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ENGL English( Arts and Humanities) ENGL101 Introduction to Writing; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG.An introductory course in expository writing. An introductory course in academic writing. ENGL101B (PermReq) Introduction to Writing; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. For Bridge students only. ENGL202 Literature of the Western World II: Renaissance to Modern; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Literature (HL) Course. Readings of major authors, works, and genres, largely continental, in the late Western literary tradition. Readings may include Cervantes, Calderon, Moliere, Voltaire, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Chekhov, Flaubert, Sand, Camus, drama, the rise of the novel. ENGL205 Introduction to Shakespeare; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Literature (HL) Course. Recommended for non-majors. Reading of representative works. Genre, action, character, theme, language, and staging. Shakespeare's relation to Renaissance culture. ENGL212 English Literature: 1800 to the Present; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Literature (HL) Course. Surveys the major literary movements of the period, from Romantic to Victorian to Modern. Such authors as Wordsworth, Keats, Bronte, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf. ENGL222 American Literature: 1865 to Present; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Literature (HL) Course. Surveys American writing from the Civil War through the Cold War. Authors such as Clemens, Frost, Hurston, Bellow. ENGL234 Introduction to African-American Literature; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Literature (HL) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course. A survey of African-American literature from the late 18th century to the present. ENGL241 Introduction to the Novel; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Literature (HL) Course. Historical, formal, social questions about the genre. Readings drawn from a range of cultures and communities. ENGL243 Introduction to Poetry; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Literature (HL) Course. How poetry works. Focus on style, subject, rhythm, voice, technique and structure. Readings from a range of cultures and communities. ENGL250 Introduction to Literature by Women; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Literature (HL) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course. Also offered as WMST255. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENGL250 or WMST255. Images of women in literature by and about women. ENGL301 Critical Methods in the Study of Literature; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. For English or English Education Majors, or English Minors. An introduction to the techniques of literary analysis and a brief survey of the most common approaches to literature. ENGL312 Romantic to Modern British Literature; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: two lower-level English courses, at least one in literature; or permission of department. Detailed study of selected major texts from the 19th and 20th centuries. Transitions from Romanticism to Victorian age to Modernism. Historical, social, literary contexts. Issues such as rise of democracy; industrial revolution; the "woman question"; revolutions in literary form. Authors might include Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens, Arnold, T.S. Eliot, Woolf. ENGL313 American Literature; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: two lower-level English courses, at least one in literature; or permission of department. A detailed study of selected major texts of American literature from the 17th century to the 20th century. Issues such as race, gender, and regionalism. Authors such as Franklin, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Hemingway, and Morrison. ENGL348A Literary Works by Women: Women and Science Fiction; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Diversity (D) Course. ENGL359C Special Topics in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Literatures: Queer Film and Video; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as LGBT359C. ENGL360 African, Indian and Caribbean Writers; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Diversity (D) Course. Prerequisite: two lower-level English courses, at least one in literature; or permission of department. Selected writers from countries formerly colonies of Britain, France, Denmark, etc. Attention to ways regions have developed distinctive political and aesthetic values resulting from indigenous traditions and foreign influences. ENGL379F Special Topics in Literature: Writing About Literature; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. ENGL388P (PermReq) Writing Internship; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG. ENGL391 Advanced Composition; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: 60 credits and completion of ENGL101 or equivalent. This course satisfies the professional writing requirement. An advanced composition course which emphasizes constructing written arguments accommodated to real audiences. ENGL392 Legal Writing; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: 60 credits and completion of ENGL101 or equivalent. This course satisfies the professional writing requirement. Conventions of legal writing and research. Students learn how to read and write about cases, statutes or other legislation; how to apply legal principles to fact scenarios; and how to present a written analysis for readers in the legal profession. Assignments may include the law-school application essay, case briefs, legal memos, and client letters. Satisfies professional writing requirement. ENGL393 Technical Writing; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: 60 credits and completion of ENGL101 or equivalent. This course satisfies the professional writing requirement. The writing of technical papers and reports. ENGL393X Technical Writing; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: 60 credits and completion of ENGL101 or equivalent. This course satisfies the professional writing requirement. For students for whom English is a second language. ENGL394 Business Writing; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: 60 credits and completion of ENGL101 or equivalent. This course satisfies the professional writing requirement. Intensive practice in the forms of written communication common in the business world-letters, memos, short reports, and proposals. Principles of rhetoric and effective style. ENGL395 Writing for Health Professions; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: 60 credits and completion of ENGL101 or equivalent. This course satisfies the professional writing requirement. Focus on accommodating technical material and empirical studies to lay audiences, and helping writers to achieve stylistic flexibility and correctness. ENGL404 Shakespeare: The Later Works; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Close study of selected plays from the second half of Shakespeare's career. Generic issues of later tragedies, later comedies, romances. Language, theme, dramatic technique, sources, and early modern English social-historical context. ENGL429 (PermReq) Independent Research in English; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ENGL433 American Literature: 1914 to the Present, the Modern Period; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Modernism, Postmodernism. Writers such as Stevens, Stein, Ellison. Also offered as ENGL631. ENGL452 English Drama From 1660 to 1800; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, with special attention to theater history, cultural influences, concepts of tragedy, comedy, farce, parody, and burlesque, as well as dramatic and verbal wit. ENGL462 Folksong and Ballad; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. A cross-section of American folk and popular songs in their cultural contexts; artists from Bill Monroe to Robert Johnson. ENGL495 Independent Study in Honors; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. Prerequisites: Candidacy for honors in English and ENGL370 and ENGL373. For ENGL majors only. Completion and presentation of the senior honors project. ENGL623 Readings in Eighteenth-Century English Literature; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. ENGL629 Readings in Folklore and Folklife: Folksong and Ballad; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. ENGL631 Readings in 20th Century American Literature; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Also offered as ENGL433. ENGL699 (PermReq) Independent Study; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ENGL799 Master's Thesis Research; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ENGL899 Doctoral Dissertation Research; (1-8 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
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