ENGLISH (ENGL)

English Course Level And Numbering

Lower Division

ENGL 190 - HONORS WRITING SEMINAR (3) Exploration of issues and critical methods vital to a liberal education. Development of strategies for effective writing. Emphasis on student essays and reports. Prerequisite: Admission to Honors College. Special permit required. (UG)

ENGL 221 - BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1798 (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the Middle Ages through the eighteenth century; emphasis on works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, and Swift. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 222 - BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1798 (3) Survey of poetry and prose of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as works by Wordsworth, Keats, Dickens, Browning, Lawrence, and Woolf. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 230 - MAIN CURRENTS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3) A condensation of English 231 and 232, which will no longer be offered. Covers selected authors from both early and modern American lit. Fulfills the same GUR as the discontinued courses. Will also fulfill a gen ed requirement. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 231 - AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1865 (3) Major writers and literary movements from the Colonial Period to the Civil War, such as works by Taylor, Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 232 - AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1865 (3) Literary movements and major writers since the Civil War, such as Dickinson, Twain, James, Frost, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 233 - SURVEY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LlTERATURE (3) Slave narratives, post-Civil War and twentieth-century developments and such writers as Wheatley, Douglass, Hughes, and King. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 234 - MAJOR WRITERS IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE (3) Literature of slavery, the Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression and after, with emphasis on Chesnutt, Hughes, Wright, and Walker. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. ENGL 233 is recommended but not required as a prerequisite to ENGL 234. (UG)

ENGL 235 - ETHNIC-AMERICAN LITERATURE (3) Comparative survey of Asian, European, Black, Jewish, and other immigrant American literature, with emphasis on literary, historical, and sociological approaches. Prerequisites: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 236 - AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE, 1772-PRESENT (3) Emphasis on the contribution of American Indian writers to American Literature. Study of the genres in which American Indians have written, the influences of both Indian and non-lndian world views, themes, and techniques represented in these works. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 237 - 19th & 20th CENTURY JEWISH LITERATURE (3) Jewish literature from Eastern Europe, the United States, and Israel, including writers such as Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, Amos Oz and others. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 240 - CLASSICS OF THE WESTERN HERITAGE (3) A condensation of English 241 and 242, which will no longer be offered; fulfills the same GUR as the discontinued courses. Will also fulfill a gen ed requirement. Focuses on authors such as Dante, Shakespeare Voltaire, and Eliot, including material rooted in periods from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century. (This course does not in any way supplant or overlap English 243, Classical Mythology, which is still being offered.) Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 241 - WORLD LITERATURE THROUGH THE MIDDLE AGES (3) Writings from Biblical and classical antiquity to the Renaissance. Variable content. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 242 - WORLD LITERATURE FROM THE RENAISSANCE (3) Writings from the Renaissance to the present era. Variable content. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 243 - INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY (3) The study of myth in selected works from Greek and Roman literature. Prerequisites: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 244 - INTRODUCTION TO FOLKLORE (3) Aspects of folklore relevant to literature. Emphasis on the various forms and materials of folk narrative (fairy tale, legend, etc.). Focus on English, Irish, and American tales; other countries considered. Ethnic folklore, proverbs, superstitions, and folklore archaeology included according to student interest. Prerequisites: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 245 - THE CONTINENTAL SHORT STORY (3) Study of the development of the short story in 19th and 20th century Europe. Readings include such major continental writers as Flaubert, Tolstoy, Kafka, Sartre, and Camus. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 246 - THE CONTINENTAL SHORT NOVEL (3) Study of the development of the short novel ("novella") in 19th and 20th century Europe. Readings include major continental authors such as Dostoevsky, Mann, Kafka, Gide, Hesse, and Solzhenitsyn. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 251 - APPLIED GRAMMAR (3) Grammar, syntax, and usage for improvement of writing style. No credit toward major requirements. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 261 - TRADITION AND FORM IN WESTERN POETRY (3) Formal analysis of poems, with emphasis on imagery, diction, sound patterns, stanzaic form, and the major modes and genres. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. NOTE: Formerly called Elements of Poetry. Only the course title has changed; substance remains virtually identical. Fulfills the same GUR. Will also fulfill a gen ed requirement. Remains a requirement for the English major. (UG)

ENGL 263 - TRADITION AND FORM IN WESTERN FICTION (3) Formal analysis of fiction, especially the short story, with emphasis on point of view, plot, character, setting, design, and theme. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. NOTE: Formerly called Elements of Fiction. Only the course title has changed; substance remains virtually identical. Fulfills the same GUR. Will also fulfill a gen ed requirement.(UG)

ENGL 265 - ELEMENTS OF DRAMA (3) Formal analysis of the kinds of drama, such as tragedy and comedy, and the structure of drama, including plot, character, theme, language, and setting. Prerequisites: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 270 - IDEAS IN LITERATURE (3) Thematic approach to works of American, British, and World literature. Variation in content. May be repeated once. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. (UG)

ENGL 283 - INTRODUCTION TO IMAGINATIVE WRITING (3) Theories and technical considerations pertinent to writing poetry and fiction, with discussion of student writing. Consent of instructor. Offered by Department on a S/U basis. (UG)

ENGL 290 - HONORS SEMINAR IN LITERATURE (3) Small group discussion and analysis of selected works not generally available in other electives, with some research experience. Variation in content. Open to students with high achievement in college English. May be repeated once. Prerequisites: ENGL 190 or one 200-level English course; consent of Department. Honors College. Special permit only. (UG)

Upper Division

ENGL 312 - WRITlNG FICTION (3) Nature of the creative process and art of imaginative expression in writing fiction. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. S/U grading. (UG)

ENGL 313 - ADVANCED COMPOSITION (3) Expository writing with emphasis on organization, evidence, correct usage, and effective style. Prerequisite: 2 ENGL courses. (UG)

ENGL 315 - CREATIVITY AND STYLE IN WRITING NONFICTION (3) Originality and personal style in expository writing. Emphasis on concreteness, tone, imagery, connotation, effective sentences, and logic. Prerequisite: 2 ENGL Courses and consent of instructor. (UG)

ENGL 316 - WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE (3) Writing About Composition of the literary essay, its structure and style. Emphasis on explication, character, plot, and thematic analysis of poetry, fiction and drama. Differs from English 313 in that its subject matter is literature and not other academic subjects. Fulfills the continuing requirement for a "second writing course" for all students. (UG)

ENGL 317 - WRITING FOR BUSlNESS AND lNDUSTRY (3) Standard written formats used in business and industry, including correspondence, memoranda, and reports. Projects individualized to meet student needs and career interests. Prerequisite: 2 ENGL courses. (UG)

ENGL 318 - ADVANCED INFORMATIONAL WRITING (3) Techniques for gathering and presenting information through the report. Projects individualized to meet needs of students in various disciplines. Prerequisite: 2 ENGL courses. (UG)

ENGL 321 [511] - MEDIEVAL BRITISH LITERATURE (3) Emphasis on the mystical writers, Piers Plowman, the Gawain-poet, and Arthurian literature. Prerequisite: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 322 [512] - BRITISH MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE DRAMA (3) Development of the drama, excluding Shakespeare, with emphasis on plays by Marlowe, Kyd, Jonson, Ford, and Webster. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 323 [513] - BRITISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE (3) Cultural and political backgrounds with emphasis on Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Spenser, Sidney, Raleigh, and Lodge. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 324 [514] - BRITISH LITERATURE OF THE LATER RENAISSANCE {3) Major intellectual and literary currents of 1600-1660 in the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Jonson, and Milton, and the prose of Bacon, Browne, Burton, and Hobbes. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 325 [515] - EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE (3) Social and intellectual backgrounds, literary trends, and significant authors, such as Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, and Boswell, with emphasis on satire. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 326 [516] - LITERATURE OF THE BRITISH ROMANTIC PERIOD (3) Major writers such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats from 1790 to 1830 with emphasis on the philosophic and social backgrounds. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 327 - THE VICTORlAN AGE (3) Main currents of British literature and society, 1830-1901, with emphasis on Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, Ruskin, Dickens, and Eliot. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG)

ENGL 331 - [517] AMERICAN DRAMA (3) American drama from the Colonial Period to the present, with emphasis on twentieth-century plays by O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Bullins, and Wilder. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 336 - POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE (3) Literature of colonized peoples from the beginning of colonization to the present. Focus may be on one area of the world such as Africa or the Caribbean. Prerequisite: 2 English courses. (UG)

ENGL 341 [518] - HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (3) The chief books of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha studied from a literary and historical point of view. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 342 [519] - FOLKLORE AND LlTERATURE (3) How and why literary artists draw plots, characters, themes, and style from ancient folk tradition: the anonymous oral narratives, songs, jests, and proverbs that circulate in all cultures. Focus on universal folkloric material in such works as the Bible, Aesop's Fables, The Arabian Nights, Peer Gynt, and Harvest Home. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 343 [543] - MYTH AND LITERATURE (3) Literary reinterpretations of themes and figures from Greek and Roman mythology. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 344 [544] - THE CONTINENTAL NOVEL (3) A study of major continental novels in translation. Emphasis will be upon related and comparative elements in the novels of writers of France, Germany, Italy, and other European countries. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 345 - PERSPECTIVES IN WORLD DRAMA (3) A study of drama, the perspective to vary. Approaches may include Greek drama and its adaptation to the European stage; Oriental, Indian, African theatre; comparative drama: the genre as developed in various cultures. May be re-elected once. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG)

ENGL 346 [546] - MODERN DRAMA (3) British, American, and European plays, with attention to playwrights such as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekov, Shaw, Pirandello, Brecht, Sartre, and Beckett. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 347 - WORLD LITERATURE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH (3) Literature originally published in English from Africa (including South Africa), India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the West Indies. Mainly twentieth-century fichon, poetry, and drama. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG)

ENGL 350 [550] - COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR (3) Study of English grammar: traditional, structural, transformational. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 351 - HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS (3) An introduction to language typology and Indo-European philology; historical development of linguistics up to the twentieth century. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 352 [502] - STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS (3) A study of the developments in linguistic theory in the twentieth century; major figures De Saussure, Sapir, Bloomfield, Trubetzkoy, Chomsky. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 353 [503] - HISTORY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH (3) Origins and history of American dialects; development of elements of vocabulary, sounds, and grammar which distinguish American English; standards of American English. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 361 - LITERARY RESEARCH AND APPLIED CRITICISM (3) Bibliography and research methods and critical approaches to literature, with emphasis on the formalistic, social, psychological, and archetypal. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG)

ENGL 363 - FILM AND LlTERATURE (3) Comparative examination of the complex relationships between film and literature. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG)

ENGL 370 - SPECIAL TOPICS: LITERATURE OF WOMEN (3) Selected works by and/or about women, with emphasis on themes, issues, or genres. Variation in content. May be re-elected once. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG)

ENGL 371 - WOMEN POETS: THEMES AND IMAGES (3) Development of a distinctive body of poetry by British and American women including Browning, Dickinson, Plath, and Rich. Emphasis on twentieth century American poets and historical background. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG)

ENGL 372 - WOMEN WRITERS (3) Development of women's literary traditions in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth century British and American women, including Austen, Cather, Woolf, and Lessing. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG)

ENGL 373-9 - THEMES IN LITERATURE (3) Thematic approach to selected works of American, British, and World literature. Variation in content. May be re-elected once. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG)

ENGL 417 - 419 TOPICS IN WRITING (3) Specialized topics for writers of non-fiction, fiction and poetry. Variation in content. May be reelected once. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG)

ENGL 420 [520] - DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH NOVEL: EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (3) Georgian fiction and its social background, especially works by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and Austen. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 421 [521] DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH NOVEL: NINETEENTH CENTURY (3) Mainly Victorian fiction and its social backgroumd, especially works by Scott, the Brontes, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 422 - [522] DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH NOVEL: TWENTIETH CENTURY (3) Modern fiction and its social background, especially works by Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Forster, Waugh, and Greene. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 423 [523] - MODERN BRITISH POETRY (3) Emphasis on Hopkins, Hardy, Yeats, Auden, Spender, Sitwell, Thomas, and Larkin. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 425 [525] - CHAUCER (3) Major poems, especially The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 427 [527] - SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDY (3) Shakespeare's development as a poet and dramatist in the comedies and romances. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 428 [528] - SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY (3) Shakespare's development as a poet and dramatist in the histories and tragedies. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 429 [529] - MILTON AND THE HUMANIST TRADITION (3) Major poetry and prose with emphasis on Milton's place in the humanist tradition. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 431 [531] - LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAN ROMANTIC PERIOD (3) Social and political backgrounds, 1819-1860, important literary ideas, criticism, and major authors, such as Irving, Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 432 [532] - LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAN REALISTIC PERIOD (3) Major writers, such as Dickinson, Twain, Crane, and James; important secondary writers; social and political backgrounds; important literary ideas and criticism, 1860-1914. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 433 [533] - AMERICAN SHORT STORY (3) Authors and schools, such as Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Hemingway, Welty, Wright, Porter, local color writers, realists, and naturalists. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 435 [535] - DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN NOVEL: NINETEENTH CENTURY (3) Major novelists, such as Cooper, Melville, Hawthorne, Twain, Howells, James, and Crane. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 436 [536] - DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN NOVEL: TWENTIETH CENTURY (3) Major novelists, such as Wharton, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Ellison. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 437 [537] - AMERICAN POETRY THROUGH FROST (3) Puritan beginnings through the early twentieth century, with emphasis on Emerson, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, and Frost. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 438 [538] - MODERN AMERICAN POETRY (3) Poetic movements from the 1920's to present, and major poets, such as Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Lowell, Plath, and Rich. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 439 - MODERN WORLD POETRY (3) International poets of the twentieth century, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Eugenio Montale, and Octavio Paz, and related literary movements. Prerequisite: 2 English courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 441 [541] - MODERN FICTION TO WORLD WAR II (3) Work of the modern masters of fiction, with emphasis on Proust, Mann, and Joyce. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 442 [542] MODERN FICTION SINCE WORLD WAR II (3) Works of the significant writers--English, American, and Continental--of the past thirty years, including such figures as Grass, Robbe-Grillet, Solzhenitsyn, and Burgess. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 451 [551] - HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (3) Changes amd reasons for the changes in grammar, sound, and vocabulary of the language from Old English to modern times. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 452 [552] - STRUCTURE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (3) A linguistic approach to sounds, forms, syntax, and usage. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 461 [561] - HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITIClSM (3) Major statements in literary theory from Aristotle to the present, including Horace, Sidney, Johnson, Coleridge, Eliot, and Frye. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 462 - MODERN LITERARY THEORY (3) Intensive study of modern literary models, including Formalism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics, and Feminism. Prerequisite: 2 English courses. (UG & G)

. ENGL 465 [565] - BRITISH AND AMERICAN PROSE (3) Nonfictional prose, with emphasis on form and style. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 471 [571] - TOPICS IN WORLD LITERATURE (3) Authors, periods, genres, or conventions. Variation in content from year to year, may be re-elected once. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 472 [572] - TOPICS IN BRITISH LITERATURE (3) Authors, periods, genres, or conventions. Variation in content. May be re-elected once. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 473 [573] - TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3) Authors, periods, genres, or conventions. Variation in content. May be re-elected once. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 475 [575] - TOPICS IN LINGUISTICS (3) Topics and issues in contemporary linguistics theory, with particular attention to recent interdisciplinary subspecialty developments: psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pedagogicolinguistics, etc. Topics to vary. Prerequisite: One linguistics course or consent of the instructor. May be re-elected once. (UG & G)

ENGL 476 [576] - TOPICS IN MULTI-ETHNlC AMERICAN LITERATURE (3) Possible topics include women in ethnic literature, Jewish writers, the Catholic novel. Variation in content. May be re-elected once. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 477 - TOPICS IN BLACK AMERICAN LITERATURE (3) Authors, periods, genres, or conventions. Variation in content. May be re-elected once. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG)

ENGL 485-86 [585-586] - SEMINAR IN LITERARY STUDIES (3) Intensive study of one area of British, American, or World literature, e.g., a specific author, period, school, or genre. Variation in content. May be re-elected. Prerequisite: Junior standing. (UG & G)

ENGL 490 [590] - DIRECTED STUDIES IN ENGLISH (3) Independent reading of a specific author, period, topic, problem, or school of literature. Topic selected by student in consultation with professor. May be re-elected once. Prerequisites: 18 hours in English, or 12 hours in English and 6 in a related discipline; minimum 3.00 average in English and the related discipline; consent of department chair and instructor. (UG & G)

ENGL 494 [594] - TRAVEL AND STUDY (3-6) Places and topics to be selected by student in consultation with instructor. Prerequisites: 2 ENGL courses. (UG & G)

ENGL 497 - ENGLISH PRACTICUM (3) Professional experience in such areas as editing, research, and tutoring direaed by a member of the faculty or staff of the University. ENGL 497 and 498 may be re-elected or taken in combination for a maximum of six credits. No credit toward English major or minor. Prerequisite: Consent of English Internship/Practicum Coordinator. S/U grading. (UG)

ENGL 498 - ENGLISH INTERNSHIP (3) On-the-job experience in research, editing, and writing in government, public relations, journalism, industry, and other professional positions. (UG)

ENGL 497 and 498 may be re-elected or taken in combination for a maximum of six credits. No credit toward English major. Prerequisite: Consent of English Internship/Practicum Coordinator. S/U grading. (UG)

ENGL 499 - HONORS THESIS (4) Intensive treatment of a topic in such areas as literary criticism, creative writing, and expository writing chosen by the student in consultation with the thesis advisor. Restricted to candidates for Honors un English. (UG)

ESOL 106 - ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE: ADVANCED (3) Introduction to English style; emphasis on reading and writing skills, with attention to increased proficiency in conversation, as necessary. Prerequisite: ESOL 105 or permission of ESL Committee. Not open to those who have successfully completed DVWR 114.

ESOL 107 - ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE: LISTENING AND SPEAKING FOR ADVANCED ESL STUDENTS (3) Intensive listening and speaking practice for high intermediate and advanced students of ESL: formal oral presentation, pronunciation, and conversation practice. Prerequisite: examinationa and consent of ESL Committee.