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Undergraduate Programs
intended for students who already have a command
of essay writing skills. Includes work on
cultivating an effective style and a methods component
for prospective writing and language-arts
teachers at all levels. Prerequisite: ENGL 101.
ENGL 317. Creative Writing
Workshop
3 credits
A workshop focusing on the creative forms of
poetry and fiction. Student work forms the center
of the course, supported by outside reading and
writing exercises. Prerequisite: ENGL 101.
ENGL 318. Tutorial Writing
1 credit
Theory and practice of tutoring writing. Course
has specific applications for students tutoring
writing in the Student Success Center. Instructor
approval required.
ENGL 319. Environmental Writing 3 credits
An examination of the student’s view of the
nature of place through writing. Course also
explores the character of literary natural history
and surveys contemporary authors who write it.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101.
ENGL 320. Writing Topics
3 credits
A workshop focusing on a specific writing genre
or theme such as autobiography, journaling,
biography, spiritual reflection, art and theater
reviews, humor, or playwriting. Reading, writing
exercises, and discussion create the context for
student writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 101.
+ENGL 341. American Poetry 3 credits
An exploration of the American voice in poetry.
Writers may include early poets such as Taylor and
Bradstreet; 19th-century poets such as Whitman
and Dickinson; early- and mid-20th-century poets
such as Pound, Williams and Hughes; and contemporary
poets such as Rich, Ginsberg and Jordan.
+ENGL 343. American Realism
and Naturalism
3 credits
An exploration of realism and naturalism in context
of social changes and scientific beliefs in late
19th- and early 20th-century America. Writers
may include Twain, Howells, James, Chopin,
Wharton, Gilman, DuBois, Washington, Norris,
Crane and Dreiser. Prerequisite: ENGL 101.
+ENGL 344. Modernism
3 credits
An intercultural and multinational examination
of “modern” forms, concepts, and sensibilities
during the early 20th century. Writers may
include Joyce, Woolf, Hemingway, Faulkner,
Mann, Toomer, Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Stevens and
O’Neill. Prerequisite: ENGL 101.
+ENGL 345. Twentieth-Century Fiction 3 credits
A critical examination of the distinguishing characteristics
of modern fiction from Britain, Europe
and the Americas, possibly considering formal
properties of the novels as well as modern cultural
and social issues. Prerequisite: ENGL 101.
+ENGL 346. Contemporary Fiction
A study of fiction in the last 25 years.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101.
3 credits
ENGL 350. Independent Study 1–3 credits
Advanced critical study or research in an area
agreed upon by student and instructor. Topics
are not taught in regularly offered courses. May
be scheduled for a maximum of three credits.
+ENGL 360. Advanced Topics 3 credits
An advanced study of specific literary forms,
themes, movements or authors. Topics will be
announced each semester the course is offered.
ENGL 400. Writing Internship 1–6 credits
Supervised experience working as a writer in a
professional environment. Competitively selected
candidates will keep a journal, write a summative
reflective paper and submit a portfolio of written
work.
WI-ENGL 401. Senior Seminar 3 credits
A capstone to the major in English, including a
research paper which uses critical and scholarly
methods to explore a student-selected topic.
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