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Course Descriptions



 

 

English

  
  • ENGL 205 - Literary Magazines


    Description:
    Study contemporary literary magazines, including national and student publications produced in print and online. Students collaborate to produce their own literary publication(s). May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150    

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: CCT

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Occasionally; Wausau: Occasionally

    Credits: 1-3

  
  • ENGL 211 - English Literature I


    Description:
    Emphasis on major writers from Beowulf through pre-Romantics, stressing insight into their works.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 212 - English Literature II


    Description:
    Emphasis on major writers from Romantics to the present, stressing insight into their works.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Wausau: Fall terms of odd years

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 213 - American Literature I


    Description:
    Representative works by American writers up to 1865.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Wausau: Fall terms of odd years

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 214 - American Literature II


    Description:
    Representative works by American writers since 1865.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Occasionally; Wausau Spring terms of odd years

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 240 - Introduction to Linguistics


    Description:
    Fundamental concepts and methods of the scientific study of languages in their structural, historical, and geographical aspects.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 248 - Introduction to Environmental and Science Writing


    Description:
    Read and produce environmental/science writing such as creative nonfiction prose, natural history essay, news report, investigative journalism report, popular magazine/newspaper feature, pedagogical articles. Introductory readings in the rhetoric and ideology of science writing, eco-criticism, social/environmental justice, ethics of science, history of environmental/science writing.

    Prerequisites:
    Freshman English or Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 250 - Intermediate Composition


    Description:
    Practice in exploratory, expository, and persuasive discourse.

    Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of freshman English, or Department Consent

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: EC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Occasionally; Wausau: Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 253 - Introduction to Creative Writing


    Description:
    Training and practice for the beginning writer in various forms of poetry and fiction; class discussion of student work.

    Prerequisites:
    Admission to the main campus, admission to a branch campus with placement into ENGL 101  or ENGL 150 , or completion of ENGL 98  with a C or better

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: ART
    Associate: CCT

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Occasionally; Wausau: Fall and Spring

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 254 - Workplace Writing


    Description:
    Introductory training and practice in workplace writing for business, industry, office, lab. With the understanding that writing is shaped by workplace culture and ethics, produce a wide range of written texts including emails, memos, job application materials, grant proposals, formal reports, and manuals.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: EC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Spring terms of odd years; Wausau: Spring terms of odd years

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 257 - Independent Writing


    Description:
    Same as ENGL 157 .

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Credits: 1 pass/fail

  
  • ENGL 260 - Computer Aids for English Studies


    Description:
    Introduction to uses of computer software in the study of English language and literature. 4 wk module for English majors/minors.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 1

  
  • ENGL 274 - Literature for Early Childhood


    Description:
    Read, select, and present materials suitable for children, preschool through grade 3. (See Note 4 .)

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 275 - Children’s Literature


    Description:
    Read, select, and present materials suitable for elementary school readers. (See Note 4 .)

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Fall terms of odd years; Wausau: Fall terms of odd years

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 277 - Film Studies


    Description:
    An exploration of some aspect, theory, problem, or distinctive variety of film, particularly narrative film. Emphasis may be upon the history of a genre, a single artist, or the distinctive character of the medium in comparison to drama or narrative fiction. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150    

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Spring Only; Wausau: Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 278 - Asian American Literature


    Description:
    An introduction to writing by Asian American authors from the late 19th century to the present, with attention to the historical, political, and cultural contexts of the literature. All texts in English, either originally or in translation.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU, USD

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 279 - Chicano and Chicana Literature


    Description:
    An introduction to writing by Chicano and Chicana (Mexican American) authors from 1846 to the present with attention to the historical, political, and cultural contexts of the literature. All texts in English, either originally or in translation.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU, USD

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 280 - American Indian Literature


    Description:
    Literature about the American Indian from oral and written materials by Native American authors and other American writers.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU, USD
    Associate: DUS, HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Occasionally; Wausau: Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 282 - Black Literature


    Description:
    Critical study of works by black writers (e.g., Americans, Africans, West Indians).

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU, USD
    Associate: DUS, HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Wausau: Fall terms of odd years

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 283 - Mythology in Literature


    Description:
    The basic myths of creation, the flood, man’s fall, Olympians and their Roman counterparts, and stories of myth and history that form the basis of literary expression of Western culture; emphasis on Graeco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, and Norse myths, as they appear in selected poetry, novels, and plays.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 284 - Introduction to Ethnic Literature in the United States


    Description:
    Introduction to ethnic literature in the U.S. including works by African, Asian, Native American, and Latino writers. Explore how these works address basic issues of race, ethnicity, and cultural identity in a diverse society.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: DUS, HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Spring terms of odd years; Wausau: Spring terms of odd years

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 285 - Women in Literature


    Description:
    Examine literature to determine how women are depicted in Western cultural tradition, how images of women have developed and been perpetuated, and how they shape a woman’s sense of who she is and a man’s idea of what she should be.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU, USD
    Associate: DUS, HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 286 - Literature and Film


    Description:
    Introduction to theories and concepts of narrative, language, and culture through examination of various prose fiction texts and their film adaptations.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: ART
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Occasionally; Wausau: Spring terms of odd years

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 287 - Gay and Lesbian Literature


    Description:
    Introduction to a variety of literary representations of same-sex relationships, belonging to different genres and taken from different cultures and historical periods, in order to discuss how the meanings of and attitudes toward such relationships are culturally variable rather than constant.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU, USD
    Associate: DUS, HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 288 - Literature of Human Love and Sexuality


    Description:
    Literature of love, using representative works and authors from various cultures and times such as Lysistrata, the Song of Solomon, Ovid, Chaucer, Donne, Swift, DeSade, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 289 - Popular Literature


    Description:
    Close reading of selected topics with general appeal such as frontier literature, sports literature, speculative fiction, mystery literature. Subtitle will designate area. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bacehlor: HU
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 291 - Writing Tutor Seminar


    Description:
    Introduces students to concepts in writing studies with emphasis on writing center pedagogy. Includes practice and application of skills as students learn to serve as writing center tutors.

    Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of ENGL 202  or Instructor Consent

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: EC

    Credits: 1-3

  
  • ENGL 303 - The Myth of…


    Description:
    Topic will be announced. See ENGL 103 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 308 - Reading Drama


    Description:
    Oral reading and discussion of one play a week from dramatic literature.

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 309 - Forms and Modes in Literature


    Description:
    Selected works of several writers that are examples of a form or mode, such as the parable in modern literature. Subtitle will designate area. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 509 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 1-3

  
  • ENGL 310 - Modern Short Story


    Description:
    Representative short stories of world literature with emphasis on literary structure, form, and theme.

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 311 - English Novel (British)


    Description:
    English novels from (a) early 1700s to 1880 including Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, and George Eliot; or (b) 1880 to the present including Hardy, Joyce, Conrad, Lawrence, Woolf, and Lessing. May take once for each period. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 511 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 312 - Modern Drama


    Description:
    Representative dramas of world literature from Ibsen to the present; emphasis on literary structure, form, and theme. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 512 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 313 - American Novel


    Description:
    American novels from (a) late 1700s to 1900 including Hawthorne, Melville, James, and Twain; or (b) 1900 to the present, including Wharton, Hemingway, Cather, Faulkner, and Bellow. May take once for each period. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 513 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 314 - Modern Poetry


    Description:
    Study of 20th century poetry beginning with works of Yeats, Pound, and Eliot. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 514 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 319 - The Novel since 1850


    Description:
    Representative novels of world literature from a variety of cultures with emphasis on literary structure, form and theme. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 519 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 320 - American Realism and Naturalism


    Description:
    Theory and development of realism and naturalism from 19th century to present. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 520 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 321 - English Literature to 1485


    Description:
    Development of English poetry and prose, excluding Chaucer, from Anglo-Saxon through late medieval periods. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 521 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 322 - Studies in Early British Literature


    Description:
    Works chosen from the Old English period through the eighteenth century to illustrate the development of literary genres or themes. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles for up to 9 credits. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 522 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 323 - British Literature Before 1790, Excluding Drama


    Description:
    Development of poetry and prose from (a) 1485-1660 including More, Sidney, Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson; or (b) from 1660-1790 including Dryden, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Sam Johnson, Goldsmith. May take once for each period. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 523 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 324 - Romantic Movement (British)


    Description:
    Development of romanticism in English poetry and prose, its theory and creation, also survey of pre-Romantic Movement. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 524 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 325 - Victorian Literature (British)


    Description:
    Works revealing the crisis of the individual in an age torn by conflicting values. Major poets and essayists including Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, Newman, and Ruskin. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 525 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 327 - Victorian Literature in Transition (British)


    Description:
    Development of the modern spirit in such writers as Hardy, Conrad, Ford, Shaw, Yeats, and the Aesthetes and Decadents. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 527 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 328 - Modernism


    Description:
    Theories and practices of “Modernism” (approx. 1900-1940). Emphasis on literary texts belonging to different genres with discussions including examples from other media (visual arts, music, performance, etc.) in an international context. Formal innovations as well as philosophical, psychological, and sociological preoccupations of several Modernist writers and artists will be covered. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 528 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 329 - The American Renaissance


    Description:
    American literary renaissance of mid-19th century with works of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 529 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 330 - Chaucer (British)


    Description:
    Emphasis on the Canterbury Tales and their historical, social, linguistic background. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 530 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 333 - Early Shakespeare


    Description:
    Early plays. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 533 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 334 - Later Shakespeare


    Description:
    Tragedies and later plays. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 534 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 336 - Milton (British)


    Description:
    Milton’s poetry and selected prose. Growth of a writer in his historical milieu. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 536 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 337 - Shakespeare


    Description:
    Selection of plays from throughout Shakespeare’s career. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 537 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 339 - Book and Publication Design


    Description:
    Study the art and application of book and publication design. Use Adobe InDesign Publishing Suite to create layouts, covers, and other book materials. Edit, design, market, and sell at minimum one book acquired by Cornerstone Press.

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 340 - Language, Gender, and Sexuality


    Description:
    Introduction to relationships, in theory and in practice, among language, gender, and sexuality. Surveys the major theories of gender and language in linguistics; questions received notions of what gender is and how it and language are interconnected; and examines the relationship between language and sexuality as expressed in both sexual identity/orientation and sexual behaviors.

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 341 - Invented Languages


    Description:
    Study of invented or constructed languages, such as Esperanto, or others such as Star Trek’s Klingon, in order to understand the building blocks of any language, natural or invented: phonology (sound system), morphology (word structure), syntax (sentence structure), lexicon (vocabulary), semantics (meaning), pragmatics (intent), and orthography (written form) of language. Creates a basic language, incorporating the appropriate structural elements.

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 342 - English Grammars


    Description:
    Survey of major methods of language analyses that have been applied to English since the 18th century; traditional, structural, and transformation-generative. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 542 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 343 - Sociolinguistics: Language and Dialects of the U.S.


    Description:
    An examination of the languages and different varieties of English spoken in the United States. Various factors are considered in reviewing current patterns of language diversity, including region, socioeconomic level, gender, ethnicity, language contact, language attitudes, and education. U.S. language policies are also examined.

    Prerequisites:
    One of the following: ENGL 240 , ENGL 342 , ENGL 345 , CSD 266 , FREN 420 , GERM 420 , or SPAN 420 ; or Instructor Consent

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: SS, USD
    Associate: DUS

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 344 - History of the English Language


    Description:
    Development of English sounds, spelling, inflection, syntax, vocabulary, and dialects from Old English to the present. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 544 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 345 - English Language for Teachers


    Description:
    Overview of history and structure of English and conventions of standard written English. Includes contemporary approaches to teaching grammar, usage, punctuation. Required for teacher certif. English majors/ minors. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 545 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 346 - Old English


    Description:
    Introduction to Old English language and literature. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 546 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 347 - Grant and Proposal Writing


    Description:
    Invention and delivery of grants and proposals in the business, scientific, technical artistic, and educational arenas. Opportunity to write a grant proposal for a campus or community-based organization. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 547 .

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of Freshman English requirement

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 348 - Advanced Environmental and Science Writing


    Description:
    Produce a single well-researched popular or educational article related to science or the environment and prepare it for submission to a juried publication. Also, readings in the rhetoric and ideology of science writing, eco-criticism, social/environmental justice, ethics of science, history of environmental/science writing. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 548 .

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of Freshman English requirement and ENGL 248 , or Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 349 - Editing and Publishing


    Description:
    Writing, editing, and preparing materials for publication, including consideration of reader/editor appeal, and ways to market manuscripts. [Editor’s note: The class must find a manuscript, produce and sell a book.] Available for graduate credit as ENGL 549 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 350 - Creative Nonfiction


    Description:
    Art of nonfiction writing using literary devices to write about true events. The course explores creative nonfiction forms and includes class discussion of student work.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of the GEP Written Communication requirement

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 351 - Advanced Business Writing


    Description:
    Examine methods of audience analysis and strategies to shape effective written business communication. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 551 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall, Spring, And Summer

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 352 - Writing for Digital Media


    Description:
    Digital writing for online content creation such as blogs, web content, social media, advertising, and feature writing.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of the GEP Written Communication requirement or Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 353 - Advanced Creative Writing


    Description:
    Intensive study in writing various forms of poetry or fiction; class discussion of student work. May take max 9 cr with 6 cr max under one focus. (Poetry or Fiction) Available for graduate credit as ENGL 553 .

    Prerequisites:
    ENGL 253  or Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring and Fall

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 354 - Advanced Scientific and Technical Writing


    Description:
    Advanced training and practice in workplace writing for business, industry, office, lab. Assuming writing is shaped by workplace culture and ethics, collaboratively produce a few large technical documents in context of simulated and real consultations with local business/industry. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 554 .

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of Freshman English requirement and ENGL 254 , or Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 355 - Methods of Teaching Composition (Middle and Secondary)


    Description:
    Teaching writing as a composing process; theory and practice for middle and secondary levels and for all subjects. Does not count toward English major/minor. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 555 .

    Prerequisites:
    Admission to the Professional Education Program (English) or Department Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    Credits: 2 or 3

  
  • ENGL 356 - Methods of Teaching Literature (Middle and Secondary)


    Description:
    Teaching literature as an exploratory process, beginning with reader response; theory and practice for middle and secondary levels. Does not count toward English major/minor. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 556 .

    Prerequisites:
    Admission to the Professional Education Program (English) or Department Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    Credits: 2 or 3

  
  • ENGL 357 - Independent Writing


    Description:
    See ENGL 157 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Credits: 1 pass/fail

  
  • ENGL 358 - Outdoor Writing


    Description:
    Writing articles and essays on nature and the outdoor experience. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 558 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: ER

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 359 - Novel Writing


    Description:
    Strategies for planning and completing a draft of a novel. Fictional techniques; manuscript preparation and submission; class discussion of student work; individual conferences; readings from first novels and texts on novel writing. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 559 .

    Prerequisites:
    Instructor Consent or Department Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 360 - Regional Literature (American)


    Description:
    Literature by small group of authors whose writing reflects the concerns of geographic areas. Subtitle will designate area. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 560 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 361 - World Literature


    Description:
    Representative selections of world literature from the earliest times to the 17th century.

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 362 - World Literature


    Description:
    World literature from the 17th century to the present.

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 363 - Nature Literature


    Description:
    Literary texts that explore humankind’s relationship to the natural world. Readings provide historical depth and cross-cultural perspectives.

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 364 - Canadian Literature


    Description:
    Major writers, stressing contemporary writers such as Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Sinclair Ross. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 564 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 365 - Science Literature


    Description:
    Examine development of writing for and about science and technology from 1660 to the present. Impact of development of two modes of scientific writing on contemporary society-one for scientists and one for general readership. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 565 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 366 - English Drama to Shaw (British)


    Description:
    Major plays and trends in drama from medieval to modern, such as Everyman, Dr. Faustus, Volpone, The Duchess of Malfi, Tis a Pity She’s a Whore, Beggar’s Opera, The Importance of Being Earnest. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 566 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 369 - Small Press Management


    Description:
    Management of the editing, production, and media campaigns for forthcoming Cornerstone Press titles, with emphasis on team leadership, management ethics, and fiscal operations appropriate to a literary publishing house. May be repeated for credit for up to 6 credits. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 569 .

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Summer Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 370 - Legal Writing


    Description:
    Training and practice in the types of writing and rhetorical analysis relevant to careers or graduate studies in law or policy fields. Emphasis on skills such as precision in language, rhetorical analysis of legal documents, and drafting single and multi-issue arguments.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of the GEP Written Communication requirement

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 373 - Publication for Teachers


    Description:
    Foundational publication and journalism basics connected to theory and practice; intended for those teaching at the middle and secondary levels in any/all subjects. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 573 .

    Prerequisites:
    Admission to Professional Education Program (English) or Department Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Summer Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 374 - Postcolonial Literature in English


    Description:
    Works in English by writers from postcolonial nations, e.g., India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, or countries of the West Indies. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 574 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: GA, HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 375 - Literature for Young Adults


    Description:
    Select and read literature suitable for young adults. Only for teacher certification English majors/minors/writing minors. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 575 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 376 - Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation


    Description:
    Representative works of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, critical commentary, biography, and autobiography related to the Beat Generation. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 576 .

    Prerequisites:
    Junior standing or Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 377 - Contemporary Poetry


    Description:
    Contemporary poetry since World War II. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 577 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 378 - Contemporary Fiction


    Description:
    International fiction since World War II with experimental narrative techniques and/or thematic relationships. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 578 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 379 - Rhetorical Theory


    Description:
    History of ideas regarding effective use of language, emphasizing classic texts by Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian, and their influence on modern thought. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 579 .

    Prerequisites:
    Junior standing or Department Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 380 - Literary Theory


    Description:
    Critical approaches to literary study based on ancient and modern theories. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 580 .

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 381 - Reading for the English Teacher


    Description:
    Apply current reading theory to practice in the English classroom. Reading process, response-based teaching, and strategic learning. Only for teacher certification English majors/minors/writing minors. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 581 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 382 - Ethnic Literature of the United States


    Description:
    Explore cultural pluralism and an exploration of literary works by Native Americans, Afro-Americans, Asian-Americans, Jewish-Americans, and writers of European immigrant descent. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 582 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU, USD
    Associate: DUS

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 383 - Themes in Literature


    Description:
    Works of several writers demonstrating a theme or related themes. Subtitle designates area. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 583 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall, Spring, and Summer

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 384 - Topics in Theory


    Description:
    Examine a selected theory and/or critical methodology used to analyze language, literature, or cultural representations. Subtitle designates area. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 584 .

    Prerequisites:
    Junior standing or Instructor Consent and Department Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 385 - Major Authors


    Description:
    Close, critical study of one or more major authors. Subtitle will designate author(s). May be repeated for credit with different subtitles.

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 386 - Major Authors of Ethnic Literature


    Description:
    Close critical study of one or more major authors of ethnic literature. Subtitle will designate author(s). May be repeated for credit with different subtitles.

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: USD
    Associate: DUS

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 387 - Copyediting


    Description:
    In-depth study and application of copyediting principles, using a variety of publishing style guides, including Chicago, APA, MLA, and author-preference. Produce style sheets, running header sheets, copyediting memorandums, and query integration reports. Survey freelance market and copyediting careers.

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    As Needed

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 388 - Editorial Process


    Description:
    Study of the editorial process, including editorial theory, developmental editing, copyediting, and proofreading. Consider the role of the editor in various kinds of media, engage in hands-on editorial work, and consult with editors and writers. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 588 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 389 - Book History


    Description:
    Study of the book as a medium and its role in the development and transmission of culture, addressing the implications of topics such as authorship, printing, publishing, distribution, bookselling, and reading. Course themes will be developed both theoretically via case studies and practically via hands-on activities. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 589 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 390 - The Profession of Authorship


    Description:
    The figure of the “author” from 1800 to the present in the United States, focusing on the writer as professional both in the literary marketplace and in the culture at large, and examining representative authors from Susanna Rowson to Toni Morrison. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 590 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 391 - Biomedical Writing


    Description:
    Training and practice in the several writing genres common to the field of biomedical writing. Introduction to the theoretical, social, and environmental contexts within which the medical and health sciences function. Study biomedical-writing documents (both historical and current) as well as short literary works in which the ethical and theoretical frameworks within which biomedical communicators write will become clear. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 591 .

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of Freshman English Requirement

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Credits: 3

  
  • ENGL 392 - Literature and Ecology


    Description:
    Study American and English literary texts to discover attitudes toward various environments in literature, analyze historic and current environmental issues, and describe the role of literature in ecology. Does not count toward English major/minor.

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: ER

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    Credits: 3

 

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