Course Descriptions

 
ENGL 101 English Composition I [  W  1B ] (3)
Fall: All Years        Spring: All Years        Summer: All Years
English Composition I is the foundational writing course; special attention is devoted to learning about and using effective writing processes to create logical, engaging, and grammatically and mechanically correct essays suitable for a variety of audiences and purposes. In addition, students will read, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and integrate appropriately and ethically information and ideas from diverse sources and points of view in their writing.


ENGL 102 Composition and Literature II (4)
Fall: All Years        Spring: All Years        Summer: All Years
The First-Year Composition and Literature II course stresses expository writing (essays that explain, describe, compare, interpret, analyze, and persuade). In this course students will be asked to read and write with thoughtfulness, skill, and honesty, to think critically, to develop and defend their assertions, and to make use of library and other research sources that require crediting the writing of others in a responsible manner. Students will also read numerous works of poetry and drama and other genres.
Prerequisite:  OR CCGE 111 

ENGL 104 Freshman Composition and Literature (1-2)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
This course is designed for transfer students, or for returning MSUM students who, because of curricular conversion, do not have sufficient credits in Freshman English Composition. The course will be tailored to meet the genre or element that is missing (poetry, drama, novel, research paper, etc.). Permission to enroll in this class must be obtained from the Chairperson of the English Department or the Freshman Composition coordinator.


ENGL 105 Honors English: Ideas, Reason and Exploration [  1B ] (3)
Fall: All Years        Spring: All Years       
This course is for students admitted to the Honors Program. This accelerated course is designed to develop writing skills. This course is also designed to fulfill the Written Communication Competencies and Student Learning Outcomes of the Inner Core.


ENGL 111 Composition for Non-Native Speakers [  1B ] (3)
Fall: All Years       
This course serves as the introduction to college writing and focuses on developing reading and writing skills for non-native speakers. The writing environment of English 111 is designed to help promote writing as a process involving several stages that range from proposing a substantial thesis to a final, polished and proofread revision and good paper. English 111 will help students develop effective writing habits. Some attention will be given to English idioms, grammar and stylistics as well as developing rhetorical strategies and competencies.


ENGL 112 Composition and Literature for Non-Native Speakers II (4)
Spring: All Years       
The First-Year International Composition and Literature II course stresses expository writing (essays that explain, describe, compare, interpret, analyze and persuade). In this course, students will be asked to read poetry, drama, and essays and respond critically and thoughtfully as they develop and defend their assertions. Library instruction on research and documentation. Students will also discuss questions of English grammar, usage, and idiomatic situations. This course fulfills the English 102 requirement.


ENGL 159 Cultural Perspectives in Literature [  2 ] (3)
Fall: All Years        Spring: All Years       
This course will increase both student's critical thinking skills and cultural awareness through literature. Students will learn and practice the methods of argument, as they analyze works of literature from different cultures and different perspectives. Students will analyze the positions that writers and speakers take on different issues, and learn essential writing skills.


ENGL 163 Who Is a Hero? [  2 ] (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand       
This course is an introduction to and exploration of literature written by authors who write from a culturally diverse perspective. Students will be asked to analyze, interpret, and compare how the concept of hero is played out within each cultural context.


ENGL 183 Introduction to the American Short Story [  6I  6 ] (3)
Fall: All Years        Spring: All Years       
This course introduces students to the American Short Story from the 19th Century to the present. In this course students will have the opportunity to cultivate an appreciation for American literature, and develop the skills of close reading and analysis of selected works.


ENGL 190 Special Topics: Freshman Composition (1-3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
This is a topical course and may be repeated when the topic changes.


ENGL 200 Introduction to Literary Studies (3)
Fall: All Years        Spring: All Years       
This course introduces students to the basic elements of literary study, including literary analysis, critical interpretation, and theoretical approaches. Students will study a variety of genres and styles from diverse cultural and historical perspectives. Students will also read exemplary pieces of criticism designed to demonstrate the fundamental tenets of a critical approach. Required of all English majors as a prerequisite for all core and major courses.


ENGL 201 English Composition II [  6M  6  11  W ] (3)
Fall: All Years        Spring: All Years        Summer: All Years
This course focuses on analysis and argumentation, with special attention devoted to learning about and producing effective and persuasive academic essays. Many assignments in this course will involve research and thus will require ethical and correct source citation and documentation. Must have successfully completed ENGL 101 or an acceptable placement score.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 101  OR CCGE 111 

ENGL 202 English Composition and Literature [  W  6  6M ] (3)
Fall: All Years        Spring: All Years        Summer: All Years
The First-Year Composition and Literature course stresses expository writing (essays that explain, describe, compare, interpret, analyze, and persuade). In this course students will be asked to read and write with thoughtfulness, skill, and honesty, to think critically, to develop and defend their assertions, and to make use of library and other research sources that require crediting the writing of others in a responsible manner. Students will also read numerous works of poetry and drama and other genres.


ENGL 211 Major British Writers I (4)
Fall: All Years       
Selected major writers through Milton. Some attention to literary criticism and research techniques.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 200 

ENGL 212 Major British Writers II (4)
Spring: All Years       
Selected major writers, Enlightenment through Romantics, Victorians and Moderns. Some attention to literary criticism and research techniques.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 200 

ENGL 214 Introduction to Shakespeare (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
A study of representative plays and poems.


ENGL 234 Mythology (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Introduction to the great myths of Greece and Rome and their influence upon later literature.


ENGL 240 Masterworks (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Extensive reading in a particular literary genre--novel, drama, or poetry.


ENGL 241 Modern American Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Selected major figures of 20th-century American Literature.


ENGL 246 Women in Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
A study of the various ways women are depicted in imaginative literature and expository prose. Readings vary.


ENGL 248 Introduction to American Ethnic Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Significant writers and selected works representing several minority ethnic backgrounds, including African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American. Repeatable if content changes.


ENGL 280 World Literature: East and West [  7M  7 ] (3)
Fall: All Years        Spring: On Demand       
Selected writers or literary traditions in world literature with at least one-half of the course focusing on the non-western literature.


ENGL 282 Literature for Non-Majors [  6M  6 ] (3)
Fall: All Years        Spring: All Years       
This course is designed to introduce students to significant English, American, and World literatures from a variety of periods, cultures, and literary or critical traditions. The course will introduce students to the process of situating works within larger cultural, historical, and/or biographical contexts. Students will also receive instruction in the process of critical and interpretive reading and writing.


ENGL 285 Scriptwriting [  W ] (4)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
An introductory workshop in writing scripts for the stage and the screen. Students will be expected to write a short play and a mini-screenplay of 15-20 pages. Scripts will be work-shopped in class.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 101 

ENGL 286 Practical Writing [  W ] (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study and practice in writing non-academic material linked to the experiences of daily life and to practical career situations.


ENGL 288 Introduction to Creative Writing [  W ] (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Practice in the writing of poetry, short fiction, or drama.


ENGL 290 Topics in English (1-4)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of a particular literary topic: special approaches or procedures related to the study of language or literature. The course may be repeated when the topic changes.


ENGL 301 Medieval British Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of selected major authors and works, sometimes in comparison with European counterparts, exclusive of Chaucer.


ENGL 302 English Renaissance Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of English Renaissance authors, themes, and genres from 1485 through 1649.


ENGL 303 Literature of the English Enlightenment (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of English authors, genres, and themes from the English Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century.


ENGL 305 The Romantic Period (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of British authors, genres, or literary movements from roughly the 1780s through 1830. Some considerations of social and cultural context will be included in this study.


ENGL 306 The Victorian Period (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of British authors, genres, or literary movements from roughly the 1830s through 1900. Some consideration of social and cultural context will be included in this study.


ENGL 307 20th-Century British Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of selected major British authors from the 1890s to the present.


ENGL 309 Studies in American Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of selected subjects, movements, or genres.


ENGL 314 Topics in Shakespeare (3)
Fall: All Years        Spring: All Years        Summer: On Demand
The course emphasizes the skills of close reading as well as understanding Shakespeare's texts within the context of early modern history and culture. In addition to reading a variety of Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, and romances, students will study video taped performances of select passages and scenes in order to analyze and discuss the many different and differing ways the plays can an have been recreated. Students may repeat the course as the covered play texts change.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 200 

ENGL 314T Shakespeare: Theory (1)
Fall: All Years        Spring: All Years       
An examination of Shakespeare's plays from a number of critical perspectives, including New Criticism, New Historicism, Post-colonialism, Queer Theory, Feminism, and others. Students should be simultaneously enrolled in English 314.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 200 

ENGL 317 Young Love [  8 ] (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand       
This course will examine a variety of texts that show young love within a range of different cultural and global settings.


ENGL 321 Early American Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand       
Early-American Literature. Study of authors, genres, or literary movements from the beginnings-1830. Subjects and focus will vary as materials address literature from the moment of Anglo-European-Indigenous contact to the constituting of the New Republic.


ENGL 322 19th-Century American Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Studies of authors, genres, or literary movements in nineteenth-century America. Subjects and focus will vary as materials address the literature of nineteenth-century America.


ENGL 323 20th-21st Century American Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand       
Study of authors, genres, or literary movements from 1900-present.


ENGL 330 Individual Authors (2-3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Intensive study of one or two significant authors.


ENGL 332 Film and the Novel (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Comparative analysis of major novels and their screen adaptations. Focus on aesthetic and interpretative similarities and differences.


ENGL 340 Genre Studies (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Extensive reading in a particular literary genre--short story, novel, poetry, drama, or epic.


ENGL 343 Drama II [  W ] (3)
Fall: All Years       
Representative readings in dramatic literature from Greek theatre to the present day. Greek and Roman tragic and comic playwrights, Aristotelian criticism, and classical theatre history. Early native farce, religious drama, and the drama and theatrical innovations of the Renaissance through the 18th century. Same as THTR 322.


ENGL 344 Drama III [  W ] (3)
Spring: All Years       
Representative readings in dramatic literature from Greek theatre to the present day. The drama of the modern era, beginning with the 19th century Romantics, viewed as a revolutionary, cultural, political and artistic force.


ENGL 352 Native American Literature [  7  7M ] (3)
Fall: All Years        Spring: All Years       
This course is an introduction to and an exploration of literature written by Native Americans. Texts read in this course are produced by writers of Native American descent. Course presents core texts (fiction, essays, poetry, drama) in the development of literary history of western Indian writers with an emphasis on contemporary literature.


ENGL 354 Non Fiction Writing (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Writing of non-fiction prose; partly a dialogue on the form and theory of non-fiction, but mainly a workshop centered on the practice of non-fiction writing.


ENGL 356 African American Literature (3)
Fall: Even Years        Spring: Even Years       
The focus of the course is the African-American literary tradition. This survey course covers African-American writing from slave narratives to the present. Because of the historical sweep of the course, students will read broadly, rather than intensively--with any one writer. Students will also be instructed in the historical background for the writings.


ENGL 365 Language and Learning (3)
Fall: All Years       
An interdisciplinary approach to theories of language development, and language as a mode of learning.


ENGL 371 Survey of American Literature I (4)
Fall: All Years       
Historical and critical study of authors, genres, and literary movements from early American writings through American Romanticism. Authors may include William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 200 

ENGL 372 Survey of American Literature II (4)
Spring: All Years       
Historical and critical study of authors, genres, and literary movements from 19th Century American Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Post-Modernism to the present. Authors may include Henry James, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Audust Wilson, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Louise Erdrich.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 200 

ENGL 380 World Literature [  8 ] (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of selected world masterpieces grouped by theme or genre.


ENGL 387 Technical Report Writing [  W ] (4)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Expository writing dealing with subjects in student's major and planned for a specialized audience: documenting, writing abstracts, preparing reports of original investigations. Recommended for students who have taken classes in their major.


ENGL 388 Creative Writing [  W ] (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
The writing of poetry, short fiction, plays, or film. Partly a dialogue on contemporary writing, but mainly workshop. May be repeated up to three times for credit if the genre changes.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 288  OR ENGL 285 

ENGL 390 Special Topics (1-4)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of a particular literary genre, topic, or theme.


ENGL 394 Advanced Composition (3)
Spring: All Years       
Principles of clear and effective writing, elements of the writing process, research and methods in teaching, responding to, and evaluating writing.


ENGL 395 Theory and Methods of Tutoring [  W ] (3)
Spring: All Years       
Presentation and discussion of theories and methods for conference teaching and the writing process. Writing and responding to writing to facilitate thinking about the course content. Observing and conducting tutorial sessions to gain hands-on experience in tutoring/teaching. This course is a prerequisite for students who wish to work as tutors in The Write Site. It's a relevant course for any prospective secondary English teachers.


ENGL 402 Introduction to Publishing (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand       
This course familiarizes students with small press publishing and with the various facets of the writing, publication and marketing processes. It also includes an orientation to New Rivers Press, a working non-profit press located at MSUM, and a daylong field trip to various publishing facilities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.


ENGL 407 Big City, Big Impact [  10 ] (3)
Fall: Even Years        Spring: Even Years       
This course uses a variety of texts for an exploration of the environmental and social impacts of big city life, as shown by various writers.


ENGL 409 Studies in American Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand       
Study of selected topics, movements, or genres.


ENGL 410 Studies in British Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of selected topics, movements, or genres.


ENGL 411 Chaucer (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of selected major works and their background.


ENGL 413 Writing About Art [  W ] (3)
Fall: Even Years        Spring: Even Years       
This course features writing about art, the visual arts particularly. It is a writing intensive course where we build and refine skills in writing about art, and we write about art to inform, persuade, clarify and account for our responses to works of art. All formal writing assignments written in response to gallery visits in the F/M area will pass through an in-class edit for the purposes of developing plans for revision of the writing.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 101 

ENGL 417 Issues of Death & Grief: Creative Non-Fiction of Life & Loss [  9 ] (3)
Fall: Odd Years       
Within the gravities of life and death, love and grief, there is a search for understanding and healing. This course is designed to help students understand that death and grief present choices and changes that face us as citizens within a community of loved ones. During this course, students will consider the importance of care and customs surrounding death and dying and the value of honest dialogue when grief is set upon individuals struggling with loss. This course will develop students' awareness of the ethical dimensions of personal decisions (for self and others in the realm of loss, the business of mourning and the pain of grief) and to cultivate their deliberative skills through respectful engagement with others whose views differ.


ENGL 423 Writing for Children [  W ] (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand       
This course is a writing intensive course that focuses on writing for children and adolescents. Students will read several texts written for young readers and analyze the craft of writing in each. Students will also complete practice writing exercises that are specific to the conventions of genres in children's literature, workshop and revise major writing assignments, and produce a final polished project of a collection of poetry, a first chapter in fiction, or a short story.


ENGL 430 Individual Authors (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Intensive study of one or two significant authors.


ENGL 450 Critical Traditions (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Principal works of literary aesthetics and criticism from selected periods in history.


ENGL 462 Practicum in Publishing (3)
Fall: All Years       
This course is designed to familiarize students to the working functions of a small press literary publishing house through lectures, demonstrations, and supervised group activities such as participating on editorial book teams, writing teacher guides for the website for New Rivers Press books, developing marketing plans, reading tours, distributor marketing packets etc. All projects are presented in class to foster a broader class understanding of the overall activities of a small press.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 402  OR MC 402 

ENGL 463 History of the English Language (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
A survey of the early history of the English language, its sounds and its grammar, emphasizing Old English and its literature or Middle English and its literature.


ENGL 469 Internship (1-12)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Supervised employment requiring substantial writing practice in government or private agency. Repeatable up to a total of 12 credits. All credits apply toward graduation, but only three may count toward a major or writing minor in English. Six credits accepted toward the B.A., Writing Emphasis.


ENGL 480 Advanced World Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Intensive study of selected world masterpieces from one language, in translation.


ENGL 485 Topics:Authors (1-2)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of selected authors. May be repeated when topic changes.


ENGL 487 Advanced Technical Report Writing [  W ] (4)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Process-oriented writing class that emphasizes theoretical aspects of audience analysis, principles of document organization and design, and technical editing. Students will also learn how to design effective document supplements and visuals. Students will also learn about and use various research techniques. Course is conducted through lectures, group and individual discussions, collaborative writing, and hands-on work in the library and computer labs. ENGL 487 culminates in a professional website and an online portfolio.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 387 

ENGL 488 Advanced Creative Writing [  W ] (4)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Advanced work in writing of poetry, short fiction, plays or film offered once a year in Spring as a Capstone course choice for Writing Majors. Students may repeat course once when genre changes.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 388 

ENGL 490 Special Topics (1-4)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand       
This is an upper division topical course and may be repeated when the topic changes.


ENGL 491 Methods of Teaching English [  W ] (4)
Spring: All Years       
Current practices and trends in teaching and assessing communication arts/literature in grades 9-12.


ENGL 493 Grammars of English (3)
Spring: All Years       
A survey of the history of language study, of the history of the English language, and of the various kinds of grammars: traditional, structural, and transformational.


ENGL 494 Teaching English in Middle/Junior High (3)
Fall: All Years       
Review of current trends in communication arts/literature education in middle school and junior high (grades 5-9). The course teaches approaches and techniques for teaching and assessing literacy and examining adolescent/young adult literature and media.


ENGL 495 Advanced Study in Language or Literature (1-3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of selected topics, individual authors, genres or movements in linguistics or in American, British or world literature. The course may be offered as a seminar, as an independent study, or as a adjunct to another class taught by the same instructor. Repeatable when subject matter varies.


ENGL 496 Literature Capstone Seminar [  W ] (4)
Fall: All Years        Spring: All Years       
Study of selected topics, individual authors, genres or movements in American, British or World literature. Required for BA literature majors and open to BA Writing majors and BS English majors. The course is offered once per semester. It includes multiple approaches to analyzing literature and a documented research paper of substantial length with an extensive annotated bibliography. The capstone serves as a culminating course for academic study in English. Students are encouraged to take the capstone in their senior year.


ENGL 497 Tutorial (1-3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
The consideration of various problems in literature or language agreed upon by the instructor and the student.


ENGL 502 Introduction to Publishing (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand       
This course familiarizes students with small press publishing and with the various facets of the writing, publication and marketing processes. It also includes an orientation to New Rivers Press, a working non-profit press located at MSUM, and a daylong field trip to various publishing facilities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.


ENGL 509 Studies in American Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of selected topics, movements, or genres.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 102 

ENGL 510 Studies in British Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of selected topics, movements, or genres.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 102 

ENGL 511 Chaucer (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of selected major works and their background.


ENGL 513 Writing About Art (3)
Fall: Even Years        Spring: Even Years       
This course features writing about art, the visual arts particularly. It is a writing intensive course where we build and refine skills in writing about art, and we write about art to inform, persuade, clarify and account for our responses to works of art. All formal writing assignments written in response to gallery visits in the F/M area will pass through an in-class edit for the purposes of developing plans for revision of the writing.


ENGL 517 Issues of Death & Grief: Creative Non-Fiction of Life & Loss (3)
Fall: Odd Years       
Within the gravities of life and death, love and grief, there is a search for understanding and healing. This course is designed to help students understand that death and grief present choices and changes that face us as citizens within a community of loved ones. During this course, students will consider the importance of care and customs surrounding death and dying and the value of honest dialogue when grief is set upon individuals struggling with loss. This course will develop students' awareness of the ethical dimensions of personal decisions (for self and others in the realm of loss, the business of mourning and the pain of grief) and to cultivate their deliberative skills through respectful engagement with others whose views differ.


ENGL 523 Writing for Children (3)

This course is a writing intensive course that focuses on writing for children and adolescents. Students will read several texts written for young readers and analyze the craft of writing in each. Students will also complete practice writing exercises that are specific to the conventions of genres in children's literature, workshop and revise major writing assignments, and produce a final polished project of a collection of poetry, a first chapter in fiction, or a short story.


ENGL 530 Individual Authors (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Intensive study of one or two significant authors.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 102 

ENGL 562 Practicum in Publishing (3)
Fall: All Years       
This course is designed to familiarize students to the working functions of a small press literary publishing house through lectures, demonstrations, and supervised group activities such as participating on editorial book teams, writing teacher guides for the website for New Rivers Press books, developing marketing plans, reading tours, distributor marketing packets etc. All projects are presented in class to foster a broader class understanding of the overall activities of a small press.


ENGL 563 History of the English Language (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
A survey of the early history of the English language, its sounds and its grammar, emphasizing Old English and its literature or Middle English and its literature.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 102 

ENGL 580 Advanced World Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Intensive study of selected world masterpieces from one language, in translation.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 102 

ENGL 585 Topics:Authors (1-2)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Prerequisite:  ENGL 102 

ENGL 588 Advanced Creative Writing (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Advanced work in writing of poetry, short fiction, plays or film. Usually offered as a tutorial or independent study. Student may repeat it once when genre changes.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 388 

ENGL 591 Teaching English in Secondary Schools (3)
Spring: All Years       
Current practices in teaching secondary English; possible observation of secondary classes; discussion of curriculum, approaches, and techniques.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 102 

ENGL 593 Grammars of English (3)
Spring: All Years       
A survey of the history of language study, of the history of the English language, and of the various kinds of grammars: traditional, structural, and transformational.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 102 

ENGL 594 Teaching English in Middle/Junior High (3)
Fall: All Years       
Review of current trends in adolescent and young adult literature. Approaches and techniques for teaching reading and for studying literature in junior and senior high school. May be repeated after five years with consent of instructor.
Prerequisite:  ENGL 102 

ENGL 595 Advanced Studies in Language or Literature (1-3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand        Summer: On Demand
Study of selected topics, individual authors, genres or movements in linguistics or in American, British or world literature. The course may be offered as a seminar, as an independent study, or as an adjunct to another class taught by the same instructor. Reapeatable when subject matter varies.


ENGL 596 Capstone Seminar (4)
Fall: All Years        Spring: All Years       
Study of selected topics, individual authors, genres or movements in linguistics or in American, British or world literature. Is offered once per semester. It includes multiple approaches to analyzing literature and a documented research paper of substantial length with an extensive annotated bibliography.


ENGL 674 Teaching Composition and Literature (3)
Fall: On Demand        Spring: On Demand       
Students will study varied approaches to teaching composition, including composition history, course design, assignment planning, assignment sequencing, response to and evaluation of student writing.