200 - 299
ENG 200
FIELD EXPERIENCE IN SECONDARY ENGLISH EDUCATION
3, 3/0
Introduction to the secondary school as an institution and to the teaching of English as a profession. Required observations of teaching English and other areas, K-12. Limited experimentation with teaching secondary English.
ENG 201
THE CRAFT OF WRITING
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Fulfillment of basic written communication requirement.
Demystifying the act of writing by studying, discussing, and practicing models of the composing process.
ENG 205
HISTORY OF CINEMA I
3, 3/0; HUIF
This course provides the student with an understanding of cinema history from 1890 to 1960. Students examine trends in cinema’s aesthetic forms, technical breakthroughs, innovators, cultural antecedents, and impact.
ENG 206
HISTORY OF CINEMA II
3, 3/1; HUIF
This course provides the student with an understanding of cinema history since 1960. Students examine representative trends in cinema’s aesthetic form, technical breakthroughs, key innovators, cultural antecedents, and cultural impact.
ENG 210
BRITISH LITERATURE I: SPECIAL TOPICS
3, 3/0; HUIF
A study of selected topics, themes, and authors in British literature before 1700.
ENG 211
SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE II: SPECIAL TOPICS
3, 3/0; HUIF
A study of selected topics, themes, and authors in British literature from 1700 to 1900.
ENG 212
SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE III
3, 3/0; HUIF
An overview of important movements in British literature from the late Victorian period through contemporary literature, such as Fabianism, modernism, Marxism, aestheticism, the Movement and the Angry Young Men, postmodernism, post-Empire writing, Black British writing, and women’s and queer literature.
ENG 220
AMERICAN LITERATURE I: SPECIAL TOPICS
3, 3/0; HUIF
Survey of the various genres of influential American writing—including biographies, captivity and slave narratives, essays, poems, short stories, and criticism, as well as Gothic, epistolary, sentimental, and Romantic novels—produced between the late seventeenth century and the mid-nineteenth century.
ENG 221
AMERICAN LITERATURE II: SELECTED TOPICS
3, 3/0; HUIF
A study of topics, themes, and authors in American literature after the Civil War.
ENG 230
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Recurring ideas, themes, and theories in world literature.
ENG 231
WOMEN IN LITERATURE
3, 3/0; DIIF, HUIF
The images of women in literature as they reflect attitudes about women and their roles. Emphasis on authors and eras varies with instructors. May be taken for credit more than once.
ENG/AAS 240
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1940
3, 3/0; DIIF, HUIF
African American slave narratives, poetry, fiction, essays, and drama from the eighteenth century to 1940; the influence of spirituals, gospel, blues, jazz, sermons, and folktales on African American writing; the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s; and the development of African American revolutionary thought.
ENG/AAS 241
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1940
3, 3/0; HUIF
Realism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism in African American literature; black revolutionary thought and artistry in the 1960s and 1970s; neo-slave narratives; African American poetry, fiction, essays, and drama from 1940 to the present; influence of spirituals, gospel, the blues, jazz, sermons, and folktales on contemporary African American writing.
ENG 245
WRITING ABOUT THE ARTS
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Fulfillment of basic written communication requirement.
Practicum in writing about the arts. Teaches skills essential to developing a discerning critical eye and to communicating critical insights in various forms of writing about the arts. Includes participation in projects that highlight both traditional and contemporary subjects and approaches to arts criticism.
ENG 247
NATURE WRITING
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Fulfillment of basic written communication requirement.
Students develop an understanding of the nonfiction prose genre of nature writing and improve their ability to produce original works in the genre. Class focuses on reading and analyzing nature writing for its stylistic and thematic features, and emphasizes specific writing skills. Explores the connection between the natural and human worlds, and various attitudes toward nature as conveyed in examples of the genre.
ENG 252
BRITISH MODERNISM
3, 3/0; HUIF
British modernism, roughly the period from 1900 to 1940. The historical, intellectual, and cultural backgrounds, as well as the study of some of the major literary figures and their work.
ENG 253
TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE II
3, 3/0
Literature in English from 1945 to the present.
ENG 255
THE SHORT STORY
3, 3/0; HUIF
Various examples of influential short fiction produced around the world since the nineteenth century. This study will familiarize students with various literary techniques involved in the craft of short fiction.
ENG 260
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Sophomore, junior, or senior status.
Types of children’s literature, with attention to the principles of book selection and reading interests of children.
ENG 266
THE PERSONAL ESSAY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Fulfillment of basic written communication requirement.
The personal essay and how it both relates to and diverges from more objectives forms of essays often encountered in academic contexts. Students practice close reading of essays and compose original essays with peer and instructor evaluations.