ENGL - English

Prerequisite: Approval of Department Chair and Coordinator for Master of Arts with English major.

Prerequisite: Admission to MFA Program. A workshop intensive course in the practical study of the techniques, craft, and meaning of scriptwriting for stage, film, and video. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to MFA Program. A workshop intensive course in the practical study of the techniques, craft, and meaning of creative nonfiction writing, including the personal essay, memoir, and other forms. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to MFA program. A workshop intensive course in the practical study of the techniques, craft, and meaning of poetry. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to MFA program. A workshop intensive course in the practical study of the techniques, craft, and meaning of short fiction, designed to prepare the student for completion of a creative thesis in fiction. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to graduate program in English. A study of literary criticism from Aristotle to the present, with particular emphasis on recent applications of contemporary theories.

A study of the development of the English language from its Indo-European roots to its present status as a world language.

A comprehensive study of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of present-day English, with reference to standards, variations, and pedagogy.

A study of selected works in Old or Middle English, read in the original language.

A study of selected works from Chaucer, read in the original language

A study of selected works from the English Renaissance.

A study of selected topics, genres, or issues in Shakespeare; may be linked with a Shakespearean production staged by the Departments of Theatre.

A study of selected major and minor works of Milton.

A study of the development of English drama from the Middle Ages through the early modern period.

A study of selected British Restoration/eighteenth-century works.

A study of the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century.

A study of selected British Romantic works.

A study of selected British Victorian works.

A study of the development of the British novel in the nineteenth century

A study of selected modern plays in English.

A study of selected works of twentieth-century fiction from the British Isles.

A multi-cultural study of the contributions of women writers and critics to the development of literature.

A study of selected modern poetry in English.

A comparative study of texts from different backgrounds and cultures. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisites: ENGL 2110, IDST 2305, or permission of the instructor. A comprehensive overview of adolescent literature, its history and genres, the issues and approaches it has generated, and its links with the major literary movements in adult literature. Other areas of focus are the problems and questions unique to adolescence and how these are reflected in the literature for this audience.

A study of selected influential texts of literature, history, science, etc.

In-depth study of African literature, with attention to its social, political, historical, and economic backgrounds. Attention to the historical development of African literature and aesthetics, and the differences and continuities between Anglophone and Francophone writers.

A course concerned with the African woman writer’s preoccupation with the condition of African womanhood. It will look at these writers’ treatment of issues like motherhood, polygamy, marriage, changing roles, the exploitation of women, the education of women, women in politics, and women and tradition.

Japanese literature & culture is a course that takes the student from the era of the founding of mythology of japan as illustrated in Kojiki (circa 600 AD) and the compilation of early poetry in modernist literary expressions of the present that began in 1868 with the restoration of emperor Meiji as illustrated in the poetry, short stories, novels, and movies of the 20th and 21st centuries.

A study of selected American works before 1865, emphasizing literary romanticism.

A study of selected American works from 1865 to 1920, emphasizing literary realism.

A study of selected works from the modern South.

A study of short stories, novels, and critical essays of Flannery O’Connor, with access to the O’Connor collection.

A study of selected American works from 1920 to the present, emphasizing literary modernism and post-modernism.

A study of selected works of African-American literature.

A study of American literature arising from ethnic or immigrant experience.

In-depth study of selected works of Native American literature, with attention to socio-cultural context. Specific focus may vary from semester to semester (e.g. “’Contemporary Native American Women Writers” or “Native American myths and traditional literature”) so that students might take the course for credit more than once with permission of the instructor. This course is repeatable for credit.

A study of selected works by and about women from literature and popular culture focused on genres, issues, and images connected to gender.

Study of major areas, genres, and branches of folklore, along with historical and theoretical trends in the discipline. Specific focus may vary or be specialized in certain semesters (e.g. folk narratives, material culture, women’s folklore, or history and theories of folklore) so that students may take the course for credit more than once with permission of the instructor.

Prerequisite: Admission to English Graduate Program. A study of selected works by a single author of special interest not routinely offered in the curriculum. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Department chairperson’s approval. This course is repeatable for credit.

This course is repeatable for credit.

Special studies in topics in international literature. This course is repeatable for credit.

See the International Studies section of the Catalog for details. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: ENGL 5011 and admission to MFA Program. An intensive seminar designed to prepare the student for completion of a creative thesis and submitting work of publishable quality in scriptwriting. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: ENGL 5012 and admission to MFA Program. An intensive seminar designed to prepare the student for completion of a creative thesis and submitting work of publishable quality in creative nonfiction writing. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: ENGL 5021 and admission to MFA Program. An intensive seminar designed to prepare the student for completion of a creative thesis and submitting work of publishable quality in poetry writing. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: ENGL 5022 and admission to MFA Program. An intensive seminar designed to prepare the student for completion of a creative thesis and submitting work of publishable quality in fiction writing. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to MFA Program. A course in the various techniques used to teach courses in writing, from expository to advanced workshop writing courses, including a teaching practicum in an appropriate academic or institutional setting. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: ENGL 5021 and admission to MFA Program. A course in the traditions and innovations of poetry and poetics, emphasizing modern and contemporary examples, but also reviewing important historical precedents in poetics. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: ENGL 5012 OR 5022 and admission to MFA program. A course in the traditions and innovations of fiction writing, both the short story and the novel, emphasizing modern and contemporary examples, but also reviewing important historical precedents in prose form and theory. This course is repeatable for credit.

A study of the theories affecting contemporary pedagogical approaches to composition and literary analysis, particularly as they relate to post-secondary applications.

A survey of the research methods and bibliographical tools used in literary study.

An intense study of an author, a work, a genre, a movement, or a theme of special interest. This course is repeatable for credit.

An intense study of the scholarly criticism of selected primary works. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to candidacy for MA in English or MFA in Creative Writing. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Department Chairperson’s approval. An individually designed and planned learning experience involving off-campus field experiences and study in the public sector. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: ENGL 6601, either ENGL 6680 or ENGL 6685, and permission of Coordinator of MA in English. Independent study leading to the submission of a thesis under the direction of a major professor in English. This course is repeatable for credit.

A book-length manuscript of publishable quality, usually in one genre (poetry, short fiction, etc.), but potentially open to multi-genre works. This course is repeatable for credit.