2009-2010 - Bowie State University

ENGL 346 INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL LINGUISTICS II (Alternate Spring Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: ENGL 345. This course focuses on the most important syntactic rules of English and how these rules interact in the formation of
individual sentences. Close attention will be given to analyzing English sentences.
ENGL 353 SPECIAL TOPICS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of literature written by and about women, focusing upon special topics beyond
the traditional categories of period and genre. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: contemporary women writers,
women of the postcolonial world, images of women in Renaissance literature, and mothers and daughters in 20 th‐ century American fiction.
ENGL 357 CREATIVE WRITING III: FICTION (Alternate Fall Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and Junior Status, with at Least One Course in the ENGL 257‐260 Series or Permission of Creative Writing
Instructor. This course provides advanced practice in the techniques of writing fiction. It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique
students’ original creative work, emphasizing the relationship between content (including technique and form) and style and published work as
models.
ENGL 358 CREATIVE WRITING III: POETRY (Alternate Fall Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and Junior Status, with at Least One Course in the ENGL 257‐260 Series or Permission of Creative Writing
Instructor. This course provides advanced practice in the techniques of writing poetry. It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique
students’ original creative work, emphasizing the relationship between content (including technique and form) and style, with close reading of
published works as models.
ENGL 359 CREATIVE WRITING III: DRAMA (Alternate Spring Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and Junior Status, with at Least One Course in the ENGL 257‐260 Series or Permission of Creative Writing
Instructor. This course provides advanced practice in the techniques of writing drama. It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique
students’ original creative work, emphasizing the relationship between content (including technique and form) and style, with close reading of
published work as models.
ENGL 360 CREATIVE WRITING III: NON‐FICTION (Alternate Spring Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and Junior Status, with at Least One Course in the ENGL 257‐260 Series or Permission of Creative Writing
Instructor. This course provides advanced practice in the techniques of writing non‐fiction prose, most recently referred to as “creative nonfiction.”
It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique students’ original creative work, emphasizing the relationship between content
(including technique and form) and style, with close reading of published work as models.
ENGL 361 TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL WRITING I (Fall, Spring) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 102. This course is a study of the particular requirements of technical and report writing, coupled with a
review and refinement of basic grammar and composition skills, designed to prepare students for career‐related assignments using
sophisticated software packages.
ENGL 362 ADVANCED TECHNICAL WRITING II (Fall, Spring) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 102. Recommendation by Computer Science Department. This course covers advanced skills of technical and
report writing. Included will be the use of specialized terminology, proofreading, editing, long report/manual writing, job orientation, and
sophisticated software applications.
ENGL 370 SPECIAL TOPICS IN CARIBBEAN LITERATURE (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of Caribbean literature focusing upon special topics outside the traditional spheres
of period and genre. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: the lyrics of calypso; Caribbean ‘yard’ literature;
Caribbean autobiographical literature; Caribbean folk literature; Caribbean poetry; Negritude writers of the Caribbean; the literature of
colonization.
ENGL 401 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is an intensive study of the development of the English novel, from Richardson and Fielding
to the present.
ENGL 402 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD IN ENGLISH LITERATURE (Alternate Spring Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course alternates with 403. It is a study of the Romantic Movement through close examination of
the chief works of writers such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron.
ENGL 403 VICTORIAN LITERATURE (Alternate Fall Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course alternates with 402. It is a study of selected writers of prose and poetry during the
nineteenth century: Mill, Carlyle, Arnold, Huxley, Ruskin, Pater, Tennyson, Browning.
ENGL 404 ENGLISH PROSE AND POETRY IN THE RENAISSANCE (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course explores representative works of the Renaissance, with special attention to More, Sidney,
Eliot, Ascham, Lyly, and Bacon. Consideration is given to the social and intellectual environment of the period, as well as to the development of
literary techniques.
ENGL 405 ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE 17TH CENTURY (Alternate Spring Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course alternates with ENGL 406. It is an examination of the major poetic movements and the
major writers of the period: Metaphysical poetry, the work of Jonson and Herrick, Cavalier poetry, the baroque poets, and the poetry of Milton
and Dryden.
ENGL 406 RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course alternates with 405 and is a study of the literature of England, from the Restoration of
Charles II (1666) to the publication of The Lyrical Ballads (1798). Focus is on the most important trends and developments in representative
works of this period, including the political, cultural, and intellectual background of the age.
ENGL 407 SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES AND HISTORIES (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course examines Shakespeare’s early comedies and histories, including some attention to
Shakespeare’s historical sources and his use of dramatic technique, imagery, and language.
ENGL 408 SHAKESPEARE’S PROBLEM PLAYS, TRAGEDIES, AND ROMANCES (Fall) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course examines some of Shakespeare’s problem plays, tragedies, and romances and Elizabethan
literary, social, and theatrical traditions. Consideration also will be given to Shakespeare’s development as a dramatist and his use of dramatic
technique, imagery, and language, particularly as they affect modern interpretation and stage production.
358 2009‐2010 Undergraduate Catalog