English (ENG)
This course promotes the development of English language fluency by nonnative speakers of English. It specifically targets the language skills necessary for successful oral communication within a graduate school context.
This course prepares nonnative speakers of English to meet the challenges of reading for academic purposes at the graduate college level by improving their reading skills and English language proficiency.
Study of rhetorical invention and models of composing process, with intensive practice in writing.
The phonology, spelling, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary of previous language periods as background to Modern English.
This course for nonnative speakers of English focuses on written English within a graduate school context. Attention is placed on grammar, mechanics, research, American English rhetorical conventions, and process writing.
Study of the principles and practices of professional writing, editing, and document design.
Development of writing skills and strategies with an emphasis on digital texts and genres.
Biographical and critical study, including Milton's English poetry and prose, and his literary and intellectual milieu.
Intensive study of Shakespeare's comedies, tragicomedies and late romances. Also includes the Sonnets and Venus and Adonis.
The poetry of Chaucer, including the Canterbury Tales, in the light of medieval tradition and critical analysis.
Intensive study of Shakespeare's histories and Tragedies.
Austen, Scott, the Brontes, Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Meredith, Hardy, Butler, Wilde, and their contemporaries.
Emphasis on Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Hopkins, Christina Rossetti, Hardy and the pre-Raphaelites.
Essays, speeches, treasties, and other works from Britain's Victorian age. Includes such authors as Arnold, Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley, Eliot, Martineau, Mill, Newman, and others.
Non-Shakespearean English drama from its beginnings to the closing of the theatres.
The intensive study of the pedagogy of literature and literary critical theory and its classroom applications.
Study of American literature of the Puritan, Colonial, and Federal periods, including such authors as Jonathan Edwards, Edward Taylor, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Washington Irving, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick.
American literature of the Romantic Period, including such authors as Emerson, Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Whitman, Fuller, Douglass, Stowe, and other figures of the period.
American literature of the Realistic and Naturalistic periods, including such authors as Howells, Twain, James, Dreiser, Chesnutt, Wharton, Crane, and Chopin.
American literature after 1914, including such authors as Faulkner, Hemingway, Cather, Mailer, Carver, Vonnegut, Morrison and others.
Appalachian Literature and Theory conducts an in-depth study of aspects of Appalachian culture and literature through the lens of select literary and social theories such as multiculturalism, feminism, or post-colonialism.
Readings in contemporary literature from the non Anglo-European world. Texts by Asian, African, South American, Australian, and other authors.
Critical study of literature intended for adolescent and pre-adolescent readers. Focus on coming-of-age and identity issues, and on texts representing cultural, ethnic, and social diversities of U.S. and world literatures.
This course focuses on the genres and strategic applications of writing for nonprofit organizations. Students will analyze relevant texts and resources while writing and producing materials that nonprofits require.
Examines literature of the present and its influences, including the inter-relationship between literature and other forms of textual/cultural production (e.g., cinema, television, popular music, comix/managa, ‘zines, blogs, hypertext).
Principle poetry since the Victorian period.
Principle poetry since 1900.
A study of trans-Atlantic Modernist writers, including both poetry and prose.
Old English elegiac and heroic poetry; Middle English lyrics and romances; the Ricardian poets and Malory
Survey may include works by More, Skelton, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Nashe, Marlowe, Raleigh, Lyly, Sidney, Mary Sidney, and Shakespeare, excluding drama.
Survey may include Donne and the Metaphysical poets, the Cavalier lyricists, Bacon, Browne, Wroth, Cary, Lanyer, Herbert, Jonson, Burton, Walton, Hobbes, and Bunyan.
Emphasis on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, and Keats.
Historical study, with application of principles.
Introduces students to the study of teaching writing in a classroom setting and in one-to-one tutoring. (PR: graduate program admission)
Theories of writing and reading development with a focus on cultural, linguistic, and rhetorical influences on literacy acquisition.
Study of the production, strategies, reception, and persuasive effects of visual texts.
A study of the professional and pedagogical methods and theories related to teaching and designing courses in creative writing.
Readings in contemporary literature (fiction, non-fiction, and poetry) addressing the work in terms of the formal and theoretical concerns that drive it. Course text will challenge notions of genre, form, theory, and practice.
The structural and descriptive approach to study of the English language.
Study of the structures of English grammar, including how these structures relate to punctuation, language acquisition, dialect variation, and the history of English.
Sociolinguistics is the study of the effects of language in society, relevant to discourse practices, language attitudes, variations, shifts, and changes.
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A practical and intensive class in exploring the varieties of creative expression; exercises on the creating of verse in different forms and styles.
A forum for presentation, discussion, and refinement of the student’s work, either short stories or novels.
A writing workshop where students develop and refine their original creative nonfiction (memoir, biography, essays, travel/leisure writing, etc.), employing techniques typically reserved for fiction (dialogue, narrative, poetic language, etc.).
This course aims at teaching English for academic purposes, ranging from teaching language skills to pragmatics to cultural understanding, in relation to theories of language and language learning.
This course introduces students to core principles of curriculum development for the language classroom. Students develop the abilities to critique and adapt textbooks and to design and create classroom materials.
Students are introduced to core principles of language assessment. By exploring a varietyh of assessment techniques, students develop the ability to critique current assessments and to build their own assessments.
This course starts with an overview of disciplinary frameworks of language development, then addresses the four major theoretical perspectives: linguistics, cognitive, sociolinguistic and sociocultural.
Major British novelists of the twentieth century.
Major American novelists of the twentieth century.
This course is a general introduction to the principles and practice of Systemic Functional Grammar with an emphasis on the paradigmatic meaning making potential of language systems.
Text analysis compares crucial aspects of English syntax, discourse pragmatics, and prepositional and lexical semantics with those of other languages.
An intensive study of selected novels, plays and poems of the period.
Instruction and practice in scholarly literary research. Required among first 12 hours of course work and prior to admission to candidacy for the Master of Arts degree with a major in English.
An intensive study of selected American authors.
Concentrated study of continuing themes or influences in American literature; for example, narrative perspectives, regional influences, or conflictinag agrarian and industrial values.
To inform students of various approaches to research in applied linguistics. To equip students with the critical skills to evaluate research with the end result of conducting their own research.
To help students understand the characteristics of academic English, and to train pre-service ESL or EFL teachers on how to teach English for academic purposes.
An intensive study of a single major text from any period of British, American, or anglophone literature, leading to mastery of the text, its critical responses, and its influences.
An intensive study of a small group of selected English writers such as the Metaphysical Poets, the Cavalier Poets, or the Bloomsbury Group.
A concentrated study of themes or influences in English literature; for example, narrative strategies, medievalism, the pastsoral mode, or conflicting moral, social or literay values.
Survey of genre and register analysis research from the three perspectives of ESP (English for Special Purpose), New Rhetoric, and Systemic Functional Linguistics.
This graduate seminar course introduces students to general topics of computer-assisted language learning (CALL), focusing on the use and research of computer technologies in second-language teaching and learning. Students will gain updated pedagogical knowledge on the integration of CALL in language classes, and also develop competence to evaluate and conduct research in CALL.
This course builds on composition theory to address the various pedagogies and strategies most commonly practiced in the beginning composition classroom. Required for graduate assistants in English.
Pre-req: ENG 560 with a minimum grade of C.
An applied survey course in the theories, methods, and designs of research in the discipline of Composition and Rhetoric.
Pre-req: ENG 560.
Study of prevailing topics in Rhetoric and Composition. Topics may include Eco-Rhetoric, Assessment, and the Rhetoric of Science, among others.
Study of the ways language shapes and is influenced by gender and identity.
Topics designed by individual professors according to special interests (outside of strictly English or American literature subjects) and approved departmentally on a year-to-year basis, to be offered the following year.
Topics designed by individual professors according to special interests (outside of strictly English or American literature subjects) and approved departmentally on a yearto-year basis, to be offered the following year.
Intensive introduction to one or more literary or cultural theories, familiarizing students with the major developments, terms, premises, and debates of the theory or theories in question.
An intensive study of one or more literary genres, familiarizing students with the major developments, terms, premises, and debates concerning the genre or genres in question.
Intensive study of a specific theme or genre in film, television, digital media, video games, and other new media.
An intensive multi-genre study of the best practices for the writing and revising of creative writing.
In this supervised practicum, students design and implement lessons in language classrooms. Students receive feedback on their teaching and engage in the practice of reflection.
Pre-req: ENG 670.
A study of professional topics on the writing, editing/publishing and teaching of writing in the current literacy and job markets.
Pre-req: ENG 630 with a minimum grade of C.
Pre-req: ENG 630 with a minimum grade of C.
Extensive revision and creation of new original writing for the purposes of demonstrating knowledge and ability, as well as preparing students for further graduate study or the job market.
Preparation and extensive reading for exams in three areas of study. Students are expected to demonstrate expertise in these three areas through completion of essay exams.
Independent Study
Independent Study
Independent Study
Independent Study
Supervised work experience in English.