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2016-2017 Graduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy)
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2016-2017 Graduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy) 
    
 
  May 20, 2024
 
2016-2017 Graduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy) [Archived Catalog]

Course Descriptions


 
  
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    ENCP 737 - Entrepreneurial Laboratory

    Credits: 6

    Supervised experience in the field of technology innovation and engineering entrepreneurship.

  
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    ENCP 789 - Advanced Special Topics in Engineering and Computing

    Credits: 0-3

    Special topics of an interdisciplinary nature for graduate students of engineering and computing. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by suffix and title. May be repeated as topic varies.

  
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    ENGL 550 - Advanced English Grammar

    Credits: 3

    Practical survey of the syntactic structures of English; usage, social and regional variation emphasis on data.

    Cross-listed Course: LING 521

    Prerequisites: ENGL 450/LING 421 or ENGL 680/LING 600

  
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    ENGL 565 - African American Theatre

    Credits: 3

    The major movements, figures, plays, and critical strategies that have marked the development of African American theatre in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

    Cross-listed Course: THEA 565, AFAM 565

    Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalentENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent

  
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    ENGL 600 - Seminar in Verse Composition

    Credits: 3

    First half of a year-long course in the writing of poetry taught by a contemporary poet. Limited to 15 students.

    Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent

  
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    ENGL 601 - Seminar in Verse Composition

    Credits: 3

    Second half of a year-long course in the writing of poetry taught by a contemporary poet. Limited to 15 students.

    Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent

  
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    ENGL 602 - Fiction Workshop: Short Story

    Credits: 3

    Instruction in the writing of short fiction taught by a contemporary prose writer. May be repeated once for credit.

    Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent

  
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    ENGL 603 - Nonfiction Prose Workshop

    Credits: 3

    Instruction in the writing of the nonfiction essay taught by a contemporary prose writer.

    Prerequisites: graduate status in the English department, or permission of instructor for undergraduates

    Note: May be repeated once for credit.

  
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    ENGL 604 - Seminar in Composition for the Visual Media

    Credits: 3

    Writing for the visual arts, the student will write a treatment (prospectus) and one or more multimedia scripts; or one or more teleplays; or a feature-length screenplay. Limited to 15 students.

    Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent; ENGL 565 or equivalent experience in film as determined by the instructor

  
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    ENGL 605 - Seminar in Composition for the Visual Media

    Credits: 3

    Writing for the visual arts, the student will write a treatment (prospectus) and one or more multimedia scripts; or one or more teleplays; or a feature-length screenplay. Limited to 15 students.

    Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent; ENGL 565 or equivalent experience in film as determined by the instructor

  
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    ENGL 606 - Playwriting Workshop

    Credits: 3

    Instruction in playwriting taught by a contemporary playwright.

    Prerequisites: graduate status in the English department, or permission of instructor for undergraduates

    Note: May be repeated once for credit.

  
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    ENGL 610 - Fiction Workshop: Book-Length Manuscript

    Credits: 3

    Instruction in the writing of book-length manuscripts taught by a contemporary prose writer. May be repeated once for credit.

    Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent

  
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    ENGL 611 - Writing the Longer Nonfiction Project

    Credits: 3

    Instruction in the writing of a book-length nonfiction memoir or literary journalism project taught by a contemporary prose writer.

    Prerequisites: graduate status in the English department, or permission of instructor for undergraduates

  
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    ENGL 612 - Writing Poetry: Traditional and Modern Forms

    Credits: 3

    The writing of traditional and modern poetic forms. Exercises will give practice in composing metered and free verse. Representative masterpieces of traditional and modern poetry will also be studied.

    Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent

    Note: May be repeated once for credit.

  
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    ENGL 613 - Writing the Full-Length Play

    Credits: 3

    Instruction in the writing of a full-length, two-act play for publication or production.

    Prerequisites: graduate status in the English department, or permission of instructor for undergraduates

    Note: May be repeated once for credit.

  
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    ENGL 615 - Academic and Professional Writing

    Credits: 3

    A workshop course in the development and revision of writing for academic and professional audiences.

    Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent

  
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    ENGL 616 - Writing Children’s and Young Adult Literature

    Credits: 3

    Critical study and practical crafting of literature for children and/or young adults, exploring the demands of these genres both through the reading of representative works and relevant secondary sources and through the writing of creative works.

    Note: Excluded: Undergraduate students must receive permission of instructor

  
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    ENGL 620 - Computer Methods for Humanistic Problems

    Credits: 3

    Introduction to data processing concepts suitable for research interests in non-numerical areas such as the humanities.

    Cross-listed Course: CSCE 508

    Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent

  
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    ENGL 620P - Laboratory for Computer Methods for Humanistic Problems

    Credits: 1

    Broad but intensive introduction to computer systems and programming for students in the humanities. No mathematical or scientific background is presumed. Laboratory experience with data-processing equipment; introduction to elementary digital computer programming in an appropriate language.

    Corequisite: ENGL 620

    Cross-listed Course: CSCE 508L

    Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent

  
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    ENGL 650 - Special Topics in Literature

    Credits: 1-3

    Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by suffix and title. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

    Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent

  
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    ENGL 680 - Survey of Linguistics

    Credits: 3

    Survey of core areas of linguistics and extensions to closely related disciplines. Introduction to the linguistic component of human cognition. Formal description and analysis of the general properties of speech and language, the organization of language in the mind/brain, and cross-linguistic typology and universals.

    Cross-listed Course: ANTH 600, LING 600

  
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    ENGL 690 - Special Topics in Composition

    Credits: 3

    Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by suffix and title. Limited to 15 students.

    Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent

  
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    ENGL 691 - Teaching of Literature in College

    Credits: 2

    Introduction to the methods of teaching literature, with emphasis on current pedagogical practice and theory and applications of electronic media.

    Note: The course meets during the first seven weeks of the term and provides supervision of graduate students teaching ENGL 101.

    Restricted to graduate students.

  
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    ENGL 692 - Teaching of Composition in College

    Credits: 1

    Introduction to the methods of teaching composition, with emphasis on current pedagogical practice and theory and applications of electronic media.

    Prerequisites: The course meets during the first seven weeks of the term and provides supervision of graduate students teaching ENGL 102.

    Restricted to graduate students.

  
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    ENGL 700 - Introduction to Graduate Study of English

    Credits: 3

    Lectures, discussions, and practical assignments in the history, principles, and methods of research into writings in English, taught by various members of the department.

    Note: Recommended for M.A. and Ph.D. students in the first year of course work

  
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    ENGL 702 - Old English

    Credits: 3

    Introduction to the grammar and syntax of Old English and a study of important short poems.

  
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    ENGL 703 - Beowulf and Old English Heroic Verse

    Credits: 3

    A study of Beowulf in its literary and historical setting.

  
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    ENGL 705 - Chaucer

    Credits: 3

    A study of the works of Chaucer with emphasis on The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.

  
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    ENGL 708 - Medieval Literature

    Credits: 3

    Survey of selected principal works of Old English, Middle English, and medieval continental literature; emphasizes cultural backgrounds and medieval development of literary forms.

  
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    ENGL 710 - The Renaissance

    Credits: 3

    Study of representative poetic, dramatic, and prose works of 16th-century England.

  
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    ENGL 711 - Shakespeare I: The Comedies and Histories

    Credits: 3

    Survey of leading examples of the two genres in relation to the conditions of Shakespeare’s time and modern critical views of the plays.

  
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    ENGL 712 - Shakespeare II: The Tragedies

    Credits: 3

    Survey of the development of Shakespearean tragedy in relation to the drama of the time and modern criticism.

  
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    ENGL 713 - Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline Drama to 1642

    Credits: 3

    A survey of Tudor and Stuart drama to 1642. Genres include: comedy, history, tragi-comedy, and tragedy by such playwrights as Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Middleton, Webster, and Ford.

  
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    ENGL 715 - English Non-Dramatic Literature of the Earlier 17th Century

    Credits: 3

    Major poets (such as Donne, Herbert, and Jonson) and prose writers (such as Brown and Burton) from 1600 to 1660, exclusive of Milton; emphasizes the relationship of their poetry to the period and modern critical theories.

  
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    ENGL 716 - Milton

    Credits: 3

    Study of Milton’s poetry and prose; emphasizes his major works.

  
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    ENGL 717 - English Literature of the Restoration and Earlier 18th Century

    Credits: 3

    A survey of English poetry, prose, and drama of the Restoration and earlier 18th century.

  
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    ENGL 718 - English Literature of the Later 18th Century

    Credits: 3

    A survey of English poetry, prose, and drama of the later 18th Century.

  
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    ENGL 720 - The English Novel Before 1800

    Credits: 3

    Early appearances of the genre and directions taken by it in the 18th century. Selected readings by such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, and Smollett, and relevant scholarship.

  
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    ENGL 723 - English Poetry of the Romantic Period

    Credits: 3

    Poetry of Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and their contemporaries. Intensive study of several of these poets to illustrate the character of the period; some attention is given to important statements of poetic theory.

  
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    ENGL 724 - English Prose and Novel of the Romantic Period

    Credits: 3

    Works by such novelists as Austen and Scott and their contemporaries; essayists and literary critics representative of the period. Emphasis can vary.

  
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    ENGL 725 - The English Novel of the Victorian Period

    Credits: 3

    Survey of the development of the novel form, with study of major and lesser-known figures, in relation to social change and publishing conditions; authors include Dickens, George Eliot, and Hardy.

  
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    ENGL 726 - Victorian Poetry

    Credits: 3

    Survey of major and selected minor Victorian poets; emphasizes the development of Victorian poetic theory and the contemporary critical response.

  
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    ENGL 727 - Victorian Prose, Excluding the Novel

    Credits: 3

    Survey of the major Victorian prose writers in the areas of political, social, religious and aesthetic debate; authors include Carlyle, Newman, and Matthew Arnold.

  
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    ENGL 728 - British Drama From 1800 to the Present

    Credits: 3

    A survey of drama in the 19th century (poetic drama, melodrama, comedy of manners, farce, extravaganza, etc.), with plays representing each type and intensive study of a few dramatists of the present century (e.g., Shaw, Eliot, Pinter). Social and theatrical background emphasized; traces dramatic developments from one period to another.

  
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    ENGL 729 - British Poetry Since 1900

    Credits: 3

    Survey of British poetry in this century, with special emphasis on Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, and Auden and his group.

  
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    ENGL 730 - Modern British Fiction

    Credits: 3

    Survey of British fiction in this century, with special emphasis on Conrad, Lawrence, and Joyce.

  
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    ENGL 732 - Principles in Literary Criticism

    Credits: 3

    Principles and theory of literary criticism. Includes practice in the application of interpretive methods to particular texts.

  
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    ENGL 733 - Classics of Western Literary Theory

    Credits: 3

    Problems of literary theory in texts from the ancients to the 17th century, with an emphasis on the classical tradition.

    Cross-listed Course: CPLT 701

  
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    ENGL 734 - Modern Literary Theory

    Credits: 3

    Problems of literary theory from the 18th century to the 1960s.

    Cross-listed Course: CPLT 702

  
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    ENGL 735 - Post-Colonial Literature and Theory

    Credits: 3

    A close examination of post-colonial literatures of the 20th century.

  
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    ENGL 737 - Topics in British Women Writers

    Credits: 3

    Selected topics related to works by British women authors from various periods, regions, or genres. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

  
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    ENGL 738 - Topics in American Women Writers

    Credits: 3

    Selected topics related to works by American women authors from various periods, regions, or genres. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

  
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    ENGL 742 - American Colonial and Federal Literature

    Credits: 3

    The first two centuries of America’s literature and the religious and political issues that informed it. Authors include Edward Taylor, Benjamin Franklin, and Jonathan Edwards.

  
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    ENGL 744 - American Romanticism

    Credits: 3

    Survey of leading romantic and/or transcendental writers of the 19th century such as Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, and Melville.

  
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    ENGL 745 - American Realism and Naturalism

    Credits: 3

    Survey of major writers in the post-Civil War period: Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Mark Twain, and Stephen Crane.

  
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    ENGL 750 - The American Novel to the Civil War

    Credits: 3

    Development of the American novel from its genesis. Includes such authors as Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville.

  
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    ENGL 751 - The American Novel from the Civil War to World War I

    Credits: 3

    Survey of the American novel in relation to the literary theory of the time. Includes such authors as Twain, Howells, James, and Dreiser.

  
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    ENGL 752 - The Modern American Novel

    Credits: 3

    Developments in modern American fiction. Includes such authors as Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Wright.

  
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    ENGL 753 - The American Novel Since World War II

    Credits: 3

    Contemporary developments in fiction. Includes such authors as Updike, Pynchon, DeLillo, Morrison, Silko, Mukherjee, and Cisneros.

  
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    ENGL 755 - American Drama

    Credits: 3

    Twentieth-century American playwrights, including O’Neill, Williams, Miller, and Albee.

  
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    ENGL 756 - The History of the Book in America to 1900

    Credits: 3

    Survey of the history of the book, bookmaking, and bookmakers (authors, editors, printers, and publishers) in America to 1900.

  
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    ENGL 757 - Twentieth Century African-American Literature

    Credits: 3

    Characteristics of 20th-century African-American literature.

  
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    ENGL 758 - Southern Literature Before 1900

    Credits: 3

    Colonial and 19th-century Southern literature through the work of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, William Gilmore Simms, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, and Kate Chopin.

  
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    ENGL 759 - Southern Literature After 1900

    Credits: 3

    Twentieth-century Southern literature through the work of authors such as Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, William Styron, and Alice Walker.

  
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    ENGL 760 - American Poetry Since 1900

    Credits: 3

    Examination of modern and contemporary American poetry. Includes such authors as Eliot, Pound, Frost, Stevens, Dickey, Lowell, and Wilbur.

  
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    ENGL 761 - Survey of 20th-Century British and American Poetry

    Credits: 3

    A study of modern poetry from Whitman, Dickinson, and Hardy to Richard Wilbur and Philip Larkin.

  
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    ENGL 762 - Literary and Historical Approaches to Children’s Literature

    Credits: 3

    Critical approaches to literature written for children in a variety of historical periods and geographical regions.

    Note: Effective: Fall 2012

  
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    ENGL 763 - Literary and Historical Approaches to Young Adult Literature

    Credits: 3

    Critical approachs to literature written for young adults in a variety of historical periods and geographical regions.

  
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    ENGL 765 - Advanced Film Study

    Credits: 3

    Methods of film analysis, resources for research, and the major critical theories.

    Cross-listed Course: CPLT 765

  
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    ENGL 776 - Introduction to Bibliography and Textual Studies

    Credits: 3

    Introduction to analytical, descriptive, and textual bibliography, and to the principles and practice of editing.

    Cross-listed Course: CLIS 716

  
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    ENGL 781 - History of English Language

    Credits: 3

    The historical background of Modern English with attention to the major linguistic and cultural developments which distinguish English from other related languages. No prior knowledge of Old English or Middle English is required.

    Cross-listed Course: LING 731

  
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    ENGL 782 - Varieties of American English

    Credits: 3

    Social and regional variation in American English since the colonial period.

    Cross-listed Course: LING 745

  
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    ENGL 788 - Stylistics

    Credits: 3

    Linguistic analysis of literary texts. Linguistic definition of style; stylistic choices as the author’s voice.

    Cross-listed Course: LING 781

  
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    ENGL 789 - Poetics

    Credits: 3

    The question of meaning in poetry with special attention to linguistic structure as the source of that meaning; also prosody and related formal effects.

  
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    ENGL 790 - Survey of Composition Studies

    Credits: 3

    Comprehensive survey of the history and development of composition studies, and of the present state of knowledge about theories, principles, and practices in the field.

  
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    ENGL 791 - Introduction to Research on Written Composition

    Credits: 3

    Introduction to the types and methods of research on written composition, both qualitative and quantitative, with intensive analysis of representative exemplars of these types and methods.

  
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    ENGL 792 - Classical Rhetoric

    Credits: 3

    Survey of ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory.

    Cross-listed Course: SPCH 792

  
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    ENGL 793 - Rhetorical Theory and Practice, Medieval to Modern

    Credits: 3

    Survey of major theories of rhetoric from medieval to modern times.

    Cross-listed Course: SPCH 793

  
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    ENGL 794 - Modern Rhetorical Theory

    Credits: 3

    Survey of 20th-century contributions to rhetorical theory.

    Cross-listed Course: SPCH 794

  
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    ENGL 795 - The Teaching of Business and Technical Writing

    Credits: 3

    A study of theory and practice in business, technical, and scientific writing with emphasis on the pedagogical materials and techniques available to the business and technical writing teacher.

  
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    ENGL 796 - Special Topics in the Teaching of English

    Credits: 1-3

    Exploration of issues relevant to the teaching of literature, composition, rhetoric, or speech communication.

    Prerequisites: consent of instructor

    Note: May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

  
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    ENGL 797 - Current Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition

    Credits: 3

    Close study of annual issues of recent journals in the field to identify current trends in research and models for scholarly writing.

    Prerequisites: consent of instructor

  
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    ENGL 799 - Thesis Preparation

    Credits: 1-9

  
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    ENGL 800 - Studies in Old and Middle English Language and Literature

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

  
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    ENGL 801 - Studies in Old and Middle English Language and Literature

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

  
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    ENGL 802 - Studies in Old and Middle English Language and Literature

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

  
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    ENGL 810 - Studies in 16th- and Earlier 17th-Century English Literature

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

  
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    ENGL 811 - Studies in 16th- and Earlier 17th-Century English Literature

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

  
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    ENGL 812 - Studies in 16th- and Earlier 17th-Century English Literature

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

  
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    ENGL 813 - Studies in 16th- and Earlier 17th-Century English Literature

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

  
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    ENGL 815 - Studies in Restoration and 18th-Century English Literature

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

  
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    ENGL 820 - Studies in Romantic and Victorian Literature

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

  
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    ENGL 821 - Studies in Romantic and Victorian Literature

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

  
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    ENGL 825 - Studies in Modern British Literature

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

    Note: May be repeated twice as topics vary.

  
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    ENGL 830 - Studies in Literary Criticism

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

    Note: May be repeated as topics vary.

  
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    ENGL 831 - Theory of Prose Fiction

    Credits: 3

    Various types of prose fiction from folk tales and fables to short stories and novels; including historical changes in fictional forms, the function of technical devices, and modern theories of narrative.

  
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    ENGL 832 - Theory of Poetry

    Credits: 3

    A study of various aspects of poetry as an art form, including rhythm, meter, sound, color

  
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    ENGL 840 - Studies in American Literature

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

  
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    ENGL 841 - Studies in American Literature

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

  
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    ENGL 842 - Studies in American Literature

    Credits: 3

    Topics selected by the instructor for specialized study.

 

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