English

This course combines classroom work (3 hours per week) with writing lab visits (15 visits for the course) in order to develop students' critical thinking, reading skills, and writing ability. The course requires reading from a variety of genres, with a focus on vocabulary development and improved comprehension through a variety of reading strategies. The student will also learn to write effective essays in at least two modes (personal and argumentative). The skills should combine, as reading, analyzing, and summarizing lead to skills used in writing well-developed, well-organized papers. Students passing this course with at least a C- qualify to take ENGL121

This course focuses on individual writing processes, the production of quality expository and argumentative prose for a variety of purposes and audiences, and the introduction of information literacy skills. The course also emphasizes the development and use of critical thinking and reading skills essential for writing college-level papers.

The course introduces the concepts, applications, and research involved in literary criticism. The student will be introduced to literary genres and terms. Writing of literary criticism will be the main emphasis of the class, including the use of primary sources, the construction of an essay, and the correct documentation format as specified in the Modern Language Association Handbook. English majors will begin the process of senior portfolio development.

This course focuses on elements of research and information literacy skills and writing using sources. Structured for students from a variety of academic disciplines, the course emphasizes the rhetorical principles of audience, purpose, genre, and practice with APA/MLA documentation. A major focus includes critically evaluating scholarly and popular resources, both hard copy and electronic.

A study of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance literature read in translation. Some selections from English literature may be included.

This course focuses on world masterpieces from the Enlightenment to modern literature.

This literature course surveys major figures and trends in British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period into the 20th century.

A comprehensive study of the major writers and literary movements from 1609-1860, this course emphasizes Franklin, Hawthorne, Whitman, and Dickinson. The class focuses on the establishment of a distinctly American literature in both content and style.

This course focuses on the genres of poetry, drama, the short story, and the novel with an emphasis on the way Americans prefer individual freedom to society's accepted norms.

This course is a study of representative plays, considering their literary history and dramatic staging.

Students will help to produce a play for the university, cultivating voice control, state presence, character creation, and stage management. Course may be repeated. This course is for elective credit only.

This course offers the student opportunity to pursue investigations in fields of special interest under the direction of the departmental staff. Content and method of study must be arranged prior to registration, and it may be repeated for a total of 3 credits.

This course introduces students to literary theories and genres and their application to selected works of literature. Students will learn to analyze fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry using various theoretical lenses and critical approaches.

This class explores the nature of literature, often through its various genres, its differing historical and cultural contexts, and its various critical approaches. Content may concentrate on a specific author (Dante, Shakespeare), literary period (World War I), theme (the hero in literature), or emphasis (women's literature). Subject matter may vary, depending on the instructor and the sequence of the class. Students may repeat the course for credit if topic, emphasis, or genre differs from the previous class. Applies toward the general education literature requirement but not for the English major.

The course focuses on the writing of narrative, examining traditional and non-traditional plots, character development, dialogue, setting, and other literary techniques. 

The course focuses on a variety of prose and students writing personal and persuasive essays, opinion pieces and editorials, autobiography and memory vignettes, and travel pieces.

Students write poems and read the work of others, including fellow class members as well as established poets. The class works within a supportive workshop framework.

This course focuses on writing for performance, which may include the creation of stage plays as well as screenplays. Students will coordinate with COMM 337 Video Production II students in the development of scripts for production during the semester. General concepts are included to provoke thought about writing on a much broader basis. This includes discussions on dialogue, characterization, conflict, action, and setting, as well as the variations in writing for screen versus stage. (Also taught as COMM 340.)

This course, open to all majors, emphasizes both the theoretical and practical aspects fundamental to successful writing and the teaching of writing. Students examine major contemporary writing theorists and their research or contributions to the field of composition, analyze theory in relation to their own writing, define principles of effective writing and the teaching of writing, and apply these principles in a tutoring experience. Thirty hours of mentored tutoring in The Write Spot serves as a lab experience for the course.

This course introduces students to the history of the English language, particularly as it is preserved in the literature of Old, Middle, and Early Modern English. Primary texts will include Beowulf, Chaucer, and excerpts from the King James Bible, among others. The course will demonstrate the flexibility, adaptability, and literary capability of the English language by studying primary sources

In this capstone class, students will prepare a major writing sample suitable for publication as well as prepare a senior portfolio for presentation. This course, taken during the student's senior year, serves as the fourth-year writing class.

This course studies the prose, poetry, and drama of English literature in the 16th and 17th centuries, situating them within the historical and cultural milieu of the time. The course will study authors including Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Donne, George Herbert, and John Milton. The course may be taken for general education credit with permission of the instructor only.

This course focuses on English poetry and prose from 1660-1800 with special attention to the major works of Dryden, Swift, and Pope. The course may be taken for general education credit with permission of the instructor only.

This course covers representative English Romantic poetry and prose with special emphasis on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron. It may be taken for general education credit with permission of the instructor only.

This course is a study of British poetry, novels, essays, and plays from 1830-1900 with emphasis on Dickens, R. Browning, Hardy, and E. Bronte. The course may be taken for general education credit with permission of the instructor only.

This course is a study of the major trends and writers in English and American literature since 1900. It may be taken for general education credit with permission of the instructor only.

This course is a study of major texts or authors in American literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with an emphasis on distinctive elements in American subject matter and style. This course may be taken for general education credit with permission of instructor only.

This course is primarily designed for prospective elementary and secondary teachers who will need the knowledge of and methods for teaching basic English grammar. Study also will be given to current theories and rules of grammar.

This course offers the advanced student opportunity to pursue investigations in fields of special interest under the direction of the departmental staff. Conent and method of study must be arranged prior to registration, and it may be repeated for a total of 3 credits.