Credit Hour(s): 4.0
Academic Writing. (Formerly LSP 0081.) Prepares students for college-level writing by focusing on exposition, argument, and short research reports. Special emphasis is given to standard usage, sentence structure, essay development, and organization. Topics related to contemporary social and cultural issues provide a basis for discussion and writing.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
English Composition I. A composition course designed to increase the student's ability to construct written prose of various kinds. Focuses on methods of organization, analysis, research skills, and the production of short argumentative and expository essays; readings consider issues of contemporary social and cultural concern. Passing grade is C.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
English Composition II. Prerequisite: Engl 1101 with grade of C or higher. A composition course designed to develop writing skills beyond the levels of proficiency required by English 1101. Stresses critical reading and writing and incorporates a variety of more advanced research methods; readings will be drawn from a wide variety of literary texts. Passing grade is C.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Advanced English Composition. Prerequisite: admission by permission of department or Honors Program. A passing grade is C. This course is designed to develop students' ability to construct written texts on a sophisticated level. It emphasizes critical reading and writing of various sources and incorporates advanced research methods. In addition, it emphasizes advanced rhetorical issues, including invention strategies, arrangement, selecting and analyzing evidence, and developing appropriate style.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
World Literature. Prerequisite: Engl 1102 with grade of C or higher, or equivalent. A survey of important works of world literature.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
British Literature. Prerequisite: Engl 1102 with grade of C or higher, or equivalent. Historical survey of literature from the British Isles, with consideration of literary genres, conventions, and modes. Issues such as language change, periodization, canon formation, national identity, and the interrelationships between literature and other elements of culture.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
American Literature. Prerequisite: Engl 1102 with grade of C or higher, or equivalent. Historical survey of literature from the United States, with consideration of literary genres, conventions, and modes. Issues such as periodization, canon formation, national identity, and the interrelationships between literature and other elements of culture.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Studies in Popular Culture. Prerequisite: Engl 1102 with grade of C or higher, or equivalent. Introduction to critical issues associated with the study of popular culture. Throughout the course, discussion of pop cultural texts (including television series, print ads, video games, web logs, and popular film and music) will be shaped by the critical methodologies exemplified in course readings. In the process, students will be encouraged to use these applications as models for their own work in selecting, analyzing, and critically reflecting on specific instances of popular culture.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Introduction to Literary Studies-CTW. Prerequisite: Engl 1102 with grade of C or higher, or equivalent. Materials, methods, and terminology used in the discipline of literary studies. Practice in effective critical writing and examination of the various critical theories available for interpretation and analysis. Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all English majors.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Introduction to Rhetoric and Advanced Composition-CTW. Prerequisite: Engl 1102 with grade of C or higher, or equivalent. Materials, methods, and terminology used in the discipline of rhetoric and composition. Practice in effective critical writing and examination of various forms of writing instruction across many cultures: ancient China, pre-classical Greece, the Hellenic period, the Roman Empire, the early Christian era, Medieval Europe, Modern Europe, and contemporary America. Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all English majors.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
History, Theory, and Practice of Argumentative Writing. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 1102 or Engl 1103 with grade of C or higher. Readings from such authors as Aristotle, Plato, Perelman, and Toulmin. Practice at methods for developing an argument.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
History, Theory, and Practice of Expository Writing. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 1102 or Engl 1103 with grade of C or higher. Readings from selected writers such as Montaigne, Swift, Bacon, Coleridge, and Woolf. Practice at methods for developing non-fiction prose.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Twentieth-Century Composition Theory and Practice. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 1102 or Engl 1103 with grade of C or higher. Study of composition from current-traditional to postmodern rhetoric.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Practical Grammar. Prerequisite: Engl 1102 or 1103 with grade of C or higher. Recognizing and describing sentence components, syntactical relationships, and other verbal patterns. Application of grammatical principles to editing problems and literary analysis.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Technical Writing. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 1102 or Engl 1103 with grade of C or higher. Intensive study of scientific and technical style; practice at various formats, including reports, proposals, instructional manuals, and professional papers.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Document Design. Prerequisite: Engl 1102 or 1103 with grade of C or higher. Theory and practice of marking up, laying out, and preparing various kinds of documents for publication.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Electronic Writing and Publishing. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 1102 or Engl 1103 with grade of C or higher. Study of on-line writing and electronic publishing, including asynchronous and synchronous media. May include document creation from computer-aided print publishing to hypertext and Internet publishing.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Business Writing. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 1102 or Engl 1103 with grade of C or higher. Advanced composition applied to business writing techniques and problems.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Visual Rhetoric. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 1102 or Engl 1103 with grade of C or higher. Introduces visual information design theories and practices for writers. Examines the use of visual meanings in the production of texts, the influence of visual culture on written discourse, and audience-centered document design.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Editing. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 1102 or Engl 1103 with grade of C or higher. Skills and resources needed for preparing unpublished documents for publication. May include academic publishing, textual editing, and commercial applications.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Introduction to Creative Writing - Poetry. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 or 2130 with grade of C or higher. Introduction to the writing of poetry for the novice writer; practice in styles, points of view, and structure.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Introduction to Creative Writing - Fiction. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 or Engl 2130 with grade of C or higher. Introduction to the writing of fiction for the novice writer; practice in styles, points of view, and structure.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Narrative Techniques. Prerequisite: Engl 3150B with grade of C or higher. For the student with a special interest in short fiction. Studies in character development, story, plot, and point of view; critiques of professional and student work.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Poetic Techniques. Prerequisite: Engl 3150A with grade of C or higher. For the student with a special interest in poetry. Studies in figurative language, symbol, metrics, and various poetic forms; critiques of professional and student work.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Contemporary Poetry. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 or Engl 2130 with grade of C or higher. Study of important voices in contemporary American and English poetry, with discussion of current literary climates.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Contemporary Fiction Craft. Prerequisites: Engl 3150B and Engl 2120 or Engl 2130 with grades of C or higher. Study of fiction technique through the reading and analysis of contemporary fiction. Designed for fiction writers.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Language Analysis for Teachers of English. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 1102 or Engl 1103 with grade of C or higher. Exploration of the basic components of language, language variation, and practical applications of linguistics to spoken and written texts in literature and composition.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Introduction to the English Language. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140 or 3040 with grade of C or higher. Language theories as a basis for understanding language characteristics, development, variation and change, attitudes, and uses. Application to literature, rhetoric, and language arts.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Advanced Grammar. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140 or 3040 with grade of C or higher. Readings in various areas of language study; focus on syntax of modern English grammar. Especially recommended for those who expect to teach secondary English.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
History of the English Language. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140 or 3040 with grade of C or higher. Development of the structure and history of the English language: Indo-European, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Present Day English. Students must learn IPA for phonological study. Attention will also be given to the morphology, syntax, social and regional variations, and semantics of English.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
History of Literary Criticism I. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140 or 3040 with grade of C or higher. Critical and theoretical perspectives on literature, art, and culture from Plato to the New Criticism.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
History of Literary Criticism II. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140 or 3040 with grade of C or higher. Critical and theoretical perspectives on literature, art, and culture from Saussure to the present.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Topics in Contemporary Theory. Nonmajor prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. Systematic and focused study of one or more recent critical theories that influence the study of literature, language, and culture. Individual courses will vary in focus.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Theories of Popular Culture. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. Theories of mass cultural and their practical applications to the analysis of cultural production. May include such phenomena as popular fiction, the built environment, and the popular media.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0 TO 4.0
British-American Culture Seminar I. Prerequisite: British and American Cultures Program concentration, or consent of English or History program advisor. (Same as Hist 4960.) Analyzes literary and/or historical themes from the perspectives of American and British authors, historical figures, and literatures. Offered by the English and History Departments.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0 TO 4.0
British-American Culture Seminar II. Prerequisite: British and American Cultures Program concentration, or consent of English or History program advisor. (Same as Hist 4961.) Analyzes literary and/or historical themes from the perspectives of American and British authors, historical figures, and literatures. Offered by the English and History Departments.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
American Culture Seminar. Prerequisite: British and American Cultures Program concentration, or consent of English or History program advisor. Focuses on one or more American regional cultures from either a literary or historical perspective to offer definitions of "Americanness" or American myths.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Literature and Culture of the American South. Prerequisite: British and American Cultures Program concentration, or consent of English or History program advisor. A selection of writing from the South from colonial times through the twentieth century. The purpose of the course is to examine the region through the vision of its authors.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
English Drama. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. Topics to be announced. Dramatic literature selected from the beginnings of English drama through the twentieth century. Courses may focus on topics such as medieval drama, the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, Restoration drama, radio drama, or postmodern theatre. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
English Fiction. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. Topics to be announced. Fiction selected from the beginnings of the English novel or short story through the twentieth century. Focus on such areas as eighteenth-century novels, nineteenth-century novels, or modern novels. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Medieval English Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the fifteenth century with focus on selected genres and authors such as the Gawain Poet, the Wakefield Master, Julian of Norwich, and William Langland.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Sixteenth-Century English Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. Selected works by such authors as More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Early and Middle Seventeenth-Century English Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. Selected works by such authors as Lanyer, Donne, Johnson, Bacon, Herbert, Marvell, and Milton.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Restoration and Earlier Eighteenth-Century English Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. Selected works by such authors as Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Lady Mary Wortley Montague.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Later Eighteenth-Century English Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. Selected works by such authors as Johnson, Boswell, Burney, Goldsmith, and Gray.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Early British Romantic Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. Works by such authors as Wollstonecraft, Equiano, Blake, Burns, William Wordsworth, Barbauld, and Coleridge.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Late British Romantic Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. Works by such authors as Byron, Mary Prince, Hemans, Dorothy Wordsworth, Shelley, DeQuincey, and Keats.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Victorian Poetry and Nineteenth-Century Non-Fiction. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. Selected works by authors such as Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Christina Rossetti, the Pre-Raphaelites, DeQuincey, Gaskell, Carlyle, Newman, Wilde, and others.
Credit Hour(s): 1.0 TO 3.0
Honors Readings. Prerequisites: consent of the instructor and Honors Program director. Discussion and readings on selected topics.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
English Literature: 1900-1945. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. Selected works by writers from Great Britain, Ireland, and other English-speaking nations. Writers such as Yeats, Joyce, Mansfield, West, Eliot, Auden, and Woolf; issues such as modernism, imperialism, and women's suffrage.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
English Literature: 1945-Present. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. Selected works by writers from Great Britain, Ireland, and other English-speaking nations. Writers such as Larkin, Lessing, Rushdie, Pinter, Stoppard, Walcott, and Churchill; issues such as postmodernism and responses to political violence.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Twentieth-Century English Poetry. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. Selected works by poets such as Yeats, H.D., Eliot, Auden, Thomas, Smith, Plath, Larkin, and Heaney.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Early American Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2130 with grade of C or higher. Investigation of writers such as Bradford, Bradstreet, Mather, Edwards, Franklin, Freneau, Wheatley, and Murray; focus on literary, historical, theological, and cultural traditions.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
American Literature: 1820-1865. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2130 with grade of C or higher. Emphasis on writers such as Poe, Fuller, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, Dickinson, and Whitman.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
American Literature: 1865-1914. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2130 with grade of C or higher. Emphasis on writers such as Chesnutt, Twain, James, Wharton, Crane, Dreiser, Chopin, Dunbar, and Adams.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
American Literature: 1914-1945. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2130 with grade of C or higher. Emphasis on writers such as Frost, Stein, Anderson, Hemingway, Eliot, Stevens, Cather, Faulkner, Wright, Fitzgerald, Toomer, and Hurston.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
American Literature: 1945-Present. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2130 with grade of C or higher. Emphasis on writers such as Bellow, Momaday, Ellison, Welty, Miller, Albee, Bishop, Rich, Morrison, and Roethke.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
American Poetry. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2130 with grade of C or higher. Topics to be announced. Poetry selected from the colonial period through the twentieth century. May concentrate on poetry from specific periods or of specific types or themes. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
American Drama. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2130 with grade of C or higher. Selected plays and theatre history, primarily from the twentieth century, including works from such playwrights as O'Neill, Glaspell, Williams, Miller, Albee, Hansberry, Fornes, Wilson, Mamet, and Shepard.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
American Fiction. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2130 with grade of C or higher. Topics to be announced. The novel or short fiction selected from the colonial period through the twentieth century. Individual courses may focus on specific periods or specific types or themes. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
American Non-fiction Prose. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2130 with grade of C or higher. Such genres as the essay, biography, letters, diaries, and travel literature; selected writers from the colonial period through the present. Individual courses may focus on specific periods or specific types or themes.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Contemporary American Ethnic Literatures. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 or 2130 with grade of C or higher. Study of contemporary American ethnic literatures, including works by African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, and Native American writers.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Irish Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. Selected works of literature in English and in English translation from Irish, from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries. Emphases will vary; focus on writers such as Swift, Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, Lady Gregory, Kavanagh, Heaney, and Boland.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
The Tradition of Children's and Young Adults' Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. Origin and history of children's and young adult literature; analysis of literary forms and themes; reading and discussion of critical analyses of genre.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Southern Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. Intellectual and literary achievement of the South from 1607 to the present, including works by such authors as Jefferson, Longstreet, Chopin, Faulkner, Welty, Hurston, Warren, O'Connor, and Gaines.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Modern Drama. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. Selected works from 1850 to the present, including but not limited to plays from Great Britain, the Continent, and the United States.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Postcolonial Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. (Depending on topic, may be crosslisted with African- American Studies as AAS 4970.) Literature in English from former and current members of the British Commonwealth, such as Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria, and South Africa; consideration of cultural and political issues. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
African-American Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. (Same as AAS 3880.) Major writers from the eighteenth century to the present. Includes such authors as Equiano, DuBois, Hughes, Petry, Baldwin, Hansberry, Ellison, and Walker.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Language in the African-American Community. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. (Same as AAS 3955.) A sociolinguistic study of the characteristics that define and connote the varieties of African-American English: origins, currents of change, functions of functions of language identity, styles, and modes of discourse.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
African-American Literature by Women. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. (Same as AAS 3960 and WSt 3960.) A survey of literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Includes such authors as Wilson, Wheatley, Larsen, Hurston, Dove, Hansberry, and Morrison.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Caribbean Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. (Same as AAS 4890.) Survey of literature of the English-speaking or Commonwealth Caribbean. Includes such writers as Prince, Brathwaite, Kincaid, Naipaul, and Walcott.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Women's Literature I. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. (Same as WSt 3980.) Selected works by women writers before 1800, such as Julian of Norwich, Christine de Pisan, Elizabeth I, Margaret Sidney, Behn, Burney, Wollstonecraft, and Austen.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Women's Literature II. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. (Same as WSt 3990.) Selected works by women writers after 1800. Multicultural and inclusive in scope; may include Mary Shelley, the Brontes, Dickinson, Cather, Woolf, Emecheta, Hurston, Morrison, and Esquivel.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Feminist Literary Criticism. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. (Same as WSt 3995.) Critical approaches to the varieties of feminist thinking that influence studies of language, literature, and culture. Topics and writers may range from the medieval period to the present. Multicultural perspectives on issues of gender, race, and class emphasized.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Jewish Literature. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120, 2130, 2140, or 3040 with grade of C or higher. A survey of one or more branches of Jewish literature, (e.g. Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, American, British, or German), in English translation where necessary. May be comparative (e.g. Black and Jewish Literatures in the United States). Topics may vary. For English majors and/or students minoring in Jewish Studies.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Study of a Single Author. Topics and non-major prerequisite to be announced. Concentrated study of a single author such as Dryden, Wordsworth, Austen, Hawthorne, Joyce, Faulkner, or Morrison. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Chaucer. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. A selection of Chaucer's works, including Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Spenser. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. The Shepheardes Calender, The Faerie Queene, and other selected works of Spenser.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Shakespeare, Earlier Works. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. Selected works from the first half of Shakespeare's career, such as Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and early poems.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Shakespeare, Later Works. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. Selected works from the second half of Shakespeare's career, such as Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, and later poems. A student may take Engl 4140 without having taken Engl 4130.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Milton. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 2120 with grade of C or higher. A selection of Milton's works, including Paradise Lost, other poetry, and selected prose.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Topics. Topics and non-major prerequisite to be announced. Focused study of a problem, question, issue, or specialized subject. A variety of courses is offered every semester; courses may focus on topics as varied as the sonnet, science and race in nineteenth-century American culture, and literature of World War I. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Religion and Literature. (Same as RelS 4260.) Examines how religious institutions, beliefs, and values have been presented in and challenged within novels. Readings include works by authors from various religious communities as well as theoretical work done by scholars working in the field of religion and literature.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Senior Seminar: Literary Studies-CTW. Prerequisite: Majors must have completed at least twelve semester hours of upper-division English course work before registering. Limited to 15 students. For English majors only. Opportunity for advanced research and completion of a project. Each seminar focuses on a problem, question, issue, or specialized subject. Topics vary. Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all English majors.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Senior Seminar: Workshop in Poetry-CTW. Prerequisites: Engl 3150A and Engl 3170 with grades of C or higher. For English majors only. Majors must have completed at least twelve semester hours of upper-division English coursework before registering. Writing and critique of student work at an advanced level. (Limited to 15 students.) Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all English majors.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Senior Seminar: Workshop in Fiction-CTW. Prerequisites: Engl 3150B, Engl 3160, and Engl 3180B with grades of C or higher. For English majors only. Majors must have completed at least twelve semester hours of upper-division English coursework before registering. Writing and critique of student work at an advanced level. (Limited to 15 students.) Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all English majors.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Senior Seminar: Rhetoric, Advanced Composition, and Technical Writing-CTW. Prerequisite: Engl 2150 or 3050 with grade of C or higher, and at least twelve hours of upper-division courses in rhetoric and advanced composition and technical and professional writing. Limited to 15 students. For English majors only. Opportunity for advanced research and completion of a project in rhetoric or composition. Topics vary. Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all English majors.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Senior Seminar: Secondary English Education-CTW. Prerequisite: twelve hours upper-division English prior to registration. English majors only. Opportunity for advanced research and completion of a project. Each seminar examines a set of texts in relationship to effective pedagogical strategies. Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all English majors.
Credit Hour(s): 1.0 TO 3.0
Graduation with Distinction Project. Prerequisite: consent of department; information available upon request.
Credit Hour(s): 1.0 TO 3.0
Internship. Non-major prerequisite: consent of the department; information available on request. Strongly recommended for those wishing to pursue a career in writing or editing. Field experience in writing, editing, and research.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Grant and Proposal Writing. Non-major prerequisite: Engl 1102 or Engl 1103 with grade of C or higher. Study and practice in grant and proposal writing in business and organizational settings.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Gender and Writing. (Same as WSt 4520). Non-major prerequisite: Engl 1102 or Engl 1103 with grade of C or higher. Examines women's contributions and the role of gender in writing and rhetoric from ancient to contemporary cultures. May include writing projects in civic, social, and professional settings.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Honors Thesis: Research. Prerequisites: consent of the instructor and Honors Program director. Readings or research preparatory to honors thesis or project.
Credit Hour(s): 1.0 TO 6.0
Honors Thesis: Writing. Prerequisites: consent of the instructor and Honors Program director. Writing or production of honors thesis or project.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0 TO 4.0
Directed Readings B.I.S.-CTW. Directed Readings designed for Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies students. This course may satisfy the junior and/or senior-level Critical Thinking Through Writing requirements.