2016-2017 Undergraduate General Catalog


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ENGL 200W The Literary Experience

An introduction to major literary types including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Course themes and readings vary by section. The writing component consists of three to five essays of analysis and an emphasis on the writing process. To be completed prior to the end of the sophomore year. Prerequisite: ENGL 110 (with a grade of C- or higher)

Credits

3

Prerequisites

ENGL 110 with a C- or higher

ENGL 215W Newspaper Writing: Sports

Conducted as a workshop, this course considers the theory and practice of sports writing for print media. Students will learn how to write a variety of sports stories while studying and critiquing sports writing at a local and national level.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

JOUR 215

ENGL 225 World Literature I

A survey of world literature from 2500 BC to 1650 AD, with special emphasis given to the Mediterranean region. Texts will include drama, fiction, and both narrative and lyric poetry.

Credits

3

ENGL 226 World Literature II

Reading and discussion from the 17th to the 21st century and expanding the scope further outside the European tradition.

Credits

3

ENGL 230 Introduction to British Literary History

An introductory overview of British literature and authors. Emphasis is placed on issues of literary history. Students become familiar with the standard scheme of periodization and learn to think about literature in relation to the currents of history. In addition, they explore such subjects as literary influence, changes in literary technology and the consumption of the written word, changes in identity and colonialism and changing theories about the nature and value of literature.

Credits

3

Prerequisites

ENGL 200

ENGL 239W Advanced Journalism

This course will consider public affairs through coverage of events such as school board and city council meetings. Additional emphasis will be placed on beat reporting, including but not limited to in-depth coverage of issues emerging from areas such as government, science, and health, the economy, religion, and the legal system. Emphasis will be given to creating and using multi-media components to deliver information. Students will advance their philosophy of freedom of the press through the study of various philosophical orientations.

Credits

1- 3

Prerequisites

ENGL 115

Cross Listed Courses

JOUR 239

ENGL 240 Introduction to American Literary History

An overview of the literatures written in the region we now know as the United States from the time of European colonization until the present. Course readings will represent literary periods and movements from the Colonial and Revolutionary periods, to contemporary Postmodernism. Lectures and discussion will consider both the development of American literary traditions and the connections between literature and social phenomena such as first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans, slavery, industrialization, social reform, and the women's movement.

Credits

3

Prerequisites

ENGL 200

ENGL 269 English Grammar

An in-depth study of how English sentences are constructed and how that knowledge can aid in other endeavors such as writing or the study of literature. Structural grammar will be emphasized with comparison to traditional and transformational grammars. The history of the language, morphology, and semantics are included.

Credits

3

Prerequisites

ENGL 200

ENGL 279 History of the English Language

This course introduces students to the historical development of the English language from its origins in Anglo-Saxon to its current incarnations around the globe. Students will learn basic principles of linguistic description and analysis, including phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. In addition, students will examine the role of key literary figures such as Chaucer and Shakespeare in establishing standard dialects and developing vocabulary and syntax.

Credits

3

Prerequisites

ENGL 200

ENGL 289 Seminar in Literary Criticism and Theory

What happens when we read literature? How does a literary work come to "mean"? What do literary texts tell us about the nature of language? What do they tell us about the culture they're part of? Many literary critics and theorists have pondered these questions lately, and we'll explore them too, by studying primary texts in 20th- and 21st- century criticism and theory. The particular focus of the course will vary but will typically involve discussion of structuralism and post-structuralism, feminist criticism, and cultural studies.

Credits

3

Prerequisites

ENGL 200

ENGL 299 Independent Study

An intensive study of an author or of a period on a semi-tutorial basis.

Credits

3- 4