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Undergraduate

100-Level Courses in ENGH

ENGH 100: 4 Credits

Composition for Non-native Speakers of English

Intensive practice in drafting, revising, and editing expository essays of some length and complexity. Studies logical, rhetorical, and linguistic structure of expository prose, with attention to particularly difficult aspects of the language for non-native speakers. Methods and conventions of preparing research papers. Read More »

3 Sections Currently Scheduled

ENGH 101: 3 Credits

Composition

Intensive practice in drafting, revising, and editing expository essays of some length and complexity. Studies logical, rhetorical, and linguistic structure of expository prose. Methods and conventions of preparing research papers. Read More »

69 Sections Currently Scheduled »

ENGH 121: 3 Credits

Enhanced Composition For Multilingual Writers of English I

Provides intensive practice in drafting, revising, and editing essays in common academic genres such as description, exposition, and analysis, with additional language support for building English fluency. Addresses logical, rhetorical, and linguistic structures of expository prose. This course is the first of a two-part course for students in the ACCESS program. Read More »

3 Sections Currently Scheduled

200-Level Courses in ENGH

ENGH 201: 3 Credits

Reading and Writing about Texts

Close analysis of literary texts, including but not limited to poetry, fiction, and drama. Emphasizes reading and writing exercises to develop basic interpretive skills. Examines figurative language, central ideas, relationship between structure and meaning, narrative point of view. Read More »

8 Sections Currently Scheduled »

ENGH 202: 3 Credits

Texts and Contexts

Studies literary texts within the framework of culture. Examines texts within such categories as history, gender, sexuality, religion, race, class, and nation. Read More »

9 Sections Currently Scheduled »

300-Level Courses in ENGH

ENGH 302: 3 Credits

Advanced Composition

Intensive practice in writing and analyzing expository forms such as essay, article, proposal, and technical or scientific reports with emphasis on research related to student's major field. Read More »

100 Sections Currently Scheduled »

ENGH 305: 6 Credits

Dimensions of Writing and Literature

Examines English as a discipline and develops interpretive skills for further study in the major. All sections cover issues such as form, genre, point of view, figurative language, conventions of close reading and literary interpretation, and how culture shapes texts. Read More »

5 Sections Currently Scheduled »

ENGH 307: 3 Credits

English Grammar

Overview of grammatical structure of English including word classes, phrases, and complex sentences. English grammar analyzed using modern syntactic theory. Students engage in language description through problem solving. Read More »

2 Sections Currently Scheduled

  • Section 001 — Kelly J Enochson — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM MW — Robinson B105
  • Section 002 — Bonny Bell Paez — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR — Nguyen Engineering Building 1108  -  Section Syllabus Pdficon_small

ENGH 308: 3 Credits

Introduction to Literary Theory

Introduces contemporary theories informing literary and cultural study such as deconstruction, poststructuralism, new historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and contemporary cultural studies. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 310: 3 Credits

Topics: Women and Literature

Explores experiences of women as both authors and subjects of imaginative literature. Read More »

2 Sections Currently Scheduled

ENGH 315: 3 Credits

Folklore and Folklife

Topics include folktales, personal narratives, legends, proverbs, jokes, folk songs, folk art and craft, and folk architecture. Considers ethnicity, community, family, festival, folklore in literature, and oral history. Discusses traditions in students' own lives. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

  • Section 001 — Joy Fraser — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR — Robinson A243

ENGH 316: 3 Credits

Topics in Myth and Literature

Studies how traditional mythologies are reflected in English and American literature and other texts as themes, motifs, and patterns. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 319: 3 Credits

Popular Culture

Emphasizes popular fiction and adaptation of popular prose genres to media that have strong verbal and visual elements. Relationship between verbal and nonverbal elements of media such as film, comics, and radio. Read More »

2 Sections Currently Scheduled

ENGH 323: 3 Credits

Shakespeare

Survey of selected tragedies and romances. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 324: 3 Credits

English Renaissance Drama

Major dramas and dramatists of English Renaissance, such as Lyly, Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, and Ford. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 333: 3 Credits

British Novel of the 18th Century

English novel from its beginnings through turn of 19th century. Covers works by Behn, Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Smollett, and Austen. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 334: 3 Credits

British Poetry of the Romantic Period

Works of major poets of Romantic period: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 341: 3 Credits

Literature of the American Renaissance

Major writers of American Renaissance (1830-1865), with emphasis on Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Poe, Stowe, Douglass, and Dickinson. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 344: 3 Credits

Development of the American Novel since 1914

Works by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Wolfe, Bellow, and Nabokov. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 348: 3 Credits

Beginnings of African American Literature Through 1865

Concentrating on such poets as Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Lucy Terry, and George Moses Horton, examines significant African American literary, social, and political texts produced through 1865. Special attention to narrative accounts of enslavement and freedom by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Olaudah Equiano; political writings and orations of David Walker and Sojourner Truth; fiction of Harriet Wilson and William Wells Brown; and nonwritten cultural artifacts such as slave songs and spirituals. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 362: 3 Credits

Global Voices

Studies two cultures other than contemporary British or American culture through exploration of several textual forms such as written literature, oral literature, film, folklore, or popular culture. Specific cultures vary, but at least one is non- Western. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

  • 001 Political Film — Jessica Scarlata — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM R — Thompson Hall 1017

ENGH 368: 3 Credits

Modern Drama

Representative plays of most influential European and American dramatists, with emphasis on dramatic styles such as realism, expressionism, epic, and existentialism. Studies Chekhov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

  • Section 001 — Beth Ann Hoffmann — 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR — Thompson Hall 1017

ENGH 372: 3 Credits

Introduction to Film

Introduces film medium as an art form. Read More »

3 Sections Currently Scheduled

  • Section 001 — Carla Marcantonio — 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM MW — West Building 1001
  • Section 002 — Carla Marcantonio — 01:30 PM to 02:45 PM MW — Thompson Hall L004
  • Section 003 — Jessica Scarlata — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR — Thompson Hall 1017

ENGH 376: 3 Credits

Rhetoric and New Media

Critical reading of new media texts and creation of technology-enriched texts in variety of rhetorical genres. Instructs students in rhetoric of new media, whether produced as hypertext, multimedia, or interactive digital productions. Technology-enriched activities present complex textuality of words, images, word-as-image, and kinetic text. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 377: 3 Credits

Digital Creative Writing

Combined workshop and studio course in technological and aesthetic issues of reading and writing hypermedia texts with emphasis on poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, mixed genre, drama, or performance. Explores how genre meets hypertext and hypermedia in original creative work. Includes techniques in authoring interactive hypermedia projects using digital media tools. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 380: 3 Credits

Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric

Introduces students to advanced strategies for writing academic, professional, and civic documents. Develops expository, persuasive, organizational, and stylistic skills through analysis of rhetorical situations and understanding of the features and approaches of successful writing. Students develop a significant informational or argumentative writing project related to their major field, profession, or area of interest. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 382: 3 Credits

Writing Nonfiction Genres

Advanced practice in analyzing and writing nonfiction forms such as essay, profile, article, and technical or scientific report, depending on student's interests. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

  • Section 001 — Donald R Gallehr — 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM MW — Robinson B124

ENGH 386: 3 Credits

Editing for Audience, Style, and Voice

Introduces editing as a textual and rhetorical practice. Addresses copyediting, stylistics, and design; revisions based on audience, purpose, and genre; multimedia editing; interactions between editors and authors. (Not a remedial course in fixing sentence errors.) Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 388: 3 Credits

Professional and Technical Writing

Intensive study and practice in various forms of professional and technical writing, including proposals, reports, instructions, news releases, white papers, and correspondence. Emphasizes writing for variety of audiences, both lay and informed, and writing within various professional and organizational contexts. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 396: 3 Credits

Introduction to Creative Writing

Assignments include writing exercises and original works of poetry and fiction. May also include drama or creative nonfiction. Includes reading assignments in covered genres, and may include oral presentations or in-class performance. Original student work read and discussed in class and conference with instructor. Read More »

3 Sections Currently Scheduled

ENGH 397: 3 Credits

Poetry Writing

Workshop in reading, writing poetry. Original student work read and discussed in class and conferences with instructor. Technical exercises in craft of poetry; may include reading assignments. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 398: 3 Credits

Fiction Writing

Workshop course in reading and writing fiction. Original student work read and discussed in class and conferences with instructor. Includes technical exercises in craft of fiction; may include reading assignments. Read More »

2 Sections Currently Scheduled

  • Section 001 — Helon Habila Ngalabak — 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR — Krug Hall 253
  • Section 002 — Laura Scott — 10:30 AM to 01:10 PM F — Planetary Hall (formerly Science & Tech I) 127

ENGH 399: 3 Credits

Creative Nonfiction Writing

Workshop in reading and writing of nonfiction that makes use of literary techniques normally thought of in context of fiction, such as evoking senses and use of dialog. Original student work read and discussed in class and conferences with instructor. Includes technical exercises in artful creating of nonfiction; may include reading assignments. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

400-Level Courses in ENGH

ENGH 400: 3 Credits

Honors Seminar

Emphasizes growth in awareness of literary scholarship as a discipline, providing opportunity for advanced study in literary and cultural criticism. Covers variety of topics, including consideration of a literary period, genre, author, work, theme, discourse, or critical theory. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 415: 3 Credits

Folk Arts and Folk Artists

Examines the traditional arts of everyday life, such as festive foods, mementos and other objects of memory, textile arts, pottery, carving in wood and stone, roadside shrines, and more. Explores the folk aesthetics of group-based creativity through the lenses of biography, history, literature, and folklore studies. Considers traditional objects as narratives in material form. Examples drawn from multiple cultures as well as traditions in students' own lives. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 418: 3 Credits

Cultural Constructions of Sexualities

Introductory survey of cultural, literary, and theoretical constructions of sexuality that seek to complicate traditionally fixed categories of identity. Examines various representations of human sexuality, with particular attention to intersections with gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, and class. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 422: 3 Credits

Chaucer

Major works of Chaucer, with emphasis on The Canterbury Tales . Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

  • Section 001 — Winifred G Keaney — 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM MW — Innovation Hall 208

ENGH 431: 3 Credits

Topics: British Literary Periods

In-depth study of selected period of British literature. In addition to literary examples, materials may be chosen from art, philosophy, or popular culture of the time. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 441: 3 Credits

Topics: American Authors

Study of one or two major figures in American literature. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 442: 3 Credits

Topics: American Literary Periods

In-depth study of selected period of American literature. In addition to literary examples, materials may be chosen from art, philosophy, or popular culture of time. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 454: 3 Credits

Topics in Poetry

Study of selected topics, periods, or poets. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 455: 3 Credits

Topics in Drama

Studies selected topics, periods, or playwrights. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 459: 1-3 Credits

Internship

Under supervision of a faculty director, students report and reflect on their work as interns at organizations of their choosing, usually in writing and/or editing positions. For 3 credits, students work on site at least 135 hours as specified in the agreement developed with the internship supervisor and approved by the faculty director. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 472: 3 Credits

Topics in Film/Media Theory

Advanced studies of theories about various aspects of production, distribution, and reception of film-mediated experiences. Topics may include theories of spectator, semiotics, feminist film theory, theories of narrativity, structuralist film theory, or deconstruction. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 492: 3 Credits

Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop

Workshop; intensive practice in creative writing and study of creative process. Intended for students already writing original creative work. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 494: 3 Credits

Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop

Intensive practice in the craft of poetry and study of the imagination in creative process. Intended for students already writing original poetry. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

Graduate

500-Level Courses in ENGH

ENGH 501: 3 Credits

Introduction to Professional Writing and Rhetoric

Provides historical and theoretical background in professional writing and editing in a seminar format. Explores professional writing's emergence as a field of scholarship and practice, emphasizes the relationships between rhetorical theories and practice, and introduces students to bibliographic research in the field. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 503: 3 Credits

Theory and Practice of Editing

Instruction in revising, editing, and preparing specialized writing for printing. Emphasizes methods of achieving clarity, accuracy, and completeness. Lecture and discussion on editing and printing techniques; practical exercise in revision, layout, and production. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 504: 1-6 Credits

Internship

Under supervision of a faculty director, students report and reflect on their work as interns at organizations of their choosing, usually in writing and/or editing positions.  For 3 credits, students work on site at least 135 hours as specified in the agreement developed with the internship supervisor and approved by the faculty director. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 508: 3 Credits

Digital Rhetoric

Provides an examination of major works on digital rhetoric and digital media framed by contemporary rhetorical theories that inform the emergent field of digital rhetoric. Course work includes projects that engage in the design, analysis, and assessment of digital media. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

  • Section 001 — Mark Sample — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM W — Innovation Hall 320

ENGH 511: 3 Credits

Styles and Modes in Literary History

Historical consideration of principal styles, modes, and intellectual paradigms in literary and cultural texts. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 551: 3 Credits

Literary Criticism

Studies in selected critical theories pertinent to textual and cultural analysis. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 564: 3 Credits

Form of Poetry

Students seeking permission must submit typed manuscript of original poetry. Intensive study of and practice in formal elements of poetry through analyzing models and weekly or biweekly writing assignments. Intended for students already writing original poetry. Covers rhyme, meter, rhythm, lineation, stanza pattern, traditional and experimental forms, free verse and open-form composition, lyric, narrative, and dramatic modes. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

  • Section 001 — Sally Keith — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R — David King Hall 2054

ENGH 565: 3 Credits

Forms of Nonfiction

Intensive study of and practice in various forms of nonfiction writing through analyzing models and weekly writing assignments. Includes biographies, documentaries, editorials, interviews, reports, reviews, and essays. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

  • Section 001 — Kyoko Mori — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM R — Krug Hall 3

ENGH 566: 3 Credits

Forms of Fiction

Students seeking permission must submit typed manuscript of original fiction. Intensive practice in formal elements of fiction through analyzing models and weekly or biweekly writing assignments. Intended for students already writing original fiction. Covers description, narration, plot, dialogue, voice, point of view, style, epiphany, and antifiction techniques. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

  • Section 001 — Helon Habila Ngalabak — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R — Robinson A206

ENGH 590: 3 Credits

Topics in Folk Narrative

Explores types of folk narratives such as mythology, folktale, fairy tale, legend, family narrative, personal narrative. Focuses on tales from around the world. Considers aspects of storytelling such as storytelling as performance, storytelling as therapeutic modality, and storytelling during crises and conflicts. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 591: 3 Credits

Topics in Folklore Studies

Explores folklore and folklife topics such as folk narrative and story telling, folklore and literature, folksong, and folk arts. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

600-Level Courses in ENGH

ENGH 608: 3 Credits

Craft Seminars

Non-MFA students seeking permission must submit manuscript of original written work in appropriate genre. Various sections offer work in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, each focusing in different ways on the practices and the craft development of writers. Numerous writing assignments mixed with reading followed by careful analytical and craft discussions. Read More »

3 Sections Currently Scheduled

ENGH 611: 3 Credits

Studies in Rhetoric

Reading and discussion of several major texts that address patterns of discourse, communication, and other issues of rhetoric. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

  • Section 001 — Susan Lawrence — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM R — Innovation Hall 320

ENGH 615: 3 Credits

Proseminar in Composition Instruction

Methods of teaching expository writing. Includes consideration of planning courses, practice in teaching and grading papers, and study of recent developments in teaching writing. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 617: 1-6 Credits

Poetry Writing Workshop

Intensive practice in craft of poetry and study of creative process. Intended for students already familiar with traditional and contemporary poetic modes and already writing original poetry. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

  • Section 001 — Susan Tichy — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM W — Robinson A447

ENGH 618: 1-6 Credits

Fiction Writing Workshop

Intensive practice in craft of fiction and study of creative process. Intended for students already familiar with traditional and contemporary fiction and already writing original fiction. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

  • Section 001 — Susan R Shreve — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM M — David King Hall 2054

ENGH 619: 3 Credits

Special Topics in Writing

Workshop course. Intensive practice in creative writing and study of creative process. Concentrates on specialized literary type other than short story, such as essay, playwriting, film writing, children's literature, travel literature, autobiography, gothic novel, and translation. Read More »

2 Sections Currently Scheduled

ENGH 635: 3 Credits

Eighteenth-Century British

Selected English literary authors, works, or movements of the 18th century. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 655: 3 Credits

Nineteenth-Century American

Selected American literary authors, works, or movements of 19th century. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 660: 3 Credits

Twentieth-Century American

Selected American literary authors, works, or movements of the 20th century. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 661: 3 Credits

Advanced Survey in African American Literature

Intensive study of a period in African-American literature between 1800 and present with focus to be determined by instructor. Considers different genres including autobiography, fiction, drama, poetry, essays, and oral artifacts such as slave songs, spirituals, and hip-hop. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 665: 3 Credits

Texts in Global Contexts

Examines various cultural texts such as literature, drama, film, and folklore in terms of transnational circulation or production and reception in locations around the world other than Britain and United States. Engages with issues arising from globalization of English and interplay of global cultures. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 670: 3 Credits

Visual Culture: Theories and Histories

Advanced study in histories of visual representation including film, television, and video, and in theories of production and circulation of meanings in visual culture. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 684: 3 Credits

Proseminar in Poetry

For students working on independent reading and research in poetry. Designed for students preparing to take the MFA reading exam in poetry but open to others with comparable reading projects in poetry. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 699: 1-3 Credits

Workshop in English

Concentrated workshops, educational tours, independent studies, and special seminars dealing with selected topics in writing, linguistics, film, electronic media, and literature written in English. Read More »

4 Sections Currently Scheduled »

700-Level Courses in ENGH

ENGH 701: 3 Credits

Research in English Studies

Introduces research in English studies, including practice in library methods, writing critical bibliography, evaluating issues and problems, and surveying scholarly activities in department. Read More »

2 Sections Currently Scheduled

ENGH 750: 3 Credits

Advanced Workshop in Poetry Writing

Intensive practice in craft of poetry for experienced writers. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 751: 1-6 Credits

Advanced Workshop in Fiction Writing

Intensive practice in craft of fiction for experienced writers. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 752: 1-6 Credits

Advanced Workshop in Nonfiction Writing

Intensive practice in craft of nonfiction for experienced writers. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled

ENGH 799: 1-6 Credits

Thesis

Students who take ENGH 798 to develop thesis topic and then elect thesis option receive 3 credits for ENGH 799 on completion of thesis. Students who do not take ENGH 798, or who take it to work on project unrelated to thesis, receive up to 6 credits for ENGH 799 on completion of thesis. Read More »

1 Section Currently Scheduled