ENGL 400
Authors, Texts, Contexts (3 per semester, maximum of 6) Styles, cultural milieus, critical perspectives toward particular English- language authors and/or movements they represent, and the idea of authorship. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.)
Effective: Fall 1997
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 401
Studies in Genre (3 per semester, maximum of 6) English-language texts exemplifying particular genres, with attention to critical theories, historical development, rhetorical strategies, and social, cultural, and aesthetic values. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.)
Effective: Fall 1997
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 401W
Creative Writing Theory (3) Theories of art and creativity which inform the making of literary works.
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite:
ENGL 200;ELISH 201, ELISH 209, ENGL 212 orENGL 213
ENGL 402
Literature and Society (3 per semester, maximum of 6) Texts confronting social, political, technological, or other issues in the English-speaking world. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.)
Effective: Fall 1997
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 403
Literature and Culture (3 per semester, maximum of 6) Historical, theoretical, and practical issues within cultural studies in relation to English-speaking texts. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.)
Effective: Fall 1997
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 404
Mapping Identity, Difference, and Place (3 per semester, maximum of 6) Ethnicity, gender, class, race with reference to theoretical inquiry into identity, difference, and place in English-language literatures. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.)
Effective: Fall 1997
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 405
Taking Shakespeare From Page to Stage (3) Students experience a Shakespeare play as a text to be explicated and as a script to be performed.
Effective: Summer 2003
Prerequisite:
permission of program
ENGL 407
History of the English Language (3) Historical and structural study of developments in English sounds, forms, inflections, syntax, derivations, and meanings.
Effective: Spring 1987
Prerequisite:
ENGL 100;ENGL 202A, ENGL 202B, ENGL 202C orENGL 202D
ENGL 409
Composition Theory and Practice for Teachers (3) An overview of the theory and practice of writing for teachers, with emphasis on the writing process.
Effective: Summer 2000
Prerequisite:
permission of the program
Concurrent:
EDUC 452
ENGL 412
Advanced Fiction Writing (3 per semester/maximum of 6) Advanced study of the techniques of fiction writing; regular practice in writing the short story; group discussion of student work.
Effective: Spring 1992
Prerequisite:
ENGL 212 and permission of the department
ENGL 413
Advanced Poetry Writing (3 per semester/maximum of 6) Advanced study of the techniques of poetic composition; regular practice in writing poetry; group discussion of student work.
Effective: Spring 1992 Ending: Summer 2013
Prerequisite:
ENGL 213 and permission of the department
ENGL 413
Advanced Poetry Writing (3 per semester/maximum of 6) Advanced study of the techniques of poetic composition; regular practice in writing poetry; group discussion of student work.
Effective: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
Prerequisite:
ENGL 213
ENGL 414
Biographical Writing (3) Writing of biography and autobiography, character sketches, "profiles," and literary portraits; analysis and interpretations of source materials.
Effective: Spring 1987
Prerequisite:
ENGL 200, ENGL 202B, ENGL 210, ENGL 212 orENGL 215
ENGL 415
Advanced Nonfiction Writing (3 per semester/maximum of 6) Advanced study of the principles of nonfiction; substantial practice in writing and submitting magazine articles for publication.
Effective: Spring 1992
Prerequisite:
ENGL 215 and permission of the department
ENGL 416
Science Writing (3 per semester/maximum of 6) Prepares scientists and writers to gather, interpret, and present scientific information to the layman with clarity and accuracy.
Effective: Spring 2001
Prerequisite:
COMM 260W, ENGL 202C, ENGL 210, ENGL 215 orENGL 421
ENGL 417
The Editorial Process (3) The process of editing from typescript through final proof.
Effective: Summer 2011
Prerequisite:
ENGL 202A, ENGL 202B, ENGL 202C, ENGL 202D, ENGL 210, ENGL 215
ENGL 418
Advanced Technical Writing and Editing (3 per semester/maximum of 6) Preparing and editing professional papers for subject specialists and for others interested in careers as writers or editors.
Effective: Fall 1987
Prerequisite:
ENGL 202A, ENGL 202B, ENGL 202C, ENGL 202D orENGL 215
ENGL 419
Advanced Business Writing (3) Preparing and editing reports and presentations common to business, industry, and government.
Effective: Fall 1987
Prerequisite:
ENGL 202A, ENGL 202B, ENGL 202C orENGL 202D
ENGL 420
Writing for the Web (3) Analysis and composition of informative, persuasive, and "creative" Web texts, based on rhetorical principles; no prior Web writing experience required.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 421
Advanced Expository Writing (3) Develops skill in writing expository essays, with particular attention to style. Intended for liberal arts majors.
Effective: Spring 1987
Prerequisite:
ENGL 202A, ENGL 202B, ENGL 202C orENGL 202D
ENGL 422
Fiction Workshop (3 per semester/maximum of 6) Practice and criticism in the composition of the short story and the novel.
Effective: Spring 1985
Prerequisite:
ENGL 412
ENGL 423
Poetry Writing Workshop (3 per semester/maximum of 6) Extensive practice in writing poetry; consideration of contemporary poetic forms; selected readings.
Effective: Spring 1985
Prerequisite:
ENGL 413
ENGL 424
(ENVST 424)
Creative Writing and the Natural World (3) Creative writing workshop focused on the environment and related issues.
Effective: Summer 2011
Prerequisite:
ENGL 050 orENVST 100
ENGL 425
Nonfiction Workshop (3 per semester/maximum of 6) Extensive writing of nonfiction for publication; an introduction to the principles of writing the nonfiction book.
Effective: Spring 1985
Prerequisite:
ENGL 415
ENGL 426
(US)
(LTNST 426)
Chicana and Chicano Cultural Production: Literature, Film, Music (3) An in-depth study of Chicana/Chicano literature, film, and music from the inception of the Chicano Movement (1965-1975) to the present.
Effective: Spring 2007
Prerequisite:
3 credits in English
ENGL 427
(J ST 427)
Topics in Jewish American Literature (3) An in-depth examination of important themes, writers, and/or historical developments in Jewish Literature of the United States.
Effective: Spring 2009 Ending: Fall 2013
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030;J ST 132 orCMLIT 110
ENGL 427
(J ST 427)
Topics in Jewish American Literature (3 per semester/maximum of 9) An in-depth examination of important themes, writers, and/or historical developments in Jewish Literature of the United States.
Effective: Spring 2014 Future: Spring 2014
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030;J ST 132 orCMLIT 110
ENGL 428
(US)
(AAS 428)
Asian American Literatures (3 per semester/maximum of 6) A seminar on the literatures and cultures of Asian America, with attention to forms of geographic, historical, and ethnic diversity.
Effective: Summer 2010
ENGL 429
(CMLIT 429)
New Media and Literature (3) New media literary genres; critical discussion of creative works in digital media.
Effective: Summer 2010
ENGL 430
The American Renaissance (3) Studies in the works and the interrelationships of writers such as Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, and Dickinson.
Effective: Spring 1995
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 431
(US)
(AM ST 475)
Black American Writers (3 per semester, maximum of 6) A particular genre or historical period in the development of Black American literature.
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 432
The American Novel to 1900 (3) Such writers as Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Mark Twain, James, Crane, Chopin, and others.
Effective: Spring 1992
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 433
The American Novel: 1900-1945 (3) Such writers as Wharton, Dreiser, Cather, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Hurston, Wright, and others.
Effective: Spring 1992
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 434
(AM ST 472)
Topics in American Literature (3 per semester) Focused study of a particular genre, theme, or problem in American literature. (May be repeated for credit.)
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite:
6 credits of ENGL ENLSH or LIT
ENGL 435
The American Short Story (3) Development of the short story as a recognized art form, with emphasis on major writers.
Effective: Spring 1984
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 436
American Fiction Since 1945 (3) Representative fiction by such writers as Barth, Bellow, Ellison, Heller, Mailer, Morrison, Nabokov, Oates, O'Connor, Pynchon, Updike, Walker.
Effective: Spring 1992
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 437
The Poet in America (3) American poets such as Bradstreet, Taylor, Poe, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Eliot, Stevens, Hughes, Brooks, Moore, Williams, Plath, Rich, Lowell.
Effective: Spring 1992
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 438
American Drama (3) Development from the colonial period to playwrights such as O'Neill, Wilder, Hellman, Miller, Williams, Albee, Shepard, Norman, Wilson, and others.
Effective: Spring 1992
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 439
American Nonfiction Prose (3) Major prose writers such as Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Henry Adams, Mailer, Baldwin, McCarthy, Dillard, Didion, Angelou, and others.
Effective: Spring 1992
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 440
Studies in Shakespeare (3) Intensive study of a single genre, topic, or critical approach to selected plays.
Effective: Summer 1991
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 441
Chaucer (3) The principal narrative poems and their background.
Effective: Spring 1984
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 442
Medieval English Literature (3) Study of major works and genres of medieval English literature, exclusive of Chaucer.
Effective: Spring 1992
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 443
The English Renaissance (3) Such writers as More, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Bacon, and Marvell.
Effective: Spring 1984
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 444
Shakespeare (3) Selected tragedies, comedies, and histories.
Effective: Spring 1984
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 445
Shakespeare's Contemporaries (3) Selected plays by Shakespeare's major predecessors and contemporaries: Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Marston, Middleton, and others.
Effective: Spring 1984
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 446
Milton (3) Analysis of principal poems and their background.
Effective: Spring 1984
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 447
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (3) The neoclassical age (1660-1776). Such writers as Dryden, Congreve, Swift, Pope, Fielding, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Boswell, Johnson.
Effective: Spring 1995
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 448
The English Novel to Jane Austen (3) Novelists such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and Austen.
Effective: Spring 1995
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 450
The Romantics (3) Poets such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron; also prose by writers such as Hazlitt, Lamb, and DeQuincey.
Effective: Spring 1995
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 451
Literary Modernism in English (3) Survey of literary modernism in English and English translation in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, and drama.
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030;ENGL 200, ELISH 300 orELISH 301
ENGL 452
The Victorians (3) Poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, and Hopkins; also prose by writers such as Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, and Arnold.
Effective: Spring 1995
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 453
Victorian Novel (3) Novelists such as the Brontes, Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy.
Effective: Spring 1995
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 454
Modern British and Irish Drama (3) From Wilde and Shaw to the present season.
Effective: Fall 2004
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 455
Topics in British Literature (3) Focused study of a particular genre, theme, or problem in British literature. (May be repeated for credit.)
Effective: Fall 2001
Prerequisite:
6 credits of ENGL ENLSH or LIT
ENGL 456
British Fiction, 1900-1945 (3) Major writers such as Conrad, Lawrence, Mansfield, Forster, Joyce, Woolf, Waugh, Greene, Bowen, Beckett, and others.
Effective: Spring 1995
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 457
British Fiction Since 1945 (3) Readings in British fiction since World War II.
Effective: Spring 1995
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 458
Twentieth-Century Poetry (3) Poets writing in English such as Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Frost, Auden, Stevens, Plath, Bishop, Brooks, H.D., and others.
Effective: Spring 1995
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 461
(US)
The Vernacular Roots of African American Literature (3) The relationship between oral tradition and literary texts and the double consciousness of African American voice in "print."
Effective: Summer 2005
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 462
(US)
(WMNST 462)
Reading Black, Reading Feminist (3) Female identity and its construction in textual representations of gender, class, color, and cultural difference in English-language literatures.
Effective: Summer 2005
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 463
(US)
African American Autobiography (3) The African American literary quest for identity and its adaptation to Euro-American culture and autobiographies.
Effective: Summer 2005
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 466
(US)
African American Novel I (3) Thematic, structural, and stylistic characteristics of the African American novel from residually oral forms to satiric realism.
Effective: Summer 2005
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 467
(US)
African American Novel II (3) Thematic, stylistic, and structural characteristics of the African American novel from naturalism to modernism and postmodernism.
Effective: Summer 2005
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 468
(US)
African American Poetry (3) African American poetry within the contexts of the black oral tradition and transformed European literary tradition.
Effective: Summer 2005
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 469
(US)
(AF AM 469)
Slavery and the Literary Imagination (3) The impact of slavery on the petitions, poetry, slave narratives, autobiographies, and novels of African Americans.
Effective: Fall 2012
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 470
Rhetorical Theory and Practice (3) Application of certain rhetorical principles to problems in composition. Writing exercise. Designed as preparation for the teaching of composition.
Effective: Spring 1995
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 471
Rhetorical Traditions (3 per semester, maximum of 6) Introduces major traditions of rhetorical inquiry and their relevance for English studies. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.)
Effective: Fall 1997
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 472
Current Theories of Writing and Reading (3 per semester, maximum of 6) Investigates models of textual production and reception current within English studies. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.)
Effective: Fall 1997
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 473
Rhetorical Approaches to Discourse (3 per semester, maximum of 6) Practices the criticism of written texts from selected rhetorical perspectives. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.)
Effective: Fall 1997
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 474
Issues in Rhetoric and Composition (3 per semester, maximum of 6) Examines selected topics in the field of rhetoric and composition. (Section subtitles may appear in the Schedule of Courses.)
Effective: Fall 1997
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 477
Teaching Children's Literature (3) Teaching Children's Literature in light of recent literary pedagogy, the history of childhood, and critical approaches to Children's Literature.
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite:
ENGL 202
ENGL 479
Business or Technical Writing Practicum (1-3) Practical experience applying business or technical writing principles, working with advanced business, science, or engineering students on classroom projects.
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite:
Prerequisite or concurrent:ENGL 418 orENGL 419
ENGL 480
Communication Design for Writers (3) This course explores visual design, non-verbal communication, and software packages used in professional settings to most effectively present written communications.
Effective: Summer 2005
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030;ENGL 202A, ENGL 202B, ENGL 202C orENGL 202D ; 7th semester standing or higher
ENGL 481
Literary Theory: Historical Perspectives (3) Selected topics in the history of literary criticism and theory within the English-language tradition.
Effective: Summer 1994
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 482
Contemporary Literary Theory and Practice (3 per semester, maximum of 6) Contemporary literary theories and their implication for critical practice as applied to British, American, and other English-language literary works.
Effective: Summer 1992
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 ORENGL 030
ENGL 482W
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory (3) Contemporary literary and cultural theories and their implication for critical practice as applies to a variety of texts, e.g. literary, linguistic, visual, multimedia, and/or popular.
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030H;ENGL 200
ENGL 483
Problems in Critical Theory and Practice (3) Intensive study of one or more recent theoretical approaches as applied to British, American, and other English-language literary works.
Effective: Summer 1994
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 484
James Joyce (3) Analysis of principal works and their background.
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite:
ENGL 002;ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 485
Australian and New Zealand Literature and Culture (3) Questions of nationality, identity, gender, race, class, colonialism, and postcolonialism in these literatures.
Effective: Summer 1995
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 486
(IL)
The World Novel in English (3) Studies in the novel, written in English, by writers outside of the United States and Great Britain.
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite:
ENGL 002;ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 487W
Senior Seminar (3) Issues, themes, periods, critical theories, etc., that invite students to use prior English studies, limited to seniors majoring in English.
Effective: Summer 1997
Prerequisite:
six credits of 400-level courses in English
ENGL 488
(IL)
(CMLIT 488)
Modern Continental Drama (3) From Ibsen to the drama of today: Strindberg, Chekhov, Hauptmann, Pirandello, Ionesco, Beckett, Genet, and others.
Effective: Spring 2006
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 489
(WMNST 489)
British Women Writers (3) A study of selected British women writers.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
6 credits of ENGL
ENGL 490
(US;IL)
(WMNST 490)
Women Writers and Their Worlds (3) American and British literature written from the perspective of women.
Effective: Summer 2005
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 491
The Capstone Course in Professional Writing (3) This culminating course for Professional Writing majors concentrates on reflective analyses, design, and presentation of documents in the development of professional portfolios.
Effective: Summer 2004
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030;ENGL 202A, ENGL 202B, ENGL 202C orENGL 202D ;seventh-semester standing or higher; enrollment in Professional Writing major
ENGL 492
(AM ST 476, WMNST 491)
American Women Writers (3) A study of selected American women writers.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
6 credits of ENGL
ENGL 493
(AM ST 493)
The Folktale in American Literature (3) A survey of the literary uses of the folktale and legendary materials, with particular concentration on the literature of America.
Effective: Spring 1986
Prerequisite:
ENGL 015 orENGL 030
ENGL 494
Senior Thesis in English (1-6) Senior English (ELISH) majors write a thesis arranged with in-charge person and submit it to a faculty committee for appraisal.
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite:
seventh-semester standing
ENGL 494H
Senior Thesis in English (1-6) Senior English (ELISH) majors write a thesis arranged with in-charge person and submit it to a faculty committee for appraisal.
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite:
seventh-semester standing
ENGL 495
Internship (3-12) Supervised practicum in fields appropriate to the English major.
Effective: Spring 2001
ENGL 496
Independent Studies (1-18) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Fall 1983
ENGL 496A
Literature of and About the Middle East (3) Examins representative texts of and about middle eastern culture, political and socio-economic conditions.
Effective: Summer 2013 Ending: Summer 2013
ENGL 496B
Advanced Studies in Memoir (1-6) Read six classic memoirs and write and revise two memoirs that experiment with voice and style.
Effective: Summer 2013 Ending: Summer 2013
Prerequisite:
ENGL 215, ENGL 415
ENGL 497
Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Fall 1983
ENGL 497A
Mont Alto Film Project - III (3) Practicum in filmmaking. Part III of IV covers principle photography and production for a full-length feature film.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
ENGL 498
Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Fall 1992
ENGL 499
(IL)
Foreign Study--English (3-6) Studies abroad in English language and/or literature.
Effective: Summer 2005
ENGL 501
Materials and Methods of Research (3) Materials and techniques of research in English and American literary history; form and content of these. Required of all graduate students with an English major.
Effective: Fall 1983
ENGL 502
Theory and Teaching of Composition (3) Study of grammar, logic, rhetoric, and style in their applicability to teaching composition.
Effective: Winter 1978
ENGL 503
(LL ED 503)
Research Methods in Composition (3) Introduction to the issues and methods of empirical research in composition.
Effective: Fall 1993
ENGL 504
Rhetoric and Poetics (3) Historical relations between rhetorical theory and poetics; approaches to rhetorical criticism of poetic discourse.
Effective: Summer 1995
ENGL 506
The English Language (3) A problem-centered approach to literary and oral forms of English, utilizing historical and analytic perspectives.
Effective: Winter 1978
ENGL 507
English Composition Studies (3) An overview of composition studies, with particular attention to the schools of writing pedagogy.
Effective: Spring 2001
Prerequisite:
EDUC 452, ENGL 409 Bachelor's degree permission of the program
ENGL 510
Scholarly Editing: Theory and Practice (3) Study of editorial theory from McKerrow and Greg to the present; experience in scholarly editing and manuscript study.
Effective: Fall 1989
Prerequisite:
ENGL 501
ENGL 511
Thesis Workshop and Professional Writing (3) Professional writing for graduate students.
Effective: Summer 2008
ENGL 512
The Writing of Fiction (3 per semester/maximum of 15) Supervised workshop in advanced techniques of writing fiction.
Effective: Fall 1996
ENGL 513
The Writing of Poetry (3 per semester/maximum of 15) For the student with considerable experience in writing poetry; a workshop devoted to advanced poetic technique.
Effective: Fall 1996
ENGL 515
The Writing of Nonfiction (3 per semester/maximum of 15) Supervised workshop in advanced nonfiction techniques.
Effective: Fall 1996
ENGL 521
Old English Language (3) An introduction to the main features of the Old English language; readings in simple Old English prose and poetry.
Effective: Winter 1978
ENGL 522
Beowulf (3) Reading and critical analysis.
Effective: Winter 1978
Prerequisite:
ENGL 521
ENGL 530
The Literature of Biography and Autobiography (1-3 per semester, maximum of 6) Study of biographical and autobiographical theory and practice through analysis of major English and American works in each genre.
Effective: Spring 1992
ENGL 540
Studies in Elizabethan Prose and Poetry (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Major figures studied will vary from year to year. Writers studied might include figures such as Spenser and Sidney.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 541
Medieval Studies (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Studies in medieval English literature. Topics studied might include medieval romances, drama, or major figures aside from Chaucer.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 543
Studies in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Major figures studied will vary from year to year. Writers studied might include Donne, Herbert, Jonson, Bacon.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 545
Chaucer (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Major and minor works of Geoffrey Chaucer. The works studied will vary from year to year.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 546
Milton (3) The poetry and prose of John Milton.
Effective: Winter 1978
ENGL 548
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) English drama from 1558 to 1642, exclusive of Shakespeare.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 549
Shakespeare (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Special problems of sources, chronology, text, characterization, and motivation in the drama.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 550
English Literature 1660-1800 (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Major figures studied will vary from year to year. Writers studied might include Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Fielding, Gibbon.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 553
Literacy Studies (3) An overview of current research on literacy, with particular attention to language, thought, and learning and their applications to writing.
Effective: Spring 2001
Prerequisite:
EDUC 452 orENGL 409 ; Bachelor's Degree and permission of program
ENGL 554
Studies in Early American Literature (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Major figures studied will vary from year to year. Writers studied might include Bradstreet, Taylor, Mather, Franklin, Edwards, Paine.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 558
Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Major figures studied will vary from year to year. Writers studied might include Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, George Eliot, Hardy.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 560
American Romanticism (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Major figures studied will vary from year to year. Writers studied might include Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 561
Studies in the Romantic Movement (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Major figures studied will vary from year to year. Writers studied might include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 562
Studies in the Literature of Victorian England (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Figures will vary from year to year. Writers studied might include Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Newman, Ruskin, Trollope.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 564
Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Writers will vary from year to year. Writers studied might include Cooper, Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 565
Period Studies in African-American Literature (3 per semester/maximum of 9) Studies of periods in African-American literature. Periods might include the Harlem Renaissance or the Black Arts Movement.
Effective: Spring 1998
ENGL 566
Genre Studies in African-American Literature (3 per semester/maximum of 9) Genre will vary from year to year, but will include categories such as poetry, fiction, essays, sermons, autobiographies, short stories.
Effective: Spring 1998
ENGL 567
Thematic Studies in African-American Literature (3 per semester/maximum of 9) Exploration of key concepts in African-American culture as manifested in various literary discourses.
Effective: Spring 1998
ENGL 568
Gender Issues in African-American Literature (3 per semester/maximum of 9) Gender issues in African-American literature and culture. Issues may include the Black woman writer or Gay and Lesbian writers.
Effective: Spring 1998
ENGL 570
The Writer as Critic: Reviewing Contemporary Poetry, Fiction, and Non-Fiction (3) Students will write and revise book reviews of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction for a variety of newspapers and literary magazines.
Effective: Summer 2002
ENGL 571
Writer in the Community (3) Students study the theory and practice of creative writing pedagogy in non-university settings.
Effective: Summer 2009
ENGL 573
Studies in Twentieth-Century British Literature (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Major figures studied will vary from year to year. Writers studied might include Yeats, Conrad, Joyce, Shaw, Lawrence, Auden.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 574
Studies in Twentieth-Century American Literature (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Figures studied will vary from year to year. Writers studied might include Dreiser, Wharton, Eliot, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, O'Neill, Williams.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 575
Experimentation and Modernism in Twentieth-Century British and American Fiction (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Figures studied will be drawn from the era of Joyce and Virginia Woolf to the present.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 576
Studies in Twentieth-Century American Fiction (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Concentrated study in such major American writers as Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 577
Contemporary Fiction (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) Exploration of contemporary English language fiction.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 582
Survey of Contemporary Literary Theory (3) Exploration of the dimensions of discourse as reflected in recent theories of rhetoric, poetics, and literary criticism.
Effective: Summer 1990
ENGL 583
Studies in Critical Theory (1-3 per semester/maximum of 12) Study of specific contemporary critical approaches to literature and application to English and/or American literary works.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 584
Studies in Rhetoric (1-3 per semester/maximum of 12) Specific rhetorical problems, issues, or figures; topics will change from year to year.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 585
Studies in British Fiction (1-3 per semester, maximum of 6) No description.
Effective: Spring 1988
ENGL 586
Readings in Literature (1-12) Programs of readings designed to meet specific needs of individual students.
Effective: Winter 1978
ENGL 588
Studies in American Fiction (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) No description.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 589
Studies in American Poetry (1-3 per semester, maximum of 12) No description.
Effective: Summer 1997
ENGL 590
Colloquium (1-3) Continuing seminars that consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.
Effective: Summer 1996
ENGL 596
Individual Studies (1-12) Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Fall 2009
ENGL 597
Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently; several different topics may be taught in one year or term.
Effective: Spring 1987
ENGL 597A
Feminism and the Girl (3) Feminists maintain a vested interest in girls both as "women-in-training" or little women and as subjects unto themselves.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
ENGL 597B
(WMNST 597B)
Gen(d)ering the Climate Change Crisis: Feminist Narratives of Environment, Ecology, and Epistemology (3) This is a course about the facts and the fictions of climate change, and about feminist critique.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
ENGL 597C
Reading After the Anthropocene (3) Geologists have recently proposed the marking out of a new epoch after the Holocene: the Anthropocene. This course will alternate and literary texts concerned with the topic.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
ENGL 600
Thesis Research (1-15) No description.
Effective: Fall 1983
ENGL 601
Ph.D. Dissertation Full-Time (0) No description.
Effective: Fall 1983
ENGL 602
Supervised Experience in College Teaching (1-3 per semester/maximum of 6) Supervised experience in teaching and orientation to other selected aspects of the profession at The Pennsylvania State University.
Effective: Fall 1983
ENGL 603
Foreign Academic Experience (1-12) Foreign study and/or research constituting progress toward the degree at a foreign university.
Effective: Spring 2000
ENGL 610
Thesis Research Off Campus (1-15) No description.
Effective: Fall 1983
ENGL 611
Ph.D. Dissertation Part-Time (0) No description.
Effective: Fall 1983
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