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.
This course examines current and emerging issues and trends in the English studies including composition, literature, and pedagogy with and emphasis on assessment and the inclusion of diverse learners in American schools.
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.
This course provides an overview of educational research with an emphasis on literacy in secondary and post-secondary settings and guides teachers to develop systematic inquiries into effective teaching and learning. Participants will learn about methods for conducting teacher action research through analysis and application of classroom-based research.
Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.)
Special Notes
Maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seminars in various topics ranging from the evolution of English from its beginnings to dialectology, semantics, stylistics and psycholinguistics.
Seminars in writers or works in translation to illustrate generic, thematic, national, or cultural approaches to world 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.
Readings in selected rhetoricians, including Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Erasmus, Ramus, Bacon, Montaigne, Campbell, Blair, Bakhtin, Richards, Gates, Cixous, Kristeva.
Reading in composition theory and pedagogy, including expressivist, cognitive, historical, rhetorical, social epistemic, discourse, and cultural studies.
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.
This course will focus on the knowledge, skills and practice needed to enter the editing profession.
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.
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.
This course offers extensive theory and historical background on as well as typical practice in directing a writing center.
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.