University of Missouri - Kansas City : English (ENGLISH)

The study and practice of rhetorical principles and strategies of academic reading and writing. Frequent reading and writing exercises develop critical engagement with texts, with an emphasis on thesis, organization and grammar. This optional course prepares students to take ENGLISH 110.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 100 B Basic Speaking and Listening For Non-Native Speakers

The study and practice of speaking and listening for survival-level social functions in English. Frequent exercises focus on the production of isolated words and phrases in areas of need, and on the development of survival level oral/aural skills for beginning ESL students. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 100 C Basic Reading for Non-Native Speakers

The study and practice of survival-level reading English vocabulary in context. Frequent exercises focus on basic reading comprehension related to familiar topics and situations, and the introduction of dictionary skills. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 100 D Basic Writing For Non-Native Speakers

The study and practice of survival level writing skills including spelling, capitalization and some punctuation. Introduction of basic sentence structures and completion of simple standard forms of written English. Frequent exercises focus on survival level writing such as words and basic phrases in the present tense. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 100 G Basic Grammar For Non-Native Speakers

The study and practice of survival level sentence structures and words. Frequent exercises focus on basic level sentences, questions, directions, and descriptions in the present tense that relate to students' immediate surroundings and some life skills areas. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisite: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 100 S Special Topics In English As A Second Language

A course designed to address the specific needs of an individual student or group of students studying English as a Second Language. In addition to targeting English skills, the course may address topics or skills which are not covered in the standard Academic English curriculum of the Applied Language Institute. This course will accommodate individual students or groups of students studying at the Institute for periods of time other than the standard semester length. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisite: ALI Approval Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer

1-6 hrs

ENGLISH 100 T TOEFL Preparation

This course will prepare students to take the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), in either the Paper(PBT) or Computer-based (CBT) form, and/or to improve their scores from previous attempts. Exercises focus on developing the skills and strategies necessary for navigating TOEFL questions while continuing to develop the general English language skills that support success on the TOEFL. The course will provide students with a personal awareness of strengths and weaknesses so they may focus their test preparation work in and outside of class. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisite: Applied Language Institute approval Offered: Every semester

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 101 B Academic Speaking & Listening For Non-Native Speakers I

The study and practice of speaking and listening for basic social functions in English. Exercises include the practice of basic descriptions and the development of oral/aural skills for beginning ESL students. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 101 C Academic Reading & Vocabulary For Non-Native Speakers I

The study and practice of reading with basic English vocabulary in context. Exercises focus on reading comprehension, identifying the topics of short readings, and the introduction of basic dictionary skills. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 101 D Academic Writing For Non-Native Speakers I

The study and practice of basic writing skills including handwriting, spelling, capitalization and punctuation. Frequent short exercises emphasize basic sentence structure, biographical description, and completion of standard forms. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 101 G Academic Grammar For Non-Native Speakers I

The study and practical application of basic sentence structure and word parts. Frequent exercises emphasize use and understanding of simple sentences, questions, directions, and descriptions in the present and past tenses. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute Approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 102 B Academic Speaking & Listening For Non-Native Speakers II

The study and practice of speech in environments such as the classroom, work, and simple social occasions. Exercises focus on student's ability to distinguish sounds and to produce them correctly in the context of a sentence and to listen for specific information. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 102 C Academic Reading & Vocabulary For Non-Native Speakers II

The study and practice of reading narrative and expository texts and standard forms. Exercises focus on the development of vocabulary and introduction of reading techniques such as identification of topics and main ideas, skimming, scanning, prediction, and inference. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Science. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 102 D Academic Writing For Non-Native Speakers II

The study and practice of techniques for writing short paragraphs in English. Frequent exercises emphasize various forms of paragraph organization and the improvement of punctuation and mechanical skills in writing. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 102 G Academic Grammar For Non-Native Speakers II

The study and practical application of basic sentence structures, including future and irregular past tense constructions. Frequent exercises emphasize use and understanding of comparatives, questions, and compound nouns and verbs. This course carried no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 103 B Academic Speaking & Listening For Non-Native Speakers III

The study and practice of listening for and producing speech in the past, present and future tenses. Exercises introduce note-taking techniques and focus on the ability to hear and express abstract ideas. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 103 C Academic Reading & Vocabulary For Non-Native Speakers III

The study and practice of longer reading passages of various rhetorical styles. Exercises focus on improvement of reading speed and the development of vocabulary and comprehension through complex inferences. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 103 D Academic Writing For Non-Native Speakers III

The study and practice of writing multi-paragraph academic essays. Frequent exercises emphasize point-of-view, process writing, and a variety of rhetorical styles. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 103 G Academic Grammar For Non-Native Speakers III

The study and practical application of complex sentence structures, including perfect and perfect progressive tenses. Frequent exercises emphasize use and understanding of passive voice, gerunds and infinitives, articles, conditionals, and modals. The course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 104 B Academic Speaking & Listening For Non-Native Speakers IV

The study and practice of standard English, particularly in the college classroom. Exercises include training in academic lecture comprehension and note-taking as well as formal (classroom presentation) and informal (conversation) English speaking. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Lang. Inst. approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 104 C Advanced Academic English Reading For Non-Native Speakers IV

This course focuses on preparing students to deal effectively with sophisticated academic reading materials by guiding them in the development of a conscious and reflective approach toward reading. It emphasizes advanced reading skills of interpretation, inference, critical analysis, evaluation and application. There will be frequent exercises addressing the acquisition and practice of study skills and collaborative academic work. Prerequisites: Completion of ENGLISH 103C with a grade of B or better or Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 104 D Academic Writing For Non-Native Speakers IV

The study and practice of rhetorical principles in standard English prose. Frequent writing exercises emphasize critical thinking and research skills as well as fluency and accuracy in academic writing. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Lang. Inst. approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 104 G Advanced Academic English Grammar For Non-Native Speakers IV

This course focuses on the analytical understanding and application of English grammar. Students will be expected to observe usage patterns of the English language in a combination of both normative and prescriptive grammars appropriate for academic English application. There will be frequent exercises emphasizing mastery of complex grammar structures including all verb tenses, dependent clauses, modals, and unreal conditionals, and of the relationship between ideas and the construction of sentences in academic discourse. Prerequisites: Completion of ENGLISH 103G with a grade of B or better or Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 105 A Advanced Academic English (Multiskills) For Non-Native Speakers V

The comprehensive study and practice of standard English skills for advanced students of English as a second language. level readings focusing on current issues serve as the basis for frequent writing exercises and for classroom discussions and presentations. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Inst. approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 105 B Advance Speaking and Listening Topics for Non-Native Speakers

This course focuses on developing high-level fluency in English listening and speaking through critical awareness of social language use. Students will work toward greater speaking and listening fluency and adaptability through the practice of skills involving purpose, audience, speech norms and context. Prerequisite: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 105 C Advanced Reading Topics for Non-Native Speakers

In this course, advanced ESL readers will develop the core critical reading skills required for success in academics by examining and applying those skills in the context of authentic college-level readings representing a wide variety of genres and modes. Readings will include extensive college textbook passages, newspaper articles, opinion sections, academic essays and interpretive reading of literature. Prerequisite: Applied Language Institute Approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 105 D Advanced Writing Topics for Non-Native Speakers

This course engages advanced ESL and EFL writers to develop greater dexterity of expression in composition. In addition to reinforcing core rhetorical skills, grammar and writing mechanics, students will explore new rhetorical styles such as personal responses, autobiographical essays, and writing about literature. Extensive reading complements the writing discussion and practice with pieces including personal and academic essays, narrative, magazine journalism and fiction. Prerequisite: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 105 G Advanced Grammar Topics for Non-Native Speakers

In this course, students will pursue an in-depth comprehension of English grammar, with a strong focus on increasing fluency in the English language through a critical analysis of connotation and pragmatics and their role in language fluency. Contextual readings, film and native conversation passages will complement the grammar discussions and practice, engaging students to move beyond a literal understanding based on syntax and semantics to a more contextual awareness of English form and function. Prerequisite: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 110 English I: Introduction To Academic Prose

This course introduces students to college-level reading, writing, and discourse analysis: it engages students in the analysis and creation of texts that reveal multiple perspectives about specific rhetorical situations and cultural issues. In addition to learning how to revise by analyzing their own writing, students will learn to edit their own work and use proper academic documentation. Offered: Every Semester

3 hrs

ENGLISH 110 A Freshman English I For Non-Native Speakers

The study and practice of analytical and critical reading. The study of basic rhetorical principles and the practice of those principles in frequent short papers; close reading of prose. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 200 Introduction To Undergraduate Study In English

An investigation of reading, writing, and research practices associated with studies in English. Students will learn about multiple forms, genres, and critical approaches, as well as encounter texts from various historical periods and places. Required of all English majors before enrolling in 400-level English courses.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 204 Writing About Literature

This course is designed to be taken either prior to or concurrent with a student's first literature course. It introduces students to literary criticism in its broadest, most generic sense, as a stylized response to reading. Students in the course will be introduced to different approaches to writing about literature, to methods of generating ideas, and focusing and developing a topic. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 110 or its equivalent.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 205 Popular Literature

The course focuses on writing in English by a range of popular authors from a variety of periods and places, historic and contemporary. The course may include popular stories, songs and ballads, the scripts of blockbuster plays and films, best-selling novels, and widely distributed nonfictional prose.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 207 World Literature in English

This course introduces students to World Literature using texts originally written in English and translated into English from other languages. Course texts include a variety of genres and engage students with a wide range of global experiences and cultures outside the Western tradition.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 213 Introduction To Drama

Beginning with an intensive study of a few plays analyzed to elicit general principles, the course moves on to consider several representative examples of each of the major periods and types of Western drama, from the Greeks to the present. The two-hour version of this course will be offered only off-campus.

2-3 hrs

ENGLISH 214 Introduction To Fiction

Emphasis in this course is on critical reading of short stories and the novel selected from all periods of English, American, and European literatures. The course will introduce the systematic study of fiction as a literary genre and will equip students for more advanced work in literature or creative writing. Writing assignments are designed to aid in the understanding of the structure and content of the material covered. Every semester

3 hrs

ENGLISH 215 Introduction To Poetry

An introduction to the study of poetry for students desiring a basic course either to develop a greater appreciation of poetry or to prepare for more advanced courses in literature or creative writing. Class discussions will focus on close readings of poems and analysis of poetic techniques. Writing assignments will complement reading and class discussion and will enable students to develop their own critical and creative skills.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 225 English II: Intermediate Academic Prose

This course extends the work of ENGLISH 110 with an additional emphasis on research. Each section of ENGLISH 225 uses a combination of book-length and shorter texts on focus on specific historical and/or cultural issues. As they learn to participate in scholarly conversations, students will find and evaluate library and internet sources. As with ENGLISH 110, this course emphasizes revision, editing, and proper academic documentation. Satisfactory completion of ENGLISH 110 and sophomore standing are prerequisites for ENGLISH 225. Every semester. Note: ENGLISH 225 or its equivalent is a prerequisite for all 300- and 400-level English courses.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 225 A English II For Non-Native Speakers

The study and practice of expository writing and analytical and critical reading geared to the needs of students for whom English is not the first language. The course emphasizes the development and integration of all areas of language comprehension and production. The writing focus is on kinds of organization, diction, style, etc. used in academic writing in the United States. Frequent research papers. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of ENGLISH 110 or ENGLISH 110A and sophomore standing. Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 241 Women And Literary Culture: Introduction

The course offers an introduction to women as producers and consumers of literature. Students will become acquainted with women writers, explore women's reading practices, and interrogate the issues that have surrounded women's participation in cultural arenas.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 245 Advanced English Pronunciation for Non-Native Speakers

This course will help students recognize, understand, and produce features of the American English sound system that result in comprehensible and meaningful communication. Course attendees will reconsider what they understand about the language, expand their awareness of what they hear and what they say, and explore how certain sounds in certain environments appear, disappear, combine, or modify to create predictable patterns in American English. Prerequisite: Applied Language Institute Approval. Offered: All Semesters.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 250 Introduction To Language Acquisition And Diversity

Investigation of the basic principles of first and second language acquisition. Topics addressed include language competency, socio-cultural factors in language, dialects, acquisitional principles, and language diversity. Students will take part in monitored classroom observations in public schools, and will critically analyze how the topics addressed in class apply to real life and to teaching situations. A service learning component is included.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 270 Writing Tutor Training Seminar

This course covers the basics of serving as a tutor for writers. Students acquire hands-on experience in consulting with writers at all stages of the writing process, including invention work, drafting, revising, documenting, and editing. Students will also become conversant in theories of peer tutoring and research on Writing Centers.Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of ENGLISH 110 or instructor approval.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 299 Form And Structure Of Writing

This course is required for students who have twice failed the Written English Proficiency Test (WEPT) and is open only to students who have failed the test at least once. The class will cover the basic conventions of successful expository and academic writing. Emphasis will be placed on methods of development and on strategies for organization. This course satisfies neither the college humanities requirement nor the junior-level writing requirement. Completion of the course with a grade of C or better does fulfill the WEPT requirement for graduation, however, and renders students eligible to enroll in courses designated Writing Intensive (WI). Does not count toward graduation.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 300 Interdisciplinary Studies:Cluster Course Offerings

3 hrs

ENGLISH 300 CB Cluster Course: Women In The Ancient World

This course focuses on the history, representation, literature, social lives, and political roles of women in ancient civilization including Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Biblical World, Greece, and Rome. It integrates methodologies from history, art history and archaeology, literary studies, and women's studies. Cross-listed with CLASSICS 300CB.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 300 CD Cluster Course: American Social Film:Silver Screen&American Dream

This course will combine American social history and film history in the sound era. Using Hollywood entertainment films, the course will look at Hollywood as an indicator of social, political and economic conditions in the United States since the 1930s. The main topics are representations of the American dream and nightmare, poverty and affluence, success and failure. This course is offered as a cluster with COMM-ST 402CD, HISTORY 400CP, and AMER- ST 300CD.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 300 CE Cluster Course: Radical Changes Since 1945

This cluster will focus on modernism, post-modernism and expressionism in the visual arts and literature since World War II. Common lectures will address intellectual movements-such as existentialism and formalism--and cultural development--such as the increased impact of technology and mass media--in contemporary society. By focusing on these movements, the cluster course hopes to provide an integrated view of the literature and visual arts of the period and to draw upon analogous developments in contemporary architecture, music, philosophy and film.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 300 Cluster Course: Terrorism, Civil War And Trauma

This interdisciplinary course examines the modern experience of terrorism and civil war in the light of art, film, history, literature, and philosophy. It explores a number of traumatic events, historic and contemporary, challenging us to think about such contemporary issues as violence and identity formation, civil rights and state-sponsored terrorism, pacifism and patriotism, resistance and collaboration, fundamentalism and fascism, neo-colonialism and anti-imperialism.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 300 CQ Cluster Course: Race in America Film

This course examines representations of race and ethnicity in American film from the silent era onward in mainstream and countercultural traditions. It explores how social, political, and economic conditions contribute to constructions of race and ethnicity. This course is offered as a cluster course with COMM-ST 405 CD and HISTORY 300CF.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 300 CR CC:Roman Revolution:History&Culture From The Gracchi To Augustus

The period of Roman history from the revolution initiated by the Gracchi to the demise of the Republic & the establishment of the Principate under Augustus will be studied. The course begins with the Scipionic Circle under whose leadership foreign imperialism, domestic factionalism, and the influx of Greek culture increased. Political, social and cultural developments which culminated in the violent death of the old system will be traced. We will also show how Augustus kept the past alive to make his new government acceptable to the tradition-loving Romans. Students will read the words of such writers as Terence, Cato, Polybius, Cicero, Caesar, Sullust, Catullus, Horace, Virgil, and Ovid, whose works cover the important genres of Roman literature--new comedy, rhetoric, satire, history, epic, pastoral, and lyric poetry.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 300 CS Cluster Course: Clio And The Other Muses

This course focuses on the history, art, architecture, literature, and culture of Athens in the 5th Century BCE. Course readings will include primary literary and historical sources such as lyric poetry, comedy and tragedy, philosophy, and historical writings. Cross-listed with CLASSICS 300CS.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 300 CW Critical Issues in Women's & Gender Studies

3 hrs

ENGLISH 300 CY Cluster Course: Ancient World/Cinema

This course will explore the tradition of depicting the ancient mediterranean world film from the early silent era to the present. Topics to be covered include the ways that filmmakers respond to literary and historical sources from the ancient world, interact with the artistic tradition of films about the ancient world, the relation of these films to other works by the same creative personnel (directors, actors, writers, producers, etc.), and the political and cultural contexts in which the films were released. This course is cross-listed with HISTORY 400CY.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 300 F SS:Academic English/International Grad Teaching Assistants

The study and practice of standard spoken English combined with the study and practice of classroom teaching techniques. Excercises focusing on improvement of pronunciation, and formal (classroom presentation) and informal (conversation) English speaking are combined with techniques for lecture organization, strategies for clear content presentation, and with analysis of the American post-secondary educational culture. This course is designed for prospective International Graduate Teaching Assistants who need to improve their English communication skills and obtain an understanding of American educational culture. Prerequisite: ALI approval

3 hrs

ENGLISH 301 WI Writing And The Academy

This course examines social and ethical issues raised by academic reading and writing. While some attention is paid to the formal aspects of academic prose within specific disciplines, the main emphasis of the course is on the cultural consequences of the different ways that academic knowledge is created and taught. In addition to studying the language and structure of academic reading and writing, the course explores the various rhetorics of the academy in terms of a broad range of subjects including economics, gender, education, history, and myth. This course satisfies the junior-level writing requirement and counts towards the writing minor. Prerequisites: ENGLISH 110, ENGLISH 225 and successful completion of the WEPT. Offered every semester.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 303 WI Introduction To Journalism

Introduction to the styles and techniques of reporting and writing basic news through assignments in straight news, features and in-depth stories. Exposure to the history and principles of American journalism. Practical application in writing news and news feature articles. Also offered as COMM-ST 303WI.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 304 WI Writing And Technology

This course takes a student-centered approach to writing about and with technology. The course examines the reciprocity of culture and technology in intersecting local and global contexts. Course materials will vary depending on the instructor, but all sections will use genres of technical writing to explore the relationships between specific institutional and professional environments and such broader issues as economics, gender, history, myth, and nature. Prerequisites: ENGLISH 110, ENGLISH 225 and pass on WEPT. Offered: Every semester.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 305 WI Theory And Practice Of Composition

A course in expository writing that will include reading on composition theory and the nature of literacy. Frequent short essays and a long paper. Prerequisites: ENGLISH 110, ENGLISH 225, and successful completion of the WEPT.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 307 WI Language, Literacy, Power

This course uses discourse analysis to investigate language and literacy. Students will explore how the discourses of institutional and cultural identities act as instruments of power and legitimacy. Prerequisites: ENGLISH 110 and ENGLISH 225 or equivalent and successful completion of the WEPT.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 308 Rhetorics of New Media

This course will focus on the rhetorical study of new media texts (such as hypertext, networked multimedia, multimedia art and performance, virtual spaces, and so on) and theories of new media. The course will consider the rhetorical possibilities and constraints of new media and critically examine their impact on democratic discourse and literacy in the public sphere. Specialized knowledge of multimedia equipment and software is neither expected nor required. Prerequisites Eng. 110 & 225, or equivalent.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 309 WI Rhetorics of Public Memory

This course explores how museums and other cultural institutions function as rhetorical agents in creating and preserving public memory. Students will explore how processes of collection, arrangement, and visual display operate as modes of persuasion and make arguments about civic identities and community values. Prerequisites: Completion of the WEPT exam.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 310 Introduction To Linguistics/Language Science

This course is a comprehensive introduction to the theory, methodology, and applications of the science of language. It examines properties of human language, covers all branches of language science, and provides a foundation for a critical understanding of language issues. Required for ENGLISH 470; recommended for ENGLISH 320 and ENGLISH 330.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 311 American Literature I

A survey of American literature and culture from its beginnings to 1865. This course will cover a range of authors, several genres, and culture forms, which may include fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, oral, contact and/or slave narratives, folklore, and songs.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 312 Creative Writing I Fiction

A course centered on the short story. Emphasis is placed on three areas: general principles governing the writing of fiction; practice in short fiction (primarily the short story, but including the novella); criticism; and technical skills (including editing and rewriting). Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in or completion of ENGLISH 213 or ENGLISH 214 or instructor's permission.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 313 WI Reporting

A seminar of practical application in advanced reporting. Assignments to cover news events and to pursue in-depth news reports on the campus and off. Work is turned in on deadline and critiqued by the instructor. Prerequisites: ENGLISH 110, ENGLISH 225, and successful completion of the WEPT.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 315 Creative Writing Poetry

Writing and rewriting poems, with discussion of techniques needed to produce desired effects. Analysis and evaluation of student work. Examination of technical means utilized in selected poems by accomplished poets. Offered: Winter. Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in or completion of ENGLISH 215 or instructor's permission.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 316 WI Literary Nonfiction

Literary Nonfiction is a writing intensive course in the reading and writing of nonfiction prose as a literary art. We'll survey the historical development of literary nonfiction (especially the essay), sample contemporary authors of the genre, write critical commentary on works we read, and compose personal essays of our own. The course is not exculsively a literary seminar nor a creative writing workshop, but seeks to mix and make connections between these modes, in the tradition of the essay itself. Prerequisites are ENGLISH 110, ENGLISH 225, and completion of the WEPT.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 317 British Literature I

A survey of British Literature and culture from its beginnings to the 18th century, including works by Chaucer and Milton.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 318 Bible As Literature

A critical study of the major portions of the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha, with special attention to the development of literature from oral tradition, the literary genres, themes and archetypes represented in the collection, and the diction and style which have influenced later literature. Consideration also of the relation of Biblical literature to the historical, religious, and cultural milieu of the ancient Near East.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 319 Myth And Literature

A study of classical myth including readings from Homer to Ovid, analysis of selected myths in later literature, art and music, and a study of contemporary definitions and approaches to myth.

3-4 hrs

ENGLISH 320 Structure Of English

Not a remedial grammar course. Methods of linguistic inquiry and grammatical description. Study of traditional and modern schools of syntax, especially transformational grammar. Practice describing the structure of sentences. Application to the teaching of grammar in high schools.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 321 American Literature II

A survey of American literature and culture from 1865 to the present. This course will cover a range of authors, several genres, and culture forms, which may include fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, essay, lyrics, and film.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 323 Shakespeare

An intensive critical study of William Shakespeare's writings in various contexts (historical, social, political, literary, contemporary, for example). Readings will encompass at least eight plays and will include at least one comedy, history, tragedy, and romance. Required of all English majors.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 325 Arthurian Legends

Focusing on writers such as Marie de France, Chretien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Sara Teasdale, Bernard Malamud, and Marion Zimmer Bradley, this course examines the legend of King Arthur and his Round Table as a recurring myth, repeatedly manifested in time through literature, art, history, music, and film. Prerequisite: None

3 hrs

ENGLISH 326 Modern And Contemporary Irish Literature

This course examines a range of texts written by Irish-born writers from the end of the nineteenth century on. While it is likely the course will include texts by the most famous Irish writers, such as Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, O'Brien, Heaney, and Friel, course materials will vary from semester to semester and may focus on a specific genre, historical period, or area of interest. Offered: On Demand

3 hrs

ENGLISH 327 British Literature II

A survey of British Literature and culture from the late 18th century to the present. This course will cover a range of authors and genres, including at least one novel.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 329 Film As Art

An application and formulation of critical approaches to the major artistic achievements of the important creators of this modern aesthetic form -- D.W. Griffith, Chaplin, Hitchcock, Bergman, Einstein, Kubrick.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 330 History Of The English Language

The study of English beginning with the Indo-European language family up to and including varieties of English spoken around the world today. Both outer history and the inner history of phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon will be addressed.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 331 African American Literature I

This course provides a survey of African American literature from its beginnings to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. Areas of interest will include abolitionist literature (especially Slave Narratives), turn-of-the-century literature and the Harlem Renaissance. This course will examine any or all of the following literary forms: fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography and essay. It will view African American literature in its historical and cultural contexts. Cross-listed with Black Studies 331.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 332 WI African American Novel

This course will examine the Africian American Novel in the 19th and 20th centuries; the emphasis will be on the period from the 1920s to the present. The novels will be examined in their historical and cultural contexts. Cross-Listed with Black Studies 332WI.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 333 African American Literature II

A survey of African American literature from the end of the Harlem Renaissance to the present, covering a range of authors, texts, and contexts. Cross-listed with Black Studies 333.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 336 Contemporary American Literature

An intensive study of American literature since World War II, concentrating on the profound literary changes following that war, as a new kind of poetry, fiction and drama emerges which chronicles the simultaneous dissolution of old values and the efforts to establish new ones. Writers such as Lowell, Roethke, Ginsberg, Ellison, Salinger, Bellow, Mailer, Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Pynchon, Katherine Anne Porter, Heller, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee will be considered along with others, as American writing develops in our time.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 339 Introduction to Screenwriting

An introduction to the form and language of the motion picture screenplays. Students create a blueprint for a movie and examine visual storytelling in-depth, including basic dramatic structure, scene and sequence construction and dialogue. Students will master the industry screenplay format, adapt a short story for the screen, and learn to receive feedback in small groups. Prerequisites: COMM-ST 230 or 250, or permission of instructor. Crosslisted with COMM-ST 354: Intro to Screenwriting.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 340 A Classical Literature In Translation

This course will focus on representative authors and works from the Greek and Roman Classical periods, such as Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Plato, the Greek Lyrics, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal, Ovid and Plautus.

3-4 hrs

ENGLISH 342 WI Women And Rhetoric

A study of the position of women within the traditions of western rhetoric. Students will examine the rhetorical practices of women as they pursue both public and private goals. Christine de Pizan, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Hannah More, Maria Stewart, Frances Willard, Ida Wells-Barnett, Meridel Le Sueur, and Gloria Anzaldua are among the female rhetorians who may be studied in this course. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the WEPT. Offered: On Demand

3 hrs

ENGLISH 344 WI Women & Literary Culture: Genre Focus

A study of women writers that focuses on genre, i.e., texts that share a common set of conventions. The course will explore the conventions associated with a particular genre in various historical periods and consider the ways in which gender and genre intersect in shaping texts and their interpretation. Prerequiste: Successful completion of the WEPT Offered: On Demand Restrictions: None

3 hrs

ENGLISH 345 WI Women And Literary Culture: Historical Focus

A study of women's literary culture in a specific historical period either as broadly defined as Medieval or Renaissance or as narrowly defined as a decade or movement (e.g., 1960s, abolitionist movement). This course includes women writers across multiple boundaries (e.g., national, generic, racial, sexual, socio-economic). Content will change depending on the instructor. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the WEPT.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 350 The 18th Century Novel

A detailed examination of the development of the novel in the 18th century. The course emphasizes the evolution of the novel from such predecessors as rogue literature, the picaresque story and the romance, due to changing social realities. The novelists studied may include Austen, Behn, Fielding, Godwin, Haywood, Richardson, Smollett, and Sterne. Prerequisite: None Restricitions: None.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 351 Special Readings

Readings in a period, genre or theme to be selected by the instructor with attention to the needs of students who are interested in literary topics not covered in regular offerings. Proposals for a course in such readings require the approval of the department.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 355 The Novel Before 1900

Intensive attention to novels in English written before 1900, which may include comparative or analytical studies of genre; critical reception of novels; serialization, gender issues; authors and editors; and valuation. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 356 Studies in Poetry

An intensive study of poetry through the examination of a specific topic or the works of particular poets, for instance: Love, Seduction, and Betrayal; Form and Change; Death, Grief, and Consolation; Whitman, Dickinson, and the Soul; Sacred Poetry; Poetry and Metaphysics; The Long Poem; The Comic Poem; Sonnet, Sonnet Sequence and the Lyric; The Voyage; Nature, Self, and the Romantic Poet.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 360 The Modern Novel

A study of the 20th-century novel, American, British and Continental, with attention to the development of fiction during this century. This course deals with novelists principally active before 1930, such as Conrad, James Joyce, Kafka, Hemingway, Lawrence, Woolf, Mann, Fitzgerald, and others. Offered: Fall.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 365 Contemporary Novel

This course focuses on selected novelists since 1945 and is organized around particular literary themes, sub-genres, or contemporary issues.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 365 WI Contemporary Novel

This course focuses on selected novelists since 1945 and is organized around particular literary themes, sub-genres, or contemporary issues. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the WEPT.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 375 Colonial Literature

An exploration of colonialism through the study of a variety of texts, which may include literary, historical, and theoretical texts. These texts should represent the formation and elaboration of discourses surrounding colonialism. Texts will be drawn from more than one genre and from the metropole as well as multiple colonial contexts. The course will consider several definitions of colonialism and related terms such as empire, imperialism, and nationalism. Prerequisite: None

3 hrs

ENGLISH 376 Ancient Concepts of the Hero

This course traces the ancient concept of the hero by reading selected ancient works by authors such as Homer, Thucycides, Livy, Plutarch, Ceasar, Tacitus, and Sallust. Students will also examine the impact of the ancient concept of the hero on modern literature and art. Also listed as CLASSICS 376.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 378 Asian American Literature

This course examines literary and cultural texts produced by Asian Americans from the nineteenth century to the present. Texts will be drawn from a variety of genres and from several Asian American groups in order to examine how Asian American literature engages, challenges, revises, and reinvents American literary traditions. The course will identify and explore specific cultural and political issues that have shaped the writings, including transnationalism, immigration, racial identity, group identity, and community. Authors may include Carlos Bulosan, Maxine Hong Kingston, John Okada, Bienvendo Santos, and Hisaye Yamamoto.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 400 CA Cluster Course:Images Of The Human Body In Renaissance

Focusing on Renaissance conceptions of the human body, this cluster treats the following topics as they are reflected in Renaissance literature, art, astrology, astronomy, biology, anatomy, medicine and politics: A) The dignity of the human body B) Microcosm and macrocosm C) The human body and the heavens D) Stranger manifestations: freaks and beasts E) The humors F) Disorders of the human body G) The body politic H) The human body as an object of study.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 400 CB England King's And Shakespeare's:Literature, History, Film

The aim of this cluster course is to study the historical and dramatic personae of selected English kings: John, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III, and Henry VIII. In common sessions History and English will alternate lectures. The English focus will be on Shakespeare's two tetralogies and individual histories, discussing significant themes, characters and performance elements. Students will also be asked to familiarize themselves with the critical commentaries on these plays, especially recent theoretical studies about politics and gender construction. Film versions of the plays will be shown to demonstrate how directorial interpretation influences an audience's perception of these kings and their worlds. In addition to two exams and shorter written exercises, students will be required to write an interdisciplinary essay. Graduate students will be expected to write longer, more extensively researched papers.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 400 CF Cluster Course: Courts And Culture In The Middle Ages

This cluster course offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Middle Ages, focusing on medieval cultures in Europe. Arranged around a series of themes, the cluster will read a variety of documentary and literary texts to investigate not only the "high culture" of the courts but also the interactions of people from various social backgrounds in Western Europe. Cross listed with FRN-LNG 400CF and HISTORY 400CF.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 400 CQ Cluster Course: Sinai And Olympus: Two Views Of Man And God

An examination of the two distinct views of the universe and the place of man and God in it as reflected in the literature of the Hebrews and the Greeks. A comparison of the various types of creative expression such as philosophy, historical writing, drama, rhetoric, and law. Readings are in English.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 404 Old English

This course is a study of Old English, its grammar, its poetic style, and its literature, both poetry and prose.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 405 Magazine Editing

A course combining academic study of editorial management, publishing operations and language skills, with "hands on" experience in article evaluation, editing, magazine production, and legal matters such as copyright and libel. Class work concentrates on authentic and effective language use, with attention given to copy editing, grammar, typography, printing processes, financing and distribution for commercial and small-press publications.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 408 Harlem Renaissance

This course examines the period from 1920 to 1940, known as the Harlem Renaissance, a time of unprecedented literary and cultural creativity by Black artists. This course explores a variety of cultural productions, not only traditional forms of literature such as novels, short stories, plays and poetry, but also nonliterary objects of study such as painting, sculpture, and music.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 410 Black Women Writers

This course explores the writings of African American Women Writers. The course examines how these writers have interacted with and often revised stereotypical representations of African American womanhood typically found within canonical and African American male literatures. The course will examine literature (which might include fiction, poetry, autobiography, and drama) of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the majority of the works will be by modern and contemporary authors such as Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Terry McMillan. By placing the works in this sort of cultural and historical context, it will be possible to examine the unique tradition of African American women's writing as well as individual texts. Prerequisite: None.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 412 Chaucer

Readings from Chaucer's most important works, especially "The Canterbury Tales" and "Troilus and Criseyde" with emphasis on them as types of medieval genres and on the Middle English language. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 317 or permission of the instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 413 Renaissance Literature I

English literature from the time of Wyatt and Surrey to the beginning of the 17th century, including the works of Spenser, Marlowe, Sidney, Shakespeare and others. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 317 or permission of the instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 414 Milton

A study of Milton's prose and poetry, with special attention to "Paradise Lost". Prerequisite: ENGLISH 317 or permission of the instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 415 Restoration And Early 18th-Century British Literature

British literature from the late 17th century to the mid 18th century. Selected writers may include Addison and Steele, Behn, Congreve, Defoe, Dryden, Finch, Milton, Pope, Rochester, Swift, and Wortley Montagu. Prerequisites: ENGLISH 317 or permission of instructor. Offered: On demand

3 hrs

ENGLISH 416 The Romantic Period

An extensive study of selected writers (such as Austen, Barbauld, Byron, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Hemans, Keats, Gilpin, the Shelleys, Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth) organized around literary themes and/or cultural issues important to the Romantic period. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 327 or permission of the instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 417 Modern Poetry

Study of works by modernist poets such as Hopkins, Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Moore, Pound, H.D., Eliot, Millay, Hughes. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 418 19th-Century American Literature

An intensive study of either selected major American writers in the 19th century or of 19th -century literary movements. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 311 or permission of instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 422 Medieval Literature

Western religious and secular verse and prose to the 15th century. Late Middle English works are read in the original; all other selections in translation. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 317 or permission of the instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 423 Renaissance Literature II

English literature from 1600 to the beginning of the Restoration, including the works of Donne, Jonson, Milton and other contemporaries. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 317 or permission of the instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 425 18th-Century British Literature II

British literature in its critical and historical context from 1750 to 1798. The writers studied may include Blake, Burney, Collins, Johnson, and Gray. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 317 or permission of the instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 426 The Victorian Period

An intensive study of selected writers (such as Arnold, Braddon, the Brontes, the Brownings, Dickens, Darwin, Eliot, Gaskell, Hardy, Ruskin, and the Rossettis) organized around literary themes and/or cultural issues important to the Victorian period. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 327 or permission of the instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 427 Contemporary Poetry

Study of works by contemporary poets (post World War II), such as Auden, Bishop, Hayden, Berryman, Rukeyser, Larkin, Rich, Plath, Heaney, Boland, Komunyakaa. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 428 20th-Century American Literature

An intensive study of either selected major American writers in the 20th century or of 20th-century literary movements. Prerequisites: ENGLISH 321 or permission of instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduates.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 429 B Advanced Screenwriting

A course in advanced theory in narrative screenwriting, industry script analysis (called "coverage") and story editing. Students complete the first act of a feature screenplay and a detailed beat sheet for the whole film. In addition, students will write and revise a short-film screenplay to be produced in the advanced production class. Or they will write a television series bible with episode springboards and a pilot episode. Cross-listed with COMM-S 454 Advanced Screenwriting. Prerequisites: ENG 339/COMM-S 354 Introduction to Screenwriting or permission of instructor.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 430 WI Advanced Technical Writing

This course is designed for those who plan to do or teach professional, business, or technical writing. Beginning with a brief background in the history of technical writing, the course will deal with current theories and methods of teaching technical and professional writing, and will cover such areas as business usage; technical linguistic problems and theories; the language of contracts, specifications, and other binding documents; and computer-oriented problems. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the WEPT. Offered: Every Semester.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 431 18th-Century British Literature

British literature from the mid to late 18th century. Selected writers may include Blake, Burney, Collins, Equiano, Fielding, Gray, Johnson, Sheridan, and Wollstonecraft.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 432 WI Advanced Creative Writing Prose

A course for advanced students of fiction writing. Open to students who have taken ENGLISH 312 or its equivalent. The class will proceed through analysis of models, discussion of general principles, critique of student work. Students will simultaneously be encouraged to experiment and to refine the form and subjects best suited to their talents. Emphasis will remain on the short story, though there may be units in other forms--novella, film script, the non-fiction essay.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 433 Histories Of Writing, Reading, And Publishing

A study of selected topics concerning the material practices of writing, reading, and publishing within specific cultural and historical contexts. Issues examined may include authorship, education, information technologies, libraries, literacy, periodicals, popular literature, publishers, and communities of readers. Prerequisite: One appropriate introductory course at the 300 level. Offered: On Demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 434 Postcolonial Literature

An exploration of postcolonialism through the study of literary and theoretical texts created by or representing peoples whose historical experience has been decisively shaped by the experience or legacies of colonialism. Texts will be drawn from a variety of genres and from several countries. The course will consider several definitions of postcolonialism and related terms such as cosmopolitanism, hybridity, diaspora, and nationalism. Cross-listed with ENGLISH 5534. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 435 WI Advanced Creative Writing Poetry

An advanced poetry workshop that includes intensive reading of contemporary poetry and aims at each student creating a portfolio of publishable poems. The focus of the course will vary to address a variety of topics such as metaphor and closure; imitation and the line; form and voice. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: For Undergraduates Restrictions: ENGLISH 315 or equivalent. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 436 WI Poetic Forms

An advanced creative writing course that focuses on intensive study of and practice in metrics and traditional and nonce forms. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: For Undergraduates ; Restrictions: ENGLISH 315 or equivalent. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 437 WI Prose Forms

The making of a work of prose requires expertise with the structure of the chosen form, and an understanding of the relationship of form to content. This class teaches the techniques for planning and drafting major prose forms which could include the very-short story, the story, novella, novel, linked-story collection, episodic novel, essay novel, the play, the creative nonfiction book, and others. Students will learn how to create particular prose forms and how to use content as a guide to inventing new forms. We will examine some of the best examples of both traditional and newly invented forms by writers such as Anton Chekhov, Katherine Anne Porter, Tim O'Brien, and Sandra Cisneros. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 312. Offered: Each year.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 438 The "New Letters" Writing Conference

An intensive weekend conference for creative writers of varying genres and levels of experience, published and unpublished -- fiction, poetry, nonfiction, stage and screen. The conference includes creative and interdisciplinary sessions on writing and publishing, genre-specific workshops, socializing and networking opportunities, and private manuscript consultations. The course of study for two-and three-credit students includes selected reading and post-weekend tutorial time conducted by accomplished, working writers. The conference may be repeated once for credit. Two- and three-credit students need the instructor's consent and must have taken a 300-level creative-writing course in the focus genre prior to enrolling. Prerequisites: 2- and 3- credit students must have previous coursework at the 300 level in Creative Writing in the focus genre.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 439 Shakespeare and Film

Grounded in the close analysis of texts, this course examines film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays across the range of dramatic genres (history plays, tragedy, comedy, and romance). This course is open to seniors and graduate student sonly. Graduate students will be responsible for supplemental critical readings.Prerequisite: Eng 323

3 hrs

ENGLISH 440 American Culture

Texts that offer perspectives on key historical themes of American culture. Texts may be grouped around any culturally significant principle (e.g. region, race, gender, class, ethnicity, religion) or theme (e.g. the mythology of the frontier, marriage and domesticity, the American Dream). The course may be taken twice for credit, provided substantive changes in topic. Prerequisites: ENGLISH 311 and ENGLISH 321 or permission of the instructor. These prerequisites apply only to undergraduate students. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 441 Girls And Print Culture

This course deals with girls' relationships to the continually evolving print culture. Students will examine various literary representations of girlhood by adult writers, explore texts directed at girls (e.g., conduct books, periodicals, textbooks), and study the writing and reading practices of girls themselves.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 445 History And Principles Of Rhetoric

A study of selected writings of ancient, and modern rhetoricians illustrating key issues in the development of Western discourse theory and practice. Issues examined include the relationships between rhetoric and knowledge, orality and literacy, and rhetoric and poetics. Attention will also be given to the implications of rhetorical theory for modern language instruction. Prerequisites: None. Offered: on demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 447 Introduction To Literary Criticism

An introduction to major schools or methods of literary criticism. The first third of the course is an historical overview of criticism from Aristotle to Northrop Frye. The remainder of the semester is devoted to a study of genetic, formalist, mimetic, affective, intertextual, and deconstructionist approaches. Prerequisite: junior or senior status and six hours of literature.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 448 External Internship

Students may complete an external internship involving writing and editing with a publishing company, trade magazine, literary or academic journal, other print or electronic media organization, or with advertising, public relations, or non-profit firms. Internships are granted on a competitive basis. Students will compile a portfolio of their work under the direction of the internship supervisor to be submitted for evaluation by their chosen faculty mentor. Students will work 5 hours per week per credit hour.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 449 A Publication Practicum

This course provides practical experience with New Letters magazine, New Letters on the Air, and BkMk Press in business analysis/reporting, copy-editing, manuscript evaluation, promotion/grant development, library research, market research, and other skills. The practicum is limited to three students per semester, to be chosen on the basis of demonstrated writing and organizational skills. References are required. May be taken for no more than three credit hours over a maximum of two semesters. Permission of the instructors required. Prerequisite: None.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 449 B Publication Practicum

This course covers the basics of producing an issue of an academic journal. Students acquire hands-on experience at all stages of production. In addition to production work on essays for the journal, each student prepares a manuscript of his/her own (e.g. critical essay, creative piece, review or review essay) for submission to an appropriate journal or other venue. Restrictions: Consent of the instructor.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 450 Special Readings

Intensive individual readings in a field, genre, or individual figure to be selected by a student or a group of students in consultation with an instructor willing to direct the project. Generally limited to graduating seniors who have completed the majority of the work for their major. Not open to students in their first semester at UMKC. May be repeated for credit. No more than six hours of independent study (exclusive of ENGLISH 499) may be used to fulfill the 33-hour requirement for the English major. Offered: Every semester. Arrangements must be made prior to registration.

1-3 hrs

ENGLISH 451 Shakespeare Comedies And Histories

A study of Shakespeare's major comedies and history plays with special emphasis on his dramatic works before 1600. Prerequisites: ENGLISH 317 and ENGLISH 323 or permission of the instructor. These prerequisites apply only to undergraduate students.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 452 Early English Drama

English religious and secular drama prior to Shakespeare. Mystery and morality plays are studied, with emphasis on their literary and social backgrounds. Close reading of such works as "Everyman," "The Wakefield Second Shepherd's Play," and "The Spanish Tragedy." Prerequisites; ENGLISH 317 and ENGLISH 323 or permission of the instructor. These prerequisites apply only to undergraduate students. On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 453 Modern Drama, 1880-1945

A study of modern drama: Continental, British, and American, including history and development, critical theory, and literary evaluation. This course will focus on the earlier modern playwrights from Ibsen and Shaw, with special attention to naturalism. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 455 Studies In The Novel 1740-1900

An intensive study of no more than three major novelists of the eighteenth or nineteenth century. The content of the course will change, depending on the instructor. Prerequisite: The completion of six hours of literature or permission of the instructor.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 460 Special Offerings

The visiting professor who gives this course determines what its content shall be. All aspects of literature and linguistics are within its possible range. On demand.

1-4 hrs

ENGLISH 460 A Special Offerings

1-4 hrs

ENGLISH 461 Shakespeare Tragedies And Romances

A study of Shakespeare's major tragedies and late romances with special emphasis on his dramatic literature after 1600. Prerequisites: ENGLISH 317 and ENGLISH 323 or permission of the instructor. These prerequisites apply only to undergraduate students. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 462 Restoration And 18th-Century Drama

The drama after the restoration of the monarchy and the reopening of the theaters through the 18th century. Special emphasis is placed on the comedy of manners and the heroic drama in the Restoration and the sentimental comedy in the 18th century. Includes such playwrights as Dryden, Congreve, Etherege, Wycherley, Steele, Lillo, Cumberland, Sheridan, and Goldsmith. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 317 or permission of the instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students. On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 463 Contemporary Drama II

A study of contemporary drama: Continental, British, and American, including history and development, critical theory and literary evaluation. This course will focus on the more recent writers, including the absurdists, with special attention to experimental drama. This course is a continuation of ENGLISH 453. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 465 Studies In The Modern Novel

An intensive study of no more than three major 20th-century novelists. The content of the course will change, depending on the instructor. Prerequisite: The completion of six hours of literature or permission of the instructor.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 470 Introduction To Descriptive Linguistics

General introduction to linguistics science. Linguistic analysis, structures and change. Language families. Historical reconstruction. Generative grammar. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 310 or permission of instructor. The prerequisite only applies to undergraduate students. Offered: On demand.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 475 Creative Nonfiction

This course emphasizes the study and crafting of creative nonfiction. special attention is given to developing the writing techniques required to shape publishable narratives out of experience. Prerequisites: ENGLISH 312, 315, 316WI or instructor permission.

3 hrs

ENGLISH 498 Senior Seminar On Writing In The Secondary Classroom

This course is intended to help students move from discussions of education & composition theory to classroom research and practice. Students will examine their own language uses, study current composition pedagogy, and undertake action research projects in cooperation with teachers affiliated with the Greater Kansas City Writing Project. In a culminating study, students will compile their action research data and prepare classroom resources based on their findings. ENGLISH 498 is designed for English Secondary Education majors. Other education majors may enroll with instructor's permission. This course is offered fall semester only and cannot be taken for graduate credit. Prerequisite: None Offered: Fall Semester Only

3 hrs

ENGLISH 499 Senior Tutorial

A comprehensive tutorial for students who have a faculty-approved research project. The project will culminate in a critical study of 20-25 pages or a creative writing portfolio of similar length. This course is appropriate for students who intend to continue their studies at the graduate level. Restrictions: Students must have permission of the instructor and of the Director of Undergraduate Studies before enrolling in this course.

3 hrs

ENGLISH H110 English I: Introduction To Academic Prose

3 hrs

ENGLISH H300 CD Cluster Course: American Social Film:Silver Screen&American Dream

3 hrs

ENGLISH H300 Cluster Course: Terrorism, Civil War And Trauma

3 hrs

ENGLISH H312 Creative Writing I Fiction

3 hrs

ENGLISH H323 Shakespeare

3 hrs

ENGLISH H327 British Literature II

A survey of British Literature and culture from the late 18th century to the present. This course will cover a range of authors and genres, including at least one novel.

3 hrs

ENGLISH H408 Harlem Renaissance

3 hrs

ENGLISH H426 The Victorian Period

3 hrs

ENGLISH H449 A Publication Practicum

1-3 hrs