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ENGL 001 (GH) UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE (3) Explore how major fiction, drama. and poetry, past and present, primarily English and American, clarify enduring human values and issues.
ENGL 002 (GH) THE GREAT TRADITIONS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE (3) Major works of fiction, drama and poetry from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century expressing enduring issues and values.
ENGL 003 (GH) THE GREAT TRADITIONS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3) Major works of fiction, drama, and poetry from the colonial to the modern periods expressing enduring issues and values.
ENGL 050 (GA) INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING (3) Practice and criticism in the reading, analysis and composition of fiction, nonfiction and poetry writing.
ENGL 100 ENGLISH LANGUAGE ANALYSIS (3) An examination of English sounds, words, and syntax using traditional, structural and transformational grammar. (Required for Publishing Emphasis)
ENGL 104 (GH) THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE (3) Study of the English Bible as a literary and cultural document.
ENGL 110 NEWSWRITING PRACTICUM (2 per semester, maximum of 6) Practice in writing and editing articles for the campus newspaper.
ENGL 129 (GH) SHAKESPEARE (3) A selection of the major plays studied to determine the sources of their permanent appeal. Intended for nonmajors.
ENGL 133 (GH) MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE TO WORLD WAR II (3) Cather, Eliot, Frost, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hurston, Wharton, Wright, and other writers representative of the years between the world wars.
ENGL 135 (GH;Gl) ALTERNATIVE VOICES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3) United States writers from diverse backgrounds offering varying responses to issues such as met, class, gender, and ethnicity.
ENGL 139 (GH;Gl) BLACK AMERICAN LITERATURE (3) Fiction, poetry, and drama, including such writers as Baldwin, Douglass, Ellison, Morrison, and Wright.
ENGL 140 (GH)- CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (3) Writers such as Baldwin, Beckett, Bellow, Ellison, Gordimer, Lessing, Lowell, Mailer, Naipaul, Pinter, Plath, Pynchon, Rushdie, and Walker.
ENGL 182 (GH;GI) LITERATURE AND EMPIRE (3) Literature written in English from countries that were once part of European empires, e.g., India, Canada, South Africa, and others.
ENGL 184 (GH) (CMLM) THE SHORT STORY (3) Lectures, discussion, readings in translation, with primary emphasis on major writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
ENGL 191 (GH) SCIENCE FIC-ITON (3) Science fiction as the literature of technological innovation and social change-4ts development, themes, and problems.
ENGL 194 (GH;GI) (WMNST) WOMEN WRITERS (3) Short stories, novels, poetry, drama, and essays by English, American, and other English-speaking women writers.
ENGL 200 INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL READING (3) Responses to a variety of literary texts written in English that evoke different approaches. Prerequisite: ENGL 0 15 or ENGL 030 (Required. Methods & Perspectives)
ENGL 215 INTRODUCTION TO ARTICLE WRITING (3) Written exercises in, and a study of, the principles of article writing; practice in the writing of specific articles. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030 (Publishing Emphasis option; required for OLEAD majors)
ENGL 221 (W) BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1798 (3) Introduction to literary history and analysis. Beowulf and writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Swift, Pope, and Fielding. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030 (Requird. Traditions A, first half of survey)
ENGL 222 (W) BRITISH LITERATURE FROM 1798 (3) Introduction to literary history and analysis. Writers such as Austen, Wordsworth, Keats, Browning, Dickens, the Brontes, Yeats, Joyce, and Woolf. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030 (Traditions B option, second half of survey)
ENGL 226 (GH;GI) LATINA AND LATINO BORDER THEORIES (3) English 226 will constitute a wideranging examination of contemporary texts (1960-present) central to the construction of contemporary Latino/a culture.
ENGL 231 (W) AMERICAN LITERATURE To 1865 (3) introduction to literary history and analysis. Writers such as Bradstreet, Franklin, Emerson, Hawthorne, Douglass, Thoreau, Fuller, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 OR ENGL 030 (Traditions B option, first half of survey)
ENGL 232 (W) AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM 1865 (3) Introduction to literary history and analysis. Writers such as Mark Twain, James Cather, Frost, O'Neill, Faulkner, Hemingway, Hughes, and Morrison. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030 (Traditions B option, second half of survey)
ENGL 235 (GI) (AAA S) AFRICAN-AMERICAN ORAL FOLK TRADITION (3) The origins, forms, and function of the oral folk tradition of African Americans. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 0R ENGL 030 (Traditions B option)
ENGL 240 EXPLORING LITERARY TRADITIONS (3 per semester, maximum of 6) The examination of specific literary traditions in English-language texts and an inquiry into the question of tradition itself. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.) Prerequisite: ENGL 015 OR ENGL 030 (Traditions B option)
ENGL 250 PEER TUTORING IN WRITING (3) Introduction to skills and attitudes required for successful peer tutoring in writing. Provides internship experience in a writing center. Prerequisite: ENGL 202A, ENGL 202B, ENGL 202C or ENGL 202D - approval of department
ENGL 261 EXPLORING LITERARY FORMS (3 per semester, maximum of 6) The examination of specific genres in English-language texts and an inquiry into the question of genre itself. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.) Prerequisite: ENGL 015 OR ENGL 030 (Forms option)
ENGL 262 (GH) READING FICTION (3) Elements of fiction including plot, character, viewpoint, and fictional genres in British, American, and other English-language traditions. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030 (Forms option)
ENGL 263 (GH) READING POETRY (3) Elements of poetry including meter, rhyme, image, diction, and poetic forms in British, American, and other English-language traditions. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030 (Forms option)
ENGL 265 (GH) READING NONFICMON (3) Forms of non-fictional prose such as autobiography, biography, essay, letter, memoir, oration, travelogue in British, American, and other English-language traditions. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030 (Forms option)
ENGL 268 (GH) READING DRAMA (3) Elements of drama including plot, character, dialogue staging, and dramatic forms in British, American, and other English-language traditions. Prerequisite:ENGL O15 OR ENGL 030 (Forms option)
ENGL 400 AUTHORS, TEXTS, CONTEXTS (3 per semester, maximum of 6) Styles, cultural rnilieus, critical perspectives toward particular English-language authors and/or movements they represent and the idea of authorship. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.) Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030
ENGL 401 STUDIES IN GENRE (3 per semester, maximum of 6) English-language texts exemplifying particular genres, with attention to critical theories, historical development, rhetorical strategies, and social, cultural, and aesthetic values. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.) Prerequisite: ENGL 015 OR ENGL 030
ENGL 402 LITERATURE AND SOCIETY (3 per semester, maximum of 6) Texts confronting social, political, technological, or other issues in the English-speaking world. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.) Prerequisite: ENGL 015 OR ENGL 030
ENGL 403 LITERATURE AND CULTURE (3 per semester, maximum of 6) Historical, theoretical, and practical issues within cultural studies in relation to English-speaking texts. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.) Prerequisite: ENGL 015 OR ENGL 030
ENGL 404 MAPPING IDENTITY, DIFFERENCE, AND PLACE (3 per semester, maximum of 6) Ethnicity, gender, class, race with reference to theoretical inquiry into identity., difference, and place in English-language literatures. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.) Prerequisite: ENGL 015 OR ENGL 030
ENGL 405 TAKING SHAKESPEARE FROM PAGE TO STAGE (3) Students experience a Shakespeare play as a text to be explicated and as a script to be performed. Prerequisite: permission of program. (meets pre 1800 lit. requirement)
ENGL 414 BIOGRAPHICAL WRITING (3) Writing of biography and autobiography, character sketches, "profiles," and literary portraits; analysis and interpretations of source materials. Prerequisite: ENGL 200, ENGL 202B, ENGL 210, ENGL 212, or ENGL 215 (Publishing Emphasis option)
ENGL 415 ADVANCED NONFICTION WRITING (3 per semester, maximum of 6) Advanced study of the principles of nonfiction; substantial practice in writing and submitting magazine articles for publication. Prerequisite: ENGL 215 and permission of the department. (Publishing Emphasis option)
ENGL 417 THE EDITORIAL PROCESS (3) The process of editing from typescript through final proof. Prerequisite: ENGL 202A, ENGL 202B, ENGL 202C, ENGL 202D, ENGL 210. ENGL 215, or ENGL 410. (Publishing Emphasis option)
ENGL 419 ADVANCED BUSINESS WRITING (3) Preparing and editing reports and presentations common to business, industry, and government. Prerequisite: ENGL 202A. ENGL 202B,ENGL 202C or ENGL 202D. (Publishing Emphasis option; required for Bus. and Corp. Comm.)
ENGL 420 WRITING FOR THE WEB (3) Analysis and composition of informative, persuasive, and "creative" Web texts, based on rhetorical principles; no prior Web writing experience required. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030. (Publishing Emphasis option)
ENGL 432 THE AMERICAN NOVEL TO 1900 (3) Such writers as Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Mark Twain, James, Crane, Chopin, and others. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030
ENGL 433 THE AMERICAN NOVEL: 1900-1945 (3) Such writers as Wharton, Dreiser, Catber, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Hurston, Wright, and others. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030
ENGL 434 (AMSTD) TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3 per semester) Focused study of a particular genre, theme, or problem in American literature. (May be repeated for credit.) Prerequisite: 6 credits of ENGL, ENLSH, or LIT
ENGL 435 THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY (3) Development of the short story as a recognized art form, with emphasis on major writers. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030
ENGL 436 AMERICAN FICTION SINCE 1945 (3) Representative fiction by such writers as Barth, Bellow, Ellison, Heller, Mailer, Morrison, Nabokov, Oates, O'Connor, Pynchon, Updike and Walker. Prerequisite: ENGL 0 15 or ENGL 030
ENGL 441 CHAUCER (3) The principal narrative poems and their background. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030. (meets pre 1800 lit. requirement)
ENGL 442 MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE (3) Study of major works and genres of medieval English literature, exclusive of Chaucer. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 OR ENGL 030. (meets pre 1800 lit. requirement)
ENGL 444 SHAKESPEARE (3) Selected tragedies, comedies, and histories. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030. (meets pre 1800 lit. requirement)
ENGL 453 VICTORIAN NOVEL (3) Novelists such as the Brontes, Nackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030
ENGL 454 MODERN BRITISH AND IRISH DRAMA (3) Froth, Wilde and Shaw to the present season. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030
ENGL 456 BRITISH FICTION, 1900-1945 (3) Major writers such as Conrad, Lawrence, Mansfield, Forster, Joyce, Woolf, Waugh, Greene, Bowen, Beckett, and others. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030
ENGL 458 TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETRY (3) Poets writing in English such as Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Frost, Auden, Stevens, Plath, Bishop, Brooks, H.D., and others. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030
ENGL 470 RHETORICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE (3) Application of certain rhetorical principles to problems in composition. Writing exercise. Designed as preparation for the teaching of composition. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030. (Publishing Emphasis option)
ENGL 487W SENIOR SEMINAR (3) Issues, themes, periods, critical theories, etc., that invite students to use prior English studies, limited to seniors majoring in English. Prerequisite: six credits of 400-level courses in English. (Required)
ENGL 490 (GI) (WMNST) WOMEN WRITERS AND THEIR WORLDS (3) American and British literature written from the perspective of women. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030
ENGL 492 (AMSTD;WOMST) AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS (3) A study of selected American women writers. Prerequisite: 6 credits of ENGL, ENLSH, or LIT
