English (ENG)

Offered All terms

Through reading and writing about place and identity, students are introduced to threshold concepts in writing studies to increase their metacognitive skills, deepen their sense of belonging, and strengthen their growing academic identities.

Offered Summer

College-level reading and writing taken over two terms (ENG 108/109) that incorporates additional instruction and support to develop rhetorical knowledge and critical thinking and engage students in writing processes, research and practice of conventions. CR/NC grading.

Offered Fall

College-level reading and writing taken over two terms (ENG 108/109) that incorporates additional instruction and support to develop rhetorical knowledge and critical thinking and engage students in writing processes, research and practice of conventions. Graded A-C-/NC.

Offered Spring

College-level reading and writing that develops rhetorical knowledge and critical thinking and engages students in writing processes. Graded A-C-/NC.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisite: ENG 110 or equivalent. Reinforcement of basic writing skills with emphasis on persuasion and argumentation, including a documented essay. Aids in writing convincing arguments and assembling, organizing, and documenting evidence supporting a thesis. Graded A-C-/NC.

Offered Fall, Spring, All terms

College-level reading and writing that incorporates additional instruction and support to develop rhetorical knowledge and critical thinking and engage students in writing processes, research, and observation of conventions. A-C-/NC grading.

Offered Infrequent

Introduction to linguistics as a social science. Includes an overview of the world's languages and language families, with an investigation of how social issues and language impact each other. Not open for credit toward the English major.

Offered Fall, Spring

Offered As needed

Offered Infrequent

Survey of British poetry, drama, and prose to 1642.

Offered All terms, Fall, Spring

Survey of British poetry, drama, and prose from 1642-1832.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Survey of British poetry, drama, and prose, 1832-present.

Offered Fall, Spring, Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A2: Written Communication. Introduces a series of literary genres including stories, poems, plays, essays, and the novel, with characteristic devices including point of view, symbol, plot and imagery.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Forms of prose fiction from different periods and national literatures. Written exercises required.

Offered Fall, All terms

Ways of reading literature and popular culture to enhance understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment. Requires frequent writing assignments.

Offered Fall, Spring

Intensive study of selected American works to 1865, with readings across periods, genres, and traditions, including texts by underrepresented and marginalized groups.

Offered All terms, Fall

Intensive study of selected American works after 1865, with readings across periods, genres, and traditions, including texts by underrepresented and marginalized groups.

Offered All terms, Spring

Experiences in creative writing through encounters with selected literary works.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2 Written Communication . Survey of British poetry, drama, and prose to 1642.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2: Written Communication. Survey of British poetry, drama, and prose, 1642-1832.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A.1. Analysis of literature to develop critical reading skills. Intended for students in Liberal Studies and Linguistics; may not be counted toward major/minor in English with Literature option. Written exercises required.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A.1. Survey of traditional sources of world literature, including Greek and Roman mythology, Old and New Testaments, and early traditions of Asia, Africa, and the Americas

Offered Spring

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2: Written Communication. Practice in literary criticism from contemporary theoretical perspectives. For Literature majors and minors in English. Written exercises regularly required.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Critical analysis of children's literature from its inception to the present including the concept of the child as a historical, social, cultural, and political construct. Examines genre and form in literary and visual works from various perspectives. 3 hours lecture.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. The phonetics of a variety of languages and the phonetic phenomena that occur in natural languages. Practice in the perception and transcription of such phenomena. Introduction to the traditional and current views of phonological theory.

Offered Fall, All terms

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Descriptive and historical (etymological) analysis of the structure of words in English and other languages: common roots, base forms, and affixes; rules of word formation; semantic change.

Offered Spring

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. The structure and meaning of sentences, approached through traditional models of grammar; the role of syntax in writing and composition.

Offered Fall, Spring, All terms

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A.1. The structure and meaning of sentences approached through any current theoretical model of syntax.

Offered Fall

This course examines the linguistic features and the cultural, social, historic, and communicative aspects of Black English in the US and across the African and African American diaspora. Students will learn how to create community-based research to explore the past, present and future of Black English in a globalized society and in educational discourse. Students will then learn the writing conventions of sociolinguistics research and critically reflect on our own intersectional experiences and interactions with Black English, in order to position ourselves as sociolinguists within the broader scholarly and academic community. A grade of C or better in this course fulfills the GWAR requirement for Linguistics majors.

Offered Spring, All terms

Prerequisite(s): Completion of GE Area A Composition. . Exploration of literacy as a sociocultural practice. Connections between literacies, individual and social identities, social and political power structures, and their pedagogical implications.

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Analysis of various forms of poetry, with an emphasis on American and British writers from various eras. Students will learn and apply conventions of oral poetry. Written exercises required.

Offered Fall, Spring

Offered Fall

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Forms of drama by major playwrights from different periods and national literatures. Written exercises required.

Offered Spring

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Intensive study of selected major writers from the world's literature, read in translation.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Composition. Intensive study of selected American works.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Composition. Intensive study of selected American works.

Offered Fall, Spring

Study of works by African American authors. Historical development of the tradition from its beginnings to the present. Genres include poetry, drama, fiction, and autobiography. Key themes include connections to folk and oral traditions and the role of literature in social protest.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisite: ENG 111. Historical development of African-American poetry from its roots. Study of major African-American plays. Focus on poetry and drama as media informing particular aspects and textures of the Black American experience.

Offered Infrequent

Prerequisite: ENG 111. Selected African-American works of fiction and non-fiction. Analysis of themes, techniques and symbols. Special attention given to folkloric elements; i.e., blues, dozens, folktales, etc., as they are employed in the literature.

Offered Infrequent

Prerequisite: ENG 111. Study of works by U.S. Latino/a authors. Attention to historical and cultural contexts. Comparative analyses of themes such as identity and community with respect to race, class, gender, sexuality, migration and citizenship.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisite(s): Completion of G.E. Area A.1. Composition.. Study of works by indigenous writes of North America in their historical, cultural, and tribal contexts. Readings across periods and multiple genres (fictions, poetry, memoir, oral traditions). Key topics include race, gender, sexuality, class nationality and sovereignty.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite: Completion of first year composition. Readings in such areas as Latino American, Asian American, and women's literature. Topic will vary. May be repeated up to six units for the major or minor in English.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A2 Written Communication. Continued study of writing processes and rhetorical communication, with emphasis on literacy within and across disciplinary contexts and how to negotiate the attitudes and conventions of various discourse communities. May not be counted toward major/minor in English.Satisfies Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR). Graded A-C/NC.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the GWAR. Advanced writing course. Focus on children's writing development, writing process and techniques for teaching composition, and further development of writing abilities of prospective elementary school teachers.

Offered Infrequent

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the GWAR. Principles and skills of effective communication within organizational management. This course concentrates on eliciting desired responses through various types of business communication in writing. May be counted only once toward major/minor and twice for elective credit. Graded A-C/NC. Repeatable course.

Offered Infrequent

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Composition. Students will investigate the cultural assumptions and implications lying behind the archetypes of heroism and anti-heroism. Texts will be drawn from mythology, literature, stage drama, and film, with side glances at philosophy and psychology.

Offered As needed

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2 Composition. Analysis of the influence of environment on literature with attention to rural vs. urban spaces, nature vs. culture, climate change and environmental justice.

Offered As needed

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Composition. Critical study of traditions of utopian and dystopian literature, with emphasis on genre definitions and intersections with science fiction, fantasy, history, philosophy, and politics.

Offered As needed

Prerequisites: Senior standing and consent of instructor. Investigations in the historical and/or theoretical foundations of modern linguistics. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Infrequent

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Composition. The evolution of English from its Indo-European origins, through Old and Middle English, to the rise and spread of Modern English.

Offered Fall, All terms

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Composition. American English from colonial times to the present. Contacts with native, colonial, and immigrant languages and regional, social, and ethnic dialects.

Offered Spring

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. ENG 210 or ENG 314 or one course in psychology. Current theory and research in the psychology of language and its historical background, including experiments on speech production and comprehension, acquisition of language by children, and disorders of speech and language.

Offered Infrequent

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. ENG 311 or ENG 314. Descriptive and formal analysis of phonological, syntactic, and/or historical data from a variety of human languages. Repeatable for credit.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. An exploration of literature organized around such themes as Women Writers or Death and Dying, using works from a variety of cultures and historical periods. Repeatable course.

Offered Infrequent

Prerequisites: ENG 111 and consent of instructor. Practice in various forms of imaginative writing. Repeatable course.

Offered Spring

Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the GWAR. Advanced writing course for prospective secondary school teachers, designed to develop understanding of writing process and techniques for teaching composition. Course also stresses development of students' own strengths as writers.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Composition. Chaucer's major poetry, its historical and literary background.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite: ENG 307 is required. Literary analysis of selected comedies, histories, and tragedies. Students will learn and apply performative aspects of Shakespeare's plays.

Offered Fall, Spring, All terms

Practice in various forms of contemporary creative nonfiction, such as memoir, essay, literary journalism. Analysis of a wide range of models, exercises in invention techniques, discussion of writing processes, and workshopping of students' drafts and revisions. Repeatable for credit.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite(s): Completion of GE Area A Written Communication. The history and theoretical foundations of writing centers and writing tutoring. Frequent writing assignments as well as best practices in the teaching of writing.

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Composition. Intensive study of a major author, group of authors, or focused topic from the pre-1700 period.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A.1. Composition. Intensive study of a major author, group of authors, or focused topic from the post-1700 period.

Offered Spring

Prerequisite(s): Completion of GE Area A Written Communication. Intensive study of selected topics in rhetoric and composition such as invention and the teaching of writing, issues in literacy instruction, rhetoric and contemporary culture, composition and cognitive development, the composing process in a rhetorical framework, linguistic approaches to rhetoric. Three hours of seminar per week.

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A.1. Composition. Practice in devising strategies appropriate to the needs of students in grades 7-12. Emphasis on techniques of developing textual, media, and cultural literacies, of analyzing genres, of making literature, media, and popular culture accessible, and of generating essay topics from these sources.

Offered Spring

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A2. Composition. Investigation of approaches, methods, and techniques used in second language instruction.

Offered Spring

Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Area A.1. Composition. Focus on linguistic, social, and cultural factors in schooling language-diverse students. Areas of concentration include first and second-language acquisition, history of second-language teaching, current second-language theoretical frameworks, and dual language teaching strategies.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Intensive study of one or more authors, a single historical period, a literary movement or genre, or an aspect of literary criticism. This course examines disciplinary discourse through formal and informal written assignments that stress the importance of literary analysis, research. and revision. Repeatable course. A grade of C or better in this course fulfills the GWAR requirement for all English Literature and English Education majors and minors.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. Study of American writers, texts and topics primarily before 1900. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Spring, All terms

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department chair. Intense reading or an original research project or creative writing under faculty supervision. Arrangements must be made a semester in advance of registration. Repeatable course.

Offered As needed, All terms

Variable authors and texts, literary periods, or analytical approaches and methodologies. Uses upper-division research techniques to produce sustained critical arguments.

Offered As needed

Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor, restricted to majors. Under the direction of the internship faculty associate, students work in various approved internship opportunities. Repeatable course. Credit/no credit grading.

Offered As needed

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department chair. Extensive reading in selected areas under faculty supervision. Repeatable course.

Offered Infrequent

Offered Infrequent

Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. Introduces students to the interdisciplinary fields of English studies, including literature, rhetoric and composition, and linguistics. This course fulfills the Oral Requirement of the MA in English: Literature Option and MA in English: Literature Option with Rhetoric and Composition.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. The evolution of English from its Indo-European origins, through Old and Middle English, to the rise and spread of Modern English.

Offered Fall odd

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. American English from colonial times to the present. Contacts with native, colonial and immigrant languages and regional, social and ethnic dialects.

Offered Fall even

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. A study of major works in English literature before 1500. Some focus on major continental analogues and critical methodology. Majority of the texts read in translation. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Spring

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. Major works in English literature from 1500-1660. Emphasis on such representative writers as More, Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Donne, Bacon and Milton. May include continental contemporaries such as Montaigne and Machiavelli. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. Consent of instructor and department chair. Literature of the Restoration, Neoclassic, and Sensibility eras. May include readings that provide historical, philosophical, or cultural content. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Spring even, All terms

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. Consent of instructor and department chair. Selected studies in the Romantic movement in English literature, including such precursors as Burns and Blake. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week

Offered Fall odd

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. Major works in literary criticism selected from Plato to the present.

Offered Spring, All terms

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. A study of major writers from the Great Reform Bill to the fin de siecle with an emphasis on literary responses to emerging scientific thought, social consciousness, and religious issues. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Fall even

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. Selected literary study of the modern period in England, Ireland , and the Commonwealth, as typified by such novelists and poets as Conrad, Yeats, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Eliot, Auden, Thomas, Greene, and Lessing. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Spring

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department chair. Comparative study of genres, literary movements, or authors over more than one period. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Spring odd

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. Study of American writers, texts, and topics primarily after 1900. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. Intensive training in writing. Advanced study of techniques of prose discourse. Frequent writing assignments. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. Analysis and description of structures and functions of language beyond the sentence level. May include textual and conversational analysis; classical rhetorical canons; speech acts; scripts/information structures; cohesion, coherence, deixis; spoken and written discourse. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Spring

Practice in various forms of contemporary creative nonfiction, such as memoir, essay, literary journalism. Analysis of a wide range of models, exercises in invention techniques, discussion of writing processes, and workshopping of students' drafts and revisions. Repeatable for credit.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor.. The history and theoretical foundations of writing centers and writing tutoring. Frequent writing assignments as well as best practices in the teaching of writing.

Advanced study in research methodologies, scholarly discourses, and means of knowledge production in composition/rhetoric and writing studies. Frequent writing and hands-on practice in text-based and empirical approaches to inquiry. Three hours of seminar per week.

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. Theory and practice in teaching composition. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. Major theories of rhetoric from ancient Greece to the present. Role of rhetoric in the history of ideas. Emphasis on multiple notions of rhetoric and attitudes toward it. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Spring

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of instructor. Intensive study of selected topics in rhetoric and composition such as invention and the teaching of writing, issues in literacy instruction, rhetoric and contemporary culture, composition and cognitive development, the composing process in a rhetorical framework, linguistic approaches to rhetoric. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Fall

Overview of semantics and the major approaches to pragmatics and discourse analysis. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Spring

Seminar in the descriptive and formal analysis of phonological, syntactic, and/or historical data from a variety of human languages. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Fall

Seminar in current theory and research in the psychology of language and its historical background, speech production and comprehension, acquisition of language, disorders of speech and language. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Infrequent

Examinations of varieties of English and social aspects of language use. Topics include dialectology, pidgin and creoles, bilingualism, code-switching, and intercultural communication. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department chair. Theories of second-language acquisition second-language learning, bilingualism, and sociocultural variables of language uses, with particular emphasis on the young adult and adult learner. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Fall

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Investigation of approaches, methods, and techniques used in second language instruction.

Offered Spring

Intensive study of selected topics in TESL/Applied Linguistics such as ESL Writing/Composition, Reading and Vocabulary Acquisition, Pedagogy of Spoken English, Curriculum and Program Design, Testing/Evaluation. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Fall

Examination of areas of English grammar typically taught to non-native speakers. To familiarize prospective ESL teachers with classroom terminology, techniques and materials. Develop ability to analyze and explain grammatical phenomena in terms accessible to ESL students.

Offered Spring

Prerequisite: Consent of chair. Study of a writer, period, genre, theme, or problem in literature. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Infrequent

Prerequisite: FRE 220 or equivalent. A reading, composition, and discussion course concerned with elements of style and syntax, with emphasis on creative writing by students.

Offered Infrequent

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department chair. Advanced topics in phonological, syntactic, historical-comparative or contrastive theory and analysis. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Spring

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department chair. Survey of research methods in applied linguistics, including problem description, data collection and analysis, interpretation of results. Preparation of Final Project. Three hours of seminar per week. Repeatable but may count only once toward the MA degree.

Offered Infrequent

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department chair. In consultation with a faculty member, the student will investigate in detail current scholarship in some area, or will undertake a project involving original research or creative writing. Repeatable course.

Offered As needed

An intensive study of a selected issues in literature or linguistics. Repeatable course. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Infrequent

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department chair. Extensive reading in selected areas under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Repeatable course.

Offered Infrequent

Graduate students who have completed their coursework but not their thesis, project, or comprehensive examination, or who have other requirements remaining for the completion of their degree, may maintain continuous attendance by enrolling in this course. Signature of graduate program coordinator required.

Offered Fall, Spring