Graduate Catalog 2022-2023

ENG 601 Advanced Research Methods

Advanced study and application of research methods and approaches for literary study including, but not limited to, Archival Research, Distant Reading, New Historicism, Reception Studies, Feminist/Queer Recuperation and Recovery, and Textual Analysis.
3

Prerequisites

ENG 500 with a minimum grade of C

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 610 Interventions in Literacy

This course will help individuals effectively select and implement research-based literacy interventions as they relate to students' strengths and needs at individual student, classroom, and school-wide levels.

3

Offered

Generally offered Fall, Spring, and/or Summer - Check with department/school for next offering

Mutually Exclusive Course

Credit allowed only for one of these courses: ENG 610 or EED 610

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 622 Directed Studies

Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.)
1- 3

Special Notes

Maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.

Level Restriction

Include GR

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with no limitations

ENG 623 Old English

Students will study the language and literature of Anglo-Saxon England, translating important historical and literary documents in prose and poetry, including works by Alfred, Aelfirc, and others.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 624 Middle English

An introduction to Middle English literature. Authors considered may include Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and the Pearl poet. Readings may include drama, narrative poetry, lyric poetry, narrative prose and devotional literature.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 625 Studies in the Renaissance

A survey of selected Renaissance texts, including works by Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton. Emphasis on historical contexts and recent criticism, including new historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic, and queer approaches.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 626 Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Representative poetry, prose, and/or drama in England from 1660-1789, including such writers as Dryden, Behn, Astel, Finch, Pope, Swift, Defoe, Fielding, Boswell, Johnson, Gray, Equiano, Barbauld, Wycherley, and Congreve.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 627 British Romantic Literature

British Literature, 1780-1835, with emphasis on poetry, the novel, and nonfiction prose. Central issues include the Romantic poetic, the French Revolution, and the growth of the English nation.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 628 Studies in the Victorian Period

British literature from 1832-1900, with primary focus on prose fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. emphasis on the intellectual currents of the period as reflected in the literature of the age.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 629 20th Century British Literature

Studies in British literature of the twentieth century, with primary focus on diction, poetry, and non-fiction prose. Emphasis on cultural and intellectual influences on the literature of the era.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 631 Studies in American Literature Civil War to WW1

Seminar in ideas and representative authors during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An examination of both the intrinsic literary quality of selected texts and their sociopolitical, historical, and cultural contexts.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 632 American Literature WW1 to Present

Studies in American literature 1914 to the present, with primary focus on fiction, poetry, and non-fiction prose. Emphasis on cultural and intellectual influences on the literature of the era.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 633 Studies in Linguistics

Seminars in various topics ranging from the evolution of English from its beginnings to dialectology, semantics, stylistics and psycholinguistics.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with a maximum of 9 credit hours

ENG 634 Studies in World Literature

Seminars in writers or works in translation to illustrate generic, thematic, national, or cultural approaches to world literature.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with a maximum of 9 credit hours

ENG 639 Graduate Seminar in Literature

Graduate seminars in various topics (e.g., the tragic hero, alienation, the experimental novel) related in form and/or idea and drawn from American, British or World literature in translation.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

ST - Repeatable under different subtitles and course is repeatable with a maximum of 9 credit hours

ENG 640 History and Theory of Rhetoric

Readings in selected rhetoricians, including Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Erasmus, Ramus, Bacon, Montaigne, Campbell, Blair, Bakhtin, Richards, Gates, Cixous, Kristeva.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 641 Studies in Composition Research and Pedagogy

Reading in composition theory and pedagogy, including expressivist, cognitive, historical, rhetorical, social epistemic, discourse, and cultural studies.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 642 Film Theory and Analysis

This seminar explores major debates and developments in film theory from the 1920s to recent decades. Theories are illustrated with the technical and aesthetic analysis of specific films.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 650 Advanced Editing

This course will focus on the knowledge, skills and practice needed to enter the editing profession.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 651 Professional Writing in the Non-Profit Sector

This course explores professional writing theories and puts them to use in a community engagement project. Students will work with a non-profit organization to develop a grant package, build a social media presence, and design/compose various public-facing deliverables.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 652 Advanced Studies in Digital Humanities

This course introduces students to both theory and technological tools prevalent in the digital humanities. While the specific theoretical foundations, technologies, and projects will vary based on instructor expertise, students can expect to work with video production, textual annotation/qualitative data analysis, web design and coding, and/or e-editing tools and/or technologies.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

ST - Repeatable under different subtitles and course is repeatable with a maximum of 6 credit hours

ENG 653 Writing Center Administration

This course offers extensive theory and historical background on as well as typical practice in directing a writing center.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ENG 697 MA or Creative Project

Select MA project, a journal-appropriate research paper, or creative project (collection of poems, short stories, or novel chapters). Proposal approval by advisor and public presentation (faculty/students) required.

3-6

Prerequisites

ENG 601 or EED 623 with a minimum grade of C

Offered

Generally offered Fall, Spring, and/or Summer Annually

Level Restriction

Include GR

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with a maximum of 12 credit hours