2023-24 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Apr 08, 2026  
2023-24 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

English Department


Andrea Harbin, chair
Old Main, Room 112
607-753-4307
Fax: 607-753-5978
Email: department secretary
cortland.edu/english

School of Arts and Sciences

English Class

Faculty

Kati Fargo Ahern, Ivana Ancic, Andrew Anderson, Heather Bartlett, Geoffrey Bender, Ross Borden, Tyler Bradway, Gabriel Colella, Laura Davies, Abigail Droge, Laura Dunbar, Adam Ferguson, David Franke, Andrea Harbin, Mario Hernandez, Jeffrey Jackson, John Leffel, Matthew Lessig, Willnide Lindor, Gailanne Mackenzie, Cori McKenzie, Andree Myers, Lisa Neville, Jaclyn Pittsley, Daniel Radus, Adrienne Raw, James Reardon, Danica Savonick, Michael Turner, Laureen Wells

Adjunct Faculty

For a listing of adjunct faculty see the Faculty and Administration  section.

Degrees and Minors

Bachelor of Arts in English
Bachelor of Arts in Adolescence Education: English (7-12)
Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing
Bachelor of Arts / Masters of Arts in English 4+1
Bachelor of Arts / Masters of Arts in Professional Writing 4+1
Minor in English with emphasis areas in:
    Literature
    Language and Literature
    Literature and Writing
Minor in Professional Writing

Description

English study involves an exploration of human values, their literary expression and the ways in which language and culture shape them. Courses in English are intended to help students read with understanding and enjoyment and write with skill and grace.

English Honors Program  

Students with junior standing who have a grade point average of at least 3.6 in courses taught by the English Department may pursue an honors program designed to stimulate independent work of a high critical and imaginative order. The program involves the “challenging for honors” in two 400-level courses and the writing of a senior thesis. Students may take any English Department 400-level class for honors credit, with approval of the instructor of the course.

Requirements

  1. Degree requirements  listed in this catalog apply to the majors offered by this department.
  2. Liberal Arts Requirements: 90 credit hours. 

Programs

Major

Minor

Courses

  • AED 308 - Grammar and the Writing Process

    Engagement in the various stages of the writing process while determining the appropriate role of grammar in the English language arts curriculum through readings and practice. Diversity of language practices will be considered in a variety of texts. Prerequisites: ENG 290, 2.75 grade point average, junior status. Corequisite: AED 341. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code F = offered in fall

  • AED 341 - Introduction to English Language Arts

    Theoretical and methodological foundation for teaching the English Language Arts. Course goals include progress towards an integrated knowledge of constructivist learning theory, related planning and teaching practices, and development of a culturally responsive and inclusive classroom environment. Includes 30 hours of fieldwork experience. Prerequisite: 2.75 grade point average. Corequisite: AED 308. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code F = offered in fall

  • AED 376 - Student Teaching in English in the Middle School

    Supervised student teaching in a middle school. Prerequisites: AED 408, 415 and 441; 2.75 grade point average; and successful completion of CARR, SAVE and DASA workshops. Corequisites: AED 377 and 378. Grading: S, U grades assigned. (6 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code F = offered in fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Maintain a positive learning environment and culturally responsive instruction that draws upon diverse learners’ varied backgrounds, needs, and development.
    2. Effectively guide students to develop disciplinary skills and content understandings that include central concepts and relevance to students’ lives.
    3. Implement effective instruction based on cycles of planning, assessment, and reflection that supports diverse learners in achieving standards-based learning goals.
    4. Demonstrate professionalism through ethical conduct, regard for student well-being and school and college policies, and pursuit of opportunities for professional growth.
  • AED 377 - Student Teaching in English in the High School

    Supervised student teaching in the high school. Prerequisites: AED 408, 415 and 441; 2.75 grade point average. Corequisites: AED 376 and 378. Grading: S, U grades assigned. (6 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code F = offered in fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Maintain a positive learning environment and culturally responsive instruction that draws upon diverse learners’ varied backgrounds, needs, and development.
    2. Effectively guide students to develop disciplinary skills and content understandings that include central concepts and relevance to students’ lives.
    3. Implement effective instruction based on cycles of planning, assessment, and reflection that supports diverse learners in achieving standards-based learning goals.
    4. Demonstrate professionalism through ethical conduct, regard for student well-being and school and college policies, and pursuit of opportunities for professional growth.
  • AED 378 - Student Teaching Colloquia

    Seminar for reflecting upon best teaching practices and developing professional dispositions and materials. Corequisites: AED 376 and AED 377. Grading: S, U grades assigned. (1 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once a year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Maintain a positive learning environment and culturally responsive instruction that draws upon diverse learners’ varied backgrounds, needs, and development.
    2. Effectively guide students to develop disciplinary skills and content understandings that include central concepts and relevance to students’ lives.
    3. Implement effective instruction based on cycles of planning, assessment, and reflection that supports diverse learners in achieving standards-based learning goals.
    4. Demonstrate professionalism through ethical conduct, regard for student well-being and school and college policies, and pursuit of opportunities for professional growth.
  • AED 408 - Teaching Writing in Secondary Schools

    Instructional strategies, curriculum planning and assessment techniques for the teaching of writing in the middle and secondary schools. Includes 30 hours of field experience. Prerequisites: AED 308 and AED 341; 2.75 grade point average. Corequisites: AED 441 and SPE 275. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code S = offered in spring

  • AED 415 - Participant-Observer Experience

    A 40-hour field experience in adolescence education. Observations and field reports from secondary classroom experiences required. Prerequisites: AED 308 and AED 341. (1 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code S = offered every spring

  • AED 441 - Methods of Teaching Literature and Critical Literacy

    Integration of the teaching of literature and critical literacy. Lesson planning, instructional strategies and teaching with educational standards are emphasized, as are theory and related strategies for helping students apply critical reading and writing skills to a range of literacy genres and levels of interpretation.  Prerequisite: AED 308 and 341; 2.75 grade point average; Corequisite: AED 408 and SPE 275. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code S = offered in spring

  • CPN 100 - Writing Studies I

    Introduction to the study and practice of writing with an emphasis on critical reading and thinking skills. Not open to students with credit for CPN 102. Fulfills: GE 10, GEC1; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Create cohesive texts with a purpose, context, and effective sequence of ideas. 
    2. Analyze and use sources to support arguments or claims. 
    3. Demonstrate audience awareness through critical reading, reflection, and revision.
  • CPN 101 - Writing Studies II

    Theme-based critical inquiry and research into topics and issues of public importance. Not open to students with credit for CPN 103. Prerequisite: A grade of C- or better in CPN 100 or CPN 102. Fulfills: GE 10, GEC2; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Compose sophisticated texts that integrate purpose, context, and effective sequencing of ideas. 
    2. Develop a sustained research process involving the selection of sources, evaluation, and use of research to support arguments or claims. 
    3. Address a specific audience through use of conventions, critical reading, reflection, and revision. 
  • CPN 102 - Writing Studies in the Community I

    Introduction to the study and practice of writing with an emphasis on critical reading and thinking skills. Includes 30 hours of service-learning work in the community. Not open to students with credit for CPN 100. Fulfills: GE 10, GEC1; LASR. (4 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Create cohesive texts with a purpose, context, and effective sequence of ideas. 
    2. Analyze and use sources to support arguments or claims. 
    3. Demonstrate audience awareness through critical reading, reflection, and revision. 
    4. Participate in a service learning experience that explores community partnership or external feedback. 
  • CPN 103 - Writing Studies in the Community II

    Theme-based critical inquiry and research into topics and issues of public importance. Includes 30 hours of service-learning work in the community. Not open to students with credit for CPN 101. Prerequisite: A grade of C- or better in CPN 100 or CPN 102. Fulfills: GE 10, GEC2; LASR. (4 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Compose sophisticated texts that integrate purpose, context, and effective sequencing of ideas. 
    2. Develop a sustained research process involving the selection of sources, evaluation, and use of research to support arguments or claims. 
    3. Address a specific audience through use of conventions, critical reading, reflection, and revision. 
    4. Complete a service learning project that incorporates communication and accountability to the partnership.
  • CPN 104 - Writing Workshop I

    Intensive, guided practice in college-level academic reading and academic writing. Emphasis on analysis and argument. Corequisite: CPN 100. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Develop flexible strategies for reading, drafting, revising, and editing through participating in a structured workshop environment.
    2. Recognize and use conventions of academic written discourse.
    3. Compose academic analyses and academic arguments through a multi-draft process.
  • CPN 105 - Writing Workshop II

    Intensive, guided practice in college-level academic reading and academic writing. Emphasis on researched academic writing. Corequisite: CPN 101. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Develop flexible strategies for reading, drafting, revising, and editing through participating in a structured workshop environment.
    2. Recognize and use conventions of academic written discourse.
    3. Compose researched academic inquiries through a multi-draft process.
  • ENG 110 - Introduction to Inquiry

    Advanced first-year writing seminar emphasizing critical reading, writing and inquiry. Formal argumentation and workshop revision required. Focus on critical interpretation of texts organized around a common problem of interest. Designated for students accepted in the Honors Program. Fulfills: GE 10, GEC2; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Produce coherent texts within common college-level written forms.
    2. Revise and improve their written texts.
    3. Research a topic, develop an argument and organize supporting details.
  • ENG 200 - Introduction to Literature

    Introduction to systematic study of literature. Emphasis on fiction, with attention to poetry and drama. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. ​Compose well-developed verbal and written responses to literature. 
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with all genres of literature, with an emphasis on fiction.
  • ENG 201 - Introduction to Language Study

    Concepts, scope, methodology of science of language. Principles of descriptive and historical linguistics. Geographical, historical, social dialects of English. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Also listed as ANT 251 and COM 211. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Compare/contrast theoretical models of linguistics.
    2. Analyze samples of morphology, phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in relation to structure and function for communication.
    3. Describe current issues in linguistics.
  • ENG 202 - Introduction to Fiction

    Introduction to reading and analysis of short story, novella, novel. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. ​Compose well-developed verbal and written responses to literature. 
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with the reading and analysis of the short story, novella, novel, or other fictionalized narrative.
  • ENG 203 - Introduction to Poetry

    Introduction to reading and analysis of poetry. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. ​Compose well-developed verbal and written responses to literature. 
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with the reading and analysis of poetry.
  • ENG 204 - Introduction to Drama

    Introduction to basics of theatrical literature. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. ​Compose well-developed verbal and written responses to literature. 
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with the reading, performance, and analysis of theatrical literature.
  • ENG 208 - Introduction to Film Analysis

    Introduction to analysis and interpretation of cinema as an art form. Also listed as CIN 208. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Also listed as CIN 208; Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the form and structure of a film to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to film.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with the analysis and interpretation of cinema as an art form.
  • ENG 210 - Introduction to Fantasy/Science Fiction

    Introduction to the literature of fantasy and/or science fiction. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to literature.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with the literature of fantasy and/or science fiction.
  • ENG 220 - Introduction to Western Literature I

    Major phases of literary heritage of Western World from Classical Age to Renaissance. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to literature.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with the Western literary heritage from the Classical Age to the Renaissance.
  • ENG 221 - Introduction to Western Literature II

    Major phases of literary heritage of Western World from Enlightenment to Modern Period. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to literature.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with the Western literary heritage from the Enlightenment to the Modern period.
  • ENG 229 - Special Topics in English

    Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. (1-4 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to literature.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with the subject of the special topic course.
  • ENG 250 - Introduction to Jewish Authors

    Introduction to Jewish themes in American literature and in translation from Yiddish. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Also listed as JST 250. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to literature.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with Jewish themes in American literature and in translation from Yiddish.
  • ENG 251 - Introduction to African-American Literature

    Survey of African-American literature: representative novels, poetry, drama from various time periods. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Also listed as AAS 251. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU and GE 11, GEDI; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. ​Compose well-developed verbal and written responses to literature. 
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with African American literature, including representative novels, poetry, drama from various time periods.
  • ENG 252 - Introduction to Modern American Multicultural Literature

    Introduction to prose, poetry and drama that reflects the diverse ethnic, cultural and social worlds of North America and the Caribbean today.   Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 4, GEUS and GE 11, GEDI; LASR; PRES, GECP. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to literature.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with prose, poetry and drama that reflects the diverse ethnic, cultural and social worlds of North America.
  • ENG 254 - Introduction to American Working-Class Literature

    Study of representations of class and labor in American literature and culture. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. CPN 101 or 103 may be taken concurrently. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU and GE 11, GEDI; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to literature.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with representations of class and labor in American literature and culture.
  • ENG 256 - Introduction to American Indian Literature

    Introduction to “Native American” culture through analytical appreciation of its oral and written literature. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 6, GEWH and GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. ​Compose well-developed verbal and written responses to literature. 
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with American Indian literature.
  • ENG 257 - Introduction to Irish Literature

    Introduction to Irish writers and their themes. Readings include some translations from Irish to English. Poetry, fiction and drama will be included. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to literature.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with Irish literature.
  • ENG 258 - Irish Women Writers

    Introduction to the work of Ireland’s women writers in all three genres: drama, poetry and fiction. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. ​Compose well-developed verbal and written responses to literature. 
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with Irish literature by women.
  • ENG 260 - Literature of Sports

    Philosophical, psychological, sociological ideas and problems associated with growing emphasis on sport in modern life. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. ​Compose well-developed verbal and written responses to literature. 
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with literature that concerns sports in modern life.
  • ENG 261 - Introduction to Women in Literature

    Study of literary portrayal of women by female and male authors of different periods and nationalities. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. ​Compose well-developed verbal and written responses to literature. 
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with portrayals of women in literature.
  • ENG 262 - War in Literature

    Literary portrayal of war in Western literature from antiquity to present. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to literature.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with literary portrayals of war in Western literature from antiquity to the present.
  • ENG 263 - Ethical Issues in Literature

    Issues concerning moral and social law as reflected in the literature of various western cultures and historical backgrounds. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to literature.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with issues concerning moral and social law as reflected in the literature of various western cultures and historical backgrounds.
  • ENG 268 - Psychology in Literature

    Introduction to psychological approaches to the study of literature. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to literature.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with psychological approaches to the study of literature.
  • ENG 269 - LGBTQ Literature

    Introduction to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer literatures in the 20th and 21st centuries. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Also listed as WGS 269. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU and GE 11, GEDI; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to literature.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer literatures in the 20th and 21st centuries.
  • ENG 278 - Introduction to Film and Short Fiction

    Introduction to analysis, interpretation of films and short fiction through study of selected short stories, novelettes, film scripts, films. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Also listed as CIN 278. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to literature.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with the analysis and interpretation of films and short fiction.
  • ENG 280 - Introduction to Mythology and the Bible

    Survey of major characters and events in classical mythology and the Bible. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Relate the language and structure of a literary text to its content and meaning.
    2. Write well-developed verbal and written responses to literature.
    3. Demonstrate familiarity with the major characters and events in classical mythology and the Bible.
  • ENG 290 - Introduction to Literary Study

    Introduction to the fundamentals of literary study with emphasis on techniques for reading closely and contextually and for constructing persuasive interpretive arguments. Prerequisite: CPN 100 or 102. Fulfills: GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate close reading skills through an understanding of literary terms and analytical techniques.
    2. ​Apply considerations of language, representation, textuality, genre, and history to the reading and interpretation of texts.
    3. Demonstrate an understanding of the conventions of writing interpretive arguments, including how to formulate an effective thesis, how to use textual evidence, how to employ quotations, how to identify and reference secondary source material, and how to document the work of others.
  • ENG 302 - Research Methods in Literary Study

    Strategies for writing about literature with emphasis on self-directed research. Includes instruction in how to understand, summarize, evaluate, and synthesize secondary materials in support of critical arguments about literature. Prerequisite: ENG 290. Fulfills: LASR. Notes: AEN(W) and ENG majors must complete ENG 290 before taking ENG 302.(3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Conduct self-directed research in support of an interpretive argument about literature.
    2. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the conventions of writing interpretive arguments about literature.
  • ENG 305 - Film Criticism

    Close study of a number of selected films, domestic and foreign, from aesthetic, technical perspectives. Extensive writing of reviews, critiques aimed at different media. High level of writing proficiency expected. Consent of instructor. Also listed as CIN 305. Fulfills: LASR. Notes: For non-majors, successful completion of a 200-level English course is prerequisite to all 300- and 400-level courses. For English and adolescence education majors, three credit hours in ENG 325, 326, 355 or 356 are prerequisite to 400-level literature courses. Specific prerequisites to professional writing courses are listed with catalog course descriptions. Successful completion of CPN 100 or CPN 102 is prerequisite to all courses in English. CPN 101 or CPN 103 may be taken concurrently with any 200-level literature course. For English and adolescence education majors, ENG 203 is prerequisite for 300-level literature courses.(3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify important contexts for literature and literary study.
    2. Describe how historical, cultural, and other contexts shape literature and writing.
    3. Demonstrate knowledge of domestic and foreign films from aesthetic and technical perspectives.
  • ENG 306 - Advanced Writing Workshop

    Advanced writing course focusing on genres of literary nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and modes of exposition and argument. Prerequisite: CPN 101 or 103. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply knowledge of recursion to the drafting and revision of works across several genres of prose and verse.
    2. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of major writing genres, including literary nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and argumentation.
  • ENG 307 - New Media Literacies and ELA

    Employment of a variety of computer applications and web-based communication tools, production and evaluation of new media, and study of pedagogical and disciplinary issues that inform new literacy practices for English language arts (ELA) classrooms. Prerequisite: A 200-level ENG course. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify important contexts for literature, literary study, and writing.
    2. Describe how historical, cultural, and other contexts shape new media literacies.
    3. Demonstrate knowledge and use of multiple digital environments and platforms for teaching the study of literature and writing.
  • ENG 325 - American Literature Before 1900

    Representative works of major writers of the Puritan Age, the Age of Reason, the Romantic Age, and the Age of Realism and Regionalism. Prerequisite: A 200-level ENG course. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify important contexts for literature and literary study. 
    2. ​Describe how historical, cultural, and other contexts shape literature and writing.
    3. Demonstrate knowledge of representative works of writers from the United States and its colonial precursors prior to 1900.
  • ENG 326 - American Literature Since 1900

    Representative works of major writers of the Age of Naturalism, the Age of Modernism and the Postmodern Age. Prerequisite: A 200-level ENG course. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify important contexts for literature and literary study. 
    2. ​Describe how historical, cultural, and other contexts shape literature and writing.
    3. Demonstrate knowledge of representative works of major writers of the Age of Naturalism, the Age of Modernism and the Postmodern Age.
  • ENG 329 - Special Topics in English

    Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Prerequisite: A 200-level ENG course. (1-4 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify important contexts for literature and literary study.
    2. Describe how historical, cultural, and other contexts shape literature and writing.
    3. Demonstrate knowledge of the subject of the special topic course.
  • ENG 352 - Early African-American Literature

    African-American writing before World War II. Emphasis on critical reactions, analysis. Slave narrative, autobiography, rhetoric, fiction, poetry included. Prerequisite: A 200-level ENG course. Also listed as AAS 352. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify important contexts for literature and literary study.
    2. Describe how historical, cultural, and other contexts shape literature and writing.
    3. Demonstrate knowledge of African-American writing before World War II, including slave narratives, autobiographies, fiction, and poetry.
  • ENG 355 - Major Figures in British Literature to 1780

    From Chaucer to the Romantics, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Fielding. Prerequisite: A 200-level ENG course. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify important contexts for literature and literary study. 
    2. Describe how historical, cultural, and other contexts shape literature and writing.
    3. Demonstrate knowledge of early British literature from the medieval period through the 18th century.  
  • ENG 356 - Major Figures in British Literature 1780-Present

    From Blake to the present including such writers as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Browning, Hardy, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Auden. Prerequisite: A 200-level ENG course. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify important contexts for literature and literary study. 
    2. ​Describe how historical, cultural, and other contexts shape literature and writing.
    3. Demonstrate knowledge of British literature from Blake to the present including such writers as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Browning, Hardy, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Auden.
  • ENG 373 - Literature for Children

    Understanding, critical appreciation of books for elementary school pupils. Prerequisite: A 200-level ENG course. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify important contexts for literature and literary study. 
    2. ​Describe how historical, cultural, and other contexts shape literature and writing.
    3. Demonstrate knowledge of books for elementary school pupils.
  • ENG 374 - Literature for Adolescence

    Critical study, examination and evaluation of literature written specifically for and about adolescents, including texts from a variety of cultures, female authors and authors of color. Methods and strategies for teaching, assessing and encouraging adolescent reading. Prerequisite: A 200-level ENG course. Fulfills: LASR; PRES, GECP. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify important contexts for literature and literary study. 
    2. Describe how historical, cultural, and other contexts shape literature and writing.
    3. Demonstrate knowledge of literature written specifically for and about adolescents, including texts from a variety of cultures, female authors and authors of color.
    4. Demonstrate an understanding of methods and strategies for teaching, assessing and encouraging adolescent reading.
  • ENG 378 - Film in Literature

    Study of six or more selected films and scripts. Emphasis on literary methods of analysis and interpretation. Prerequisite: Three hours in a 200-level literature course. Also listed as CIN 378. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify important contexts for literature and literary study.
    2. Describe how historical, cultural, and other contexts shape literature and writing.
    3. Demonstrate knowledge of films and scripts, with emphasis on literary methods of analysis and interpretation.
  • ENG 380 - Literary and Cultural Theory

    Introduction to literary and cultural theory. Emphasis on understanding theoretical concepts and applying them in the interpretation of literary and other cultural texts. Prerequisite: A 200-level ENG course. Fulfills: LASR. Notes: AEN(W) and ENG majors must complete ENG 290 before taking ENG 380.(3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify the major theoretical paradigms and schools of thought that inform literary and cultural studies.
    2. Review and assess debates over different methodologies in literary and cultural studies.
    3. Investigate important concepts within literary and cultural theory, such as form, language, power, identity, and representation.
    4. Analyze and interpret literary and cultural texts using theoretical concepts.
    5. Compose interpretative essays and other genres of writing informed by literary and cultural theory.
  • ENG 402 - Grammar

    Intensive study of grammar, focusing on phonology, morphology and syntax; understanding of language acquisition; and development of instructional strategies. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of grammar, focusing on phonology, morphology and syntax; language acquisition; and instructional strategies.
  • ENG 407 - Study of English Language

    Study of language and literacy acquisition and development; diversity in language use, historical and social influences on language, and second language and bilingual learning. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG at the 200 level or higher. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code S = offered every spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate an understanding of linguistic grammar and the social implications of language use.
    2. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of language acquisition and development; diversity in language use, historical and social influences on language, and second language and bilingual learning.
    3. Demonstrate an understanding of first and second language acquisition.
    4. Demonstrate an understanding of the history of the English Language.
    5. Successfully write a sustained argumentative essay.
  • ENG 408 - Advanced Studies in Film Analysis

    Advanced critical analysis of films by selected genre, historical period and/or topic. Prerequisites: CPN 100 or 102; ENG 208. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of films by selected genre, historical period and/or topic.
  • ENG 411 - World Literature

    Survey of the writing of world literature from the beginning to the present day. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the writing of world literature from the beginning to the present day.
  • ENG 417 - American Literature 1820-1865

    Studies in American literature and culture of the Romantic age. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of American literature and culture of the Romantic age.
  • ENG 418 - American Literature 1865-1914

    Studies in American literature and culture from the Civil War to World War I. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of American literature and culture from the Civil War to World War I.
  • ENG 419 - American Literature 1914-1945

    Studies in American literature and culture during the period between World War I and World War II. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of American literature and culture during the period between World War I and World War II.
  • ENG 421 - Topics in African American Literature

    Analysis of African American literature with a focus on a particular literary movement, methodological approach, or genre (autobiography, poetry, novels, etc.). Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of autobiographical narratives.
  • ENG 422 - American Women Writers

    Representative works from the late 18th century to the present. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of representative works of American women writers from the late 18th century to the present.
  • ENG 423 - Post-1945 American Literature

    Studies in post-World War II American literature and culture. May treat a significant movement such as postmodernism. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of post-World War II American literature and culture.
  • ENG 425 - African-American Women Writers

    Study of African-American women’s tradition in American literature.  Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Also listed as AAS 425. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of African-American women’s tradition in American literature.
  • ENG 428 - Topics in American Indian Literature

    Selected topics in American Indian literature, including major genres, authors, themes, or periods. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least 6 credits hours in English at the 200-level or above. Fulfills: LASR (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of selected topics in American Indian literature, including major genres, authors, themes, or periods.
  • ENG 429 - Special Topics in English

    Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. (1-4 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the subject of the special topics course.
  • ENG 430 - Authors, Movements, Scenes

    Intensive study of the work of one or two major authors or a literary movement with emphasis on cultural and historical contexts. May be repeated once for course credit as subtitle changes. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the work of one or two major authors or a literary movement with emphasis on cultural and historical contexts.
  • ENG 431 - Arthurian Literature

    Studies in the medieval tales of King Arthur and his knights with primary emphasis on the literature from the British Isles. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the medieval tales of King Arthur and his knights with primary emphasis on the literature from the British Isles.
  • ENG 432 - Topics in Medieval Literature

    Studies in medieval English literature dealing with such issues as the role of women, drama and culture, romance or epic. May focus on major genres, themes or authors. May be repeated twice as subtitle changes. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of medieval English literature dealing with such issues as the role of women, drama and culture, romance or epic.
  • ENG 433 - Shakespeare

    Dramatic effectiveness, structure, characterization and poetry in selected group of Shakespeare plays. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the dramatic effectiveness, structure, characterization and poetry in a selected group of Shakespeare plays.
  • ENG 436 - Medieval England: There and Back Again

    Examines defining moments in medieval English history and literature. Considers how these events were later translated and interpreted by historians, writers and thinkers in later centuries. Culminates in a two-week in-country experience in England. Prerequisite: Special permission. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify the major phases of English medieval history.
    2. Analyze select literary and nonliterary texts
    3. Evaluate the significance of “medievalism”
    4. Synthesize literary and historical texts with first-hand observation after an immersion experience in a medieval environment.
  • ENG 438 - Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose

    Literature of the late Renaissance, 1590-1660; selected works of metaphysical (Donne, Herbert, Vaughan) and/or cavalier (Jonson, Herrick, Marvell) writers and their contemporaries. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the literature of the late Renaissance, 1590-1660.
  • ENG 440 - Eighteenth-Century British Literature

    Studies in 18th-century British literature, including novels, poetry, plays and satirical texts from canonical authors (Swift, Defoe, Behn, Burney, Austen) and less familiar writers. May be repeated once as subtitle changes. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of 18th-century British literature, including novels, poetry, plays and satirical texts.
  • ENG 441 - The Age of Sensibility

    Pre-Romantic poetry: Thomson, Gray, Collins; Sentimentalism in the novel and drama; Sterne, Sheridan, Goldsmith; criticism and biography of Johnson, Boswell. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of pre-Romantic poetry, sentimentalism in the novel and drama, and criticism and biography.
  • ENG 442 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama

    Drama written and performed in England from 1660 to 1800. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of drama written and performed in England from 1660 to 1800.
  • ENG 445 - The Romantic Age

    Major writers of the Romantic period of England. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of major writers of the Romantic period of England.
  • ENG 455 - The English Novel to 1900

    Study of the English novel from its beginnings to 1900. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the English novel from its beginnings to 1900.
  • ENG 456 - Modern Irish Drama

    Representative works of selected modern Irish playwrights such as Synge, Yeats, O’Casey, Johnston, Carroll, Beckett, Behan, Friel and Murphy. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of representative works of selected modern Irish playwrights.
  • ENG 457 - Modern Irish Fiction

    Representative works of selected modern Irish novelists and short-story writers, for example: Moore, O’Kelly, Stephens, Joyce, O’Connor, O’Faolain, Murdoch, Trevor. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of representative works of selected modern Irish novelists and short-story writers.
  • ENG 458 - Modern Irish Poetry

    Representative works of selected modern Irish poets, such as Yeats, Heaney, Boland and McGuckian. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of representative works of selected modern Irish poets.
  • ENG 470 - Modern British Poetry

    Poetry since 1890 written in England and Ireland. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of poetry since 1890 written in England and Ireland.
  • ENG 471 - The Modern English Novel

    Important English novels since 1900. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of important English novels since 1900.
  • ENG 475 - American Multicultural Literature

    Close readings of representative texts by major 20th century American writers of color. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Also listed as AAS 470. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of representative texts by major 20th century American writers of color.
  • ENG 477 - Contemporary Literature

    Close readings of contemporary anglophone and global literature in translation, including prose, film, poetry and/or drama. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of contemporary anglophone and global literature in translation, including prose, film, poetry and/or drama.
  • ENG 480 - Studies in Critical Theory

    Topics in literary and cultural theory. May be repeated once for course credit as subtitle changes. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of literary and cultural theory.
  • ENG 481 - Genre Studies

    Topics in the study of literary genres. May be repeated once for course credit as subtitle changes. Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least six credit hours of ENG courses at the 200 level or above. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the study of literary genres.
  • ENG 498 - Independent Study

    Prerequisites: ENG 325 or 326 or 355 or 356; and approval of English Department Honors Committee. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of a selected topic in consultation with a faculty member.
  • ENG 499 - Senior Thesis

    Prerequisites: ENG 325 or 326 or 355 or 356; completion of at least three credit hours in honors studies; approval of English Department Honors Committee. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply advanced methods in literary research informed by secondary criticism.
    2. Apply critical and conceptual frameworks to literary interpretation.
    3. Produce a significant research project.
  • ENG 500 - Old English

    Phonemic and grammatical structures of Old English; translation and analyses of selected West-Saxon tests; general background reading in history of English language, major trends in Old English literature. Notes: CPN 100 or 102 and CPN 101 or 103 and nine credits of literature, including one course at the 400 level, and junior, senior or graduate status are prerequisite to 500-level literature courses.(3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply sophisticated knowledge of advanced methods in literary, cultural, and/or rhetorical analysis and research.
    2. Produce a self-directed research project that engages established knowledge in the field.
    3. Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the language of Old English and critical approaches to the study of Old English.
  • ENG 506 - Computers and the Study of English

    Introduces graduate students, particularly students who plan to teach or are currently teaching English at middle school, secondary school, or adult levels, to computer tools and environments that complement the study of literature, language, rhetoric, and composition. Notes: CPN 100 or 102 and CPN 101 or 103 and nine credits of literature, including one course at the 400 level, and junior, senior or graduate status are prerequisite to 500-level literature courses.(3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply sophisticated knowledge of the pedagogical applications of technology in the ELA classroom. 
    2. Produce a self-directed research project that engages established knowledge in the field.
    3. Demonstrate sophisticated knowledge of critical approaches to how technology may be used in the Study of English.
  • ENG 508 - Cultural Theory

    Advanced graduate study in cultural theory. Topic changes. Course may be taken again for an additional three credit hours, depending on the topic. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify key topics and problems in cultural theory
    2. Analyze and interpret key texts of cultural theory
    3. Compose essays that apply cultural theory 
  • ENG 511 - Literature and Feminism

    Graduate study of key topics and debates in literature and feminism, such as gender roles, theories of embodiment, identity and performance, gendered distributions of labor, the experiences of women writers, intersectionality, and women of color feminism. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate close reading skills. 
    2. Investigate foundational methods, histories, debates, and concepts in feminist theory.
    3. Apply methods and concepts from feminist theory to the interpretation of literary and cultural texts.
    4. Perform research using feminist methodologies.
  • ENG 515 - Studies in American Literature to 1900

    Studies in American literature to 1900, with emphasis on formalist, historical, and critical approaches and on understanding texts in relation to current scholarship. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply sophisticated knowledge of advanced methods in literary, cultural, and/or rhetorical analysis and research.
    2. Produce a self-directed research project that engages established knowledge in the field.
    3. Demonstrate sophisticated knowledge of American literature to 1900 and critical approaches to the field.
  • ENG 528 - Studies in American Indian Literature

    Studies in American Indian literature, with emphasis on formalist, historical, and critical approaches. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Analyze and interpret American Indian literature.
    2. Identify the cultural, political, historical contexts of American Indian literature.
    3. Examine critical approaches to the study of American Indian literature.
  • ENG 529 - Special Topics in English

    Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Prerequisites: Designated by department as appropriate for content and academic level of credit. Notes: CPN 100 or 102 and CPN 101 or 103 and nine credits of literature, including one course at the 400 level, and junior, senior or graduate status are prerequisite to 500-level literature courses.(1-4 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply sophisticated knowledge of advanced methods in literary, cultural, and/or rhetorical analysis and research.
    2. Produce a self-directed research project that engages established knowledge in the field.
    3. Demonstrate sophisticated knowledge of course topic and critical approaches to course topic.
  • ENG 530 - Chaucer

    Poetry of Chaucer in Middle English; emphasis upon literary rather than linguistic aspect of his work. Notes: CPN 100 or 102 and CPN 101 or 103 and nine credits of literature, including one course at the 400 level, and junior, senior or graduate status are prerequisite to 500-level literature courses.(3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply sophisticated knowledge of advanced methods in literary, cultural, and/or rhetorical analysis and research.
    2. Produce a self-directed research project that engages established knowledge in the field.
    3. Demonstrate sophisticated knowledge of Middle English, Chaucer’s works and critical approaches to Chaucer.
  • ENG 533 - Topics in Digital Humanities

    A graduate-level introduction to key topics, methods, and debates in the field of digital humanities such as the politics and ethics of technologies, textual analysis, algorithmic literary criticism, network analysis, distant reading, sound studies, geospatial mapping, data visualization, and augmented and virtual reality. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Investigate contemporary approaches to digital scholarship in the humanities.
    2. Evaluate the affordances and limitations of different digital research tools and platforms.
    3. Design and execute a digital research project.
  • ENG 538 - Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

    Intensive study of a few authors or literary movement from roughly 1600 to 1660. May be repeated once as the subtitle changes for a maximum of six credit hours. Notes: CPN 100 or 102 and CPN 101 or 103 and nine credits of literature, including one course at the 400 level, and junior, senior or graduate status are prerequisite to 500-level literature courses.(3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Apply sophisticated knowledge of advanced methods in literary, cultural, and/or rhetorical analysis and research.
    2. Produce a self-directed research project that engages established knowledge in the field.
    3. Demonstrate sophisticated knowledge of 17th-century English literature and critical approaches to 17th-century English literature.
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