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Successful completion of CPN 100 or CPN 102 is prerequisite to
all courses in English. CPN 101 or CPN 103 may be taken concurrently with any
200-level literature course. For ENG and AEE majors, ENG 203 is prerequisite
for 300-level literature courses.
ENG 200: Introduction to Literature
(A) Introduction to systematic study of literature. Emphasis on fiction, with
attention to poetry and drama. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 201: Introduction to Language Study
(B) Concepts, scope, methodology of science of language. Principles of descriptive
and historical linguistics. Geographical, historical, social dialects of English.
(Also listed as ANT 251 and COM 211.) (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 202: Introduction to Fiction
(A) Introduction to reading and analysis of short story, novella, novel. (3
cr. hr.) _
ENG 203: Introduction to Poetry
(A) Introduction to reading and analysis of poetry. (3 cr. hr.) _ENG 204: Introduction
to Drama
(B) Introduction to basics of theatrical literature. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 220: Introduction to Western Literature I
(O) Major phases of literary heritage of Western World from Classical Age to
Renaissance. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 221: Introduction to Western Literature II
(O) Major phases of literary heritage of Western World from Enlightenment to
Modern Period. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 229, 329, 429, 529: Special Topics in English
Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Prerequisites:
Designated by department as appropriate for content and academic level of credit.
(1-4 cr. hr.)
ENG 250: Introduction to Jewish Authors
(B) Introduction to Jewish themes in American literature and in translation
from Yiddish. (Also listed as JST 250.) (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 251: Introduction to African-American Literature
(O) Survey of African-American literature: representative novels, poetry, drama
from various time periods. (Also listed as AAS 251.) (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 252: Introduction to Modern American Multicultural Literature
(O) Introduction to prose, poetry, and drama that reflects the diverse ethnic,
cultural, and social worlds of North America and the Caribbean today. (3 cr.
hr.) _
ENG 256: Introduction to American Indian Literature
(C) Introduction to “Native American” culture through analytical
appreciation of its oral and written literature. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 257: Introduction to Irish Literature
(O) Introduction to Irish writers and their themes. Readings include some translations
from Irish to English. Poetry, fiction, and drama will be included. (3 cr.
hr.) _
ENG 260: Literature of Sports
(O) Philosophical, psychological, sociological ideas and problems associated
with growing emphasis on sport in modern life. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 261: Introduction to Women in Literature
(B) Study of literary portrayal of women by female and male authors of different
periods and nationalities. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 262: War in Literature
(O) Literary portrayal of war in Western literature from antiquity to present.
(3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 263: Ethical Issues in Literature
(O) Issues concerning moral and social law as reflected in the literature of
various western cultures and historical backgrounds. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 278: Introduction to Film and Short Fiction
(O) Introduction to analysis, interpretation of films and short fiction through
study of selected short stories, novelettes, film scripts, films. (Also listed
as CIN 278.) (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 280: Introduction to Mythology and the Bible
(O) Survey of major characters and events in classical mythology and the Bible.
(3 cr. hr.) _
_For non-majors successful completion of a 200-level English
course is prerequisite to all 300- and 400-level courses. For ENG 220 and ENG-AEE
majors, three credit hours in ENG 325, 326, 355, 356 are prerequisite to 400-level
literature courses. Specific prerequisites to Professional Writing courses
are listed with catalog course descriptions.
ENG 301: Creative Writing
(O) Study and writing assigned according to students’ interest in one
or both genres of poetry and the short story. May be repeated once with consent
of instructor. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 302: Writing About Literature
(A) Strategies for writing about fiction, poetry and drama. Introduction to
various critical perspectives for contextualizing literature. Emphasis on
understanding, summarizing, evaluating, and synthesizing critical arguments.
(3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 304: Introduction to Play and Script Writing
(O) Practical and theoretical instruction in basics of play and script writing.
(Also listed as CIN 304.) (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 305: Film Criticism
(O) Close study of a number of selected films, domestic and foreign, from aesthetic,
technical perspectives. Extensive writing of reviews, critiques aimed at
different media. High level of writing proficiency expected. Consent of instructor.
(Also listed as CIN 305.) (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 306: Advanced Writing Workshop
(A) Advanced writing course focusing on genres of literary non-fiction, fiction,
poetry, and modes of exposition and argument. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 307: Computer Technology in the Classroom
(B) Students will study the application of computer technology to the composing
process and assist English instructors in composition classes. (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 325: American Literature Before 1900
(A) Representative works of major writers of the Puritan Age, the Age of Reason,
the Romantic Age, and the Age of Realism and Regionalism. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 326: American Literature Since 1900
(A) Representative works of major writers of the Age of Naturalism, the Age
of Modernism, and the Postmodern Age. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 352: Early African-American Literature
(O) African-American writing before World War II. Emphasis on critical reactions,
analysis. Slave narrative, autobiography, rhetoric, fiction, poetry included.
Prerequisite: AAS/ENG 251. (Also listed as AAS 352.) (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 353: Recent African-American Literature
(O) African-American experience in America as reflected since World War II
in works of outstanding Black American writers: fiction, nonfiction, poetry,
drama. Prerequisite: AAS/ENG251. (Also listed as AAS 353.) (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 355: Major Figures in British Literature to 1780
(A) From Chaucer to the Romantics, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton,
Dryden, Swift, Pope, Fielding. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 356: Major Figures in British Literature 1780-Present
(A) From Blake to the present including such writers as Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Keats, Browning, Hardy, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Auden. Prerequisite: ENG 355.
(3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 365: Third World Literature
(O) Representative postcolonial works of fiction in English from the Caribbean,
Africa, India, and the South Pacific. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 373: Literature for Children
(A) Understanding, critical appreciation of books for elementary school pupils.
Not to be counted in the English 120 and 220 major programs. (3 cr. hr.)
_
ENG 374: Literature for Adolescents
(B) Critical study, examination and evaluation of literature written specifically
for and about
adolescents, including the canon of young adult literature.(3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 402: Grammar
(B) Intensive study of grammar, focusing on phonology, morphology, and syntax;
understanding of language acquisition; and development of instructional strategies.
Prerequisite: Junior standing. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 407: Study of English Language
(S) Study of language and literacy acquisition and development; diversity in
language use, historical and social influences on language, and second language
and bilingual learning (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 411: World Literature
(B) Survey of the writing of World literature from the beginning to the present
day (3 cr. hr.)_
ENG 417: The Romantic Age in American Literature
(O) Such writers as Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau and
Whitman. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 418: Realism and Naturalism in American Literature
(O) From Civil War to Twenties. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 419: American Fiction of the Twenties and Thirties
(O) Studies in important American prose writers from the Twenties to World
War II. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 420: Modern American Poetry
(O) Important poets from 1914 to present. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 421: African-American Autobiography
(O) Autobiographical narratives of Douglass, Washington, Hughes, Wright, Baldwin,
Malcolm X, Moody, Angelou. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 422: American Women Writers
(O) Representative works, from the late 18th Century to the present. (3 cr.
hr.) _
ENG 423: American Fiction Since 1940
(O) Important American prose writers from the forties to present. (3 cr. hr.)
_
ENG 425: African-American Women Novelists
(O) Study of African-American women’s tradition in American literature.
Focus on the representative works of Wilson, Harper, Hurston, Larson, Petry,
Morrison, Naylor, Walker. (Also listed as AAS 425.) (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 433: Shakespeare
(A) Dramatic effectiveness, structure, characterization, and poetry in selected
group of Shakespeare plays. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 438: Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose
(C) Literature of the late Renaissance, 1590-1660; selected works of metaphysical
(Donne, Herbert, Vaughan) and/or cavalier (Jonson, Herrick, Marvell) writers
and their contemporaries. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 440: The Age of Satire
(O) Restoration and Augustan prose, poetry, drama; Dryden, Swift, Pope, and
their contemporaries with attention to precursors and subsequent developments.
(3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 441: The Age of Sensibility
(O) Pre-Romantic poetry: Thomson, Gray, Collins; Sentimentalism in the novel
and drama; Sterne, Sheridan, Goldsmith; criticism and biography of Johnson,
Boswell. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 442 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
(O) Drama written and performed in England from 1660 to 1800._
ENG 445: The Romantic Age
(O) Major writers of Romantic period of England. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 446: The Victorian Age
(O) Selected works of Victorian writers studied in relation to intellectual
movements of period. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 455: The English Novel to 1900
(O) From the beginnings to 1900. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 456: Modern Irish Drama
(O) Representative works of selected modern Irish playwrights such as Synge,
Yeats, O’Casey, Johnston, Carroll, Beckett, Behan, Friel and Murphy.
(3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 457: Modern Irish Fiction
(O) Representative works of selected modern Irish novelists and short-story
writers — for example: Moore, O’Kelly, Stephens, Joyce, O’Connor,
O’Faolain, Murdoch, Trevor. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 458: Modern Irish Poetry
(O) Representative works of selected modern Irish poets, such as Yeats, Heaney,
Boland, and McGuckian. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 464: Modern Russian Literature 1860-1960
(O) Representative works in translation of selected Russian writers; novel,
short story, drama; Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pasternak. (3
cr. hr.) _
ENG 470: Modern British Poetry
(O) Poetry since 1890 written in England and Ireland. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 471: The Modern English Novel
(O) Important English novels since 1900. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 472: Modern Drama
(O) Important plays since 1875 written in America, England, Ireland and Europe.
(3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 475: American Multicultural Literature
(C) Close readings of representative texts by major twentieth-century American
writers of color. (3 cr. hr.) _
ENG 498: Independent Study
(O) Prerequisite: Approval of English Department Honors Committee. (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 499: Senior Thesis
(O) Prerequisites: Completion of at least three credits in Honors studies,
approval of English Department Honors Committee. (3 cr. hr.)
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