Courses: English (ENGL)

1300: Basic Writing
Cr. 3. (3-0). May not be substituted for ENGL 1303 or 1304 or equivalents. May not be used to satisfy any degree requirements at the university. Work in the development of basic expository writing skills.

1303: Freshman Composition I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Minimum score of 240 on the TASP Writing Test or its equivalent. Students who score below these minima should enroll in ENGL 1300. Credit may not be received for both 1303 and 1309. A detailed study of the principles of rhetoric as applied in reading and writing expository essays.

1304: Freshman Composition II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Students must have satisfactorily completed ENGL 1303 or its equivalent. Credit may not be received for both 1304 and 1310 or 1360. A detailed study of the principles of rhetoric as applied to analyzing and writing argumentative and persuasive essays; principles and methods of research, culminating in writing a substantial research paper.

1309: English Composition for Nonnative Speakers I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: passing scores on the university's Placement Examination for Nonnative Speakers of English (PENNSE). Credit may not be received for both ENGL 1303 and 1309. Rhetoric and composition; practice in reading and writing expository essays.

1310: English Composition for Nonnative Speakers II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1309 or equivalent and passing scores on the university's Placement Examination for Nonnative Speakers of English (PENNSE). Students may not receive credit for both 1304 and 1310 or 1360. Rhetoric and composition. Practice in reading and writing argumentative and research essays.

1360: Freshman Composition II--Honors
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: placement by the Honors College and concurrent enrollment in HON 2301. Credit for both 1360 and 1304 or 1310 may not apply toward a degree. A detailed study of the principles of rhetoric as applied to analyzing and writing argumentative and persuasive essays; principles and methods of research.

Note: Students who complete ENGL 1360 with a grade of C or better (not C-) thereby fulfill the university's core curriculum requirement in communication. Admission to ENGL 1360 is only by placement through the university Honors College.

1398: Special Problems
Cr. 3. Prerequisite: approval of the director of lower division studies.

2301:2302: Western World Literature
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Credit may not be applied toward a degree for both 2301 and 2360 or 3300. First semester: classical through the Renaissance; second semester: neoclassical to present. Emphasis on composition.

2303:2304: English Literature to 1798: Since 1798
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. First semester: critical examination of works of major and selected minor writers from Beowulf through the Neoclassical Age; second semester: from the beginnings of Romanticism to present. Emphasis on composition.

2305: Introduction to Fiction
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Selected works of fiction emphasizing composition.

2306: Introduction to Poetry
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Selected works of poetry emphasizing composition.

2307: Introduction to Drama (formerly 2397)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Selected works of drama emphasizing composition.

2308: Introduction to Nonfiction Prose
Cr 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Study of literary works of nonfiction prose, centering on important aspects of the Western tradition. Emphasis on composition.

2309: American Life Through Literature for Nonnative Speakers of English
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1310 or equivalent and passing scores on the university's Placement Examination for Nonnative Speakers of English (PENNSE). For nonnative speakers only. May not be used as an elective for an English major. Reading and analysis of various genres of American literature to 1930 with focus on aspects of American culture, emphasizing composition.

2310: American Life Through Literature for Nonnative Speakers of English
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1310 or equivalent and passing scores on the university's Placement Examination for Nonnative Speakers of English (PENNSE). For nonnative speakers only. May not be used as an elective for an English major. Reading and analysis of various genres of American literature since 1930 with focus on aspects of American culture. Emphasis on composition.

2311: American Literary Cultures
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Study of the diverse cultural voices of American literature. Emphasis on composition.

2312: Literature and Technology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Study of literature utilizing technical vocabulary and prose essays treating modern technology. Writing intensive.

2315: Literature and Film
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Representations of literary works and themes as they have appeared in films. Topics may vary; course cannot be repeated for credit.

2316: Literature and Culture
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Literature and its relations to various aspects of culture.

2317: Criticism of Literary Performance
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Study of performance of live, stage, cinematic, and video productions of literary works. Topics may vary; course cannot be repeated for credit.

2318: Creation and Performance of Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Creation and performance of literature, such as prose fiction, poetry, and drama; may include recitations.

2319: Exploring Language
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Aspects of human language, such as organization, history, variety, acquisition, and uses.

2320: Book and Beyond
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Print in the development and spread of humanistic culture. Attention to impact of technological innovation on expression and communication.

2321: Computers in Humanities
Cr. 3. (2-1). Prerequisite ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Communication and electronic technologies. Emphasis on writing that employs new forms of communication, such as hypertext, web pages, and other dynamic interactive modes.

2322: Literature and Nature
Cr. 3. (3-0). ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Literary explorations of the state of nature, its consequences for human life, and the impact of human beings on the natural environment.

2323: Literature and Identity
Cr. 3. (3-0). ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Literature and its relation to various aspects of identity.

2324: Literature, Arts, and Society
Cr. 3. (3-0). ENGL 1304 or equivalent. The way which socio- political and artistic contexts influence the creation and appreciation of literature.

2325: Literary Traditions of the Nonwestern World
Cr. 3. (3-0). ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Comparative study of literary traditions of the Nonwestern world, such as South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, or Latin American.

2360: Western World Literature I - Honors
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Placement by the Honors College and concurrent enrollment in HON 2301. Credit for both 2360 and 2301 or 3300 may not apply toward a degree. Classical through the Renaissance. Emphasis on composition.

2361: Western World Literature II - Honors
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Placement by the Honors College and concurrent enrollment in HON 2101. Credit for both 2361 and 2302 may not apply toward a degree. Neoclassical through the present. Emphasis on composition.

2397: Undergraduate Studies in Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1304 or equivalent and sophomore standing. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. May not be used as an elective for an English major. Intensive reading in single area unified by period, genre, or theme. Emphasis on composition.

2398: Special Problems
Cr. 3. Prerequisite: approval of the director of lower division studies.

2417: Shakespeare in Performance
Cr. 4. (3-1). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Study of live and cinematic performances of Shakespeare's plays; attendance at performances required.

3300: Ancient and Classical Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. May not be taken for credit if student has already taken 2301 or 2306. Ancient and classical literature through the Renaissance.

3301:Introduction to Literary Studies
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and 1304 or equivalents. Development of skills in critical reading of and critical writing about literary texts.

3302: Medieval Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Survey of English and translated European literature of the eighth through fifteenth centuries, including such genres as lyrics, drama, romance, epic, satire, allegory, dream vision.

3304: Chaucer
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Selections from Canterbury Tales and shorter poems with emphasis on literary qualities, Middle English language, and medieval setting.

3305: English Renaissance
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. An introduction to significant authors, movements, and genres of English literature from about 1500 to 1660; includes readings from Bacon, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, Burton, et al.

3306: Shakespeare: The Major Works
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. One-semester concentration on the major plays, such as The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, King Lear, and The Tempest.

3309: Renaissance Drama
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. English drama, exclusive of Shakespeare, from 1580 to 1642.

3311: John Milton
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Readings include Lycidas, Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes.

3312: Literature of Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and Blake; the poetic genres; the rise of journalism and the novel; biography and drama; historical and philosophical background.

3313: Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Survey of the witty, sometimes bawdy drama of the court of Charles I and the serious, sentimental productions of the Age of Johnson.

3315: The Romantic Movement
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Early romantic writers: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, and DeQuincy and later Romantic writers: Hazlitt, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Close study of major poems, literary and intellectual backgrounds.

3316: Literature of the Victorian Age
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. British Victorian poetry and prose from the High Victorians through the Pre-Raphaelites to the Decadents. Novels may be included at the instructor's option.

3317:3318: The British Novel
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. First semester: British novel from its beginnings to 1832; second semester: since 1832.

3321: Modern British Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. A survey of major British writers from the turn of the century to World War II, including Joyce, Lawrence, Yeats, Forster, Thomas, and related figures.

3322: Contemporary Novel
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and 1304 or equivalents. The contemporary English novel and the continental European novel.

3323: Development of Literary Criticism and Theory
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and 1304 or equivalents. Major developments in critical thought from Plato and Aristotle to the present.

3324: The Development of the Novel
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Comparison of novels representing various periods in Western cultures with emphasis on a broad historical perspective on the genre, as well as its special characteristics.

3325: Structures of Poetry
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Development of traditional poetic genres that have shaped Western cultural heritage.

3326: The Development of Dramatic Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. European dramatic literature from its classical origins to the modern period.

3327: Masterpieces of British Literature to the Eighteenth Century
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 2303 and 3327. Works by major British authors representative of medieval, Renaissance, and neoclassical periods.

3328: Masterpieces of British Literature from the Eighteenth Century
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 2304 and 3328. Works by major British authors representative of the romantic, Victorian, and modern periods.

3329: Beginning Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. An HFAC fine arts course. Reading and analysis of examples of fiction and poetry: discussion and practice of various techniques to help students write whole, completed works.

3330: Beginning Creative Writing: Fiction
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. An HFAC fine arts course. Reading and analysis of examples of the genre; discussion and practice of various techniques to help students write whole, completed works.

3331: Beginning Creative Writing: Poetry
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. An HFAC fine arts course. Reading and analysis of examples of the genre; discussion and practice of various techniques to help students write whole, completed works.

3340: Advanced Composition
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Undergraduate credit only. Practice in prose rhetoric, especially in formal and informal essays, popular and professional articles, and critical reviews.

3341: Business and Professional Writing
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Writing business letters, various types of business reports, proposals, and resumés.

3345: Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Examination of selected works by winners of the Nobel Prize in literature in prose, poetry, and drama, focusing on literary techniques and the cultural background and significance of the work.

3350:3351: American Literature to 1865; Since 1865
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. First semester: critical examination of major and selected minor writers from the colonial period through Hawthorne and Melville; second semester: from Whitman and Twain to the present.

3352:3353: American Fiction
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. The development of theme, symbolic patterns, and form in the American novel from a historical, sociocultural, and/or generic perspective.

3354: Contemporary American Fiction
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Trends and ideas in major writers since 1940.

3357: Modern American Drama
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. An examination of themes and dramatic techniques of major modern and contemporary American plays, with special emphasis upon the work of O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee.

3360: Survey of African American Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Literary-historical survey of African American literature from mid-eighteenth century to present.

3361: Mexican American Literature (formerly 2397)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Works of Mexican-American writers, including fiction, poetry, drama, the essay, and autobiography.

3362: Women in Literature (formerly 4363)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Literature by and about women. Offered either as a general survey or specific study of the literary period or genre. Approach is historical or critical.

3363: Masterpieces of African American Fiction
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Major works of African American fiction.

3364: African American Poetry and Drama
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Major works of African American poetry and drama.

3370: Modern and Contemporary Irish Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: six semester hours in core communication courses. Literature from Celtic Renaissance onward, with special emphasis on Yeats, Joyce, Synge, and writers of contemporary Ireland.

3396: Selected Topics in English
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents and approval of chair. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Topics vary depending on field of interest of instructor.

3399-4399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

4198:4398:4598: Special Problems
Cr. 1-5 per semester, or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents and approval of chair.

4300: Introduction to the Study of Language
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Overview of linguistics, introducing basic concepts with particular attention to English: sounds, word formation, approaches to grammatical description, history, acquisition, and social and regional variation.

4303: English as a Second Language (formerly 4320)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 4300 or 4308. Theory and techniques of teaching English as a second language to adolescents and adults.

4305: Modern Grammar
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 4300. Various modern approaches to grammar, including an introduction to transformational syntax.

4308: Introduction to Descriptive and Contrastive Linguistics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1303 or equivalent. Introduction to techniques of descriptive linguistics and study of systematic similarities and differences among English and other selected languages.

4310: History of the English Language
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Linguistic and cultural approach to the history of the English language through its various periods.

4315: Sociolinguistics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Social implications of language; linguistic insight into social stratification.

4319: English in the Secondary Schools
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: 18 semester hours in English. Content areas taught in secondary schools with emphasis on language and composition.

4322: Grammar and Usage
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 4300 or equivalent. Study of parts of speech, sentence elements, and doctrines of correctness.

4330: European Renaissance
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. The European Renaissance from the historical and cultural perspectives of literature, history, philosophy, art, architecture, music, drama, and technology.

4350: Short Story Writing
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents and either ENGL 3330 or consent of instructor. An HFAC fine arts course. May be repeated once for credit. Writing and discussing completed manuscripts.

4351: Poetry Writing
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents and either ENGL 3331 or consent of instructor. An HFAC fine arts course. May be repeated once for credit when taught by a different instructor. Writing and discussing completed poems.

4353: Writing Projects: Fiction
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents and ENGL 4350 or consent of instructor. An HFAC fine arts course. May be repeated once for credit. Seminar for advanced students in creative writing.

4354: Writing Projects: Poetry
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents and either ENGL 4351 or consent of instructor. An HFAC fine arts course. May be repeated once for credit when taught by a different instructor. Seminar for advanced students in creative writing.

4355: Fiction Forms
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 3330. Reading and writing of conventional and innovative narrative. May be repeated once for credit when taught by a different instructor.

4356: Poetic Forms
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 3331. Reading of poetry and criticism of formal poetic devices and traditional forms. Writing in traditional and innovative forms. May be repeated once for credit when taught by a different instructor.

4364: Minorities in Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. May be repeated once with the approval of the chair if the particular topic changes. The minority as subject and symbol in selected literature, concentrating on one or more of the following groups: the Black, the Chicano, the Jew, the woman, and the American Indian.

4366: Introduction to Folklore
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Introduction to the theories and methods of folkloristics; collection and analysis of folklore.

4370: Myth, Ballad, Folktale
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Study of the artistic properties and social functions of some major forms of oral narrative.

4371: Literature and Medicine
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Literature by and about physicians and patients: experiences of illness, aging, death, reconciliation, recovery, healing, pregnancy. Emphasis on ethical questions.

4373: Narrative in Films
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Analysis and interpretation of narrative in English-language films in terms of author, genre, period, and textual adaptation.

4378: Women Writers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Prose, poetry, and drama by women writers.

4380: Greek Classics in Translation (also CLAS 4380)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Greek classics.

4381: Latin Classics in Translation (also CLAS 4381)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. Latin classics.

4396: Selected Topics in Literature Criticism
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1303 and ENGL 1304 or equivalents. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Topics will vary, considering special problems in the field of literary criticism.