ENGL 341 – Advanced Composition for Teachers
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Extensive work in analysis and composition of texts written by and for professional educators. Assignments involve careful reading and practice composing in various modes relevant to early-childhood, elementary, and middle-level teachers. Students also explore connections among writing, teaching, and learning as […]
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 326 – Medieval British Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Surveys the literature produced in England during the Old and Middle English periods, with special attention to the epic, lyric poetry, visionary literature, admonitory prose, histories, and drama. Readings from earlier periods or contemporaneous European sources may also be included.
ENGL 331 – Spec Topics in Writing: Non-Fiction
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Provides reading, instruction, and practice in techniques in writing in a particular genre or sub-genre. Students are expected to compose and share work with the instructor and other students.
ENGL 332 – The Romantics
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Explores and analyzes in depth various British Romantic authors and texts, covering a range of genres. Includes some consideration of European Romanticism and the Romantic Movement as expressed in visual and musical arts.
ENGL 333 – The Victorians
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Explores the intersection between imaginative writing and cultural issues during this period (1830 to 1900) of intensive change regarding gender roles, economic and social inequality, individual liberty versus traditional values, the rise of science (including evolution), religious difference, the role of […]
ENGL 313 – Literature for the Young Child
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Studies the prominent writers and illustrators of books for young children. Special emphasis on the process of sharing books with children. Required of all Early Childhood majors. Not applicable toward General Education Requirements (Literature), English Liberal Arts major, Professional Writing option, […]
ENGL 315 – Literature for Children
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Studies the history and scope of children’s literature as well as the prominent illustrators of children’s books. Emphasis on the evaluation of books suitable for the preschool, elementary, and middle school child. Required of all Elementary Education majors. Not applicable toward […]
ENGL 318 – Technical Communication
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122). (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Introduces students to the conventions of writing in technology and the sciences. Students learn technical writing style, the integration of visual aids, collaborative processes, and document production cycles. To be eligible for English 498, majors and minors in Professional Writing must earn at least […]
ENGL 308N – Survey of British Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Surveys British Literature covering major authors, periods, and key texts from the 9th through the 21st centuries; provides an introductory foundation for further study.