2008-2009 Graduate Catalog - Catalog of Studies - University of ...

The Graduate School Departments and Course Descriptions
4. To strengthen and support a field of specialization, each student
may take up to six hours of graduate course work in other departments.
Subject to the approval of the student’s adviser, these hours
will count toward the 24-hour course requirement for the degree.
5. Students in the doctoral program are required to complete 24
semester hours of course work for graduate credit beyond the
M.A. degree. This work must include at least one course in critical
theory and at least four seminar courses, at least one of which must
be in the field of specialization.
6. With the consent of the Graduate Studies Committee, students
will declare a field of specialization. This declaration will be made
prior to the completion of the candidate’s first year of doctoral
studies; it must be made before arranging to take the written candidacy
examinations. The field of specialization may be a period
(Medieval, Renaissance to 1660, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century
British, Nineteenth-Century British, Twentieth-Century British,
American to 1900, Twentieth-Century American) or an area
(Southern Literature and Culture, World Literature and Culture
in English, American Multiculturalism, Gender Studies, Film and
Media Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Popular Culture
and Popular Genres, and Literary History). In conjunction with
their committee and with the approval of the Director of Graduate
Studies, students may propose additional fields if their particular
projects do not fit within any of the suggested areas.
7. Students must notify the Director of Graduate Studies in the department
of their intention to take the candidacy examinations a
month before the end of the term preceding the date of the examinations,
which will be scheduled by the student in consultation
with the committees administering the examinations. At the time
they take the candidacy examinations, students must have a gradepoint
average of 3.50 for courses taken beyond the master’s degree.
The grade point will be on the following scale: A, 4.00; A-, 3.66;
B+, 3.33; B, 3.00; etc. The plus and minus ratings are recorded on
the student’s record in the Department of English only and do not
appear on the official record in the Registrar’s Office.
8. Each student must pass the following candidacy examinations:
a. A take-home written examination in the field of specialization.
b. A three-hour oral examination on a specific topic within the
student’s broad field, approved jointly by the student and the
exam committee. Students may retake only once any examination
they fail.
9. Upon successfully completing the candidacy exams, each student
must submit a dissertation proposal to be discussed and approved
in a formal meeting with the student’s dissertation committee.
10. Within the time limits specified by the Graduate School, each
student must submit a dissertation acceptable to the student’s dissertation
committee.
11. Each student must pass a dissertation defense administered by
the student’s dissertation committee.
Secondary Emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition: Students earning
the Doctor of Philosophy in English or the Master of Fine Arts in Creative
Writing may choose Rhetoric and Composition as a field of secondary emphasis.
Students who choose this option are required to do the following:
1. Take ENGL 5003 Composition Pedagogy, ENGL 5973 or 6973
Topics in Rhetoric and Composition, and ENGL 4003 English
Language and Composition for Teachers or COMM 5303 Classical
Rhetoric.
2. Teach five different writing courses offered by the English
Department.
3. Pass a one-hour oral examination in the area.
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English (ENGL)
ENGL4003 English Language and Composition for Teachers (Fa) Subject matter
and methods of approach for the teaching of composition in high school.
ENGL4073 Film Writing Workshop (Irregular) A workshop in writing the screenplay
with close attention given to student manuscripts and adaptations. Prerequisite: Advanced
standing.
ENGL4303 Introduction to Shakespeare (Sp, Su, Fa) Extensive reading in Shakespeare’s
comedies, histories, tragedies, and nondramatic poetry.
ENGL4503 Introduction to Literary Theory (Irregular) A historical survey of literary
theory from Plato onwards.
ENGL4533 Studies in Literature and Gender (Irregular) The study of a special
topic involving literature and gender. Content varies. May be repeated for up to 9 hours of
degree credit.
ENGL4543 Studies in Literature and Multiculturalism (Irregular) The study
of literature and multiculturalism, with attention to particular themes, genres, authors, literary
movements, historical moments, or other organizing principles. At least one major paper will be
required. Content varies. May be repeated for up to 9 hours of degree credit.
ENGL4563 Topics in Major Authors (Irregular) The concentrated study of works by
one or more major authors. At least one major paper will be required. Content varies. May be
repeated for up to 9 hours of degree credit.
ENGL4603 Special Studies (Irregular) Concentrated study of a specific topical area
related to literature and culture but not otherwise encompassed by the curriculum. Content
varies. May be repeated for up to 3 hours of degree credit.
ENGL5003 Composition Pedagogy (Fa) Introduction to teaching college composition.
Designed for graduate assistants at the University of Arkansas.
ENGL5013 Creative Writing Workshop (Irregular)
ENGL5023 Writing Workshop: Fiction (Irregular)
ENGL5033 Writing Workshop: Poetry (Irregular)
ENGL5043 Translation Workshop (Irregular) Problems of translation and the role of
the translator as both scholar and creative writer; involves primarily the discussion in workshop
of the translations of poetry, drama, and fiction done by the students, some emphasis upon
comparative studies of existing translations of well-known works. Primary material will vary.
Prerequisite: reading knowledge of a foreign language. (Same as FLAN 504V) May be
repeated for up to 15 hours of degree credit.
ENGL507V Creative Non-Fiction Workshop (Irregular) (1-3) The theory and
practice of the “New Journalism” with a study of its antecedents and special attention to the
use of “fictional” techniques and narrator point of view to make more vivid the account of real
people and real events.
ENGL5083 Professing Literature (Irregular) An introduction to the profession of literary
scholarship and the teaching of literature at the college level.
ENGL510V Readings in English and American Literature (Irregular) (1-6)
Open to Honors candidates and graduate students.
ENGL5173 Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture (Irregular) Subject matter
changes depending on student interest and faculty expertise. May be repeated for up to 12
hours of degree credit.
ENGL5183 The Structure of Present English (Sp) Structural analysis of the
language.
ENGL5203 Introduction to Graduate Studies (Irregular) Students learn to carry
out and report on literary research. Practical assignments introduce them to the reference
collections, professional journals, and microform texts with which scholars work. Meanwhile,
advanced explication and composition exercises work on perfecting the students’ control over
the design and style of the articles they write.
ENGL5223 Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (Irregular) Subject
matter changes depending on student interest and faculty expertise. May be repeated for up to
12 hours of degree credit.
ENGL5233 Form and Theory of Translation (Irregular) An examination of the principal
challenges that confront translators of literature, including the recreation of style, dialect,
ambiguities, and formal poetry; vertical translation; translation where multiple manuscripts
exist; and the question of how literal a translation should be. (Same as WLIT 5233)
ENGL5243 Special Topics (Irregular) Designed to cover subject matter not offered in
other courses.
ENGL5263 Form and Theory of Fiction: I (Irregular) Such aspects of the genre as
scene, transition, character, and conflict. Discussion is limited to the novel.
ENGL5273 Form and Theory of Poetry: I (Irregular) An examination of perception,
diction, form, irony, resolution, and the critical theories of the major writers on poetry, such as
Dryden, Coleridge, and Arnold.
ENGL5283 Form and Theory of Fiction: II (Irregular) Second part of the study of
the techniques of fiction. Discussion is limited to the short story. Prerequisite: ENGL 5263.
ENGL5293 Form and Theory of Poetry: II (Irregular) Second part of the study of
the techniques of poetry; independent study of a poet or a problem in writing or criticism of
poetry. Prerequisite: ENGL 5273.
ENGL5303 Seminar in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
and Culture (Irregular) Subject matter changes depending on student interest and
faculty expertise. May be repeated for up to 12 hours of degree credit.
ENGL5313 Introduction to Literary Theory (Irregular) An advanced introductory
survey of a number of theoretical approaches to literature.
ENGL5403 Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
(Irregular) Subject matter changes depending on student interest and faculty expertise. May
be repeated for up to 12 hours of degree credit.
ENGL5603 World Literature and Culture in English (Irregular) Subject matter
changes depending on student interest and faculty expertise. May be repeated for up to 12
hours of degree credit.
ENGL5623 The Bible as Literature (Irregular) The several translations of the Bible;
its qualities as great literature; its influence upon literature in English; types of literary forms.
(Same as WLIT 5623)
ENGL5633 English Drama from Its Beginning to 1642 (Irregular) Early forms,
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