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EEGR 998 - Dissertation Defense
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course allows doctoral students the opportunity to defend their doctoral dissertation for approval by the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee after the dissertation has been completed. After gaining approval of the dissertation chairperson and committee, the dissertation is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and is counted as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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HIST 690 - America and the World
3 Credits
This readings course introduces graduate students to the scholarly literature in the field known as America and the World or transnational U.S. history. This field focuses on economic, social, political, and cultural interactions between America and other regions and nations, which means that it focuses more on transnational history than the history of any particular nation.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ELED 521 - Social Studies in the Elementary and Middle School
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to give teachers and administrators an overview of social studies innovations, trends, and programs at the K-8 grades. The focus will be on the meanings and implications of the content of social studies materials.
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ENGL 501 - Materials and Methods of Research in Literature and Writing
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course of lectures on and exercises in bibliographical research is intended to help the student to develop effective techniques of literary study and satisfactory skills in the organizing and writing of scholarly literary papers.
Offered (FALL)
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ENGL 509 - Romanticism
3 hours.
3 Credits
This seminar consists of intensive study of selected Romantic writers such as Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 510 - Poetry Writing I
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course explores poetry writing in a workshop setting. Traditional forms as well as free verse and contemporary experimental rhythms are used. Elements of metaphor, rhythm, tone, voice, and structure are considered.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 511 - Advanced Poetry Writing II
3 hours.
3 Credits
Students write and revise poems in a workshop setting. Knowledge of traditional forms and the poetry writing process is assumed. More complex issues of voice, metaphor, and symbol are pursued, as well as distinctions between mimetic and narrative modes of poetry.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 512 - Short Fiction Writing I
3 hours.
3 Credits
Students write and revise short stories in a workshop setting. Elements of plot, character, dialogue, conflict and closure are learned, largely from the perspectives of the Western short story. Emphasis is given to character, action, and integration of story elements.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 513 - Collaborative Television Screenwriting
3 hours.
3 Credits
Simulating the table work of staff writers, editors, and producers, this course requires students to work as a collaborative unit: pitching and outlining episodes of half-hour and 1-hour episodic television, including animated series. Students will also have the opportunity to create pilots for half-hour and 1hour episodic series.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 514 - Advanced Fiction Writing II
3 hours.
3 Credits
In this advanced course, students write and revise short stories in a workshop setting. In addition to the basic elements of plot, character, conflict, and closure, emphasis is placed on setting, theme, style, and the subtle question of the writer’s voice. Students are encouraged to use experimental forms and to write longer stories.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 515 - African American Poetic Forms
3 hours.
3 Credits
Students write fiction and poetry using forms rooted in African American literature, music (especially the blues and jazz), and spoken word. Emphasis is given to the call-and-response form within African American expression, and students are encouraged to experiment with musical values in their writing.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 516 - Advanced Creative Writing Projects
3 hours.
3 Credits
Special themes, topics, or forms are pursued in a workshop designed for advanced writing students who are committed to careers as professional creative writers. Projects may include a series of interrelated short stories, a novella, or a novel. An effort is made to help each student complete a work suitable for publication.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 517 - The Young Creative Writer
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is a seminar for creative writing teachers which explores issues of the creative imagination as these issues apply in particular to the developing artistic talent of adolescents, especially the question of how to nurture the use of such creative writing devices as metaphorical language and kinesthetic rhythms.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 518 - The Literary Magazine
3 hours.
3 Credits
This computer lab course on desktop publishing is designed for editors and teachers of writing. It covers the entire process of producing a literary magazine, from writing early drafts of prose and poetry, to layout, graphic design, editing, publishing, promoting, and distribution of the literary magazine.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 519 - American Transcendentalism
3 hours.
3 Credits
This seminar is primarily an examination of the achievements and influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, and other Transcendentalists, as assessed through their major books, poems, and essays; biographies; and/or selected critical studies.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 521 - Modern Drama
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course explores in-depth the representative works of major contemporary American and continental playwrights. Each student is required to pursue a corollary research project.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 523 - Story Analysis and Script Coverage
3 hours.
3 Credits
The course introduces the academic study of film as an art form different from literature with an emphasis on cinematic literacy and film aesthetics through analysis from a number of critical perspectives. Research also includes collaborative multimedia projects.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 530 - American Modernism and Post-Modernism
3 hours.
3 Credits
The study of American literature from 1914 to the 1980s with emphasis on American Modernist and PostModernist writers such as Cather, Eliot, Faulkner, Hemingway, Morrison, Pynchon, Reed, and Toomer.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 531 - 20th Century American Fiction
3 hours.
3 Credits
This seminar treats in detail selected works by Dreiser, Ellison, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Hurston, James, Morrison, Wharton, and Wright, or by authors of comparable significance.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 532 - 20th Century British Fiction
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course consists of selected works by British writers such as Forster, Joyce, Lawrence, Waugh, and Woolf, or by authors of comparable significance.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 533 - The Screenplay
3 hours.
3 Credits
The course emphasizes the structural analysis of feature films and development of the professional screenwriter’s vocabulary for constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing their own work. An original feature-length screenplay will be developed and written as a first draft. The course also examines the business of screenwriting.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 534 - Chaucer
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides in-depth examination of the works of Chaucer other than The Canterbury Tales. It will concentrate on Troilus and Criseyde and other works in the Romance tradition.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 541 - Shakespeare
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focus on Shakespeare’s literary output, will devote time to the viewpoints and insights of recent scholarship, and will afford each member of the class an opportunity to examine in detail a specific problem in Shakespeare studies.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 543 - Factual and Fictional Adaptation
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to demonstrate the process of developing a dramatic story line from a factual or fictional source. Students are required to develop and adapt their own original work, or work with no copyright restrictions from literature or other artistic forms, to a short or long form screenplay.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 551 - Modern Literary Criticism
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course deals with the major schools of modern criticism, with some attention to the application of critical principles to selected literary works.
Offered (SPRING)
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ENGL 553 - Comedy Writing
3 hours.
3 Credits
An intense and accelerated course in planning, writing, and rewriting comic scripts, this seminar expands the study of verbal and visual techniques through research, screenings, and analysis of contemporary comedy, including animation. Students are required to develop and pitch original show concepts or episodes of established half-hour “live action” and animated series for review and feedback by class members, the instructor, and invited guests.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 555 - Writing and Producing the Documentary
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on the techniques, objectives, and procedures of researching, writing and producing corporate film, video, and electronic media for business, education, and non-profits, including commercials, social marketing, public service announcements (PSAs), and interactive media. Collaborative problem solving is required in the completion class projects.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 556 - Film and Electronic Media for Business and Non-Profits
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on the techniques, objectives, and procedures of researching, writing, and producing video and electronic media for business, education, and non-profits.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 561 - Introduction to Linguistics
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides students with a general orientation to the structural features of language (e.g., phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse analysis). In addition, students are introduced to such topics as language acquisition, language processing, and brain and language behavior.
Offered (SPRING)
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ENGL 563 - Advanced Dramatic Writing
3 hours.
3 Credits
Focusing on the hour drama for television, this course examines dramatic choices and possibilities in successful scripts. Students complete a first draft and one script revision; major scenes are analyzed in class – emphasizing character, four-act structure, dialogue, and narrative development.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 564 - Professional Writing Project
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the planning, researching, and documenting of workplace projects applying digital and cinematic storytelling. Students complete projects in their specialties and present their results using film and multimedia techniques.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 565 - Foundations of Humanities
3 hours.
3 Credits
Major problems of the disciplines of the humanities and the development of critical theories concerning them are examined. Interrelationships of literature, music, the visual arts, and the history of ideas are explored through supervised guidance with humanities faculty.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 566 - Popular Culture
3 hours.
3 Credits
This class involves the use of humanities and social science methodologies to interpret expressive cultural forms, especially those that are widely disseminated as part of dynamic social intercourse. Emphases will be placed on mass media such as television, film, print, and recordings, as well as the non-mediated aspects of fashion, fads, holidays and celebrations, amusements parks, and sports.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 571 - Introduction to Multicultural Literature
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces students to significant multicultural and international works placed in their specific cultural, historical, political, and literary contexts. The course takes a comparative and interdisciplinary approach.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 572 - The Multicultural Novel
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course explores the narrative techniques of international authors and the insights they offer regarding non-Western experiences, traditions, and values. Students examine and theorize about works from conventional to postmodern storytellers.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 573 - Professional Internship
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course places students in supervised environments where professional practices and issues are related to film, television, and electronic media including animation and e-gaming. It allows the student credit for experience in any of the aspects of research, publicity, production, post-production, and writing for television or film by working in a supervised capacity at an approved professional site.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 577 - Presenting Literary Models at the Secondary School Level
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces the student to the literary terminologies, backgrounds, and textual tools appropriate for presenting major literary figures at the secondary school level.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 581 - Advanced Expository Writing
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on the study of the principles of effective writing, including practice in collecting and organizing material for expository papers, with emphasis on the development of effective style.
Offered (SPRING)
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ENGL 583 - Colloquium Literature of the African Diaspora
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course explores special topics in the literature of the African Diaspora. Emphasis will be on national literatures and on individual genres within that literature. The course allows for specialized writing and research.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 592 - Poetry Writing
3 hours.
3 Credits
Students explore a wide variety of works by U.S. and international poets. Students write and revise with the goal of developing a publishable collection or major analysis of a poetic project.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 593 - Multicultural Literature for Adolescents
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course takes an inclusive approach to teaching young adult literature. It is structured around literary themes and genres, and within this framework, books from a variety of cultures are examined, emphasizing both the universal and culture-specific aspects of adolescence. Multicultural education theories and teaching pedagogy are integrated into the course methodology.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 594 - Fiction Writing
3 hours.
3 Credits
Students examine novel writing through the discussion of a variety of debut texts. Students plan, outline, and begin their own novel.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 595 - Supervised Reading
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course requires students to read a related body of British and American literature in order to broaden the students’ grasp of literary genres and their development.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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ENGL 596 - African American Literature
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course explores poetry, fiction, drama, and literary criticism by and about African Americans.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 597 - Minority Presence in American Literature
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course emphasizes the portrayal of various minorities in the works of major writers from the Colonial Period to the present.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 598 - Renaissance Studies
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on the study of non-dramatic literature produced between 1501 and 1625.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 599 - Computer-Assisted Research and Teaching
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the fundamental principles, materials, and techniques of computer-based applications (particularly database and web techniques), as these advance literary research and writing. Consideration will be given to the use of these applications in teaching and to the exploitation of other media to enhance scholarly activity.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 601 - Digital Literacies and Hypermedia
3 hours.
3 Credits
Participants explore digital media through the lenses of literacy, rhetoric, and cultural studies with a special emphasis on broadening opportunity on the Web for underrepresented populations. The opportunities include new research tools, critical study of electronic discourse, and the creation of new textual forms and modes of authorship. The class examines practical and theoretical problems and assess their implication for scholarship and teaching the humanities.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 608 - Literature, Technology and the Production of Meaning
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course investigates the use of digital technology in research, language development, and instruction. Students debate the pedagogical benefits and pitfalls of technology, and are expected to write original papers contributing to our understanding of these intellectual and values issues.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 610 - Teaching College Composition and Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an overview of the key theoretical and pedagogical issues in composition theory. Students learn how to design a curriculum and assess how a class responds to this pedagogy.
Offered (FALL)
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ENGL 611 - Writing Center Practicum
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course comprises the advanced study of current theories and practices of rhetoric, composition, and writing tutoring. Practicum students are afforded the opportunity to tutor in the Morgan State Writing Center.
Prerequisite(s) ENGL 501 and ENGL 610
Co-Requisite(s) ENGL 501 and ENGL 610 .
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 612 - Teaching College-Level Creative Writing/Screenwriting
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course explores strategies and techniques for helping undergraduates appreciate writing as an art form, a craft requiring discipline, and a means for creative problem solving. Students examine the psychological, emotional, and cultural aspects of working with young people creatively as well as some of the dynamics of workshop and critique.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 615 - Teaching English as a Second Language
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an overview of key theoretical and pedagogical issues in second language acquisition (SLA). It focuses on both the product and the process of SLA, including the impact of external and internal factors in language learning.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 620 - Professional Development
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course begins to prepare graduate students in English to become professional academicians by exploring strategies and methods to complete the doctoral program successfully; to excel in teaching, research, and publication in the areas of specialization; and to compete effectively in the job market.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 701 - Old English
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course assists students with the skill of reading Old English texts in the original. The grammar, vocabulary, syntax, and pronunciation of Old English are studied; and the student is expected to read Beowulf in the original and to translate minor literary and prose texts from West Saxon dialect.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 703 - Geoffrey Chaucer
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is a thorough examination of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, considered in the social-political contexts of the day. Skill in deciphering Middle English grammar, vocabulary, syntax, and pronunciation will be developed. Chaucer’s overall aesthetic achievement and his influence upon subsequent writers will be examined through a study of recognized critical works, leading to the student’s production of a substantial scholarly project.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 705 - Shakespearean Dramas in Their Socio-Political Contexts
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the major comedies, tragedies, and history plays of Shakespeare with attention to the Renaissance socio-political background.
Prerequisite(s) ENGL 541 or permission of the instructor
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 707 - British Humanism
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines carefully the beginnings, development, and decline of humanism in Britain, considered from the point of view of major and minor prose and poetic texts. A working knowledge of Latin may be required.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 709 - Milton and Puritanism
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course considers the work of John Milton from the angle of the theological, political, and aesthetic traditions upon which he drew. Special attention is given to the theology of John Calvin, the significance of the Interregnum, and Milton’s classical and Hebraic sources. Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes will be primary texts.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 711 - The Wordsworth Circle
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides in-depth examination of the writings of some of the most important writers of the first generation of British Romantics, centering specifically on the circle formed by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, including Thomas De Quincey, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Dorothy Wordsworth.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 712 - Romanticism and The Shelley-Godwin Circle
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the influence of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Coleridge on important authors of the second generation of British Romantics, centering specifically on the circle formed by Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 713 - The British Novel of the Romantic Period
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course considers novels written in a variety of forms during the British Romantic period and examines the works within the social and political contexts of the time.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 714 - Romantic Social and Political Thought
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course considers the social and political contexts of British Romantic literature by examining works that deal specifically with the most important issues of the time. Topics include feminism and gender, slavery and abolition, and colonialism and Orientalism.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 715 - The Victorian Novel
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course traces the development of British fiction during the Victorian period. It analyzes Victorian contribution to the craft of fiction and the introduction of new genres such as the school story, adventure story, colonial novel, social novel, and modern fantasy. In addition, works by representative novelists are examined for their discussion of the pressing issues of the day such as the status of women, evils of industrialism, political franchise, religious debate, universal education, and the rights of the child.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 722 - Native American Literature
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course offers detailed readings of widely taught Native American oratory and texts, and a summary of the most important criticism in the field. It will explore the theological, political, and aesthetic traditions that inform Native American literature.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 723 - American Folklore
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces students to the methods and materials of folklore. Special attention will be given to the study of various genres of American folklore, but with an emphasis on the integration of these genres and the importance of contextual analysis in their interpretation.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 725 - Twentieth Century African-American Women Writers
Three hours.
3 Credits
Contact Hours 3
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ENGL 727 - The American Novel
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is an in-depth treatment of the subject matter and aesthetics of novelists such as William Faulkner, Frances E. W. Harper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Toni Morrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edith Wharton.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 729 - Major African American Novelists
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course explores the contributions of significant African American novelists, from the early 1800’s to the present, with an emphasis on the vernacular, theological, political, and aesthetic traditions that inform African American literature.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 730 - Major African American Poets
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course explores the contributions of significant African American poets, from the beginning to the present, with an emphasis on the vernacular, theological, political, and aesthetic traditions that inform African American poetry.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 731 - Twentieth Century Jewish American Literature
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to major Jewish American writers and their socio-cultural contexts. The class will treat such topics as holocaust literature, assimilation/rediscovery of identity, the use of traditional texts, gender roles, and liminality.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 732 - West Indian Literature
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines selected Caribbean texts with special emphases on the synthesis of African, Asian, and European cultural experiences, the linguistic play of dialects, storytelling, “formal” literature, the relationship to the environment, and postcolonialism.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 733 - Chicano/a and Latino/a Literature
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course will examine the work of U.S. writers of Central American, South American, and Spanish heritage. Students will explore aspects of a 200 year old literary tradition with special emphasis on works from the 20th century to the present and their socio-cultural contexts and implications.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 734 - American Immigrant Literature
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the portrayal of the immigrant experience in American letters. Students will explore common themes and issues such as the conditions leading to immigration, adjustments to and impact of the United States, and inter-generational conflict.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 737 - American Realism and Naturalism
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines American literature from roughly 1865 to 1914 with emphasis on authors such as Chesnutt, Dreiser, Howells, James, London, Norris, Twain, Wharton, and Wright.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 740 - Twentieth Century Women Authors
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines texts by twentieth century women writers from around the world. The specific texts under study will be connected by theme, structure, genre, and/or era. Various critical lenses will be engaged, as appropriate to the selected texts.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 743 - Queer Theory
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course engages concepts of Queer Theory and the central architects of this relatively new field—from Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault to Barbara Smith, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler and others. Students become familiar with key concepts through both core texts and critical interpretations, as well as how Queer Theory has emerged as an inter-disciplinary research perspective.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 745 - African Literature
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines African Literature from the points of view of oral cultural traditions, colonial/postcolonial experiences, critical theories, and the problems of audience and language of expression. Socio-political and gender concerns in the literature will also be considered.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 747 - Chinese Literature
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces the most important texts by male and female writers and auteurs of modern Chinese literature and film. The course provides students with the knowledge and skills to read, interpret, and analyze texts against the context of the time and culture in which they were produced.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 748 - Japanese Literature
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces the most important texts by male and female writers and auteurs of modern Japanese literature and film. The course provides students with the knowledge and skills to read, interpret, and analyze texts against the context of the time and culture in which they were produced.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 749 - Southeast Asian Literature
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the major periods, movements, and writers of modern Thai, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Indonesia, and Philippine literatures, with an emphasis on the vernacular, theological, political, and aesthetic traditions that inform Southeast Asian literature.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 750 - Phonetics of American English
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is concerned with the fundamental phonetic structure of American English and with development of the ability to analyze the sound structure of words and symbols and to transcribe the sounds via the symbols of the international Phonetic Alphabet, as well as with a knowledge of the standard and nonstandard allophones in the major dialects of American English.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 751 - Modern English
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines modern usage and pays attention to the traditional, structural, and transformational approaches to understanding American English in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 753 - Studies in Advanced Grammar
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is a study of syntactic, morphemic, and phonemic concepts basic to a systematic description of English grammar.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 754 - Social Dialects
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is a study of the variations in language, with specific focus on the class, ethnicity, language situation, and linguistic experiences of urban populations, as factors in shaping variations in language.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 755 - Rhetorical Theories
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an historical survey of influential theories of discourse.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 756 - Contemporary Composition Studies
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines contemporary readings and research in the theory and practice of effective writing.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 758 - The Style of Technical Writing
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course offers instruction in writing effective control sentences, the art of compartmentalization, the employing of a definite paragraphing plan, the use of headings and captions, the composing of sentences of varying length, the use of the active voice, the preference for economy and vividness of language, and the avoiding of jargon. Students are asked to master these skills in order to achieve an effective technical writing style.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 760 - Problems in Technical Writing
3 hours.
3 Credits
This is an intermediate level course in technical writing which emphasizes the three legs of the detailed proposal (technical, financial, and personnel), with emphasis upon incorporating graphical, numerical, and other supportive materials into a persuasive narrative.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 781 - Models in Fiction Writing
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is a study of the techniques and methodologies of major fiction writers, with a view towards developing the skill of the specific student writer.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 782 - Models in Poetry Writing
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is a study of the techniques and methodologies of major poets, with a view towards developing the skill of the specific student writer.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 792 - Film Genres
3 hours.
3 Credits
Through screenings and lecture, this course is a study of a specific film style, genre, or sub-genre (film noir, African American film, comedy, etc.) and their aesthetics and narrative forms. Students study film genre, and critical tools of analysis to gain an understanding of how to evaluate film as an art form different from literature.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 797 - Thesis Guidance
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course enables a student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s thesis chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the thesis. This course is a non-curricular course and is not considered as part of the overall program credit requirement. However, this course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student registers for 3 credit hours each semester, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Prerequisite(s) Coursework completed, ENGL 793 , ENGL 799 , Comprehensive exam, CGS permission. Students must pass these courses with a grade of C or better.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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ENGL 799 - Thesis Defense
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course allows students the opportunity to defend their thesis for approval by the student’s thesis chairperson and committee after the thesis has been completed. After gaining approval of the thesis chairperson and committee, the thesis is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and may be considered as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. This course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student is registered for 3 credit hours, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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ENGL 801 - Supervised Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
This seminar is designed to enable students to participate in research in areas of their competence under the supervision of qualified faculty. Students are required to use (along with traditional methods) several advanced databases and other computer-assisted data-gathering techniques, to advance their research. Students are required to present their findings periodically throughout the semester.
Prerequisite(s) CGS permission
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 810 - Literature and Psychology
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course considers the impact of such thinkers as Freud, Jung, and Lacan on the analysis and interpretation of literature as diverse as Beowulf, William Black, and Henry James.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 815 - Literature and Modernism
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the work of T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, Virginia Woolf, and others, in light of the philosophical and aesthetic underpinnings of the modernist movement.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 820 - Thought and Influence of W.E.B. Du Bois
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course considers the intellectual and artistic achievements of W.E.B. Du Bois, against a background of socio-political debate and change. Major discussions will concern the philosophical influences upon works such as The Souls of Black Folk, the structure and thematic content of his poems and novels, his contributions to the art of the autobiography, and his involvement in the Niagara and Pan-African movements.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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ENGL 821 - Zora Neale Hurston
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the work of Zora Neale Hurston from the angle of vernacular, theological, political, and aesthetic traditions upon which she drew. Attention will be given to her role in the Harlem Renaissance, her influence on African American letters, and the cultural politics of self-representation in the writing of diasporic subjects.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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