2024-2025 Course List

For students completing the Master's or Specialist degree using the thesis option.

ENG 100 or Academic Reading and Writing focuses on building students¿ literacy skills in connection to their field of study.

Students in this course approach writing as a subject of study by investigating how writing works across a variety of contexts.

Goal Areas:

GE-1A

This course examines structural racism and other forms of intersectional oppression in the United States. Students will study unequal power dynamics and analyze implicit and explicit biases. Students will also identify essential skills necessary for living and working in a diverse society with historic and ongoing exclusion.

Goal Areas:

GE-07

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Study and analysis of elements of prose, poetry and drama in English from earlier periods through contemporary. Emphasizes critical reading of literature. May include such genres as short story, novel, memoir, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poem, play, screenplay.

Goal Areas:

GE-06

Study and analysis of prose, poetry, drama, and film from various genres, time periods, and geographies. Emphasizes critical reading of and writing about literature.

Prerequisites:

ENG 101

Goal Areas:

GE-06

The course purpose is to increase students' knowledge of international children's literature that is written in English or translated into English. Students will be introduced to individual books, authors, and methods of responding to literature. This course studies children's literature set in countries such as Afghanistan, WWII Germany,and the Dominican Republic.

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-08

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This course will introduce students to Shakespeare's plays (histories, tragedies, and comedies) and sonnets. Students will read, analyze, and develop interpretations of these works, learning about Shakespeare's language, historical situations, and world views.

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-08

Students analyze and apply rhetorical principles in their writing with new media. As members of a media-saturated culture, we know that print text is only one form of writing, and sometimes it is not the most effective choice. Because all of us make sense of texts and issues in a variety of ways, this course asks students to utilize multimodal (visual, aural, etc.) forms of communication and become more informed, critical consumers of new media writing themselves.

Prerequisites:

ENG 101

Goal Areas:

GE-02

Courses will introduce students to works of literature from a variety of world cultures. Designed to increase knowledge of world cultures and appreciation and understanding of cultural differences in representation, and in seeing, believing, and being. Emphasizes critical thinking, reading, and writing. May be repeated with different topics.

Prerequisites:

ENG 101

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-08

Courses will focus on some characteristic ways in which literature addresses and explores the ethical dimensions of human society and the relationships between works and their cultural contexts. Emphasizes critical thinking, reading and writing. May be repeated as topics change.

Prerequisites:

ENG 101

Goal Areas:

GE-06, GE-09

The arts and humanities play an important role in our shared challenge of forging an environmentally better future. Poets, filmmakers, photographers, and artists make important environmental interventions. This course explores the emergence of environmental thinking and its development in art, literature, history, philosophy, theology, music, theater, film, and many other areas of the arts and humanities. Topics may include urbanization, land use, environmental politics, human/nonhuman relations, disaster capitalism, environmental fiction, the anthropocene, global environmental justice, energy, and climate change.

Goal Areas:

GE-09, GE-10

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Course will explore specialized topics in literature; may be repeated under a different topic.

Goal Areas:

GE-06

Introduction to learning the written and oral communication of technical information. Assignments include writing and presenting proposals, reports, and documentation. Emphasis on use of rhetorical analysis, computer applications, collaborative writing, and usability testing to complete technical communication tasks in the workplace.

Prerequisites:

ENG 101

Goal Areas:

GE-02, GE-13

Introduction to business communication. Assignments include writing and presenting proposals, reports, and documentation typical to a business/industry setting. Emphasis on use of rhetorical analysis, software applications, collaboration, and usability testing to complete business communication tasks. Fall, Spring

Goal Areas:

GE-02, GE-13

Introduction to written and visual communication of technical information in agricultural contexts. Through rhetorical analysis, collaborative and independent writing, and usability testing, students will learn strategies to produce clear, concise, accurate, and effective documents and presentations.

An introduction to literary genres and to the techniques of writing about literature.

Prerequisites:

ENG 101

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.

This course examines how literary texts engage with and represent the natural world and humanity's place in it. It studies literature from various time periods, genres, and geographical locations to explore topics such as climate change, sustainability, environmental ethics, human/nonhuman relations, and ecology. Possible course topics might include Latinx Environmentalisms, Eco-Disaster Fiction, Global Environmental Justice, and Victorian Environments.

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:

Purple

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:

Purple

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.