300 - 399

ENG 300
WRITING FOR THE PROFESSIONS
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Fulfillment of English composition/basic communication requirement.
Practice for students who wish to improve their competence in writing and editing for a variety of professions.

ENG 301
ADVANCED COMPOSITION
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Fulfillment of basic written communication requirement.
Practice in writing expository papers. Writing assignments emphasize stylistic strategies, diction and revision.

ENG 303
LITERATURE IN FILM
3, 3/1
The motion picture as a vehicle for literature. Analysis and comparison of verbal and pictorial forms.

ENG 304
FORMS OF FILM
3, 3/1
Breadth and depth of selected film forms. Emphasis on the film as art, medium of communication, and social document. May be taken for credit more than once when content varies.

ENG 305
CREATIVE WRITING: NARRATIVE
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Fulfillment of basic written communication requirement.
The writing of narrative.

ENG 306
CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Fulfillment of basic written communication requirement.
The writing of poetry.

ENG 307
TUTORING AND TEACHING WRITING
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Fulfillment of basic written communication requirement.
Writing-intensive course for undergraduate students who wish to develop better writing skills and gain a theoretical foundation and practical experience in Writing Center tutoring. Explores the role and the craft of the writing tutor. Students gain practical experience in the Writing Center.

ENG 308
PEER TUTORING PRACTICUM
1, 0/0
Prerequisites: Fulfillment of basic written communication requirement; minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 in English courses.
Students meet weekly with Writing Center director, conduct tutoring sessions, and gain practical experience as writing tutors in the Writing Center.

ENG 309
TEACHING AND EVALUATING WRITING
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Fulfillment of basic written communication requirement.
Methods for teaching and evaluating writing. Includes theories of composition and rhetoric, approaches to teaching composition, ways to respond to writing-in-progress and completed texts, methods of measuring growth, and means to evaluate writing performance.

ENG 311
METHODS IN TEACHING LANGUAGE
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Fulfillment of basic written communication requirement.
English-language teaching strategies for secondary education majors. Grammar, usage, and mechanics instruction; the history of English; the right to one’s own language; sociopolitical dimensions of language; discussions of correctness within a range of discourse levels; instruction in family-literacy practices.

ENG 313
MILTON
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
A study of Milton’s oeuvre, with emphasis on Paradise Lost.

ENG 314
CHAUCER
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
A selection of Chaucer’s works, including some Canterbury Tales.

ENG 315
SHAKESPEARE I
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
Shakespeare’s work to 1600: the sonnets, early tragedies, histories, and comedies.

ENG 316
SHAKESPEARE II
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
Shakespeare’s works after 1600: the problem plays, major tragedies, and romances.

ENG 317
SHAKESPEARE FOR FUTURE TEACHERS
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
Intensive study of the Shakespeare plays most often taught in high school English classes. Emphasis on strategies for teaching Shakespeare and on particular needs of high school teachers in multicultural settings.

ENG 320
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 201 or permission of instructor.
A study of the genres of autobiography and memoir, with an emphasis on developing mastery in producing written products of the forms. Students read and discuss examples of both autobiography and memoir, write informal and processed examples of the genres, and learn about the process of writing in the genres for publication.

ENG 322
REPRESENTATIVE WRITERS
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
Selected works of a single writer or group of related writers. Supplemental readings of other writers of the period.

ENG 325
CREATIVE NONFICTION
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 201 or permission of instructor.
Reading and writing creative nonfiction, an essay form that consciously uses the stylistics features of fiction and poetry.

ENG 330
LITERATURE OF THE BIBLE
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
The Bible as literature.

ENG 332
RUSSIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
Writers such as Gogol, Pushkin, Turgenev, Goncharova, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov. Knowledge of Russian not required.

ENG 335
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE EUROPEAN LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
A study of selected themes, ideas, and movements of European literature in the medieval and Renaissance periods.

ENG 337
MODERN EUROPEAN LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
A study of selected themes, ideas, and movements of European literature from the Renaissance to postmodernity.

ENG 345
WORLD LITERATURE AFTER 1945
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
Post World War II literature around the globe. Poetry and fiction along with the cultural background of at least two continents.

ENG 346
NON-WESTERN LITERATURE AFTER 1945
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
Non-Western literature: poetry, fiction, and drama, along with historical and cultural backgrounds of literature outside Europe and North America.

ENG 350
TWENTIETH-CENTURY DRAMA I
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
Drama from the 1880s to the end of World War II of such playwrights as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Lorca, Synge, O’Casey, and O’Neill.

ENG 351
TWENTIETH-CENTURY DRAMA II
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
Drama since World War II; Epic theater, absurdism, and theater of cruelty; discussions of such playwrights as Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett, Genet, Miller, Albee, Pinter, Baraka, and Arabal.

ENG 353
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
3, 3/0; DIIF
Prerequisites: Upper-division status, fulfillment of English composition/basic communication requirement.
Selected aspects of traditional and contemporary Native American literature in its cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts.

ENG 354
ETHNIC AMERICAN MINORITY LITERATURE
3, 3/0; DIIF
The background, development, and contemporary contribution of ethnic American minority literature (folk, poetry, short story, novel, biography, and play) and individual authors. The literary characteristics of the literature, its contribution to the field of American literature, and its place in today’s society.

ENG 356
FUTURISTIC FICTION
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
The background, development, and present status of futuristic fiction. Short-story and novel forms. The quality of the literature and its place in today’s society.

ENG 360
REALISTIC FICTION FOR CHILDREN
3, 3/0
Literary characteristics, recurring themes, significant authors, and major categories of realistic fiction for children. Reading and discussion of classic and contemporary realism. Study and discussion of illustrations in realistic fiction in terms of their relationship to literary elements.

ENG 361
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or instructor permission.
Reading, discussion, and analysis of literature written in the last twenty-five years. Literary features and literary theories.

ENG 370
FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE
3, 3/0
The structure of language with emphasis on English, relation to speech, and writing. Language families and their relationships. Language change. Significance of regional and social dialects.

ENG 380
THE HISTORY OF THE PRINTED BOOK
3, 2.5/0; TSIF
Prerequisites: ENG 190, 6 credit hours of literature.
Analysis of the printed book as a physical, historical, social, and literary object. Course requires original bibliographical research.

ENG 390
LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: ENG 190, 3 credits of literature, English major status.
The major movements, critics, and ideas that comprise modern literary theory, such as formalism, psychoanalytical theory, feminism, Marxism, new historicism.