ENGLISH 300      Interdisciplinary Studies:Cluster Course Offerings
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 301      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.
Credits: hours
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ENGLISH 303      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.
Credits: hours
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ENGLISH 304      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.
Credits: hours
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ENGLISH 305      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.
Credits: hours
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ENGLISH 307      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.
Credits: hours
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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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 309      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.
Credits: hours
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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.
Credits: 3 hours
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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.
Credits: 3 hours
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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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 313      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.
Credits: hours
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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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 316      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.
Credits: hours
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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.
Credits: 3 hours
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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.
Credits: 3 hours
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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.
Credits: 3-4 hours
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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.
Credits: 3 hours
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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.
Credits: 3 hours
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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.
Credits: 3 hours
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