Catalog 73 - National University

Course Descriptionscontinue to practice the construction of argumentsbased on analytical reasoning, critical thinking andresearch skills.ENG 300: English Practicum and PortfolioStudents observe, study, and discuss a range ofactivities and experiences common inEnglish/Language Arts classrooms in public middleand secondary schools, and review the requirementsof the Single Subject Matter Preparation programportfolio. Requires 31.5 hour observation in publicschools Grading is S or U only.ENG 310: Grammar(Prerequisites: ENG101, LIT100, TED320)Analysis of Modern English structure using themethods of traditional grammar. Topics studied:parts of speech, grammatical functions, phrase,clause, and sentence types, and nominal and verbalcategories. Nature and usefulness of prescriptiverules of grammar. How to teach traditional grammaras presented in the secondary English curriculum.Instruction will encourage students to demonstratecritical understanding of traditional grammar, ofcontemporary syntactic analysis, and of thestrengths and weaknesses of those systems in secondaryeducation.ENG 333: Written Business Communication(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)A continuation of the kinds of expository writingthat began in ENG 100/101. This more advancedcourse stresses applications and models in businesscommunications: letters, memos, sales, research andmarketing reports.ENG 334A: Technical Writing(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)A workshop to help students whose careers willinvolve communicating technical information clearly.Students are encouraged to practice on professionalmodels in their own disciplines while learningthose attributes common to all effective technicalwriting.ENG 350: Fundamentals of Linguistics(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)An introduction to contemporary linguistics. Coversthe phonology, morphology and syntax of theEnglish language with an emphasis on languageacquisition as related to the developmental stages ofchildhood. The course is especially designed for studentsintending to teach elementary school students.ENG 352: Origins of English(Prerequisites: ENG100/101)Examines the origins of language both within a personand within culture. Covers language acquisitionand the history of the English language through itsown developmental stages, including the evolutionof standard American English and its major dialectcommunities.ENG 365: Creative Writing(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)An advanced course for students who want toexplore more sophisticated writing genres. Thecourse surveys techniques in writing one or moregenres, at the discretion of the instructor: short fiction,drama, poetry and screen writing.ENG 375: Nature Writing(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)An advanced course for students interested in usingwriting as a means of exploring the natural world.This course surveys nature writing in its variousforms (essays, articles, poetry, journals, etc.) as wellas effective nature writing strategies.ENG 432: Report and Research Paper Writing(Prerequisite: ENG100/101)An advanced, cross-disciplined workshop thatfocuses on the requirements of effective report andresearch paper writing . Emphasizes effective organization,clear writing, critical thinking, appropriatesource citation and both library and internetresearch. Introduces students to all of the major citationformats, including MLA, APA, CBE andChicago Manual. Techniques learned are appropriateto any academic discipline or vocation that requiresreports or research papers.ENG 490: Guided Study(1.5-4.5 quarter units)Individual study under direction of instructor.Requires prior approval of appropriate academicdepartment.ENG 600: Seminar in Literary TheoryHistorical and current issues in literary criticism andtheory with particular attention to developments ofthe last fifty years. Emphasizes both reading andwriting literary criticism in order to develop vocabularyand skills necessary to participate in scholarlyliterary debate.ENG 610: Multicultural LiteratureExamines core concepts of race, ethnicity, culture,and multiculturalism from the standpoint of recentdevelopments in American literary canon formation.Students will synthesize current multicultural literarytheories with a corpus of significant literarytexts.ENG 620A: Literary Period or Movement IAdvanced, historically oriented study of a literaryperiod, such as English Medieval, Romantic, orVictorian literature, or a movement, such as The BeatGeneration. Variable topic selected by the instructor.(May not duplicate content of ENG 620B.)ENG 620B: Literary Period or Movement IIAdvanced, historically oriented study of a literaryperiod, such as American Romanticism, or of amovement such as American Modernism, theHarlem Renaissance, or the Lost Generation.Variable topic selected by the instructor. (May notduplicate content of ENG 620A.)ENG 640: Seminar in PoetryAdvanced study of the history and practice of poetry.The focus is on defining the genre through closereading of a rich selection of both traditional andcontemporary poems.ENG 655: Composition PedagogyPrepares students for the practical and theoreticalchallenges of teaching English composition andother writing courses at the college level. Topicsinclude process theory, cognitive studies, visualanalysis, discourse studies, and best practices.ENG 656: History of RhetoricHistory of Rhetoric focuses on the teachings of themajor figures of ancient rhetoric, such as thesophists, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintillion.Students will study the classical texts which formthe base of modern studies in rhetoric and composition.The course will also gloss major shifts throughMedieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment rhetoric.ENG 657: Modern RhetoricModern Rhetoric introduces students to the contemporarystudy of rhetoric. The course covers majorfigures such as Kenneth Burke, Lloyd Bitzer, andStephen Toulmin. It introduces the wide range ofacademic interests in contemporary rhetoric. In particular,students will practice reading texts rhetoricallythrough major theories of rhetoric.ENG 660: Seminar in Literary HypermediaHistory and current practice of literary hypermedia.Through reading primary stand-alone and Webbasedhypermedia installations, the course examineshypermedia as a specific literary genre.ENG 665: Film TheoryAn overview of film theory designed to give studentsthe critical tools necessary to describe andevaluate various aspects of cinema art. This courseintroduces concepts from a variety of approaches,including deconstruction, existentialism, Marxism,phenomenology, and psychoanalysis.ENG 666: Film History: The SilentsA survey of films produced before the advent ofsound; focus on concepts of visual narratology, montage,conventions of acting, set design, lighting andmovement; attention is given to the relationshipbetween specific films and American novels andstage drama.ENG 667: Film History: American FilmA study of the development of cinema in the UnitedStates; topics include the relationship of film to art,politics and society and the treatment of ethnicgroups, women and class by Hollywood; the relationshipof specific films to works of literature.ENG 668: Film Genre StudiesConsideration of a genre of film and literature in anhistorical context (the western, the epic, film noir,the crime fiction, science-fiction adventure, etc.); anintensive study of the conventions, artists, stylesassociated with literary and film genres and specificfilms and literary works.ENG 669: World FilmA study of the films of a nation other than theUnited States; an intensive study of contrasting visualstyles of filmmaking; attention is given to the relationshipof a nation’s films and literary traditionthrough the study of specific works of literature andfilm.ENG 670: Comparative Literary StudiesAnalysis of literary texts across national and linguisticas well as temporal, cultural, and disciplinarylines.ENG 680A: Seminar in a Theme IStudy of a literary motif or theme over time and/oracross cultures. Variable topic chosen by instructor.Examples of themes are: the gothic, utopia/distopia,vampires, the road, and gender in literature.ENG 680B: Seminar in a Theme IIStudy of a literary motif or theme over time and/oracross cultures. Variable topic chosen by instructor.Examples of themes are: the dark gothic, meta-fiction,the home, and war in literature.ENG 685: Great Directors: AmericanA comprehensive study of the artistic achievementsof an American director; detailed interpretation andanalysis of the techniques and concepts employedby a specific director, especially as they relate toworks of literature.ENG 686: Great Directors: InternationalA comprehensive study of the artistic achievementsof an international director; detailed interpretationand analysis of the techniques and conceptsemployed, especially as they relate to specific worksof literature.ENG 690A: Major Author Seminar IA critical study of the work of a single author, suchas Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens,William Faulkner, Jack London. Special attentionCourseDescriptions379