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ENGL 564 - Professional Writing Project
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 565 - Foundations of Humanities
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 566 - Popular Culture
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 571 - Introduction to Multicultural Literature
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 572 - The Multicultural Novel
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 573 - Professional Internship
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 577 - Presenting Literary Models at the Secondary School Level
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 581 - Advanced Expository Writing
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered SPRING
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ENGL 583 - Colloquium Literature of the African Diaspora
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 592 - Poetry Writing
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 593 - Multicultural Literature for Adolescents
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 594 - Fiction Writing
Three hours.
3 Credits
Students examine novel writing through the discussion of a variety of debut texts. Students plan, outline, and begin their own novel.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 595 - Supervised Reading
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
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ENGL 596 - African American Literature
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course explores poetry, fiction, drama, and literary criticism by and about African Americans.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 597 - Minority Presence in American Literature
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course emphasizes the portrayal of various minorities in the works of major writers from the Colonial Period to the present.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 598 - Renaissance Studies
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on the study of non-dramatic literature produced between 1501 and 1625.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 599 - Computer-Assisted Research and Teaching
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 601 - Digital Literacies and Hypermedia
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 608 - Literature, Technology and the Production of Meaning
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 610 - Teaching College Composition and Research
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL
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ENGL 611 - Writing Center Practicum
Three 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
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 615 - Teaching English as a Second Language
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 620 - Professional Development
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 701 - Old English
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 703 - Geoffrey Chaucer
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 705 - Shakespearean Dramas in Their Socio-Political Contexts
Three 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
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 707 - British Humanism
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 709 - Milton and Puritanism
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 711 - The Wordsworth Circle
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 712 - Romanticism and The Shelley-Godwin Circle
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 713 - The British Novel of the Romantic Period
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 714 - Romantic Social and Political Thought
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 715 - The Victorian Novel
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 722 - Native American Literature
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 723 - American Folklore
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 727 - The American Novel
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 729 - Major African American Novelists
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 730 - Major African American Poets
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 731 - Twentieth Century Jewish American Literature
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 732 - West Indian Literature
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 733 - Chicano/a and Latino/a Literature
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 734 - American Immigrant Literature
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 737 - American Realism and Naturalism
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 740 - Twentieth Century Women Authors
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 743 - Queer Theory
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 745 - African Literature
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 747 - Chinese Literature
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 748 - Japanese Literature
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 749 - Southeast Asian Literature
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 750 - Phonetics of American English
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 751 - Modern English
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 753 - Studies in Advanced Grammar
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is a study of syntactic, morphemic, and phonemic concepts basic to a systematic description of English grammar.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 754 - Social Dialects
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 755 - Rhetorical Theories
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an historical survey of influential theories of discourse.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 756 - Contemporary Composition Studies
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course examines contemporary readings and research in the theory and practice of effective writing.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 758 - The Style of Technical Writing
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 760 - Problems in Technical Writing
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 781 - Models in Fiction Writing
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 782 - Models in Poetry Writing
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
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ENGL 792 - Film Genres
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 797 - Thesis Guidance
Three 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.
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
Contact Hours Three
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ENGL 799 - Thesis Defense
Three 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) Coursework completed, thesis committee formed, CGS permission
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
Contact Hours Three
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ENGL 801 - Supervised Research
Three 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
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 810 - Literature and Psychology
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
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ENGL 815 - Literature and Modernism
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 820 - Thought and Influence of W.E.B. Du Bois
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 821 - Zora Neale Hurston
Three 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.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 825 - Twentieth Century African American Women Writers
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course traces the development of major and minor African American women writers. Students explore various ways African American women translate their experience into writing, with an emphasis on the vernacular, theological, political, and aesthetic traditions that inform their art and imagination.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 827 - Colloquium I: African American Novelists
Three hours.
3 Credits
This is a topics course, allowing in-depth focus on a particular African American novelist or group of novelists. The authors and topics change each semester.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 828 - Colloquium II: African American Dramatists
Three hours.
3 Credits
This is a topics course, allowing in-depth focus on a particular African American dramatist or group of dramatists. The authors and topics change each semester.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 851 - Critical Approaches to Multicultural Literatures
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course emphasizes literary evaluation, thematic analysis, and theoretical principles in discussing multicultural literature. Class discussions focus on in-depth analyses of multicultural theories and ethnic studies. Especially pertinent is the discussion of why Western theories cannot be applied universally. A comparative study of key concepts such as the search for identity, interpersonal relationships, assimilation versus deracination, and involvement in social causes will foster cross-cultural understanding, critical thinking, and honesty in expressing and defending one’s considered opinions.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 852 - Postcolonial Theories and Literature
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an in-depth discussion of postcolonial theory, in relation to 19th and 20th century literatures, as well as to relevant films. The course will trace the development of postcolonial theories and the related views on culture and imperialism, representation and material reality, and political and literary authority. Important theorists are discussed, as well as twentieth century metropolitan and subaltern writers.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 853 - Diasporic Literatures
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course consists of readings, films, and class discussions intended to continue the debate emerging on postcolonial theories and literatures. It examines such concepts as diasporic identities, cosmopolitanism, and “thinking beyond the nation.” Also considered are new cultural forms of a post-national world, such as the postcolonial cyberpunk, North African Rai music, transnational soap operas, and global internet cultures.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 855 - Womanism and Feminism
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course explores the theoretical, sociological, and aesthetic distinctions between “womanism” and “feminism,” as seen through the essays, fiction, and poetry of the leading representatives.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 862 - Literature of the Asian Indian Diaspora
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course consists of readings, films, and class discussions on a variety of texts published by Asian Indians in India, England, United States, and Trinidad. Comparative in its focus, the class will examine the location of culture and its impact on identity formation. The readings and films allow students to recognize that the new cultural products of the Asian Indian Diaspora represent the desire and sensibility of the “Other.”
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 875 - The Business Plan and Project Report
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course considers the business plan and project report as extended narratives, along with their typical organization, factual detail, management modules, and numerical and graphical components.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 890 - Documentary Filmmaking
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on non-fiction (non-narrative) storytelling for film and video, introducing the history and theory of the documentary, as well as the relevant fundamentals of lighting, camera, and editing. The class over the semester serves as a production unit with respect to professional business and marketing practices for independent film companies.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 893 - Seminar on Television and Society
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course examines specific film and television productions, in order to consider the role of media in society, particularly how these media affect and are affected by social behavior and belief systems. The imagery used by media is especially assessed.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 895 - Film and Video Production
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course considers the expressive options of filmmakers in the integration of the elements that comprise motion pictures including: (1) narrative structure (2) visual aesthetics (3) sound design and (4) cinematography. It requires the collaborative production of short films from concept to production and post-production.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENGL 898 - Independent Study I
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides in-depth research on a topic requiring a one-on-one relationship between student and professor, such as to pursue an area of interest under the supervision of a faculty member; to prepare for the comprehensive examinations; or to develop a proto-dissertation proposal.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
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ENGL 899 - Independent Study II
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course supplements ENGL 898 by providing an additional opportunity for in-depth research on a topic requiring a one-on-one relationship between student and professor.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
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ENGL 993 - Doctoral Pre-Candidacy
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course conveys full-time status to a doctoral student as a full-time student engaged in study prior to the achievement of doctoral candidacy. Students studying for comprehensive examinations or preparing for a proposal defense enroll in this course. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
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ENGL 997 - Dissertation Guidance
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course enables a student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the dissertation. 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) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
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ENGL 998 - Dissertation Defense
Three hours.
9 Credits
This course allows students the opportunity to defend their doctoral dissertation for approval by the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee after the thesis 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 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) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
Contact Hours Three
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ENST 510 - Environmental Design I
Eight hours.
6 Credits
This studio will introduce students to some fundamental principles of environmental, spatial, and architectural design. The studio begins with the premise that the conception, proposition, and design of new architectural environments must be accompanied by continuous attention to (and analysis of) other work, historical precedent, and one’s own immediate physical surroundings. This course is tailored for students in both the Master of Architecture and the Master of Landscape Architecture programs.
Prerequisite(s) ARCH 501
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL
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ENST 512 - Graphics Workshop
Three hours.
3 Credits
Graphics Workshop is an interdisciplinary course taken jointly by students within the School of Architecture and Planning. The purpose of this course is to develop students’ skills and techniques in visual communications, thus allowing them to select and apply the most appropriate means of graphically presenting problems and/or solutions. Students are also exposed to techniques and skills that aid in perceiving the built environment in three dimensions—a necessary ingredient for design creativity.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL
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ENST 515 - Socio-Spatial Patterns of Human Settlement
Three hours.
3 Credits
The course will explore the policies on, and patterns and conditions of human settlements, from a cross- cultural perspective. Historical as well as the current situation in various Latin American, Asian, and African countries will be covered. While the major focus is international, where appropriate, domestic examples will be provided and students can to do their research on domestic topics.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENST 542 - Advanced Communications (3-D Modeling)
Three hours.
3 Credits
As a continuation of ENST 512 and ENST 770 this course introduces 3D geometric modeling and rendering as techniques to conceive, analyze, visualize, and simulate forms. The course provides both a theoretical introduction to 3D- geometric modeling and an opportunity to develop skills in application through intensive practical work. Through a series of short design projects, students will learn to model and explore design ideas using a variety of CADD, modeling and rendering applications.
Prerequisite(s) ARCH 512 or permission of Program Director
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENST 573 - Principles of Site Planning
Three hours.
3 Credits
The course introduces architects and planners to the principles and practices of site planning. The course covers site analysis, layout of major site features (buildings, roads, parking areas, etc.), and the design of outdoor spaces for pedestrian use.
Prerequisite(s) Permission of the instructor and the Program Director
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENST 601 - Historic & Cultural Preservation
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces the principles and practices of historic and cultural preservation, across the spectrum of the three environmental design disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and planning, with a special emphasis on African American historic and cultural preservation activities and resources.
Prerequisite(s) Permission of the Program Director
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENST 605 - Historic and Cultural Preservation Studio
Eight hours.
6 Credits
This course is a historic preservation studio, with a focus on applied concepts in the practice of historic and cultural preservation across the three environmental design disciplines, architecture, landscape architecture, planning. Studio projects are a laboratory for applied research in historic preservation, with a focus on cultural resources.
Prerequisite(s) ENST 601 or permission of instructor or Department Chair
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENST 714 - Built Environment Internship I
vary hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to accommodate students involved in various work-study relationships in different agencies and community organizations. Working under the supervision of an office professional, the course will document and evaluate the diverse experiences of the students within the framework of the practice or agency. The instructor will determine the number of contact hours for an Internship based on the scope of work to be performed by the student and the number of course hours the student is taking in a given semester.
Prerequisite(s) Permission of the Program Director.
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL
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ENST 715 - Built Environment Internship II
vary hours.
3 Credits
Prerequisite(s) Permission of the Program Director.
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL
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ENST 716 - Built Environment Internship lll
vary hours.
3 Credits
Prerequisite(s) Permission of the Program Director.
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL
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ENST 717 - Built Environment Internship IV
vary hours.
3 Credits
Prerequisite(s) Permission of the Program Director.
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered SPRING
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ENST 738 - Seminar in Built Environment Studies I
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to examine, in greater depth, particular subject areas of the built environment, for example theories of architecture, behavior and the built environment, ecology and design, theory and criticism, culture and design, urbanism, and representation techniques.
Prerequisite(s) Permission of the Instructor or the Program Director.
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENST 739 - Design & Human Behavior
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is an introduction to a range of urban space development theories, space organizing concepts, public, private and semi-public/private characteristics of space layout related to human use and comfort. Cultural, social, and psychological factors will be considered through selected readings and urban site visits. Various theories and methods of documenting human movement in space, location and analysis of site furnishings, relationships of architecture to landscapes, and the environmental assessment of climate and other factors that impact human comfort in urban spaces.
Prerequisite(s) Permission of the Program Director.
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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ENST 740 - Seminar in Built Environment Studies II
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to examine, in greater depth, particular subject areas of the built environment, for example theories of architecture, behavior and the built environment, ecology and design, theory and criticism, culture and design, urbanism, and representation techniques.
Prerequisite(s) Permission of the Instructor of the Program Director.
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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