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Course Number: 0301
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Integrated Reading and Writing Course Description: ENGL 0301 is a co-requisite course for entering students scoring below the required TSI score for reading and/or writing. Students must enroll in ENGL 1301 and ENGL 0301 concurrently. ENGL 0301 provides additional instruction and practice in reading and writing, supplementing the ENGL 1301 instruction. Additional instruction includes reading strategies, the writing process, writing workshops, and grammar instruction. |
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Course Number: 101
Credit Hours: 0 Title: English NCBO Course Description: This is a placeholder course. |
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Course Number: 1301
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Composition I Course Description: Basic forms of expository writing. Frequent themes. Collateral reading in articles and essays of a factual and informative type. This course is prerequisite to ENGL 1302 and 1374. (NOTE: ENGL 1301 and one other course from ENGL 1302 or 1374 will satisfy the general degree requirement in composition. A student may receive credit for only one such course in a semester.) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer |
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Course Number: 1302
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Composition II Course Description: Forms of expository and analytical writing. Topics for composition suggested from wide reading in at least two of the three genres: prose fiction, poetry, and drama. Research paper required. |
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Course Number: 2300
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Close Reading II Course Description: A close reading of related themes, authors or periods and/or a close viewing of films with related themes or makers. The course will focus on literature, the arts, politics, philosophy or culture. It will not take the place of other 2000 level courses that require ENGL 1301 and 1302. It will not take the place of ENGL 1302. It is intended for students who do not take 6 hours of composition. |
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Course Number: 2322
Credit Hours: 3 Title: British Literature Course Description: The study of six-to-ten major works of British literature dating from its Anglo-Saxon origins to the present. |
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Course Number: 2326
Credit Hours: 3 Title: American Literature Course Description: Six-to-ten major works of American literature, including both the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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Course Number: 2331
Credit Hours: 3 Title: World Literature Course Description: Six-to-ten major monuments of world literature, from classical antiquity to the present century. |
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Course Number: 2376
Credit Hours: 3 Title: African-American Literature Course Description: Significant contributions to African-American literature from Colonial times to the present. |
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Course Number: 3310
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Technical Report Writing Course Description: Supervised preparation of technical and scientific reports according to standard usage recommended by professional scientific and engineering societies. |
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Course Number: 3311
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Professional Writing Course Description: Supervised preparation of professional reports according to standard usage recommended by professional societies. |
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Course Number: 3316
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Poetic Analysis Course Description: Forms and techniques and the critical evaluation of poetry. |
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Course Number: 3320
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Child & Adolescent Lit Course Description: Literature about or for children and adolescents and the special features and concerns of the genre. May be taken for credit more than once if the topic varies. |
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Course Number: 3322
Credit Hours: 3 Title: American Lit Before 1865 Course Description: The development of American literature from the era of exploration and colonization through the Romantic period. Selection representative of each epoch and various genres and themes of American literature. |
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Course Number: 3324
Credit Hours: 3 Title: American Lit After 1865 Course Description: The development of American literature from the era of Realism to the present. Selection representative of the various literary movements, genres, and themes of modern American literature. |
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Course Number: 3326
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Advanced Expository Writing Course Description: Focus on developing skills in literary analysis and critical essays. Attention to MLA documentation, style and grammar. |
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Course Number: 3330
Credit Hours: 3 Title: World Lit Before 1600 Course Description: Survey of major works of world literature to 1600. Includes works from a variety of western and non-western cultures in a variety of genres. |
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Course Number: 3332
Credit Hours: 3 Title: World Lit After 1600 Course Description: Survey of major works of world literature since 1600. Includes works from a variety of western and non-western cultures in a variety of genres. |
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Course Number: 3340
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Mythology Course Description: Mythologies of the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Norse peoples and other cultures. |
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Course Number: 3350
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Creative Writing Course Description: A workshop approach to the writing of poetry, fiction and drama. May be taken for credit more than once when the genre focus varies. |
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Course Number: 3360
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Short Story Course Description: The technique of the short story; its historical development; study and analysis of great short stories. |
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Course Number: 3370
Credit Hours: 3 Title: The Drama Course Description: The historical development of the drama from Aeschylus to the present. Intensive study of selected plays. |
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Course Number: 3380
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Studies in the British Novel Course Description: The tradition of the British novel, eighteenth century to the present. |
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Course Number: 3382
Credit Hours: 3 Title: British Literature Before 1800 Course Description: The development of British Literature from the development of the written language in Great Britain through the end of the 18th century. Selections representative of each epoch and various literary movements, genres, and themes of British Literature. |
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Course Number: 3384
Credit Hours: 3 Title: British Literature After 1800 Course Description: The development of British Literature from the Romantic period to the contemporary era. Selections representative of each epoch and various literary movements, genres, and themes of British Literature. |
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Course Number: 3390
Credit Hours: 3 Title: American Novel Course Description: History, growth and technique of the American novel. |
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Course Number: 3392
Credit Hours: 3 Title: African American Literature Course Description: Exploring literary form through the study of selected African American writers in order to understand the African American search for identity. |
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Course Number: 4310
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Teaching of Writing Course Description: An introduction to major theories of composition, to research in the teaching of composition, and to pedagogical techniques for teaching writing. |
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Course Number: 4311
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Special Topics in Comparative Literature Course Description: Intensive study of an author or authors, genre or period selected from the range of world literature. Emphasis or analysis and literary method. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 semester hours when the topic varies. |
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Course Number: 4312
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Studies Language & Linguistics Course Description: Special problems in linguistics, such as the history of American English, regional dialects, new grammars. May be taken for credit more than once if the topic varies. |
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Course Number: 4314
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Studies in Critical Theory Course Description: Advanced study of the relationship between form and content in various modes of media, discourse, and criticism. Emphasis on major figures and methodology in contemporary literary theory. |
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Course Number: 4315
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Studies in Womens Literature Course Description: Poetry, prose, and/or drama by women from classical times to the present. May be taken for credit more than once if the topic varies. |
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Course Number: 4316
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Studies Victorian Literature Course Description: Poetry and prose of the Victorian period. May be taken for credit more than once if the topic varies. |
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Course Number: 4317
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Modern Drama Course Description: Dramatic trends and representative plays from Ibsen to the present. |
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Course Number: 4318
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Modern Poetry Course Description: Poetic developments in England and America with emphasis on representative poets from Hardy to the present. |
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Course Number: 4319
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Modern Fiction Course Description: Prose fiction representative of modern ideas and trends, with emphasis on English and Continental authors. |
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Course Number: 4326
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Am Lit Renaissance 1820-1860 Course Description: Major authors of period from Poe to Melville. |
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Course Number: 4327
Credit Hours: 3 Title: American Realism 1860-1900 Course Description: Major authors of the period from Whitman to Norris. |
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Course Number: 4329
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Modern American Literature Course Description: Major American writers of the 20th century. |
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Course Number: 4332
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Special Topics in Non-Traditional Literatures Course Description: Study of different forms of literary expression in regional, alternative, genre or minority literatures. This course may be repeated for a total of 6 credits when the topic varies. |
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Course Number: 4333
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Special Topics: Author Course Description: Major writer such as Chaucer, Milton, Hawthorne, Faulkner. May be taken for credit more than once when the topic varies. |
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Course Number: 4334
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Critical Studies in Literature Course Description: A particular genre or theme in comparative literature or criticism. May be taken more than once for credit when the topic varies. |
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Course Number: 4335
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Intro to the Profession Course Description: Introduction to the professional expectations and opportunities available with a B.A in English, including vocational opportunities and advanced degrees. |
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Course Number: 4336
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Directed Studies Course Description: Study in literature in an area of mutual interest. May be taken for credit more than once if topic varies. |
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Course Number: 4340
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Shakespeare Course Description: Selected major plays. May be taken for credit more than once if the topic varies. |
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Course Number: 4342
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Academic Writing Course Description: Theories of rhetoric and composition related to writing for academic publication. |
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Course Number: 4344
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Special Topics: Writing Workshop Course Description: Intensive study in writing, focusing on student work through a workshop format. May be repeated if the content varies. |
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Course Number: 4345
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Writing Seminar Course Description: Intensive study in writing, focusing on specific topics, with either a technical or creative emphasis. May be taken more than once for credit if the topic varies. |
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Course Number: 4346
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Special Topics: Rhetoric Course Description: Advanced study of rhetorical and discourse analysis of speeches and texts. May be taken for credit more than once if the topic varies. |
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Course Number: 4347
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Multimedia Course Description: Theories of rhetoric and composition related to writing for the web and producing multimedia genres. Explores the history of writing technologies as well as how these impact texts and the writing process. |
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Course Number: 4351
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Studies in Literature Before 1800 Course Description: Study of the development of literature before Romanticism. May be repeated one additional time when topic varies. |
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Course Number: 4365
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Internship Course Description: An opportunity to work in real world work setting in activities related to professional communication and technical writing. Successful completion of Freshman Composition (6 hours) and Sophomore Literature (3 hours) core curriculum components required for enrollment in all 3000-4000-level courses. |
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Course Number: 4381
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Studies in 18th Century Lit Course Description: Poetry, prose and drama of the period 1660-1800. May be taken for credit more than once if the topic varies. |
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Course Number: 4392
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Studies in Romantic Literature Course Description: Poetry, prose and drama of the Romantic period. May be taken for credit more than once if the topic varies. |