Course Descriptions

ENG 100
COMPOSITION I ENHANCED (5+0) 5 credits
Writing the expository essay; emphasis on revising and editing for development, coherence, style, and correctness. This course provides extra assistance in English writing skills.  Satisfies English Core Curriculum.

ENG 101
COMPOSITION I (3+0) 3 credits
Writing the expository essay; emphasis on revising and editing for development, coherence, style, and correctness.  Satisfies English Core Curriculum.

ENG 102
COMPOSITION II (3+0) 3 credits
Exploration of essay forms with particular attention to interpretation and argument; emphasis on analytical reading and writing, critical thinking, and research methodologies. Satisfies English Core Curriculum.  Pre-requisite(s): ENG 101.

All English Courses ENG 231 and higher satisfy the humanities core curriculum.

ENG 231
WORLD LITERATURE I (3+0) 3 credits
Introduces student to world masterworks from the beginnings through the Renaissance. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 232
WORLD LITERATURE II (3+0) 3 credits
Introduces student to world masterworks from the Renaissance through the modern periods. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 235
SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Major figures and movements in English literature from the beginnings to 1798. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 236
SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE II (3+0) 3 credits
Major figures and movements in English literature from the Colonial period to the Civil War. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 241
SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE I (3+0) 3 credits
Major figures and movements in American literature from the Colonial period to the Civil War. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 242
SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE II (3+0) 3 credits
Continuation of ENG 241. Major figures and movements in American literature from the Civil War to the present. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 243
INTRODUCTION TO THE SHORT STORY (3+0) 3 credits
Elements of the short story, its variety of forms, representative authors. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 252
INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA (3+0) 3 credits
Elements of drama, its basic forms, representative plays of world drama. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 253
CONTEMPORARY DRAMA (3+0) 3 credits
American, English and European drama of the period since World War II. Including such writers as Miller, Albee, Ionesco, and Pinter. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 261
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY (3+0) 3 credits
Elements of poetry, its basic types and forms, representative poets in English. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 271
INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE (3+0) 3 credits
Selected works by Shakespeare.  Specifically designed for non-majors. 

ENG 275
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Reading of recent literature of various types to acquaint students with contemporary writers. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 278
READINGS IN THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL (3+0) 3 credits
Study of the post-World War II novel, its development, and direction. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 290
INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Introduction to the poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction of African Americans.

ENG 292
INTRODUCTION TO CHICANO LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Introduction to Chicano literature through a study of classic, contemporary works of prose, poetry, and theater.  Intended for non-English majors.

ENG 298
WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
This course will explore the strategies and terms essential to the analysis of literary texts, to the crafting of effective arguments about literature, and to the evaluation of those arguments. Replaces ENG 282 and ENG 297. Course offered in Fall Semester.  Pre-requisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 303
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM (3+0) 3 credits
Selected literary theories, varieties of criticism, and texts, emphasizing their interrelations (e.g., Shakespeare and feminist criticism, approaches to the novel, deconstruction and romantic poetry). Course offered in Spring semester.  Pre-requisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 401A
ADVANCED COMPOSITION (3+0) 3 credits
Study of expository prose, with exploration of its special forms and intensive practice in writing. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 407A
FUNDAMENTALS OF BUSINESS WRITING (3+0) 3 credits
Special emphasis on meeting the needs of today's business communicator. Provides students with business writing skills and a broad understanding of the field of business writing. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 407B
FUNDAMENTALS OF TECHNICAL WRITING (3+0) 3 credits
Special emphasis on meeting the communication needs of today's technical writer. Provides students with technical writing skills and a broad understanding of the field of technical writing. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 410A
SEMANTICS (3+0) 3 credits
Study of meanings in the English language using the principles of discourse analysis, speech act theory, and pragmatics: analyzing advertising, political rhetoric, interpersonal relationships, and literature. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 411B
PRINCIPLES OF MODERN GRAMMAR (3+0) 3 credits
Designed to acquaint students, particularly teachers and prospective teachers, with fundamental approaches to English grammar. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 416C
SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN ENGLISH (3+0) 3 credits
English 416C introduces students to the origins, development, and theory of language and focuses on the history and development of forms, syntax, semantics, and usage of English.

ENG 420A
SURVEY OF LITERARY CRITICISM (3+0) 3 credits
Survey of the major theories of literary criticism beginning with Plato and Aristotle. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 426A
RELIGION AND LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Insights and relationships of religious themes, beliefs, and assumptions as they may bear upon the analysis of literary texts. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 427A
WOMEN AND LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Women writers and the ways in which women are portrayed in literature. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 429C
LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST (3+0) 3 credits
Study of literature of the American West. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 432A
CHAUCER (3+0) 3 credits
Selected works by Chaucer.  Pre-requisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 434A
SHAKESPEARE: TRAGEDIES (3+0) 3 credits
Intensive study of Shakespeare's major tragedies. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 434B
SHAKESPEARE: COMEDIES AND HISTORIES (3+0) 3 credits
Intensive study of Shakespeare's major comedies and histories. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 436A
MAJOR FIGURES IN LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Seminar on one or more major figures in American literature. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 440A
MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
English language and literature from 1100 to 1485, exclusive of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

ENG 441A
THE RENAISSANCE (3+0) 3 credits
Study of non-dramatic prose and poetry of the sixteenth century. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 444A
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT (3+0) 3 credits
English writers from about 1790-1832, e.g., Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 445A
THE VICTORIAN PERIOD (3+0) 3 credits
Social and artistic movements of the later 19th century as revealed in English poetry and prose. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 445C
NINTEENTH-CENTURY PROSE WRITERS (3+0) 3 credits
Major prose writers of the Romantic and Victorian periods and their intellectual and literary milieu. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 446A
MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Survey of British writing in the twentieth century, including fiction, drama, and poetry.

ENG 447A
CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Cross-generic studies in British literature since World War II. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 449A
BRITISH LITERATURE I (3+0) 3 credits
Major authors and works in British literature from the beginning through the eighteenth century. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 449B
BRITISH LITERATURE II (3+0) 3 credits
Major authors and works in British literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102. 

ENG 450A
STUDIES IN 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Cross-generic studies in American literature. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 451A
AMERICAN LITERATURE I (3+0) 3 credits
Major figures and movements from the beginnings to the Civil War. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 451B
AMERICAN LITERATURE II (3+0) 3 credits
Major figures and movements from the Civil War to the present. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 462C
MODERN AMERICAN POETRY (3+0) 3 credits
Study of twentieth-century American poetry. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 467B
MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA (3+0) 3 credits
Study of twentieth-century American drama. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 470A
THE BRITISH NOVEL (3+0) 3 credits
The British novel from its origins to about 1800. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 471A
MODERN BRITISH NOVEL (3+0) 3 credits
British fiction from Conrad to 1945. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 471B
CONTEMPORARY BRITISH NOVEL (3+0) 3 credits
British fiction since 1945. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 473C
THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVEL (3+0) 3 credits
The American novel since 1945. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 476B
HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FILM (3+0) 3 credits
Examination of the films of major directors from D. W. Griffith in the Biograph period (1908-1912) to the present. Filmmakers such as John Ford, Howard Hawks, Orson Welles, George Cukor, Robert Flaherty, Frank Capra, Raoul Walsh, and others. Pre-requisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 477A
FILM AND LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
(Same as FIS 495.) Comparative study of the relations of prose, poetry, and drama to the structure and themes of the cinema, from Dickens to the present. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 477C
GENERE STUDIES IN FILM (3+0) 3 credits
Individual examinations of genre, structures, and themes, with emphasis on the development and the history of genres. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 481A
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Intensive analysis of selected masterpieces of the Western world to the beginning of Romanticism. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 481B
MODERN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Intensive analysis of selected masterpieces of the Western world from Romanticism to the twentieth century, themes of literature, literary influences, and major authors. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 484A
THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Study of selected books of the Old and New Testament as literature. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 485
TOPICS IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Literature taught in English translation, for example, Dante, French feminism, or Hispanic writers. May be repeated for English major or minor credit. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 485A
ASIAN LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Intensive study of classical and contemporary Asian literature, especially that of India, Japan, China, and Southeast Asia. Texts in English. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 488
OUTLAW GENRES (3+0) 3 credits
(Same as ETS 488)  This course will examine non-traditional constructions of self or “out-law” genres such as testimonios, ethnographies, oral histories and life stories. Pre-requisite(s): ENG 102

ENG 490
ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
This course explores and investigates literature by American authors from various Asian backgrounds such as, but not limited to, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Indian/South Asian. 

ENG 490A
GENDER AND SEXUAL IDENTITY IN LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Study of gender and literature through the ages. Focus may be aesthetic, historical or thematic. Topics may vary. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 491B
ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Study of environmental literature, both fiction and non-fiction. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 494A
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Literature of Native American peoples, oral tradition through contemporary works. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 495A
EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Study of early African-American literature with emphasis upon the historical development of the African-American tradition in creative or critical writing.  Pre-requisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 495B
MODERN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Study of recent and contemporary works of African-American literature. Pre-requisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 495C
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
African-American writing from literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Typically includes various genres-poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 496A
THEMES IN MODERN CHICANO LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Intensive study of major themes and techniques in the prose, poetry, and theater of Chicano writers since 1950. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.

ENG 497A
TOPICS IN MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE (3+0) 3 credits
Literature works by Asian-American, Hispanic, Native-American, or African American writers.

ENG 499
INDEPENDENT STUDY 1-3 credits
Open to juniors and seniors with consent of the department chair and an assigned instructor. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits. Prerequisite(s): ENG 102.