English (ENGL)
ENGL 1XX English Transfer Credit (0 Credits)
ENGL 2XX English Transfer Credit (0 Credits)
ENGL 95 Accelerated Learning Program Developmental Composition I (2 Credits)
The Accelerated Learning Program Developmental Writing I course is a 2.0 credit companion to the 4.0 credit English 101 course. The ALP track is designed to move students swiftly through intensive, critically rigorous 6-hour versions of the required college level composition courses. The course reinforces college level writing skills introduced but not yet mastered in previous composition classes.
Co-Requisite: ENGL 101
ENGL 96 Accelerated Learning Program Developmental Composition II (2 Credits)
This course is a 2-credit companion to the 4-credit English 102 course. The Accelerated Learning Program track is designed to move students swiftly through intensive, critically rigorous 6-hour versions of the required college level composition courses. The course reinforces college-level writing skills introduced but not yet mastered in previous classes.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 101 and Co-Requisite ENGL 102
Co-Requisite: ENGL 102
ENGL 100 Critical Reading and Writing (3 Credits)
Critical Reading and Writing is an immersion into college-level intellectual engagement, focusing on a theme such as childhood, travel, cities, traditions, or secrets, among others. Students read literary, scholarly, or popular texts (or view audiovisual materials), analyze ideas, and seek insights through discussion. Designed to foster skills in reading, critical thinking, and written and oral expression, ENGL 100 is the first part of the GE Written Communication sequence and is taken in the first semester by all non-transfer students.
ENGL 101 Critical Writing and Analysis (3 Credits)
Critical Writing and Analysis focuses on skills used in college-level written communication. Students learn to construct clear analytical essays that make effective arguments. The course emphasizes fundamental writing and revision techniques and processes. This is the second course in the GE Written Communication sequence for students who are placed into it, as determined by a writing skills assessment during ENGL 100.
ENGL 102 Critical Writing and Research (3 Credits)
Critical Writing and Research focuses on how ideas are produced, shared, and debated through scholarly writing. In addition to honing the skills practiced in ENGL 100 and 101, students conduct research and write a research paper that is relevant to their own interests. This is the final course in the GE Written Communication sequence and is taken by all students, either directly after ENGL 100 or after ENGL 101, as determined by a writing skills assessment during ENGL 100.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 101 English Composition I
ENGL 125 Stories of the University (3 Credits)
How did universities begin? How have they evolved? Who benefits from university, and who pays? What explains the peculiar traditions, status, and structure of universities? And how will they change in the future? Students will explore the history, culture, and politics of higher education through fiction, essays, and other texts.
Co-Requisite: ENGL 101
ENGL 130 Reading the Environment (3 Credits)
How do we understand our relationship to nature as individuals and as a species? Can a growing environmental awareness save the planet for future life? This course explores these and other urgent questions facing humanity.
Co-Requisite: ENGL 101
ENGL 133 Dark Stories for Young Adults (3 Credits)
In this course, students will analyze dystopian literature for young adults. These dark and edgy works explore repressive societies and contemporary challenges like environmental disasters, technological dependency, bioengineering catastrophes, and social inequality. Students will use these texts to cultivate their own ideas about social change and responsible citizenship.
Co-Requisite: ENGL 101
ENGL 135 Home, Place, and Memory in US Immigrant Literature (3 Credits)
This course focuses on the ways immigrant writers remember and remake home following the displacement brought upon by immigration and the social and historical events that prompted it. By examining different ideas of home-- in the country of origins and the country of migration—the course explores how memory transforms place.
ENGL 147 Effective Speaking (3 Credits)
This course focuses on the principles of effective public speaking. Students will study, and put into practice, the elements of speech that comprise successful message delivery, including speech composition, preparation, and presentation. Students will showcase their mastery of these skills through delivery of in-class speeches with specific and distinct objectives.
ENGL 150 From Game Playing to Creative Writing: Literary Games and Formal Experiments in Creative Writing (3 Credits)
Students compose original works by experimenting with language's visual and sonic qualities, modifying literary and non-literary forms (sonnet, cookbook, list), and utilizing non-traditional compositional techniques: cut-up, content scraping, n+1 aggregation. Because experimental writing often adheres to rules/formal procedures, students adopt rule-bound, constraint-driven forms that have affinities with literature and gaming.
Co-Requisite: ENGL 101
ENGL 191 From Printing Press to Internet (3 Credits)
This course traces the history of print culture from the invention of movable type through the commercialization of letters and the emergence of the publishing industry and mass literacy to the digital age. Readings include literary, critical, historical, and theoretical materials that explore technological advancements as agents of change.
ENGL 200 Writing for Business (3 Credits)
This is a course giving students an understanding and appreciation of the purposes, methods, and forms of written communication employed in business, corporate enterprise, and agencies of government. Students practice appropriate forms of communication in a series of writing assignments throughout the semester.
Pre-Requisite: ENGL 101
ENGL 204 Modern American Literature (3 Credits)
This course studies literary production from the turn of the twentieth century to the present in America.
Pre-Requisite: ENGL 102
Co-Requisite: ENGL 213
ENGL 205 Queer Literature (3 Credits)
An examination of literary texts by and about lesbian and gay people. The course concentrates on the portrayal in literature of same-sex-love and desire, and relates questions of sexuality to issues of esthetics, gender, race, and class.
Pre-Requisite: ENGL 102 and ENGL 213 as Co-Requisite or Pre-Requisite.
Co-Requisite: or Pre-Requisite.
ENGL 207 Modern British Literature (3 Credits)
This course studies literary production from the turn of the twentieth century to the present in Britain.
Co-Requisite: ENGL 213
ENGL 208 The Novel and Film (3 Credits)
This course explores the relationships between novels and their film adaptations in terms of issues, images, points of view, techniques, and translations of voice and style. The works will be viewed from a cultural, historical and artistic perspective.
Co-Requisite: ENGL 213
ENGL 209 Children's & Young Adult Literature (3 Credits)
A wide variety of multicultural children's and young adolescent literature is examined in this course. Students engage in rigorous literary and critical analysis of this literature in different genres.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 212 Murder in America (3 Credits)
In this course, students study the theme of murder in American literature, film, radio, and television, in addition to discussing homicide in the national media and real life. Readings range from Shakespeare’s “Othello” to Raymond Chandler’s “The Big Sleep” to contemporary murder mystery novels and short stories.
ENGL 213 Introduction to the Study of Literature (3 Credits)
Students will learn the necessary advanced skills to major in English. Those skills include but are not limited to close reading, demonstrating knowledge and application of literary terms, demonstrating the skills of summary/paraphrasing, analyzing poetry, and possessing a clear understanding of documentation skills.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
ENGL 214 Science Fiction (3 Credits)
This Science Fiction course provides an analysis of modern speculative fiction. This course also examines the attitudes towards both the current and future worlds.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 215 Multiethnic US Literature (3 Credits)
A comprehensive study of U.S. minority writers which may include works by African-American, Latino/a, Asian-American, Native American, and immigrant authors is studied in this course.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 218 The Short Story (3 Credits)
This course is designed to provide the students with a study of the development and techniques of the short story.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 219 Making Literature Matter (3 Credits)
Taken concurrently with or in the semester following English 213 (Introduction to the Study of Literature), this course expands students' understanding of what it means to major in English through the introduction of critical questions, terms, and concepts that motivate current practice within literary studies.
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 220 African American Literature (3 Credits)
This course is an introduction to the works of major African American writers. Some of the featured authors may include Douglass, Hughes, Wright, Larsen, and Morrison.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 226 Women in Literature (3 Credits)
Students examine the female literary tradition and the characterization and role of women in literature.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 227 Survey of Dramatic Literature to 1620 (3 Credits)
This course examines several genres of drama including the English Comedy of Manners and the major comedies of Moliere and tragedies of Racine, while drawing an evolutionary line to the development of modern realism in the works of Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, and Chekhov.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 228 Survey of Dramatic Literature from 1620 (3 Credits)
The course examines the major plays and the theatrical movements of the 20th century and beyond, including works by Brecht, O'Neil, Williams, Miller, Beckett, Pinter, Fugard, Wilson, and Hwang - and the cultural contexts that inspired Surrealism, Impressionism, and Absurdism.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 230 Classical Drama of Greece & Rome (3 Credits)
This course examines the origins of Western Drama through the major tragedies and comedies of Classical Greece and Rome, including works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plautus, and Seneca. The cultural and historical contexts that generated these plays are also addressed.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 235 Reading Hip Hop (3 Credits)
This course introduces students to the study of hip hop as a literary genre that is rooted in the vernacular languages and cultural practices of the African diaspora. Students will engage literary and critical works and examine the genre's connection to movements such as the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 101
ENGL 247 Literature of the City (3 Credits)
This course examines literary representations of urban life, space, culture, and history, within a variety of traditions and forms.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102; Co-requisite: ENGL 213
Co-requisite: ENGL 213
ENGL 250 Portugal Brazil North America: Stories of Migration (3 Credits)
This course explores literary and other cultural production about migration from Portugal and Brazil to the United States and Canada. Students will explore the cultural and historical contexts of these migrations, as well as the forms of community developed by Lusophone immigrants and their children in North America.
ENGL 255 Cut, Copy, Paste: Creative Approaches to Writing and Design (3 Credits)
This General Education course will analyze and practice written forms that use visual elements. They will study traditional and experimental book and magazine design and production. Students will create book and digital media projects, like zines, featuring the class's own writing and visual productions.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 101 English Composition I
ENGL 270 Fiction Workshop (3 Credits)
In this workshop students create works of fiction for the entire class to discuss. Thus students learn not just from the canon and the professor but from each other. Reading materials are classic and (mostly) contemporary short stories, micro-fictions, scripts, and novels or excepts from novels.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102; Co-requisite ENGL 213
Co-requisite: ENGL 213
ENGL 301 Narrative Workshop (3 Credits)
This course teaches the writing of imaginative prose: fictional essays, expository essays, documentaries, autobiography, and narrative writing.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102; Pre-Requisite(s)/Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 303 The Novel (3 Credits)
In this course students study the development of the novel as a literary form from its beginnings to the present.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 213 / Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 305 African American Women Writers (3 Credits)
This class traces the unique African-American female literary tradition, focusing on its relationship to feminist and African-American criticism and to issues of race, gender, and class.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 213 / Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 306 Modern Poetry (3 Credits)
This course explores the cultural and aesthetic contexts of modernity as these are represented in Modern poetry of the Western tradition, with particular attention to Anglophone poetry. Students examine Modern poetry’s early influences, characteristic techniques, formal innovations, thematic concerns, major practitioners, and movements (Imagism, the Harlem Renaissance, etc.)
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 213 / Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 307 Modern Drama (3 Credits)
Students study major dramatic works of the modern age.
Pre-requisite: ENGL 219
ENGL 308 Satire (3 Credits)
This course is a comprehensive study of the methods and tools the satirists use to ridicule human vice and folly. Authors discussed include Swift, Shaw, Voltaire, Aristophanes, and Chaucer and Austen.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213 / Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 309 Epic (3 Credits)
In this study of the epic as a genre, students explore Epic Poems from antiquity to the modern day. Some emphasis is on the elements of epic narrative and style.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213 / Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 310 Medieval & Renaissance Drama (3 Credits)
This course explores the tradition of British dramatic literature from the mystery and morality plays of the Middle Ages to the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. The material covered is exclusive of Shakespeare.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213 / Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 312 Colonial American Literature (3 Credits)
This course studies literary production from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries in America.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213 / Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 313 Stories of Teaching & Learning: Narratives of Education (3 Credits)
What do teachers and students from different countries, times, and challenges reveal about their expectations and learning styles? Reading narratives from areas including Iran, the Philippines, Europe, and the Americas lets us--as students and future teachers--analyze how power, class, cultural difference, and colonial domination affect literacy and education.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213 / Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 314 Topics in American Literature (3 Credits)
In this course, students examine literature in the American tradition with particular attention to that tradition's formation across its history. Through close engagement with works of fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism representative of at least three distinct literary historical periods, we explore literary historical specificity, change, and continuity.
Pre-Requisite: ENGL 213; Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
ENGL 315 American Folklore (3 Credits)
This course focuses on the interconnections between folklore and literature in American culture. Significant methodologies of studying folklore will be examined alongside literary works that engage myths, tales, rituals, magical realism, ethnographic fieldwork, folk narrative, lyric, ballad, and oral tradition storytelling.
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 316 Topics in British Literature (3 Credits)
This course examines literature in the British tradition through a thematic or topical organizing principle. Through close engagement with works of fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism representative of at least three distinct literary periods, the course offers an advanced understanding of changes and continuities in British cultural history.
Pre-Requisite: ENGL 213
ENGL 317 Literature and Philosophy (3 Credits)
This course examines intersections between literature and philosophy as distinct modes of interrogating and explaining the human condition, the mind, the natural world, language, aesthetics, and reality. Literary and philosophical works are read in light of one another. Readings range from ancient philosophy and poetry to contemporary thought and fiction.
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 318 Postcolonial Literature (3 Credits)
This course examines colonial legacies in postcolonial works, in a variety of literary genres, as they relate to themes, ideas, form, technique, and style focusing on the hybridization of cultures as a result of colonialization. Current postcolonial theories and the discourse of power and domination will also be analyzed.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102; Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219; Pre-Requisite(s)/Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219; Pre-Requisite(s)/Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 319 The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (3 Credits)
This course examines the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 25, 1911. Students study representations of the fire in the context of early twentieth-century social history, investigating how the memory and significance of the fire reverberated nationally and internationally in literature, art, politics, and culture for over a century.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102 and 8 Gen Ed Courses across Tier 1 and Tier 2.
ENGL 321 Topics in World Literature (3 Credits)
In this course, students examine literatures from cultures outside the United States and Great Britain. Through close engagement with works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism from at least three distinct regions of the world, we explore literary history within the specific social and cultural contexts of these regions.
ENGL 322 Middle Eastern Literature: Writing Beyond Modernity (3 Credits)
This course explores the most provocative movements and authors of the contemporary Middle east, including experiments with romanticism, surrealism, existentialism, and postmodernism. We will also unravel the intricate themes and concepts in the text of these writers, such as imagination, desire, violence, time, space, power, catastrophe, and exile.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 and Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219.
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219.
ENGL 323 World Poetry of 20th Century (3 Credits)
This course covers the techniques, forms, and themes of twentieth-century poets of the English and non-English speaking worlds. Works are read in original English and in translation.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102; Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219; Pre/Co-Requisite: ENGL 213
ENGL 324 Irish Literature (3 Credits)
Major writers in Irish Literature are presented in this course.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 326 Eighteenth-Century British Literature (3 Credits)
An in-depth study of British literature in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries featuring works of major writers like Swift and Pope is pursued in this course.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213; Co-requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 327 Romanticism in England (3 Credits)
This course offers an in-depth study of British literature from 1798 to 1832 featuring major writers like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Mary Shelley.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213; Co-requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 328 Literature of the Crusades (3 Credits)
This course traces the phenomena of the Crusades from their roots in the 7th century to their influence on the 21st century, with special attention to Holy Land Crusades of the 11th through 13th centuries and representations of them in literature, music, art, and architecture of the period and later.
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 329 Contemporary World Literature (3 Credits)
This course explores works written in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by significant writers of both the English speaking and non-English speaking worlds.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213; Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 330 Elizabethan Literature (3 Credits)
Significant literary works and authors are examined in historical context of the age of Elizabeth, a golden age of English prosperity and experimentation in language and literary forms. The course also includes major poets and playwrights other than Shakespeare.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213; Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 331 Shakespeare: Early Works (3 Credits)
In this course plays and sonnets from the first half of Shakespeare's career (to approximately 1600) are studied.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213; Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 332 Shakespeare: Later Works (3 Credits)
This course focuses on selected plays from the second half of Shakespeare's career (from approximately 1601 to 1612).
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213; Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 340 Survey of U.S. Writers of Latin-American Descent (3 Credits)
The course examines literary texts written by immigrant, exiled, and U.S. born Latinas and Latinos. It pays particular attention to the ways in which specific literary genres are connected to the histories of various Latino communities.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 101, ENGL 102, ENGL 213 and Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219.
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219.
ENGL 341 History of the English Language (3 Credits)
The focus of this study is the historical development of the English language from its beginnings to the present day. The primary concern is the analysis of language change, with examples from relevant literary periods.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213; Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 342 Asian Literature (3 Credits)
This course provides a study of Asian literature, which may include works in English or in translation by authors from China, India, Japan, or other Asian countries, as well by authors of Asian descent from the US or other non-Asian countries.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 213; Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 343 Linguistics:Language,Culture & Communication. (3 Credits)
This course is an in-depth study of the effect of culture and language on communication.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 344 Creative Writing in a Digital Age: Remediation, Sampling, Journaling, and Mixed Media Appropriation (3 Credits)
Students compose original works prompted by the emergence of digital platforms for the creation, consumption and dissemination of textual matter. Students adopt modes of writing - online journaling, texting, content scraping, appropriation, and remixing of found materials and study how such practices have emerged from the blog, SMS, social media, and wikis.
Pre-Requisite(s): 8 Gen Ed Courses across Tier 1 and Tier 2.
ENGL 345 Literature of Genocide (3 Credits)
This course explores representations of genocide by writers and artists in various media, genres, and discourses. It considers the origins, developments, and forms of mass extermination to question definitions of genocide, the propriety of comparing genocide events, and the implications of using literary and other strategies to depict them.
Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
ENGL 349 Special Topics in Creative Writing (3 Credits)
This is a writing course for students interested in doing advanced creative writing in poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. The enrollment for this class is limited to 15 students.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213; Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 350 Age of Chaucer (3 Credits)
This is a Chaucer-centered study of medieval literature, exclusive of drama.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213; Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
ENGL 351 African & Caribbean Women Writers (3 Credits)
This course is an introduction to women writers from West Africa and the Caribbean. The works of the West African and Caribbean women writers are compared and contrasted to each other.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213; Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
ENGL 352 Modern and Contemporary African Literature (3 Credits)
This course introduces students to the diversity of African writings and examines the social, cultural, and historical contexts from which they emerge. Students will read a variety of literature and will consider how writers address themes such as power, class, gender, colonialism, and globalization.
ENGL 354 The Craft of Narrative (3 Credits)
This is a writing course for students interested in doing advanced writing in narrative styles. Enrollment is limited to 15 students.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102; Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
Pre/Co-Requisite: ENGL 213
ENGL 355 The Craft of Poetry (3 Credits)
This is a writing course for students interested in doing advanced writing in poetry. The enrollment for this class is limited to 15 students.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102; Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
Pre/Co-requisite: ENGL 213
ENGL 356 Victorian Literature (3 Credits)
An in-depth study of British literature of the Victorian age, featuring such writers as Browning, Wilde, Dickens, the Brontes, and George Eliot is pursued in this course.
Pre-Requisite: ENGL 213; Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
ENGL 359 Grammar And Usage (3 Credits)
This course provides an intensive study of the structure and usage of contemporary English.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102; Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
Pre/Co-Requisite: ENGL 213
ENGL 361 Technical Writing (3 Credits)
Each section of this course focuses on the development of technical writing skills, styles, and genres specific to a designated disciplinary or professional field in science, business, technology, social science, or the arts. Students are encouraged to enroll in the section that corresponds to their major or minor program.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
ENGL 363 Single Author Study (3 Credits)
In this course, students examine in depth one author's body of work and place within literary history. Each section of Single Author Study will focus on the literary career, influences, and impact of one author of major literary historical significance.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 101 and 213
Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
ENGL 372 Advanced Expository Writing (3 Credits)
Students in this course do advanced work in expository writing such as persuasion, analysis, description. The course may be useful to students not only in the humanities but also in the physical and social sciences and the arts. Enrollment for this class is limited to 15 students.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
ENGL 376 Poetry Workshop (3 Credits)
This workshop is for students interested in writing poetry and understanding its various forms and elements. Enrollment for this class is limited to 15 students.
Pre-Requisite: ENGL 102; Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
Pre/Co-Requisite: ENGL 213
ENGL 383 Playwriting Workshop (3 Credits)
This course combines a playwriting workshop format with the study of dramatic literary history and dramatic readings. It provides theoretical and historical background of performance and writing and introduces students to playwriting.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102; Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
Pre/Co-Requisite: ENGL 213
ENGL 385 Voice & Diction (3 Credits)
This course helps students improve their techniques of speaking: their diction, articulation, and pronunciation.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 147
ENGL 386 Memoir Workshop (3 Credits)
Designed as a process-oriented workshop on memoir writing, the course explores the differences between memoir and autobiography writing. It also examines strategies for memoir-writing, the creative process underlying the genre, and the contexts in which the contemporary memoir has emerged. Enrollment for this course is limited to 15 students.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102; Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
Pre/Co-Requisite: ENGL 213
ENGL 389 Literature of the Palestine - Israel Conflict (3 Credits)
This course explores perspectives on the Palestine - Israel Conflict as represented by writers and artists (from Palestine, Israel, and elsewhere) in a variety of media and genres to narrate their personal and national stories and stake claims to certain ways of being and belonging to the land which they co-inhabit.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102; Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219.
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219.
ENGL 390 The Craft of Prose (3 Credits)
This is a writing course in which students work on professional and/or creative writing projects designed with the assistance of the class and the instructor.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213; Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
ENGL 391 Persuasive Writing (3 Credits)
The study and practice of persuasive writing is designed to convince an audience in a compelling fashion. Particular attention is paid to emotional, ethical, and logical appeals to the reader. Enrollment is limited to 15 students.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213
Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
ENGL 392 The Craft of Memoir (3 Credits)
This is a process-oriented course on writing memoir for advanced students of creative writing. Students should have preferably already taken the Workshop: Writing the Memoir. For this course students further develop and experiment with the strategies of memoir writing and write a long, self-contained, publishable piece.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213
Co-Requisite: ENGL 219
ENGL 395 Creative Nonfiction Workshop (3 Credits)
Creative nonfiction includes personal essay, interview, travel writing, nature writing, and biography. This class covers the historical dimension and contemporary ramifications of creative nonfiction for students writing their own creative nonfiction. We will read a mixture of canonical and contemporary writers to understand the tradition in which students are participating.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 213
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 219
ENGL 398 Video Game Writing Workshop (3 Credits)
In this course, students will learn how to develop characters and worlds, and integrate gameplay and story, by creating an interactive choose-your-own-adventure game that they will write on an industry-standard game-creation platform such as Twine, Inkle, Unity, Ren'Py, or Gamemaker. Some basic coding (for using variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript) will be covered to help students create more engaging games, but coding experience is not required or expected.
ENGL 399 The Craft of Video Game Writing (3 Credits)
In this course, students will work in teams to design and create a game on an industry-standard game-creation platform such as Twine, Inkle, Unity, Ren'Py, or Gamemaker. They will also learn about and practice writing professional video game documents (including the pitch, the game treatment, the game design document, instructions, walkthroughs, manuals, and tutorials). Some basic coding (for using variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript) will be covered to help students create more engaging games, but coding experience is not required or expected. It is preferable to take Video Game Writing Workshop before this course, but not required.
ENGL 400 Writing Internship (3 Credits)
This internship provides an opportunity for qualified students to receive training and practice in tutoring other students who seek help with their writing.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 401 Introduction to Debate (3 Credits)
This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of debating. Topics include case construction; argumentation, refutation, and rebuttal; presentation skills; and methods for judging debates. In this class, students engage in academic debates.
Pre-requisite: ENGL 101 English Composition I and ENGL 102 English Composition II
ENGL 403 Literature and Psychology (3 Credits)
The principles of modern psychology are used to illuminate the meaning of selected literary works.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 409 Literary Theory (3 Credits)
An upper level seminar, implies historical coverage in literary theory from antiquity on.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 410 Thematic Studies (3 Credits)
Thematic Studies in English is a specialized literature and language course offered on an experimental basis.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 412 Capstone Seminar: Current Issues in the Discipline of English (3 Credits)
The capstone is a research-intensive culminating seminar that affords students in the last semester of the English Major the opportunity to examine a critical issue current in the discipline of English studies and to participate in a rigorous exchange about this issue with their peers and with published scholars.
Pre-Requisite(s): Student must take ENGL 101, 102, 213 and 30 credits toward the English major.
ENGL 420 Major Cultural Conflicts in Literature (3 Credits)
Students pursue an analysis of a culturally significant ideological conflict as it is reflected and negotiated in the literature of its historical moment.
Pre-Requisite(s): ENGL 102
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 213
ENGL 1374 Independent Research (3 Credits)
ENGL 2492 Independent Study in English (3 Credits)