| ENGL 101 - Writing I |
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Specialized instruction and practice in beginning writing. Work in usage, grammar, style, paragraphs, and short essays.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 102 - Writing II |
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Continuation of practice in composition with emphasis on a variety of forms of writing and long essays, culminating in the annotated research paper.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 109A - First-Year Experience: Chicago's Literary Diversity: Reading the Neighborhoods |
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This course explores how literary Chicago enters into discourses on race and ethnicity in 20th century literature. Beginning with Great Migration, students sample literary history produced by people who settled or passed through Chicago. Writers have used Chicago as a setting for major works and sociological studies have attempted to focus on Chicago's neighborhoods and how they were formed as a result of immigration from other countries and migration from the American South. The course examines several works from popular perspectives, fiction, autobiography, journalism, humor, folktales, cultural criticism and regional studies to reach a better understanding of the city.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 109B - First-Year Experience: Reading And Writing The Literary And Political Landscapes Of Chicago |
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From the Haymarket "riot" of 1886 to the Pullman Strike of 1894 to the Black Sox scandal of 1919 to the trial of Abbie Hoffman and the Chicago Seven in the aftermath of the Democratic Convention of 1968, Chicago has, to say the least, a colorful and quite literally, explosive political history. As with any major urban center in the United States, Chicago bears the historical scars and contemporary fruits of vibrant and violent class conflict, labor insurgencies, racial strife, immigrant struggles, and activism for social justice. Part and parcel of this historical legacy is a rich spate of cultural production that attempts to comprehend this past in those historical moments and in our contemporary era.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 109C - First-Year Experience: Drama And Diversity In Chicago |
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In this class, we will analyze and experience Chicago theater. By emphasizing theater that challenges social cultural norms, we will consider how drama works to create and define diverse urban communities and how it offers alternative visions to the status quo. This class will emphasize writing and reading about drama, interviewing theater personnel and taking notes on actual theater performances, and relating art to social and political diversity. We will attend 3-4 performances during the course of the semester.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 109D - First-Year Experience:Windy City Words: Ethnolinguistic Chicago |
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This course integrates the five foundations of the First-Year Experience (Future Planning, Integral Preparation, Research, Self Discover, and Transitions) with concepts from the study of literacy and language. Using the city as a field site, students actively explore the linguistic and cultural diversity of Chicago through independent research, readings, online resources, speakers, and other experiences.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 109E - First-Year Experience: Your Chicago: Write On! |
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This course interweaves foundations of the First-Year Experience (Future Planning, Integral Preparation, Research, Self-discovery, Transitions) with specific concepts of creative writing. Explore and experience Chicago’s vibrant cultural scene while cultivating literary culture in class. Students study their local literary heritage reading, analyzing, and discussing works of classic and contemporary Chicago authors and attending and annotating literary readings at local bookstores and cafes; experimenting with a range of writing exercises, prompts, and assignments, students will craft their own stories, recognize their unique writing process, and learn techniques to revise and polish their prose, culminating in a student reading.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Field Experience, Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 201 - The World Of Poetry |
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A literature course which has three main objectives: 1) to familiarize students with the literary conventions of poetry; 2) to develop in students a critical stance towards literature; and 3) to develop in students an appreciation of both Western and non-Western cultures as experienced through literature.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 202 - The World Of Drama |
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A literature course which has three main objectives: 1) to familiarize students with the literary conventions of drama; 2) to develop in students a critical stance towards literature; and 3) to develop in students an appreciation of both Western and non-Western cultures as experienced through literature.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 203 - The World Of Fiction |
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A literature course which has three main objectives: 1) to familiarize students with the literary conventions of the short story and novel genres; 2) to develop in students a critical stance towards literature; and 3) to develop in students an appreciation of both Western and non-Western cultures as experienced through literature.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 203A - The World of Creative Nonfiction |
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The World of Creative Nonfiction is a literature course which has three main objectives: 1) to familiarize students with the literary conventions of creative nonfiction forms, including memoir and personal essay; 2) to develop in students a critical stance toward literature; and 3) to develop in students an appreciation of both Western and non-Western cultures as experienced through literature.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
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| ENGL 205 - Literatures And Literacies |
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This course offers an introduction to language arts for elementary education majors, providing a practical foundation in the methods essential to the study of language arts. Emphasized are active reading, critical thinking, and purposeful writing, including skills such as note taking, quoting, using MLA style, summarizing arguments, and synthesizing and documenting others' opinions. This course will also explore multiple perspectives on controversial topics relevant to literary and literacy studies.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 207 - Banned Books: Challenges and Censorship |
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This course considers book challenges / bans from different disciplinary perspectives. Students will read representative samples, learn about the history of book bans, and explore debates about reading challenged / banned texts as well as consider these issues within larger social and cultural contexts.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
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| ENGL 210 - Writing Intensive Program: Methods for English Majors |
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This is a Writing Intensive course designed as an introduction for English majors. It provides a practical foundation in the methods essential to English Studies: active reading, critical thinking, and purposeful writing. Skills such as note taking, quoting, using MLA style, summarizing arguments, and synthesizing and documenting others' opinions will be emphasized. The course will also explore multiple perspectives on controversial topics relevant to the discipline. Coursework develops strategies of effective critique, argument, and analysis, and will consist of informal writing, review essays, and thesis-driven analyses of rhetorical and literary texts. Open discussion and critical thinking required.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours |
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| ENGL 218 - American Literature:Beginnings To 1865 |
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A course covering representative writing of the Colonial, Early National and Romantic periods in American literature, emphasizing both dominant and emergent themes, literary forms and historical contexts pertaining to each period. In this course, students will build the necessary cultural literacy for higher-level courses in American Literature.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 219 - American Literature:1865 To The Present |
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A course covering representative writings of the Realist, Modern and Postmodern periods in American Literature, emphasizing both dominant and emergent themes and literary forms and historical contexts pertaining to each period. In this course, students will gain a broad background for higher-level courses in postbellum American Literature.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 221 - English Literature:The Beginnings To C. 1750 |
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Representative works in English literature from Beowulf to the middle of the eighteenth century.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 222 - English Literature: C. 1750 To The Present |
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Representative works in English literature from the middle of the eighteenth century to the modern era.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 235 - Introduction To Creative Writing I |
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Preliminary study to enable students to develop positive approaches to the craft of writing and to explore techniques of the craft.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 250/SPAN 250 - Bilingual Creative Writing: Spanish and English |
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This course offers preliminary study in Creative Writing in Spanish and English. It enables students to study creative writing in the bilingual mode and to 1) develop effective approaches to the craft of writing, 2) explore new techniques of the craft, and 3) consider their own craft and techniques in the context of two languages.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 300 - Russian Literature: From Gogol To Chekhov |
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Works (primarily novels, novellas and stories) of the major figures in nineteenth-century Russian literature (Turgenev, Tolstoi, Dostoyevski, etc.), relating them to the social, political and religious issues they touched on.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 301 - Independent Study In English |
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An independent study on the tutorial model, initiated at the student's suggestion to an instructor; course content designed in consultation with the instructor.
1.000 Credit hours
1.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Independent Study, Online, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 302 - Literature and Theories of Love |
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This course explores diverse narratives and theories of love, especially emerging from marginalized thinkers such as bell hooks, James Baldwin, and Emma Pérez. As the course explores, love not only underwrites conceptions of the self, but more broadly, enables and generates new forms of community, ethics, and politics.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 303 - Contemporary LGBTQ+ Literature |
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This course uses an intersectional approach to explore fiction, film, and other texts that address the ways LGBTQ+ identities are layered, fluid, evolving, and sometimes conflicting. We will emphasize close reading of fiction, the ability to write clearly and analytically about literature, the history and culture of LGBTQ+ lives, and the role literature plays in our everyday lives.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 304A - Literary Editing |
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Students will learn and implement skills involved in literary editing, including developmental and copy editing, and proofreading, supporting the production of the annual issue of SEEDS: A Literary & Visual Arts Journal or a collaborative anthology.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and ENGL 235 with minimum grade of C
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| ENGL 305A - Literary Publishing |
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Students will learn and implement skills involved in the publication of a literary journal, including navigation of process and product, supporting the production of the annual issue of SEEDS: A Literary & Visual Arts Journal or a collaborative anthology.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and ENGL 235 with minimum grade of C
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| ENGL 307 - Medieval Studies- The Development Of The Arthurian Legend |
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The legend of King Arthur from allusions in early chronicles, through Welsh folk tales, through the courtly versions of twelfth-century France to the compilation by Sir Thomas Malory.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 308 - English Literature From Beowulf To Malory |
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A survey of English Medieval literature that, in dealing with major works (e.g. Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, Morte D'Arthur, etc.), situates them in the relevant political and linguistic contexts, as well as the literary context of competing "minor" works and genres.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 309 - Reading and Writing in a Changing Digital Economy |
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Through hands on experience and theoretical and rhetorical analyses, students will explore processes and issues with writing and reading in digital environments. Topics include connecting visuality with the written word, exploring online textual identities, collaboration and intellectual property, and web design, with an emphasis on how writing in digital environments impacts English studies. Students will produce a variety of non-traditional and traditional academic texts in this course, using current presentation, web-based or freeware programs. The class is open to students who are new to digital writing but will also benefit those with experience in composing New Media and digital texts.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 310 - Writing Intensive Program:Introduction To Composition Studies |
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Examines some contemporary issues in composition studies, such as process theory, the role of grammar in writing instruction, digital and visual literacies, and scholarly considerations of writers' subjectivities. Introduces the discipline's modes of inquiry: theory, empirical research, and practice. Provides instruction in professional resources and bibliographic databases so that students can become independent learners in the discipline. Written assignments include responses to readings and a literature review. This course fulfills the NEIU Writing Intensive requirement for Secondary Education English majors and for English majors who as transfer students may have already taken a course comparable to ENGL-210.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 311 - Introduction To Cultural Studies |
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This course introduces students to the institutional history, theoretical debates, and interpretative strategies of cultural studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course explore how cultural processes and forms are produced, distributed, consumed, and responded to in diverse ways, and how culture must be studied in wide social, historical, and political contexts.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 312 - Literature Of Colonial Times |
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Prose and poetry of the Puritan and Revolutionary eras.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 313 - American Literary Renaissance-1830-1860 |
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Prose and poetry of Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson, and others.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 314 - Chaucer And His Age |
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Close study of selected early poems of Chaucer (ballads, envoys, and narratives), to present and introduction to the language and themes of Chaucer's poetry and his age. The major portion of the course will be devoted to a close reading of The Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 315 - Literature Of The English Renaissance |
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Prose and poetry (not drama) of the English Renaissance in the sixteenth century.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 316 - Forms Of Poetry |
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This course will examine some of the traditional poetic forms-lyric, narrative, and dramatic- which have been used by poets throughout literary history. Readings and discussion will engage students in an analysis of each form- its technical characteristics, its place in literary history, and its relevance to contemporary writers and readers of poetry. Students will write imitations of several poetic forms as well as critical essays about them.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 317 - Modern American Drama |
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Major lines of development of modern American Drama form O-Neill to contemporaries like Albee and Mamet.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 319 - Writing Culture and Identity |
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In this course, students will explore theoretical, political, and cultural understandings of difference and identity through intensive reading and writing. Students will develop a deep understanding of cultural difference and the ability to write argumentative, personal, and theoretical essays about human diversity in a variety of forms.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 320 - Globalizing Literacies |
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This course presents textual circulation as trade in cultural practices throughout early modern or proto-globalization (1600-1800) when European traditions were exported to the United States that, after being established through cultural syncretism, were exported to the rest of the world through the first (1870-1914) and second (1980-present) globalization periods. From these perspectives, students will examine central themes in textual production and consumption, such as the development of an American literary tradition and Americanization educational initiatives, through particular genres, such as newspapers and magazines, as a part of a nationalized cultural identity, including the ways this identity has been resisted and reconfigured.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level
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ENGL 321 - Literature Of The Romantic Movement
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Poetry and prose from 1780 to 1830 including Blake, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Lamb, Hazlitt, and DeQuincey.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 322 - The American Short Story |
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The evolution of the American short story as a self-conscious form of literature from Washington Irving to Joyce Carol Oates. The theories of Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism are illustrated. Each student selects one writer of short stories to explore in some depth through an individual report.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 323 - Modern British Drama |
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This course examines the development of modern British drama since the 1890s, studying writers like Shaw, Wilde, Yeats, O'Casey, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, and Churchill. Covering over a century of a dynamic period in the history of British drama, this course explores important influences such as Norwegian Henrik Ibsen's Realism, French "Symbolisme" Movement, Irish Literary Revival, poetic drama, the Theatre of the Absurd, and Postmodernist aesthetics.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 324 - The Romantic Novel |
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The nineteenth century novelists from England and the Continent are studied against the great socio-political movements of the age- the French, Russian and Industrial Revolutions.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 325 - Gothics: Image, Music, Text |
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What is considered/constructed as abhorrent at a given time, and why? How have minoritized subjects played with fear towards self-empowerment and even resistance? What are the sociopolitical roots of figures such as vampires and (sometimes) ghosts? How have under-represented writers shaped, transformed and revised the traditional gothic? This course engages these and relevant questions by examining literature, film, music and art that engages in gothic aesthetics and/or traditions. Readings will be anchored in one or two major works of cultural theory, including Barthes’ Image-Music-Text. Coursework will stretch across geographic and historical contexts and be grounded in aesthetic, philosophical, psychological, and sociopolitical approaches to examine works such as Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Mitski’s Laurel Hell, Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bustamante’s La LLorona.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 326 - Readings In World Literature: Real Fictions |
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In this seminar we'll read works that explore the thin line that divides the (supposedly) fictive and the (supposedly) real. Literature has, for a long time, interrogated the idea of how we know what happened, calling into question the division between so-called "objective reality" and the narratives (eye witness, journalistic, historiographic, fictive) that give us access to it. Authors studied will include Laurent Binet and Éric Vuillard.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 327 - Chicago Drama |
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This course examines the history of Chicago drama from the early performances of Joseph Jefferson to modern and contemporary playwrights, such as Tennessee Williams and David Mamet, who have found success in in or been shaped by Chicago, as well as its contributions to drama in the U.S. and around the world.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: ENGL 210 and one other course at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 328 - Seventeenth Century Literature |
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Studies in seventeenth century literature exclusive of Milton
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 329 - Milton |
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Milton's work and the intellectual milieu of the period.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 330 - Shakespeare: Comedies, Romances, Poetry |
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This course explores Shakespeare's comedies, their late transformation into romances, and select narrative poetry.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 330L - Law and Order in Shakespeare |
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Popular culture today is rife with police procedurals that put audiences in the position of armchair legal experts exercising their judgment upon the characters on screen. The plays of William Shakespeare offered a similar experience to Renaissance theater-goers and readers during a period recognized by historians for its litigiousness and drastic legal change. This course considers how literary representations of crime and the legal system reveal the values, fears, sympathies, and investments of Shakespeare’s cultural milieu. We will also interrogate the afterlives of Shakespeare’s plays and the early modern legal system, which continue to echo in modern American life.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 331 - Shakespeare: Tragedies and Histories |
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This course explores Shakespeare's works in the genres of tragedy and history, emphasizing close reading and historical context.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 332 - Elizabethan And Jacobean Drama |
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Exploration of English dramatic works from circa 1580-1642, including Marlowe, Greene, Middleton, Marston, Dekker, Jonson, Webster, and Beaumont. This course will pay particular attention to genres that dominate outside the Shakespeare canon (revenge tragedy, city comedy, tragicomedy), as well as detailing the social, cultural, and intellectual developments that characterize this golden age of English stagecraft.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 333 - Mythological Backgrounds Of English And American Literature |
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Middle-Eastern, Nordic and Graeco-Roman mythological systems; reading in archetypal interpretation of literature with representative illustrations form fiction, drama and poetry.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 334 - Biblical Backgrounds Of English And American Literature |
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Influence of the Bible, especially the King James version, on the style and content of famous English and American writers. Selected reading from Old and New Testaments and from writers influenced by them.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 335 - Written Communications For Business |
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Designed primarily for Business and Management majors covering principles and practices of writing required in professional work.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 336 - Technical Writing |
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This course asks students to study the ways writers prepare professional documents, including reports, proposals, and web sites, in a world where our languages are becoming increasingly technical, jargon-filled, and diverse. Students will write in these modes as well to give them experience with the kinds of technical writing they may encounter in fields such as business, science, engineering, and more.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 337 - DC and Marvel Superheroes: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics, and Commerce |
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Over the course of the 20th century, superheroes have elevated into a popular artform. Moreover, they have become vehicles for thinking about political movements; figures for engaging in ethical debates; and intellectual properties buttressing multi-million-dollar, multimedia franchises. This course will focus on how mainstream US comics (DC and Marvel) imagine heroism and justice across the decades during different historical crises from the Great Depression to Black Lives Matter. As this course foregrounds, superheroes must be studied within the matrices of class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationality, and disability. No prior knowledge of comics is necessary. Capes are optional.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 340 - Independent Study In English |
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An independent study on the tutorial model, initiated at the student's suggestion to an instructor; course content designed in consultation with the instructor.
2.000 Credit hours
2.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Independent Study, Online, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 340A - Elements of Style for Creative Writers |
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The course will cover style conventions of the English language, including: punctuation, grammar, usage, and sound. There will be a focus on sentence and line analysis. Students will consider how these conventions and their deployment impact a reader's experience, and the issues of perspective, power, and bias encoded therein. Students will also develop a working definition of their own writerly style while experimenting in using, subverting, and experimenting with conventions. Students will be encouraged to work within their own desired genre(s); the reading selections will be modern and contemporary texts which move across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and hybrid.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Independent Study, Online, Video Conferencing
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| ENGL 341 - Restoration And Eighteenth Century Literature I |
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Politics in England leading to the restoration of Charles II; his court; Restoration playwrights; the bawdy Restoration stage and reaction to it; the new sentimental drama; the newspaper and the essay.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 342 - Restoration And Eighteenth Century Literature II |
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Intensive study of contrasts in the Age of Enlightenment; interrelationship of politics and writers; neoclassic literature; beginning of the novel; eighteenth century criticism and biography.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 343 - Global Ecologies |
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This interdisciplinary course explores why studying the environment is one of the most urgent, intellectual responsibilities of all disciplines, including English. Global Ecologies centers on how the environment is represented, imagined, and refigured across a range of literary and cultural texts, and the course studies how the environment is inextricable from understanding a range of social relations from race and class to ethics and politics.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 345 - Practical Criticism |
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Introduction to some of the more important critical approaches to literature, emphasis on application as well as theory.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 346A - Critical Writing for Creative Writers |
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This course is a seminar and writing workshop for creative writers. Students will: examine assigned models; choose some outside reading of their own; produce various (in)formal critical, creative, creative-critical, and critical-creative pieces; submit at least one book review/essay for possible publication (or alternatively make it public); and through this process “enter the discourse.”
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 235
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| ENGL 347 - Rust Belt Literature |
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This course will introduce students to literature (poetry, fiction, non-fiction) of the region of the United States known as the Rust Belt in its historical, political, social, aesthetic, and broader cultural contexts, including the process of its continual redefinition. Students will read representative texts from a diverse range of authors and periods, and discuss such issues as desegregation, clean water, racism, and classism, among others.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level
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| ENGL 348 - Prose And Poetry Of The Victorian Age |
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Selected Victorian poetry, with consideration of the social background of the period (1837-1910).
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 349A - Deep Dive: Toni Morrison |
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In contrast to other advanced courses covering diverse writers working within a genre, literary period or cultural situation, this course is a "deep dive" into the particular social, political, and economic factors contributing to the work of a single author over the long arc of her career, along with her particular contributions to literary culture in her time. Extensive reading involving a representative array of Toni Morrison's work and a wide variety of critical essays on that work will provide students excellent bases for their research, writing, and class discussion, culminating in an essay or creative project suitable for public presentation or publication.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 349B - Deep Dive: James Baldwin |
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In contrast to other advanced courses covering diverse writers working within a genre, literary period or cultural situation, this course is a "deep dive" into the particular social, political, and economic factors contributing to the work of a single author over the long arc of his career, along with his particular contributions to literary culture in his time. Extensive reading involving a representative array of James Baldwin's work and a wide variety of critical essays on that work will provide students excellent bases for their research, writing, and class discussion, culminating in an essay or creative project suitable for public presentation or publication.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level
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| ENGL 349G - Deep Dive: Gloria Anzaldua |
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In contrast to other advanced courses covering diverse writers working within a genre, literary period or cultural situation, this course is a "deep dive" into the particular social, political and economic factors contributing to the work of a single author over the long arc of her career, along with her particular contributions to literary culture in her time. Extensive reading involving a representative array of the author's work and a wide variety of critical essays on that work will provide students excellent bases for their research, writing and class discussion, culminating in an essay or creative project suitable for public presentation or publication. This section of the course focuses on the work of Gloria Anzaldúa, as well as her collaborators and literary intellectual/artistic successors.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level
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| ENGL 349W - Deep Dive: August Wilson |
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In contrast to other advanced courses covering diverse writers working within a genre, literary period or cultural situation, this course is a "deep dive" into the particular social, political, and economic factors contributing to the work of a single author over the long arc of his career, along with his particular contributions to literary culture in his time. Extensive reading involving a representative array of Wilson's plays and a wide variety of critical essays on that work will provide students excellent bases for their research, writing, and class discussion, culminating in an essay or creative project suitable for public presentation or publication. This section of the course focuses on Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle (i.e., 10 plays that document African American experience throughout twentieth century), Wilson's 1996 speech at the 11th Biennial Theatre Communications Group national conference ("The Ground on Which I Stand"), and various critical/creative responses to Wilson's influence in American theater.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level
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| ENGL 350 - The Victorian Novel |
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A study of the development of the novel in England from Dickens to Hardy, seen against the contemporary social and literary background. Theme and technique of the novel, methods of publication, major and minor writers.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 351 - The English Novel Of The Eighteenth Century |
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The development of the English novel as a genre in the eighteenth century, including such precursors of the novel as Bunyan, Defoe, Lyly and Behn.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level
| ENGL 352 - Jewish American Literature: People of the Books |
This course studies how the United States shapes the meaning of Jewish identity and culture, and conversely, how Jewish literature helps shape the meaning of American identity and culture. Working in a range of forms from comic books to genre fiction, Jewish writers throughout the modern era creatively and critically interrogate and re-imagine what it means to be Jewish-American, and more broadly, investigate and challenge what it means to be American. Required: ENGL 210 and one other English course at the 200 level.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 353 - Writing About Music |
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This is a course designed for the students who want to read, write, and think about music--and, by extension, literature and culture--more critically. This is not a survey of canonical writing about music, but it will focus on predominantly American writing from the last 20 years that challenges various narratives about popular music, including hip hop, rock, pop, country and jazz. The course will focus on argumentative and often scholarly writing about music and each student will write an extended piece of writing about music.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and two courses at the 200 level in English or consent of the instructor
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| ENGL 354 - Star Wars: Narratives, Politics, and Economics of a Billion-Dollar, Multi-Media Franchise |
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Star Wars is a billion-dollar franchise that spans multiple generations, nation-states, and media forms. The ever-expanding empire includes movies, novels, toys, comic books, video games, television shows, fan fiction, and cosplay. Taking a multidisciplinary and transmedia approach, this course studies how this fictional galaxy is informed by wider historical, political, economic, and cultural processes from the economic and energy crises of the 1970s to social justice movements in the present. The course explores questions such as: How do historical crises inform global franchises? How do marginalized voices occupy a franchise? No prior knowledge of Star Wars is necessary.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 355 - The Production Of "America": Work, Class, & Political Economy In U.S. Literature & Culture |
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In this class we will study U.S. literature and culture with an eye toward understanding the material conditions of production in the United States as well as how national identity is ideologically produced. The class will foreground issues of class and political economy in reading literature and culture from a working-class perspective. Prerequisites: Admission to an English M.A. program or consent of instructor.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 356A - Graphic Novels and Comics |
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This course studies comics as a complex medium that offers new ways to think about and represent a range of social and cultural issues, such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, national belonging, and the environment. Students will learn the critical vocabulary necessary to understand how the medium works, and read diverse comics in various historical and geographical contexts.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 357 - Land, Labor & Literature: Studying the Works of U.S. Working-Class & Colonized Writers |
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We will study the representations of land and labor and the desire to reclaim them in the works of working-class and colonized writers in the U.S. Particular attention will be paid to the historical and cultural contexts in which texts are produced as well as theories of class and race.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 358 - Making Your Liberal Arts Degree Work: Writing for the Professional World and Internships |
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This course provides a personal and professional communications orientation, covering the integrated landscape of digital media. Students will learn to adapt their writing for such practices as social marketing, blogging, headline writing, messaging, networking, community building and resume development. Whether a students' ultimate career goals lead them to freelance, startup, non-profit or corporate endeavors, this course helps students learn more about putting their degree to work.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 359 - Independent Study In English |
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An independent study on the tutorial model, initiated at the student's suggestion to an instructor; course content designed in consultation with the instructor.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Independent Study, Online, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 360 - Detective Fiction |
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Literary and historical study of the detective story from Poe and Sherlock Holmes, to Hammett and the present.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 361 - Development Of The American Novel |
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The novel as a developing form from Charles Brockden Brown to William Faulkner and beyond.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 362 - United States Fiction: Traditions And Counter-Traditions |
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A study of canonical and non-canonical fiction in the United States and the varieties of traditions composing U.S. literary history.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 364 - Reading Film |
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A course in film emphasizing methods of reading films as we would texts. Through close viewing, critical analysis of narrative structure, attention to visual form and representational practice, students will explore the complexity of film beyond the level of "entertainment." To paraphrase a famous question asked about poetry, this course will explore "how a film means."
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 365 - Caribbean Literature |
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This course will introduce students to literature (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama) of the Caribbean in its his historical, political, social, and cultural contexts. Students will discuss such issues as cultural and racial hybridity, immigration/emigration/exile, and post-colonization, among others. Students will read representative texts from a diverse range of authors such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace, Edwidge Danticat, and Junot Díaz.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 367 - Re-Thinking Race And Gender |
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This intensive summer course runs for 10 days over three weeks. It takes up history critically to engage in a concentrated re-thinking of how we learn to see, identify, and inhabit issues of race and gender. Workshops, lectures, and sessions with invited guests will unpack structures and relations of race and gender and the ways they get naturalized. The course is designed for graduates, undergraduates, and teachers, and is cross-listed in the Graduate College and the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Graduate status or junior/senior status in English, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, WGS, AFAM, or LGBTQ.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 368 - American Realism |
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An examination of the literature that reflects the movement from American romanticism to realism and through realism to literary naturalism, approximately 1865-1910.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 369 - U.S. Latino/a Literature And Culture |
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This course introduces students to Latino/a literatures in the US from the contact period to the present. It offers an overview of major forms and themes in literature from Latino/a native, immigrant and exiled writers with in-depth analysis of representative texts from various genres including essays, novels, poetry and drama. Writers will include Latino/as of North American, Central American, South American and Caribbean descent. The course is taught in English with readings in original English or translation. Readings, assignments, instruction and discussion will focus on questions of aesthetics, culture, politics and history, with an added emphasis on inclusion of under-represented groups and intercultural connections.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 370 - Folklore And The Fairy Tale |
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Readings from both traditional and contemporary folktales, including modern adaptations of traditional stories. Emphasis on similarities in different tales, and the differences in similar ones, with the aim of learning how the same elements pervade the archetypical stories and how variations in detail bespeak different ethnic and cultural interests and concerns.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 371 - Studies In Women's Literature |
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Literature by or about women; includes writing by women, portrayals of female characters, attitudes toward women and women's roles; other thematic concerns.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other English course at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 372 - American Women Writers Of The Nineteenth Century |
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Comprehensive study of texts and contexts of women's writing in the US during the nineteenth century, including the origins of its feminist tradition. Texts include a variety of genres (novel, short story, lecture, travel narrative) and traditions (sentimental, romantic, realist, political, utopian). Special emphasis on the social, political, economic and legal forces bearing upon women as professional writers along with the ways women's fiction articulates the realities of nineteenth-century women's lives. Assignments include close reading of individual texts and a more comprehensive final project involving primary research.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 373 - Yiddish Literature In Translation |
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Yiddish literature from its beginning to the present from Eastern European and West Germany to the East Side and West Roosevelt Road.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 374A - Hybrid Form Writing |
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This course examines models related to and provides tools for the production of Hybrid-form Writing (writing in and across multiple genres/forms). Hybrid-form work takes place at both the discrete level (individual, usually long-form pieces) and the manuscript level (a book-length project that relies on multiple forms). The emphasis is on long-form/extended projects, which must be rooted in a considered line of inquiry. This inquiry happens at multiple stages and levels; students experiment with different forms, engage in pro-writing to conceive of projects, and consider how form affects content/why certain forms might be culturally or personally privileged.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
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| ENGL 374B - Creative Writing: Flash Forms |
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In this course, students will explore the origins, iterations, and interpretations of short form, or “flash,” fiction and creative nonfiction and craft their own works of flash prose with an eye toward the compilation of a short collection or chapbook.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and ENGL 235 with minimum grade of C
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| ENGL 374J - Critical Approaches to Journalism |
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In this course, students will work on the basic skills of effective journalism--facility with various forms of interview, methods of research, and with writing in three different essential forms (features, news, and essay)--but they will do so in light of critical theory. The result will be a philosophy of journalism that separates the field from would-be adjacent ones like communication, marketing, or public relations and underscores its crucial role in advocating for democratic norms through adversarial reporting that shines light on hidden processes and holds power accountable.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 374N - Writing the Now |
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Students will respond to current sociopolitical issues via creative writing work across genres including fiction, creative nonfiction/the personal essay, poetry, drama/screenwriting, graphic narrative, and more, while examining writers’ and artists’ responses to historic moments and movements. The course will also cover hyper-contemporary creative and theoretical texts, while considering how literary art gets politicized and otherwise activated in the moment. Students will work independently on a multi-genre semester-long portfolio and share writing within the classroom community, as well as in a public-facing symposium.
Graduate Students interested in taking this course should look out for ENGL 403, the associated Graduate Level course coming on-line this spring.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and ENGL 235 with minimum grade of C
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| ENGL 375 - Becoming a Writing Tutor |
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This class considers theories of writing and the teaching of writing and trains students to become writing tutors. Students will apply the knowledge gained in class as they work with undergraduate writers, helping them to create ideas, draft and revise essays, and edit their work. To succeed in this class, students need to be strong writers and collaborators and to have an interest in the practice and politics of writing.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and one 200- or 300-level writing-intensive class |
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| ENGL 376 - Advanced Composition |
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Interdependence of rhetoric, grammar, logic, semantics, psychology, and criticism in communication of ideas; practice in various types of writing with focus on students' interest; designed for future teachers of composition.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 377 - Argumentative Prose |
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An advanced course in which students will learn to write argumentative essays on a wide range of subjects, using as models for discussion the argumentative prose of professional writers. The course will cover many aspects of argumentative writing, including the study of inductive and deductive reasoning and logical fallacies and the analysis of organizational and stylistic techniques.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 378 - Twentieth Century Fiction I |
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Development of the modern novel from Conrad to writers of the 1930s and 1940s against a background of historical and literacy movements; emphasis on Conrad, James, Joyce, Lawrence, Faulkner and Hemingway.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 379 - Twentieth Century Fiction II |
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Development of the novel in English in recent decades against a background of historical and literary movements; includes work by Orwell, O'Connor, Barth, Drabble, DeLillo, Cisneros, Mosley, Lahiri, Lessing, Ellison, Oates, Baldwin and Walker.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 380 - Multi-Cultural Literature In America |
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Designed for future teachers of English, the multi-genre course provides students with an awareness of representative literature from the various ethnic cultures that are a part of American Life.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 381 - African-American Literature |
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A survey of African-American Literature in its social, cultural, and political context, beginning with Phyllis Wheatly, continuing through the slave narratives of the pre-Civil War era to the masterpieces of the Harlem Renaissance and the works of contemporary writers, such as James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, August Wilson and Gwendolyn Brooks.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 382 - Chicana/o/x Literature |
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This course examines the emergence and development of Chicana/o/x literature in relation to the historical conditions that gave rise to it within the Chicana/o/x Movement and the definition and redefinition of Chicana/o/x identity and politics. The course will also focus on feminist and LGBTQ perspectives within Chicana/o/x Literature and the Chicana/o/x movement.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 383 - Postcolonial African Literature |
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A survey of African literature in its cultural, historical, social and political contexts. Africa is a continent of diverse peoples, cultures, languages, customs, food, economies, experiences of colonialism/imperialism and so on. With such diversity of daily life and historical and cultural experiences comes a wealth of literature; oral literature, drama, poetry, short stories and novels. This course will cover diverse authors such as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Zakes Mda, Nurrudin Farah, Buchi Emecheta, Tsitsi Dangarembga, etc.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 383S - Special Topics in Latina/o and Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies |
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The main object of study of this course is the cultural production of marginalized populations in the US, viz. Latinas/os/x (people of Latin American extraction living in the US) and Latin Americans. Possible future topics could include: "Latinx TV and Popular Music"; "Narco-Narratives of the Western Hemisphere"; "Race, Class, Gender and Taste in Latin American Culture"; "Chicana and Mexican Lesbian Narrative".
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 384 - Creative Writing: Poetry I |
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Students write poetry which is discussed and critiqued in class by instructor and students.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and ENGL 235 with a minimum grade of C |
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| ENGL 384R - Research Poetry |
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Research Poetry engages students in poetry writing which incorporates the research process as a method for exploring topical questions relating to the humanities, social sciences, poetic identity, and inquiry.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and ENGL 235 with a minimum grade of C |
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| ENGL 385 - Creative Writing: Poetry II |
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Students write poetry which is discussed and critiqued in class by instructor and students.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and ENGL 235 with a minimum grade of C |
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| ENGL 386 - Creative Writing: Fiction I |
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Students read published fiction and explore topics in craft while writing, and discussing one another's work.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and ENGL 235 with a minimum grade of C |
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| ENGL 387 - Creative Writing: Fiction II |
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Students read published fiction and explore topics in craft while writing, and discussing one another's work.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and ENGL 235 with a minimum grade of C |
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| ENGL 388 - Modern British And American Poetry |
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Introduction to modern poetry in English: its origins, dominant themes, and characteristic techniques.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 389 - Contemporary Poetry |
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A survey of poetry in English from 1950 to the present. This course will examine the major themes and techniques of poets writing during the period.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 and one other course in English at the 200 level |
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| ENGL 390 - Young Adult Novel |
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Advanced study in literature for young adults, grades 7-10. Evaluation and selection of recent books in the area as well as the history of the genre. Criteria for selection: Book lists, indexes, professional literature in the field. Individual work on problem of special interest.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 391 - One Woman Writer |
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This course will give students the opportunity to study the full range of one woman writer's life and work, along with documents from a variety of disciplines (e.g., history, economics, psychology and its predecessor pseudo-sciences, law--both in secondary and primary forms). Out of this work, students will produce a research paper, presentation, or in some cases a website, video or podcast that allows them to enter the public discourse recovering the voices of women of all backgrounds from medieval times to the present day.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 392A - Writing/Life |
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Students engage in a semester-long independent creative writing project, while participating in collaborative service learning, and acquiring skills regarding the creative process, participating in creative communities, editing, and publication. Meetings are a combination of seminar, discussion, studio, and workshop.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: ENGL 235, with a minimum grade of C, and any 2 of the following courses, with a minimum grade of C: ENGL 384, 385, 386, 387, 374A, 398A, 398B |
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| ENGL 393 - Literature Live: Studying The Works Of NEIU Visiting Writers |
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Each semester, the Creative Writing Minor hosts "The 82" reading series, named for the Kimball bus line that brings many of us to and from campus. In this course, student will study the works of these local writers and others who have visited or will be coming to campus and with whom they will have a chance to engage. Students will engage with the work of these writers with an eye toward understanding and exploring the subtleties of craft to assist in their own creative writing as well as developing the skills of literary analysis.Students will be expected to attend a certain number of public readings on and off campus.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and ENGL 235 with minimum grade of C |
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| ENGL 394 - Writing The Personal Essay |
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In this course students will write in the creative non-fiction genre of the personal essay. This will involve work on techniques and approaches in a workshop setting, as well as critiques of other students' work. This course will also explore the personal essay as a literary form through readings of classic and recent examples.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and ENGL 235 with minimum grade of C |
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| ENGL 395 - The Craft Of The Short Story |
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In this course students will combine the study of the form of the short story with writing short stories. Readings will include classical and contemporary works from across many countries and traditions. Emphasis will be on studying texts and working on craft in workshops.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and ENGL 235 with minimum grade of C |
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| ENGL 396 - Screenwriting: The Short Script |
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This is a workshop course in screenwriting, concentrating on producing a short script. Students will study the particular form and conventions, as well as the specific format, of writing a screenplay. Readings will include exemplary screenplays in several genres, as well as essays on the philosophy and technique of screen writing. In workshop students will produce a short script.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 |
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| ENGL 397 - Summer Creative Writing Institute |
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Offered only in summer as an intensive course that runs for 10 extended class days. Experimenting with both prose and poetry, students participate in workshops as well as sessions with invited speakers covering subjects such as the craft of poetry and prose, the profession of writing and publishing, and the MFA. The emphasis is on an intense workshop experience and an atmosphere of constructive critique leading to the production of a significant portfolio of writing.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: ENGL 235, with a minimum grade of C |
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| ENGL 398A - Creative Non-Fiction I |
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Students write prose which is discussed and critiqued in class by instructor and students.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in ENGL 101 and ENGL 102, plus 6 hours of 200-level literature and/or writing excluding General Education courses, or consent of instructor. |
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| ENGL 398B - Creative Non-Fiction II |
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Students write prose which is discussed and critiqued in class by instructor and students.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in ENGL 101 and ENGL 102, plus 6 hours of 200-level literature and/or writing excluding General Education courses, or consent of instructor. |
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| ENGL 401 - Independent Study in English |
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This is a 1-credit course focused on a carefully planned subject area and work plan approved by the professor of record.
1.000 Credit hours
1.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: Graduate status and completion of 24 credit hours at the 400 level
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| ENGL 402 - Ecological Crises |
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How does literature transform during periods of ecological crises? What new aesthetic forms and practices do writers develop in order to represent collapsing ecologies? How do ecological crises change the form of literature, and, moreover, change conceptions of class, race, ethnicity, gender, and belonging? This course considers these questions and more through the study of a wide range of genres, including canonical environmental literature, poetry, and science fiction.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 403 - Writing the Now |
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How do we, as writers and artists, document, examine, and comment on our days? And what can politically-oriented art do? There are many ways for an artist to engage with the sociopolitical, and our course texts will explore some of these, acting as models and prompts for our own work. We’ll examine contemporary and historical conditions, like gentrification and displacement,migrations and borders, and the early AIDS crisis. Each writer will make primary documents of witness and (self-)commentary, work that addresses and represents our own historical moments. This is an open genre class, meaning that you’ll be able to write any combination of poetry, prose, and hybrid, as well as integrate non-textual art.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 404 - Elements of Style for Creative Writers |
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This course reviews style conventions of the English language, including: punctuation, grammar, usage, and sound. There will be a focus on sentence and line analysis. Students will consider how these conventions and their deployment impact a reader's experience, and the issues of perspective, power, and bias encoded therein. Students will also develop a working definition of their own writerly style while experimenting in using, subverting, and experimenting with conventions. Students will be encouraged to work within their own desired genre(s); the reading selections will be modern and contemporary texts which move across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and hybrid.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
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| ENGL 409A - Writing in Public: Community Literacies, Public Intellectuals and Rhetorics of Change |
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This course looks at "public" writing and teaching in the work of marginalized communities, social movements, and public intellectuals. The primary goal is to understand writing as a contested act that can influence the public sphere positively and give individuals and communities voice but that can also serve as a tool for dominance and control. The course will help students understand some of the multiple uses of writing in a democracy and help teachers make links between classroom work and the "real" world. The course will also serve as an elective in the Community and Teacher Leader M.A. program offered by the College of Education. English 409A is appropriate for students interested in theories of writing, the teaching of writing, and critical and community education.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 410 - Literary Methods And Practice |
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A foundation course that will build on existing skills and prepare for further graduate-level studies, with a goal of contextualizing and conceptualizing critical attitudes and approaches to literary text. Its aim is to provide advanced critical and scholarly tools for understanding literature and will address criticism and critical method, close reading and analysis and bibliographical and research technique. Required in the first year of study in the Literature Concentration.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 411A - Cultural and Literary Studies: History, Theory, Practice |
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This course introduces students to the institutional history, theoretical debates, and interpretative strategies of cultural studies, with a particularly interest in how the study of culture, understood broadly, intersects and changes literary studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course explores how cultural processes and forms are produced, distributed, consumed, and responded to in diverse, contradictory ways. Moreover, the course will emphasize how all culture must be studied on multiple scales, ranging from the local to the global.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 413 - Crafting Literacy, Cultural, And Compositional Fields |
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This course guides English graduate students in the construction of a specialized literary, cultural, or compositional field, defined as a coherent corpus of texts or area of inquiry. During the semester, students will develop their research skills, strengthen their critical thinking, and uniquely contribute to the ever-developing discipline. Must have completed at least 15 credits at the 400 level.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 414 - Seminar in Reading Film |
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A seminar in film emphasizing methods of reading films as we would texts. Students will explore the complexity of film through close viewing, critical analysis of narrative structure, and attention to visual form and representational practice. To paraphrase a famous question asked about poetry, this course will explore "how a film means."
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: Graduate standing |
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| ENGL 416 - Ekphrastic Practice |
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Ekphrasis is, in its simplest sense, writing that examines and describes a piece of art. This Creative Writing course takes that starting notion and pursues its potential as a writerly practice. Students will: examine multiple-genre book-length and individual pieces of Ekphrastic writing; consider those works as sites of inquiry about the complex relationship between source and response, content and form; from their experiences and observations in this work as both writer and reader, plan and execute a small manuscript-length project of creative writing that is both in the ekphrastic mode and rooted in inquiry.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
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| ENGL 418 - Studies In Shakespeare |
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Advanced study of Shakespeare's work, organized by theme. This course will explore a number plays grouped together by an organizing principle (such as "Shakespeare and History," "Shakespeare and the Other," "The Roman Plays," "Romance"). These works will also be placed in their historical context, paying close attention to genre, structure, and language. Students will also study theoretical approaches to Shakespeare's work in reading of contemporary critical works.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 419 - Elizabethan And Jacobean Drama |
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Exploration of English dramatic works from circa 1580-1642, including Marlowe, Greene, Middleton, Marston, Dekker, Jonson, Webster, and Beaumont. This course will pay particular attention to genres that dominate outside the Shakespeare canon (revenge tragedy, city comedy, tragicomedy), as well as detailing the social, cultural, and intellectual developments that characterize this golden age of English stagecraft.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 420 - Teaching Shakespeare |
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This intensive summer course focuses on the teaching of Shakespeare's drama. In order to develop methods for teaching these plays at all levels we will study a few selected plays along with secondary literature. Moving from close textual analysis to a workshop will allow students to work on practical approaches to teaching the plays at the level of plot, characterization, theme, genre, performance, and more. Course material will be expanded with the help of documentaries, films, small group workshops, and guest faculty. Prerequisite: M.A. or at-large status, or permission of instructor.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 422 - Milton |
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Study of a turbulent and exciting "century of revolutions" by concentrating on the figure most associated with seventeenth-century English literature, John Milton. We will read all of his major poetry as well as some significant prose writings. We will also attempt to contextualize Milton in his period by studying other major figures such as Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and John Bunyan.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 426 - Seminar In Romantic Literature |
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Advanced study of the major poets of the Romantic period, involving oral reports, and culminating in a term paper.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 427A - Pedagogies of College Level Writing |
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In this course, students apply theoretical learning to practical considerations of teaching writing at the college level through textbook and assignment analysis, syllabus design, and lesson design for writing aspects, such as developing rhetorical strategies, attending to grammar and responding to student work. The course also addresses everyday aspects of teaching such as incorporating effective discussions, setting up culturally sensitive classes, and understanding the realities of employment at the college level. The course is open to students in M.A. composition or literature, and students with graduate standing in a related field.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 428 - The English Novel |
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Study of the English novel from its origins in the 18th century "Rise of the Novel" tradition, through Gothic/Romantic and Victorian Fiction, to Modernism and Post-Modernism. Individual readings may vary, but students are likely to read works by Defoe, Bronte, Woolf, Lawrence, Conrad, etc.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 429 - Writing Across The Curriculum |
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Through class discussion and activities, textual analyses and inquiry-based research assignments, this class explores connections between writing and the creation and representation of knowledge within academic disciplines. Topics include defining what counts as appropriate evidence in various fields, and the role of English departments in writing in the disciplines pedagogy. Though not intended to be guided instruction in the mechanics of writing, students will gain deeper insight into what counts as quality writing in their disciplines, so in addition to M.A. Composition graduate students, this course is open to graduate students in other fields with written permission by the instructor.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 430 - Studies In Literary Criticism |
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A study of some of the central problems and issues of contemporary criticism, as exemplified by the writings of major theorists.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 431 - Bibliography And Research In English |
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Material, methods, and tools of literary research; use of libraries; preparation of scholarly papers.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 432 - Alternative Literacies |
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This course will explore literacy theories within and beyond composition studies by considering competing models of literacy and the cultural dimensions of writings, such as economic class or multilingualism, as well as the implications of these for the practice of writing and writing instruction.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 433 - Seminar In Composition Theory |
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This course includes an extensive examination of current composition methodologies with emphasis upon the eclectic needs of the composition student.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 434 - Seminar In Basic Writing Theory |
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A survey of types of students in basic writing classes, a review of placement tests for identifying levels of writing competency, and a careful examination of various basic writing methodologies.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 435 - Writing Assessment: Theory And Practice |
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Theoretical background on evaluating student writing, as well as practical training in how to diagnose and remediate problems with grammar and content at the secondary and college level.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 436 - Rhetorics Of Composition |
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This course will provide students with a background in Classical Rhetoric and then examine how the conventions of Classical Rhetoric have been translated or transformed into rhetorics of composition, such as Expressionistic Rhetoric, Cognitive Rhetoric, Epistemic Rhetoric and Social Construct Rhetoric.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 437 - English Studies And Technology |
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Many scholars in English argue that the computer is radically revising the way we read and write texts. Using sources from literary and rhetorical studies, this class will consider how computer technology is contributing to new notions of the author, text, and audience as well as to the ways computers affect students' reading and writing.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 438 - Research In Composition |
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Materials and methods for library research in composition theory; preparation of scholarly work on composition; research designs and measurement techniques for qualitative and quantitative studies in composition.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 439 - Stylistics |
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Examination of the historical relationship of style to rhetoric; techniques for improving prose style; aspects of style as a part or writing evaluation.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 446 - Critical Writing, Creative Writers |
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English 446 is a seminar and writing workshop in one. Students will: examine models of texts that operate in the critical-creative or creative-critical mode; choose outside reading of their own through an inquiry-based process; produce various critical, creative, creative-critical, and critical-creative pieces.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 456A - Graphic Novels and Social Conflicts |
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This course studies graphic novels as a complex medium that offers new ways to think about and represent a range of social conflicts, including class, race, gender, ecology, history, and national belonging. Students will learn the vocabulary necessary to understand how the medium functions and how to read diverse graphic novels from various contexts. Some questions considered are: How do the visual and verbal dimensions of the graphic novel enable forms of thinking not possible in other media? Why do some theorists identify graphic novels as a medium in which some of the most progressive forms of feminism are unfolding?
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: Graduate standing
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| ENGL 466 - American Renaissance Revisited |
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A critical study of mid-19th century U.S. literature that explores the writers identified with the "American Renaissance" and their relationship to other important literary developments such as the slave narrative and women's domestic fiction.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 467 - The Age Of Literary Realism In The United States |
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A study of U.S. literary realism, the cultural and socio-historical conditions of its emergence, and its relation to other later 19th century literary genres such as sentimentalism and naturalism. Authors might include Twain, Howells, James, Chesnutt, Wharton, Dreiser, Chopin, and others.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 468 - U.S. Literary Modernism & Its Others |
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A study of literary developments in the United States from the early 20th century to the Cold War, focusing on the rise of modernism, proletarian literature, literature of the Harlem Renaissance, and other important bodies of literature.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 469 - Seminar In Southern Literature |
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Intensive reading of 20th century Southern literature exclusive of Faulkner with emphasis on the sociological and psychological aspects of the literature as they mirror in America's South.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 470 - Seminar In Faulkner |
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Intensive reading of the short fiction and novels of William Faulkner with specific attention on his development as a novelist and his place among 20th century American authors.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 471 - Studies In The American Novel |
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A study of major developments in the U.S. novel, this course might feature a variety of foci, including the rise of the novel in America, particularly literary periods or genres, key moments of transition in U.S. literary history, or other key evolutions in novelistic practice in the United States.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 474A - Hybrid-Form Writing In And Across Genres and Forms |
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This course examines models related to and provides tools for the production of Hybrid-form Writing (writing in and across multiple genres/forms such as poetry, fiction, and nonfiction). Hybrid-form work takes place at both the discrete level (individual, usually long-form pieces) and manuscript level (a book-length project that relies on multiple forms). This course emphasizes long-form/extended projects, which must be rooted in a considered line of inquiry. This inquiry happens at multiple stages and levels: students experiment with different forms, engage in pre-writing to conceive of projects, and consider how form affects content/why certain forms might be culturally or personally privileged.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 476 - Oil Fictions: Reading Along The Transnational Pipeline |
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Many historians argue that oil is the central resource and commodity shaping the world today Yet surprisingly, there are few studies that think about the complex relationship between oil and fiction. This course analyzes literature and culture in the age of oil, a periodization that mandates a transnational and comparativist approach. Using multiple literary genres and cultural forms, this course studies how fiction narrates oil's histories across the uneven geographies of globalization.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 477 - Producing "America": Issues of Work, Class, and Political Economy in U.S. Literature and Culture |
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This course will focus on literary and cultural works that represent the material conditions of production in the United States as well as on the way we ideologically produce American identity and culture in ways that obscure or make visible the work people do to make our material lives possible. The class will foreground issues of class and political economy in reading literature and culture from a working-class perspective. Requirements: Admission to an English MA program or consent of instructor.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 478 - Screenwriting: The Short Script |
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This is a workshop course in screenwriting, concentrating on producing a short script. Students will study the particular form and conventions, as well as the specific format, of writing a screenplay. Readings will include exemplary screenplays in several genres, as well as essays on the philosophy and technique of screen writing. In workshop students will produce a short script.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
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| ENGL 479A - Latina/o/x Literature |
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This course offers graduate-level study of Latina/o literatures, including writing from the early period to the present. Readings may offer a broad representation of writers from North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean or may cover various genres including essays, novels, poetry and drama. Assignments, lectures and discussion will center on questions of identity, culture, history, politics and aesthetics. For students who are teaching or plan to teach, the course will also provide analysis of pedagogical methods in Latina/o studies.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 480 - Ethnic Literatures |
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A study of "ethnic," "minority," and U.S. Third World literatures, of the conditions of their emergence as literary formations in relation to cultural, social, and literary developments, and of their relationship to racial and ethnic studies.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 481 - Latin American Literature |
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This course explores major works in Latin American literature across various genres (novel, drama, poetry). The rich pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods will be studied through works which represent the struggles of different people from different classes, with differing origins, and who hold disparate religious beliefs in this large and diverse region.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 482 - Contemporary Poetic Forms |
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A study of the diverse poetic forms emerging in American poetry since the 1960's- free verse, new formalism, and many experimental forms- as well as the hands-on experience of writing in these forms.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 483 - Postcolonial Literature |
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This course studies literary works produced by or about peoples who have been colonized by European imperial powers. It situates these literatures within the philosophical frameworks that informed European imperial hegemonies as well as the colonized people's responses to them. While we will draw theoretical examples from every part of the world, our literary readings in this class will concentrate mainly on the literatures of Africa and Asia and their diasporas, especially in the Caribbean.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 484 - Contemporary U.S. Literature Since The Cold War |
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A study of the Cold War critical construction of "American" literature and important literary developments from the 1950s to the present, including the rise of postmodernism, the Beat Generation, and a variety of ethnic literary developments, as well as other important literary phenomena of the period.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 485 - Contemporary European Literature |
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The aim of this course is to examine some important works of European literature from the 20th century till date. The course explores major issues such as the place of ethics in literature, holocaust, the World Wars I and II, European identity etc.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 487 - Material Culture |
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In this seminar, students will concentrate on the material contexts (legal, economic, social, technological) that inform cultural production. While the cultural forms and historical periods focused upon may vary by instructor, in every case the course will introduce students to the history of critical work in this area and involve projects in which students trace the marks of material forces in cultural forms. Requirement: two additional courses at the 400 level.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 488 - Africana Literature: Slavery And The Literary Imagination |
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In this seminar we will study world literatures produced out of the African Diaspora with an eye toward comprehending the development of the slave narrative as a genre as well as the evolution of the genre within world literatures as writers grapple with the legacy as well as persistence of slavery in a variety of forms.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 491 - Sonnet: Not Just A Love Song |
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This class will explore the sonnet's many voices and subjects-from plaintive to menacing, from romance to racial injustice. We will read across the centuries, from Shakespeare to Keats to Edna St. Vincent Millay. We will read sonnet-variations, and sonnet-spoofs by contemporary American poets and we will experiment with sonnets of our own. Our time will be spent on close readings, discussions, writing, and informal presentations.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 491A - One Woman Writer |
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This graduate level version of ENGL 391 also provides students the opportunity to study the full range of one woman writer's life and work, along with documents from a variety of disciplines (e.g., history, economics, psychology and its predecessor pseudo-sciences, law--both in secondary and primary forms). As in the undergraduate course, students will produce a research paper, presentation, or in some cases a website, video or podcast that allows them to enter the public discourse recovering the voices of women of all backgrounds from medieval times to the present day. In addition, graduate students will be expected to lead discussions of secondary literature both online and in class, whether informally or in powerpoint presentations.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
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| ENGL 495 - Re-Thinking Race & Gender |
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This is an intensive summer course that runs for 10 days over three weeks and provides a concentrated exploration of how we read, see, and inhabit issues of race and gender. Grounded in a conceptual framework that opens to against-the-grain logics, it will engage students in re-reading relations of race and gender naturalized by dominant ideology. Students will participate in workshops, lectures, and sessions with invited speakers. Designed for graduates, undergraduates, and teachers. Prerequisites: Graduate status or junior-senior status in English, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Women's Studies, LLAS, or AFAM.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing |
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| ENGL 499 - Independent Study in English |
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This course is designed for students pursuing independent studies of topics not covered in our catalog of courses at the graduate level in English.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
Levels: Graduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online, Tutored Study, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites: Graduate standing
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