ENGL 384 – African-American Film History
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Explores the history of African Americans in North American film and the specific contributions of African Americans to visual forms in narrative films. Chronologically follows the involvement of African Americans in film production, acting, directing, and distribution.
ENGL 385 – Sex, Gender & Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses on using gender theory to examine various texts, considering interaction between male and female in literature in terms of both writer and reader, and how the constructed identities of gender, sexuality, and textuality shape and relate to each other.
ENGL 382 – Spec Topics in Writing:Non-Fiction
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Examines a specific literary theme or topic to acquaint the student with a significant aspect of literature. May be taken twice for academic credit with departmental approval.
ENGL 371 – Creative Writing:Adv Poetry Wkshop
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-370. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Builds on the fundamentals of poetry writing with an emphasis on increased mastery and a wider range of techniques. Students will write numerous original works to be discussed in workshop, with the better works to be submitted for publication.
ENGL 366 – Creative Writing: Literary Nonfiction
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Introduces students to literary nonfiction. Emphasizes the reading and discussion of multiple sub-genres in the field, with an emphasis on twentieth and twenty-first century texts. Also emphasizes the techniques of literary nonfiction writing through the composition of original student work. May […]
ENGL 368 – Creative Writing:adv Fiction Wkshop
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-367. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Builds on the fundamentals of prose fiction writing and emphasizes the study and mastery of a wide range of techniques in original student fiction using classroom discussion and workshop formats. Also explores strategies for submitting fiction for publication.
ENGL 363 – World Lt: Beginnings to 1650
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Examines Western and Non-Western literature ranging from 2300 B.C.E. to 1650 C.E. Students will study texts from Rome, Greece, Africa, China, and Japan within their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Topics to be discussed include the oral tradition, the epic, intertextuality, […]
ENGL 364 – World Lit: 1650 to Present
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Studies the development of global literature from 1650 to present day. Students will examine concepts of nationalism, race, gender, and oppression in a variety of Non-Western and European works. A substantial portion of the course will be devoted to the development […]
ENGL 365 – Modern Drama
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Surveys 20th century world drama and dramatic theory. Examines the literary, technical, and aesthetic developments in world drama since the late 19th century, beginning with Realism, then tracing the various reactions to it, including Symbolist, Expressionist, Absurdist and Epic theatre, and […]
ENGL 352 – History of American Drama
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Surveys American dramatic literature from the colonial period to the modern, including developments in form, technology, aesthetics and dramatic theory in the context of American culture and politics.
ENGL 350 – American Women Writers
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description:
ENGL 347 – Contemporary American Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Emphasizes post-World War II American literature. Readings may include a focus on individual genres or schools or a survey of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Emphasizes close readings of primary texts and puts works in larger historical, cultural, and theoretical […]