American in the twenty-first century, where we as a country are going, and what
we can do about it. We'll potentially be discussing a myraid of topics, such as
(but not limited to) family dynamics, education, employment, the environment,
personal identity, the military, the media's influence, and popular culture.
Students will be responsible for critically examining themselves and the ideas
of others through reflection, constructive criticism, and debate. Expression
will primarily take place via written work and daily in-class discussion with
classmates and the instructor. As this class is taught in the computer lab,
most assignments will be electronically accessed and submitted.
ENG 190 — Writing as Critical Thinking: Pop Culture w/
Rooks (Spring 2009)
3 hours
The purpose of this section of Eng 190 is to use Pop
Culture to develop critical thinking and writing skills. Writing in the course
will be based around elements of Pop Culture that many of us have in common.
Common culture encompasses a wide array of activities, fashions, technology, and
fads that affect our lives in many ways. Often these things are taken for
granted and not seriously considered. The purpose of this section is to place
these common elements into a formal and academic setting, and to foster formal
writing skills via the study of Pop Culture.
ENG 204 — Creative Writing --WE
3 hours
Techniques of writing poetry and
fiction as well as an analysis of selected works as a basis
for student creative writing.
ENG 206 —Science Fiction, Fantasy,
and Mystery (Subjects rotate)
3 hours
An exploration and evaluation of
these three genres with appropriate background readings
ranging from novels by Frederik Pohl and Elizabeth Lynn to
the Trilogy of the Rings to American and British
“detectives”. May be repeated for a total of 12 hours.
ENG 209 — Writing About Literature
--WE
3 hours
Extensive writing about literature to
strengthen the student’s competence in both individual
expression and analytical writing. Students will learn to
use at least three theoretical approaches to writing about
literature. Students should take ENG 209 in the sophomore
year, possibly along with their first literature course in
the major. Note: Required for all BA English majors. This
course is an option under the Composition Strand of the
English major and has been designated a Writing-Enhanced
offering in the LSP.
ENG 225 — World Literatures:
Chronology
3 hours
This course takes a chronological
approach in examining literature from Asia, Africa, the
Middle East, Australia and Oceania, Europe, and the
Americas. Each class will consider major works from at least
three time periods (Ancient, Middle, Golden Dynastic, Early
Modern, Modern, Contemporary) and at least two distinct
cultures. The course will consider the structural,
ideological, historical, or cultural significance of various
works of merit within the selected periods. Lectures and
presentations will be given on historical, cultural, and
intellectual background.
The focus of each section will be
indicated in the class schedule.
Possible configurations might be:
- Ancient, Middle, Golden
- Middle, Golden, Dynastic
- Golden, Dynastic, Early Modern
- Dynastic, Early Modern, Modern
- Early Modern, Modern,
Contemporary
ENG 226 — World Literatures:
Topics
3 hours
This course examines topics in
literature from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Australia and
Oceania, Europe, and the Americas. The topic for each
session may vary. Instructors will select authors from
different periods to demonstrate how various ideologies,
genres, genders, classes, and times have dealt with
questions posed by the relationship between literature and
the topic. Analysis will stress both works’ intrinsic values
and their contributions to world cultures. Lectures and
presentations will be given on historical, cultural, and
intellectual background.
The Western Tradition
A study of literary works that
constitute what is often called the Western Tradition. Works
read will be by such authors as: Homer, Sappho, Vergil,
Dante, Cervantes, de Pizan, Shakespeare, Moliere, Sand,
Ibsen, Eliot, Brecht, Mann, Yeats.
Universalism
This course introduces students to
contemporary literature by writers other than American. In
paying close attention to the discourse of universalism in
these writings, the course asks students to reflect on
questions such as: What effects does the discourse of
universalism produce on these writers? What are the tensions
this discourse brings about in the lives of the characters?
What is the role of this discourse in the historical
formation of the postcolonial intellectual? What are the
functions of this discourse in today ’s world?
Nobel Laureates
The Nobel Prize in Literature has
been awarded since 1901 to authors whose works are of
“benefit to mankind”. This course considers what the
consequences of the Prize are and examines critical reaction
to the prizes and Nobel Laureates studied. In reading works
by Laureates the class examines what is happening in
literature and what methods of assessing works of value are
being used. Works read will be by such Nobel Laureates as:
Sartre, Beckett, Mann, Heaney, Mistral, Neruda, Singer,
Tagore, Yeats, Oe, Steinbeck, Bellow, Sachs, Morrison, Fo,
Soyinka.
Women ’s Roles and Women
Playwrights
A critical reading of literary
representations of women in plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles,
Shakespeare, Racine, Ibsen, Williams, Noh plays, Lorca, and
a number of women playwrights such as Treadwell, Churchill,
Gambaro, Hernandez, Sachs, Fornes, Deveare, Hellman.
Literature and Poverty
How do literary genres influence our
perceptions of poverty? This course is a critical reading of
the pastoral, romanticism, realism and magic realism.
Selected authors might include; Vergil, Walker, Norris,
Rulfo, Dostoeyvsky, Hwang, Mahfouz, Asturias, Gordimer,
Kawabata.
War and Literature
An analysis of literary
representations of war and warriors. The course will assess
the aesthetic problems that martial topics pose various
genres. Readings may include Quaker songs, Sumerian, Greek,
Roman and Norse Epics, songs by Bob Dylan, works by Tolstoy,
Crane, Jones, Remarque, Hemingway, Brecht, Duras, Heian or
samuri sagas, Noh drama.
Post-Colonial Literature
A critical study of twentieth-century
literature from countries that were once colonies of Europe
’s empires. This course may consider literature written
during the struggles for independence as well as literature
written after political independence. Students will consider
historical and emerging concerns of post-colonial projects,
such as: political and cultural de-colonization,
nationalism, continuing imperialism, representation of
“subaltern” voices, democracy and revolution, the individual
and community, the role of women, the role of language and
education, and such themes as “falling apart” and “writing
back to” the former centers of empire. -- WE (with Hena
Ahmad)
ENG 226 — World Literatures:
Topics w/ Leaton (Spring 2009)
3 hours
This course in World Literature will
be a (roughly) chronological sampling of literature (poetry,
prose, drama, and perhaps film) from a variety of cultures,
beginning with the Sumerian Gilgamesh and ending with
selections representative of the globalizing cultures of the
21st century. Coursework will consist primarily of reading
and discussion (both written and oral), but at least two
papers will also be written—one semi-creative and the other
research-based. An introduction to contemporary
literary/cultural theory will also be included in the
course.ENG 226 — World
Literatures: Fantastic and Absurd w/ Mohler (Spring 2009)
3 hours
This course is devoted to the study of literature of the
fantastic and absurd in the 19th, 20th, and early 21st
century. The texts we will study will span the genres of
poetry, drama, essays, and fiction and come from a variety
of cultural traditions, including those of Europe, the
Middle East, Latin America, and the United States. Some of
the authors featured in the course include Karel Capek, E.
T. A. Hoffman, Edgar Allen Poe, Mikhail Bulgakov, Jorge Luis
Borges, Italo Calvino, Stanislaw Lem, and contemporary
writers such as Aimee Bender and Kazuo Ishiguro.
ENG 226 — World Literatures:
Ancient to Medieval w/
Peckosh (Spring 2009)
- 3 hours
-
This course takes a chronological
approach in examining literature from the Western tradition and will cover
literature from the Ancient and Medieval periods, including plays, epic
poetry, and romances. Lectures and presentations will consider the
structural, ideological, historical, and cultural significance of various
works within the selected periods. Students will take part in class
discussion and in class group work. Evaluation will be based on in class
writing, journal responses, take home essay exams and short essay
assignments.
LING 238 — Introduction to
Linguistics
3 hours
Linguistics is the study of the forms
and functions of human language. The study of language forms
includes the description and analysis of phonetic,
phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic units.
The study of language functions includes the analysis of the
role of dialects and registers in society. Other topics to
be covered include language classification, language
acquisition and development, and pragmatics.
ENG 245 — British Literatures:
Chronology
3 hours
This course takes a chronological
approach in analyzing British Literature. Each class will
examine at least three consecutive periods in British
Literature (Old English, Mediaeval, Renaissance, 17th
Century, 18th Century, Romanticism, Victorian, Modern,
Contemporary). ENG 245 British Literatures: Chronology
considers the structural, ideological, historical, or
cultural significance of various works by important writers
within the selected periods. The focus of each section will
be indicated in the class schedule. Possible combinations
might be:
- Old English, Mediaeval,
Renaissance
- Mediaeval, Renaissance, 17th
Century
- Renaissance, 17th Century, 18th
Century
- 17th Century, 18th Century,
Romanticism
- 18th Century, Romanticism,
Victorian
- Romanticism, Victorian, Modern
- Victorian, Modern, Contemporary
ENG 246 — British Literatures:
Topics
3 hours
This course analyzes the relation
between aesthetic concerns and topics in British literature.
The topic for each section may vary but will be indicated in
the course schedule listings. Instructors will select
authors from different periods to demonstrate how various
ideologies, genres, genders, classes and times dealt with
questions posed by the relationship between literature and
the topic. Lectures and presentations will be given on
historical, cultural, and intellectual background.
The Literature of Travel
This course examines a selection of
novels, books, and journals significant in understanding
travel as an artistic force. The course pays close attention
to the ways British authors have regarded the foreign, the
remote, and the customs they encountered. It asks what
aesthetic and social values travel narrative has as a genre,
how does it articulate the spirit of place, on what terms
does travel constitute self-discovery, what changes travel
causes to take place, both in the visitor and the visited,
and how one recognizes in prose the beliefs and principles
that constitute the “familiar” and the “foreign”.
The Rhetoric of Empire
A critical reading of imperialism and
colonialism in the works of selected British, African, and
Indian authors. The course focuses on the role of literature
in expressing aesthetic concerns, cultural tensions and
literary representations of British interaction with Africa
and Asia. Texts will range across a variety of genres and
periods. The course studies writers such as Shakespeare,
Behn, Swift, Macaulay, Kipling, Conrad, Forster, Cary,
Orwell, Achebe, Anand, Thiongo, Head, McEwan, Hollinghurst,
Narayan, Jhabvala, and Gordimer.
Portraits of Ladies
An analysis of the narrative
structures used in the British literary tradition when
constructing gender. This course analyzes how and why ideas
of femininity and masculinity change in relation to
authorial sensibilities that are by turn gothic, historic,
and sentimental. Texts will come from various genres and
periods and may include works by: Chaucer, Shakespeare,
Pope, Behn, Haywood, Burney, Wollstonecraft, Austen, Bronte,
Eliot, Rossetti, James, Woolf, and Rhys.
Gothic
Terror, guilt, pleasure, and the
supernatural in novels, tales, essays and poems from the
18th to the 20th century. The course studies how the gothic
may be used to redefine genres, the human, and our
understanding of experience. Authors may include Walpole,
Radcliffe, Lewis, Austen, Coleridge, Shelley, Bronte,
Collins, James, Gibbons, and Lessing.
The Language of Gender and Class
This course studies the ways in which
authors use gender and social class to adapt and transform
existing genres. It asks whether authors have tried to
situate themselves in a gender or class tradition and how
this affects audience perception of the genre and the
author’s voice and message. Authors read may include: Kempe,
Milton, Edgeworth, Carlyle, Wilde, Woolf, Orton, Drabble,
Burgess, Alrawi, McLaverty, Gems, Hare, and Ishiguro.
Autobiography
This course assesses the rhetoric of
self-presentation and critiques the forms of
autobiographical narrative found in the British literary
tradition. The course treats such topics as: What
constructions of the self in relation to beliefs about
memory and imagination are available to the autobiographer?
How do authors establish an authoritative voice? How does
one give symbolic form to experience? How do artists
negotiate between being narrator of and character in their
own fictions? How is the “fictive self” both revealing and
concealing? The course also explores the links between
telling one ’s story and freedom and how class, race, and
gender affect and create these texts.
ENG 246 — British Literatures: Topics w/ Cianciola
(Spring 2009)
This
course explores the role of the sacred as an important
quality in British fiction, poetry, and drama. The course
will raise questions such as the following: how do we define
“sacred”? How do sacred things help shape human experience
and creative expression? How do our own assumptions about
the sacred shape our reading of literature? Texts will come
from various historical periods and may include William
Cowper, William Blake, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Hannah More,
John Clare, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Charlotte Brontë, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dorothy L.
Sayers, Jeanette Winterson, Graham Greene, and others.
ENG 250 — Shakespeare --WE
3 hours
An examination of representative
comedies, histories, tragedies, romances, and poems
significant in understanding Shakespeare ’s development as a
poet and dramatist. This course provides students with
knowledge concerning the cultural, historical, theatrical,
and literacy context of Shakespeare ’s art. NOTE: This LSP
course does not count toward the English major.
ENG 265 — American Literatures:
Chronology
3 hours
This course takes a chronological
approach in analyzing American literature. Each class will
examine at least three consecutive periods in American
Literature (Pre-Colonial, Romantic, Realism and Naturalism,
Modern, Contemporary). ENG 265 American Literatures:
Chronology considers the structural, ideological,
historical, or cultural significance of various works by
important writers within the selected periods. The focus of
each section will be indicated in the class schedule.
Possible combinations may be:
- Pre-Colonial, Colonial, Romantic
- Colonial, Romantic, Realism and
Naturalism
- Romantic, Realism and Naturalism,
Modern
- Realism and Naturalism, Modern,
Contemporary
ENG 266 — American Literatures:
Topics
3 hours
This course analyzes the relation
between aesthetic concerns and topics in American
literature. The topic for each section may vary but will be
indicated in the course schedule listings. Instructors will
select authors from different periods to demonstrate how
various ideologies, genres, genders, classes, and times have
dealt with questions posed by the relationship between
literature and the topic. Lectures and presentations will be
given on historical, cultural, and intellectual background.
Possible topics for this course might include:
Autobiography
A study of the nature and progression
of autobiographical narrative in American culture. In
considering how Americans from the 17th century to the
modern period have written their life stories, this course
assesses the rhetoric of self-presentation and treats such
topics as: What constructions of the self in relation to
beliefs about memory and imagination are available to the
autobiographer? How do authors establish an authoritative
voice? How does one give symbolic form to experience? How do
artists negotiate between being narrator of and character in
their own fictions? How is the “fictive self” both revealing
and concealing? What cultural, aesthetic, and political
issues come into play in telling one’s life story? The
course also explores the links between telling one’s story
and freedom and how class, race, and gender affect, create,
and sustain literary and national constructions. Authors
read may include de Vaca, Franklin, Thoreau, Douglas,
Jacobs, Cleaver, Sone, Yezierska, and Stein.
American Dreamers
An examination of American fiction,
memoir, drama, speeches, and/or poetry that represents,
interrogates, or investigates various scenarios associated
with the American dream of success. Attention will be paid
to the ways in which particular ideological or personal
positions may be rendered in terms of rhetorical strategies
or other formal aspects of the literature, for example, how
does the rags-to-riches plotline of Ben Franklin’s
Autobiography differ from Ralph Ellison’s deconstruction of
the dream in Invisible Man or Martin Luther King’s revision
of it in “I Have a Dream”? Slavery and the American Literary
Imagination An analysis of slave narratives and of
twentieth-century writers who have used their form to
explore our understanding of the issue of slavery. This
course looks at the writers’ use of slave narrative format
and at significant aesthetic elements in the texts. Writers
may include Prince, Douglass, Jacobs, Stowe, Melville,
Washington, Brown, Morrison, Reed, Hansberry, Bontemps,
Walder, Williams, Hooks.
Self and Community
A dominant theme throughout American
literature is the conflict between self and others,
individual versus community or, in terms Hawthorne would
have used, willful isolation versus sympathy. This course
traces the development and nuances of the theme throughout
American Literature, considering the work of such authors as
Irving, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Chopin,
Steinbeck, Potok, and others. We will discover ways in which
the conflict of self-interest and self-regard versus
connection or conformity to the goals and tenets of society
is an especially American problem, and perhaps the single
most pervasive conflict in many key works of American
literature.
Nation and Narrative
This course analyzes how American
authors from the 19th and 20th centuries have used various
literary genres to construct a national identity. In
addition, Homi Bhabha, Benedict Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm, and
Werner Sollors will be read to investigate the role of
narrative strategies and “national” identity. In addition,
this class examines the contributions that
Transcendentalism, immigration, gender, urbanization, race,
and the American view of nature have contributed when
forming literacy representations of a “national” identity
and culture.
American Landscape
An understanding of the strategies
American writers use to see, construct, invoke, and describe
landscape is developed through an examination of readings on
nature. Readings may include works by Thoreau, Austin, Muir,
Olmstead, Leopopld, McPhee, Frost, Oliver, Dillard, Carson,
Williams, Berry, and Silko.
ENG 266 — American Literatures:
Irish American Experience w/
Gately (Spring 2009)
3 hours
This American Lit
topics course will address Irish American experience,
especially in the 20th century. We will spend some time at
the beginning of the course learning about causes, patterns,
and experience of Irish immigration, then study plays,
novels, and films that reflect that experience. Works to be
studied include O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night,
Kennedy's Ironweed, McDermott's Charming Billy and
After This; films Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone,
and Gangs of New York.
ENG 266 — American Literatures:
Nature Writers w/ Alanna Pressner (Spring 2009)
3 hours
English 266 examines a highly significant element in
American literary history, the focus on nature writing and
landscape in a wide variety of authors. The class includes
fiction and nonfiction prose by authors from the mid-19th to
early 21st centuries. We will trace at least two major
traditions in nature writing, beginning with Thoreau’s
Walden and Resistance to Civil Government—lyrical
descriptions of Nature designed to engage the reader in
sensory experience and a strong activist agenda that can
motivate people to protect the environment. The books we’ll
read are as follows: Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench
Gang. Cather, Willa. O Pioneers!. Hiaasen, Carl. Sick
Puppy. Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. Silko, Leslie
Marmon. Ceremony.Thoreau, Henry D. Walden and Resistance to
Civil Gov’t.
- ENG 266 — American Literatures: A City on a Hill
w/ Peckosh (Spring 2009)
- 3 hours
-
This course surveys the history of
American literature from its beginnings in the writings of early explorers
and colonists through the American Revolution and the development of an
“American” literature and identity, up to and including the Civil War. The
course takes a historical approach to literary texts and documents as it
looks at how Americans have perceived themselves, set their individual and
national goals, and interpreted their civic responsibilities.
ENG 280 — Film Form and Sense
3 hours
The study of cinema as a major force
in contemporary culture. This course examines film
production, establishes a working vocabulary, and considers
various approaches to film analysis in order to improve our
interaction with cinematic images. The course discusses: how
does film communicate meaning? What are the distinctive
qualities of film? How can we better look at, talk about,
write about, and think about film? In addition to selected
Hollywood and non-Hollywood films, the course considers
documentaries, animation, and experimental films.
ENG 306 — Topics: Women Writers
--GH
3 hours
Studies in individual women writers,
genres, periods, or approaches significant in the
development of female literary traditions. May be repeated
for a total of 8 credits. Students should take ENG 209
Writing about Literature either before or in conjunction
with this course. NOTE: General Honors Course.
ENG 307 — 20th Century World
Literature --GH
3 hours
This is a period course whose focus
will change depending on faculty expertise in order to
provide students with reading experience in contemporary
literatures across cultures and/or in particular cultures
other than American or British. Students should take ENG 209
Writing about Literature either before or in conjunction
with this course. NOTE: General Honors Course.
ENG 308 — Mythology --GH
3 hours
Myths and mythic patterns inherent in
world cultures and literatures, including classical Greek
and Roman, South American, North American, African, Asian,
Sumerian, and Germanic civilizations. Students should take
ENG 209 Writing about Literature either before or in
conjunction with this course. NOTE: General Honors Course.
ENG 315 — Studies in Shakespeare
--GH
3 hours
An in depth analysis of the
tragedies, comedies, histories, romances, or poems and one
or more topics in Shakespeare Studies. Topics will vary from
semester to semester and will be indicated in the semester
class schedule. Topics may include: Shakespeare and Genre
Theory; Shakespeare and Critical Theory; Shakespeare and
Gender Theory. This course is intended for English and
Theatre majors and does not substitute for ENG 250
Shakespeare in the LSP. Students should take ENG 209 Writing
about Literature either before or in conjunction with this
course. NOTE: General Honors Course.
ENG 316 — Chaucer --GH
3 hours
Detailed study of Canterbury Tales
and Toilus and Criseyde, with some consideration of Chaucer
’s minor poems.
LING 319 — Linguistics of
Language/Family
3 hours
Linguistics of a Language or Language
Family. The course will introduce students to the
linguistics of a specific language or language family.
Students will become familiar with relevant aspects of
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and lexicon.
Linguistics of the Romance Languages, Field Methods and
Historical Linguistics will be regular topics; other topics
will be determined by faculty and student interests. NOTE:
General Honors Course.
ENG 320 — Asian Literature --GH
3 hours
A survey of major works from one or
more Asian cultures Japanese, Chinese, Indian, etc. Classic
and contemporary texts will be studied both as ref lections
and as creators of their culture’s human insights. Students
should take ENG 209 Writing about Literature either before
or in conjunction with this course. NOTE: General Honors
Course.
ENG 321 — International
Literatures in English --GH
3 hours
Intended to suggest the richness and
diversity of literature written in English, this course will
focus on the Anglophone literature of a particular nation or
continent (e.g. Canada, India, Africa). Students should take
ENG 209 Writing about Literature either before or in
conjunction with this course. NOTE:General Honors Course.
ENG 322 — Studies in World Cinema
--GH
3 hours
An analysis of selected areas of
World Cinema through viewings and discussions of major
national schools of genres or directors. Topics will vary
from semester to semester and will be indicated in the
semester class schedule. Students should take ENG 209
Writing about Literature either before or in conjunction
with this course. Prerequisite: ENG 280 or consent of the
instructor. NOTE: General Honors Course.
LNG 323 — Modern Grammar --GH
3 hours
A survey and analysis of english
grammar from both a traditional and a descriptive point of
view. The course introduces modern english phonology,
morphology, and syntax. Prerequisite: ENG 238. NOTE: General
Honors Course.
LING 324 — Topics in
Sociolinguistics --GH
3 hours
An intercultural examination of a
particular sociolinguistic topic (e.g. language and gender,
language and ethnicity, etc.), integrating linguistic,
sociolinguistic, and anthropological approaches. NOTE:
General Honors Course.
ENG 325 — Middle Eastern
Literature --GH
3 hours
An overview of the literary heritage
of the peoples of the Middle East, focusing on one or more
of the following: a national literature (e.g. Arabic, Farsi,
Hebrew); a historical period (ancient, renaissance,
contemporary); a major work (the Torah, the Bible, the
Qur’an); or a major genre (oral poetry, historiography,
modern fiction). Students should take ENG 209 Writing about
Literature either before or in conjunction with this course.
NOTE: General Honors Course.
ENG 326 — Literature of American
Minorities --GH
3 hours
Readings in the work of previously
isolated or marginalized American minority writers. Students
should take ENG 209 Writing about Literature either before
or in conjunction with this course. NOTE: General Honors
Course.
ENG 329 — Nonfiction Writing:
Topics --GH
3 hours
This workshop is intended as an
inquiry into the writing of nonfiction prose. Students
will read and respond to published work in relevant genres
as well as draft, revise, and polish their own work.
Rotating topics may include memoir, local history,
meditative essay, documentary essay, travel, nature,
organization/professional writing, sportswriting, food
writing, and others. PQ: ENG 190
ENG 330 — North American Indian
Literature --GH
3 hours
Students will read a selection of
stories, poems, and novels by American Indian authors,
situating these texts within the relevant tribal groups and
historical periods. They will learn some of the cultural
values expressed, and the literary strategies employed by
these authors. The course may focus on specific tribal
groups, time periods, or literary movements. Students should
take ENG 209 Writing about Literature either before or in
conjunction with this course. NOTE: General Honors Course.
ENG 331 — African American
Literature
3 hours
Students will study selected stories,
poems, non-fiction literature and oral works of the African
American tradition, situating these readings in their
historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts. The course may
focus on specific periods, authors, or literature. Students
should take ENG 209 Writing about Literature either before
or in conjunction with this course. NOTE: General Honors
Course.
ENG 341 — Old English Literature
--GH
3 hours
English poetry and prose to 1066, in
translation, with continental antecedents. Students should
take ENG 209 Writing about Literature either before or in
conjunction with this course. NOTE: General Honors Course.
ENG 342 — Medieval Literature --GH
3 hours
Middle English non-Chaucerian poetry
and prose, with some influential non-British medieval works.
Students should take ENG 209 Writing about Literature either
before or in conjunction with this course. NOTE :General
Honors Course.
ENG 343 —British Renaissance
Literature I --GH
3 hours
Tudor and Elizabethan poetry, prose,
and drama from 1500 to 1603. Included figures such as More,
Elyot, Wyatt, Spenser, and Marlowe. Students should take ENG
209 Writing about Literature either before or in conjunction
with this course. NOTE: General Honors Course.
ENG 344 —British Renaissance
Literature II --GH
3 hours
Early Stuart and Commonwealth
literature from 1603 to 1660, from Donne to Milton. Includes
Jacobean and Caroline drama, cavalier and metaphysical
poetry, and essays and letters. Highlights Paradise Lost.
Students should take ENG 209 Writing about Literature either
before or in conjunction with this course. NOTE: General
Honors Course.
ENG 345 — Restoration and
Eighteenth Century British Literature --GH
3 hours
British literature from 1660 to 1798.
Focuses on Restoration drama, satire, and burlesque works,
essays, biography, the novel, and poetry. Includes figures
such as Dryden, Defoe, Behn, Pope, Swift, Moore, Fielding,
and Johnson. Students should take ENG 209 Writing about
Literature either before or in conjunction with this course.
NOTE: General Honors Course.
ENG 346 —British Romantic
Literature --GH
3 hours
The Romantic period and its major
authors. Includes figures such as Blake, Austen, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Byron, Bronté, Shelley, and Keats. Students
should take ENG 209 Writing about Literature either before
or in conjunction with this course. NOTE: General Honors
Course.
ENG 347 — British Victorian
Literature --GH
3 hours
Representative works of British
literature from 1837 to 1901. Includes figures such as
Ruskin, Dickens, Arnold, Newman, Browning, Tennyson, Eliot,
and Hardy. Students should take ENG 209 Writing about
Literature either before or in conjunction with this course.
NOTE: General Honors Course.
ENG 348 —Modern British Literature
--GH
3 hours
British literature from 1900 through
World War II. Students should take ENG 209 Writing about
Literature either before or in conjunction with this course.
NOTE: General Honors Course.
ENG 349 —Contemporary British
Literature
3 hours
British literature since World War
II. Students should take ENG 209 Writing about Literature
either before or in conjunction with this course. NOTE:
General Honors Course.
ENG 352 — Academic Writing:
Non-Native Speakers
3 hours
A writing course for students whose
native language is not english. Emphasis is on developing
competencies for meeting the demands of writing in an
academic setting. These include: advanced reading
strategies, critical thinking, writing conventions of
english, and intercultural issues. Vocabulary development
and grammar are integrated into the course. Prerequisite:
Placement Exam. Contact the International Student Office.
ENG 365
— Folklore --GH
3 hours
After a brief history of folklore
as an academic discipline, this course will focus on
methods of fieldwork and its analysis. Students
should take ENG 209 Applying Literary Theory either
prior to or in conjunction with this course.
ENG 366 — Early American
Literature --GH
3 hours
Major American writers from John
Smith to Cooper and Irving. Students should take ENG 209
Writing about Literature either before or in conjunction
with this course. NOTE: General Honors Course.
ENG 367 —American Romanticism --GH
3 hours
American Romanticism as seen in the
works of such writers as Poe, Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau,
Hawthorne, and Melville. Students should take ENG 209
Writing about Literature either before or in conjunction
with this course. NOTE: General Honors Course.
ENG 368 —American Realism and
Naturalism --GH
3 hours
American Realism and Naturalism as
seen in the works of such writers as Twain, Crane, Dreiser,
Cather, London, Dickinson, Glasgow, and Chopin. Students
should take ENG 209 Writing about Literature either before
or in conjunction with this course. NOTE: General Honors
Course.
ENG 369 —Modern American
Literature --GH
3 hours
American literature between the World
Wars. Students should take ENG 209 Writing about Literature
either before or in conjunction with this course. NOTE:
General Honors Course.
ENG 370 — Contemporary American
Literature --GH
3 hours
American literature after World War
II. Students should take ENG 209 Writing about Literature
either before or in conjunction with this course. NOTE:
General Honors Course.
ENG 375 — Career Seminar for
English Majors
1 hour
An investigation of careers in
literature, linguistics, law, teaching, writing, and
business for students who are majoring in English.
ENG 395 — Queer Theory
3 hours
The study of representations of
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the arts,
humanities, and critical theory. In juxtaposing traditional
categories and canons with the perspectives of people
marginalized as “queer,” the course will explore how
knowledge is constructed and norms are established.
ENG 398 — Contemporary Literary
Criticism --GH
3 hours
Major contemporary schools of
criticism from structuralism and post-structuralism to the
Frankfurt school, reader-response, feminism, Marxism,
psychoanalytic approaches, and postmodernism aesthetics.
Students should take ENG 209 Writing about Literature either
before or in conjunction with this course. NOTE: General
Honors Course.
ENG 399 — History of Literary
Criticism --GH
3 hours
Major critical thought from Aristotle
through Sir Philip Sidney to Wilson, Brooks, and Trilling.
Students should take ENG 209 Writing about Literature either
before or in conjunction with this course. NOTE: General
Honors Course.
ENG 401 — Undergraduate Readings
in English
1-4 hours
An opportunity for the student to
earn credit through readings among materials not covered in
previous courses. May be taken for a total of 6 hours.
Consent of instructor required.
ENG 403 — Writing Consultation
Practicum
1-2 hours
A practicum course designed to
present and reinforce individual methods of teaching
writing. Students consult with peers in a supervised lab
situation applying skills and assessing student progress.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 3 hours of credit.
Prerequisites: Completion of ENG 190 and consent of
instructor.
ENG 405 — Feminist Criticism --GH
3 hours
Study of Anglo-American and
Continental literary theory and practice. Students should
take ENG 209 Applying Literary Theory either before or in
conjunction with this course. Prerequisite: Junior or senior
status or consent of instructor.
ENG 406 — Language and Learning
--GH
3 hours
Drawing on readings from psychology,
anthropology, linguistics, and education, this course
explores the relationship between language and learning. The
focus will be on understanding how our world representation
influences our meaning-making processes. reas of study will
include language acquisition and development, dialect, and
classroom and community discourse. Prerequisite: Junior or
senior status or consent of instructor.
ENG 407 — Writing Workshop:
Fiction --GH, YC
3 hours
Continued work in the writing of
fiction focusing on short stories through a workshop format
and individual conferences with the instructor.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and a sample of the
student’s fiction.
ENG 408 — Writing Workshop: Poetry
--GH, YC
3 hours
Continued work in the writing of
poetry, focusing on the development of craft, image, and
voice through a workshop format and individual conferences
with the instructor. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
and a sample of 3 to 5 poems.
ENG 412 — Practicum: Teaching
English as a Second/Foreign Language
2 hours
A practicum course in which students
are introduced to techniques of teaching/tutoring English as
a second/foreign language. Students will gain practical
experience by participating as a supervised tutor in an
english as a second language setting. Two classroom hours
plus to hours of tutoring per week are required.
Prerequisites: ENG 238 or ENG 323 or consent of instructor.
LING 413 — Advanced Linguistics
--GH
3 hours
Intensive practice in the analysis
and description of language data; approaches to the
description and explanation of language structure, language
changes, and language acquisition; and historical survey of
linguistic thought. Prerequisite: ENG 238.
LING 414 — Language and the Mind
--GH
3 hours
An introduction to topics in
psycholinguistics that focuses on the contributions of both
linguistics and psychology to the study of language
behavior. The investigation of linguistic processing in the
brain draws on evidence from language deficits as ell as
recent advances in brain imaging. The investigation of first
and second language acquisition and development considers
spoken, written, and signed (human) language. Symbolic
processing in animals is included. Prerequisite: ENG 238.
NOTE: General Honors Course.
ENG 415 — Literature for Children
--GH
3 hours
Relating literature to the needs,
abilities, and interests of children. Reading and evaluation
of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and folklore for K-7, with
appropriate background readings. Students should take ENG
209 Writing about Literature either before or in conjunction
with this course.
ENG 416 — Literature for Young
Adults --GH
3 hours
Relating literature to the needs,
abilities, and interests of adolescents. Reading and
evaluation of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry written for
middle school, junior high, and senior high students.
Students should take ENG 209 Writing about Literature either
before or in conjunction with this course.
ENG 417 — History of the English
Language --GH
3 hours
The development of the language from
Old to Modern English, with Indo-European sources.
ENG 418 — Special Topics
3 hours
A course offered periodically with
varying content: a few individual writers, a genre, a
period, or an approach not otherwise emphasized in the
English curriculum. Course requirements will include papers
and, at the discretion of the instructor, examinations. With
the approval of the student’s advisor, the course may
substitute as appropriate for a required major course.
Course may be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior status, or consent of
instructor.
ENG 419 — Linguistics and Literary
Criticism
3 hours
The student will survey and practice
the investigative and descriptive techniques linguistics
supplies for close reading, and apply this knowledge in an
extended critical inquiry.
ENG 451 — Internship for Language
and Literature
1-4 hours
On-the-job specialized training in
fields generally accepted as needing language and literature
field experience to complement the student’s academic
training. Must be concurrently enrolled in ENG 452. For each
4 hours of internship credit, the student must take 1 hour
of Evaluation and Analysis. See Internship Application for
further information and application procedures. Pass/Fail
only. A special application procedure is required and must
be completed the semester prior to starting the internship.
Application packets are available in the Division office.
Permission of academic advisor, instructor, and head of
division required. May be repeated for a total of eight
hours.
ENG 452 — Internship Evaluation
1-3 hours
Research, evaluation, and analysis of
internship experiences. Must be concurrently enrolled in ENG
451. For each 4 hours of internship credit, the student must
take 1 hour of Evaluation and Analysis. See Internship
Application for further information and application
procedures. A special application procedure is required and
must be completed the semester prior to starting the
internship. Application packets are available in the
Division office. Permission of academic advisor, instructor,
and head of division required.
LING/ 498 — Senior English Seminar
4 hours
The purpose of the course is to offer
a forum for senior English majors to examine their progress
toward an english major, determine directions for future
studies in the major and share new studies.
ENG 501 — Advanced Composition
--GH
4 hours
Practice in performing personal and
academic prose style, with interest in both generating good
writing and analyzing good reading, pointedly and well.
ENG 502 — Studies in Myth --GH
4 hours
In order to provide a framework for
the study of literature, this course explores patterns of
myth in world cultures, including Sumerian, Hebrew, American
Indian, African, Germanic, Celtic, Greek, Roman, modern
American, and others.
ENG 503 — Topics in Women,
Language, and Literature --GH
4 hours
Studies of language or literature by
and about women, roles of omen writers, sexism and
heterosexism in language or literature, and cultural
representations of women. Prerequisite: Graduate or advanced
undergraduate status.
ENG 504 —Advanced Creative Writing
--GH, YC
4 hours
An advanced course in the writing of
poetry, and/or fiction, and/or drama for graduate students
interested in creative thesis and for undergraduates ho have
had one or more of the 400-level creative writing workshops.
Undergraduate Prerequisite: one or more of the 400-level
creative writing workshops.
ENG 505 —Discourse Analysis
4 hours
A survey course in which students
investigate several approaches to the analysis of discourse.
Through lecture/discussion, students will familiarize
themselves with current theories and definitions of
discourse and discourse analysis. Through workshop
presentations, students will gain experience in data
collection and application of the theories to both written
and oral discourse. Prerequisite: graduate status or
permission of instructor.
ENG 506 — Reading and Response:
Theory, Practice, and Research --GH
4 hours
This seminar focuses on the
reciprocal or resistant relationship that is part of the
transaction between readers and texts. Prerequisite:
Graduate status or junior or senior status.
ENG 508 —Old English --GH
4 hours
Introductory study of Old English
(Anglo-Saxon), including grammar, phonology, and syntax,
with elementary readings in the language.
ENG 509 —Joyce and Contemporaries
--GH
4 hours
Selected novels, short stories, and
poems of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, William
Butler Yeats, Djuna Barnes, Andre Gide, Franz Kafka, and
Hermann Hesse. All the literature will be in English or
English translation.
ENG 510 — Greek and Latin
Literature in Translation --GH
4 hours
Several of the great epics and dramas
that form a foundation for our literature.
ENG 514 — Syntactic Theory --GH
4 hours
Overview of major syntactic theories,
including generative and non-generative grammars: Chomskian
transformational grammar, relational grammar, case grammar,
and stratification grammar. Comparative and contrastive
analysis of several languages.
ENG 516 — Studies in Literary
Genres --GH
4 hours
Study of representative works of a
given genre from a variety of periods and national origins,
with attention to the theoretical questions raised by any
system of literary classification.
ENG 517 — Comparative Literature
--GH
4 hours
The study of selected literary works
of world literature directed toward forming a comprehensive
definition of comparative literature and establishing
criteria for judging literature.
ENG 520 — Beowulf --GH
4 hours
Translation and close study of the
Old English epic, and of other texts as chosen by instructor
and class. Prerequisite: ENG 508.
ENG 601 — Methods of Research and
Analysis
4 hours
Tools for research, history of
literary criticism, analysis of the text and commentary.
ENG 602 — Studies in Literary
Criticism
4 hours
Advanced seminar in major trends and
movements in literary criticism.
ENG 603 —Studies in the English
Language
4 hours
Advanced seminar in the language,
using linguistic analysis to account for certain phenomena
in language use.
ENG 604 —Studies in Major American
Writers
4 hours
Studies in the art and mind of one or
more major American writers. May be repeated without
duplication of materials.
ENG 607 —Composition Research and
Practice in Secondary Schools
4 hours
This seminar will examine various
modes of inquiry as they relate to composition research in
secondary and middle school (ethnographic, experimental,
case study, and action research). Students will trace the
evolving history of composition research and practice in
school contexts. Students will design, conduct, and report
results of a small research project.
ENG 608 —Management of Instruction
2 hours
Development of basic philosophical,
planning, and implementation skills related to the design
and teaching of the concepts of the discipline specialty to
secondary school students. The course is a direct
preparatory experience for the responsibilities of the
internship and students should plan to enroll in ENG 608 the
semester before ED 609. Prerequisite: Admission to the MAE
English program and permission of the instructor.
ENG 609 — Graduate Readings in
English
1-4 hours
Directed readings in areas not
covered in formal courses. Consent of instructor required.
ENG 611 — Research in English
(Thesis)
1-4 hours
A lengthy written project
demonstrating appropriate research skills, aesthetic
appreciation, powers of analysis and synthesis. May be
creative, literary, or experimental. Permission of the
thesis director required.
ENG 614 — Studies in Major British
Writers
4 hours
Seminar in the art and mind of one or
more major British writers. May be repeated without
duplication of materials.
ENG 615 — Studies in Twentieth
Century Literature
4 hours
Seminar in the art and mind of one or
more major writers of this century. May be repeated without
duplication of materials.
ENG 618 — Studies in Ethnic
Literature
4 hours
The seminar focuses on the thoughts
and lives of an ethnic community in the U. S. and/or Britain
as they are manifested in literature, arts, music,
philosophy, religion, history, and culture. It explores a
number of methodologies in Ethnic Studies and engages
important issues, such as the complexity of ethnic identity,
the gendering of ethnicity, assimilation, orality versus
literacy, and the intersections of race, gender, and class.
ENG 620 —Composition Theory and
Pedagogy
4 hours
The seminar focuses on theory and
practice in teaching college composition. It emphasizes
shaping a philosophy of composition and developing a writing
pedagogy through design and teaching of writing coursework,
through evaluation and assessment of student writing,
through research in the areas of Rhetoric and of Composition
Theory, and through evaluation of writing instruction.
Required for Graduate Teaching Assistants.
ENG 621 —American Studies
4 hours
This interdisciplinary course
explores American thought as it manifests itself in
literature, arts, music, philosophy, historiography, and
culture. The course focuses on ideas and themes in American
studies that cut across the disciplines and time periods
—for example, concepts of progress, the frontier,
pragmatism, and individualism.
ENG 622 — British/Commonwealth
Studies
4 hours
This interdisciplinary course
explores an English-speaking culture in a particular time,
place, class, and/or mood. It examines works of literature,
arts, music, philosophy, religion, and history — the varied
manifestations of the culture’s self-definition. Sample
cultures: contemporary Canadian, Colonial Indian,
Renaissance London, or Belfast Catholic.
ENG 655 — Graduate Seminar
4 hours
A topical seminar. Specific topics
will be listed in the class schedule. May be repeated
without duplication of materials.
ENG 698 — Evaluating College
English Teaching
1 hour
This one credit seminar, required of
all English GTRA’s and elective for other graduate students
in English, prompts critical inquiry about processes of
teaching. It focuses on the observation and evaluation of
teaching, both by graduate students who teach Writing As
Critical Thinking or other introductory English courses and
by the graduate faculty who supervise or mentor those
graduate instructors. May be repeated for a total of three
hours credit.
