Apr 23, 2024  
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

English

  
  • ENGL 391 - Advanced Exposition and Argumentation

    (3.00)
    This course shows students how to locate, gather and arrange information to produce sophisticated arguments. The course will contain readings drawn from various disciplines.

    Course ID: 54115
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must have completed ENGL 100  or equivalent with a grade of C or better.
  
  • ENGL 391E - Advanced Exposition and Argumentation for ESL Students

    (3.00)
    This course shows students how to locate, gather and arrange information to produce sophisticated arguments. The course will contain readings drawn from various disciplines.

    Course ID: 54117
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 110  with a C or better and have Sophomore standing or higher.
  
  • ENGL 392 - Tutorial in Writing

    (3.00)
    This course of individualized instruction in writing should be taken in conjunction with an upper-level course in the student’s major field. Students will write on topics in ENGL 392 that are not assigned in the upper-level course.

    Course ID: 54118
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 100  with a C or better.
  
  • ENGL 393 - Technical Communication

    (3.00)
    This course teaches students from various disciplines to communicate technical information effectively. The course’s emphases on critical thinking, synthesis, analysis, and the writing process help students to inform and persuade their audiences through the composition of technical documents. Reflecting a professional writing style and document design principles, these documents demonstrate how text and visuals work together to reach different audiences with specific needs. Students also develop oral communication and collaborative skills along with technological and visual literacy.

    Course ID: 54119
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Technical Writing, Technical Writing:Honors, Technical Communication, Technical Communication Honors
    Attributes: Writing Intensive
    Requirement Group: You must have completed ENGL 100  or equivalent or ENGL 391  with a grade of C or better.
  
  • ENGL 393E - Technical Communication for ESL Students

    (3.00)
    This course is designed to teach students with diverse backgrounds and interests how to communicate technical information effectively. With the course’s emphases on critical thinking, synthesis and analysis,students learn how to inform and persuade in technical documents that require strategic decisions on content, organization, writing style and document design. These documents are applicable to many disciplines and to the workplace, and they demonstrate how text and visuals work together to reach various audiences with specific needs. Students also work to develop oral communication, technological and visual literacy, and collaborative skills.

    Course ID: 54120
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Technical Writing, Technical Writing:Honors
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 110  and be at a Junior-level standing.
  
  • ENGL 394 - Technical Editing

    (3.00)
    A logical supplement to ENGL 393 : Technical Editing, the course provides specialists with tools to refine professional writing. This course continues to focus on various formats, such as abstracts, lab reports, review papers and journal articles. Copy-editing and substantive editing techniques will be learned and applied to technical level, organization, format, style, content and graphics presentation.

    Course ID: 54121
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 393  with a C or better.
  
  • ENGL 395 - Internship in Tutoring Writing

    (4.00)
    Course work and practical experience in peer tutoring college writing. Students will learn about tutoring writing through class work that includes reading in the fields of tutoring and composition theory, discussion, and written assignments, along with a tutoring practicum at the Writing Center. In addition, students will be analyzing and refining their own writing process. You must have Sophomore standing or higher, recommendation from an instructor in the English Department, a 3.0 cumulative GPA and evidence of strong writing ability to receive permission to enroll in the course.

    Course ID: 54122
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 100  with a C or better.
  
  • ENGL 396 - Methods of Teaching English in the Secondary Schools

    (3.00)
    This course examines how notions of race and ethnicity are represented, contested, and reconsidered in U.S. literature. Special attention will be paid to how race intersects with gender, sexuality, and class. Course readings are drawn from writers of a range of ethnic backgrounds. Recommended Preparation: Completion of 200-level literature course with a grade of C or better.

    Course ID: 50067
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Same as Offered: EDUC 425 
  
  • ENGL 397 - Tutorial in Creative Writing

    (1.00 - 3.00)
    An individualized course for advanced students in creative writing.

    Course ID: 54123
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 371  or ENGL 373 .
  
  • ENGL 398 - Journalism Internship

    (1.00 - 4.00)
    Practical experience in professional journalism. Student interns work as staff writers for a local newspaper and report regularly to the department’s journalism advisor. Students gain extensive experience in news writing, layout and publication design, and they are expected to compile a substantial portfolio of published work. Variable credit course repeatable for a maximum of 8 credits.

    Course ID: 54124
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Independent Study
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 380  or ENGL 382  or ENGL 383  with a C or better.
  
  • ENGL 399 - Introduction to Honors Project

    (1.00)
    An introduction to research methods and survey of the ways in which literary works can be studied. Designed to help English honors candidates explore topics, authors and procedures to begin shaping the subject and method of the senior honors project. Recommended Preparation: Departmental honors candidacy.

    Course ID: 54125
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Independent Study
  
  • ENGL 400 - Special Projects in English

    (1.00 - 4.00)
    Open to students with special projects - whether in literature, language or writing - on application to the instructor who will supervise the project. Application forms for special projects are available in the department office. Variable credit course repeatable for a maximum of 8 credits.

    Course ID: 54126
    Consent: Department Consent Required
    Components: Independent Study
  
  • ENGL 401 - Methods of Interpretation

    (3.00)
    A course on theory and practice of interpretation. ENGL 401 examines contemporary interpretation theories and the ways in which they may be applied to literature. It introduces students to various approaches to interpretation and helps them to locate the values and methods underlying various interpretive practices, including their own.

    Course ID: 54127
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must have completed ENGL 301  with a grade of C or better.
  
  • ENGL 403 - Advanced Creative Writing: Non-Fiction

    (3.00)
    An advanced course in writing and reading creative non-fiction. With the aim of building a portfolio in creative non-fiction, students will examine and practice such genres as literary travel writing, the personal essay, literary journalism, and memoir.

    Course ID: 54129
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 303  or ENGL 332H  with a C or better.
  
  • ENGL 405 - Seminar in Literary History

    (3.00)
    An examination of some aspect of literature within a historical framework. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits. Recommended Preparation: ENGL 301  with a grade of C or better and senior standing. Permission of the instructor is required.

    Course ID: 54131
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: American Women Writer, Seminar In Literary Hist, Romantic Literature, The Renaissance, Literature and Colonization, American Periodicals and the Making of Mass Cultur
  
  • ENGL 407 - Language in Society

    (3.00)
    In this course, students will study written texts and documents to learn how language actually functions in various social settings. It provides students with essential skills and methods of sociolinguistic analysis in the context of actual discourse communities. Students also will learn the politics of language use in various academic and professional contexts and the crucial role language plays in shaping our physical, cultural and economic realities.

    Course ID: 54132
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 301  with a grade of C or better.
  
  • ENGL 409 - Advanced Topics in Genre Studies

    (3.00)
    This course is repeatable for credit.

    Course ID: 54133
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Victorian Novel, The Victorian Novel, Genre Studies, Victorian Mystery Lit., Modernist Novella, The Novel, Boccaccio, Chaucer and the Collective Poem, World Literature
  
  • ENGL 410 - Seminar in Genre Studies

    (3.00)
    An examination of the forms and developments of literary genres (fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, etc.) or an intensive study of one or two writers in a given genre. Topics to be announced each semester offered. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits or 4 attempts. Recommended Preparation: ENGL 301  with a grade of C or better and senior standing. Permission of the instructor is required.

    Course ID: 54134
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Amer. Lit.Autobiography, Forms Of Eng Short Poem, Sem: Metaphysical Poets, Sem:Metaphysiscal Poets, Seminar In Genre Studies, Learning & Human Interac, Epic, Joyce, Proust, Faulkner, Literature Of Chivalry, Gothic Revivl In Britain, Formalist Poetry, The Modern Novel, Medieval Dream Visions, The Eighteenth Century Novel o, The Modern Lyric
  
  • ENGL 411 - Advanced Topics in Literary History

    (3.00)
    Course ID: 054130
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Sem:Engl Renais Poems, Chaucer & His Contemp, Sem:Lit Of Early Mod Eng, War/Passion In Balkans, Sem: Engl Rnsnce Poetry, Top: Gender And Culture, Romantic Literature, Sem:Aesthetcsm/Decadence, Victorian Narrative
  
  • ENGL 413 - Advanced Topics in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

    (3.00)
    Study of medieval/early modern literary texts, with focus on theoretical approaches to specific topics.Topics vary each semester offered.

    Course ID: 102058
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must complete any 300-level ENGL with a grade of C or better.
  
  • ENGL 414 - Adolescent Literature

    (3.00)
    A survey of literature written especially for adolescents of school age (12-18 years). Selections read cut across genre and age groups. Emphasis is on understanding the literature from an adolescent’s point of view and on devising teaching strategies to create and enhance an adolescent’s understanding of the works. Attention also is paid to the development of critical skills and criteria for evaluating adolescent literature. Prerequisite: Admission to teacher education and permission of the department

    Course ID: 50069
    Consent: Department Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Same as Offered: EDUC 414 
  
  • ENGL 415 - Materials for Teaching Reading

    (3.00)
    This course is designed to assist pre-service and in-service teachers in understanding literacy acquisition and processes by observing and analyzing children’s language, reading and writing development as well as examining current and historical issues in language and literacy practice and research. It is organized around current, accepted, research-based theoretical models that account for individual differences in reading. Introduction to language structures including spoken syllables, phonemes, graphemes, and morphemes is included in this course. Participants will apply knowledge of the core areas of language to reading acquisition in terms of first and second language acquisition, typical development and exceptionalities. Participants will be introduced to current scientific research.

    Course ID: 50070
    Consent: Department Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Same as Offered: EDUC 416 
  
  • ENGL 416 - Advanced Topics in Literature and Other Arts

    (3.00)
    This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits.

    Course ID: 54135
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Ad Top: Lit & Other Arts, Seminar:Against Metaphor, Modernism In Fiction, Detective-Fiction & Film, Detective Fiction & Film, The Flapper In Jazz Age, Shakespeare and the stuff of performance
  
  • ENGL 417 - Seminar in Literature and Other Arts

    (3.00)
    An intensive study of the relationships between literature and music, film and the fine arts. Topics to be announced each semester offered. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits.

    Course ID: 54136
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Sem:Relativity/Mod Lit, Sem:Lit & Psychoanalysis, Mediated Movies
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 301  with a grade of C or better and have junior or senior standing.
  
  • ENGL 419 - Seminar in Literature and the Sciences

    (3.00)
    An intensive study of the relationships between literature and some aspect of the physical, natural or social sciences. Topics to be announced each semester offered. This course is repeatable for credit. Recommended Preparation: ENGL 301  with a grade of C or better and senior standing. Permission of instructor is required.

    Course ID: 54138
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Darwin And Amer Literatr, Green Writing, Green Writ-Lit & Environ, Discourses Of Happiness
  
  • ENGL 431 - Seminar in Contemporary British and American Literature

    (3.00)
    Advanced studies in selected works of modern British and/or American literature. The emphasis is on literary developments since World War II. Topics to be announced each semester offered. Recommended Preparation: ENGL 301  with a grade of C or better and senior standing. Permission of instructor is required.

    Course ID: 54140
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
  
  • ENGL 435 - Digital Humanities

    (3.00)
    This course will provide an undergraduate-level exposure to the digital humanities, covering several distinct areas within the field including humanities computing, critical code studies, and new media studies. It will introduce students to foundational and state-of-the-art humanities computing tools for the analysis and archiving of texts, and expose students to current trends in and criticism of digital literature and interactive fiction/game theory. Students will be expected to work with code and software tools. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 9 credits or 3 attempts. Recommended Course Preparation : ENGL 387  

    Course ID: 101928
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must have completed ENGL 300  with a C or better.
  
  • ENGL 442 - Seminar In Visual Literacy

    (3.00)
    This course focuses on the impact of new media on an evolving visual and technological literacy. The course will examine literacy development and expectations in contemporary communication forms. To ground the study we will begin with a solid history of literacy development, both visual and textual, across cultures. The course goal is both to understand how we see and how we communicate in various cultural contexts. Practical applications will include both composing and designing in the computer-mediated classroom. We will explore art history, reading and writing theory, and the evolution and sociological expectations of literacy development. Technology’s impact on our literacy practices is great in scope; only by comparing print literacy with electronic literacy can we truly begin to understand, interpret, and create documents that meet contemporary visual and textual literacy expectations.

    Course ID: 54142
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must have completed ENGL 300 with a C or better.
  
  • ENGL 447 - Online Voice and Community

    (3.00)
    The social capital that shapes communities can be strengthened by technology. In fact, online communities, across cultures, have provided the space for disenfranchised and silenced voices - voices for literacy, for freedom, for politics, for support, for justice. The purposes vary, but the design, engagement, and outcome of successful online communities all share the attribute of valued voice. Using Kollack, Powazek and others, students will examine culturally specific online communities, analyzing text, voice, ethics, language, and structure. As well as studying, evaluating, and analyzing aspects of online voice, students will participate in online communities. The course will incorporate online communication as well as traditional writing processes. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits.

    Course ID: 50093
    Consent: Department Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Lit And Colonization, Joan Of Arc, Adv Top In Lit & Culture, Women, Men & War, Online Voice & Community
  
  • ENGL 448 - Seminar in Literature and Culture

    (3.00)
    An intensive study of the relationships between literature and culture, with emphasis on literature as a product and manifestation of cultural forces. Topics to be announced each semester offered. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits. Recommended Preparation: ENGL 301  with a grade of C or better and senior standing. Permission of the instructor is required.

    Course ID: 54143
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Seminar In Lit & Cutlure, Victorian Lit And Ethics, Crime In Victorian Fict, Amer Thru Eyes Of Others, Literature & Empire, Melville & American Demc, Seminar In Lit & Culture, Private Life/Shakes Eng, Films And The Cold War, Victorian Education, Walt Whitman, Shakespeare & Censorship, Sem:Hero In Amer Culture, Cultrl Legacy/Romantcism, Devising/Revising Self, Shakespeare’s Dramatists, Victorian Post-Colonial, Literature, Values, And, Sem: The Hero In Lit, Machine Age America, Postmodernism And Power, Irish Lit: Nation, Gendr, Politics & Early Mod Lit, Life Writing/Renaissance, Literature and Colonialism, Literature and Colonization, Literature and Exile
  
  • ENGL 449 - Seminar in Genre Analysis

    (3.00)
    Taught in an electronic classroom, Genre Analysis will be guided by the theory and methodologies, primarily, of Swales and Bakhtin. Students will conduct what Swales calls textographies or studies of text and situation. In particular, we will examine the rhetoric of academia, science, media and law, both print and electronic. During the course, students will employ multi-methodologies to study text, including observation, discourse analysis, interview, and think-aloud protocols. We will also investigate academic writing and the development of academic language and literacy. The face-to-face course will incorporate online communication, as well as traditional writing processes and will explore rhetorical analysis as compared to genre analysis.

    Course ID: 50091
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 301  with a grade of C or better and have junior or senior standing.
  
  • ENGL 451 - Seminar in Major Writers

    (3.00)
    An intensive study of one or two major British and/or American writers. Topics to be announced each semester offered. Recommended Preparation: ENGL 301  with a grade of C or better and senior standing. Permission of the instructor is required. Note: May be repeated for credit with permission of the advisor.

    Course ID: 54145
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Samuel Johnson, Toni Morrsion, Johnson Contemporaries, Toni Morrison, Staging Shakespeare Now, Dante and Milton, Virginia Woolf, John Updike, Milton, Walt Whitman
  
  • ENGL 461 - Seminar in Minority Literature

    (3.00)
    The study of a form, period, major figure or theme in the literature of one ethnic, racial, sexual or social minority group in America or Great Britain. Topics to be announced each semester offered. Recommended Preparation: ENGL 301  with a grade of C or better and senior standing. Permission of the instructor is required.

    Course ID: 54147
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
  
  • ENGL 464 - Studies in Women and Literature

    (3.00)
    The study of literature by or about women with an introduction to feminist literary theory and methods. The course will address questions of canonicity and a female literary tradition. It will examine the relationship between gender and genre, identify patterns of gender representation, and introduce students to key terms and questions in the scholarly study of gender and sexuality. The course topic will be announced each semester.  This course is repeatable for a maximum of 9 credits or 3 attempts.

    Course ID: 101891
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Same as Offered: GWST 464  
    Requirement Group: You must complete any 300 level English Course with a grade of C or better
  
  • ENGL 469 - Studies in Race and Ethnicity

    (3.00)
    A focused study of race and ethnicity in literature and the relevant theoretical frameworks that shape the field. This course is not bound to a specific time period or region and may center on a particular author, genre, literary form, historical moment, or critical methodology. Topics will vary each semester. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 9 credits or 3 attempts.

    Course ID: 101892
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must complete any 300 level English Course with a grade of C or better
  
  • ENGL 471 - Advanced Creative Writing-Fiction

    (3.00)
    An advanced course in writing fiction.

    Course ID: 54148
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must have completed ENGL 371  with a grade of C or better.
  
  • ENGL 473 - Advanced Creative Writing-Poetry

    (3.00)
    An advanced course in writing poetry.

    Course ID: 54149
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must have completed ENGL 373  with a grade of C or better.
  
  • ENGL 475 - Special Studies in Creative Writing

    (3.00)
    A course in which advanced writing students can work with students from other arts in a joint project. The course is defined and guided by one or more faculty members from the disciplines involved. Recommended Preparation: Six hours of creative writing in at least two of the following three areas: English, theatre or visual arts.

    Course ID: 54150
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
  
  • ENGL 480 - Seminar in Advanced Journalism

    (3.00)
    An intensive study of one or more areas in the field of journalism, such as reporting, editing, newspaper management, mass media and the history of journalism. Topics to be announced each semester offered. Recommended Preparation: ENGL 380  with a grade of C or better, senior standing and permission of the instructor.

    Course ID: 54151
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Seminar in Advance, Seminar in Journalism
  
  • ENGL 481 - Advanced Topics in Journalism

    (3.00)
    This course builds on skills developed in 300-level journalism courses. It will focus on advanced topics in areas of journalism, including subjects with both a literary and historical perspective. Advanced topics may also include an in-depth examination of press law, the history of the press in the United States, the role of women in journalism from an historical perspective and modern developments in a digital news age. Topics to be announced each semester offered.

    Course ID: 101762
    Consent: Department Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: The Physcian as Writer
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 380  and ENGL 382  with a C or better.
  
  • ENGL 483 - Writing in the Sciences

    (3.00)
    This course examines scientific writing. Offered with an electronic communication across the curriculum focus, students will hone science writing style and form. Among the texts we will investigate and practice are professional science articles, proposals, abstracts, reports and literature reviews. Students will collect, analyze, and report data on topics ranging from climactic changes, pollution, and deforestation to disease control, genetic research, scientific ethics and medicine.

    Course ID: 50090
    Consent: Department Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: The Literature of Addiction and Recovery
    Requirement Group: You must have completed ENGL 100  or equivalent with a grade of C or better.
  
  • ENGL 485 - The Teaching of Writing

    (3.00)
    An introduction to theories and techniques of writing instruction. Current theory and research is applied in the development of a repertoire of approaches to writing instruction and curriculum development. Students examine research that analyzes writing from linguistic, psychological and developmental perspectives. Direct experience in personal writing reinforces theoretical study of the processes of composition and enables prospective teachers to improve their own writing skills. Each student designs a model writing program or course, including a rationale for choices made, that demonstrates how specific features of the course or program will be taught.

    Course ID: 50064
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Same as Offered: EDUC 485 
    Requirement Group: You must complete a CLPT course or EDUC course.
  
  • ENGL 486 - Seminar in Teaching Composition: Theory and Practice

    (3.00)
    This course examines our changing understanding of the teaching of composition during the past 30 years by tracing key theories and pedagogies across this period. These sometimes conflicting approaches to the teaching of writing include the following orientations: cognitive, expressivist, social constructivist and political. The course is intended for current and prospective teachers of English at elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels.

    Course ID: 54152
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Requirement Group: You must have Junior or Senior standing.
  
  • ENGL 488 - Seminar in Computer Assisted Writing Instruction

    (3.00)
    This course introduces the methods of computer-assisted writing instruction to current and prospective teachers across the curriculum. It allows participants to practice these methods in class and provides opportunities for discussion and investigation. Designed for educators in all disciplines and at all levels, elementary through university, this course invites participants to explore ways of integrating technologies into their own classrooms and curricula. This course is repeatable for credit.

    Course ID: 54153
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Visual/Technological Lit, Computer Assisted Wrting, Visual Literacy, Assisted Writing
    Requirement Group: You must have Junior or Senior standing.
  
  • ENGL 490 - Advanced Topics in the English Language

    (3.00)
    A historical and linguistic study of the English language from its origins in Old English to World English, as well as language issues in contemporary America. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits.

    Course ID: 54154
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: History Of The Engl Lang, Sem: Orig & Dev/Engl Lang, Top: Evolution Engl Lang, Adv Topics In Engl Lang, History Of Engl Language, Sem: Evolution Engl Lang, Sem: Orgns/Devel Engl Lan, Origin Of English Lang, Sem: Topics In Engl Lang
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 301  with a grade of C or better and have junior or senior standing.
  
  • ENGL 491 - Seminar in Topics in the English Language

    (3.00)
    A historical and linguistic study of the English language from its origins in Old English to World English, as well as language issues in contemporary America. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 6 credits.

    Course ID: 54155
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Spec Studies: Creat Wrtng, English Language
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 301  with a grade of C or better and have junior or senior standing.
  
  • ENGL 493 - Seminar in Communication and Technology

    (3.00)
    Intensive review of issues and research in communication and technology. Emphasis may vary from historical to contemporary and include various objects of inquiry and research methods. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 6 credits or 2 attempts. Recommended Preparation: Senior standing and permission of the instructor. Note: May be repeated for created with permission of the instructor.

    Course ID: 54157
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
    Topics: Copyright Culture, Theories of Communicative Practice and Play, Theories of Creativity & Play, The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property, Info, Freedom and Resistance, Software Studies
  
  • ENGL 494 - American English Structure for ESL/FL Teachers: Syntax and Mrphology

    (3.00)
    The course examines the syntactical, phonological and morphological systems of modern American English, with particular attention to areas most relevant to teachers of English as a second or foreign language. The systems are examined primarily through the transformational model of grammar. The course includes techniques for teaching specific grammatical structures.

    Course ID: 54158
    Consent: Department Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
  
  • ENGL 495 - Internship

    (1.00 - 4.00)
    Practical experience in applying communication and research skills in an actual work setting. Student interns perform six to eight hours of supervised tasks each week for a newspaper, television or radio station, advertising company, publishing house or other similar agency. Internship opportunities are individually arranged by the English department in cooperation with the sponsoring agency. Variable credit course repeatable for a maximum of 8 credits. Prerequisite: Upper-division status, at least a 3.0 cumulative grade point average overall and permission of the department’s internship coordinator

    Course ID: 54159
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Independent Study
  
  • ENGL 498 - Senior Honors Seminar

    (3.00)
    Course ID: 54160
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Lecture
  
  • ENGL 499 - Senior Honors Project

    (4.00)
    This project enables the honors student to pursue an inquiry of special interest and to gain experience in planning and executing a major project that is historical, critical or creative in nature.

    Course ID: 54162
    Consent: No Special Consent Required
    Components: Independent Study
    Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 399 with a C or better.
 

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