Undergraduate Bulletin
Document Number 4.05.02

English

[1] Courses in English (ENGL)

1330 INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN/AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES This course is a requirement for students majoring or minoring in African/African American studies, and will introduce them to the study of African and African American literature and culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. The course format is lecture/discussion. Fall, spring.

1350 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE A writing-intensive course exposing students to the college-level study of literature. Exposes students to the development, forms, and techniques of poetry, fiction, and drama. Attention is paid to the writing of analytical, interpretive, and research papers. The course satisfies the humanities requirement in the general education program. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisites: None. Fall, spring, summer.

2305 WORLD LITERATURE I Satisfies three hours of the world cultural traditions requirement in the general education program. The purpose of World Literature I is to introduce the student to a variety of literary texts which have greatly influenced culture around the world. Readings are chosen from the epic, dramatic, poetic, and speculative traditions of several nations and cultures from ancient times up to the Renaissance. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisites: None. Fall, spring, one summer term.

2306 WORLD LITERATURE II Satisfies three hours of the world cultural traditions requirement in the general education program. The purpose of World Literature II is to introduce the student to some of the literary works which embody and consider the values, ideas, and beliefs that have helped make the modern world. Readings are chosen from several national traditions of the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisites: None. Fall, spring, one summer term.

2312 AMERICAN LITERATURE I A basic course requirement for majors and minors and, in series with American Literature II, a charting of the major forms and styles of American literature. The course traces the development of major figures in American Colonial and Provincial literature (such as Mather, Brockden Brown, Franklin) to leading figures of the American Renaissance (such as Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Emerson, and Thoreau). Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisites: None. Fall, spring.

2313 AMERICAN LITERATURE II A basic course requirement for majors and minors and, in series with American Literature I, a charting of the major forms and styles of American literature. The course traces the development of major figures in post-Civil War American Literature (such as Twain, James, and Crane) to major American writers between the first and second world war (such as Hemingway, Stevens, Frost, and Faulkner). Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisites: None. Fall, spring.

2316 ENGLISH LITERATURE I This course for English majors and minors offers a foundational survey of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the Renaissance. Conducted as a lecture/discussion class, it will pay attention to the social, political, and historical matrix within which the literature developed. Prerequisites: None. Fall and spring.

2317 ENGLISH LITERATURE II This course for English majors and minors offers a foundational survey of English literature from the Neoclassical and Romantic periods. Conducted as a lecture/discussion class, it will pay attention to the social, political, and historical matrix within which the literature developed. Prerequisites: None. Fall, spring.

2318 ENGLISH LITERATURE III This course for English majors and minors offers a foundational survey of English literature from the Victorian and Modern periods. Conducted as a lecture/discussion class, it will pay attention to the social, political, and historical matrix within which the literature developed. Prerequisites: None. Fall, spring.

2370 INTRODUCTION TO FICTION Satisfies the humanities requirement in the general education program. The purpose of Introduction to Fiction is to introduce students to the art and significance of short fiction: usually, short stories, novellas, and, sometimes, short novels. Students will learn to read stories carefully and analytically and be encouraged to see the way stories both reflect and enhance our understanding of life. Lecture, discussion, writing. Fall, spring.

2380 INTRODUCTION TO POETRY Satisfies the humanities requirement in the general education program. Exposes the student to the development, forms, and techniques of poetry. Some attention is paid to prosodical, musical, and metrical effects. Lecture, discussion, writing. Fall, spring.

2390 INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA Satisfies the humanities requirement in the general education program. The course is a historical overview of the development of drama from Greek tragedy and comedy to the flowering of Renaissance drama with Shakespeare. Students will study dramas of the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries as well. This course views drama as a genre: an evolving art form dependent on audience and social environment for interpretation. Lecture, discussion, writing. Fall, spring.

3105 RESEARCH METHODS WORKSHOP Required course for English majors and minors. This course is designed to introduce students to the use of research in writing papers for literature courses. Students will use techniques and protocols learned in the course to complete a research assignment drawn from a concurrent upper-division course. This course must be taken in conjunction with the student's first upper-division course(s) in English. Lecture, discussion, writing. Fall, spring.

3310 CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Part of the academic content block required of elementary and early childhood education majors. The course introduces the teacher education candidate to a wide range of books for children from birth through grade four and to criteria essential to evaluating and selecting good literature. Lecture, discussion, writing. The course may not be counted toward the English major or minor. Prerequisite: Admission to teacher education. Fall, Spring.

3312 MODERN GRAMMARS Introduction to the science of linguistics, its terminology, its methods, and its relation to the study of English. Structural and transformational-generative approaches. Some particular problems related to style and usage. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisites: None. Fall, spring.

3315 GENDER AND LANGUAGE An overview of the sociolinguistics of language and its relationships to gender. The course develops awareness of language as a system of rules, codes, and prescribed attitudes to gender roles. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisites: None. On demand.

3320 LITERATURE FOR THE MIDDLE GRADES Part of the academic content block required for language arts/social studies licensure for middle-school education. The course introduces the teacher- education candidate to a wide range of literature for children from grades four through eight and to criteria essential to evaluating and selecting good literature for middle-school readers. Lecture, discussion, writing. The course may not be counted toward the English major or minor. Prerequisite: Admission to teacher education. Fall.

3325 ADVANCED READINGS IN WORLD LITERATURE Selected topics to include specific writers, historical periods, literary/social movements, cultural expressions in any area of world literature from classical authors to postmodern figures. Lecture, discussion. On demand.

3335 LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR STUDIES This course examines specific topics and problems of English grammar, structure, and usage in order to provide an understanding and command of language that will lead to effective and creative classroom teaching of English and language arts. The course emphasizes the study of grammar in context to afford greater facility in approaching and analyzing texts. Lecture, discussion, writing.Prerequisites: None. Fall.

3371 THE MODERN NOVEL For English majors and minors to fulfill the genre requirement. The course involves close readings of English, American, Continental, or even non-Western traditions. It examines some of the major developments in the novel form during the twentieth century. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2313 or 2318. On demand.

3372 AMERICAN NOVEL TO 1900 For English majors and minors to fulfill genre requirement. The course examines the development of the novel in America generally focusing on writers such as Brockden Brown and Hawthorne to Wharton and James. It explores the American novel as a distinct entity from European and continental models and as a result of social, historical, and economic forces in American life. Discussion, lecture, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2312 or 2313. On demand.

4300 READINGS FOR HONORS DEGREE Tutorial taken in the junior year by students who elect to study toward an honors degree in English. A reading list, chosen by student and tutor with the department chair's approval, will provide the foundation for a thesis to be written by the honors candidate during the senior year. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and chair. Spring.

4301 THE RENAISSANCE For English majors and minors to fulfill period requirements. The course studies the development of Christian humanism and the influence of the Reformation upon such major non-dramatic writers of Tudor England as More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser and Marlowe. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2316. On demand

4304 STUDIES IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE For English majors and minors to fulfill period, genre, figure, or upper-division elective requirements. The course involves concentrated study of different special topics on groups of writers, literary movements, sub-genres, philosophical and critical considerations, historical and social interpretations of English and American literature. The course may be taken only one time without approval of the departmental chair. Lecture, discussion, writing. On demand.

4305 MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE For English majors to satisfy upper-division period requirements. The course offers an overview of English medieval literature (exclusive of Chaucer). Anglo-Saxon and some Middle English texts will be taught in translation, but Middle English will be retained whenever possible. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2316. On demand.

4311 THE NEO-CLASSICAL PERIOD For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division period requirements. The course covers major writers from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century, generally focusing on writers such as Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and Boswell. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2317. On demand.

4312 AMERICAN PROVINCIAL LITERATURE For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division period requirements. The course includes American literature from its beginnings to 1830, generally focusing on writers such as Bradstreet, Taylor, Mather, Edwards, Franklin, Wheatley, Brockden Brown, Irving, and Cooper. The course identifies the major strains of English puritanism, European gothic writing, political pamphleteering, Native American storytelling, colonial and pre-colonial writing that form American literature to 1830. The European, provincial, feminine, and political visions that constitute various national voices are analyzed for ideology and content. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2312. On demand.

4313 AMERICAN ROMANTICISM AND REALISM For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division period requirements. Students will read major works in American Romanticism and Realism, 1830-1900, generally focusing on writing by Hawthorne, Thoreau, Poe, Howells, Crane, James, Twain, and Wharton. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2313. On demand.

4315 TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN POETRY For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division genre or elective requirements. The course focuses on American poetry of the twentieth century by such writers as Frost, Pound, Williams, Stevens, Hughes, Lowell, Bishop. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2313. On demand.

4320 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division period requirements. Readings will focus on major Romantic writers of prose and poetry generally treating such writers as on Blake, Wordsworth, Scott, Coleridge, Lamb, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Landor, and Hazlitt. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2317. On demand.

4321 THE VICTORIAN PERIOD For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division period requirements. Readings will include poetry and prose of major English writers from the 1830s to the end of the century, generally focusing on writers such as Browning, Tennyson, Ruskin, Carlyle, and Arnold. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequiste: ENGL 2318. On demand.

4330 SHAKESPEARE I For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division figure and genre requirements. The course can be taken in series with Shakespeare II. It includes historical, linguistic, and critical study of representative comedies, tragedies, and history plays. The course examines a wide variety of approaches to Shakespeare's texts including performative analysis, historical interpretations, psychological and cultural readings of the plays. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2316. On demand.

4331 SHAKESPEARE II For English majors and minors to satisfy figure and genre requirements. The course can be taken in series with Shakespeare I (see 4330 Shakespeare I). Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2316. On demand.

4335 SENIOR SEMINAR Required capstone course for English majors in their senior year that may also satisfy upper-division genre or elective requirements. Others may enroll with permission of instructor. This variable-topics course crosses cultural, period, or genre lines. Students assemble a portfolio that demonstrates mastery of the course topic and reflection on the progress and culmination of their undergraduate literary studies. Lecture, discussion, writing. Fall, spring.

4340 CHAUCER For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division figure requirement. The course includes Chaucer's major works, the Parliament of Fowls and The Canterbury Tales, viewed against the background of medieval life and thought. It examines Chaucer's writings from perspectives of Chaucer's depiction of women, Chaucer's sources, and Chaucer as Christian moralist, as allegorist, as fable writer, as humorist. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2316. On demand.

4341 MILTON For English majors and minors to satisfy figure requirements. Students will study Milton's major poems and selected prose including Paradise Lost and Comus, Samson Agonistes, and Areopagitica viewed against the background of seventeenth-century life and thought. Close attention will be given to Milton's life, political and pamphlet writing, learning, and sources, set against changing religious and social forces in seventeenth-century England. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2316. On demand.

4342 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY For English majors and minors to satisfy period and genre requirements. The course covers non-dramatic writings from 1603 to 1660, excluding Milton, and generally focusing on Donne and the devotional poets, Jonson and the Cavalier poets, and such prose writers as Bacon, Browne and Burton. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2316. On demand.

4343 TUDOR-STUART DRAMA (EXCLUDING SHAKESPEARE) For English majors and minors to satisfy either period or genre requirement. The course includes representative plays (by Ford, Webster, Kidd, and Marlowe), and an examination of the dramatic literature of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries (excluding Shakespeare). The course focuses on the language, social and psychological vision, and portrait of family and civic life in the plays. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2316. On demand.

4344 ENGLISH DRAMA 1660 TO PRESENT For English majors and minors to satisfy genre requirement. The course includes English drama from the reopening of the theaters in 1660 to the present. The course generally will focus on one or more of the following: Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Dryden, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Wilde, Shaw, Pinter. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2317 or 2318. On demand.

4350 INTERNSHIP I To be taken concurrently with ENGL 4358, Methods of Teaching English and Composition, Internship I is part of the senior block for candidates in secondary education. The internship occurs in appropriate public school settings where the candidates gain experience in organizing instruction, in creating a productive learning environment, in teaching for student learning, and in achieving professional behaviors. Prerequisites: Admission to teacher education and completion of designated professional education and specialty courses. Fall.

4352 AMERICAN MODERNISM, 1900-1945 For English majors and minors to satisfy either period or upper-division elective requirements. This is a study of American literature, its influences and background from 1900 to 1945. Works studied generally focus on the lost generation novels of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, the collages and cubist effects of Eliot, Stevens, Crane, and Williams' poetry, the surrealism of Nathaniel West, and the poetic regionalism of Faulkner. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2313. On demand.

4353 AMERICAN POSTMODERNISM 1945 TO PRESENT For English majors and minors to satisfy either period or upper-division elective requirements. The course covers American literature from the end of World War II until the present to include writers as diverse as DeLillo, Morrison, Erdrich, Roth, Merrill, Ashbery, O'Hara, Pynchon, and Reed, and an analysis of the conception of postmodernism in these writers. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2313. On demand.

4358 METHODS OF TEACHING ENGLISH AND COMPOSITION May not be taken as part of the BA major or minor. Required of students seeking licensure to teach English. The course includes a study of the methods used to teach literature, grammar, and composition and evaluated teaching presentations before other candidates. It should be taken during the fall senior block, concurrent with Internship I. Prerequisites: Admission to teacher ed. Lecture, Discussion, writing. Fall.

4360 HISTORY AND STRUCTURE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE A survey of English from the Anglo-Saxon to the modern period. Attention will be paid to the social, political and literary matrix within which the language developed. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisites: None. Every other year.

4361 LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS For English majors and minors to satisfy the upper-division elective requirement, and required for licensure in English. Students will learn to select and analyze literature that is appropriate psychologically, intellectually, and motivationally for teaching in secondary schools. Lecture, discussion, writing, evaluated teaching presentations before peers. Fall, spring.

4362 SOUTHERN LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE For English majors and minors to fulfill upper-division elective requirements. Explores twentieth-century Southern folklore and literature as social, cultural, and historical manifestations and reactions to contemporary trends in American life and history. Poetry, prose, and drama of representative twentieth century-southern writers as well as regional folklore. Prerequisites: none. Lecture, discussion. Prerequisite: ENGL 2313. On demand.

4366 LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM For English majors and minors to fulfill upper-division elective requirements. This course may be taught using historical models of criticism or modern theoretical schools of thought. Literature (poetry, drama, and prose) will also be included as a means of applying various theoretical models. Lecture, discussion, writing. On demand.

4370 WOMEN'S LITERATURE For English majors and minors to fulfill upper-division elective requirements. This course may be taught as a survey of women's literature across the centuries, or as a special-topics course dealing with women authors. Poetry, prose, and drama of representative women writers will be included. Lecture, discussion, writing. On demand.

4372 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL For English majors and minors to satisfy period or genre requirement. The course generally focuses on works by writers such as Smollet, Sterne, Fielding, Defoe. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2317. On demand.

4373 NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL For English majors and minors to satisfy period or genre requirements. The course focuses on English novels of the nineteenth century by writers such as Austen, Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray, Eliot, Hardy. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2318. On demand.

4374 TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL For English majors and minors to satisfy period or genre requirements. The course focuses on English novels of the twentieth century by writers such as Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Lawrence, Ford, Fowles. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2318. On demand.

4375 TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH POETRY For English majors and minors to satisfy period or genre requirements. The course focuses on English poetry of the twentieth century by such writers as Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Graves, Auden, Heaney. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2318. On demand.

4380 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division elective requirements. This is a survey of African and African-American literature from the eighteenth century to the present generally focusing on slave narratives, middle passage and captivity narratives in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and works by such writers as Larson, Petry, Hurston, Bambara, Reed, Baraka, John A. Williams, and August Wilson in this century. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENLG 2312 or 2313. On demand.

4381 MAJOR AFRICAN/AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS Required for African/African-American Studies majors; an elective for minors in that program and for English majors and minors. The course enables students to explore in some depth the works of one or more important African and/or African-American writers who have established distinctive artistic voices within a particular country, culture, or region. May be repeated once for credit with chair's permission. Lecture,discussion. Prerequisite: ENGL 2313. Annually.

4382 RACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE Required for African/African-American Studies majors and a core elective for minors; an elective for English majors and minors. The course explores the depictions of racial definitions, identities, and conflicts offered by American writers of various races, although primarily African-American and white. Focus will be on writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and Flannery O'Connor. Lecture, discussion. Prerequisite: ENGL 2312 or 2313. Annually.

4385/4685 TRAVEL SEMINAR IN LITERATURE This variable-credit course may satisfy up to six hours of upper-division electives for English majors and minors, and is open to other students by consent of the instructor and chair. Participants will not only study selected works and authors, but will also travel to the culture that produced the works. The course will typically include some intensive on-campus study and orientation before travel. Lecture, discussion, writing. On demand.

4680 INTERNSHIP II Internship II is taken during the final semester of work in the Teacher Education Program. The internship is conducted in public school secondary settings (grade 7-12) and requires full-day involvement and seminars. Candidates work under the supervision of public school and university professionals. ENGL 4680 Internship II is to be taken concurrently with ENGL 4681 Internship II. Prerequisites: Admission to teacher education, completion of all major and professional education course work. Spring.

4681 INTERNSHIP II Internship II is taken during the final semester of work in the Teacher Education Program. The internship is conducted in public school secondary settings (grade 7-12) and requires full-day involvement and seminars. Candidates work under the supervision of public school and university professionals. ENGL 4681 Internship II is to be taken concurrently with ENGL 4680 Internship II. Portfolio required. Prerequisites: Admission to teacher education, completion of all major and professional education course work. Spring.