2022-2023 Course List

A review of traditional grammar designed to prepare students for advanced work in language and grammar. This course will run for a half-semester.

Expressive expository and argumentative writing. For anyone interested in developing advanced rhetorical skills such as invention, arrangement, and style in discourse. Especially recommended for students who plan to write as part of their careers or pursue graduate study.

Prerequisites:

ENG 101 and permission of instructor 

Topic-oriented course in literature. May be repeated with change of topic.

Specific topics in multicultural literature with detailed study of a particular period, region, or group in the United States and their contributions to a diverse literature. Topics include African American Literature, American Indian Literature, Southern Writers of Color, and others. May be repeated as topics change.

Diverse Cultures:

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Animals and Literature is a required class for the Human-Animal Studies minor. The course examines literature focusing on animals from various time periods, genres, and geographical locations. By analyzing the role of animals in various literary texts, students will develop a greater understanding of human-animal interactions and relationships, will be exposed to ethical issues surrounding human-animal relationships, and will understand and engage in theoretical issues central to Human-Animal Studies. Topics may vary and the course can be repeated with change in content.

Diverse Cultures:

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Representative works from British literature encompassing Beowulf through the Eighteenth Century. Prereq: ENG 275

Prerequisites:

ENG 275W 

Representative works from British Literature, the Romantic Period to the present. Prereq: ENG 275

Prerequisites:

ENG 275W 

Topics in British literature covering various periods, literary movements, and themes. The course will study works of fiction, poetry, and drama, and their historical and cultural contexts. Potential topics include Victorian Literature & Art, Gothic Literature, British Colonial & Post-Colonial Literature, Performing Identity in Early Drama, Monsters and Magic, and others. This course may be repeated with change of topic.

This topics course examines some of the major developments in US literature. In reading a variety of canonical and noncanonical works, students will develop a greater understanding of US literature within specific sociocultural transformations and attendant literary movements. The course may be taught thematically, with possible topics including postcolonialism, environmental studies, immigration, and popular culture. May be repeated with change of topic.

Introduction to authors, genres, illustrations, and works of literature published for elementary age children. Current and classic works.

A survey of American Literature from its beginnings to the end of the Civil War. Prereq: ENG 275

Prerequisites:

ENG 275W 

A survey of American Literature from the end of the Civil War to the present. Prereq: ENG 275

Prerequisites:

ENG 275W

Study of the technical underpinnings of fiction and creative nonfiction genres.

Study of the technical underpinnings of poetry.

Introduction to writing personal essays and literary journalism.

Introduction to writing short stories.

Introduction to writing poems.

Theory, practice, and materials for teaching English language arts in middle school and high school, with particular attention to literature.

Theory, practice, and materials for teaching English language arts in middle school and high school, with particular attention to language and writing.

The English language considered structurally (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics) and sociolinguistically (geographical and social dialects, gender issues, acquisition of first and second language, standard and nonstandard forms).

This course introduces students to the role of culture and language in education. Topics of study focus on diverse student populations, particularly language learners, in American schools, providing an understanding that every individual is a member of many communities and is influenced by a host of different cultural markers, such as language, race, ethnicity, regionalism, social class, gender, and other differences.

Selected topics course on literature about gender and gendered experiences

Diverse Cultures:

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Studies in selected authors. Specific authors change. May be repeated with content changes.

This course examines Shakespeare's poetry and dramatic works within their social and historical context. The plays will be considered as both literary texts and dramatic performances.

Study of literature from the 21st century, with an emphasis on how these works reflect contemporary concerns.

Prerequisites:

ENG 275W