2013–2014 Undergraduate Catalog - University of the Cumberlands

ENGL 239. Introduction to Creative Writing
Students in this course will be introduced to the fundamentals of writing literary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction
through the analysis of technique in published work and through the development and revision of original creative writing. This
course is open to all students, and is required for English majors and minors with Creative Writing Emphasis. Prerequisite:
ENGL 131 and 132. Offered every fall semester.
ENGL 330. Literary Studies
This course fosters an appreciation of literature and its place in culture, as well as nurtures critical thinking skills through
reading and writing. It may focus on a particular theme, genre, author or literary group drawn from the traditional literary
canon or from popular culture. This course may count as an elective in the English major. It may be repeated once if
different topic. Prerequisite: ENGL 131, ENGL 132. Credit, 3 hours. Offered every semester.
ENGL 331. English Literature through 1660
This course provides an overall view of English literature from earliest times through the early seventeenth century. The
course introduces students to major writers and literary texts, as well as to the cultural background that defines the Old
English, late Medieval, and Renaissance eras. Prerequisite: ENGL 131, 132. Credit, 3 hours. Offered every fall semester.
ENGL 332. English Literature 1660-1830
This course provides an overall view of English literature from the later seventeenth century through the early nineteenth
century. The course introduces students to major writers and literary texts, as well as to the cultural background that defines
the Restoration, Augustan, and Romantic eras. Prerequisite: ENGL 131, 132. Credit, 3 hours. Offered every spring semester.
ENGL 333. English Literature since 1830
This course provides an overall view of English literature from 1830 to the present. The course introduces students to
major writers and literary texts, as well as to the cultural background that defines the Victorian, Modern, or Post-Modern
milieu. Prerequisite: ENGL 131, 132. Credit, 3 hours. Offered every fall semester.
ENGL 334. American Literature through 1865
This literary survey begins with the first literary glimmerings among the discoverers, Puritans, and Federalists, and
traces the search for a unique, new literature through the writings of the authors of the American Renaissance. Prerequisite:
ENGL 131, 132. Credit, 3 hours. Offered every fall semester.
ENGL 335. American Literature since 1865
Beginning with the poetic realism of Whitman and Dickinson and the fictional realism of Mark Twain, this course follows
American literary exploration through naturalism and modernism to the diversity of literature today. Prerequisite: ENGL 131,
132. Credit, 3 hours. Offered every spring semester.
ENGL 337. Literature of Adolescence
This course is designed for both the English education major and the English major in literature. This course acquaints
students with literature about the adolescent experience and with literature written primarily for adolescents that illuminates
adolescent sensibilities, behaviors and relationships. Varying assignments address literature suitable for classroom use
and independent reading, as well as provide opportunities for developing teaching strategies and assignments. Possible
topics include The American Literary Teenager, Coming of Age Novels, Growing Up Southern, the Multicultural Experience
in Adolescent Literature, Fantasy and Science Fiction for Teens, and Victorian Classics Revisited. Course topics may
change with each offering. This course does not meet general education requirements; however, this course does fulfill a
requirement for certification in English for education majors and can serve as an elective for non-education English majors.
Prerequisite: ENGL 131 & 132. Credit: 3 hours. Offered spring of even years.
ENGL 338. Writing and Publishing With the New Media
This course offers an introduction to the principles and practice of effective professional writing and publishing with the
new media. Students study the differences between writing and publishing in a traditional print medium and writing and
publishing with the new media. With this conceptual background, students develop their communication skills through a
variety of individual and small group projects that anticipate writing and publishing tasks they may face in future careers.
This course is open to English majors and minors with Creative Writing Emphasis and is open to other students by consent
of the department chair. Prerequisites: ENGL 131, 132; ENGL 239. Credit, 3 hours. Offered spring semester of even years.
ENGL 339. Studies in Creative Writing
This course offers concentrated study in a single genre of creative writing. Students will continue the study of writing
technique through analysis of published work and through writing and revising original work in the selected genre. The
course will be offered in rotation with a focus in Fiction, Poetry, or Creative Nonfiction. Students pursuing an English Major
with Creative Writing Emphasis are required to take this course twice, under different topics. Prerequisite: ENGL 239. Credit
3 hours. Offered every spring semester.
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