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ENGL 101 Composition and Rhetoric I: Inquiry and Exploratory Research 3.0 Credits
Develops students' abilities to use writing as a tool for inquiry. Introduces genre theory, writing as a process, revision, and strategies of primary and secondary research. Reviews grammar, style, and documentation conventions. Engages students in reflection and promotes positive attitudes toward writing.
College/Department: College of Arts and Sciences
ENGL 102 Composition and Rhetoric II: Advanced Research and Evidence-Based Writing 3.0 Credits
Advances students' development in the writing processes. Promotes a critical evaluation and integration of information into their own writing as they research complex and open-ended issues. Identifies the relationships between rhetorical situations, the status of claims, and the need for evidence and warrants. Continues review of grammar, style, and documentation conventions. Encourages collaboration and effective search strategies of the Internet and library resources. Promotes students' reflective analysis and a positive attitude toward writing.
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D]
ENGL 103 Composition and Rhetoric III: Themes and Genres 3.0 Credits
Advances students' development in the writing and research processes and their understanding of how genres of writing shape meaning. Some courses may focus on the student's academic and discipline-specific experiences; Others may be based on literary or social themes. Promotes a critical reading of texts, reflective analysis, and a positive attitude toward writing.
ENGL 105 Honors Freshman English 3.0 Credits
Develops students' abilities to read and write expository and persuasive academic discourse. Teaches students the components of the writing process and strategies to think and read critically and to present a written argument. Requires students to write expository and persuasive essays and research papers and to keep a journal to express their responses to the material read and studied in the course.
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is HONR.
ENGL 111 English Composition I 3.0 Credits
Equivalent to the university requirement of ENGL 101. Develops multilingual (non-native speakers of English) students' abilities to use writing as a tool for research and reflection. Introduces the concept of genre, writing as a process, reflection on students' own and others' work, revision, and approaches to primary and secondary research. Reviews grammar, organization, style, and documentation conventions. Promotes positive attitudes toward writing.
Prerequisites: APE 2 or ESL 110 [Min Grade: D]
ENGL 112 English Composition II 3.0 Credits
Equivalent to the university requirement of ENGL 102. Advances multilingual (non-native speakers of English) students' abilities to use of writing as a tool for research and reflection and their understanding of writing as a process. Develops the critical evaluation and integration of information into students' own writing as they research social, political, and educational open-ended issues. Continues review of grammar, organization, style, and documentation conventions. Enhances effective strategies for secondary research and collaboration skills. Promotes positive attitude towards writing.
ENGL 113 English Composition III 3.0 Credits
Equivalent to the university requirement of ENGL 103. Advances multilingual (non-native speakers of English) students' development in the reading, writing, and research processes. Some courses may focus on the student's academic and discipline-specific experiences, while others may be based on literary or social themes. Enhances multilingual students' ability to read texts critically and to reflect on their own and others' writing, scholarly and literary works, and social events. Promotes a positive attitude toward writing.
Prerequisites: ENGL 112
ENGL 195 English Freshman Seminar 3.0 Credits
This course introduces freshman majors to the practice and study of the English major. It is a foundation for further study as well as a course about how we learn. It prepares the student to be successful in upper-division courses and to become familiar with the basic tools of the discipline. It encourages the creative and critical thinking that is a hallmark of the English major.
ENGL 200 [WI] Classical to Medieval Literature 3.0 Credits
A survey of Greek and Roman literature (Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil and Cicero), up to and including the Medieval period (Aquinas, Cavalcanti, Chaucer, and Dante). This is a writing intensive course.
Prerequisites: ENGL 103 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 113 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: A]
ENGL 201 Renaissance to the Enlightenment 3.0 Credits
A survey of Western literature from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, focusing on works by Cervantes, Erasmus, Rabelais, Petrarch, Voltaire, Rousseau, Swift and Pope.
ENGL 202 [WI] Romanticism to Modernism 3.0 Credits
A survey of Western literature of the 19th and 20th centuries focusing on the major periods of Romanticism (Blake, Coleridge and Keats), Realism (Balzac and Ibsen), and Modernism (Kafka, Borges and Woolf). This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 203 [WI] Survey of World Literature 3.0 Credits
A survey of nonwestern literatures produced before the modern era in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, representing the more important periods and genres. This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 204 Post-Colonial Literature 3.0 Credits
A survey of nonwestern literatures written since the 20th century by writers from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and focusing on the effects of social, aesthetic and contemporary events on artistic creation.
ENGL 205 [WI] American Literature I 3.0 Credits
A survey of American literature from Colonial times through the Civil War, including works by such writers as Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Cotton Mather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 206 [WI] American Literature II 3.0 Credits
A survey of American literature from the Civil War through the 21st century, including works by such writers as Kate Chopin, W.E.B. Du Bois, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Philip Roth, Mark Twain and John Updike. This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 207 [WI] African American Literature 3.0 Credits
Introduces students to African-American Literature, from the mid-18th century to the present. Provides a basic understanding of social, political and cultural influences and an awareness of the African-American literary tradition. This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 211 [WI] British Literature I 3.0 Credits
A historical survey of British literature from its beginning to the end of the eighteenth century. Students will read texts selected to represent major authors, forms and thematic material that illustrates the development of English literature through the medieval and Renaissance periods and seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 212 British Literature II 3.0 Credits
A historical survey of British literature from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present; students will read texts selected to represent major authors, forms and thematic material of the Romantic, Victorian and modern periods.
ENGL 214 Readings in Fiction 3.0 Credits
A basic course, which focuses on fiction as a genre through the study of a variety of short stories and fiction, organized by theme, period or form. One of three genre courses.
ENGL 215 [WI] Readings in Poetry 3.0 Credits
A basic course which focuses on poetry as a genre through the study of a variety of poems organized by theme, period or form. One of three genre courses. This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 216 [WI] Readings in Drama 3.0 Credits
A basic course which focuses on drama as a genre through the study of a variety of plays organized by theme, period or form. One of three genre courses. This is a writing intensive course.
Prerequisites: ENGL 103 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: A]
ENGL 220 LGBT Literature and Culture 3.0 Credits
This course examines writing in English by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and sexual minority authors. Learning from LGBT literature in a variety of forms and genres will help students cultivate sophisticated knowledge about sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, homoeroticism and homophobia, HIV/AIDS, the relationship of art and politics, and the intersections of sexuality, gender, race, class, and nation.
ENGL 300 [WI] Literature & Science 3.0 Credits
This course studies the impact of scientific and technological change on works of literature and art produced in various historical periods. This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 301 English Major Colloquium 1.0 Credit
This 1-credit variable topics course for English majors explores specialized issues in literature and writing such as: an author or major work; a significant moment in the history of writing, literature, or criticism; or a controversial or debated issue in writing or literary studies. English majors must take 3 different ENGL 301 colloquium topics as part of their major requirements.
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ENGL.
ENGL 302 Environmental Literature 3.0 Credits
This course explores the relatively recent discipline of Ecocriticism and considers the literary relationship between human beings and the natural environment--both altered and unaltered by human activity. The approach is interdisciplinary in its investigation of the relationships among science, culture, and personal observation. Students will read a selection of seminal texts of American environmental literature.
ENGL 303 Science Fiction 3.0 Credits
Provides reading and discussion of works illustrating the development of modern science fiction.
ENGL 304 Young Adult Fiction 3.0 Credits
This course introduces students to young adult (YA) fiction and to secondary sources useful for the appreciation of it. Topics discussed include: young adults as an audience, the genres of YA fiction, keeping up with YA fiction, literary and psychological theory applied to YA fiction.
ENGL 305 [WI] The Mystery Story 3.0 Credits
A study of the mystery story, from its inception as a genre in the 19th century to the present, through short stories and novels. This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 306 Literature of Baseball 3.0 Credits
An examination of novels, short stories, and poetry about our "national pastime" that illuminate American ideals and values, history and culture from 1845 to the present. A study of how the game's symbols and rituals, its history and mythology help us understand American belief systems and ideologies.
ENGL 307 Literature of Genocide 3.0 Credits
Genocide is defined as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group" (U. N. Office on Genocide Prevention). This course will feature literature, film, and articles, by survivors themselves, historians and other writers, about major genocides and their perpetrators. Topics may include cases from any part of the world or century up to the present.
ENGL 308 [WI] The Literature of Business 3.0 Credits
In this advanced reading course, students read literary works about business and work and write analytically about these works, grounding that analysis in nonfiction readings from business publications. Course writing assignments ask students to respond to problems and issues raised in the texts. This is a writing intensive course.
Prerequisites: (ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] and ENGL 102 [Min Grade: D] and ENGL 103 [Min Grade: D]) or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: A]
ENGL 310 [WI] Period Studies 3.0 Credits
This is a variable topics course, focusing on the literature of a particular period (i.e., Classical Literature; Victorian Literature; the Harlem Renaissance). May be repeated for credit. This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 312 Research Project Development 1.0-3.0 Credit
A seminar-style course in which students work on a research or creative project of their own choosing. They acquire knowledge and skills related to the development of researchable original ideas in the domains of humanities areas like literature and philosophy, or social science areas like communication, history or psychology, or a creative work or portfolio.
Prerequisites: ENGL 103 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 113 [Min Grade: D]
ENGL 315 [WI] Shakespeare 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on Shakespeare's major plays and sonnets, providing the historical and cultural contexts that gave rise to his work. This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 320 [WI] Major Authors 3.0 Credits
A course focused on intensive study of one or more authors, for example: Jane Austen; Joseph Conrad; Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald; Writers of the Harlem Renaissance; Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. May be repeated for credit. This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 323 Literature and Other Arts 3.0 Credits
A variable topics course which studies relationships between literature and one or more of the visual arts, theater or music (i.e., Surrealism; Memoir and Documentary Film; The Faust Legend). May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: ENGL 103 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 113 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: D]
ENGL 325 Topics in World Literature 3.0 Credits
A variable topics course which focuses on a particular national or regional literature within its cultural, historical and political contexts (i.e., African Literature; French Literature; Latin American Literature). May be repeated for credit.
ENGL 330 The Bible as Literature 3.0 Credits
This course provides a close reading of selected books of the Old and New Testaments alongside selected literary works to discover both the literary qualities of these texts and their influence on literature.
ENGL 335 Mythology 3.0 Credits
This course investigates the specific forms mythological stories have taken in the literature, art and ritual of some or all of the following: Greece, Rome, Iceland, Mesopotamia and Native American and European cultures in the United States.
ENGL 340 [WI] Classical Rhetoric 3.0 Credits
A study in the theory and practical application of Greek and Roman rhetorical strategies in composition. Focuses on influential figures, terminology, the five canons, and the ancient composition processes known as "progymnasmata" to look at historical texts, the rhetoric of popular media, and the students' writing. This is a writing intensive course.
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] and ENGL 102 [Min Grade: D]
ENGL 345 American Ethnic Literature 3.0 Credits
A variable topics course which studies the literature of one or more of the United States ethnic populations within their historical and cultural contexts. May be repeated for credit.
ENGL 350 Jewish Literature and Civilization 3.0 Credits
Focuses on the Jewish Bible, a classic literary document of Western civilization, deemed by many people of the world as fundamental to their religion; stresses aspects of cultural diversity and awareness.
ENGL 355 [WI] Women and Literature 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on literature written by, and/or about women and considers issues relating to women's place in literary history. May be repeated for credit. This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 360 [WI] Literature and Society 3.0 Credits
This course examines the relationship between literature and the society it reflects and helps shape. May be repeated for credit. This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 365 Topics in African American Literature 3.0 Credits
A variable topics course designed to further develop the ideas first presented in the African American Literature survey by exploring, in much more depth, significant authors, periods, and genres within the African American literary and cultural tradition. Topics include Science and Technology in African American Literature; the Slave Narrative; and Black Travel Writing.
ENGL 370 Topics in Literature and Medicine 3.0 Credits
This is a variable topics course which focuses on aspects of illness, healing, care-giving, aging, grief, and mortality as presented in narrative. Exploration of how literary construction and analysis affect understanding of these experiences. Topics include ?Illness and Healing in Literature and The Physician in Literature and Film. May be repeated three times for credit.
ENGL 380 Literary Theory 3.0 Credits
This course examines literary theoretical thinking, and focuses on twentieth century structuralism, post-structuralism, and contemporary theory. We will examine the ways in which language is conceived and reconceived by major theoretical writers and the implications of this rethinking for conceptualizations of history, politics, ideology, sexuality, and trauma, among others.
Prerequisites: (ENGL 101 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 111 [Min Grade: C]) and (ENGL 102 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 112 [Min Grade: C]) and (ENGL 202 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 203 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 204 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 205 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 206 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 211 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 212 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 214 [Min Grade: C])
ENGL 395 [WI] Special Studies in Literature 0.0-3.0 Credits
This is a variable topics course, providing intense literary study on a specific theme. May be repeated for credit. This is a writing intensive course.
ENGL 470 Capstone Seminar in Medical Humanities 3.0 Credits
This seminar gives students the opportunity to synthesize, contextualize, and deepen their understanding of how disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences approach the experiences and implications of illness, aging, mortality and healing. Regular guest lecturers, discussion of assigned readings, student presentations, and written projects.
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is CMDH.
Prerequisites: (ENGL 103 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: D]) and HUM 315 [Min Grade: B]
ENGL 490 Seminar in English and American Literature 3.0 Credits
An advanced course with variable topics in British or American Literature stressing textual analysis, cultural and historical contexts and research; provides students with intensive preparation for advanced and professional studies.
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ENGL and classification is Junior or Senior.
ENGL 492 Seminar in World Literature 3.0 Credits
An advanced course with variable topics in World Literature stressing textual analysis, cultural and historical contexts and research; provides students with intensive preparations for advanced and professional studies.
ENGL 495 Senior Project in Literature 3.0 Credits
Open to English Majors only, the senior project in literature should reflect the student's interest in a specific subject, author or theme and should demonstrate the student's research, critical and analytical expertise at an advanced, pre-professional level.
ENGL I199 Independent Study in ENGL 0.0-12.0 Credits
ENGL T180 Special Topics in English 0.0-12.0 Credits