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 370 – Creative Writing:poetry Workshop
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Introduces students to writing poetry. Class discussion will center on the work of class members. All students will be expected to compose and to share their poems with the instructor and with other students
ENGL 372 – Creative Writing: Playwriting
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Introduces students to writing for the stage. Class discussion emphasizes stagecraft, character development, and dramatic conflict. Students will be expected to write their own plays for in-class critique and possible submission for production/publication.
ENGL 383 – Film, Genres, & Styles
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Explores the history and form of specific types of films as they have been grouped by critics, viewers, and movie makers. Follows the development of film types, like science fiction or the western, and situates each film in its historical and […]
ENGL 353 – Writing in the Health Professions
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Offers training in writing for the health professions. Emphasizes the rhetorical principles involved in effective charting practices, report writing, policy writing, and production of health education materials. Focusing on individualized research areas, students practice writing for diverse health-related audiences, including other […]
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 367 – Creative Writing:fiction Workshop
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Introduces students to the fundamentals of fiction writing. Emphasizes the composition of original student fiction and the development of editorial skills in classroom discussion and workshop formats.
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 […]
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 […]