ENGL - English

An introductory overview of the English major and the college experience. This course does not count toward the total hours required for graduation.

A composition course focusing on skills required for effective writing in a variety of contexts, including introductory use of a variety of research skills.

Prerequisite: A grade of C or better in ENGL 1101. A composition course that develops writing skills beyond the levels of proficiency required by ENGL 1101, emphasizes interpretation and evaluation of texts, and incorporates a variety of more advanced research methods.

A survey of important works of world literature.

Prerequisite: ENGL 1102. Introduction to the major aims, methods, and subject matter in folklore. A survey of major areas and genres, including verbal folklore, material culture, and customs. This course is repeatable for credit. (Cross-listed as IDST 2115.)

A survey of important works of British literature from the beginning through the twenty-first century.

Prerequisite: ENGL 1102. A survey of important works of American literature from settlement through the present.

Prerequisite: ENGL 1102. A comprehensive overview of children's 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 will be the changing views of the child and childhood that have evolved over the past two centuries and the various critical approaches to this rapidly developing branch of literary study.

Prerequisite: ENGL 1102. An introductory survey of Shakespearean drama, with some attention to the poetry. Consideration of major genres, issues, themes, and historical and theatrical context.

Prerequisite: ENGL 2110. Introductory study of selected international texts and their unique cultural, historical, and literary traditions.

Prerequisite: ENGL 1102. A course emphasizing the cultural analysis of a variety of texts such as poetry, fiction, drama, film, television, and graphic literature.

Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 or permission of instructor. An introduction to the essential techniques of creative writing in the major genres: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and scriptwriting.

A comparative examination of various works of literature, film, new media, by writers from formerly colonized nations in their historical and social contexts. Specific focus and themes may vary.

Prerequisite: Permission of chairperson. Consideration of topics in which courses are not otherwise offered, but for which there is a current need at the freshman/sophomore level. This course is repeatable for credit.

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

Prerequisite: ENGL 2208, admission to the English/Creative Writing Major, or permission of the instructor. A practical study of the techniques and craft of creative writing with an emphasis on multiple genres.

Prerequisite: ENGL 2208 or permission of instructor. A practical study of the techniques and craft of scriptwriting (for both stage and screen); ENGL 3011 is the prerequisite for ENGL 4011 Scriptwriting Workshop.

Prerequisite: ENGL 2208 or permission of instructor. A practical study of the techniques and craft of creative nonfiction writing (personal essay, memoir, and other forms); ENGL 3012 is the prerequisite for ENGL 4012 Creative Nonfiction Workshop.

Prerequisite: ENGL 2208 or permission of instructor. A practical study of the techniques and craft of poetry writing (both formal and free verse); ENGL 3021 is the prerequisite for ENGL 4021 Poetry Workshop and also the Senior Capstone class option ENGL 4013 Poetry Translation.

Prerequisite: ENGL 2208 or permission of instructor. A practical study of the techniques and craft of fiction writing (emphasis on short fiction); ENGL 3022 is the prerequisite for ENGL 4022 Fiction Workshop.

Prerequisite: English 2200 or permission of chair. A course surveying a variety of critical approaches to selected literary, film, and new media texts.

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. A survey of the historical development of film as a modern visual medium.

Prerequisites: ENGL 3011 or permission of instructor. A practical study of the techniques and craft of writing scripts for the stage, screen, or broadcast media. (Cross-listed as THEA 4011.) This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisites: ENGL 3012 or permission of the instructor. A practical study of the techniques and craft of writing the creative nonfiction essay, article, or interview. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: ENGL 3011 or 3012 or 3021 or 3022, or permission of instructor. A workshop/studio course exploring the techniques and applications of creatively translating a literary text from another language into English. Study in another language helpful but not necessary. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisites: ENGL 3021 or permission of instructor. A workshop-intensive course in the practical study of the techniques, craft, and meaning of poetry. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisites: ENGL 3022 or permission of instructor. A workshop-intensive course in the practical study of the techniques, craft, and meaning of short fiction. This course is repeatable for credit.

This is the first course in a two-semester sequence in which students mentor small groups of apprentice writers. Students learn classroom skills and strategies for teaching writing in the schools. This course is the prerequisite for the spring course (ENGL 4024) in the two-semester sequence (the spring course fulfills the senior capstone requirement for the ENGL-CRWR major concentration. Prerequisite: ENGL 2208 and permission of instructor.

Prerequisite: ENGL 4023 and permission of instructor. This is the second course in a two-semester sequence in which students mentor small groups of apprentice writers. Students learn classroom skills and strategies for teaching writing in the schools. This course fulfills the senior capstone requirement for the Creative Writing and Literature concentrations.

Prerequisite: ENGL 2208, and junior or senior status. This course teaches the rudiments of literary journal publishing (conception, design, selection, and production) and the use of desktop publishing applications (such as Photoshop and InDesign) to produce a unique literary journal from scratch. This course is especially useful to upper division majors in English and Art (graphic design) and fulfills the senior capstone requirement for the Creative Writing concentration and for the Literature concentration. (Note: This course is also open to sophomores and juniors who have been selected for The Peacock's Feet staff. These students are encouraged to enroll in the class and will be given priority for enrollment).

Prerequisites: ENGL 4011, 4012, 4021, or 4022; this course serves as the Senior Exit Exam for the B.A. English/Creative Writing major and is typically taken in the major’s last or next to last semester before graduation. A review of the literary discipline, from both critical and creative perspectives, essential to the English major with a concentration in Creative Writing.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. A focused study of one or two methodologies of literary criticism.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. A study of the theories affecting contemporary approaches to composition and literary analysis.

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

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

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

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. A study of selected works from Chaucer, read in the original language.

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. A study of selected works of poetry and prose from the Renaissance period in England, continental Europe, and explorations of the Americas.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. A study of selected works from the English Renaissance.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. A study of selected topics, genres, or issues in Shakespeare; may be linked with a Shakespearean production staged by the Department of Theatre. (Cross-listed as THEA 4226.)

Prerequisites: Sophomore status. A study of selected major and minor works of Milton.

Prerequisites: Sophomore status. A study of the development of English drama from the Middle Ages through the early modern period. (Cross-listed as THEA 4228.)

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. A study of dramatic literature from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in England.

Prerequisites: Sophomore status. A study of the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century.

Prerequisites: Sophomore status. A study of the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century.

Prerequisites: Sophomore status. A study of selected British Romantic works.

Prerequisites: Sophomore status. A study of selected British Victorian works.

Prerequisites: Sophomore status. A study of the development of the British novel in the nineteenth century.

Prerequisites: Sophomore status. A study of selected modern and/or contemporary plays. (Cross-listed as THEA 4440.)

Prerequisites: Sophomore status. A study of selected works of twentieth-century fiction from the British Isles.

Prerequisites: Sophomore status. A multicultural study of the contributions of women writers and critics to the development of literature. (Cross-listed as WMST 4445.)

Prerequisites: Sophomore status. A study of modern and/or contemporary poetry.

Prerequisites: Sophomore status. A comparative study of texts from different backgrounds and cultures. (Cross-listed as BLST 4447.)

Prerequisites: Sophomore status. 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.

Prerequisites: Sophomore status. A study of selected influential texts of literature, history, science, etc.

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. A study of literature and film by and about women from a global perspective and from perspectives of women's and gender studies.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. 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. (Cross-listed as AFST & BLST 4451).

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. 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. (Equivalent to AFST 4452, BLST 4452 and WMST 4452).

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. In-depth study of selected works by writers culturally connected to the Islamic world (or its diaspora), with attention to cultural, political, and historical backgrounds relevant to the works, including special attention to literary and aesthetic developments across the Islamic world. Course Themes will vary.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. This course introduces students to the basic developmental conditions of Japanese literature and culture from the earliest times to the present. Works studied will include traditional poetic contemporary religion (Shinto), historical periods of japanese literature, and the effect of westernization on contemporary Japanese artistic expression.

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. A study of selected American literature before 1800.

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. A study of selected American literature from 1800-1865.

Prerequisite:Sophomore status. A study of selected American works before 1865, emphasizing literary romanticism.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. A study of selected American works from 1865 to 1920, emphasizing literary realism.

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. A study of early twentieth-century American literature.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. A study of selected works from the modern South.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. A study of short stories, novels, and critical essays of Flannery O'Connor, with access to the O'Connor collection. (Cross-listed as WMST 4664.)

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

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. A study of selected works of African-American literature. (Cross-listed as BLST 4667.)

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. A study of American literature arising from ethnic or immigrant experience. (Cross-listed as BLST 4669.)

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. 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.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status.

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. A study of contemporary American literature.

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. This course examines hip hop literature and culture as extensions of larger traditions of African American literature and culture.

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

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. 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 instructor.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. A study of the interconnections between folklore and literature and how they influence each other, from a global perspective.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. A study of film and film theory.

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. A study of selected texts by Jane Austen in comparison with film adaptations of Austen's work.

Prerequisite: sophomore status. Special studies in topics in film analysis. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. Study of the works of a single author of special interest not routinely offered in the curriculum. Offered subject to student and faculty interest and demand. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: sophomore standing. Introduction to key fiction and nonfiction films that depict the American South.

Prerequisite: ENGL 3900 or permission of chairperson. A culmination course reviewing the interpretation and research skills of film and literary study and preparing for careers or graduate school. For students in the film and literature concentrations, this course replaces the English exit exam and is required for graduation.

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Special studies in topics in American literature. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Special studies in topics in British literature. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Special studies in topics in pre-1800 literature. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Special studies in topics in post-1800 literature. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Permission of chairperson. Tutorial investigation of a topic or author of special interest. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. Topics of special interest not listed in the Catalog. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Sophomore status. Special studies in topics in international literature. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Permission of chairperson. 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: Permission of chairperson. Research, writing, and presentation of a substantial scholarly/creative project developed in conjunction with a faculty advisor or group of faculty advisors. A component of the Senior Capstone Experience options for English majors. (See Senior Capstone Experience entries in English and Rhetoric section of the catalog for details.) This course is repeatable for credit.

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

Research project undertaken for capstone credit, or in preparation for a thesis project (completed the following semester under ENGL 4970), or for a scholarly or creative presentation or publication at GCSU or elsewhere. Component of the Senior Capstone Experience options for English literature concentration majors (see Senior Capstone Experience entries in English section of the catalogue for details). This course is repeatable for credit.