2004-05 Undergraduate Catalog
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705
Department of English
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit designation below each title is expressed in (c) class hours per week, (l) lab or (d) discussion section hours per week, and (cr) credits per semester.
3c-0l-3cr
Develops the basic English skills necessary for clear and effective
communication. Restricted to freshmen whose placement testing essay or portfolio
score is a four or under. Does not meet General Education English or Liberal
Studies writing requirements.
3c-var-4cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 100, where required by
placement testing
Normally to be taken the first semester at IUP. Uses readings in the nature and
history of language, semantic and linguistic analysis, and problems in rhetoric
and other approaches to composition. Seven theme-length expository papers (or
the equivalent) are written, in addition to shorter exercises and a written
final examination.
ENGL 121 Humanities Literature
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 101
Introduces literature of various genres through a careful analysis of poetry,
fiction, and drama. Includes literature of various time periods, nationalities,
and minorities.
ENGL 122 Introduction to Literary Analysis
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 101
Acquaints students with the literary genres (especially fiction, poetry, and
drama) by means of examples of each and provides them with some of the various
critical approaches to the interpretation of literature so that they may gain
the ability to apply them. At the conclusion of the course, students are
expected to be able to read literature perceptively and to write critical papers
about it.
ENGL 150 English for Foreign Students
3c-0l-3cr
Provides international students with an opportunity to improve their ability to
speak and write English before they take
ENGL 100 and
101.
Emphasizes individualized exercises and assignments. Carries graduation credit
but does not meet Liberal Studies English requirements.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101, sophomore standing
Teaches students to read, analyze, and evaluate nonfiction sources and to
present the results of their analysis in clear, organized, carefully documented
research papers. The focus of reading and research in each section is determined
by the instructor.
3c-0l-3cr
Concentrates on the film as an artistic medium. Eight to twelve motion pictures
are shown during semester and are analyzed in class discussions.
ENGL 210 British Literature to 1660
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
122, or permission
Surveys British literature from its beginnings to about 1660, acquainting
students with the experience of reading many of the primary materials (whole
works whenever possible or full, free-standing parts) and provides them with
background information concerning the development and flowering of the various
genres, the dominant ideas of each period, and the social and cultural context
of the separate works.
ENGL 211 British Literature 1660-1900
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
122, or permission
Surveys British literature from about 1660 to the beginning of the twentieth
century, acquainting students with the experience of reading many of the primary
materials (whole works whenever possible or full, free-standing parts) and
providing them with background information concerning the development and
flowering of the various genres, the dominant ideas of each period, and the
social and cultural context of the separate work.
ENGL 212 American Literature: Beginnings to 1900
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
122, or permission
Provides an understanding of American literature from its beginning to about
1900. Concentrates primarily upon a relatively small number of major works, each
of which helps to illustrate the “spirit of the age” it represents.
ENGL 213 British and American Literature Since 1900
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
122, or permission
A survey of major authors and works in British and American literature since
1900. Begins with the shift from Victorianism and late nineteenth-century
literature into modernism, as exemplified by writers such as Woolf, Hemingway,
and O’Neill, and continues with postmodernism and contemporary literature.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
122, or permission
Surveys the development of the novel from Cervantes’ Don Quixote to the
present with an emphasis on major writers and forms in English. Includes
consideration of teaching the novel.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
122, or permission
A study in appreciation of poetry, with special attention to the technique of
the poet and structure of poetry. Includes consideration of teaching poetry.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
122, or permission
A study of the development of the short story from the middle of the nineteenth
century to the present with attention to form, structure, and types of the
story. Includes consideration of teaching short fiction.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
122, or permission
The study of selected plays from various periods in an attempt to understand the
function of drama. Includes consideration of teaching drama.
ENGL 220 Advanced Composition I
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 202
Primarily seeks to improve writing style, particularly in the more utilitarian
forms, such as magazine article and personal essay.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 202
A seminar course in which students
are expected to produce a substantial body of written work in one or more of the
creative genres, the particular kind of writing chosen with regard to the
special interests and abilities of each student.
ENGL 225 Introduction to Literature by Women
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 121 or
122 and
202
Major trends and motifs across genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry,
autobiography) which reflect themes and subjects of continuing interest to women
writers. The intersection of genre with race, ethnicity, and social class will
be of particular significance.
var-1-3cr
Prerequisite: As appropriate to course content
Offered on an experimental or temporary basis to explore topics not included in
the established curriculum. A given topic may be offered under any special topic
identity no more than three times. Special topics numbered 281 are offered
primarily for lower-level undergraduate students.
ENGL 301 British Medieval Literature
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Examines particular literary traditions in England from the eleventh to the
fifteenth centuries, excluding Chaucer. Acquaints students with the diversity of
materials, ranging from prose to verse, oral to written, and serious to comic.
Most texts are taught in the original Middle English, accompanied by side
glosses. Translations are used where appropriate. Rather than survey the period
comprehensively, the purpose is to focus closely on particular aspects or
writers as selected by the instructor.
ENGL 302 Renaissance Literature
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Examines major works and genres in Elizabethan literature such as pastoral and
tragedy and key fiction writers, dramatists, and poets during 1558-1603. Rather
than survey the period comprehensively, the purpose is to focus closely on a
specific literary period and on the writers of this period as selected by the
instructor.
ENGL 303 British Enlightenment Literature
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
British Enlightenment Literature refers to the imitation of the Greek and Roman
authors of antiquity. Begins with the assumptions and goals of neoclassical
literature and integrates the intellectual debates and contemporary politics
(patriarchy, nascent capitalism, empire, slavery, class divisions) that
flourished alongside of (and that shaped the emergence of) new genres (the slave
narrative, the novel, gothic tales, the periodical essay). Rather than survey
the period comprehensively, the purpose is to focus closely on particular
aspects or writers as selected by the instructor.
ENGL 304 British Romantic Literature
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Emphasizes the relationship between literature and its milieu. Focuses primarily
on English Romantic Poets but considers development in Germany, France, and
America and examines its continuing manifestations in literature, culture, and
politics. Rather than survey the period comprehensively, the purpose is to focus
closely on a specific literary period and on the writers of this period as
selected by the instructor.
ENGL 305 British Victorian Literature
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Examines literary works against a background of rapidly changing social,
economic, religious, and political forces. Counterculture movements, such as the
Pre-Raphaelites, are examined against “high Victorianism” to develop a sense of
the tremendous intellectual and political energy of the period. Roots of recent
concerns such as feminism, political literalism, and capitalism are explored to
help us better understand our own as well as the Victorian age. Rather than
survey the period comprehensively, the purpose is to focus closely on particular
aspects or writers as selected by the instructor.
ENGL 306 Modern British Literature
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Examines major works and trends in modern British literature, such as modernism
or key fiction writers, dramatists, or poets during the first half of the
twentieth century. Rather than survey the period comprehensively, the purpose is
to focus closely on particular aspects or writers as selected by the instructor.
ENGL 307 Contemporary British Literature
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Examines major works and trends in contemporary British literature, such as late
modernism, postmodernism, the age of diminishment, or key novelists, dramatists,
and/or poets from the period 1945 to the present. Rather than survey the period
comprehensively, the purpose is to focus closely on particular aspects or
writers as selected by the instructor.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 101
Fundamental principles of public speaking, audience
analysis, interest and attention, and selection and organization of speech
material.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 310
Emphasizes understanding and appreciation of literature through developing skill
in reading aloud.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
310
An advanced study of problems involved in influencing an audience.
ENGL 313 The Rhetorical Tradition
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
310
A survey of rhetorical theory from Greek and Roman through modern times.
ENGL 314 Speech and Communication in the Secondary English Classroom
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 122,
202
Offers practical and theoretical approaches to relationships between oral and
written communication. Performance based (involving a variety of communication
activities) and knowledge based (involving study of research on language arts
relationships). Emphasizes integration of the four language arts for improving
teachers’ own communication skills as well as those of their students.
ENGL 315 American Literature to 1820
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
The beginnings of American literary cultures from sixteenth-century
pre-Columbian indigenous contacts with European explorations, through diverse
colonializations (Hispanic, French, and British) including the importation of
African slaves, up to the American Revolution and emergent U.S. literary
nationalism in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Rather than survey
the period comprehensively, the purpose is to focus closely on particular
aspects or writers as selected by the instructor.
ENGL 316 American Literature 1820-1880
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Examines major works and trends in U.S. literature, from
the Federalist, Romantic, and/or Realistic periods. Rather than survey the
period comprehensively, the purpose is to focus closely on particular aspects or
writers as selected by the instructor.
ENGL 317 American Literature 1880-1940
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Examines representative U.S. writers during 1880-1940. Includes traditional
figures as well as writers who have recently entered the canon. Rather than
survey the period comprehensively, the purpose is to focus closely on particular
aspects or writers as selected by the instructor.
ENGL 318 Literature for Adolescents
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
122, or permission, English
Education major
Surveys poetry, drama, and fiction with which the adolescent is familiar through
school work and personal reading.
ENGL 319 American Literature 1940-present
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202 and at least two
from
ENGL 210,
211,
212,
213
Additional prerequisites for B.A. English majors:
ENGL 210,
211,
212,
213
Focuses on various movements, themes, genres, and authors writing in the United
States since 1940. Not a survey course; each section develops an extended
treatment of a particular topic selected by the instructor. Emphasizes writing
by living writers to develop an understanding of the diversity, formally and
thematically, of current U.S. literary production across genders and
ethnicities.
ENGL 320 Advanced Composition II
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
220
A workshop and tutorial atmosphere for students who intend to write or teach
writing.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 202
Focuses on helping the student to
acquire and to apply communication skills essential to the technical and
professional writer.
ENGL 323 Teaching Literature and Reading in the Secondary School
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 122,
202
Introduces the theory and research on teaching literature and reading in the
secondary school. Reviews reader-response literary theory and classroom-based
research on teaching literature. Also reviews socio-psycholinguistic reading
theory and classroom-based research on teaching reading.
ENGL 324 Teaching and Evaluating Writing
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 122,
202,
English Education major or permission
A study of modern approaches to the teaching of writing, including current
theories on the composing process, as well as instruction in evaluating,
including holistic scoring. Includes practice in writing.
ENGL 325 Creative Writing: Poetry
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 221, instructor permission
based on samples of student’s work
A writing workshop for students who wish to focus intensively on the writing and
revision of poetry and on developing an audience for one’s works.
ENGL 326 Creative Writing: Fiction
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 221, instructor permission
based on samples of student’s work
A writing workshop for students who wish to write fiction under the guidance of
an instructor. Focuses intensively on the writing and revision of prose fiction
and on developing an audience for one’s works.
ENGL 329 The History of the English Language
1c-0l-1cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 202
Studies historical development of
the English language, as a basis for a better understanding of modern American
English.
ENGL 330 The Structure of English
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 202
An introduction to the fundamentals
of language study with an equal emphasis on the sound, word, sentence, meaning,
and discourse patterns of English. Educationally relevant topics, such as
applications of linguistics to the teaching of English language and literature,
varieties of grammar, and linguistic descriptions of styles and registers are an
integral part of the course. Course is a prerequisite for
EDUC 452.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
208
Offers a close examination of classic and contemporary films and film theory
from a variety of critical perspectives: spectatorship, cinematic authorship,
feminism, historiography, genre, and cultural studies. Pays special attention to the treatment of women and African-Americans in film.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 202
Concerns the interrelation between
language system and behavior and various factors of human psychology. Surveys
developments since the 1940s, including relationships between language and
perception, biology, memory, meaning, and cognition, as well as oral and written
behavior. Students of language and literature may improve their assumptions
about how human beings use language.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Focuses on the creation and development of the essay in English, its form and
content, from its beginnings to the present. Students begin by studying Francis
Bacon, the first English essayist, and follow the evolution of the form to the
present day.
ENGL 336 Language, Gender, and Society
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 202, junior standing
Investigates the various ways that language and gender interact and intersect in
society. Examines such questions as: Does society use language to favor one sex
over the other? Why is language a crucial component in formulating constructs of
masculinity and femininity? What stereotypes of gender-based language are
promoted in our society? How can we analyze language to reveal disparate views
and treatment of the sexes?
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202 and at least two
from
ENGL 210,
211,
212,
213
Additional prerequisites for B.A. English majors:
ENGL 210,
211,
212,
213
Examines the nature and function of the mythic experience and explores the
archetypal patterns of myths from various cultures.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Acquaints students with the nature of oral composition, the habits of thought
that orality fosters, and the particular mode of awareness the oral dimension of
literature demands of an audience (and awakens in a reader). At the conclusion
of the course students should have an understanding of the formulaic nature of
such purely oral forms as the ballad and the epic and an awareness of the manner
in which orality patterns thought differently from writing, and they should be
able to detect oral features and patterns in works of literature from cultures
not primarily oral but containing a high “oral residue.”
ENGL 344 Ethnic American Literature
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202 and at least two
from
ENGL 210,
211,
212,
213
Additional prerequisites for B.A. English majors:
ENGL 210,
211,
212,
213
Concerned with ethnic U.S. experiences as expressed in poetry, fiction, drama,
and autobiography. The topic varies and is announced in advance. Examples
include Asian-American, Hispanic, Irish-American, Jewish-American, and
Native-American literatures.
ENGL 348 African-American Literature
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 121 or
122 and
202
Primarily nineteenth- and twentieth-century African-American literature (poetry,
fiction, nonfiction): includes works by Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois,
spirituals and folk poetry, Harriet B. Wilson, Jean Toomer, Richard Wright,
Audrey Lorde, and Toni Morrison. Emphasizes historical context and an
Afrocentric approach.
ENGL 349 English Bible as Literature
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 121 or
122 and
202
Considers literary aspects of the English Bible by relating earlier translations
to the Authorized Version of 1611 and by tracing some of the major influences of
the King James Bible upon writers and speakers of modern English. Offers a close
reading of the major narrative and poetic portions of the Old Testament.
ENGL 354 Classical Literature in Translation
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 121,
202
Masterpieces studied range from those of ancient Greece to Middle Ages. English
literature and American literature excluded.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
208
An introduction to major film theories, studied in relation to representative
films. Details the complex relationship between film production and film theory:
i.e., how theorists have attempted to explain what appears on the screen, its
impact, and its relation to “reality,” and how filmmakers have responded to the
works of theorists (with the two sometimes being the same). Goes far deeper into
understanding film than ENGL 208, which focuses mainly on how film is
constructed through aesthetic and institutional processes.
ENGL 357 Major Figures in Film
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
208
Studies major artists and their contributions to the development of film as an
art form from its beginnings to the present. Close analyses of directors,
cinematographers, editors, screenwriters, or actors–as individuals or as
representatives of a movement in film. Topics vary from semester to semester;
thus, one semester may concentrate on a specific director such as Alfred
Hitchcock; another semester might study women (as directors, actresses, and
editors); and yet another semester might study a collective movement such as
film noir.
ENGL 385 Advanced Women’s Literature
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 202 and for nonmajors
ENGL 225
Considers issues of genre and canon revision and why particular genres may have
particular appeal for women writers. While many of our readings are by “literary
women,” we also consider works by women who were professionals in nonliterary
disciplines.
ENGL 386 Regional Literature in English
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 202 and at least two from
ENGL 210,
211,
212,
213
Additional prerequisites for B.A. English majors:
ENGL 210,
211,
212,
213
Examines the contributions of a particular region to national literature. The
course focus of the course might be any of the following: Appalachian writers,
local color writers, New England writers, Southern writers, writers of the
American West, or Canadian writers.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
An introduction to Irish literature since 1800, with particular emphasis on the
Literary Revival in the early twentieth century. Key authors include Yeats,
Joyce, Synge, O’Casey, Edgeworth, Somerville and Ross, Gregory, Beckett, and
Heaney. The development of Irish writing is examined within the contexts of
Irish history, language, culture, and politics.
ENGL 390 Literary Tour: Britain
var-3cr
Offered selected summers, for five weeks during the first or second summer
session. Visits London, Stratford, and Cambridge or Oxford, as well as other
places important in English literature.
ENGL 391 Selected Works from the Medieval Period
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL/FNLG
121 or
ENGL 122,
ENGL
202
Comparative study of selected works of major importance per se and as
representative of major themes of medieval European literature. Also listed as
FNLG 391.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL/FNLG
121 or
ENGL 122,
ENGL
202
A study of the principal authors and works of late eighteenth-century and early
nineteenth-century Europe and the unique national characteristics of the
Romantic movement in lyric, drama, and prose. Also listed as
FNLG 393.
ENGL 394 Nineteenth-Century European Novel in Translation
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL/FNLG
121 or
ENGL 122,
ENGL
202
A survey of major nineteenth-century European novels in translation (excluding
English), emphasizing the rise of realism and naturalism and the cultural,
historical, social, and artistic relationships between the various national
literatures. Also listed as
FNLG 394.
ENGL 395 Selected Writers from Twentieth-Century Europe
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL/FNLG
121 or
ENGL 122,
ENGL
202
A comparative study of selected works of major importance per se or as
representatives of major trends in twentieth-century literature. Also listed as
FNLG 395.
ENGL 396 The Literature of Emerging Nations
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL/FNLG
121 or
ENGL 122,
ENGL
202
A comparative study of a selection of literature written in major European
languages but originating in the nations of the developing world. Works are
mainly prose fiction (although essay, theater, and poetry may be included) and
reflect a diversity of geographical, cultural, and prior colonial circumstances.
Also listed as
FNLG 396.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL
202
Examines major works in English of a particular
topic in global literature by focusing on the transnational contexts of history
and culture surrounding the production and reception of literature. Topic of
global literature to be announced in advance.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 202
Focuses on a specific literary
genre (including, but not limited to, poetry, drama, film, the short story or
the novel) as it has been developed and transformed in global contexts beyond
the typical domains of the British or American literary traditions. Situates the
use of a genre within transnational literary and historical developments. The global genre studied in a
particular semester to be announced in advance.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 202
Examines major works in English of a single major global author not included in
the British or American literary traditions. Situates the author within major
transnational literary and historical developments. Major author to be studied
in particular semester to be announced in advance.
ENGL 401 Advanced Literary Theory and Criticism
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Acquaints students with major issues and problems in literary theory. Rather
than survey the history of criticism and theory, the focus is on modern and
contemporary critical schools and methods. Introduces students to a select group
of influential theories and theorists and how such theories impact the way we
read, study, and teach literature and cultural studies.
ENGL 420 Special Writing Applications
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 220
Offers students who are well into their disciplines “forums” for advanced
reading and writing about the cultural, professional, and personal uses of
textual knowledge. Students read, analyze, and compose essays that build meaning
around disciplinary knowledge, independent reading, and personal or
preprofessional experience. They are encouraged to make connections between
disciplinary knowledge and emerging knowledge or experience.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite:
ENGL 322
An advanced workshop/tutorial that provides intensive instruction in technical
writing. Technical Writing II builds on the basics of audience, readability,
proposals and reports, letters, memos, and resumes which are covered in
Technical Writing I. Describes the writer’s role in such areas as legal and
ethical aspects of technical communication; planning, testing, reviewing, and
evaluating documents; and proofreading and editing.
ENGL 426 ESL Methods and Materials
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisite: Senior standing or instructor permission
An introduction to English as a Second Language theory and practice. Aims: (1)
general understanding of current theory and methods of teaching ESL; (2) ability
to select appropriate, and adapt existing, materials for elementary and high
school ESL students. (Offered as ENGL 334 prior to 2003-04)
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Examines major works of a single major author, including biographical, literary,
and cultural contexts. Places the author within both intellectual/cultural
history and literary developments. Major author studied in a particular semester
to be announced in advance.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Studies Chaucer, his life, his language, the development of his literary style,
and his art, with and through his major poetical works.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202 and at least two
from
ENGL 210,
211,
212,
213
Additional prerequisites for B.A. English majors:
ENGL 210,
211,
212,
213
Studies Shakespeare’s development as a poetic dramatist against background of
Elizabethan stage; examines audience, textual problems, language imagery, and
philosophy.
ENGL 436 Major American Authors
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Studies in the literary output of a major American author or authors against the
background of the social and literary milieus in which the works were created.
Specific subject or subjects to be announced by the instructor.
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
208
Selected films dealing with a specific, advanced topic are viewed and assessed
to explore the different roles that film plays. Topic to be announced in
advance.
ENGL 461 Topics in British Literature
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Examines major works of a particular topic in British literature by focusing on
its cultural and literary contexts. Topic to be announced in advance.
ENGL 462 Topics in American Literature
3c-0l-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL
202,
210,
211,
212,
213
Examines major works of a particular topic in American literature by focusing on
its cultural and literary contexts. Topic to be announced in advance.
ENGL 480 Seminar: Studies in English and American Literature
var-3cr
Prerequisites:
ENGL 101,
122,
ENGL
202
Corequisites:
ENGL 211,
212,
213, or permission
A seminar experience designed for advanced students. Students considering
graduate work in English might well wish to enroll, but students with a variety
of career goals–business, industry, law, government service–can take advantage
of this opportunity to plan a schedule of independent study with the help of a
faculty mentor.
var-1-3cr
Prerequisite: As appropriate to course content
Vary from semester to semester covering such diverse topics as autobiography,
science fiction, folklore, the political novel, black theater, etc.
var-1-6cr
Prerequisite: Prior approval through advisor, faculty member, department
chairperson, dean, and Provost’s Office
Students with interest in independent study of a topic not offered in the
curriculum may propose a plan of study in conjunction with a faculty member.
Approval is based on academic appropriateness and availability of resources.
var-1-6cr
Prerequisites: Admission to departmental honors program; prior approval
through advisor, faculty member, department chairperson, dean, and Provost’s
Office
An intensive, focused study involving independent research culminating in a
written thesis approved by a thesis director and two faculty readers/committee
members. May be taken more than once to a maximum of 6sh.
var-3-12cr
On-the-job training opportunities in related areas. Application and acceptance
to internship program required.
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