ENG 0102: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: Score of two to three in Writing Placement. Supports work done in ENG 2201 through a series of conferences with the instructor. Students must be enrolled in the designated section of ENG 2201 to take this course but not in any other section. Credits for this course do not apply toward graduation. |
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ENG 1110: () Offerings |
Examines the treatment of belief and disbelief in literature shaped by various Christian traditions and by a variety of social and literary contexts. Instructor may choose to focus on American, British, or contemporary literature. |
Attributes:Arts and Humanities B
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ENG 1220: () Offerings |
Explores the issue of faith through the medium of film. Examines how belief and disbelief are expressed in culture through this dominant form of contemporary storytelling. |
Attributes:Arts and Humanities B
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ENG 2201: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: Score of two, three or four in Writing Placement. Improves upon elementary college-writing skills through readings, discussion, and the assignment of writing tasks typically found in college coursework. Tutorial sessions in the Writing Center may be required. |
Attributes:Writing Skills Competency
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ENG 2215: () Offerings |
Prerequisites: ENG 2201 or score of five to six in Writing Placement. Fosters the vision and skills necessary for effective creative writing. |
Attributes:Writing Skills Competency
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ENG 2221: () Offerings |
Explores poetry of all kinds as a means of expressing what it means to be human including especially the capacity for love. |
Attributes:Arts and Humanities B
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ENG 2223: () Offerings |
Explores how the literary genres of both fantasy and science fiction re-conceive the concerns of the present using imaginary worlds of space and time. Themes may include nature, technology, war, utopia/dystopia, and the conflicts of moral duty. |
Attributes:Arts and Humanities B
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ENG 2225: () Offerings |
Prepares students for majoring in English with university-level practice in literary interpretive strategies, including close attention to craft as well as writing and academic research. Recommended especially for freshmen and sophomore students. |
Attributes:Writing "W" Course
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ENG 2234: () Offerings |
A study of poems, stories, plays, and essays written in English by women. The course will include classic as well as rediscovered women writers, and will examine the significant themes, the literary forms, and the social contexts of literature written by women. |
Attributes:Arts and Humanities B
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ENG 2248: () Offerings |
Explores recent fiction from around the world, featuring international authors who write in English such as Salman Rushdie, J.M. Coetzee, Ishiguro, Desai, or Dangarembga. |
Attributes:Arts and Humanities B
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ENG 2251: () Offerings |
Surveys the first three periods of English literary history: Old English, including the eighth-century Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf; Middle English, including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; and English Renaissance, concluding with Milton's 17th-century Paradise Lost. |
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ENG 2252: () Offerings |
Continues the survey of English literary history, from the Enlightenment through to the 20th Century. Authors include satirists such as Swift and Wilde, poets such as Pope and Wordsworth, novelists such as Austen and Dickens. |
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ENG 2253: () Offerings |
Surveys major authors, themes, genres, and movements in American literature from the colonial era through the modern period, including intellectual and social contexts. |
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ENG 3000: () Offerings |
Introduces students to the literary and cultural landscape of the British Isles. Orients students to the academic work of the ensuing British Isles Quarter, and to the challenges and opportunities of traveling and studying in Britain. Addresses practical matters such as financial aid, British Isles Quarter itinerary, travel safety, and post-quarter travel. Graded pass/fail. Offered alternate years. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
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ENG 3001: () Offerings |
Introduces students to the literacy and cultural landscape of South Africa. Examines South African film and poetry to introduce the history of apartheid and the Truth and Reconciliation commission. Orients students to the academic work of the ensuing South Africa Study Program. Addresses cultural diversity and the challenges of cultural shock. Prepares students for practical matters such as itinerary, safety concerns, interpersonal and academic expectations, and preparations for service learning. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
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ENG 3150: () Offerings |
Prerequisites: ENG 2201 or a score of 5 or 6 in Writing placement. Treats the craft of writing sentences with clarity and grace. Less interested in grammar for its own sake, the course shows students how to deploy grammatical strategies for desired effect in writing. Shows students how to write with substance through style. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
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ENG 3180: () Offerings |
This basic grammar course brings insights from both traditional and generative-transformational approaches to explain how language works. Especially designed for teachers of English, it also introduces students to parts of speech, phrases, and clauses, as well as to grammatical and mechanical rules for generating standard American English. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
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ENG 3205: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or score of five to six in Writing Placement. Develops abilities associated with writing tasks in the professions, including reports, correspondence, proposals, and procedure manuals. Emphasizes role of persuasion in routine and special writing tasks. Also addresses visual design in the preparation of documents and the impact of digital technologies on writing in the professional workplace. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course, Writing Skills Competency
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ENG 3208: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: Writing course or score of 5-6 on English Placement Test. Reviews basic written-commmunication skills and strategies before moving on to practice in fundamentals of professional communication: professional correspondence, business reports, proposals, oral presentations. Emphasis is placed on persuasion, ethics and the impact of digital technologies on business communication. May not be taken for credit if ENG 3207 Business Writing has previously been taken. Offered only by Media. |
Attributes:Media, Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
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ENG 3301: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or score of five to six in Writing Placement. Moves students beyond the academic essay and shows them techniques for addressing an audience beyond the academy. Focuses on the exploratory, open-ended essay as a lens for examining topics chosen by students in consultation with the instructor. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course, Writing Skills Competency
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ENG 3310: () Offerings |
For English majors and others interested in exploring in greater depth the workings of poetry, with particular attention paid to the relationship between the elements that make up the poem (rhythm, structure, sound qualities, the "music" of the poem) and where those elements take us. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
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ENG 3311: () Offerings |
For English majors and others interested in exploring in greater depth the field of narrative studies, with particular attention paid to the relationship between the elements of storytelling, character, plot, time, setting, closure, etc., and their larger philosophical implications. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
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ENG 3316: () Offerings |
Refines skills and techniques necessary for the writing of formal styles of poetry (the sonnet, the sesting, etc.). Students examine the work of professional poets from the perspective of apprentices to the craft. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
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ENG 3317: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2215 or permission of instructor. Refines skills and techniques necessary for the effective writing of short fiction. Students analyze the work of professional fiction writers from the perspective of apprentices to the craft. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
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ENG 3318: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or score of 5-6 in Writing Placement. Examines the literary essay, emphasizing contemporary authors such as Diane Ackerman, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez; "schools" such as the new journalists and the environmental essayists; and publications such as The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Special attention will be paid to students' development as writers of nonfiction. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course, Writing Skills Competency
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ENG 3325: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing Placement. Examines the elements of film storytelling in the context of literary studies, including theme, character, genre, plot, setting, and point-of-view. Pays close attention to the technology and craft of film-making as a means of exploring film's unique aesthetic power. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3332: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2253 or permission of instructor. Introduces students to African American literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics include slavery and resistance, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement and black popular culture. We will read such authors as Harriet Jacobs, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Octavia Butler. Offered alternate years. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
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ENG 3333: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2253 or permission of instructor. Examines Asian American literature through classic and modern novels, autobiographies, plays, poetry, and cultural criticism. We will discuss the complex varieties of Asian American cultures in relation to Chinese immigration and settlement patterns in America, Japanese American internment and its cultural legacy, Filipino American labor history, Korean Americans in Los Angeles, Southeast Asian refugees and the Vietnam War, and South Asian women's writing of the diaspora. Offered alternate years. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
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ENG 3334: () Offerings |
Traces the expression in novels, plays, poems, and essays of the minority groups who have been a part of the American people throughout history. |
Attributes:Arts and Humanities B, Upper-Division
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ENG 3340: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or score of 5 or 6 in Writing placement. Explores the great literary works of Europe in both contemporary and historical contexts, including those written in English and in translation. May be taken concurrently with ENG 3341. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
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ENG 3345: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2251 or permission of instructor. Studies Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Medieval English masterpieces, with special emphasis on Beowulf and on the works of the Pearl Poet. Culminates in a study of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Malory's Morte D'Arthur. Offered alternate years. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
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ENG 3346: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing placement. Considers the Golden Age of Elizabeth I and the revolutionary, adventurous days that followed, as seen through the works of Wyatt, Sidney, Raleigh, Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, Donne, Herbert, and Marvell. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3347: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing placement. Studies 18th and early 19th century literature in the context of the Age of Reason and Revolution. Focuses on emerging western thought about individualism, freedom, and gender, through the works of writers such as Defoe, Swift, Sterne, and Austen. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3348: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing placement. Studies selected works of such British Romantic writers, including Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and the Shelleys. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3351: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing placement. Studies selected works from the age of Queen Victoria in Britain, including such authors as Dickens, Bronte, G. Eliot, and Wilde. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3380: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing Placement. Examines the work of a variety of authors from the continent of Africa in the light of colonialism and its aftermath. Focuses primarily on English-language writers such as Achebe, Coetzee, Dangarembga, Fugard, Gordimer, Adichie and Soyinka. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3381: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing Placement. Examines the work of a variety of authors from the East/Middle East, especially stories of crossing between East and West. Particular attention will be paid to the concept of hybrid identities, exile, diaspora. Authors may include Ruffo, Mernissi, Hosseini, and Pamuk, as well as Arab-American short stories. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3382: () Offerings |
Introduces students to the literature and culture of South Africa. Examines the work or a variety of authors and playwrights. Requires original research based on viewing performances in South Africa. |
Attributes:Arts and Humanities B, Upper-Division
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ENG 3430: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing placement. Examines early English literature through a focused and in-depth topical lens, helping students understand key literary works and ideas with greater depth and complexity. (See English department website for a detailed description of this year's course specifics.) |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3442: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing placement. Examines the legend of King Arthur and his knights from its ancient origins through to modern-day re-tellings in novel and film. Examines the story's long history and celebrates its malleability - from courtly love through Christian epic. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3530: () Offerings |
Examines British literature through a focused and in-depth lens using interdisciplinary topics to help students understand literary works with sophistication and complexity. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3550: () Offerings |
Prerequisites: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing placement. Examines the idea of "gothic" from its 18th-century roots through to its continued prevalence in popular culture. Explores themes such as the emotional and intellectual purposes of horror and the grotesque, conflicts between scientific rationalism and the uncanny, as well as issues surrounding religious belief and the nature of evil. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3630: () Offerings |
Prerequisites: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing placement. Examines world literature through a focused and in-depth topical lens helping students understand key literary works and ideas with greater depth and complexity. (See English department website for a detailed description of this year's course specifics.) |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3710: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing placement. Examines major American authors, themes, and literary movements of the nineteenth century. Topics may include the American renaissance, transcendentalism, American realism, sentimentalism, regionalism, and the Civil War. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3715: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing placement. Examines major American authors, themes, and literary movements of the twentieth century. Topics may include modernism, World War I, World War II, the Harlem renaissance, the Beat generation, Southern gothic, and Postmodernism. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3730: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing placement. Examines American literature through a focused and in-depth topical lens helping students understand key literary works and ideas with greater depth and complexity. (See English department website for a detailed description of this year's course specifics.) |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3830: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing placement. Examines 20th century literature through a focused and in-depth topical lens, helping students understand key literary works and ideas with greater depth and complexity. (See English department website for a detailed description of this year's course specifics.) |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 3840: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2201 or a score of 5-6 in Writing placement. Studies the major literary works, themes, and ideas of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien in the context of their lives, faith, and friendships. Examines themes such as the use of myth to explore problems of modernity, the relationship between Christian faith and art, as well as the debates over "literary" vs. "popular" fiction. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 4152: () Offerings |
Prerequisites: ENG 2252 or 2253, or permission of instructor. Studies the major authors and literary works of the early twentieth century modernist period. Authors may include T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, or James Joyce. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4162: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2252 or 2253, or permission of instructor. Studies the emerging authors and literary works of the contemporary postmodern period. Authors and works will vary. (See English department website for a detailed description of this year's course specifics.) |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4316: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 3316. A writing workshop for experienced writers of poetry. Also addresses such topics as poetry magazines, small presses, agents and editors, the submission process, and current trends in publishing. Offered alternate years. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4317: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 3317. A writing workshop for experienced writers of fiction. Also addresses such topics as fiction magazines, publishing houses, agents and editors, the submission process, and current trends in publishing. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4318: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 3318. A writing workshop for experienced writers of creative nonfiction. Also addresses such topics as literary magazines, publishing houses, agents and editors, the submission process, and current trends in publishing. Offered alternate years. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4440: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2251 or permission of instructor. An in-depth study of the major works of British writer Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of "Canterbury Tales". |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4442: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2251 or permission of instructor. An in-depth study of the major works of British writer John Milton, the author of "Paradise Lost". |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4445: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2251 or permission of instructor. Considers Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances while studying his art and thought in relation to the Elizabethan background. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4449: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2252 or permission of instructor. An in-depth study of the major works of British novelist Jane Austen, the author of "Pride and Prejudice". |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4450: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2253 or permission of instructor. An in-depth study of the major works of American poet Emily Dickinson. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4452: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2253 or permission of instructor. An in-depth study of a major American author whose works have achieved centrality in the literary canon. (See English department website for a detailed description of this year's course specifics.) |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 4455: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2251 or 2252, or permission of instructor. An in-depth study of a major British author whose works have achieved centrality in the literary canon. (See English department website for a detailed description of this year's course specifics.) |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 4458: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2225, or permission of instructor. An in-depth study of a major world author whose works have achieved centrality in the literary canon. (See English department website for a detailed description of this year's course specifics.) |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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ENG 4601: () Offerings |
Examines Anglo Saxon, Middle, and Modern forms of English in historical development. Includes phonology, morphology, syntax, and some discussion of the relationship of each language stage to literary expression during its era. Offered alternate years. |
Equivalent Courses:LIN 4601
Attributes:Upper-Division
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ENG 4685: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2225 or permission of instructor. Studies the major issues and schools of literary theory in terms of their historical development. The course is especially appropriate for advanced majors or those who might be considering graduate studies in English. Offered alternate years. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4701: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: 3000-level Writing course, score of 5-6 on the English Placement Test, or permission of instructor. Surveys various approaches to the teaching of writing, with emphasis on current composition theory. Investigates the applicability of these approaches and theory to the classroom or one-to-one writing conference. Especially recommended to prospective language arts and secondary-English teachers and Writing Center tutors. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
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ENG 4822: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2225, or permission of instructor. Examines the novel form in its historical varieties and contexts, including a close attention to the relationship between theory, craft, and meaning. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4823: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2225, or permission of instructor. Examines the poetic form in its historical varieties and contexts, including a close attention to the relationship between theory, craft and meaning. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4824: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2225, or permission of instructor. Examines the short story form in all its historical varieties and contexts, including a close attention to the central relationship between theory, craft and meaning. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4825: () Offerings |
Prerequisite: ENG 2225, or permission of instructor. Examines the essay form in all its historical varieties and contexts, including a close attention to the central relationship between theory, craft and meaning. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4899: () Offerings |
Provides senior English majors with an opportunity to gather their thoughts on faith and literature, to explore their vocations, and to evaluate their educational experiences at SPU. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:English Majors only. Senior students only. |
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ENG 4900: () Offerings |
Independent Study May be repeated for credit up to 15 credits. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4930: () Offerings |
For advanced students who wish to assist as tutors, discussion leaders, and readers in lower-division English classes. May be repeated for credit up to 6 credits. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4940: () Offerings |
Applies writing skills in varied employment settings; possibilities include public relations offices, newspapers, and other informational services. Students may suggest their own internships in consultation with the faculty supervisor as long as writing skills are used and other internship criteria are met. May be repeated for credit up to 6 credits. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4941: () Offerings |
Applies writing skills in varied employment settings; possibilities include public relations offices, newspapers, and other informational services. Students may suggest their own internships in consultation with the faculty supervisor, as long as writing skills are used and other internship criteria are met. May be repeated for credit up to 6 credits. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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ENG 4950: () Offerings |
Topics will vary. May be repeated for credit up to 5 credits. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
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ENG 4953: () Offerings |
Offers an intensive writing experience in a small workshop setting. Genres, themes, and locations vary. May be repeated for credit up to 10 credits. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
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ENG 4954: () Offerings |
Offers advanced study of special topics in literature written in English while participating in SPU study abroad programs. Genres, themes, and locations vary. |
Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
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ENG 4970: () Offerings |
Under the direction of the English faculty, qualified students bound for postgraduate study will design and complete a senior project: either an article-length scholarly paper or a substantial creative writing project. |
Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:English Majors only. Senior students only. |
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