This course allows students to explore a specific problematic in literary theory and criticism, drawing from more than one theoretical movement, such as structuralism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, theories of gender and sexuality, and post-colonial theory. May or may not involve reading literary texts.
Analysis of modern short stories.
ENG 195: with minimum grade of D- and
ENG 345: with minimum grade of D-
Content includes the history of scholarly editing, study of different editorial approaches and principles, and the construction of a digital scholarly edition.
Prerequisites: ENG 195 and ENG 345. A study of seven or eight important English and American novels to show different techniques used to reveal the novelists' artistic insight.
Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course is designed to tie together the various strands of English and American literature through an extended survey of key works of literature, historical periods, and literary themes from the beginnings to 1800.
Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course is designed to tie together the various strands of British and American literature through an extended survey of key works of literature, historical periods, and literary themes from 1800 to the present.
Greek myths as an important source of literary allusion and imagery and as a comparative vehicle to show what is common to all mythologies.
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.
Study of language choices in a wide variety of texts that meet specific rhetorical situations.
Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.)
This course reviews professional design software and expands knowledge of visual rhetoric and design. Students prepare for the job market by assembling a professional portfolio via a CMS site.
This course asks students to engage critically with primary and secondary texts in World Literature, Folklore, or Mythology.
ENG 195: with minimum grade of D- and
ENG 345: with minimum grade of D-
Intensive focus on a critical and/or literary problem, discourse, theme, genre or individual author.
ENG 195: with minimum grade of D- and
ENG 345: with minimum grade of D-
An advanced workshop course focusing on short fiction. Emphasis on the analysis of the short story form and how it works.
An advanced course in the reading and writing of poetry, with attention to different poetic forms and their history; the current publication scene in American poetry; an examination of print and on line journals; the preparation of a chapbook manuscript. Includes intensive study of contemporary poetry in English as well as a sampling of contemporary world poetry in translation. Includes poetry workshops almost every week.
One semester of full-time work in professional writing in public or private agencies, such as state government offices, publishing companies, newspapers, magazines, advertising agencies or related organizations.
(S01-SAT Verbal: with minimum score of 630 or A01-ACT English: with minimum score of 30 or S13-READING TEST SCORE: with minimum score of 34 or
ENG 122)
An intensive study of one particular cultural phenomenon from a variety of critical perspectives.
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ENG 345: with minimum grade of D- or
ENG 347: with minimum grade of D-)
Juniors or above. Detailed investigation of a specific author, period, text, or topic in literary studies, composition and rhetoric, or linguistics. Substantial research and at least one oral presentation required. Repeatable, under different subtitles.