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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
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001 Composition Nonnative Speakers
— Sara M King — 09:00 AM to 10:15 AM MWF — Robinson A243 -
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002 Composition Nonnative Speakers
— Sara M King — 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM MWF — Robinson B220 -
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- 003 Composition Nonnative Speakers — Sara M King — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM MWF — Robinson A123
- AC1 Enhanced Eng Comp I — Anna Sophia Habib — 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM TR — Innovation Hall 203
- AC2 Enhanced Eng Comp I — Anna Sophia Habib — 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR — Innovation Hall 318
- AC3 Enhanced Eng Comp I — Sharon Pankey Doetsch-Kidder — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR — Innovation Hall 205
- Section 001 — Kelly J Enochson — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM MW — Robinson B105
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Section 002
— Bonny Bell Paez — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR — Nguyen Engineering Building 1108 -
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001 Introduction Literary Theory
— Tamara Harvey — 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM TR — University Hall 1204 -
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- 001 Women Who Kill — Paula Ruth Gilbert — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM W — Innovation Hall 135
- 002 Feminism & Pract of Democracy — Elizabeth Huergo — 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM MW — Robinson B203
- Section 001 — Joy Fraser — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR — Robinson A243
- 001 Celtic Myths Retold — Amelia Rutledge — 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM MW — Enterprise Hall 275
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001 Film and Video Forms
— Cynthia Fuchs — 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM TR — Thompson Hall 1018 -
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002 Cell Phone Culture
— Stephen Groening — 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR — Thompson Hall 1018 -
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- 001 Dramatic Lit: Shakespeare — Paul D'Andrea — 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR — East Building 201
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001 Engl Renaissance Drama
— Erika T Lin — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T — Innovation Hall 131 -
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- 001 British Novel 18th Century — Deborah Kaplan — 01:30 PM to 02:45 PM MW — Innovation Hall 207
- 001 British Poetry Romantic Period — Eric Eisner — 01:30 PM to 02:45 PM TR — Robinson B224
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001 Lit of Amer Renaissance
— David L Kuebrich — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T — Robinson A109 -
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001 Dev Amer Novel Since 1914
— Roger Lathbury — 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM MW — Robinson A210 -
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001 Beginning African-American Literature to 1865
— Stefan Wheelock — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM M — Robinson B118 -
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- 001 Political Film — Jessica Scarlata — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM R — Thompson Hall 1017
- Section 001 — Beth Ann Hoffmann — 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR — Thompson Hall 1017
- 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
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Section 001
— Mark Sample — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM W — Innovation Hall 320 -
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- 001 Digital Creative Writng — Stephen H Goodwin — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM MW — Innovation Hall 319
- 001 Introduction Writing/Rhetoric — Douglas Eyman — 01:30 PM to 02:45 PM MW — Innovation Hall 319
- Section 001 — Donald R Gallehr — 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM MW — Robinson B124
- 001 Editing for Audi, Style/Voice — Susan Lawrence — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR — Innovation Hall 320
- 001 Professional and Techn Writing — Dean Taciuch — 09:00 AM to 10:15 AM TR — Innovation Hall 333
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001 Intro: Creative Writing
— Kelly A Wolfe — 09:00 AM to 10:15 AM MW — Robinson A248 -
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- 002 Intro: Creative Writing — Traci Marie Cox — 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM TR — Robinson B105
- 003 Intro: Creative Writing — Twila G Johnson — 01:30 PM to 04:10 PM F — Robinson A206
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Section 001
— Sally Keith — 01:30 PM to 02:45 PM TR — Robinson A245 -
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- 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
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002 Creative Nonfiction Writ
— Courtney Brkic — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM W — East Building 134 -
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- 002 Antislavery and Literature — Stefan Wheelock — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM MW — Robinson B118
- 001 Folk Art and Folk Artists — Margaret Yocom — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM M — Innovation Hall 207
- 001 Cultural Const of Sexualities — Amal Amireh — 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM MW — Innovation Hall 208
- Section 001 — Winifred G Keaney — 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM MW — Innovation Hall 208
- 001 Victorian Modes — Teresa L Michals — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM M — Robinson A125
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001 Faulkner
— Eric Anderson — 01:30 PM to 02:45 PM MW — Robinson A248 -
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001 21st C Literature
— Mark Sample — 01:30 PM to 02:45 PM TR — Thompson Hall 1017 -
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001 Swimming In Schools: Avant-Gardes In Paris and New York
— David Kaufmann — 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM MW — Robinson B120 -
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- 001 Moral Vision in Am Theater — Paul D'Andrea — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR — East Building 134
- Section 001 — Scott W Berg
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001 Global Media/Global War
— Stephen Groening — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM T — Thompson Hall 1018 -
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- 001 Adv Fiction Writing Wkshp — William B Miller — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM T — Robinson A205
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001 Adv Poetry Writing Workshop
— Jennifer Atkinson — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR — Robinson B122 -
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- 001 Intro Profess Writing/Rhetoric — Douglas Eyman — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM W — Innovation Hall 215G
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001 Theory and Prac of Editing
— Roger Lathbury — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM W — Robinson A205 -
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- Section 001 — Scott W Berg
- Section 001 — Mark Sample — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM W — Innovation Hall 320
- 001 Victorian Modes — Teresa L Michals — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM M — Robinson A125
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— Eric Eisner — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM T — Robinson B442 -
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- Section 001 — Sally Keith — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R — David King Hall 2054
- Section 001 — Kyoko Mori — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM R — Krug Hall 3
- Section 001 — Helon Habila Ngalabak — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R — Robinson A206
- 001 Folktales and Fairytales — Margaret Yocom — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM T — Robinson A447
- 001 Folk Arts and Folk Artists — Margaret Yocom — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM M — Innovation Hall 207
- 001 Moore and Neidecker — Susan Tichy — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM M — Robinson A447
- 002 Setting — Alan Cheuse — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM M — Robinson A447
- 003 Real Stories — Stephen H Goodwin — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM W — Robinson A447
- Section 001 — Susan Lawrence — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM R — Innovation Hall 320
- 001 Composition Instruction — Paul Michael Rogers — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R — Innovation Hall 328
- Section 001 — Susan Tichy — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM W — Robinson A447
- Section 001 — Susan R Shreve — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM M — David King Hall 2054
- 001 Short Novel — Alan Cheuse — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T — David King Hall 2054
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002 Ecopoetics and the Sustainable Poem
— Jennifer Atkinson — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T — Robinson A447 -
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- 001 Eighteenth-Century British Novel: Theory and Practice — Miruna Stanica — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R — Robinson B222
- 001 American Literary Regionalism — J Samaine Lockwood — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM W — Robinson A125
- 001 Modern American Fiction — Susan R Shreve — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM T — Robinson A349
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002 Beginning African-American Literature to 1865
— Stefan Wheelock — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM M — Robinson B118 -
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- 001 Literature of the Middle East — Amal Amireh — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM M — Innovation Hall 137
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002 Global Media/Global War
— Stephen Groening — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM T — Thompson Hall 1018 -
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— Eric M Pankey — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM R — Robinson A205 -
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— Deborah Kaplan — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM M — Innovation Hall 133 -
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- Section 002 — Alok Yadav — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM R — Innovation Hall 135
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001 Adv Wkshp Poetry Writing
— Eric M Pankey — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM W — Robinson B204 -
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- 001 Adv Wrkshp Fiction Wrtng — Courtney Brkic — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T — Robinson A206
- 001 Advanced Workshop in Nonfiction Writng — Kyoko Mori — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM W — David King Hall 2054
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
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
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
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
ENGH 372: 3 Credits
Introduction to Film
Introduces film medium as an art form. Read More »
3 Sections Currently Scheduled
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
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
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
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.ÃÂ 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 »
