Graduate Catalog - University of Central Oklahoma

University of Central Oklahoma
Graduate Catalog, 2012 - 2013
Graduate Course Descriptions
ENG 5483 - Milton: Poetry And Prose
This course examines the major poems and selected minor poetry
and prose of John Milton, the great Seventeenth Century poet, puritan
and revolutionary. Through close critical readings of Milton’s work,
the class will examine such Miltonic themes as loss, guilt, patience,
choice, trial, free will, the relationship between men and women and
their relationship with God. The class will study the literary genres
which Milton adopts and adapts (epic, tragedy, pastoral, masque,
etc.), and the poetics, aesthetics, and ethics which inform his work.
The course will analyze Milton in his various roles of farsighted politician,
profound theologian, and visionary poet.
ENG 5503 - 16th Century British Literature
The course provides a survey of sixteenth century British prose,
poetry, and drama. It will provide an extensive examination of writers
and literary forms arising during Britain’s 16th Century, each of
which demonstrates continuing literary and historical importance to
literature in English.
ENG 5513 - Literary Works Of C.S. Lewis
This course will provide comprehensive coverage of the literary works
of C. S. Lewis and a brief look at related criticism. The course will
include literary interpretation, genres, motifs, literary devices, and
themes of the works.
ENG 5523 - Major Figures & Movements
This course offers an intensive study of specific authors literary
movements. Special attention will be paid to the literary, historical,
and critical contexts of the authors or movements selected for study.
Content will vary within the department’s field of study.
ENG 5533 - Teaching Methods For Teaching Assistants
This course provides teaching assistants with the training necessary
to teach first year composition. Students will focus on the pedagogical
concerns involved in teaching the writing process and will come to
understand the effects that professional attitude, grading procedures,
conferring with students, and the use of technology have on the
objectives of the class as a whole. Prerequisite(s): Students must
be accepted into the Teaching Assistant program. Written permission
required.
ENG 5553 - History Rhetoric To 1700
This course surveys the history of rhetoric in western Europe from
the fifth century B.C. through the seventeenth century. The first half
of the course covers the major theories and pedagogics of classical
rhetoric, from Homer through Quintilian, and the second half covers
rhetoric in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
ENG 5563 - Modern British Poetry
This one-semester course examining the works of the major British
poets from before World War I to the contemporary era.
ENG 5573 - British Novel Since WW II
This course examines the major British novelists and their work from
approximately 1940 to 1990, focusing on “post-modernism” as a major
literary movement in England following World War II.
ENG 5583 - 17th Century British Literature
This course surveys British literature of the seventeenth century,
focusing on, among others, the prose writers Browne, Burton, Donne,
and Walton, novelists Defoe and Behn, and the poets Donne, Herbert,
Marvell, Vaughan, and Traherne. Prerequisite(s): 6 hours grammar
and composition.
ENG 5593 - Fitzgerald & Hemingway
Fitzgerald and Hemingway provides an intensive study of the works
of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald in the context of Jazz
Age culture and the literary work of the Expatriates.
ENG 5601 - Composition and Rhetoric Portfolio
Composition and Rhetoric Portfolio, taken during the last semester
of the graduate major in Composition and Rhetoric, will direct students
in the compilation and final revision of artifacts for the portfolio
and will help to prepare students for the oral portfolio examination.
Prerequisite(s): Enrollment open to Composition and Rhetoric majors
only.
ENG 5613 - 18th Century Poetry: Pope To Cowper
This course offers an in-depth survey of the works of the major
poets of 18th -Century Britain, including Alexander Pope, Thomas
Gray, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and William Cowper. This course also
provides an overview of the major genres and thematic concerns of
the 18th-Century British Poetry and traces the development of British
cultural attitudes and esthetic sensibilities from the Augustan age to
the beginning of the Romantic Period.
ENG 5623 - Shakespeare Tragedies
This one-semester course offers an in-depth study of a selection of
Shakespeare’s tragedies.
ENG 5633 - Old English Literature
This course offers an in-depth survey of the major works of Old
English literature, including heroic and religious poetry, homilectic
prose, riddles, elegies, and saints’ lives. This course also provides
an overview of Anglo-Saxon history and culture and an introduction
to Old English grammar, syntax, and vocabulary.
ENG 5643 - Young Adult Literature Before 1980
Young Adult Literature Before 1980 examines literature written before
1980 specifically for or taught to an adolescent audience.
ENG 5653 - History Rhetoric Since 1700
This course surveys the history of rhetoric in western Europe from
1700 to the Present. The first half of the course covers the rhetorics
of The Enlightenment, 1700 to 1900, and the second half covers the
rhetorics of the twentieth century.
ENG 5663 - The Beat Movement
This course examines the works of many of the most significant writers
of the Beat Movement in American literature of the 1950s and 1960s,
including Allen Ginsberg, Jace Kerouac, and William Burroughs.
ENG 5673 - Young Adult Literature After 1980
Young Adult Literature After 1980 examines literature written after
1980 specifically for or taught to an adolescent audience.
ENG 5683 - Women in Literature
Women in Literature examines literature written by women and highlights
the importance of gender in evaluating English, American, and
world literature and literary cirticism by women writers.
ENG 5693 - Films of Akira Kurosawa
This course explores the works of Akira Kurosawa by examining
his life, his films, and the impact of his greatest works on the world
cinema. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
ENG 5703 - Kung Fu Films & Literature
This course examines Asian martial arts films, focusing primarily
on Hong Kong films, by exploring such film icons as Bruce Lee and
Jackie Chan; by analyzing the works of directors such as Ang lee
and Chang Cheh; and by evaluating the Chinese philosophies of
Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism in such films.
ENG 5713 - 19th Century American Women Writers
This course provides an introduction to the major American female
writers of the nineteenth century. This course focuses on novels, but
includes short stories and poetry.
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