 | | Course ID: | ENGL 1050H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Composition and Literature (Honors) | Course
Description: | Close analysis of literary works as the basis of effective critical writing. | | Athena Title: | Composition and Lit Honors | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1060H, ENGL 1102, ENGL 1102E, ENGL 1102S, ENGL 1103 | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S) and permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 1060H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Composition and Multicultural Literature (Honors) | Course
Description: | Close analysis of multicultural literary works as the basis of effective critical writing. | | Athena Title: | Comp and Multicul Lit Honors | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1050H, ENGL 1102, ENGL 1102E, ENGL 1102S, ENGL 1103 | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S) and permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 1101. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | English Composition I | Course
Description: | Expository themes on both general and literary topics developed by basic rhetorical methods. | | Athena Title: | English Composition I | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1101E, ENGL 1101S | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 1101E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | English Composition I | Course
Description: | Expository themes on both general and literary topics developed
by basic rhetorical methods. | | Athena Title: | English Composition I | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1101, ENGL 1101S | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 1101S. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | English Composition I: Service-Learning | Course
Description: | Expository themes on both general and literary topics developed
by basic rhetorical methods, with a focus on writing for
non-profit and service organizations. | | Athena Title: | English Composition I SL | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1101, ENGL 1101E | | Nontraditional Format: | Course includes a service-learning project during the semester
that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or
teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives.
Students will be involved in the planning and implementation of
the project(s) and may spend time outside of the classroom.
Students will be engaged in the service-learning component for
approximately 25-50% of overall instructional time. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 1102E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | English Composition II | Course
Description: | Themes on fiction, poetry, and drama. | | Athena Title: | English Composition II | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1050H, ENGL 1060H, ENGL 1102, ENGL 1102S, ENGL 1103 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 1102S. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | English Composition II - Service Learning | Course
Description: | Course is centered around writing critically about literature. The choice and sequence of topics will vary from instructor to instructor and semester to semester. Students in this course will practice the skills of analytical writing and argumentation in regard to the topic of writing for nonprofits and service organizations. Students will also practice the skills of reflective writing in response to the service learning experience. | | Athena Title: | English Composition II SL | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1050H, ENGL 1060H, ENGL 1102, ENGL 1102E, ENGL 1103 | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 1102. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | English Composition II | Course
Description: | Themes on fiction, poetry, and drama. | | Athena Title: | English Composition II | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1050H, ENGL 1060H, ENGL 1102E, ENGL 1102S, ENGL 1103 | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 1103. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Multicultural English Composition | Course
Description: | Themes on fiction, poetry, and drama using multicultural literature. | | Athena Title: | Multicultural English Comp | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1050H, ENGL 1060H, ENGL 1102, ENGL 1102E, ENGL 1102S | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 2310. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | English Literature from the Beginnings to 1700 | Course
Description: | Writers typically include the Beowulf poet, Gawain poet, Chaucer, Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Donne, Jonson, Shakespeare, and Milton. | | Athena Title: | ENG LIT TO 1700 | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2310E, ENGL 2310W, ENGL 2350H | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102M | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 2310E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | English Literature from the Beginnings to 1700 | Course
Description: | Writers typically include the Beowulf poet, Gawain poet,
Chaucer, Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Donne, Jonson, Shakespeare,
and Milton. | | Athena Title: | English Lit from Beg to 1700 | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2310, ENGL 2310W, ENGL 2350H | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 2310W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | British Literature from the Beginnings to 1700 | Course
Description: | Writers typically include the Beowulf poet, Gawain poet,
Chaucer, Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Donne, Jonson, Shakespeare,
and Milton. | | Athena Title: | British Lit from Beg to 1700 | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2310, ENGL 2310E, ENGL 2350H | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive, which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a)
relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication
values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument,
evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for
further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and
in professional life. The written assignments will result in a
significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of
6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the teaching
assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in
student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and
substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 2320. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | British and Irish Literature from 1700 to the Present | Course
Description: | Writers typically include Pope, Swift, Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, Arnold, Browning, one or two nineteenth-century novelists, Yeats, Woolf, and Joyce. | | Athena Title: | British Irish Lit Since 1700 | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2360H | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1102S | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 2330. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Literature from the Beginnings to 1914 | Course
Description: | Significant work by writers in America from the pre-Columbian era to World War I. Writers may include Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, Frances Harper, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. | | Athena Title: | American Literature to 1914 | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2370H | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 2340. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Literature from 1914 to the Present | Course
Description: | Significant work by American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Writers may include William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Ted Chiang, and Adrienne Rich. | | Athena Title: | American Literature from 1914 | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2380H | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 2350H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | English Literature from the Beginnings to 1700 (Honors) | Course
Description: | Writers typically include the Beowulf poet, Gawain poet, Chaucer, Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Donne, Jonson, Shakespeare, and Milton. | | Athena Title: | English Lit from Beg to 1700 H | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2310, ENGL 2310E, ENGL 2310W | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103) and permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 2360H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | British and Irish Literature from 1700 to the Present (Honors) | Course
Description: | Writers typically include Pope, Swift, Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, Arnold, Browning, one or two nineteenth-century novelists, Yeats, Woolf, and Joyce. | | Athena Title: | British Irish Lit Since 1700 H | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2320 | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1102S) and permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 2370H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Literature from the Beginnings to 1914 (Honors) | Course
Description: | Significant work by writers in America from the pre-Columbian era to World War I. Writers may include Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, Frances Harper, and Edith Wharton. | | Athena Title: | American Literature to 1914 H | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2330 | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E) and permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 2380H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Literature from 1914 to the Present (Honors) | Course
Description: | Significant work by American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Writers may include William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Ted Chiang, and Adrienne Rich. | | Athena Title: | American Lit Since 1914 H | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2340 | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E) and permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 2390H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Multicultural Literature in America (Honors) | Course
Description: | Important writers and movements in the mosaic of American culture and literature with special attention to African American, Native American, Hispanic American, and Asian American literatures. | | Athena Title: | MULTICUL AM LIT H | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2400 | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102M) and permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 2400. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Multicultural Literature in America | Course
Description: | Important writers and movements in the mosaic of American culture and literature with special attention to African American, Native American, Hispanic American, and Asian American literatures. | | Athena Title: | MULTICULT AM LIT | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2390H | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102M | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3007. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Spy Fiction | Course
Description: | Studying authors from Conrad and Buchan to Fleming and Le Carre,
this class will trace the emergence of a modern fictional genre
in its literary and historical contexts from late-Victorian
imperialism to the 21st-century surveillance state. | | Athena Title: | Spy Fiction | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3010. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Folklore | Course
Description: | The discipline of folklore, its aims, methods, and subject matter. The major genres of verbal folklore--folk speech, proverbs, riddles, rhymes, legends, folktales, ballads, and folksong--along with folk customs, festivals, and material culture. | | Athena Title: | Introduction to Folklore | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3030. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | World Englishes: Language, Literature, Pedagogy | Course
Description: | The forms and functions of varieties of Englishes in diverse
cultural contexts. World Englishes, or the English of Africa,
Asia, Europe, Oceania, and the Americas, has a scope that
integrates theory, methodology, and the empirical study of
English in global, linguistic, and literary contexts. | | Athena Title: | World Englishes | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102M or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3050. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Poetry | Course
Description: | Formal and thematic traditions of poetry in English, with emphasis on techniques of reading and of writing critical essays. | | Athena Title: | Introduction to Poetry | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3050H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Poetry (Honors) | Course
Description: | Formal and thematic traditions of poetry in English, with
emphasis on techniques of reading and of writing critical
essays. | | Athena Title: | Introduction to Poetry Honors | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H) and permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3055. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Poetry and Popular Song | Course
Description: | An investigation of the connection between poetry and popular
song in Great Britain and America, either in focus on
songwriters/poets or on the relationship between popular musical
forms and poetry or on the lyrics of English and American
popular song from ballads to Broadway to the Beatles and beyond. | | Athena Title: | Poetry and Popular Song | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(HIST) 3100. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to British and Irish Culture I | Course
Description: | This course considers the British Isles from a variety of
perspectives: artistic, historical, political, environmental,
and social, equipping students to pursue more sophisticated
studies in British and Irish history, literature, and culture. | | Athena Title: | Intro to Brit Irish Culture I | | Nontraditional Format: | You can expect to read a considerable number of short
pieces of writing, to look at many images, to listen to much
music, and to become familiar with maps and dates and poems,
with sheep and castles and trades unions, with loughs and
lochs and Locke. The texts covered – from the fields of history,
literature, religion, and culture – will range from the Roman
occupation of Britain (c. 55 B.C.) to the present day. English
3100 also serves as the gateway course for the certificate in
British and Irish Studies. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1102S or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 3230. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Development of African American Literature | Course
Description: | African American literature since 1773, particularly 1830 to the present: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Dorothy West, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and August Wilson, including diverse voices rooted in the folk origins for literary forms.
| | Athena Title: | Develop African American Lit | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(LACS) 3250. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Latinx Literature | Course
Description: | A survey of Latinx literature and key topics in Latinx literary
studies. Students will explore how Latino/as have imaginatively
dramatized issues such as barrio life, exilic nostalgia, internal
colonialism, historic traumas, border crossings, Spanglish,
mestizaje, machismo, and new notions of the American Dream. | | Athena Title: | Latinx Literature | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3300. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Women in Literature | Course
Description: | Reading and analysis of works in British and American literature by and about women. | | Athena Title: | Women in Literature | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3320. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Shakespeare and His World | Course
Description: | The plays and poems of Shakespeare, their historical and cultural
background, and their continuing significance in interpretation,
appropriation, and performance. Intended to help students become
informed and intelligent readers and viewers of Shakespeare. | | Athena Title: | Shakespeare and His World | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3330H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literature and Human Rights (Honors) | Course
Description: | Introduces students to a wide range of texts by writers who have
responded to human rights violations around the globe: what
responsibilities do these authors have towards their subject-
matter/audience as they tell their stories? How do these stories
relate to cultural and aesthetic forms? In what way do they
resolve the tension between cultural and universal forms and
ethics? | | Athena Title: | Lit and Human Rights Honors | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 3330 | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H) and permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3330. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literature and Human Rights | Course
Description: | Investigates the way in which literary studies have contributed
to the understanding of human rights (with an emphasis on human
dignity, equality, liberty, and progress), and interrogates
whether “human rights” can be accepted as a universal code,
considering that mores vary from culture to culture. | | Athena Title: | Literature and Human Rights | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 3330H | | Pre or Corequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3340. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literature and Crime | Course
Description: | Examining authors from Poe and Dostoevsky to Christie, Hammett, and beyond, the course studies literature centered on crime, detection, and mystery within its literary and historical contexts. It considers developments from the 19th century through the “golden age” and hardboiled novels to contemporary procedurals and thrillers, reading them as literary endeavors. | | Athena Title: | Lit and Crime | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1102S or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3400. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literature and Evolution | Course
Description: | A consideration of literary works that serve as background to,
expressions of, and commentary on the theory of evolution and
its supporting sciences such as molecular genetics. In addition
to Darwin, authors studied may include Mary Shelley, Thomas
Huxley, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, James Watson, Richard
Powers, and Margaret Atwood. | | Athena Title: | LIT AND EVOLUTION | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102M or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3410. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literature and Media | Course
Description: | Literature in English in relation to forms of media, past or
present, to media environments, and to media change. Depending
on the instructor, the course may concentrate on literature in
the changing media ecology of the twenty-first century, or on
historical interactions between literature and other media. | | Athena Title: | Literature and Media | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3420. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literature and the Mind | Course
Description: | Cognitive approaches to literature and a broad introduction to
cognitive poetics. Designed to familiarize students with key
concepts in cognitive science and to demonstrate how knowledge
of those topics can help to inform readings of literary texts. | | Athena Title: | Literature and the Mind | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3430. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literature and Childhood | Course
Description: | Literature in English in relation to children and childhood.
Depending on the instructor, the course may concentrate on
critical approaches to literature for children or on the
representation of childhood or focalization through child
characters in works marketed primarily to adults. | | Athena Title: | Literature and Childhood | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3440. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literature and Philosophy | Course
Description: | Exploration of the relationship between literature and
philosophy. Depending on the instructor, the emphasis may be
philosophical readings of literary texts or the literary
treatment of philosophical texts. | | Athena Title: | Literature and Philosophy | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3450. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literature and War | Course
Description: | An introduction to the literature and literary representation of
war. Novels, poetry, memoirs, and film will be read closely for
technique and in order to analyze the capacity of stories and
different genres to convey the lived reality and effects of war
on bodies, psyches, political culture, and national identity. | | Athena Title: | Literature and War | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3460. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literature and Utopia | Course
Description: | A survey of utopian and dystopian literature and criticism.
Students will explore the genre's literary profiles, its critical
and speculative capacities, and its ethical and philosophical
implications. | | Athena Title: | Literature and Utopia | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3470. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Contemporary World Literature in English | Course
Description: | Contemporary literature written in English by writers from former
British colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, the Indian
subcontinent, and the Pacific region. Students will explore
cultural, historical, and political issues raised by these texts,
examining how they approach questions of political resistance,
nation-building, and collective identity. | | Athena Title: | Contemp World Lit in English | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 3480. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literature and the Black Atlantic | Course
Description: | A survey of literature related to the long history of the Black Atlantic, with an emphasis on issues of slavery, the slave trade, race, empire, colonialism, and postcolonialism. | | Athena Title: | Literature and Black Atlantic | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3490. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literature and Revolution | Course
Description: | A survey of historic revolutions in the literary imagination. Draws on historical novels, novelistic histories, memoirs, poetry, film, and the arts. Cases may include any number of historic revolutions, from the paradigmatic French, American, and Russian revolutions to others of the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries. | | Athena Title: | Literature and Revolution | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1102S or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3500. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Jane Austen's World | Course
Description: | An introduction to the literature and culture of the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. | | Athena Title: | Jane Austen's World | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3530W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Victorian Studies | Course
Description: | An introduction to the literature and culture of the British
Victorian period, from the first Reform Bill (1832) to the
death of Queen Victoria (1901). | | Athena Title: | Intro to Victorian Studies | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 3530 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive, which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that
a) relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the
communication values of a discipline—for example, its practices
of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare
students for further writing in their academic work, in
graduate school, and in professional life. The written
assignments will result in a significant and diverse body of
written work (the equivalent of 6000 words or 25 pages) and the
instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the
course) will be closely involved in student writing, providing
opportunities for feedback, and substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3530. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Victorian Studies | Course
Description: | An introduction to the literature and culture of the British Victorian period, from the first Reform Bill (1832) to the death of Queen Victoria (1901). | | Athena Title: | Victorian Studies | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 3530W | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3590W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Technical and Professional Communication | Course
Description: | Writing in the professional domains, with an emphasis on research methods, clear and accurate presentation of ideas and data, and computer-mediated communication. | | Athena Title: | TECH AND PROF COMM | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 3590 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught as writing intensive, which means
that the course will include substantial and ongoing writing
assignments that a) relate clearly to course learning; b) teach
the communication values of a discipline—for example, its
practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; and
c) prepare students for further writing in their academic work,
in graduate school, and in professional life. The written
assignments will result in a significant and diverse body of
written work (the equivalent of 6000 words or 25 pages) and the
instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the
course) will be closely involved in student writing, providing
opportunities for feedback and substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102M | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3600W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Advanced Composition | Course
Description: | Writing as a process, with an emphasis on the conventions of discourse situations, invention, revision, editorial skills, and document design. | | Athena Title: | Advanced Composition | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 3600E | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive, which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that
a) relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication
values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument,
evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for
further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and
in professional life. The written assignments will result in a
significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of
6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the teaching
assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in
student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and
substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3600E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Advanced Composition | Course
Description: | Investigation of writing as a process, dialogue, and artifact.
During investigations, the class will discuss histories,
theories, practices, forms, design, and the future of
composition. During studio sessions, students will actively
engage in writing and writing process activities, including
brainstorming, drafting, peer review, revising, editing, and
reflecting. | | Athena Title: | Advanced Composition | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 3600W | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S) and (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3610H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Fiction (Honors) | Course
Description: | Short fiction in English, with some attention to historical
development of the genre, narrative techniques, and the
development of critical strategies for reading and writing. | | Athena Title: | Introduction to Fiction Honors | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H) and permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3610. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Fiction | Course
Description: | Short fiction in English, with some attention to historical development of the genre, narrative techniques, and the development of critical strategies for reading and writing. | | Athena Title: | Introduction to Fiction | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3650. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Drama | Course
Description: | Drama in English. Focus may be historical development of the genre, representative themes, the relation between theory and practice, or the relation between text and performance. The course will include critical writing. | | Athena Title: | Introduction to Drama | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3650H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Drama (Honors) | Course
Description: | Drama in English. Focus may be historical development of the
genre, representative themes, the relation between theory and
practice, or the relation between text and performance. The
course will include critical writing. | | Athena Title: | Introduction to Drama Honors | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 3650 | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H) and permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3700W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Writing in the Disciplines | Course
Description: | An introduction to the principles and practices of writing in the disciplines. In the lecture, students will investigate academic, professional, and public genres. In discussion, students will evaluate writing in specific contexts and develop expertise in critical reading, rhetorical analysis, peer review, and revision. | | Athena Title: | Writing in the Disciplines | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 3700, ENGL 3700D | | Nontraditional Format: | The W suffix is used for courses taught as writing intensive, which means that the course includes substantial and ongoing writing assignments that: a) facilitate learning; b) teach the communication values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; c) support writing as a process; and d) prepare students for further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and in professional life. Writing instruction and assignments are integral to the class’s learning objectives, and the instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in supporting students as writers.
More specifically, writing-intensive classes:
• involve students in informal writing assignments that promote course learning;
• stage and sequence assignments to encourage writing as a process of creating and communicating knowledge;
• maximize opportunities for guidance, feedback, and revision;
• teach the writing conventions that are inseparable from modes of inquiry in a discipline;
• make writing a substantive component of the overall course grade to underscore the value of writing to the course, the discipline, and student learning. | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S) and (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3700-3700D. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Writing in the Disciplines | Course
Description: | An introduction to the principles and practices of writing in
the disciplines. In lecture, students will investigate academic,
professional, and public genres. In discussion, students will
evaluate writing in specific contexts and develop expertise in
critical reading, rhetorical analysis, peer review, and revision. | | Athena Title: | Writing in the Disciplines | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 3700W | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive, which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a)
relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication
values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument,
evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students
for further writing in their academic work, in graduate school,
and in professional life. The written assignments will result in
a significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of
6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the
teaching assistant assigned to the course) will be closely
involved in student writing, providing opportunities for feedback
and substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S) and (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3800H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Creative Writing (Honors) | Course
Description: | Elements of writing poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction
through selected readings and discussion of student writing for
Honors students. | | Athena Title: | INTRO CREAT WRIT H | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 3800 | | Prerequisite: | (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102M) and permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3800W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Creative Writing | Course
Description: | Elements of writing poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction through selected readings and discussion of student writing. | | Athena Title: | INTRO CREATIVE WRIT | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 3800 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive, which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a)
relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication
values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument,
evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for
further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and
in professional life. The written assignments will result in a
significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of
6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the teaching
assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in
student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and
substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102M | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3801W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Intermediate Creative Writing: Topics | Course
Description: | Intermediate study in creative writing, limited to a single
genre, such as short fiction, poetry, nonfiction, the novel,
performative writing, hypertext, and hybrid form. Focus varies
according to professor. | | Athena Title: | INTRMED CW TOPICS | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 3801 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive, which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a)
relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication
values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument,
evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for
further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and
in professional life. The written assignments will result in a
significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of
6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the teaching
assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in
student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and
substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | [ENGL 1101 and (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102M) and ENGL 3800] or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3820W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Critical Approaches to Literature | Course
Description: | Introduction to literary criticism, emphasizing major critical
approaches to literature. | | Athena Title: | Critical Approaches to Lit | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive, which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that
a) relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the
communication values of a discipline—for example, its practices
of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare
students for further writing in their academic work, in
graduate school, and in professional life. The written
assignments will result in a significant and diverse body of
written work (the equivalent of 6000 words or 25 pages) and the
instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the
course) will be closely involved in student writing, providing
opportunities for feedback and substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3850S. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Writing and Community | Course
Description: | Study of how writing functions in the formation and maintenance
of communities and the role of written communication in
addressing community needs and concerns. | | Athena Title: | Writing and Community | | Nontraditional Format: | Course includes a service-learning project during the semester
that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or
teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives.
Students will be involved in the planning and implementation of
the project(s) and may spend time outside of the classroom.
Students will be engaged in the service-learning component for
approximately 25-50% of overall instructional time. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3860W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Science Writing for General Audiences | Course
Description: | A writing-intensive introduction to reading and writing about
scientific research in order to bring scientific information to
the general public. | | Athena Title: | Science Writing General Audien | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a)
relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication
values of a discipline-for example, its practices of argument,
evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for
further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and
in professional life. The written assignments will result in a
significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of
6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the teaching
assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in
student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and
substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S and (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 3880S. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Modern Civil Rights Movement in Literature and Culture | Course
Description: | Literature, film, and photography from and about the American
Civil Rights Movement, from the desegregation campaigns of World
War II through 1972’s National Black Political Convention.
Students will participate in an experiential learning project
assisting local communities in preserving or memorializing
movement histories and stories. | | Athena Title: | Civil Rights Lit and Culture | | Nontraditional Format: | Course includes a service-learning project during the semester
that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or
teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives.
Students will be involved in the planning and implementation of
the project(s) and may spend time outside of the classroom.
Students will be engaged in the service-learning component for
approximately 25-50% of overall instructional time. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4001. 1 hour. | | Course Title: | Careers for English Majors | Course
Description: | Exploration of potential careers for English majors and preparing students to apply for jobs using rhetorically-targeted application materials. | | Athena Title: | Careers for English Majors | | Nontraditional Format: | Students will attend workshops and career fairs sponsored by the UGA Career Center and will also participate in the UGA Mentorship Program outside of class time. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(LING) 4005/6005. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of the English Language | Course
Description: | The development of present English through the stages of Old English, Middle English, and early Modern English. Study of elementary phonetics, phonemics, sound change, and dialect variation. | | Athena Title: | HIST ENG LANG | | Prerequisite: | LING 2100 or ENGL(LING) 3030 or CMLT 2111 or CMLT 2210 or CMLT 2212 or CMLT 2220 or CMLT 2500 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or ENGL 2330 or ENGL 2340 or ENGL 2400 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(LING) 4010/6010. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American English | Course
Description: | The history, present status, and future prospects of American English, including standards and internal variation. | | Athena Title: | AMERICAN ENGLISH | | Undergraduate Prerequisite: | ENGL(LING) 3030 or ENGL(LING) 4005/6005 or LING 2100 | | Graduate Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(LING)(AFAM) 4040. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Language Use in the African American Community | Course
Description: | History and structure of the speech and language styles used in the African American community; examination of linguistic and cultural issues that confront the majority of African Americans; the role of the vernacular language of African Americans in society. | | Athena Title: | AFR AMER LANG USE | | Prerequisite: | ENGL(LING) 3030 or ENGL(LING) 4005/6005 or LING 2100 | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LING(AFAM)(ENGL) 4050/6050. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Structure of African American English | Course
Description: | Discussion and analysis of the phonological, morphological,
lexical, discourse, and syntactic structures of African American
English and their interaction as the grammatical system of
language use in the African American community. | | Athena Title: | STRUCTURE OF AAE | | Prerequisite: | LING 2100 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(LING) 4060/6060. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Old English | Course
Description: | The language and literature of England before the Norman Conquest, with reading of selected texts. | | Athena Title: | Old English | | Prerequisite: | LING 2100 or LING 2100E or LING 2100H or ENGL 3030 or two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LING(ENGL) 4080. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Language and Complex Systems | Course
Description: | Introduction to the study and theory of language as it is
actually used by people in speech and writing. Regional and
social language variation and variation in text corpora will
both be considered, as will the relationship of language
variation to language change. | | Athena Title: | Language and Complex Systems | | Prerequisite: | LING 2100 or LING 2100H or LING 2100E or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(LING) 4100/6100. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Lexicography | Course
Description: | Principles and methods of dictionary making with emphasis on monolingual English and bilingual dictionaries. Topics may include typology of dictionaries and dictionary users, the history of lexicography, the collection and selection of headwords and examples; the definition style, pronunciation, labeling, translation equivalents, etymology, illustrations, and encyclopedic information. | | Athena Title: | LEXICOGRAPHY | | Undergraduate Prerequisite: | ENGL(LING) 3030 or ENGL(LING) 4005/6005 or LING 2100 | | Graduate Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4110/6110. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | English Grammar | Course
Description: | English grammar as represented in alternative modern approaches,
including terms and concepts from traditional and structural
grammar. | | Athena Title: | English Grammar | | Undergraduate Prerequisite: | ENGL(LING) 3030 or ENGL(LING) 4005/6005 or LING 2100 | | Graduate Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4170/6170. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Second Language Acquisition | Course
Description: | Linguistic theories of second language acquisition, with emphasis on the acquisition of English. Topics include order of acquisition, sociocultural factors with linguistic bases, and neurolinguistic models. | | Athena Title: | Second Language Acquisition | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 3030 or ENGL 4110/6110 or LING 2100 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(LING) 4190. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in the English Language | Course
Description: | A special topic not otherwise offered in the English curriculum. Topics and instructors vary from semester to semester. | | Athena Title: | TOPICS IN ENG LANG | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4210/6210. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Old English Literature | Course
Description: | Prose and poetry of the Old English period, exclusive of Beowulf, with emphasis on poetry. Works will be read in Old English, with supplementary translations. | | Athena Title: | OLD ENGLISH LIT | | Undergraduate Prerequisite: | ENGL(LING) 4060/6060 and two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Graduate Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4220/6220. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Beowulf | Course
Description: | The poem in the original Old English, with attention to important critical studies. | | Athena Title: | BEOWULF | | Undergraduate Prerequisite: | ENGL(LING) 4060/6060 and two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Graduate Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4230. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Medieval Literature | Course
Description: | Masterpieces of medieval literature, exclusive of Chaucer. Some works will be read in Modern English translation. | | Athena Title: | Medieval Literature | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4230W | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4230W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Medieval Literature | Course
Description: | Masterpieces of medieval literature, exclusive of Chaucer. Some works will be read in Modern English translation. | | Athena Title: | Medieval Literature | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4230 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive, which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a)
relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication
values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument,
evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for
further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and
in professional life. The written assignments will result in a
significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of
6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the teaching
assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in
student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and
substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4240W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Chaucer | Course
Description: | Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and minor poems. | | Athena Title: | Chaucer | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4240, ENGL 6240 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive, which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a)
relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication
values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument,
evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for
further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and
in professional life. The written assignments will result in a
significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of
6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the teaching
assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in
student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and
substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4240/6240. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Chaucer | Course
Description: | Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and minor poems. | | Athena Title: | Chaucer | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4240W | | Undergraduate Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Graduate Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4270. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Medieval Romance | Course
Description: | Development of the Romance form (verse and prose) during the high
middle ages and reasons for its historical and continuing appeal.
Materials may include: Arthurian romance, the Grail Quest,
English and Breton lais, and the matters of France, Rome, and
Britain. Some works may be read in modern English translation. | | Athena Title: | Medieval Romance | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4290. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in Medieval Literature | Course
Description: | A special topic not otherwise offered in the English curriculum. Topics and instructors vary from semester to semester. | | Athena Title: | Topics in Medieval Literature | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4300/6300. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Elizabethan Poetry | Course
Description: | Poetry of the earlier English Renaissance, such as works by Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, and Marlowe, and the sonnets of Shakespeare. | | Athena Title: | Elizabethan Poetry | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4300W | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4300W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Elizabethan Poetry | Course
Description: | Poetry of the earlier English Renaissance, such as works by Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, and Marlowe, and the sonnets of Shakespeare. | | Athena Title: | Elizabethan Poetry | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4300, ENGL 6300 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive, which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a)
relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication
values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument,
evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for
further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and
in professional life. The written assignments will result in a
significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of
6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the teaching
assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in
student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and
substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4310. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Tudor Literature | Course
Description: | A survey of Tudor literature, from the time of Henry VII to Elizabeth I. The course will attend to the verse, prose, and drama of the period in their cultural contexts. | | Athena Title: | Tudor Literature | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4320W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Shakespeare I: Selected Works | Course
Description: | A survey of literature written by Shakespeare throughout his
career. | | Athena Title: | Shakespeare I: Selected Works | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4320, ENGL 6320, ENGL 4320E, ENGL 6320E | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive, which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a)
relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication
values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument,
evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for
further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and
in professional life. The written assignments will result in a
significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of
6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the teaching
assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in
student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and
substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4320E/6320E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Shakespeare I: Selected Works | Course
Description: | A survey of literature written by Shakespeare throughout his career. | | Athena Title: | Shakespeare I: Selected Works | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4320, ENGL 4320W or ENGL 6320 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4320/6320. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Shakespeare I: Selected Works | Course
Description: | A survey of literature written by Shakespeare throughout his career. | | Athena Title: | Shakespeare I: Selected Works | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4320E, ENGL 4320W or ENGL 6320E | | Undergraduate Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Graduate Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4330. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Shakespeare II: Special Topics | Course
Description: | Special topics related to Shakespeare. | | Athena Title: | Shakespeare II: Special Topics | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4330W | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4330W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Shakespeare II: Special Topics | Course
Description: | Special topics related to Shakespeare. | | Athena Title: | Shakespeare II: Special Topics | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4330 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive, which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a)
relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication
values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument,
evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for
further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and
in professional life. The written assignments will result in a
significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of
6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the teaching
assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in
student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and
substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4340/6340. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Renaissance Drama | Course
Description: | English drama from 1576 to 1642, exclusive of Shakespeare, emphasizing dramatists such as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Middleton. | | Athena Title: | Renaissance Drama | | Undergraduate Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Graduate Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4350/6350. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Seventeenth-Century Poetry | Course
Description: | Major English poets of the period, such as Donne, Jonson, Herbert, and Marvell. | | Athena Title: | 17th Century Poetry | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4370. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Milton | Course
Description: | The works and times of John Milton. | | Athena Title: | Milton | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(ENGL) 4380. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | London in the Age of Shakespeare | Course
Description: | In England, attitudes to political authority and social identity
were challenged and transformed during the early modern period,
as is evident, if somewhat nebulously, in Shakespeare's works.
This course examines the city of London, 1590-1610, where such
works were shaped and performed, as a crucial context for
understanding these developments. | | Athena Title: | City of London, 1590-1610 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4390W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Topics in Renaissance Literature | Course
Description: | A special topic not otherwise offered in the English curriculum.
Topics and instructors vary from semester to semester. | | Athena Title: | Topics in Renaissance Lit | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4390 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive, which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a)
relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication
values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument,
evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for
further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and
in professional life. The written assignments will result in a
significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of
6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the teaching
assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in
student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and
substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4390. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in Renaissance Literature | Course
Description: | A special topic not otherwise offered in the English curriculum. Topics and instructors vary from semester to semester. | | Athena Title: | Topics in Renaissance Lit | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4390W | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4400/6400. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Drama | Course
Description: | Outstanding dramatists of the period: Dryden, Wycherley, Addison, Goldsmith, Sheridan, and others. | | Athena Title: | Restoration 18th Century Drama | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4420/6420. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Early Eighteenth-Century Prose and Poetry | Course
Description: | Poetry and prose of the earlier eighteenth century, emphasizing Addison, Steele, Defoe, Swift, and Pope. | | Athena Title: | Early 18th Century Lit | | Undergraduate Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Graduate Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4430. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Eighteenth-Century English Novel | Course
Description: | The English novel from Defoe to 1800, including novels by Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne, the Gothic novel, and the novel of purpose. | | Athena Title: | 18th Century English Novel | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 6430 | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4440/6440. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Age of Johnson | Course
Description: | English literature of the late eighteenth century, emphasizing
the works of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and other writers
of the time. | | Athena Title: | AGE OF JOHNSON | | Undergraduate Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Graduate Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4450. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Global Eighteenth Century | Course
Description: | An examination of eighteenth-century British literature with an
emphasis on texts that attend to issues of empire, race,
travel, colonialism, transatlanticism, and multiculturalism in
the period. | | Athena Title: | The Global Eighteenth Century | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 6451 | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4460. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Women in the Eighteenth Century | Course
Description: | An examination of eighteenth-century British literature with an
emphasis on texts that represent women and investigate themes
of gender, the feminine literary marketplace, and the history
of women. | | Athena Title: | Women in Eighteenth Century | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4460E | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4460E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Women in the Eighteenth Century | Course
Description: | An examination of eighteenth-century British literature with an
emphasis on texts that represent women and investigate themes of
gender, the feminine literary marketplace, and the history of
women. | | Athena Title: | Women in Eighteenth Century | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4460 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 4470. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Eighteenth Century Literature and the Black Atlantic | Course
Description: | An examination of eighteenth-century British literature with an emphasis on issues of slavery, race, empire, colonialism, and multiculturalism in the Atlantic world. Authors will likely include Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley Peters, Mary Prince, Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Hannah More, and William Blake. | | Athena Title: | 18th Cent Lit Black Atlantic | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4480/6480. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Scottish Literature of the Eighteenth Century | Course
Description: | A survey of eighteenth-century Scottish literature with an
emphasis on its variety. The canon includes the nonfictional
narratives of James Boswell; the poetry and song of James
Thomson; James MacPherson and Robert Burns; the novels of
Walter Scott, Tobias Smollett, Elizabeth Hamilton, and James
Hogg. | | Athena Title: | 18TH-C SCOTTISH LIT | | Undergraduate Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Graduate Prerequisite: | Permission of department | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4490. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in Eighteenth-Century Literature | Course
Description: | A special topic not otherwise offered in the English curriculum. Topics and instructors vary from semester to semester. | | Athena Title: | Topics 18-Century Literature | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4500. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Romantic Literature | Course
Description: | British literature, 1785-1832. An introduction to genres, themes, and contexts of the Romantic period. Authors studied may include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Mary and Percy Shelley. | | Athena Title: | Romantic Literature | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 6500 | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4501. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Romantic Circles | Course
Description: | Romantic-era literature (1780-1830) focusing on a particular
circle of writers who knew and wrote in relation to one another.
Possible circles include, but are not limited to, Coleridge and
the Wordsworths, Byron and the Shelleys, and the Keats-Hunt
circle. | | Athena Title: | Romantic Circles | | Prerequisite: | (Two 2000-level ENGL courses) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4505. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Single Author Study: Jane Austen | Course
Description: | Jane Austen's writing in historical and biographical context,
including correspondence and juvenilia. Adaptations of auste,
including prequels and sequels and cinematic renderings of
Austen's life and work. | | Athena Title: | Jane Austen | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4510. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Nineteenth-Century British Prose | Course
Description: | British non-fiction prose from the Romantic period to the death of Queen Victoria (1901), with emphasis on the works of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, De Quincey, Hazlitt, Lamb, Carlyle, Newman, Mill, Ruskin, Darwin, Arnold, Pater, and Wilde. | | Athena Title: | 19TH-CEN BRIT PROSE | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4530 | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4520. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Nineteenth-Century British Novel | Course
Description: | The development of the British novel in the nineteenth century. | | Athena Title: | Nineteenth-Century Brit Novel | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4520W | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4520W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Nineteenth-Century British Novel | Course
Description: | The development of the British novel in the nineteenth century. | | Athena Title: | Nineteenth-Century Brit Novel | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4520 | | Nontraditional Format: | This version of the course will be taught as writing intensive,
which means that the course will include substantial and ongoing
writing assignments that a) relate clearly to course learning;
b) teach the communication values of a discipline—for example,
its practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; and
c) prepare students for further writing in their academic work,
in graduate school, and in professional life. The written
assignments will result in a significant and diverse body of
written work (the equivalent of 6000 words or 25 pages) and the
instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the
course) will be closely involved in student writing, providing
opportunities for feedback and substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4530. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Victorian Literature | Course
Description: | British literature from the first Reform Bill (1832) to the death of Queen Victoria (1901), with emphasis on the poetry and non-fiction prose of writers such as Tennyson, Elizabeth and Robert Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, and Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. | | Athena Title: | Victorian Literature | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4540. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Victorian Poetry | Course
Description: | British poetry from the first Reform Bill (1832) to the death of Queen Victoria (1901), with emphasis on the works of writers such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Tennyson, Emily Bronte, Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Arnold, Clough, Meredith, Swinburne, Webster, Hopkins, Levy, Field, Yeats, and Hardy. | | Athena Title: | Victorian Poetry | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4550. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Britain, Empire, and the Global Nineteenth Century | Course
Description: | Examination of nineteenth-century writing from the British
Isles, the British Empire, and elsewhere, with an emphasis on
Anglophone literature that attends to issues of travel,
colonialism, race, imperialism, transatlanticism,
multiculturalism, nation, and internationalism in the period. | | Athena Title: | Britain Emp Global 19th Cent | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4590. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in Nineteenth-Century British Literature | Course
Description: | A special topic not otherwise offered in the English curriculum. Topics and instructors vary from semester to semester. | | Athena Title: | Nineteenth-Century British Lit | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 4620. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | African American Poetry | Course
Description: | African American poetry from the colonial period to the present, including slave and folk songs of the mid-nineteenth century, the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's, and contemporary poetry. Emphasis on such figures as Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rita Dove, Kevin Young, and others. | | Athena Title: | African American Poetry | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 4630. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | African American Fiction | Course
Description: | Important African American stories and novels from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including works by such authors as Frances Harper, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. | | Athena Title: | African American Fiction | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4640. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Film as Literature | Course
Description: | The interpretation of films, with emphasis on the relationships between motion pictures and British and American literature. | | Athena Title: | Film as Literature | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4650. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Modern Drama | Course
Description: | The drama of Europe and America from the realism of Ibsen and Strindberg to the present. | | Athena Title: | Modern Drama | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4660. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry | Course
Description: | British and Irish poetry since the 1890s. | | Athena Title: | 20th Cent British Irish Poetry | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4670. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Twentieth-Century British and Irish Novel | Course
Description: | Fiction of such representative British and Irish novelists of the twentieth century as Bowen, Conrad, Forster, Joyce, Lawrence, Waugh, Woolf, and Greene. | | Athena Title: | 20th Cent Brit and Irish Novel | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4680. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Modern Irish Literature | Course
Description: | Fiction, poetry, and drama of the Irish Renaissance and after. | | Athena Title: | Modern Irish Literature | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4690. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature | Course
Description: | A special topic not otherwise offered in the English curriculum. Topics and instructors vary from semester to semester. | | Athena Title: | 20th Century Brit & Irish Lit | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4700. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Early American Literature | Course
Description: | Examines the literature of the colonial and early national periods in transatlantic, hemispheric, and multicultural perspectives, emphasizing the study of imperialism, colonialism, and independence movements from the beginnings to 1830. Students may study Mayan and Aztec texts, and the writings of Columbus, Rowlandson, Edwards, Equiano, Wheatley, and Jefferson. | | Athena Title: | Early American Literature | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4710. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Renaissance | Course
Description: | American poetry, fiction, and prose written between 1820 and 1865. Writers may include Cooper, Poe, Caroline Kirkland, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Douglass, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. | | Athena Title: | American Renaissance | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4720. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Realism and Naturalism | Course
Description: | Regionalism, realism, and naturalism from 1865 to 1918 with attention to the themes of ethical conflict, determinism, urbanization, the New Woman, and the contributions of ethnic minorities. Writers may include Twain, James, Wharton, Jewett, Dunbar-Nelson, Zitkala-Sa, Chopin, Chesnutt, Crane, Howells, Dreiser, and Sui Sin Far. | | Athena Title: | Amer Realism and Naturalism | | Nontraditional Format: | The writing will consist of two essays examinations and a
research paper on one writer studied for the course. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4730. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The American Novel to 1900 | Course
Description: | The growth of the novel in America from its inception in the Romantic to the development of the Realistic novel. Writers may include Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Simms, James, Howells, Stowe, Chesnutt, Dreiser, Norris, and Crane. | | Athena Title: | The American Novel to 1900 | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4740. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Southern Literature | Course
Description: | The literature of the South from its roots through the modern renaissance. Writers may include Byrd, Cooke, Longstreet, Simms, Poe, Timrod, Lanier, Chopin, Twain, the Agrarians, Toomer, Roberts, Faulkner, Hurston, Welty, Porter, O'Connor, Wolfe, Percy, Crews, Berry, Kenan, Tyler, Dickey, Chappell, Alice Walker, and McCarthy.
| | Athena Title: | Southern Literature | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4750. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Modernism | Course
Description: | The fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction prose that expresses the literary experimentation and social transformations of the period from 1918 to 1960. Writers may include Eliot, Pound, Stein, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Toomer, Miller, O'Neill, Williams, Larsen, Steinbeck, Salinger, and O'Connor. | | Athena Title: | American Modernism | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4760. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Contemporary American Literature | Course
Description: | Various aspects of American fiction, poetry, drama, or non-fiction prose since 1960. The emphasis will vary from semester to semester following new developments in literature. | | Athena Title: | Contemporary American Lit | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4770. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Twentieth-Century American Poetry | Course
Description: | Ideas and forms in American poetry in the twentieth century. Writers may include Eliot, Pound, H.D., Stein, Stevens, Rich, Sexton, Roethke, Harjo, Lorde, Perlman, Howe, Ashbery, Lowell, Moore, Williams, and Frost. | | Athena Title: | Twentieth-Century Amer Poetry | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4780. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Twentieth-Century American Novel | Course
Description: | The development of the American novel from Naturalism through Modernism and Post-Modernism. Writers may include Cather, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wright, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Porter, O'Connor, Ellison, Heller, Morrison, and Percy. | | Athena Title: | Twentieth-Century Amer Novel | | Nontraditional Format: | Writing assignments will normally consist of two essay
examinations and a research paper exploring criticism of one of
the major novels. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4790. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in American Literature | Course
Description: | A special topic not otherwise offered in the English curriculum. Topics and instructors vary from semester to semester. | | Athena Title: | Topics in American Literature | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4800W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Intermediate Creative Writing: Fiction | Course
Description: | Students develop skills in fiction writing with a focus on the elements of narrative including plot, point of view, character development, dialogue, and voice. Students complete their own stories, analyze works of literature and one another’s drafts, and complete short writing exercises. | | Athena Title: | Creative Writing Fiction | | Nontraditional Format: | The W suffix is used for courses taught as writing intensive, which means that the course includes substantial and ongoing writing assignments that: a) facilitate learning; b) teach the communication values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; c) support writing as a process; and d) prepare students for further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and in professional life. Writing instruction and assignments are integral to the class’s learning objectives, and the instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in supporting students as writers.
More specifically, writing-intensive classes:
• involve students in informal writing assignments that promote course learning;
• stage and sequence assignments to encourage writing as a process of creating and communicating knowledge;
• maximize opportunities for guidance, feedback, and revision;
• teach the writing conventions that are inseparable from modes of inquiry in a discipline;
• make writing a substantive component of the overall course grade to underscore the value of writing to the course, the discipline, and student learning. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 3800W or ENGL 3800H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4801W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry | Course
Description: | Students develop skills in poetry writing with a special focus on the elements of the genre including line, syntax, diction, and rhetoric, as well as rhythmic and formal constraints. Students complete their own poems, analyze poems by established poets and each other, and complete short writing exercises. | | Athena Title: | Creative Writing Poetry | | Nontraditional Format: | The W suffix is used for courses taught as writing intensive, which means that the course includes substantial and ongoing writing assignments that: a) facilitate learning; b) teach the communication values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; c) support writing as a process; and d) prepare students for further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and in professional life. Writing instruction and assignments are integral to the class’s learning objectives, and the instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in supporting students as writers.
More specifically, writing-intensive classes:
• involve students in informal writing assignments that promote course learning;
• stage and sequence assignments to encourage writing as a process of creating and communicating knowledge;
• maximize opportunities for guidance, feedback, and revision;
• teach the writing conventions that are inseparable from modes of inquiry in a discipline;
make writing a substantive component of the overall course grade to underscore the value of writing to the course, the discipline, and student learning. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 3800W or ENGL 3800H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4802W. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction | Course
Description: | In this course, students already experienced in writing original fiction will not only create and revise individual stories or novel chapters but also learn strategies for developing and revising a longer fiction manuscript. Student assignments include sharing and critiquing one another’s drafts, completing short writing exercises, reading the work of established fiction writers, attending campus literary events, and completing a short story or novel chapter. | | Athena Title: | Creative Writing Adv Fiction | | Nontraditional Format: | The W suffix is used for courses taught as writing intensive, which means that the course includes substantial and ongoing writing assignments that: a) facilitate learning; b) teach the communication values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; c) support writing as a process; and d) prepare students for further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and in professional life. Writing instruction and assignments are integral to the class’s learning objectives, and the instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in supporting students as writers.
More specifically, writing-intensive classes:
• involve students in informal writing assignments that promote course learning;
• stage and sequence assignments to encourage writing as a process of creating and communicating knowledge;
• maximize opportunities for guidance, feedback, and revision;
• teach the writing conventions that are inseparable from modes of inquiry in a discipline;
make writing a substantive component of the overall course grade to underscore the value of writing to the course, the discipline, and student learning. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 4800W | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4803W. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry | Course
Description: | In this course, students already experienced in writing original poetry will not only create and revise individual poems but also learn strategies for developing and revising a poetry manuscript. Student assignments include sharing and critiquing one another’s drafts, completing short writing exercises, reading the work of established poets, attending campus poetry events, and completing a collection of original poetry. | | Athena Title: | Creative Writing Adv Poetry | | Nontraditional Format: | The W suffix is used for courses taught as writing intensive, which means that the course includes substantial and ongoing writing assignments that: a) facilitate learning; b) teach the communication values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; c) support writing as a process; and d) prepare students for further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and in professional life. Writing instruction and assignments are integral to the class’s learning objectives, and the instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in supporting students as writers.
More specifically, writing-intensive classes:
• involve students in informal writing assignments that promote course learning;
• stage and sequence assignments to encourage writing as a process of creating and communicating knowledge;
• maximize opportunities for guidance, feedback, and revision;
• teach the writing conventions that are inseparable from modes of inquiry in a discipline;
make writing a substantive component of the overall course grade to underscore the value of writing to the course, the discipline, and student learning. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 4801W | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4804W. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in Advanced Creative Writing | Course
Description: | This advanced creative writing course offers students the opportunity to work outside of the developmental course sequences in poetry or fiction. The focus of this course may be a single genre not covered by other course work, such as creative non-fiction or dramatic writing; may explore cross-genre writing or a particular subgenre of poetry or fiction, such as documentary poetry or science fiction; or it may take a thematic approach to multiple genres. | | Athena Title: | Creative Writing Special Topic | | Nontraditional Format: | The W suffix is used for courses taught as writing intensive, which means that the course includes substantial and ongoing writing assignments that: a) facilitate learning; b) teach the communication values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; c) support writing as a process; and d) prepare students for further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and in professional life. Writing instruction and assignments are integral to the class’s learning objectives, and the instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in supporting students as writers.
More specifically, writing-intensive classes:
• involve students in informal writing assignments that promote course learning;
• stage and sequence assignments to encourage writing as a process of creating and communicating knowledge;
• maximize opportunities for guidance, feedback, and revision;
• teach the writing conventions that are inseparable from modes of inquiry in a discipline;
make writing a substantive component of the overall course grade to underscore the value of writing to the course, the discipline, and student learning. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 3800W or ENGL 3800H | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4805. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Editing and Publishing | Course
Description: | Students will learn about the publishing industry--including its
structure and economics--and will practice some of the varied
tasks performed by editors, from copy-editing and critique to
thinking about larger issues such as audiences, markets, formats,
and media. | | Athena Title: | Editing and Publishing | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4810. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literary Magazine Editing and Publishing | Course
Description: | Students will engage in all aspects of editing and producing a
literary magazine or scholarly journal while learning about
literary and academic culture through theoretical, aesthetic,
critical, and practical components. | | Athena Title: | Literary Mag Edit and Publish | | Prerequisite: | Any two 2000-level ENGL courses) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4820. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literary Theory | Course
Description: | Representative texts from Aristotle to Derrida and beyond, exemplifying a range of contemporary critical approaches and providing a historical context for current theoretical debates. | | Athena Title: | Literary Theory | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4830W. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Advanced Studies in Writing | Course
Description: | Advanced study of writing as process and product, focusing on particular discourse situations or kinds of texts. Topics might typically be advanced technical communication, academic writing for literary scholars, or text and hypertext. | | Athena Title: | Advanced Studies in Writing | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is writing intensive, which means that the course
will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a)
relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication
values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument,
evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for
further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and
in professional life. The written assignments will result in a
significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of
6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the teaching
assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in
student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and
substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4840. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 4 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Internship in Literary Media | Course
Description: | An internship with a literary arts or media venue of the
student's choice, with departmental approval and under the
direction of the Undergraduate English Program Office and onsite
internship advisor. Internship work may include publishing,
editing, and arts administration. The internship will culminate
with a final academic project. | | Athena Title: | Internship in Literary Media | | Nontraditional Format: | Students receiving one credit hour will work six to ten hours a
week at a literary media venue and turn in short weekly work
logs and a short final paper summarizing their experiences.
Students receiving three credit hours will work six hours a week at
a literary arts venue, will perform research under the direction
of a faculty mentor and will produce a substantial academic
project. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4860. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Multicultural Topics in American Literature | Course
Description: | Topics in multicultural studies, with primary focus on literature by members of one or more traditionally marginalized cultural groups within the United States and with attention to historical context and theoretical aspects. | | Athena Title: | Multicultural American Lit | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4870. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Folklore Studies | Course
Description: | One or more folk groups, folklore genres, or topics concerning folklore. | | Athena Title: | Folklore Studies | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 4880. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in African American Literature | Course
Description: | Selected topics in African American literature such as African American autobiography, Harlem Renaissance, Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, and Black American literature and aesthetics. | | Athena Title: | Topics in African American Lit | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4880E, AFAM 4880E | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 4880E. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in African American Literature | Course
Description: | Selected topics in African American literature, such as African
American autobiography, Harlem Renaissance, Gwendolyn Brooks
and Richard Wright, and Black American literature and
aesthetics. | | Athena Title: | Topics in African American Lit | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4880, AFAM 4880 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4890. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in Criticism and Culture | Course
Description: | A special topic not otherwise offered in the English curriculum. Topics and instructors vary from semester to semester. | | Athena Title: | Criticism and Culture | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4960R. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 16 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research I | Course
Description: | Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into
fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires
students to gather, analyze, and synthesize and interpret data and
to present results in writing and other relevant communication
formats. | | Athena Title: | Undergraduate Research I | | Nontraditional Format: | This course belongs to a progressive research course sequence to
promote a student's increasing skill development and depth of
inquiry, as well as growing independent research capability.
This course requires the close supervision of a faculty member
as the student undertakes a systematic and in-depth inquiry into
unknown, fundamental, and applied problems. In some cases, the
student will work collaboratively as part of a research team.
The student will have to apply understanding of the discipline
to identify or shape research questions and apply skills and
techniques learned to the research project. Students will gather
data, synthesize relevant literature, analyze, and interpret
data. The student will present results in writing or through
participation in research-group or program meetings and meetings
with their faculty mentor. The student will receive feedback
from the faculty mentor on their research progress and written
or oral presentation of results. A minimum of 45 hours of work
per credit hour per semester is required. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4970R. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 8 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research II | Course
Description: | Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into
fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires
students to gather, analyze, and synthesize and interpret data and
to present results in writing and other relevant communication
formats. | | Athena Title: | Undergraduate Research II | | Nontraditional Format: | These courses belong to a progressive research course sequence
to promote a student's increasing skill development and depth of
inquiry, as well as growing independent research capability. The
courses require the close supervision of a faculty member as the
student undertakes a systematic and in-depth inquiry into
unknown, fundamental, and applied problems. In some cases, the
student will work collaboratively as part of a research team.
The student will have to apply understanding of the discipline
to identify or shape research questions and apply skills and
techniques learned to the research project. Students will gather
data, synthesize relevant literature, analyze, and interpret
data. The student will present results in writing or through
participation in research-group or program meetings and meetings
with their faculty mentor. The student will receive feedback
from the faculty mentor on their research progress and written
or oral presentation of results. A minimum of 45 hours of work
per credit hour per semester is required. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4980R. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 8 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research III | Course
Description: | Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into
fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires
students to gather, analyze, and synthesize and interpret data and
to present results in writing and other relevant communication
formats. | | Athena Title: | Undergraduate Research III | | Nontraditional Format: | These courses belong to a progressive research course sequence
to promote a student's increasing skill development and depth of
inquiry, as well as growing independent research capability. The
courses require the close supervision of a faculty member as the
student undertakes a systematic and in-depth inquiry into
unknown, fundamental, and applied problems. In some cases, the
student will work collaboratively as part of a research team.
The student will have to apply understanding of the discipline
to identify or shape research questions and apply skills and
techniques learned to the research project. Students will gather
data, synthesize relevant literature, analyze, and interpret
data. The student will present results in writing or through
participation in research-group or program meetings and meetings
with their faculty mentor. The student will receive feedback
from the faculty mentor on their research progress and written
or oral presentation of results. A minimum of 45 hours of work
per credit hour per semester is required. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 4990R. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 8 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Undergraduate Research Thesis (or Final Project) | Course
Description: | Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into
fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires
students to gather, analyze, and synthesize and interpret data.
Students will write or produce a thesis or other professional
capstone product, such as a report or portfolio that describes
their systematic and in-depth inquiry. | | Athena Title: | Undergraduate Thesis | | Nontraditional Format: | This is a capstone course under the direct supervision of a
faculty member. This course may be the culmination of the 4960R-
4980R sequence. Students will write a thesis or other
professional capstone product, such as a report or portfolio,
that describes their systematic and in-depth inquiry into an
unknown, fundamental, or applied problem. The thesis or capstone
product is written in close collaboration with the faculty
member and must be approved by that faculty member and/or the
department. The student will apply understanding of the
discipline to identify or shape the research question and apply
skills and techniques learned to complete the research project.
The student will have gathered data, synthesized relevant
literature and materials, analyzed, and interpreted data. The
student will demonstrate in writing the contribution of their
work to the discovery and interpretation of knowledge
significant to their field of study. The student will have
presented results in the form of a properly formatted,
professionally rigorous thesis document or other appropriate
professional capstone product and through the formal
presentation of the thesis or product to faculty and peers
during an approved event. The student will receive feedback from
the faculty member on the overall execution of their thesis
project, the written thesis, and their presentation. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM)(LING) 6040. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Language Use in the African American Community | Course
Description: | History and structure of the speech and language styles used in the African American community; examination of linguistic and cultural issues that confront the majority of African Americans; the role of the vernacular language of African Americans in society. | | Athena Title: | AFR AM LANG USE | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(LING) 6070. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Middle English | Course
Description: | The English language of the Middle English period, including the development of the language from the end of the Old English period through the transition to Modern English. | | Athena Title: | MIDDLE ENGLISH | | Prerequisite: | ENGL(LING) 4000/6000 or ENGL(LING) 4060/6060 or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LING(ENGL) 6080. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Language and Complex Systems | Course
Description: | Introduction to the study and theory of language as it is
actually used by people in speech and writing. Regional and
social language variation and variation in text corpora will
both be considered, as will the relationship of language
variation to language change. | | Athena Title: | Language and Complex Systems | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(LING) 6190. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Study of the English Language | Course
Description: | The nature, structure, and varieties of the English language in vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and semantics. | | Athena Title: | STUDY ENG LANG | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6250. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Medieval Drama | Course
Description: | English drama from its beginnings to the opening of the public theater in 1576. | | Athena Title: | MEDIEVAL DRAMA | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6260. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Middle English Literature | Course
Description: | English literature of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, exclusive of Chaucer and the drama. | | Athena Title: | MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6290. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in Medieval Literature | Course
Description: | Special topics in Medieval literature to 1500. | | Athena Title: | MEDIEV LIT TOPICS | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6310. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Spenser | Course
Description: | A study of The Faerie Queene, The Shepheardes Calender, and the Amoretti, with attention to Spenser's other works and his literary context. | | Athena Title: | SPENSER | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6330. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Shakespeare: Special Topics | Course
Description: | Encourages students to investigate a topic within the discipline
of Shakespeare Studies at greater length than in a survey class.
Considers a few plays in detail. | | Athena Title: | Shakespeare Special Topics | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 6330E | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6330E. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Shakespeare: Special Topics | Course
Description: | Encourages students to investigate a topic within the discipline
of Shakespeare Studies at greater length than in a survey class.
Considers a few plays in detail. | | Athena Title: | Shakespeare Special Topics | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 6330 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6370. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Milton | Course
Description: | The works and times of John Milton. | | Athena Title: | MILTON | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6430. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Eighteenth-Century English Novel | Course
Description: | The English novel from Defoe to 1800, including novels by Richardson, Fielding, Smollet, and Sterne, the Gothic novel, and the novel of purpose. | | Athena Title: | 18th Century English Novel | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4430 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6450. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | William Blake | Course
Description: | The works, times, and critical heritage of William Blake. | | Athena Title: | WILLIAM BLAKE | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6500. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Romantic Literature | Course
Description: | British literature, 1785-1832. An overview of the literature,
genres, themes, and contexts of the Romantic period. Authors
studied may include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats,
Mary and Percy Shelley. | | Athena Title: | Romantic Literature | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4500 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6520. 3-6 hours. | | Course Title: | The Nineteenth-Century British Novel | Course
Description: | The development of the British novel in the nineteenth century. | | Athena Title: | 19TH C BRIT NOVEL | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6530. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Victorian Literature I | Course
Description: | Selected prose and poetry of the early nineteenth century. | | Athena Title: | VICTORIAN LIT I | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6540. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Victorian Literature II | Course
Description: | Selected prose and poetry of the later nineteenth century. | | Athena Title: | VICTORIAN LIT II | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6600. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Issues in Feminist Theory and Criticism | Course
Description: | Study of topics and approaches in feminist criticism. | | Athena Title: | FEM THEORY CRIT | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6640. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Film as Literature | Course
Description: | The interpretation of films, with emphasis on the relationships between motion pictures and British and American literature. | | Athena Title: | FILM AS LIT | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6650. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Modern Drama | Course
Description: | The drama of Europe and America from the realism of Ibsen and Strindberg to the present. | | Athena Title: | MODERN DRAMA | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6660. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Twentieth-Century British Poetry | Course
Description: | British poetry since the 1890's. | | Athena Title: | 20TH C BRIT POETRY | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6670. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Twentieth-Century British Novel | Course
Description: | Fiction of such representative British novelists for the twentieth century as Bowen, Conrad, Forster, Joyce, Lawrence, Waugh, Woolf, and Greene. | | Athena Title: | 20TH C BRIT NOVEL | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6680. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Modern Irish Literature | Course
Description: | Fiction, poetry and drama of the Irish Renaissance and after. | | Athena Title: | MOD IRISH LIT | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6700. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Imperfect Unions: American Writing to 1820 | Course
Description: | Literature of British North America and the new United States from William Bradford through the early work of Irving and Cooper. Writers may include Rowlandson, Bradstreet, Mather, Byrd, Woolman, Jefferson, Franklin, Equiano, Paine, Bartram, and Brown. | | Athena Title: | AM WRITING TO 1820 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6710. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Writing 1820-1865 | Course
Description: | The writing that represents the achievement of American literature in the decades before the Civil War. Writers may include Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, Stowe, Douglass, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. | | Athena Title: | AM WRITING 1820-65 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6720. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Writing 1865-1918 | Course
Description: | The major fiction and poetry of the period, with some attention to literary movements as well as the impact of the Civil War on American literature. Writers may include Whitman, Dickinson, James, Twain, Chesnutt, Crane, Norris, Wharton, and Chopin. | | Athena Title: | AM WRITING TO 1918 | | Nontraditional Format: | A major paper is required involving extensive library research. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6730. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Fiction 1918-1960 | Course
Description: | The development of ideas and forms in American fiction from the end of World War I to 1960. Writers may include Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Wright, Steinbeck, Porter, and Baldwin. | | Athena Title: | AM FICT 1918-1960 | | Nontraditional Format: | A major research paper is required exploring the background and
criticism of one of the novels being discussed. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6740. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Poetry 1918-1960 | Course
Description: | Ideas and forms in American poetry from 1918 to 1960. Among the writers to be considered may be Eliot, Pound, H.D., Stein, Stevens, Moore, Williams, and Frost. | | Athena Title: | AM POETRY 1918-1960 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6750. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Writing After 1960 | Course
Description: | The ideas and artistic expression of contemporary American prose and poetry. Writers may include Heller, Morrison, O'Brien, Kincaid, Erdrich, Lowell, Plath, Sexton, Rich, Roethke, Forche, Harjo, Howe, Ashbery, Lorde, and Perlman. | | Athena Title: | AM WRITING 1960 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 6770. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in African American Literature | Course
Description: | Selected topics in African American literature, such as autobiography, the Harlem Renaissance, Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, Black American literature and aesthetics. | | Athena Title: | AFRICAN AM TOPICS | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6780. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Southern Writing | Course
Description: | The literary legacy of the American South. Writers may include
Byrd, Poe, Simms, Cable, Chesnutt, Glasgow, Toomer, Faulkner,
Porter, Hurston, Welty, O'Connor, Percy, Chappell, Crews, Cormac
McCarthy, and Larry Brown. | | Athena Title: | SOUTHERN WRITING | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6790. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in American Literature | Course
Description: | Themes, literary traditions, and genres in American writing. | | Athena Title: | AM LIT TOPICS | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6800. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in Forms and Craft | Course
Description: | Topics in and issues around the act of writing. Sample courses include The Art of Translation, The Art of the Book, The Novel Form, and Publishing and Editing. | | Athena Title: | FORMS AND CRAFT | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6810. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Literary Criticism | Course
Description: | Literary theory from Plato to the early modern period, examining changing concepts of genre, style, and the social function of literature. | | Athena Title: | HIST LIT CRITICISM | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6820. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Contemporary Literary Theory | Course
Description: | Major themes and movements in twentieth-century criticism. | | Athena Title: | CONT LIT THEORY | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6830. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in Criticism and Theory | Course
Description: | A current critical problem, school, or approach, such as structuralism, poststructuralism, feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, New Historicism, gay and lesbian studies, postmodernism, or cultural studies. | | Athena Title: | THEORY TOPICS | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6840. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Folklore Studies | Course
Description: | One or more folk groups, folklore genres, or topics concerning folklore. | | Athena Title: | FOLKLORE STUDIES | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6850. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in Multicultural Literature | Course
Description: | Selected topics focusing on one or more cultures and exploring a variety of literary forms with some attention to historical context and theoretical aspects of multiculturalism. | | Athena Title: | MULTICULT TOPICS | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6860. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Rhetoric and Textuality | Course
Description: | The rhetorical tradition from antiquity to the present, emphasizing the development of writing and textuality. | | Athena Title: | RHET AND TEXTUALITY | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6870. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Rhetoric and Textual Practice | Course
Description: | The relationship between rhetorical theory and the practice of writing, both literary and non-literary. | | Athena Title: | RHET/TEXT PRACTICE | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6880. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | College Composition Theory and Pedagogy | Course
Description: | Current theories of writing pedagogy and strategies for teaching writing at the college level. Topics include the composing process, invention, revision, and assessment of writing. | | Athena Title: | COMP THEORY | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6890. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Bibliography and Methods of Research | Course
Description: | Bibliographical analysis and description and the study of research materials and methods. | | Athena Title: | RESEARCH METHODS | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6900W. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Academic Writing | Course
Description: | Students will learn about and practice writing in different academic genres. The course will culminate with students producing a substantial literary research project, like a thesis chapter or essay submitted for publication. | | Athena Title: | Academic Writing | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6910. 1 hour. Repeatable for maximum 3 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Apprenticeship in College English | Course
Description: | An apprenticeship in the teaching of undergraduate first-year
composition courses in the Department of English. | | Athena Title: | Apprenticeship in College Engl | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 6920. 1 hour. Repeatable for maximum 3 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Apprenticeship in College English Pedagogy | Course
Description: | An apprenticeship in the teaching of undergraduate courses at
all levels of the curriculum in the Department of English. | | Athena Title: | Apprentice College Engl Pedago | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 7000. 3-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 18 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Master's Research | Course
Description: | Research while enrolled for a master's degree under the direction of faculty members. | | Athena Title: | MASTER'S RESEARCH | | Nontraditional Format: | Independent research under the direction of a faculty member. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 7300. 3-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 18 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Master's Thesis | Course
Description: | Thesis writing under the direction of the major professor. | | Athena Title: | MASTER'S THESIS | | Nontraditional Format: | Independent research and thesis preparation. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 7302W. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 12 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Thesis Writing for ESOL Speakers | Course
Description: | An introduction to process writing within an academic
discipline. Students will analyze the generic conventions of
their field of study and understand the common pitfalls of
writing for international, L2, or ESOL students. At the end of
the semester, students will produce a large written work using
their field’s conventions. | | Athena Title: | Thesis Writing for L2 Writers | | Nontraditional Format: | This version of the course will be taught as writing intensive,
which means that the course will include substantial and ongoing
writing assignments that a) relate clearly to course learning; b)
teach the communication values of a discipline—for example, its
practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; and c)
prepare students for further writing in their academic work, in
graduate school, and in professional life. The written
assignments will result in a significant and diverse body of
written work (the equivalent of 6000 words or 25 pages) and the
instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the course)
will be closely involved in student writing, providing
opportunities for feedback and substantive revision. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8100. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in English Language Studies | Course
Description: | Special topics in English linguistics. | | Athena Title: | SEM ENG LANG | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8200. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Medieval Topics | Course
Description: | Special topics in Medieval literature. | | Athena Title: | SEM MEDIEVAL | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8300. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Literature of the English Renaissance | Course
Description: | Special topics in English literature from More through Milton. Topics will vary. | | Athena Title: | SEM RENAISSANCE | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8400. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature | Course
Description: | Swift, Pope, Johnson, Fielding, or Blake. | | Athena Title: | SEM 18TH CEN LIT | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8500. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in British Romantic Literature | Course
Description: | A major writer or special topics of the period. | | Athena Title: | Seminar British Romantic Lit | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8550. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Victorian Literature | Course
Description: | Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold. | | Athena Title: | SEM VICTORIAN LIT | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8590. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in 19th-Century British Literature | Course
Description: | Special topics in nineteenth-century British literature,
inclusive of the Romantic and Victorian periods. | | Athena Title: | SEM 19TH CEN LIT | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8600. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Modern Literature | Course
Description: | An author or problem in twentieth-century British or American literature. | | Athena Title: | SEM MODERN LIT | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8700. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in American Literature | Course
Description: | An examination of a writer or group of authors, a theme in
American literature, a genre, or some other concept at the
cutting edge of literary investigation. | | Athena Title: | SEM AMERICAN LIT | | Nontraditional Format: | An extensive research paper is required, one consistent with
the standards of doctoral study. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8710. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Major American Writers | Course
Description: | A detailed examination of the life and works of one or two American authors. | | Athena Title: | SEM AMERICAN WRITER | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 8720. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in African American Literature | Course
Description: | A detailed examination of selected forms and ideas in the African American tradition. | | Athena Title: | AFRICAN AM SEM | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8730. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Multicultural American Literature | Course
Description: | A detailed examination of selected forms and ideas in African
American, Native American, Latino/a, and/or Asian American
literature. | | Athena Title: | MULTICULT SEMINAR | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8750. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Southern Literature | Course
Description: | Special problems in Southern literature. | | Athena Title: | SEM SOUTHERN LIT | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8800. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Creative Writing | Course
Description: | Advanced instruction in the craft of writing. | | Athena Title: | SEM CREAT WRITING | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(CMLT) 8850. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Criticism and Theory | Course
Description: | A problem in structuralism, poststructuralism, feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, New Historicism, gay and lesbian studies, postmodernism, postcolonialism, or cultural studies; or of a major literary theorist. | | Athena Title: | SEM CRIT THEORY | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8900. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Current Issues in Rhetorical Theory | Course
Description: | Study of contemporary rhetorical theory and its relation to literary criticism and English composition. | | Athena Title: | RHETORICAL THEORY | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8960. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Directed Reading | Course
Description: | Independent graduate study, under faculty supervision, in special topics not available in scheduled courses. Topics must be approved by the Graduate Committee in English. | | Athena Title: | DIRECTED READING | | Nontraditional Format: | Directed study. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8970. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 18 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Workshop in Academic Reading | Course
Description: | This course provides a structured environment for graduate
students to focus on their reading preparation for their
comprehensive examinations, to allow group discussion of ideas,
and possible lines of further inquiry for research. | | Athena Title: | Workshop in Academic Reading | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8980. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 18 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Workshop in Academic Writing | Course
Description: | This course provides a structured environment for graduate
students to workshop their academic writing projects, including
thesis or dissertation chapters, conference papers, and essays
intended for publication. | | Athena Title: | Workshop in Academic Writing | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 8990. 1 hour. Repeatable for maximum 3 hours credit. | | Course Title: | English Department Colloquium | Course
Description: | Colloquium open to any group of faculty and students to present a
series of papers in a research area. Colloquia are open to the
public. Topics must be approved by English department graduate
committee. | | Athena Title: | ENGL DEPT COLLOQ | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is in the form of a colloquium and will require
preparing a paper to present and critiquing the papers of other
student and faculty participants. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 9000. 3-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 48 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Doctoral Research | Course
Description: | Research while enrolled for a doctoral degree under the direction of faculty members. | | Athena Title: | Doctoral Research | | Nontraditional Format: | Independent research under the direction of a faculty member. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL 9300. 3-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 48 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Doctoral Dissertation | Course
Description: | Dissertation writing under the direction of the major professor. | | Athena Title: | Doctoral Dissertation | | Nontraditional Format: | Independent research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
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