ENGL 501    Research Methods and Humanities and Computing I    3 Credits
This course prepares students for graduate study in English with training in humanities computing. Students will examine research sources, methodologies, and related topics; current scholarship in modern languages and literature; and the history of academic literary studies. Students will also study searching techniques for public access catalogs, electronic databases, and the Internet. Students will work with electronic media: CD-ROMs and text analysis software. Students will be introduced to a wide variety of electronic resources, including newsgroups, LISTSERVs, and websites.

ENGL 502    Methods and Humanities and Computing II    3 Credits
This course prepares students for graduate study in English with training in humanities computing. Students will apply their knowledge of resources (traditional and electronic) and methodologies. Students will obtain an overview of contemporary literature theory to explore resulting issues and conflicts. Students will advance their knowledge of humanities computing by learning about available humanities computing resources; by studying TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), HTML (HyperText Markup Language), and SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language); by writing webpages and hypertext applications with HTML; and by analyzing and preparing electronic texts (including SGM-L Standard General Markup Language).

ENGL 545    Advanced Grammar    3 Credits

ENGL 601    Intro to Rhetorical Theories and Practices I    3 Credits
This course will trace the historical influence of the rhetorical tradition on today’s discourse as it is used in various contexts and communities. Students will study the language of rhetorical analysis and apply its principles to various texts, including essays, letters, and speeches. Students will experience the principles of rhetorical theory firsthand through a series of assignments (described on the syllabus). With its emphasis on argument and the relationship between writer, text, and audience, the course could be useful for practicing classroom teachers as well as those intending to enter the classroom.

ENGL 602    Rhetorical Theories and Practices II    3 Credits
This course focuses on modern/contemporary rhetorical theories and how to use these theories to analyze examples of modern/contemporary discourse. The goal is to determine how an argument is built or meaning created for the reader or writer of a piece of discourse.

ENGL 710    Special Topics in Fiction    3 Credits

ENGL 711    Special Topics in Poetry    3 Credits
An intensive study of poetry, including the literary traditions of America and/or Great Britain and prosody. The course will investigate the formal techniques of poetry as they reflect both aesthetic and cultural ideologies. Additionally, an understanding of the literary and historical traditions of the poetry will provide context for the work.

ENGL 712    Special Topics in Drama    3 Credits
This course provides an intensive study of drama. The course investigates the formal techniques of drama as they reflect both aesthetic and cultural ideologies. Additionally, an understanding of the literary and historical traditions of drama provides contexts for the works.

ENGL 713    Special Topics in Women’s Literature    3 Credits
An in-depth, cross-cultural study of selected women’s literary expression and representation encompassing the genres of fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry, orature, and film. These works will be grouped under the topics: early Western feminist thought, women’s autobiographical writing, the literature of women in migration, post-colonial and post-slavery women’s writing, women’s orature, and women’s representation in film. Current feminist critical theory will be studied and applied where appropriate with the respective social, political, cultural, and historical contexts of the works being taken into accounts.


ENGL 714    Special Topics in Ethnic/Multicultural Literature    3 Credits
This course is an in-depth study of literary works written in English by contemporary ethnic minority writers in North America. Students will explore representative works—in fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry, drama, and criticism in the context of minority discourse. Past offerings of this course focused on Asian American literature encompassing Chinese American literature, Filipino American literature, Japanese American literature, South Asian American literature, and Vietnamese American literature.

ENGL 715    Special Topics in Autobiographical Literature    3 Credits
An intensive study of American autobiography primarily from a historical perspective. This course will explore various forms of the genre, including the diary and journals, letters, slave narratives, essays, and memoirs. Topics to be addressed include the ways autobiographies reveal or reflect the social history of the United States, the relationship of literacy to freedom in the African American community, and the reasons for the autobiography being the preferred form of first-generation immigrants. Larger theoretical issues include the nature of truth in autobiographical texts and the boundaries between fiction and autobiography.

ENGL 733    Seminars in Literature of the Caribbean    3 Credits
This course is a study of English, French, and Spanish Caribbean Literature from the 1920s to the present with emphasis on the fiction and poetry of the English-speaking Caribbean. This literature is considered in relation to the social and political forces prevailing during the period.

ENGL 734    Seminars in Literature of the East    3 Credits
An intensive study of the literary traditions of China or India or Japan. Representative works in non-fiction prose, fiction, poetry, and drama will be studied in the cultural, historical, social contexts in which they are written. And, where appropriate, the theories of literature of each tradition will be explored.

ENGL 737    Literary Criticism and Theory    3 Credits
This course examines literary practice and theory from Plato to the present. Particular attention will be paid to trends in contemporary criticism and theory, from historical-biographical criticism to formalism (new criticism) to structuralism, deconstruction, reader-response, new historicism and cultural materialism, feminist criticism, Marxist criticism, psychological criticism, post-colonial criticism and multiculturalism, narratology, and cultural criticism.

ENGL 755    Seminar in American Literature    3 Credits
An intensive study of American literature, this seminar will focus on one of the following areas of exploration: (1) a literary movement or period, (2) a major writer, (3) a theme that runs through literary works by a number of American writers, or (4) the influence of one major writer on another major writer.

ENGL 756    Seminar in British Literature    3 Credits
This course is a seminar in a topic or topics in English literature. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the history of the English novel, Gothic and horror literature, Romanticism and revolution, pastoral poetry, the epic and romance tradition, Victorian decadent writers, the stream of consciousness novel, utopian/dystopian literature, etc. This course is designed to enhance the ability of students to apply various trends in critical theory (such as feminism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic criticism, new historicism, reader-response criticism, cultural criticism, multiculturalism, etc.) to a particular aspect of or approach to English literature, which falls under the rubric of a particular genre, mode, period, movement, or theme.

ENGL 757    Seminar in African American Literature    3 Credits
An in-depth exploration of the major genres, themes, styles, and traditions that link literary voices of contemporary African American writers with their historical literary ancestors. Using representative works in fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry, oratory, criticism, and film, the course will examine the African American experience from the cultural, historical, and sociopolitical perspective of the African American writer.

ENGL 758    Seminar in African Literature    3 Credits

ENGL 759    Seminars in World Literature    3 Credits
This seminar will explore in-depth a theme common to literature of one or more countries or geographical regions of the world.

ENGL 760    Advanced Composition    3 Credits
A workshop approach to improving student writing for a range of audiences and in a variety of genres, including academic and professional writing, with an emphasis on research and development of voice. Students will study published models of effective writing and develop an extensive portfolio of their own work.

ENGL 761    Rhetoric, Writing, and Assessment    3 Credits

ENGL 763    Special Topics in Linguistics    3 Credits
This course will examine a range of contemporary issues in linguistics that relate to how people acquire or learn language and how they use language to accomplish various purposes. The focus of the course may vary from one semester to another. The students will appreciate the central role of language in people’s lives. The reading will highlight how people’s attitudes affect language and language use, and how language affects people and their attitudes. Other issues such as the role of age in language learning and acquisition will be covered on occasion.

ENGL 790    Practicum    3 Credits
This practicum provides supervised teaching experience in the freshman composition program (English 100, 101, or 102) as preparation for teaching at the community college, college, or university levels. Students will teach one course under the direction of the director of Freshman Composition; develop specific instructional units that meet the goals of the relevant syllabus; grade student essays; keep a journal of their classroom teaching experiences, focusing on the application of the theory and research learned in 503 and 504; and write a final evaluative paper.

ENGL 799    Comp Exam    0 Credits
Enrollment Requirement Group:    
ENGL699 Prerequisites: ENGL 501, ENGL 502, ENGL 503, ENGL 504, ENGL 537, ENGL 563; and one additional topics course, ENGL 555, ENGL 556, ENGL 557, ENGL 558, or ENGL 559; and completion of two seminar courses with a 3.25 cumulative grade point average.

ENGL 800    Thesis Design and Preparation I    3 Credits
Enrollment Requirement Group:
ENGL 802  Prerequisites: ENGL 598, ENGL 599
    
ENGL 801    Thesis Design and Preparation II    3 Credits

ENGL 802     Thesis Continuation    1 Credit
This course is a continuation of ENGL 598 and ENGL 599, Thesis Design and Preparation I and II, respectively. The students will enroll in ENGL 802 if, after taking ENGL 598 and 599, they still need time to work with their thesis advisors to complete the thesis.
Enrollment Requirement Group:
ENGL 802   Prerequisites: ENGL 598, ENGL 599