ENGL 344 – American Realism and Naturalism
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Examines the philosophic and literary turning away from Romanticism in the aftermath of the Civil War and the style and subject matter of American realists, including representations of middle-class and lower-class life. Also explores the emergence of Naturalism and the development […]
ENGL 327 – Renaissance British Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses on the concept of “renaissance” and its development throughout the literature of early modern Britain. Through reading a representative sample of prose, poetry, and drama (non-Shakespearean), students will examine generic structures and explore the dynamic relationships between the literature and […]
ENGL 328 – Neoclassical British Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses primarily on the works of Dryden, Swift, Pope and Johnson. Through a wide range of reading, including texts by a number of minor authors, students will investigate the major themes of Restoration and 18th century literature. Particular attention will be […]
ENGL 498 – English Internship
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description:
ENGL 411 – Multimedia Writing
Prerequisites/Corequisites: ENGL 102 with a grade of C or higher and an additional 300-level writing course. Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Teaches visual and digital rhetorical strategies needed in writing for multimedia programs, websites, and other new media. Class provides practice in planning, writing, designing, and testing materials developed for business and organizational clients.
ENGL 496 – English Capstone Experience
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 1; Max: Description: Includes assessment of English majors’ knowledge of the discipline and instruction in career search skills. Satisfactory performance required of all students in the semester they complete the major.
ENGL 361 – Shakespeare
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Examines in detail selected histories, comedies, and tragedies. Requires outside reading and individual research to broaden the student’s comprehension and appreciation of Shakespeare’s works.
ENGL 362 – Mythology & Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Studies worldwide mythologies (with emphasis on the Greek) and their relation to selected literary works, leading to an understanding of universal mythic themes and their application to literature.
ENGL 342 – Writing in Early America
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Covers the philosophical, historical, and literary beginnings of American literature through 1820. Examines literary purpose, audience, and genre for a variety of texts authored by Native Americans, Puritans, African Americans, visitors to America, and Revolutionary thinkers. Texts will include sermons, diaries, […]
ENGL 346 – Modern America Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Covers the literature of the United States from roughly World War I to the end and aftermath of World War II. Particular emphasis on literary Modernism and some attention to its underpinnings in intellectual history and postwar cultural shifts. Additional topics […]
ENGL 348 – African-American Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Presents an overview of literature produced by African Americans from the mid-19th century to the present. Explores how African-American writers address issues surrounding gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and identity. Using poetry, novels, essays, autobiographies, short stories, and speeches, examines themes, […]
ENGL 340 – Theories of Writing
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Offers a treatment of the composing process, emphasizing matters useful to teachers of writing, especially current theories. Most assignments involve essay writing, including a substantial amount of application of critical theory to literary texts. Practicum requires student work in the Writing […]