500 - 699

ENG 524
ENGLISH INSTRUCTION AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL
1, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; exceptional education major. An overview of the content, teaching methods, activities, and evaluation procedures typically used in English instruction at the secondary level.

ENG 590
INDEPENDENT STUDY
3, 0/0

ENG 601
RESEARCH IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Theory and practice in methods of research essential to the historical and critical analysis of literature. Should be taken early as a basis for other courses.

*ENG 610
MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Selected writers, forms,  movements, and theoretical approaches.

*ENG 613
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Selected writers, forms, movements, and theoretical approaches.

*ENG 614
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Selected writers, forms, movements, and theoretical approaches.

*ENG 615
NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Selected writers, forms, movements, and theoretical approaches.

*ENG 619
TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Selected writers, forms, movements, and theoretical approaches.

ENG 620
IRISH LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Major writers, schools, and traditions.

*ENG 621
AMERICAN LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Selected periods, writers, forms, movements, and theoretical approaches.

*ENG 623
LITERATURE OF CONTINENTAL EUROPE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Selected periods, writers, forms, movements, and theoretical approaches.

ENG 630
CHAUCER
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Selections from the major and minor works.

*ENG 631
SHAKESPEARE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. One aspect of Shakespeare’s work, e.g., the comedies or the tragedies.

ENG 635
MILTON
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Selected poetry and prose.

*ENG 638
STUDIES IN INDIVIDUAL WRITERS
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. In-depth study of one writer, or a limited combination of writers, from English, American, or other literature.

*ENG 641
STUDIES IN THE NOVEL
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Major writers or movements or other topics in the form.

*ENG 642
STUDIES IN POETRY
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Important writers or schools.

*ENG 643
STUDIES IN DRAMA
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Dramatists or schools of drama, e.g., Renaissance, modern European.

*ENG 644
IDEOLOGY AND LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. The study of literature from a major modern perspective. Topics in the ideological analysis of literature, e.g., the Emersonian influence, individualism, colonialism, and postcolonialism.

ENG 645
LITERATURE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Current M.A. or M.S. in English/English education candidate.
The study of the intersection between literature and social justice movements throughout the world; examination of modes of literary presentation for social justice discourse.

ENG 652
LITERARY CRITICISM
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Modern theoretical approaches to literature and its social, political, and ideological contexts.

ENG 660
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Selected topic, e.g., a survey of types and resources, classic children’s literature, fantasy, realism.

ENG 670
ADVANCED LINGUISTICS
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Selected topic, e.g., applied linguistics, social or regional dialectology, English as a second language, grammar, aspects of the history of the English language, languages of the world.

ENG 690
MASTER’S PROJECT
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: M.A. or M.S. in English candidate.  Student’s accumulated skills brought to focus in individual study with faculty member’s approval and guidance. Investigation of a particular problem related to literature, the teaching of literature, or the English language arts resulting in a written, research-based paper.

ENG 691
ADVANCED STUDY IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Advanced course in the teaching of English language arts (middle school through senior high) that includes methods and materials for teaching literature, language and writing with emphasis on the integration of the language arts; explores current theory and research in the content, methods, materials and evaluation of English.

ENG 692
THE TEACHING OF WRITING
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: One course in advanced writing, creative writing, or journalism or instructor permission. Advanced course in the teaching of writing discussing the philosophical, psychological, and sociological foundations needed to teach writing; the relation of forms of thinking, rhetoric, and communication theory to writing; the management of a writing program; introduction to research in the teaching of writing.

ENG 693
RESEARCH IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Admittance to the M.S. program in secondary English. Examination of significant research studies and methodologies in secondary English teaching that illustrates a range of research methodologies. Includes the design of a research proposal for a master’s project or thesis in the teaching of English.

ENG 694
TEACHING LITERATURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. Intensive study of the theoretical and pragmatic concerns of developing a response-based, student- centered literature classroom. Students explore different types of literature and critical perspectives, and apply this knowledge in the creation of lessons and in teaching sessions.

ENG 695
MASTER’S THESIS
3–6, 3–6/0
Prerequisite: M.A. or M.S. in English candidate. Student’s accumulated skills brought to focus in individual research with a faculty member’s approval and guidance. An original inquiry into a literary question (writer, theme, ideology, etc.) or a linguistic or critical question resulting in an essay of 40–60 pages.

*Courses marked with an asterisk may be taken more than once, on advisement, with different subject matter.