2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog

ENG 303 Advanced Creative Nonfiction

Prerequisite: ENG 203.  An advanced creative nonfiction course.  Emphasis on reading and writing personal essays that could be submitted for publication. 

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ENG 312 Shakespeare in Context: Histories and Comedies

Prerequisite: ENG 122, an ACT score of 30.0 or higher in English, or an SAT verbal score of 630 or higher. An in-depth study of Shakespeare’s histories and comedies, as well as relevant plays, poetry and prose by contemporary authors. Includes background on literary and theatrical history, and recent criticism.

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ENG 313 Shakespeare in Context: Tragedies and Romances

Prerequisite: ENG 122, an ACT score of 30.0 or higher in English, or an SAT verbal score of 630 or higher. An in-depth study of Shakespeare’s tragedies and romances, as well as related plays by his contemporaries. Includes background on literary and theatrical history, and recent criticism.

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ENG 314 Shakespeare in Context: Poetry

Prerequisite: ENG 122, an ACT score of 30.0 or higher in English, or an SAT verbal score of 630 or higher. An in-depth study of Shakespeare’s non-dramatic works, as well as related poetry by his contemporaries. Includes background on literary history and recent criticism.

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ENG 318 Traditional and Modern Grammars

Describes English as treated by traditional grammarians, structuralists and transformationalists. Topics range from word classes, tense and voice, to operations and processes underlying modern grammar.

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ENG 319 The Art of Persuasion

Prerequisites: ENG 122, an ACT score of 30.0 or higher in English, or an SAT verbal score of 630 or higher; any course meeting LAC category 1b.  This advanced writing course is designed to help students study and employ rhetorical concepts that will enable them to write persuasively in a variety of contexts.

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ENG 320 History of the English Language

Students will study the history of English from its origins as a Germanic and Indo- European language to the present, with special focus on historical development of modern English varieties.

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ENG 325 Studies in Fantasy and Science Fiction

Different approaches to the literature of wonder, including concentration on a particular writer, a theme such as women in science fiction, or a historical study of the genre.

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ENG 335 World Literature By and About Women

The contributions of important early and modern women writers. Novels, plays and poetry or short stories of world writers will be studied.

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ENG 336 European Immigrant Literature

Prerequisite: ENG 122, an ACT score of 30.0 or higher in English, or an SAT verbal score of 630 or higher. Study of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature by and about European immigrants to the U.S. Also an introduction to theories of ethnicity and literature in the U.S.

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ENG 337 Chicana/o Literature and Theory

Prerequisite: MAS 100 and MAS 110 or ENG 236. In-depth study of contemporary Chicana/o literature and theory. Course will be thematic and will focus on the disciplinary and cultural connections between the literary, the aesthetic, and the theoretical.

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ENG 338 The Bible as Literature

Prerequisites: ENG 122, an ACT score of 30.0 or higher in English, or an SAT verbal score of 630 or higher; any course meeting LAC category 1b. Study and interpretation of biblical texts, including sections from Hebrew, Christian, and Apocryphal scriptures, using cultural, historical, and literary hermeneutics.

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ENG 342 Intermediate Creative Writing-Fiction

Prerequisite: ENG 242. An advanced workshop course focusing on short fiction. Emphasis on the analysis of the short story form and how it works.

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ENG 343 Intermediate Screenwriting

Prerequisite: ENG 243. Advanced study of the screenplay’s elements, including premise, plot, subplot, theme, conflict, character, dialogue, and transitions. Students will learn the correct format for a professional screenplay.

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ENG 344 Intermediate Creative Writing - Poetry

Prerequisite: ENG 244.  An advanced workshop course focusing on poetry.  Emphasis on the analysis of and experimentation with poetic form, and different voices. 

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ENG 345 Literary Theory and Criticism

Prerequisites: ENG 195 and one British or American literature period course. This course introduces students to major issues and movements in literary theory and criticism, such as structuralism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, theories of gender and sexuality, and post-colonial theory.

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ENG 346 Chicana/o Theory

Prerequisites: MAS 100 or ENG 345. An in-depth study of issues and topics in Chicana/o theory and related fields. May focus on specific periods, specific issues, and/or specific authors. Repeatable, may be taken two times, under different subtitles.

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ENG 347 Cultural Theory

A historical survey of the development of cultural studies. The investigation of "culture" as a symbolic practice, and the various critical methodologies used to interpret cultural "texts."

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ENG 349 Old English, 700-1200

Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course is designed to introduce students to the literature and language of the Anglo-Saxon period. Some works will be read in translation and some in Old English.

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ENG 350 Middle English, 1200-1485

Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course is designed to introduce students to the literature and language of the Middle English period. Some works will be read in translation and some in Middle English.

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ENG 351 The Tudor Period, 1485-1603

Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. Selected works from 1485 to 1603, including More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. Course will focus on humanism, the Protestant Reformation, and the development of English theater.

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ENG 352 The Stuart Period, 1603-1714

Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. Selected works from 1603 to 1714, including Donne, Shakespeare, Jonson, Hobbes, Milton, Dryden, and Behn. Course will focus on English colonialism, the Civil War, and emerging women's voices.

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ENG 353 The Eighteenth Century, 1714-1789

Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. Selected works from 1714 to 1789, including Pope, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Gay, Haywood, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Collier, Gray, Cowper, Mary Leapor, Burke, Anna Barbauld, Equiano, Charlotte Smith, Boswell, Johnson. Focus on satire, early novel, and emerging women's voices.

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ENG 354 British Romanticism

Prerequisite: ENG 195 or its equivalent. British poetry and prose of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

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ENG 355 Victorian Prose and Poetry

Prerequisite: ENG 195 or its equivalent. A study of the major Victorian writers and their themes. Special emphasis upon intellectual currents of the nineteenth century as reflected in poetry and prose.

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ENG 356 Twentieth Century British Literature

Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. Selected reading from authors such as Shaw, Joyce, Woolf, Yeats, Thomas, Lessing and Fowles to bring out themes and intellectual currents of the twentieth century.

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ENG 370 Colonial American Literature, 1492-1800

Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course provides a survey of early American literature from the age of exploration through the American Revolution.

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ENG 371 Antebellum American Literature, 1800-1865

Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course examines major movements in literature and culture in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Major authors will include Irving, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Douglass, Whitman, & Dickinson.

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ENG 372 American Realism and the Making of America

Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course examines major movements in literature and culture in the decades between 1865 and 1900 focusing on American realism and the making of America.

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ENG 373 American Modernism and the Crisis of Representation

Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. A study of Modernism and Postmodernism in twentieth-century American literature, with particular emphasis on innovations in literary form.

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ENG 374 American Diaspora and Globalization

Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course provides a survey of late nineteenth through early twenty-first century American literature focusing on the themes of globalization and diaspora.

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ENG 375 Literature and the Environment

Explore human relationships with nature writing from various periods and cultures. Economic, scientific, philosophic and religious attitudes emerge from attitudes about nature. Do these influence human treatment of natural things?

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ENG 395 Studies in Literature, Theory and Writing

Prerequisites: ENG 122, an ACT score of 30.0 or higher in English, or an SAT verbal score of 630 or higher; any course meeting LAC category 1b. Focus on a critical, rhetorical,or literary problem or theme. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles.

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