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Course Descriptions

 

English (ENGL)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • ENGL 108 - (LT) Re-Coding Literature: Introduction to Digital Humanities

    Semester Hours: 3 s.h.

    Periodically

    This course explores the promise and limitations of using computing and digital technologies to undertake and present literary analysis.  Topics may include data visualization, text encoding and text analysis, digital archives and digital editions, humanities gaming, and digital storytelling.  This course introduces digital tools as well as humanistic questions concerning aesthetics, ethics, access and inclusion raised by the use of such tools.  Students will encounter those digital tools as they analyze literary texts. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 .
  

  • ENGL 109 - Examining Narrative Medicine

    Semester Hours: 3-4
    Narrative Medicine is designed to foster critically engaged empathy in a clinical setting. The field draws on literature, film, media, philosophy and the clinical sciences to enable clinicians to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness.  Through closely examining such texts, students will develop an understanding of the role of narrative in the clinical setting as well as an appreciation of narratives about medicine.  Students will write papers that demonstrate close reading, the ability to read texts against one another, and/or to apply theoretical material to narrative texts.  Reading will include literature, theoretical texts and reflective work by physicians. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . Same as WSC 109 .  May not be taken on a Pass/D+/D/Fail basis.  Credit given to this course or WSC 109 , not both.
  
  
  

  • ENGL 113 - (LT) Inventing Identities: Yeats, Heaney, and the Emergence of Modern Irish Poetry

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically

    This course deals with the significant work of Irish poets writing in English during the modern period. The course begins with the work of W.B. Yeats, who was writing at a critical moment in Irish history, and who exercised an influence on world literature. The study of texts by Yeats and other prominent Irish poets, such as Seamus Heaney, enables students to develop an understanding of both the nature of an aesthetic work and the critical tools that can be brought to its appreciation.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . Same as IRE 113 .
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • ENGL 119 - Milton: Literature, Liberty, Revolution

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    An examination of Milton’s poetry and prose. Attention is given to such issues as the persona he constructs, his representations of kingship and revolution, and his treatments of marriage and gender. Students come to appreciate some of the literary forms, poetic conventions, and religious, social and political traditions to which Milton was responding and from which he was departing.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . (Formerly Milton.)
  

  • ENGL 120 - (LT) British Drama from 1660 to 1789

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    This course examines the many shifts and transformations in British drama from the Restoration through the 18th century. Dramatists of the period drew upon innovations in theatrical architecture, set design, scenery, lighting, music, and sound to transform their plays into spectacular, sometimes outrageous, events that explored topics such as politics, urban life, religious conflict, gender relations, and class warfare.  Readings may include plays by William Wycherley, George Ethredge, Aphra Behn, William Congreve, John Gay, Oliver Goldsmith, and Richard Sheridan. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001 . (Formerly English Drama from 1660 to 1789.)
  

  • ENGL 121 - (LT) The Novel Before 1900

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    The development and variety of the novel form from its beginnings in the 18th century through the 19th century, the great age of the novel. Representative of the major novelistic traditions of those centuries in England, America, France, and Russia, examples studied may include such works as Tom Jones, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Madame Bovary, and The Brothers Karamazov.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . (Formerly Studies in the Novel I.)
  
  
  
  

  • ENGL 125 - (LT) Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    This course explores the interrelations between psychology and literature.  Questions to be considered may include the following: Why and how does the mind spontaneously produce and respond to stories?  How do metaphors guide thinking?  Why do readers care about fictional characters?  Readings may include poems by Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth and short stories or novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Philip Roth, Eudora Welty, Jamaica Kincaid, Richard Wright, and Roald Dahl.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . Credit given for this course or ENGL 198T, not both. (Formerly ENGL 198T, Readings in Literature or Special Studies: Literature and Psychology: Narrative Selves.)
  
  

  • ENGL 127 - Shakespeare’s Comedy

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Comedy is a dramatic structure in which the reversal of fortune goes from bad to good, and moves toward the resolution of social conflicts through recognition, union, and reunion. For Shakespeare, this means the formation of a new society out of a flawed one, through the institutions of class and marriage. This class will trace that idea through several of Shakespeare’s so-called “Comedies” written at various points in his career, with an eye toward investigating both the “romantic” and “anti-romantic” interpretations of these works.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 .
  

  • ENGL 128 - (LT) British Gothic Fiction and Modern Horror

    Semester Hours: 3 s.h.

    Periodically

    This course examines how British Gothic fiction, often set in the hidden chambers and subterranean passages of foreboding castles, brings repressed tales of subjugation to light and thus critiques oppressive political regimes, systematic injustices, and tyrannical parental figures.  Course texts may include:  Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto; Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents; Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights; Rebecca du Maurier’s Rebecca; and Neil Gaiman’s Coraline.  This course will also explore how the gothic genre has been adapted into films such as Black Swan and Ex Machina. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001 . Credit given for this course or ENGL 194B, not both. (Formerly ENGL 194B, British Gothic and Modern Horror.)

     
  

  • ENGL 129 - (LT) The 18th Century

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    Typically short, frequently satirical works in prose and verse from the later 17th century to 1800, the period when emerging middle- and lower-class kinds of literature challenged traditional aristocratic kinds. The flourishing of such genres as mockepic, periodical essay, biography, and novel, and of such major authors as Dryden, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, and Blake.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 .
  
  
  
  

  • ENGL 136 - Beat Generation

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    This course will introduce students to the culture of conformity of American postwar society and examine the rebellion against it by the poets and novelists of the Beat Generation, writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. We will examine why these writers were dissatisfied during such an affluent time in America, why they chose to rebel against the dominant ideas and values, and how this rebellion shaped revolutionary new forms of writing.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . (Formerly 182J.)
  
  
  

  • ENGL 139 - (LT, CC) The African Novel

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    Introduces selected African novelists of the 20th century such as Chinua Achebe, Sembene Ousmane, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Bessie Head, Buchi Emecheta and Solomon Mutswairo. Analysis of African literary themes, such as traditional and modern conflicts, resistance to colonialism, effects of independence, neocolonial dilemmas and images of the African woman.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Same as AFST 139 .
  

  • ENGL 140 - African American Literature Before 1920

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    The origins of an African American literary tradition from the Colonial period to the early 20th century. Themes include the African Diaspora, slavery, folk culture, race, and social equality. Such authors as Equiano, Wheatley, Douglass, Brown, Jacobs, Harper, Washington, and Du Bois.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . Credit given for this course or AFST 140 , not both. (Formerly African American Literature I.)
  

  • ENGL 141 - (LT) African American Literature: The Harlem Renaissance and After

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    The growth of African American literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Such topics as migration, African heritage, protest, vernacular, and gender. Writers include Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Brooks, Ellison, Baldwin, Baraka, Walker, Morrison, and Wilson.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . Credit given for this course or AFST 141 , not both. (Formerly African American Literature II.)
  

  • ENGL 142 - The American Renaissance, 1820-1860

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    A study of a period in American literary history so rich, it as been called “the American Renaissance.” Works by such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Poe, Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Whitman and Dickinson. The development of a distinctively American literature is studied in the context of the revolutionary changes and deep conflicts that characterized American life in this period.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 .
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • ENGL 151 A-Z - Special Topics: Major Authors

    Semester Hours: 3
    This course explores the works of either one author or two significantly related authors who have contributed to literatures written in English. The authors studied will vary.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001 . May not be taken on a Pass/D+/D/Fail basis.  As individual authors are selected, each is assigned a letter (A-Z) which is affixed to the course number. Specific titles and course descriptions for special topics courses are available in the online class schedule. 
  

  • ENGL 152 - Literary Perspectives on Children’s and Young Adult Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    This course examines children’s literature by bringing to bear theories and approaches to narrative and genre that illuminate issues of class, gender, ethnicity, colonialism, disability and other topics of concern to both children and adults. The class pays special attention to the concepts, values and assumptions about childhood and adolescence held by authors, audiences, publishers, and critics and to how these conceptions influence the aesthetic qualities, ethical concerns, and narrative techniques evident in this important body of work.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . May not be taken on a Pass/D+/D/F basis.  Credit given to this course or ENGL 198W, not both. May not be taken on a Pass/D+/D/Fail basis. (Formerly, ENGL 198W)
  
  
  

  • ENGL 155 - (LT) Childhood and Adolescence in Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    This course examines representations of the child and young adult in literature in order to explore the ways in which they revise, complement, contradict, or illuminate our notions of childhood and, implicitly, ourselves. Topics may include: the invention of childhood, the idealization or demonization of children and young adults, the child’s perspective as a medium of critique, and childhood and fantasy. Readings may include Songs of Innocence and Experience, Huckleberry Finn, Alice in Wonderland, Little Women, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Tar Beach.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 .
  

  • ENGL 156 - The Bible as Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    The aim of this course is to view the Bible as, firstly, a major work of literature and history, and secondly, as a major sourcebook of myth, story, metaphor, and images that have shaped Western literature and art. We will look at the impact of the Bible on English and American literature and explore it as the testing ground for modern theories of literary criticism. Along the way, we will take note of the original languages of the Bible, the art of translation, and some of the theological concepts that have given the Bible its distinctive place in literature and history.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . May not be taken on a Pass/D+/D/Fail basis.
  
  
  
  

  • ENGL 161 - (LT) How The Simpsons Saved American Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    The Simpsons have explored, adapted and parodied many pieces of American literature.  The works studied (Huckleberry Finn, Citizen Kane, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Music Man, Wiseguys, Goodfellas, and The Natural, among others) examine the following themes in American literature: the roles of men and women, family values, heroes and role models, American ingenuity, the underdog and the outlaw, and success.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . (Formerly 192C.)
  

  • ENGL 162 - (LT) Law and Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Consideration of the interrelations of law and literature, especially of the ways law, lawyers, and trials have been represented in fiction. The course explores the ways literature illuminates how the rule of law may be compromised by corruption, incompetence, state power, ethnic and gender discrimination, and verbal craft. Works may include Antigone, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Billy Budd, The Trial, The Crucible, and Twelve Angry Men.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 .
  

  • ENGL 163 - (LT) Contemporary Irish American Literature and Culture

    Semester Hours: 3
    This course surveys Irish American literature, music and film in several distinct units, beginning with the history of the Irish in America and concluding with the contemporary Irish American mystique. We will examine the breadth of Irish American identity, from the Westies to JFK, and from F. Scott Fitzgerald to the Dropkick Murphys and Black 47.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . Same as IRE 163 .
  
  
  
  
  

  • ENGL 168 - (CC, LT) Caribbean Experience in Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    An exploration of the literature of the English-speaking Caribbean (Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, and Trinidad). Emphasis is placed on the ways in which this literature deals with the experience of slavery, colonization, and independence and the ways in which it treats such issues and themes as regional identity, color, race, class, gender, and family relations. Attention is also given to the ways in which the literature and culture of the Caribbean makes use of such cultural elements as Carnival and vernacular Africanized English known as patois and creole.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . Same as AFST 168 .
  

  • ENGL 169 - (LT) Renaissance Pick-Up Artists

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    This course explores early modern English love poetry by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in England during the 16th and 17th centuries. Students study these poems in the context of pastoral and courtly love traditions and examine the relationship between English poems and their classical and medieval predecessors. Readings include poems by Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Andrew Marvell, John Donne, Robert Herrick, Mary Wroth, Katherine Philips, John Wilmot, and Aphra Behn.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . (Formerly ENGL 184H, (LT) Readings in Literature or Special Studies: Renaissance Pick-up Artists – 16th and 17th Century Love Poems.)
  
  

  • ENGL 171 - The History of the Book

    Semester Hours: 3-4
    Once a Year
    This course introduces students to the cultural and material history of the book. Topics may include the technologies of book production, the development of manuscript, print, and digital cultures, the economics of the book trade, the establishment of copyright laws, the impact of reading, writing, and literacy on society, the role of libraries and universities in the dissemination of books and book learning, and the advent of modern editorial practices

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . (Formerly The History of Publishing in America.)
  

  • ENGL 172 - Editing Fundamentals

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall

    This course will instruct students in the practices that make up the complete process of editing a book: both copy and manuscript editing. Students will learn the processes of production editing and proofreading, the symbols used by proofreaders in the editing process, the proper way to use printer’s marks, and how to mark up a manuscript to make it ready for the printer. Oral presentation required.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . Students taking the Publishing Studies concentration must take ENGL 172.
  

  • ENGL 173 - Book Editing II

    Semester Hours: 3

    Spring

    This course explores practices that make up the complete editing of a book: copy and manuscript editing. These include production editing, proofreading, symbols, printer’s marks and marking up a manuscript ready for the printer as well as use of a style book. Students will edit and produce a book made up from work done by students in the creative writing workshops.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  and ENGL 172 .

     
  
  
  
  
  

  • ENGL 177A - Textbook Publishing

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically

    This course will instruct students in the categories within the textbook division–the various age levels and the fields of study–of a publishing house.  The course will emphasize to students the editorial practices essential to a clear presentation of information. Students will be instructed in the nature of marketing, distribution, and promotion. Students will edit one entire manuscript including copy editing, proofreading, design, and production. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 .
  

  • ENGL 178A - Literary Publishing

    Semester Hours: 3
    This course interrogates the art and business of publishing in multiple genres (fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction) and media (commercial and independent-press books, literary magazines, and digital platforms).   Case studies illuminate the meaning and import of publication and what happens to texts once they are published.  Students follow a manuscript from inception to publication with attention to the roles of professionals (writers, agents, acquiring editors, international scouts, book reviewers, designers, publicists) who participate in that process.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001 and ENGL 172.
  
  
  

  • ENGL 178D - Digital Publishing

    Semester Hours: 3
    This course explores the practices, issues, and opportunities digital technology has introduced into the publishing industry.  Discussions and readings address content acquisition and development, archiving and asset management, digital formats (e-books, digital downloads, digital audiobooks), the role of search engines, the content aggregator landscape, sales trends and  the analysis of  digital market, and challenges to traditional business models.  This course considers how digital media alter reading and writing as a cultural practices and publishing as a cultural forum. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . Credit will be given for this course or ENGL 190X, not both.
  

  • ENGL 179A - Book Design and Production

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall

    This course will explore the fundamentals of book design, production and manufacturing, including aesthetics and economic considerations. Type selection, page design, materials selection and manufacturing processes are discussed. Includes instruction and practice in the use of desktop publishing and image processing software.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    No liberal arts credit. Credit given for this course or ENGL 197V, not both. (Formerly 178D, Desktop Publishing for Book Publishing.)
  

  • ENGL 180 - (LT) The Outlaw in American Literature: An Irish-American Perspective

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    The hostile reception met by Irish immigrants arriving in America in the 18th and 19th centuries contributed to many of them becoming outlaws. Authors often cast outlaw narratives as romantic stories of rebels fighting oppression. Viewing the literature both in its historical context and through its present-day evaluations, this course endeavors to understand the beliefs, myths, and legends surrounding outlaws that constitute an important Irish contribution to American culture.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Same as IRE 180 .
  

  • ENGL 181 - (LT) The Graphic Novel

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    This course examines the literary genre of the graphic novel, which, like all comics, juxtaposes words and images to convey a story, whether fiction or non-fiction. Graphic novels typically address complex and challenging issues and topics, such as violence, trauma, sexuality, gender, and race. We will look at the narrative techniques and forms specific to the genre and the broader history of comics and visual narrative in order to better understand the place of the graphic novel within that history. Works to be considered may include Maus, Persepolis, Fun Home, Watchmen, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid in the World, A Contract with God, Blankets, and Ghost World.  

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . (Formerly ENGL 196B)
  

  • ENGL 182 to 184 A-Z - Readings in Literature or Special Studies

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    Each semester, the department offers several “special studies” courses. These courses deal with specific issues, themes, genres, and authors. Intensive study of major authors and/or literary themes. Subjects to be selected yearly.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  or WSC 002 . The topics of the “special studies” courses change every semester. Please consult the English Department Course Description Booklet for topics offered in a particular semester.
  

  • ENGL 185 - (LT) Revolutions: British Literature After 1945

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    An overview of British literature from the end of World War II to the present day. Texts will be examined against the backdrop of historical events such as postwar austerity, the end of the British Empire, the evolution of a multicultural Britain, and the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s. Authors may include Elizabeth Bowen, Phillip Larkin, Muriel Spark, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Angela Carter, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, and Andrea Levy, among many others.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001 . (Formerly British Literature After 1945.)
  

  • ENGL 186 - (LT) Other Britons: The Literature of Multicultural Britain

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    An exploration of works by and about Britons of color since the end of World War II, with emphasis on issues of postcolonialism and postimperialism during the decades in which Britain has become a multiracial society. Authors may include Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie, Buchi Emecheta, Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Andrea Levy, Monica Ali, Sam Selvon, E. R. Braithwaite, Helen Oyeyemi, and Caryl Phillips, among others.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001 . [Formerly (LT) The Literature of Multicultural Britain.]
  

  • ENGL 187 - (LT) Modern British Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    This course examines the response of modern British writers to the cultural, technological, social, sexual, political, and philosophical upheavals in Britain after the Victorian Age—that is, from the death of Queen Victoria (1902) to the start of World War II (1939). Readings may include works by British and Anglo-Irish authors such as W.B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bowen, W. H. Auden, and Evelyn Waugh, among others.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001 . (Formerly ENGL 198N.)
  
  

  • ENGL 189 - Contemporary British Theater

    Semester Hours: 3
    January
    Students in this course read, study, discuss, and write about British and Irish theater since World War II. Among the playwrights to be studied are Samuel Beckett, Noel Coward, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, David Hare, Alan Ayckbourn, Peter Shaffer, and George Bernard Shaw. Since the course is taught in London, class work is supplemented with five performances of contemporary plays and world theater classics (depending on what is being staged in London at the time). Additionally, the course includes tours of Shakespeare’s Globe and the Royal National Theatre. The course also introduces students to London as one of the major literary and dramatic capitals of the English-speaking world. The British Library is used as a major resource for literary research.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001 . May be repeated once for credit. (Formerly ENGL 184G.)
  

  • ENGL 190 A-Z - Special Studies in Literature

    Semester Hours: 1-3
    Fall, Spring
    Each semester, the department offers several “special studies” courses. These courses deal with specific issues, themes, genres, and authors. Intensive study of major authors and/or literary themes. Subjects to be selected yearly.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001 . The topics of the “special studies” courses change every semester. Please consult the English Department Course Description Booklet for topics offered in a particular semester. (Formerly Readings in Literature or Special Studies.)
  

  • ENGL 191 - Internship

    Semester Hours: 1-6
    Periodically
    English majors and minors are encouraged to find, in not-for-profit groups as well as in for-profit organizations, internships in which they will apply skills learned in their English major or minor to work outside the academic setting.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001  and prior approval by the department chairperson. A minimum GPA of at least 3.0 is required for student eligibility for participation in internship courses. A preliminary interview will be held with the student and the department chairperson or the faculty internship director to establish the nature of the academic work associated with on-site work of the internship. There will be a minimum of three meetings (one at the beginning of the internship, one around mid-term, and one at the end of the work experience). A minimum of 28 hours of on-site work per semester hour is required, accompanied by a minimum of 10 hours of academic work per semester hour—for example, reading, research, and a term paper or final project, to be determined by faculty adviser in conjunction with student. Final grade will be based on both academic and on-site performance. An on-site evaluation of “poor” will result in a final grade no higher than C. May be repeated for up to 6 s.h.; only 3 s.h. of ENGL 191 may be applied toward the minor in English  ; 6 s.h. may be applied toward the major in English . May not be taken on Pass/D+/D/Fail basis.



  
  

  • ENGL 192 A-Z - Special Studies in Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    Each semester, the department offers several “special studies” courses. These courses deal with specific issues, themes, genres, and authors. Intensive study of major authors and/or literary themes. Subjects to be selected yearly.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001 . The topics of the “special studies” courses change every semester. Please consult the English Department Course Description Booklet for topics offered in a particular semester. (Formerly Readings in Literature or Special Studies.)
  

  • ENGL 193 - (LT) Medical Science Fiction

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    This course in science fiction focuses on medicine and the broader health and life sciences. Treating works ranging from early modern fiction to contemporary bestsellers, the course delves into our continuing fascination with healing and the definition of the human person. From its beginnings, medical science fiction has always asked challenging questions such as: What does it mean to be human? To be healthy? To be diseased? Is health care a right or a commodity? What is the role of disease presentation in natural selection? How does/should the medical profession respond to public fears about genetic engineering and mutation? Writers may include H G. Wells, Octavia Butler, Michael Crichton, Mary Shelley and William Gibson. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001 .
  
  
  
  
  

  • ENGL 196 A-Z - Readings in Literature or Special Studies

    Semester Hours: 1-3
    Fall, Spring
    Each semester, the department offers several “special studies” courses. These courses deal with specific issues, themes, genres, and authors. Intensive study of major authors and/or literary themes. Subjects to be selected yearly.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001 . The topics of the “special studies” courses change every semester. Please consult the English Department Course Description Booklet for topics offered in a particular semester.
  

  • ENGL 196D - (LT) Disability in Literature and Culture

    Semester Hours: 3
    Spring
    This course examines the representation of disability in Western literature and culture. The overriding concerns of the course will be with how the body’s shape and capacities have been assumed to determine character and fate, how physical and mental impairments have been used in literature to signify moral and psychological states, and how representation may challenge conventional conceptions of “normality” and “disability.” Literary texts from various periods will be supplemented with some nonliterary texts and documentary films.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001 . Same as DSST 002 .
  

  • ENGL 198 A- Z - (LT) Special Studies in Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    Each semester, the department offers several “special studies” courses. These courses deal with specific issues, themes, genres, and authors. Intensive study of major authors and/or literary themes. Subjects to be selected yearly.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    WSC 001 . The topics of the “special studies” courses change every semester. Please consult the English Department Course Description Booklet for topics offered in a particular semester. (Formerly Readings in Literature or Special Studies.)
  

English Language Program (ELP)
  

  • ELP 011A - Introductory Reading Comprehension

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring, Summer
    Development of reading skills including vocabulary development, comprehension and study skills, and critical evaluation of written materials.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    This course is part of Level I, Introductory Intensive English, an accelerated program providing intensive instruction and practice in reading, writing and speaking English for students whose native language is not English. Level I consists of two components: 1) Reading and Writing; 2) Conversation and Language Laboratory. Each component is based on a grammatical syllabus. Grading is mandatory Pass/Fail. No degree credit.
  

  • ELP 012A - Introductory Grammar

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring, Summer
    The introduction and development of the fundamental aspects of English grammar and structure.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    This course is part of Level I, Introductory Intensive English, an accelerated program providing intensive instruction and practice in reading, writing and speaking English for students whose native language is not English. Level I consists of two components: 1) Reading and Writing; 2) Conversation and Language Laboratory. Each component is based on a grammatical syllabus. Grading is mandatory Pass/Fail. No degree credit.
  

  • ELP 013A - Introductory Conversation

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring, Summer
    Selected readings and discussions with stress on the audio-lingual aspect of the language and the development of verbal communication skills.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    This course is part of Level I, Introductory Intensive English, an accelerated program providing intensive instruction and practice in reading, writing and speaking English for students whose native language is not English. Level I consists of two components: 1) Reading and Writing; 2) Conversation and Language Laboratory. Each component is based on a grammatical syllabus. Grading is mandatory Pass/Fail. No degree credit.
  

  • ELP 014A - Introductory Language Laboratory and Tutorial

    Semester Hours: 4
    Fall
    Supervised laboratory and tutorial work on specific weaknesses in spoken English. For beginning ELP students.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    This course is part of Level I, Introductory Intensive English, an accelerated program providing intensive instruction and practice in reading, writing and speaking English for students whose native language is not English. Level I consists of two components: 1) Reading and Writing; 2) Conversation and Language Laboratory. Each component is based on a grammatical syllabus. Grading is mandatory Pass/Fail. No degree credit.
 

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