Courses-ENG

English Courses

To correspond with the requirements of the English Department programs, the courses are indicated as follows:


(A) American Literature
(B) British Literature
(C) World Literature
(D) Twentieth Century Literature

ENG-1000: Basic Writing - 3 hours
Improvement of students' basic writing skills. Review of the writing conventions, sentence and paragraph development, and supporting a thesis.

ENG-1100: English Composition - 3 hours
Development of students' written fluency and understanding of the writing process. Research paper required. Prerequisite: ACT score of 20 or higher; or, ENG-1000. IAI: C1 900.

ENG-2000: Writing About Literature - 3 hours
Managing written assignments that derive content from extensive reading. Prerequisite: ENG-1100. IAI: C1 901.

ENG-2100: Linguistics - 3 hours
Linguistic analysis of English. Historical background and modern developments. Emphasis on transformational grammar.

ENG-2200: Non-Western Literature - 3 hours
Selected literature from various non-western countries, for example, Africa, China, Japan, the Mid-East, South America. Emphasis on twentieth century literature. IAI: H3 908N.

ENG-2210: Society and Literature - 3 hours
Examination of how literature shapes and is shaped by society. Attention to texts from various historical periods that engage questions about the nature of a good society.

ENG-3010: Writing Poetry and Fiction - 3 hours
Writing original poetry and short fiction. Emphasis on basic elements and techniques of each genre. Student work critiqued by fellow students and instructors. Prerequisite: ENG-2000.

ENG-3020: Writing: Style and Strategy - 3 hours
An advanced discursive writing course designed to develop maturity and effectiveness in style and thought. Emphasis on discursive writing. Prerequisite: ENG-2000.

ENG-3410: Aesthetics - 3 hours
Traditional and modern approaches to the problem of aesthetics, Literary criticism, music and art theory. Cross-listed with PHI-3410.

ENG-3800: Literary Theory & Criticism - 3 hours
Various contemporary critical approaches to the study of literature and to research tools and methods used in literary studies.

ENG-4100: Language Development of the Young Child - 3 hours
Normal patterns of native language acquisition of young children. Prerequisite: ENG-2100. Co requisite: EDU-4210.

ENG-4150: Literature/Related Media for Adolescents - 3 hours
General survey of adolescent literature and related media materials for grades six through twelve including criteria for evaluation and study of trends and issues.

ENG-4200: Greek and Roman Mythology (C) - 3 hours
Cross-listed with FOL-4200.

ENG-4310: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval British Literature: 600-1500 (B) - 3 hours
Old-English literature in translation. Development of Middle English language and literature with emphasis on Chaucer, medieval romances, mystery, and morality plays.

ENG-4320: Renaissance: 1500-1660 (B) - 3 hours
Development of British literature during the Early Modern Period. Emphasis on Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Donne, Milton.

ENG-4330: Restoration/Neo-Classicism: 1660-1785 (B) - 3 hours
Neo-classical literary attitudes and methods in the novel, essay, and satirical poetry. Emphasis on Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Johnson.

ENG-4340: Romantic Period: 1785-1832 (B) - 3 hours
Revolt against neo-classicism; the rise of lyric poetry. Emphasis on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Mary and Percy Shelley, and Keats.

ENG-4350: Victorian Age: 1832-1901 (B) - 3 hours
Effects of the erosion and loss of verities on thought, content, and style. Emphasis on Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold.

ENG-4360: Development of the English Novel (B) - 3 hours
A study of the English novel, emphasizing 19th Century works. Developments in the functions and elements of the novel. Writers studied include Austen, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy.

ENG-4370: Shakespeare - 3 hours
Major plays in the development of Shakespeare. The more significant problems in Shakespeare criticism and interpretation. Cross-listed with CTH-4370.

ENG-4400: Literature for Children and Adolescents - 3 hours
Cross-listed with EDU-4400.

ENG-4410: Early American Literature (A) - 3 hours
Writings of exploration and colonization through the beginnings of the belletristic literature and the rise of romanticism. Writers include Bradford, Edwards, Franklin, Taylor, Cooper and Poe.

ENG-4420: American Renaissance (A) - 3 hours
Writings from the rise of Romanticism and Transcendentalism to the Civil War. Writers include Emerson, Thoreau, Douglas, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson.

ENG-4430: American Realism and Naturalism (A) - 3 hours
Writings from the Civil War to World War I, with emphasis on the rise of realism and naturalism. Writers studied include Twain, Jewett, James, Howells, and Chopin.

ENG-4510: Twentieth Century British Fiction (D) - 3 hours
Representative British Fiction of the twentieth century. Writers such as Mansfield, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Huxley, and Greene.

ENG-4520: Twentieth Century American Fiction (A) (D) - 3 hours
Forms and themes in American fiction from World War I to the present. Writers include Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Morrison.

ENG-4530: Twentieth Century Poetry (D) - 3 hours
Survey of twentieth century trends in British and American poetry from the beginnings of modernism to the present. Writers such as Yeats, Eliot, Frost, Stevens, Moore, and Brooks.

ENG-4540: Modern Drama (D) - 3 hours
Development of Western modern drama. Dramatists include Ibsen, Chekov, Shaw, O'Neill, Pirandello, Williams, and Beckett. Cross-listed with CTH-4540.

ENG-4602: Teaching English: Middle/Secondary School - 3 hours
Philosophy, structure and operation of middle and secondary schools. Methods of and strategies for teaching English. Practice in developing plans and materials. Cross-listed with EDU-4602.

ENG-4620: Contemporary Theatre - 3 hours
Cross-listed with CTH-4420.

ENG-4710: Classical World Literature (C) - 3 hours
Selected literature from various countries of Europe, Asia, and the Near East, from ancient Indian and Chinese literature to the time of the Reformation.

ENG-4720: Modern World Literature (C) - 3 hours
Selected classics from non-English cultures from 1650 to the present.

ENG-4900: Seminar in English - 3 hours
An intensive investigation of a literary problem, age, genre, or writer(s) through which students refine techniques of literary research and scholarship.

ENG-4910: Topics in Literature - 3 hours
In-depth exploration of ideas and issues in the field of literary studies. Topics may include exploration in the works of a single author, analysis of a particular literary movement or time period, or new theoretical approaches to literary issues. Prerequisites: junior standing or above; fulfillment of the university's composition and oral communication requirements. Course may be repeated under different topics.

ENG-4950: Independent Study in English - 1-6 hours ENG-4980: Practicum in Teaching Composition - 3 hours
Theories and practice of teaching composition. Practical experience in working with writing students under the guidance of an instructor.