A survey of general linguistics as applied to the history of the English language. Includes vocabulary and dictionary study, regional and social dialects, semantics and pragmatics, childhood acquisition of language.
Writing-intensive explorations of key concepts or emerging scholarship in the fields of rhetoric, composition, professional writing, and/or creative writing.
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 learn and practice substantive editing that focuses on texts’ organization, usability, completeness, accuracy, and style. Students will edit and produce a scholarly or popular edition.
This course explores emerging scholarship on writing and design technologies. Beyond exposing students to applications that they will encounter as professional writers, the course explores the ontological, epistemological, material, and ethical transformations that new communicative technologies engender.
Intensive focus on a critical and/or literary problem, discourse, theme, genre or individual author.
Students will engage in one semester of work in a public or private agency, such as a state government office, a non-profit organization, a publishing company, a newspaper, a magazine, an advertising agency or related organization. Students need 135 hours across the semester for 3 credits. Adjusted hours available for 1 and 2 credit versions.
(GPA-3.0) and (
ENG 123 with a minimum grade of D-)
An intensive study of one particular cultural phenomenon from a variety of critical perspectives.