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ENGL 803 - Advanced Nonfiction Writing
Credits:
4.00
A workshop course for students intending to write
publishable magazine articles or nonfiction books. Equal
stress on research and writing techniques. Prereq:
newswriting; written permission of instructor required. May
be repeated for credit with the approval of the department
chairperson.
ENGL 804 - Advanced Nonfiction Writing
Credits:
4.00
See description for ENGL 803.
ENGL 805 - Advanced Poetry Workshop
Credits:
4.00
Workshop discussion of advanced writing problems and
submitted poems. Individual conferences with instructor.
Prereq: writing poetry or equivalent. Written permission of
instructor required for registration. May be repeated for
credit with the approval of the department chairperson.
ENGL 806 - Researching the Literature of Fact
Credits:
4.00
Many writers think that the heart of creative nonfiction is
style, but in truth, the genre's soul is in its content.
This course covers tools such as intimate reporting,
periodicals, the Internet, and first-hand observation to
research people, places, issues, and history. The skills
learned will serve graduate students of all kinds of
writing, from fiction to academic. Permission of instructor
required. Special fee.
ENGL 807 - Form and Theory of Fiction
Credits:
4.00
A writer's view of the forms, techniques, and theories of
fiction. The novels, short stories, and works of criticism
studied vary, depending on the instructor.
ENGL 808 - Form and Theory of Nonfiction
Credits:
4.00
A writer's view of contemporary nonfiction, emphasizing the
choices the writer faces in the process of research and
writing.
ENGL 809 - Form and Theory of Poetry
Credits:
4.00
A writer's view of the problems, traditions, and structures
of poetry.
ENGL 810 - Teaching Writing
Credits:
2.00 to 6.00
An introduction to various methods of teaching writing.
Combines a review of theories, methods, and texts with
direct observation of teaching practice.
ENGL 811 - Editing
Credits:
4.00
A survey of newspaper editing. Intended primarily for
students in the graduate nonfiction writing program, the
course will cover copy editing, content editing, coaching
writers, writing headlines, and ethical and legal issues in
journalism. Students will complete editing assignments and
act as coaches for undergraduate students in ENGL 621:
Newswriting. While much work in the course will involve
newspapers, principles applicable to magazine and nonfiction
book editing will also be covered. Written permission of the
instructor required for registration. Special fee.
ENGL 813 - Literary Theory
Credits:
4.00
Major theoretical approaches to literature and its contexts;
a range of works from ancient Greece to the present.
Questions addressed include: What is literature? What
methods might one use to analyze literary texts? What role
might cultural and social conditions play in our
understanding of literature? How have traditional answers to
these and other questions about literature been contested?
813: From Plato to modernism. 814: From modernism to the
present. Lecture-discussion format.
ENGL 814 - Literary Theory
Credits:
4.00
See description for ENGL 813.
ENGL 815 - Teaching English as a Second Language: Theory and Methods
Credits:
4.00
A study of how linguistic, psychological, sociological, and
neurological theory influences or determines the choice of
methods of language teaching. Research on second language
acquisition and bilingualism, language aptitude, and the
cultural context of language acquisition. Includes an
introduction to standard and exotic methods of language
teaching.
ENGL 816 - Curriculum, Materials and Assessment in English as a Second Language
Credits:
4.00
A study of the problems in designing an effective teaching
program for various types of ESL students. An introduction
to competence and aptitude testing and to the choosing and
adapting of materials for ESL classes.
ENGL 817 - World Englishes
Credits:
4.00
Study of the forms and functions of Englishes in various
parts of the world and the linguistic, sociolinguistic,
literary, pedagogical, and political implications of the
worldwide spread of the language. Topics include language
change, language policies, language and power, language and
culture, language and identity, literary creativity, and
linguistic imperialism.
ENGL #818 - English Linguistics and Literature
Credits:
4.00
An introduction to linguistics for students of literature.
Includes a survey of the grammar of English (phonology,
morphology, syntax, dialect variation, historical change)
with application to the analysis of the language of poetry
and prose. (Not offered every year.)
ENGL 819 - Sociolinguistics Survey
Credits:
4.00
How language varies according to the characteristics of its
speakers: age, sex, ethnicity, attitude, time, and class.
Quantitative analysis methods; relationship to theoretical
linguistics. Focus is on English, but some other languages
are examined. Prereq: introduction to linguistics or
permission.
ENGL 827 - Issues in Second Language Writing
Credits:
4.00
Study of various issues in second language writing theory,
research, instruction and administration. Topics include the
characteristics and needs of second language writers, second
language writing processes, contrastive rhetoric, grammar
instruction, teacher and peer feedback, assessment, course
design and placement.
ENGL 832 - Folklore and Folklife
Credits:
4.00
Examines the materials and methods used to study folklore
and folklife, emphasizing the historical context and
development of folklore studies in North America and
Europe, field research, performance theory, and other
topics.
ENGL 841 - Literature of Early America
Credits:
4.00
Prose and poetry of the periods of exploration,
colonization, early nationalism, Puritanism, Enlightenment.
Individual works and historical-cultural background. (Not
offered every year.)
ENGL 842 - American Literature, 1815-1865
Credits:
4.00
Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in the period of
romanticism, transcendentalism, nationalism. Individual
works and cultural background. (Not offered every year.)
ENGL 843 - American Literature, 1865-1915
Credits:
4.00
Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in the period of realism,
naturalism, industrialism, big money. Individual works and
cultural background.
ENGL 844 - American Literature, 1915-1945
Credits:
4.00
Fiction, poetry, and drama in the period of avant-garde and
leftism, jazz age, and depression. Individual works and
cultural background.
ENGL 845 - Contemporary American Literature
Credits:
4.00
A gathering of forms, figures, and movements since 1945.
Individual works and cultural background. (Not offered every
year.)
ENGL #846 - Studies in American Drama
Credits:
4.00
Topics vary from year to year. Examples: 20th-century
American drama; contemporary playwrights; theatricality in
American life. (Not offered every year.)
ENGL 847 - Studies in American Poetry
Credits:
4.00
Topics vary from year to year. Examples: poets of the road;
Pound and his followers; major American poets; contemporary
American poetry. (Not offered every year.)
ENGL 848 - Studies in American Fiction
Credits:
4.00
Topics vary from year to year. Examples: the romance in
America; the short story; realism and naturalism; the city
novel; fiction of the thirties. (Not offered every year.)
ENGL 849 - Major American Authors
Credits:
4.00
Intensive study of two or three writers. Examples: Melville
and Faulkner; Fuller, Emerson, and Thoreau; James and
Wharton; Dickinson and Frost. (Not offered every year.)
ENGL 850 - Special Studies in American Literature
Credits:
4.00
Topics vary from year to year. Examples: the Puritan
heritage; ethnic literatures in America; landscapes in
American literature; five American lives; pragmatism;
American humor; transcendentalism; women regionalists.
ENGL 851 - Medieval Epic and Romance
Credits:
4.00
Two major types of medieval narrative; comparative study of
works from England, France, Germany, and Iceland, including
"Beowulf", "Song of Roland", "Nibelungenlied", Gottfried's
"Tristan", Njal's "Saga", and Malory's "Morte d'Arthur". All
works read in modern English translations. (Not offered
every year.)
ENGL 852 - History of the English Language
Credits:
4.00
Evolution of English from the Anglo-Saxon period to the
present day. Relations between linguistic change and
literary style.
ENGL 853 - Old English
Credits:
4.00
Introduction to Old English language and literature through
readings of selected poetry and prose.
ENGL 854 - Beowulf
Credits:
4.00
A reading of the poem and an introduction to the
scholarship. Prereq: ENGL 853.
ENGL 856 - Chaucer
Credits:
4.00
A study of "The Canterbury Tales" in its original language.
(Not offered every year.)
ENGL 858 - Shakespeare
Credits:
4.00
A few plays studied intensively. Live and filmed
performances included as available.
ENGL 859 - Milton
Credits:
4.00
Milton and his age. Generous selections of Milton's prose
and poetry, with secondary readings of his sources and the
scholarship. (Not offered every year.)
ENGL #863 - Continental Backgrounds of the English Renaissance
Credits:
4.00
Major philosophers, artists, and writers of the continental
Renaissance (in translation): Petrarch, Ficino, Pico, Vives,
Valla, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Rabelais,
Montaigne, Cervantes, Erasmus, and Thomas More, as
representative of the early English Renaissance. (Not
offered every year.)
ENGL 864 - Prose and Poetry of the Elizabethans
Credits:
4.00
Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Major works, including
Spenser's "Faerie Queene", Sidney's "Astrophil and Stella",
Shakespeare's "Sonnets", Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus": their
literary and intellectual backgrounds. (Not offered every
year.)
ENGL 865 - English Literature in the 17th Century
Credits:
4.00
Major writers of the 17th century, including Donne, Jonson,
Herbert, Bacon, and Hobbes. (Not offered every year.)
ENGL 867 - Literature of the Restoration and Early 18th Century
Credits:
4.00
Poetry, dramas, fiction, letters, journals, and essays from
the period following the restoration of Charles II to the
throne of England after the English Civil War. Works by such
figures as John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan
Swift, Alexander Pope, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu studied
in historical context. Examples from the colonial world and
the continent (in translation) when appropriate. (Not
offered every year.)
ENGL 868 - Literature Later 18th Century
Credits:
4.00
Poetry, drama, fiction, letters, journals, essays, and
biography from the period that culminated in the American
and French revolutions. Works by such figures as Henry
Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Frances Burney, Laurence Sterne,
William Blake, and Mary Wollstonecraft studied in
historical context. Examples from the colonial world and the
continent (in translation) when appropriate. (Not offered
every year.)
ENGL 869 - English Romantic Period
Credits:
4.00
Major literary trends and authors, 1798 to 1832. Focus on
poetry but attention also to prose works and critical
theories. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, DeQuincy.
(Not offered every year.)
ENGL 870 - English Romantic Period
Credits:
4.00
Major literary trends and authors 1798 to 1832. Focus on
poetry but attention also to prose works and critical
theories. Byron, Shelley, Keats. (Not offered every
year.)
ENGL 871 - Victorian Prose and Poetry
Credits:
4.00
Major writers; social and cultural history. Selections vary
from year to year. (Not offered every year.)
ENGL 873 - British Literature of the 20th Century
Credits:
4.00
Poets and novelists of the modernist and postmodernist
periods. W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, E.M.
Forster, D.H. Lawrence, and other modernists. (Not offered
every year.)
ENGL 874 - British Literature of the 20th Century
Credits:
4.00
Poets and novelists of the modernist and postmodernist
periods. A selection of postmodernist or contemporary
writers, such as William Golding, Doris Lessing, John
Fowles, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Margaret Drabble,
and others. (Not offered every year.)
ENGL 875 - Irish Literature
Credits:
4.00
Survey from the beginnings to the present; works in Irish
(read in translation) such as "The Cattle Raid of Cooley",
medieval lyrics, and "Mad Sweeney"; and works in English
from Swift to the present. Twentieth-century authors: Joyce,
Yeats, Synge, O'Casey, Beckett, and Flann O'Brien. (Not
offered every year.)
ENGL 879 - Linguistic Field Methods
Credits:
4.00
Devoted to the study, with use of an informant, of some
non-Indo-European language that is unfamiliar to both the
students and the instructor at the beginning of the class.
The primary aim of the course is to give students a
practical introduction to linguistic analysis without the
support of a text. Theoretical concepts are introduced as
needed. Special fee.
ENGL 880 - English Drama to 1640
Credits:
4.00
Development of the drama through the Renaissance,
emphasizing the Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists. (Not
offered every year.)
ENGL 881 - English Drama from 1660 to 1800
Credits:
4.00
Study of selected plays, their performance and their
publication. Works by such figures as William Wycherley,
Thomas Otway, Mary Pix, George Lillo, Susanna Centlivre,
Richard Sheridan, and Elizabeth Inchbald. Special attention
to the new prominence of women in the drama of this period,
changes in theater architecture, forms of nondramatic
spectacle, and the political and social significance of
drama. (Not offered every year.)
ENGL 882 - Modern Drama
Credits:
4.00
Major English, American, and (translated) European plays of
the modern period by such playwrights as Shaw, Ibsen,
Checkov, Strindberg, Pirandello, O'Neill, Brecht, Beckett,
Williams, Miller, Pinter. Live and filmed performances
studied as available. (Not offered every year.)
ENGL 883 - English Novel of the 18th Century
Credits:
4.00
Study of the rise and development of the novel in the
eighteenth century. Works by such figures as Daniel Defoe,
Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Charlotte
Lennox, Laurence Sterne, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen.
Focus on writers who published their work in England but
with examples from the colonial world and the continent (in
translation) when appropriate. (Not offered every year.)
ENGL 884 - English Novel of the 19th Century
Credits:
4.00
Representative novels from among Austen, Scott, Dickens,
Thackeray, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Trollope, George
Eliot, Hardy, and Conrad.
ENGL #885 - Major Women Writers
Credits:
4.00
Intensive study of one or more women writers. Selections
vary from year to year.
ENGL 886 - 20th Century British Fiction
Credits:
4.00
Traces the development of the novel from the turn of the
century to the present day. Representative novels by
Lawrence, Joyce, Conrad, Woolf, West, Forster, Huxley,
Waugh, Murdoch, Burgess, and Lessing.
ENGL 890 - Special Topics in Linguistics
Credits:
4.00
An advanced course on a topic to be chosen by the
instructor. Inquire at the English department office for a
full course description each time the course is offered.
Topics such as word formation, dialectology, linguistic
theory and language acquisition, language and culture,
cross-disciplinary studies relating to linguistics. Barring
duplication of subject, may be repeated for credit. (Not
offered every year.)
ENGL 891 - English Grammar
Credits:
4.00
A survey of the grammar of English (pronunciation,
vocabulary, sentence structure, punctuation, dialect
variation, historical change) with special attention to the
distinction between descriptive and prescriptive grammar and
to the problems students have with formal expository
writing.
ENGL 892 - Teaching Secondary School English
Credits:
4.00
Methods of teaching language, composition, and literature in
grades 7-12. Required of all students in the English
teaching major. Open to others with permission.
ENGL 893 - Phonetics and Phonology
Credits:
4.00
The sounds and sound systems of English in the context of
linguistic theory: comparisons of English to other
languages. Prereq: a basic linguistic course or permission.
(Not offered every year.)
ENGL 894 - Syntax and Semantic Theory
Credits:
4.00
The relationship of grammar and meaning as viewed from
the standpoint of modern linguistic theory. Emphasis on the
syntax and semantics of English, with special attention to
the construction of arguments for or against particular
analyses. Prereq: a basic linguistic course or permission.
ENGL 897 - Special Studies in Literature
Credits:
2.00 to 6.00
A) Old English Literature; B) Medieval Literature;
C) 16th Century; D) 17th Century; E) 18th Century;
F) English Romantic Period; G) Victorian Period;
H) 20th Century; I) Drama; J) Novel; K) Poetry;
L) Nonfiction; M) American Literature; N) A Literary
Problem; O) Literature of the Renaissance. The precise
topics and methods of each section vary. barring duplication
of subject, may be repeated for credit. For details, see the
course descriptions available in the English department.
ENGL 901 - Advanced Writing of Fiction
Credits:
4.00
Workshop discussion of advanced writing problems and
readings of students' fiction. Individual conferences with
instructor. Prereq: writing fiction or equivalent. Written
permission of the instructor required for registration. May
be repeated for credit with the approval of the department
chairperson.
ENGL 910 - Practicum in Teaching College Composition
Credits:
4.00
Focus on problem issues and methods for teaching writing
to first-year students. Open only to teachers in Freshman
English program.
ENGL 911 - Writing for Teachers
Credits:
4.00
Opportunity for teachers of composition to work intensively
on their writing, to read as writers, and to discover the
principles appropriate to the writing genre they are
teaching. Because of its special focus, this course may
not be applied to the M.A. in English/writing option. Topics
may vary.
ENGL #912 - Historical and Theoretical Studies in Rhetoric
Credits:
4.00
The rhetorical tradition in Western culture, with a special
focus on three critical periods: the classical period
(Aristotle, Cicero, Quintillian), the eighteenth century
(Blair and Campbell), and the modern era (Burke, Booth,
Perelman, Ong, Weaver).
ENGL 913 - Theory and Practice of Composition
Credits:
4.00
Examination of major theoretical and pedagogical works in
the field of composition. To include works on the writing
process, writing development, response to writing, and other
topics.
ENGL 914 - Special Topics in Composition and Rhetoric
Credits:
2.00 to 6.00
Topics chosen by instructor may include: A) Political,
Philosophical, and Ethical Issues in Composition; B) Gender
and Writing; C) Cognition and Composition; and
D) Ethnographics of Literacy.
ENGL 916 - History of Composition
Credits:
4.00
Composition teaching and theory in American colleges and
academics from the 18th century to the present.
ENGL 918 - Research Methods in Composition
Credits:
4.00
Overview of major research approaches including historical,
case study, ethnographic, and textual; special emphasis on
research design.
ENGL 919 - Teaching the Writing Process
Credits:
2.00 to 6.00
Focus both on the writing of the participants and on the
teaching of writing in grades K-12. Special attention is
given to strategies for prewriting, revision, evaluation,
and conducting writing conferences.
ENGL 920 - Issues in Teaching English and the Language Arts
Credits:
1.00 to 6.00
Special topics in the teaching of English and the language
arts. Inquire at the English department to see what topics
in the teaching of reading, writing, literature, or language
arts may be scheduled. Open only to graduate students with
a professional interest in teaching or to practicing
teachers. 1-6 credits depending on the specific course.
ENGL 921 - Practicum in Teaching English and the Language Arts
Credits:
2.00 to 6.00
A site-based course for practicing teachers that features
in-class observations and demonstrations, individual
consultation, and group meetings in the schools. Prereq:
permission. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 credits.
ENGL 922 - Advanced Topics in Literacy Instruction
Credits:
1.00 to 6.00
Specialized study of literacy topics that may include:
A) Art and the Teaching of Writing; B) Nature journaling;
C) Gender and Literacy; D) Portfolio Pedagogy;
E) Ethnographies of Literacy; and F) Teacher Research.
ENGL 923 - Advanced Essay Writing
Credits:
4.00
Writing and reading course in which students are encouraged
to experiment with a variety of styles and forms. Discusses
outside reading by focusing on techniques that the student
might want to apply to his or her own material. Prereq:
permission.
ENGL 924 - Bibliography and Methods
Credits:
2.00
Introduction to enumerative and physical bibliography and
major research and reference works of the field, to prepare
the student for original research in the graduate program
and later. Required of all Ph.D. students. Cr/F.
ENGL 925 - Graduate Study of Literature
Credits:
4.00
Techniques, resources, and purposes of literary study: close
reading; practical criticism; critical theories and their
values; pertinence of intellectual and historical
backgrounds. Approaches applied to a specific area of
literary study, which varies from year to year.
ENGL 926 - Seminar: Literary Theory
Credits:
4.00
Major questions and topics in the current theories about
literature and contexts. What is literature? What method
might one use to analyze literary texts? What role might
cultural and social conditions play in our understanding of
literature? How have traditional answers to these and other
questions about literature been contested? May be repeated.
ENGL #927 - Seminar: Feminist Criticism Theory and Practice
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL #928 - Issues in Teaching at the College Level
Credits:
2.00
English 928 helps prepare students to teach general level
courses. The seminar explores practical and theoretical
issues: responding to students' writing; handling group
discussion; designing assignments; developing a syllabus and
exploring relationships between critical theory and
approaches to instruction. Material useful to teachers
interested in community college work. Prereq: graduate
students only. Cr/F.
ENGL #932 - Seminar: Folklore and Folklife
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL 935 - Seminar: Studies in American Literature
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL 936 - Seminar: Literature of Early America
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL 937 - Seminar: Studies in 19th Century American Literature
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL 938 - Seminar: Studies in 20th Century American Literature
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL 953 - Seminar: Studies in Old English
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL #956 - Seminar: Studies in Medieval Literature
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL 958 - Seminar: Studies in Shakespeare
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL 959 - Seminar: Studies in Milton
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL #960 - Seminar: Studies in English Drama
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL #964 - Seminar: Studies in 16th Century Literature
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL 965 - Seminar: Studies in Early 17th Century Literature
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL 968 - Seminar: Studies in 18th Century Literature
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL 970 - Seminar: Studies in the Romantic Period
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL 971 - Seminar: Studies in the Victorian Period
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL 974 - Seminar: Studies in 20th Century British Literature
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL #981 - Seminar: Studies in Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL #990 - Seminar in Linguistics
Credits:
4.00
May be repeated.
ENGL 994 - Practicum in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Credits:
2.00 to 6.00
Students have an opportunity to observe and discuss ESL
classes and to design and carry out their own lessons, with
follow-up evaluation. Cr/F.
ENGL 995 - Independent Study
Credits:
1.00 to 8.00
To be elected only with permission of the director of
graduate studies and of the supervising faculty member.
ENGL 996 - Reading and Research
Credits:
2.00 to 8.00
Cr/F.
ENGL 998 - Master's Paper
Credits:
4.00
Cr/F. IA (Continuous grading).
ENGL 999 - Doctoral Research
Credits:
Cr/F.