English Courses

The English department offers an impressive array of courses in language, literature, rhetoric, and writing for both undergraduate and graduate students. All of our courses emphasize critical approaches to interpreting the varied texts that surround us, and the conscious construction of our own texts. Here, students will find classes that challenge and deepen their understanding, sharpen their analytic and writing skills, and foster their creative expression.

Undergraduate Courses (100-400)

Graduate Courses (500)

Undergraduate Courses

105 DEVELOPMENTAL WRITING I (3 hours of institutional credit)
Review of correct language forms. Requires extensive practice in the writing of sentences and paragraphs as well as in the practice of editing for proper punctuation and accurate grammatical structure. Every semester. Credit not applicable toward any degree. Prerequisite: Placement required.

106 DEVELOPMENTAL WRITING II (3 hours of institutional credit)
Emphasis on developing ideas and organizing them into coherent paragraphs while using correct language forms. Requires extensive practice in writing paragraphs and short essays. Every semester. Credit not applicable toward any degree. Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in English 105 or placement.

113 WESTERN HUMANITIES I (3)
A historical approach to the pivotal ideas. systems of thought, and creations of the Western world from antiquity to approximately 1600 C.E. Emphasis on matters of literary structure, style, and content. Every semester. Corequisite: English 121

115 WESTERN HUMANITIES II (3)
A historical approach to the pivotal ideas. systems of thought, and creations of the Western world from approximately 1600 C.E. to the present. Emphasis on matters of literary structure, style, and content. Every semester. Prerequisite: English 121. Corequisite: English 122.

121 RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION (3)
The principles and practice of effective reading and writing. Frequent themes, exercises, selected readings. Attention to individual problems of grammar and usage. Formerly English 101. Every semester. Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in English 106 or placement. In rare instances exemption from English 121 may be recommended by the department.

122 RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION (3)
Review of competencies stressed in English 121 with emphasis on the extended essay; use of research matter in writing; attention to diction, figurative and symbolic language, relationship of style and meaning. Formerly English 102. Every semester. Prerequisite: English 121 or placement.

131 VALUES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION (3)
A study of contemporary man's search for values as reflected in selected twentieth-century American novels and short stories from World War I to the present. Formerly English 111. On demand.

133 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE (3)
Readings from poetry, fiction, and drama to demonstrate how the writer selects from ideas, experience, and language and combines these elements to speak of and to the human condition. Formerly English 103. Fall and spring semesters.

161 ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE I (3)
The first of two sequential courses in ESL, this course offers non-native speakers intensive practice in reading, writing and the more difficult points of English usage. Required during the first term of residence of all students who are non-native speakers of English and who are placed in the course on the basis of the English department's writing proficiency examination that must be completed before registration by all non-native speaker of English. Fall semester.

162 ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE II (3)
The second of two sequential courses in ESL, this course offers non- native speakers intensive practice in writing and in the more difficult points of English usage and style. Required during the first term of residence of all students who are non-native speakers of English and who are placed in the course on the basis of the English department's writing proficiency examination that must be completed before registration by all non-native speaker of English. Fall and Spring semesters. Prerequisite: Placement test or completion of English 161.

199r SPECIAL PROJECTS (1-4)
Individual or group projects. Every semester. Maximum credit 4 hours for B.A. in English or B.S., Secondary Education in English. With approval of department head.

201 INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY ANALYSIS (3)
An introduction to critical concepts and skills required in the field of literary studies; approaches to analyzing and interpreting literary texts, genre forms and critical terminology, and research methods. Emphasis on close reading and careful critical writing. Fall and Spring semesters. Must be completed within the first 21 hours of major course work. Pre- or co-requisite: English 122.

202 INTRODUCTION TO RHETORICAL ANALYSIS (3)
An introduction to rhetorical studies with an emphasis on rhetorical history, rhetorical analysis and rhetorical practice. Topics include natural and comparative/cultural rhetorics, the rhetoric of ancient Greece, and definition of rhetoric past and present. Practice will include rhetorical analysis of texts and analysis of the rhetorical principles of purpose, situation, genre and audience. Must be completed within the first 21 hours of major course work. Pre- or co-requisite: English 122.

203 LITERATURE OF THE HUMANITIES (3)
Selections from the traditional corpus of Western literature from Homer to the end of the Renaissance, read in English and studied in their historical and intellectual contexts. Fall and Spring semesters.

204 WORLD LITERATURE FROM THE RENAISSANCE (3)
Selections from the traditional corpus of Western literature from the Renaissance to the present, read in English and studied in their historical and intellectual contexts. Fall and Spring semesters.

205 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE (3)
Selected readings in major works of British literature from the middle ages to the present, with emphasis on historical, cultural and formal developments. Fall and Spring semesters. Must be completed within the first 21 hours of major course work. Pre- or co-requisite: English 122.

206 SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (3)
Selected readings in major works of American literature from the colonial period to the present, with emphasis on historical, cultural and formal developments. Fall and Spring semesters. Must be completed within the first 21 hours of major course work. Pre- or co-requisite: English 122.

211 SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE TO 1800 (3)
Representative works from the medieval period, the Renaissance, and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Fall and spring semesters.

212 SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE SINCE 1800 (3)
Representative works from the Romantic period, Victorian period, and the twentieth century. Fall and spring semesters.

213 AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1855 (3)
Representative works from the Colonial and Romantic periods. Fall semester.

214 AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM 1855 (3)
Representative works from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Fall and spring semesters.

219 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE (3)
Readings will be largely fiction with supportive critical works and some poetry and drama to examine the development of African-American literature from the 1850's to the present. Figures may include Harper, Chestnutt, Washington, DuBois, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Brooks, Baldwin, Walker, and Morrison. Spring semester. May be registered as Humanities 219.

228 CHILDREN'S LITERATURE (3)
A survey and evaluation of some of the best literature for children, with special attention to literature for preschool and elementary school years. Fall and spring semesters. Prerequisite: one lower level course in written communication in English.

229 LITERATURE FOR THE ADOLESCENT (3)
A survey and evaluation of literature whose primary audience is the adolescent, with special attention to the usefulness of such literature in secondary education. Spring semester. Prerequisite: one lower level course in written communication in English.

230r POPULAR FICTION (3)
Science fiction or detective fiction or other type of popular fiction, one or another of which will be studied for its literary merit: the type of popular fiction to be studied in any particular section will be specified in the schedule of classes. On demand.

257 THE ROMANTIC EXPERIENCE (3)
An interdisciplinary survey of "Romanticism" in European civilization, ca. 1789 to 1918, addressing and analyzing some of the main historical, philosophical, and aesthetic forces involved in this broad cultural experience. On demand. May be registered as Humanities 257.

260 ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF WRITING: FROM HIEROGLYPHICS TO HYPERTEXT (3)
A survey course designed to give students a thorough historical and philosophical grounding in the evolution of writing from the ancient hieroglyphics of Mesopotamia and Greece to the artistic manuscripts of the medieval ages to the printed book with its foregrounding of the naked word to the multitude of forms that constitute our current hypertext. Students will be introduced as well to both the literal and philosophical shift from the dominance of the ear to the dominance of the eye particularly in the Western world, and the implications of that shift for understanding the writing of different cultures and for appreciating the nature of the diverse rhetorics in our contemporary world.

270 CREATIVE WRITING (3)
Instruction and practice in writing imaginative literature for magazines and specialized publications. Fall and spring semesters.

276 TECHNICAL WRITING (3)
Preparation of documents that convey technical information to diverse audiences. Emphasis on audience analysis, information gathering, coordination of visual and verbal representations of data, and careful editing for precise language. Guidance in the electronic production of texts such as descriptions, abstracts, instructions, reports, presentations, proposals, graphics, brochures, resumes, and web pages. Fall and Spring semesters. Prerequisite: English 122 with a grade of C or better.

277 PROFESSIONAL WRITING (3)
An introduction to the variety and forms of workplace discourse. Emphasis on composing documents such as memos, letters, resumes and reports; planning and managing short- and long-term writing projects; integrating oral and written communication; and using new communication technologies. Fall and spring semesters. Prerequisite: English 122 with a grade of C or better.

278 SCIENTIFIC WRITING (3)
An introduction to the theory and practice of the different conventions of science writing. Practice in the analysis and writing of scientific reports and supporting materials such as abstracts, proposals and research reviews. Emphasis on the challenges of communicating within a specialized audiences well as translating specialized language for general audiences. Fall and Spring semesters. Prerequisite: English 122 with a grade of C or better.

279 WRITING FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (3)
An introduction to the theory and practice of the discourse used in social sciences. Emphasis on the processes of thinking involved in researching, reading, and communicating in these fields. Extended research and original essays with opportunities for the student to focus on his or her academic field. Fall and Spring semesters. Prerequisite: English 122 with a grade of C or better.

300 INTERMEDIATE RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION (3)
An introduction to the theory and practice of the basic kinds and combinations of discourse and their aims. Extended essays and other writing assignments in these kinds of discourse. Fall and spring semesters. Prerequisite: English 122

301 THE LITERATURE OF ENGLAND TO 1300 (3)
Representative works in translation. On demand.

302 THE LITERATURE OF ENGLAND, 1300-1500 (3)
Reading in medieval English Literature, including Chaucer. On demand.

303 EARLY RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TO 1600 (3)
Representative works from Tudor and Elizabethan periods. On demand.

304 MILTON AND THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (3)
Representative works from the Jacobean and late Renaissance periods. On demand.

305 THE AGE OF DRYDEN, POPE, AND SWIFT (3)
Readings and studies of selected writings from Restoration and early eighteenth-century England (1660-1745). In addition to Dryden, Pope, and Swift, the course includes such figures as Addison, Steele, Gay, Defoe, Behn, Congreve, and others. On demand.

306 THE AGE OF JOHNSON (3)
Readings and studies of selected poetry, fiction, drama, and prose of middle and later eighteenth-century England (1745-1789), with special emphasis on Samuel Johnson and his circle. The course includes such figures as Boswell, Gray, Collins, Goldsmith, Reynolds, Burke, and Smart. On demand.

307 SHAKESPEARE (3)
Reading and study of selected major plays with emphasis on essentials of character, plot, themes, language and staging. Fall and Spring semesters. Prerequisite: English 122

311 LITERATURES OF EARLY AMERICA (3)
Selected readings tracing the development of an American literature from the narratives of European explorers and Native American mythologies in the early Romanticism of the Federalist period, with emphasis on historical, cultural, and formal developments. On demand. Prerequisite: English 122

312 AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1800-1865 (3)
Selected readings in nineteenth-century American literature to the Civil War, including representative works in the transcendental, romantic, and sentimental traditions, with an emphasis on historical, cultural, and formal developments. On demand. Prerequisite: English 122

313 AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1865-1914 (3)
Selected readings in American literature between the Civil War and the First World War, with an emphasis on developments in American prose and their historical and cultural contexts. On demand. Prerequisite: English 122

314 AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1914-1945 (3)
Selected readings in American literature between the two World Wars, including representative works in late realism/naturalism, modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Southern Renaissance, with an emphasis on historical, cultural, and formal developments. On demand. Prerequisite: English 122

315 AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE WORLD WAR II (3)
Selected readings in American literature from the Second World War to the present, including representative works in late modernism and postmodernism, the Beat movement, the Confessional poets, the Black Arts movement, post-Stonewall gay and lesbian literature, and Chicano/a and Native American literature with an emphasis on historical, cultural, and formal developments. On demand. Prerequisite: English 122

316 AFRICAN LITERATURE (3)
A study of selections from the literature of Africa. Emphasis on historical fiction and the oral tradition. On demand.

317 THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC PERIOD (3)
Readings in the principal British authors of the period 1789-1837: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, with emphasis on the developing Romantic traditions in English art and thought. On demand.

318 VICTORIAN LITERATURE (3)
Readings in the principal British authors of the period 1837-1900: Carlyle, J. S. Mill, Newman, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Ruskin, Dickens, and others, with emphasis on defining the characteristics of "Victorianism," as manifested in the representative writings of the period. On demand.

319 THE ENGLISH TRANSITIONAL PERIOD (3)
A critical examination of representative English and Anglo-Irish authors of the period 1880-1920, with emphasis on analyzing the "transition" from late Victorian art and thought to early "Modernism." On demand.

320 MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE (3)
Readings in the representative poetry, prose, drama, and fiction of 20th-century England. On demand.

325 COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH (3)
A critical examination of English-language poetry, fiction, drama and prose from former colonies and dependencies of the British empire. Special emphasis on the imperial and colonial experiences and on the literary legacy of British imperialism. On demand. Prerequisites: English 122; Western Humanities I.

331 AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS (3)
A survey of American women writers of the 20th century. On demand. Prerequisite: English 122.

332 SOUTHERN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3)
Emphasis on 20th-century authors. On demand.

333r MASTERPIECES OF ASIAN LITERATURE (3)
Study of representative works with emphasis on a country, period, or genre. On demand.

335 AFRICAN-AMERICAN SLAVE-NARRATIVE TRADITION
Study of slave narratives and subsequent literature influenced by them. On demand. May be registered as Humanities 335.

350 INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY AND FUNCTION OF LITERARY CRITICISM (3)
The concepts, terminology, and procedures of formal literary study. Emphasis on the basic theoretical problems of criticism and relation of literary analysis to literary evaluation, etc. On demand.

351 HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM (3)
Selected readings from representative literary critics. On demand.

361 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (3)
A survey of the history of the English language, beginning with its Indo-European backgrounds, tracing the development of Old, Middle, and Modern English through major changes in vocabulary, sound, word formation, and syntax. Fall and Spring semesters. Prerequisite: 122.

370 PERSUASION AND PROPAGANDA (3)
A study of the powers and abuses of persuasion, using historical and contemporary examples. On demand. May not be used for English minor.

374r CREATIVE WRITING: NONFICTION (3)
A seminar and workshop in writing with individual projects in creative nonfiction. On demand. Approval of the department head and instructor required to register for credit after 6 hours earned.

375r CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY (3)
Instruction and practice in the understanding and writing of poetry. Spring semester. Approval of the department head and instructor required to register for credit after 6 hours earned.

376r CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION (3)
Instruction and practice in the understanding and writing of fiction. Spring semester. Approval of the department head and instructor required to register for credit after 6 hours earned.

380 MODERN JAPANESE FICTION (3)
An introduction to prominent works of Japanese fiction since the late nineteenth century. Readings include novels and short fiction in translation. Prerequisites: English 121. On demand.

395 GREEK AND ROMAN TRAGEDY IN TRANSLATION (3)
On demand. See Classics 395.

400 SEMINAR IN THE NOVEL (3)
A seminar in the senior year designed to integrate the student's understanding of the novel as a genre. On demand.

410 APPROACH TO COMPOSITION (3)
Designed to improve the student's writing and to improve the individual's ability as a critic of writing, particularly as a potential teacher of writing; focus on expository prose. Fall and spring semesters. Prerequisite: English 122.

420 EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA, ORIGINS TO 1642 (3)
The English drama as a literary type, its history and development from Medieval times to 1642, exclusive of Shakespeare. On demand.

421 LATER ENGLISH DRAMA, 1660-1800 (3)
Study of English drama from the Restoration through the 18th century. On demand.

423 AMERICAN NOVEL TO 1900 (3)
Representative novels of American romanticism, realism, and naturalism. On demand.

430 DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH NOVEL: FROM DEFOE TO GEORGE ELIOT (3)
The development of the British novel from its origins in the 18th century through George Eliot and her contemporaries. On demand.

431 THE MODERN BRITISH NOVEL (3)
Readings and studies in the twentieth-century British novel, including authors such as Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, Woolf, and Lessing. On demand.

433 MODERN POETRY (3)
On demand.

434 TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVEL (3)
On demand.

435 MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA (3)
Selected plays of representative dramatists with special emphasis on American drama since 1920. On demand.

443r MAJOR BRITISH FIGURES (3)
An intensive study seminar on the works of a major British writer or writers. Specific subject to be specified in the schedule of classes. Open to English majors only; others with approval of the instructor. Prerequisite: 27 hours of English course work above the 100 level. Maximum credit 6 hours for the degree.

445r MAJOR AMERICAN FIGURES (3)
An intensive study seminar on the works of a major American writer or writers. Specific subject to be specified in the schedule of classes. Open to English majors only; others with approval of the instructor. Prerequisite: 27 hours of English course work above the 100 level. Maximum credit 6 hours for the degree.

446r MAJOR ISSUES IN RHETORIC (3)
An intensive study seminar on a focused issue in rhetoric. Specific subject to be specified in the schedule of classes. Open to English majors only; others with approval of the instructor. Prerequisite: 27 hours of English course work above the 100 level. Maximum credit 6 hours for the degree.

447r SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE (3)
An intensive study seminar on a focused theme or topic in literature or language. Specific subject to be specified in the schedule of classes. Open to English majors only; others with approval of the instructor. Prerequisite: 27 hours of English course work above the 100 level. Maximum credit 6 hours for the degree.

450 THEORIES AN METHODS OF ARGUMENT (3)
An advanced study in the theories and methods of argument. Students will review classical rhetoric and an Aristotelian model of persuasion, with special emphasis on epideictic, deliberative, and forensic rhetorical classifications. Additionally, students will review definitional arguments, causal arguments, and proposal arguments. From this review, students will learn theories and methods of argument rooted in Rogerian rhetoric, in the Toulmin model of argumentation, and special focus will be placed on the New Rhetoric via Chaim Perelman and Kenneth Burke.

460 MODERN ENGLISH GRAMMAR (3)
An introduction to the system phonological, morphological, syntactical of present-day American English. Emphasis on various recent presentations of this system. On demand. Prerequisites: 360, 361, or approval of the department head.

462 ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (3)
Offers non-native speakers intensive practice in listening, speaking, reading, and writing English. Designed to enhance the student's academic coursework in the areas of note taking, discussion, essay writing, research and documentation, and group presentation. Course will not apply to any undergraduate major or degree. Cannot be taken for graduate credit.

471r WRITING WORKSHOP (3)
An advanced seminar in writing with individual projects in imaginative, expository, or critical writing. On demand. Approval of department head and instructor required to register for credit after 6 hours earned. Prerequisites: two writing courses above 100 level.

473 PROPOSALS, ARTICLES AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH (3)
Proposal-writing as practiced in government, academic, business, and industry, grounded in persuasive theory. Students will also learn technical research skills and write several technical/scholarly articles. Spring semester. Prerequisites: English 121 and 122.

479r WRITING INTERNSHIP (3)
The writing internship provides 160 hours of hands-on experience for the student who is interested in a career as a writer in business, industry, government, or the helping professions and social services. Students must apply for the internship during the fall semester to be accepted as writing interns for the spring semester. Student interns work an average of 10 hours per week under the supervision of a professional writer in the Chattanooga area. Spring semester. Prerequisites: English 121 and 122 and approval of internship coordinator one full semester in advance. Maximum 6 hours credit.

495r DEPARTMENTAL HONORS (1-3 hours per term, 4 hours for the two terms). On demand. See Departmental Honors for information.

498r INDIVIDUAL STUDIES (1-3)
Individual study projects by special approval of department head. On demand. Maximum 3 hours for B.A. in English or B.S., Secondary Education in English.

499r GROUP STUDIES (1-3)
Group study projects by special approval of department head. On demand. Maximum 3 hours for B.A. in English or B.S., Secondary in English.

Graduate Courses

ENGLISH 500 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE STUDIES IN ENGLISH: METHODOLOGY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY (3 CREDIT HOURS)
Emphasis on contemporary Methods and aims of literary research; special reading designed to familiarize students with a wide range of available source materials and research techniques.

ENGLISH 501r - SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN AND ENGLISH LITERATURE (3)
See class schedule for current offerings. May be repeated only once, with different content (maximum credit six hours). Approval of the department head only.

ENGLISH 510 - LINGUISTICS (3)
A diachronic and synchronic treatment of selected linguistic topics: e.g., grammar, vocabulary, dialect, literary relationships, and pedagogy.

ENGLISH 512 - SEMIOTICS: THE STUDY OF SIGNS (3)
Advanced study of semiotics, i.e., the science of interpreting intentional sign, both verbal and non-verbal, in the several sorts of languages used by human beings and animals, whether the signs are oral, inscribed, gestural, or in the organized use of space. Although useful to English majors in both the literary and the writing concentrations, this course is appropriate to students in all disciplines in which the interpretation of signs or symbols, in whatever mode, is central to inquiry.

ENGLISH 513 - WRITING ESSAYS FOR PUBLICATION (3)
An advanced workshop in which students write several types of essays and learn procedures for getting those essays published in magazines, anthologies, academic journals, and newspapers. Writing assignments include such forms as book reviews, profiles, memoirs, and the personal essay.

ENGLISH 517 - MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE RHETORICS (3)
A study of Christian rhetoric, medieval rhetoric, and the rhetorics of the Renaissance. Students will read selections on and from Augustine, Boethius, Christine de Pisan, Laura Cereta, Erasmus, Ramus, and Francis Bacon. They will examine the historical and cultural contexts that shaped the rhetorics of these authors.

ENGLISH 518 - ENLIGHTENMENT AND CONTINENTAL RHETORICS (3)
A study of the influence of the Enlightenment and Continental developments on the continuing history and changing nature of rhetoric. Students will read selections from Margaret Fell, Sarah Grimke, John Locke, Vico, Thomas Sheridan, George Campbell, Hugh Blair, Richard Whately, Henry N. Day, Alexander Bain, Adams Sherman Hill, and Nietzsche. They will also examine the historical and cultural contexts that influenced these authors.

ENGLISH 519 - ANCIENT RHETORICS (3)
A study of Sophistic, Greek, and Roman rhetoric. Students will read selections on and from Gorgias, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian. They will study the historical and cultural contexts that produced these rhetorics.

ENGLISH 520 - MODERN RHETORICAL THEORY (3)
A study of the works of representative authors who have shaped and are shaping modern rhetorical theory. Theorists selected from the following: Grassi, Bakhtin, I. A. Richards, Burke, Weaver, Perelman, Toulmin, Foucault, Henry Louis Gates, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, bell hooks, Baudrillard, Richard Enos, Susan Jarrett, Andrea Lunsford.

ENGLISH 521 - RHETORICAL ANALYSIS (3)
An intensive course in rhetorical analysis. Students study and learn how to do a majority of the nearly dozen forms of rhetorical analysis from Aristotelian criticism to fantasy-theme and cluster criticism. Texts analyzed may include short stories, poems, editorials, speeches, ideological tracts, visual art, lyrics and film.

ENGLISH 522 - ORALITY, PRINT, AND HYPERTEXT (3)
Designed to help students obtain a historical perspective on writing as a technology and to understand the essential differences between human consciousness in oral cultures and human consciousness in writing cultures. Students will work to understand the historical and political underpinnings of the term "literacy."

ENGLISH 523 - COMPOSITION THEORY (3)
Selected readings in writing theory and research. Extensive practice in critical writing.

ENGLISH 524 - WRITING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS I (3)
Designed to help students use writing as a means of mastering difficult readings so that they reflect that mastery clearly, coerently, and concisely in finely-tuned writing products.

ENGLISH 525 - WRITING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS II (3)
Continuation of English 524. Emphasis on developing the ability to apply, interpret, and evaluate in clear, coherent, and concise writing. Completion of English 524 or permission of the instructor required.

ENGLISH 527 - CRITICAL THEORY (3)
Studies of major critics and historical developments (Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, Modern) with practice in applying major critical concepts.

ENGLISH 535 - AMERICAN COLONIAL AND FEDERAL LITERATURE: 1620-1820 (3)
An examination of the way American character is reflected in and shaped by writings of the period, including a study of various rhetorical modes such as autobiogrphy, journals, and letters as well as religious, political, and literary texts. Includes such figures as Bradford, Edwards, Taylor, Cooper, and Irving.

ENGLISH 536 - AMERICAN RENAISSANCE 1820-1860 (3)
An exploration of various genres during a period when America was trying to define itself culturally and artistically, following political independence. Includes such figures as Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman, Stowe, and Fuller.

ENGLISH 537 - AMERICAN REALISM AND NATURALISM: 1855-1918 (3)
An examination, through fiction, poetry, and criticism, of the development of American literature between the Civil War and W. W. I. Includes such figures a Mark Twain, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, William Dean Howells, W. E. B. Dubois, and Adelaide Crapsey.

ENGLISH 538 - MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1912-1965 (3)
An examination through fiction, poetry, drama, and supportive critical works of the literature between W. W. I and the demise of writers in the 1960's, such as Hemingway and Faulkner. Includes other figures such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, and T. S. Eliot.

ENGLISH 539 - CONTEMPROARY AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1965 TO THE PRESENT (3)
A study of selected fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama of the period, examining critical questions about canon formation, forces shaping current literature, and generic development. Includes such figures as John Barth, Ellen Gilchrist, Toni Morrison, William Least Heat Moon, A. R. Ammons, and Anne Sexton.

ENGLISH 544r - SEMINAR: AMERICAN REGIONAL LIERATURE (3)
A study of the literature of a particular region of America (such as Western, Mid-west, New England, or Southern) and its development in the context of landscape, history, language, ethnic groups, socio-economic conditions, and the larger nation. May be repeated only once, with different content (maximum credit six hours). (See class schedule for current offerings).

ENGLISH 545r - SEMINAR: GENRE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3)
A study of a particular genre--fiction, poetry, drama, or essay--with consideration of form, development, and history. May be repeated only once, with different content (maximum credit six hours). (See class schedule for current offerings).

ENGLISH 546r - SEMINAR: ETHNIC LITERATURE IN AMERICA (3)
A study of the various bodies if ethnic literature that flows from America's diversity and pluralism, such as African-American, Italian-American, Native American, Jewish-American, etc., with consideration of its relationship to the history of literature, to the history of America, and its reflections of the culture of the given ethnic group. May be repeated only once, with different content (maximum credit six hours). (See class schedule for current offerings).

ENGLISH 547r - SEMINAR: MAJOR FIGURES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3)
A study of the writings of one to three authors. Includes consideration of biography, time and place, and relationship to literary history, forms, and themes. May be repeated only once, with different content (maximum credit six hours). (See class schedule for current offerings).

ENGLISH 548r - SEMINAR: THEMES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3)
A study of a selection of writings which treat a prominent theme in American culture, in the context of the development of America and its literature. Themes might include religion, political ideology, the world of business, nature, education, perceptions of time and space. May be repeated only once, with different content (maximum credit six hours). (See class schedule for current offerings).

ENGLISH 549 - FICTION WRITING (3)
A course in which students write fiction and criticize each other's work; study fictional forms, techniques, and types from major critics of fiction; and read and study published fiction with a view toward publication of their own fiction or criticism.

ENGLISH 550 - WORKSHOP: WRITING (3)
Advanced work in professional writing, creative or expository. Students will do much writing on their own, and will study and apply concepts for analyzing and criticizing the writings of others in the seminar.

ENGLISH 553 - WRITING ASSESSMENT THEORY (3)
A study of the processes and theoretical concepts involved in reading and evaluating student writing. Emphasis on how differing educational contexts for writing (instructional/classroom vs. program or large-scale) influence assessment goals and practices. Both formative and summative assessment methods will be covered with attention to how they can complement goals for writing instruction.

ENGLISH 554 - BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL WRITING (3)
Advanced study in the techniques and concepts of expository writing as used in business and industry, in scientific reports, technical analysis, brochures, periodicals, and intramural publications. Attention will be paid to the supervision and administration of such writing functions.

ENGLISH 555 - PROPOSALS AND PROSPECTUS WRITING (3)
Theory and practice in writing longer, more complex documents than those included in English 554. In-house proposals, grant proposals, sales proposals, article proposals (queries), scholarly and technical articles, and annotated bibliographies are examples of the types of writing covered in the course.

ENGLISH 556 - THE PRACTICE OF TEACHING WRITING (3)
This graduate seminar examines contemporary methods of teaching writing, with examples drawn primarily from middle and secondary schools. Areas of inquiry will include designing research-based writing curricula, designing effective writing assignments, responding to student writing, teaching in the context of standardized tests of writing, and evaluating writing. Both formative and summative assessment methods will be covered with attention to how they can complement goals for writing instruction.

ENGLISH 557 - TEACHING COLLEGE WRITING (3)
Introduction to the theory, research, and practice of teaching writing at the university level. Special emphasis on course and assignment design and on responding to student writing.

ENGLISH 558 - COMPOSITION STUDIES AS CULTURAL CRITIQUE (3)
An examination of the works of James Berlin, Alan France, Susan Jarrett and others who theorize a critical approach to culture for the writing classroom as well as critiques of these approaches. Emphasis on the influence of these critical approaches on composition theory and pedagogy.

ENGLISH 559r - ADVANCED INTERNSHIP IN WRITING (3)
Supervised internship in a professional writing setting related to a student's academic and career goals. Approval of internship coordinator during the fall semester is required for spring internships. May be repeated once, with a different internship setting.

ENGLISH 562 - LITERATURE OF ENGLAND: 1300-1500 (3)
Reading in medieval English Literature, including selections from Chaucer and the Gawain-poet as well as debate poems, historical poems, and short religious and secular lyrics. Emphasis on critical approaches to medieval poetry.

ENGLISH 563 - CHAUCER (3)
A critical introduction to Canterbury Tales or to Troilus and Criseyde, with emphasis on reading and translation skills, historical and philosophical background, and critical thinking and writing.

ENGLISH 565 - EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA (3)
Early English drama (950-1550), including liturgical drama, selections from the Wakefield, York, and other cycles, and the humanist drama of the early Renaissance. Texts are studied in the original Middle English and Early Modern English.

ENGLISH 567 - SHAKESPEARE: THE CAREER (3)
A study of examples of the plays (comedy, history, tragedy, romance) with attention to stage craft, themes, artistic development, the poetry, poetics, and bibliography.

ENGLISH 569 - NON-DRAMATIC LITERATURE OF THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE (3)
Representative works of non-dramatic prose and poetry from the Renaissance period.

ENGLISH 571 - THE AGE OF DRYDEN, POPE, AND SWIFT (3)
Readings and studies of selected writings from Restoration and early eighteenth-century England (1660-1745). In addition to Dryden, Pope, and Swift, the course includes such figures as Addison, Steele, Gay, Defoe, Behn, Congreve, and others.

ENGLISH 572 - THE AGE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON (3)
Readings and studies of selected poetry, fiction, drama, and prose of middle and later eighteenth-century England (1745-1789), with special emphasis on Samuel Johnson and his circle. The course includes such figures as Boswell, Gray, Collins, Goldsmith, Reynolds, Burke, and Smart.

ENGLISH 573 - DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH NOVEL IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES(3)
Readings and studies tracing the development of the British novel from its origins in the 18th century through Dickens, George Eliot and their contemporaries in the nineteenth century. Includes such figures as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Austen, and the Brontës.

ENGLISH 574 - BRITISH LITERATURE OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (3)
Assignments in the principal British authors of the period 1789-1837--Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats--with emphasis on the developing Romantic traditions in English art and thought.

ENGLISH 575 - VICTORIAN LITERATURE (3)
Assignments in the principal British authors of the period 1837-1900--Carlyle, J. S. Mill, Newman, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Ruskin, Dickens, and others --with special emphasis on defining the characteristics of "Victorianism," as manifested in the representative writings of the period.

ENGLISH 576 - BRITISH TRANSITIONAL LITERATURE (3)
A critical examination of representative English and Anglo-Irish authors of the period 1880-1920, with emphasis on analyzing the "transition" from late Victorian art and thought to early "Modernism."

ENGLISH 578 - POST-MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE: 1965 TO THE PRESENT (3)
Approximately 1965 marked an epoch in western culture and witnessed the advent of new cultural models of reality and therefore also new modes and methods of fiction. This course assesses the relevance of this moment to contemporary British literature, whether or not some works seem to fulfill a peculiarly "post-modernist" vision.

ENGLISH 579 - MODERN AND POST-MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA (3)
An examination of major twentieth-century dramatic works, with emphasis on modern and post-modern drama as a reflection of intellectual, political, social, cultural, and economic developments of the twentieth century, and their impact on the major modes of twentieth-century theater.

ENGLISH 582 - ENGLISH LITERATURE, GENRE: THE SHORT POEM IN ENGLISH (3)
Students study short poems (0-500 lines) in English, in relation to history, genre, techniques (such as meter, structure, imagery, metaphor, figurative devices), meaning, and aesthetic and moral judgment.

ENGLISH 425r - SEMINAR IN A MAJOR FIGURE (3)
A seminar course devoted to a major writer in English. The course will consider biography, time and place, and relationship to literary history, forms, and themes. May be repeated only once, with different content (maximum credit six hours). (See class schedule for current offerings).

ENGLISH 586 - LITERATURE IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (3)
Primarily for active teachers: consideration of suitable selections, effective methods of teaching, and the use of literature in relation to other subjects such as history, geography, and social customs. Prerequisite: permission of the department head.

ENGLISH 587 - TEACHING LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL (3)
Primarily for active teachers: consideration of suitable selections, effective methods of teaching, and the use of literature in reltion to other subjects such as history, geography, and social customs. Prerequisite: permission of the department head.

ENGLISH 588 - TEACHING LITERATURE IN THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL (3)
Primarily for active teachers: consideration of suitable selections, effective methods of teaching, and the use of literature in relation to other subjects such as history, geography, and social customs. Prerequisite: permission of the department head.

ENGLISH 598r - RESEARCH PROJECT (3)

ENGLISH 599r - THESIS (6)