Graduate Catalog - University of Central Oklahoma

University of Central Oklahoma
Graduate Catalog, 2012 - 2013
Graduate Course Descriptions
ENGLISH (ENG)
Department of English
ENG 5013 - Bibliography & Methods Of Research
This course exposes students to both the theory and the practice of
advanced scholarly research in literary studies.
ENG 5023 - Advanced Technical Writing
This course will provide comprehensive guidance to skills in clear, direct
and effective writing in each specific professional area. Students will
become familiar with reports, proposals, partition or mechanism descriptions,
process descriptions, instructions, specifications, resumes,
letters, memorandums and other technical communication formats.
ENG 5033 - Issues In Technical Writing
This course offers an intensive study of a specific topic within the
discipline of technical writing. Content will vary within the limits of
the discipline.
ENG 5043 - Colonial American Literature
The course examines the colonial, regional, and revolutionary literature
of America to identify the history, ideologies, myths, poetry, essays,
and drama which shaped and continue to influence American culture.
ENG 5053 - Vietnam War Film & Literature
This course examines the cinematic and literary perspectives of the
Vietnam War from gender, ethnic and nationalistic perspectives.
Students will discuss the historical, social and political aspects of the
war in comparison to films and literary works from other American
wars. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
ENG 5063 - Women In Science/Technical Writing
This class will cover the history of scientific and technical writing
of women writers from Renaissance through the twentieth century.
ENG 5073 - 19th Century British Women Writers
This course examines the works of major British women writers of the
nineteenth century, focusing on the female literary tradition inherent
in their novels and poetry.
ENG 5083 - Early American Gothic Fiction
This course examines the Gothic tradition in works of American fiction
written during the 18th and 19th centuries, focusing on the way
in which this tradition responds to American ideology and events in
American history.
ENG 5093 - 20th Century American Womens Autobiography
This course examines autobiographies written by women during the
twentieth century. The course will concentrate on providing a theoretical
background and strategies for analyzing women’s life writing.
ENG 5103 - Modern Drama
This one-semester course in world drama, covering about twenty-four
plays, starts with Ibsen, the late nineteenth-century father of modern
drama, and proceeds to several contemporary plays, focusing on
major world dramatists and dramatic movements.
ENG 5113 - Studies In Literary Criticism
This course features advanced studies in literary theory with emphasis
on twentieth century criticism and practice in the various modes of
literary analysis.
ENG 5123 - Shakespeare: The Major Plays
Shakespeare: The Major Plays offers an intensive study of a selection
of Shakespeare’s major comedies, tragedies, histories, and romances
and examines the historical contexts, critical reception and interpretation,
and performance histories of plays in each of these genres.
ENG 5133 - 19th Century British Novel
This course will provide an intensive examination of novels by British
fiction writers during the 19th Century. With an emphasis on context
and an attempt to understand the intellectual, political, and artistic
preoccupations of Britain’s 19th Century, the course will direct attention
to themes and social commentary in an artistic literary approach
to 19th Century British fiction. .
ENG 5143 - Blogs: New Independent Media
Blogs: New Independent Media analyzes the growing impact of Internet
blogs, or weblogs, on American culture. The course also gives
students the practical experience of creating and maintaining a blog.
ENG 5153 - Victorian Literature
This course on the major British literary figures during of the Victorian
period (1832-1901) is designed to introduce students to the use of
Victorian periodicals and to the terminology and aims of modern
schools of criticism.
ENG 5163 - The Detective Story
The Detective Story places detective fiction in three contexts: an
historical context, in which the rise and decline of the detective story
and its transformation into the novel of mystery and suspense will be
considered; a morphological context, which will focus on the ludic
structure common to all detective stories; and a critical context, in
which several attempts to treat the detective story with self-conscious
artistry will be analyzed and judged. The course is designed to raise
ever more presistent questions about what does and does not constitute
seriousness in literary fiction by considering the detective story
functionally, in terms of the human desires it satisfies.
ENG 5173 - Romantic Literature
A study of the major writers of the British Romantic period from the
1780’s to the 1820’s, this course is designed to introduce students
to the major literary criticism on the Romantic period as to increase
their understanding of the British Romantic writers’ ideals and artistic
themes.
ENG 5183 - Restoration/18th Century British Literature
This course offers a comprehensive study of the major authors,
genres, and thematic concerns of Restoration and early 18th-century
British literature.
ENG 5193 - British Novel 1900-1940
This course on the work of the major British novelists from approximately
1900 to 1940 focuses on the Modernist movement in British
literature.
ENG 5203 - The Age Of Johnson
Taking the writing of Samuel Johnson as a point of departure, this
course examines the major authors, genres, and thematic concerns
of British literature during the period 1737-84.
ENG 5213 - 18th Century British Novel
This course on the work of the major British novelists of the eighteenth
century focuses on the rise of the British novel and deals with the
major antecedent of the novel as a genre.
ENG 5223 - Southern Women Writers
This course offers a survey of twentieth-century American women
writers including Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, Kate Chopin,
Carson McCullers, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston and such
contemporary writers as Shirley Ann Grace and Elizabeth Spencer.
ENG 5233 - American Novel I
The course will cover the development of the American novel from
its beginnings in the late 18th Century through the romantic, realist,
and naturalist periods.
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