| AML3031:
G(W) Periods of Early American Literature | 3 | Prerequisite: One course in literature. This course will consist of readings in American literature from the pre-colonial period to the Civil War, with particular attention devoted to two distinct periods. We will consider the ways in which such periods as "the colonial" or the "American Renaissance" are constructed. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| AML3041:
G(W) Periods of Later American Literature | 3 | Prerequisite: One course in literature. This course will consist of readings in American literature from the Civil War to the present, with particular attention devoted to two or more distinct periods. We will consider the ways in which such periods as the "modern" or "post-modern" are constructed. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| AML3102:
G(W) American Fiction | 3 | The nature and development of American fiction in works by such authors as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Charles Chesnutt, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, John Steinbeck, John Gardner, Ronald Sukenick and Joyce Carol Oates. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| AML3154:
G(W) American Poetry | 3 | American poetry from the colonial period to the present, with variable emphasis. See department office for reading list. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| AML3621:
G(W) Black American Literature | 3 | Poetry, drama, prose, and fiction as significant dimensions of American culture. Studies may include slave narratives, Douglas, Dunbar, Cullen, Brooks, Hughes, McKay, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Jones and Reed. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| AML4225:
Studies in 19th Century American Literature | 3 | Prerequisite: At least one literature course at the 3000 level or permission of instructor. Readings in 19th century American literary texts. Focus will differ with each offering. See department office for reading list.
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| AML4242:
Studies in 20th Century American Literature | 3 | Prerequisite: At least one literature course at the 3000 level or permission of instructor. Readings in 20th century American literary texts. Focus will differ with each offering. See department office for reading list.
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| CLT4110:
Classical Background of Western Literature | 3 | Readings in translation of writers such as Homer, Plato, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristotle, Virgil, Ovid, Catullus and Apuleius, with some attention to their importance to later Western culture.
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| CRW2000:
G(W) Introduction to Creative Writing | 3 | Prerequisites: ENC 1101 and LIT 2000 or ENG 2012
In this course, students will read works from a variety of literary genres, produce samples of work in each genre, develop productive critiques of one another’s work within a workshop setting, and revise at least one of their samples. This course is for students who want to develop basic skills in more than one genre of creative writing. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| CRW2100:
G(W) Introduction to Fiction Writing | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101 and LIT 2000 or ENG 2012
In this course, students will study the basic techniques used by both canonical and contemporary fiction writers to build convincing and compelling worlds, characters, and plots. Students will then work to apply those techniques to their own fiction. They will develop the skills and techniques necessary for both a productive critique of their own and one another's fiction, and for the in-depth work of successful revision. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| CRW2201:
G(W) Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101 and LIT 2000 or ENG 2012
In this course we will examine the narrative possibilities of creative nonfiction. We will explore structure, technique and authorial presence in representative works of established sub-genres, including literary journalism, travel writing, memoir, and the personal essay, as well as more experimental forms like the lyric essay and collage. Students will develop skills and techniques necessary for the productive critique of their own and one another's writing and for the in-depth work of successful revision. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| CRW2300:
G(W) Introduction to Poetry Writing | 3 | Prerequisites: ENC 1101 and LIT 2000 or ENG 2012
This workshop allows students to explore together the fundamentals of the craft of poetry. Students will learn the difference between poetry and prose, as well as the ability to identify the attributes that make poetry a unique and expressive art form. Students will learn basic terminology and close reading skills in order to write analyses that demonstrate precision and sensitivity to the nuances of poetic language. Students will read and memorize poems by master poets, whose work will be the focus of our analysis. Learning to explicate great poetry will provide students with skills they can apply to their own poetry, which will be the ultimate focus of this course. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| CRW2400:
G(W) Introduction to Playwriting | 3 | Prerequisites: ENC 1101 and LIT 2000 or ENG 2012
This course introduces students to the art and craft of playwriting. Students will read plays and analyze their basic elements—including dramatic action, characterization, dialogue, and the shape and pacing of scenes. In order to understand the nature of drama from the perspectives of actor, director, and audience as well as playwright, students will write scenes and perform them, a process that will involve staging and directing those scenes. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| CRW2600:
G(W) Introduction to Screenwriting | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101 and LIT 2000 or ENG 2012
This course examines the basic formal elements of screenplays, including characterization, dialogue, scene structure, plot construction, genre conventions, and formatting requirements. Students will critically analyze screenplays by the great auteurs of the twentieth century. The students' major project will be to write short motion picture or television screenplays of their own. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| CRW2930:
G(W) Special Topics in Creative Writing | 3 | Prerequisites:ENC 1101, LIT 2000
Students will analyze literary genres, forms, conventions, structures, techniques, and creative writing strategies and apply these analyses to their own creative writing efforts and to critiquing the work of their peers. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| CRW3015:
Writer's Workshop | 3 | May be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
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| CRW3110:
G(W) Fiction Workshop | 3 | Prerequisite: CRW 2100
This workshop offers students multiple opportunities to employ the methods and techniques learned in the 2000-level CRW courses. Students will share and critique rough drafts of their work. These critiques will help students develop a final portfolio. Students will produce at least two substantial submissions. Readings will be drawn from contemporary fiction. May be repeated for up to 9 credit hours. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| CRW3211:
G(W) Creative Non-Fiction Workshop | 3 | Prerequisite: CRW 2201
This workshop offers students the opportunity to employ and build on methods and techniques introduced in the 2000-level CRW courses. Students will closely examine a variety of exemplary, largely contemporary works. This will enable them to match the form and techniques of a variety of genres to subjects of their own choosing. Detailed critique, discussion and revision will result in the completion of a portfolio of drafts, revisions and one finished work of high quality.
May be repeated for up to 9 credit hours. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| CRW3310:
G(W) Poetry Workshop | 3 | Prerequisite: CRW 2300
During the course of the semester, students will respond to different kinds of assignment prompts to develop their mastery of verbal craftsmanship. They will also read work by both active contemporary poets and well-known, canonical poets. Students will critique and discuss one another's work in a workshop setting in order to gain facility using language with precision. May be repeated for up to 9 credit hours. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| CRW3424:
Playwrights' Project | 4 | Prerequisite: CRW 2400
This course is a workshop in playwriting, acting, and directing. The first three-quarters of the course is an intensive writing workshop that gives students practice in developing original dramatic texts and having them critiqued by their peers. In the final quarter of the course students will select several stage-worthy scripts from among the original writing completed in the first three-quarters of the course and produce them: select a cast, rehearse lines, build sets, block scenes, and direct and act in a final performance.
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| CRW3610:
G(W) Screenwriting Workshop | 3 | Prerequisite: CRW 2600
This course explores the nature of screenplay writing in a workshop format. Students will analyze the basic and more advanced elements of screenplays and write an original, feature-length television or motion picture screenplay.May be repeated for up to 9 credit hours. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| CRW3930:
Special Topics in Creative Writing | 3 | Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Topics of importance in theory and/or practice in composition. Course may be repeated up to 12 credits with different topics.
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| CRW4905:
Tutorial in Creative Writing | 3 | Prerequisite: Senior standing and permission of instructor. Tutorial in creative writing; topic to be agreed upon with instructor. May be repeated for a total of 12 credits.
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| CRW4924:
Advanced Creative Writing Workshop | 3 | Prerequisite: At least 6 hours of 3000-level CRW courses and instructor permission
Students will continue to develop their skills in reading, writing, and critiquing, while also becoming familiar with the submission and publication process. Projects that students will engage in may include the following: development of submission portfolios; research on journals, magazines, and online publication outlets; completion of submissions by sending out work for publication; and public readings of student work. May be repeated up to 9 credit hours.
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| ENC1101:
(GW) Introduction to Rhetoric and Writing | 3 | This course is an introduction to writing at the college level. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC1102:
G(W) The Informed Writer | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101. In this course students write various kinds of expository prose, including some informed by research. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC1130:
G(W) Special Topics in Writing | v. 1-4 | ENC1130 focuses on the development of effective composing, revising, and editing strategies. The goals of ENC1130 are (1) to develop writing skills needed to succeed in other academic courses by focusing more intensely on style and grammar, and (2) to introduce students to reflective judgment and rhetorical inquiry as the foundation for all communication. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC1143:
(GW) Introduction to Rhetoric and Narrative | 3 |
Description: This course introduces students to basic rhetorical features of a range of texts in different genres, with a focus on the elements of narrative. Students will learn how to read critically in preparation for writing critically on the course texts.
Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC2127:
(GW) Elements of Style and Grammar | 3 | This course offers students practice in analyzing style, revising sentences, developing effective paragraphs and arguments, and writing with force and clarity. This course focuses on stylistic analysis and provides students additional instruction and practice in style and grammar. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC2210:
G(W) Technical Writing | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101
This course will introduce students to scientific, technical, and professional writing with a focus on practical information about communicating in different workplace environments and professional/technical discourse communities.
Students will analyze rhetorical situations and issues (of audience, organization, visual design, style, and the material production of documents) common to different scientific, technical, and professional writing genres, including emails, letters, resumes, memos, reports (progress, lab, etc.), proposals, technical descriptions, technical definitions, and technical manuals. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC2441:
G(W) Writing Topics: Fine Arts | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101
This course will introduce students to rhetorical strategies needed for successful research-based writing in diverse academic and non-academic situations within fine arts. This course will also require students to focus on the writing conventions and expectations in the fine arts, as well as practice in writing in a variety of genres, including the argumentative essay. Students will practice addressing a variety of audiences and using research strategies relevant to fine arts and related professional communities. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC2442:
G(W) Writing Topics:Humanities | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101
This course will introduce students to rhetorical strategies needed for successful research-based writing in diverse academic and non-academic situations within the humanities. This course will also require students to focus on the writing conventions and expectations in the humanities, as well as practice in writing in a variety of genres, including the argumentative essay. Students will practice addressing a variety of audiences and using research strategies relevant to the humanities and related disciplines. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC2443:
G(W) Writing Topics:Literature | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101
This course will introduce students to rhetorical strategies needed for successful research-based writing in diverse academic and non-academic situations within the study of literature. This course will also require students to focus on the writing conventions and expectations in literature, as well as practice in writing in a variety of genres, including the argumentative essay. Students will practice addressing a variety of audiences and using research strategies relevant to literature and related disciplines. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC2450:
G(W) Writing Topics: Natural Sciences | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101
This course will introduce students to rhetorical strategies needed for successful research-based writing in diverse academic and non-academic situations within the natural sciences. This course will also require students to focus on the writing conventions and expectations in the natural sciences, as well as practice in writing in a variety of genres, including the argumentative essay. Students will practice addressing a variety of audiences and using research strategies relevant to the natural sciences and related professional communities. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC2451:
G(W) Writing Topics: Health | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101
This course will introduce students to rhetorical strategies needed for successful research-based writing in diverse academic and non-academic situations within health. This course will also require students to focus on the writing conventions and expectations in health, as well as practice in writing in a variety of genres, including the argumentative essay. Students will practice addressing a variety of audiences and using research strategies relevant to health and related professional communities. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC2460:
G(W) Writing Topics: Business | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101
This course will introduce students to rhetorical strategies needed for successful research-based writing in diverse academic and non-academic situations within business. This course will also require students to focus on the writing conventions and expectations in business, as well as practice in writing in a variety of genres, including the argumentative essay. Students will practice addressing a variety of audiences and using research strategies relevant to business and related professional communities. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC2461:
G(W) Writing Topics: Social Sciences | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101
This course will introduce students to rhetorical strategies needed for successful research-based writing in diverse academic and non-academic situations within the social sciences. This course will also require students to focus on the writing conventions and expectations in the social sciences, as well as practice in writing in a variety of genres, including the argumentative essay. Students will practice addressing a variety of audiences and using research strategies relevant to the social sciences and related professional communities. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC2462:
G(W) Writing Topics:Education | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101
This course will introduce students to rhetorical strategies needed for successful research-based writing in diverse academic and non-academic situations within education. This course will also require students to focus on the writing conventions and expectations in education, as well as practice in writing in a variety of genres, including the argumentative essay. Students will practice addressing a variety of audiences and using research strategies relevant to education and related professional communities. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC2463:
G(W) Writing Topics: Engineering | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101
This course will introduce students to rhetorical strategies needed for successful research-based writing in diverse academic and non-academic situations within engineering. This course will also require students to focus on the writing conventions and expectations in the engineering, as well as practice in writing in a variety of genres, including the argumentative essay. Students will practice addressing a variety of audiences and using research strategies relevant to engineering and related professional communities. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC2930:
G(W) Special Topics in Composition | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101
This course will introduce students to rhetorical strategies needed for successful research-based writing in diverse academic and non-academic situations. This course will also require students to apply the principles and practices introduced in ENC1101 with a focus on the writing conventions and expectations in the academic and professional communities associated with a disciplinary area, as well as practice in writing in a variety of genres, including the argumentative essay. Students will practice addressing a variety of audiences and using research strategies relevant to discipline and professional communities. Topics will vary and may include topics in: Business; Computing, Engineering & Construction; Education and Human Services; Health; Fine Arts; History; Natural Sciences and Math; Social Sciences. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC3250:
G(W) Professional Communications | 3 | The primary emphasis of technical writing is on the basics of professional communication-research, organization, grammar/mechanics/style. We will also pay attention to the forms of professional communication-letters, memos, and formal and informal reports. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC3310:
G(W) Writing Prose | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101 and ENC 1102. Writing of various kinds, such as speculation, reports, documented articles or criticism, with emphasis on persuasion as the object. Prospective teachers give attention to the psychology of helping others to write well. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENC3930:
Topics in Theory and/or Practice in Composition | 3 | Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Topics of importance in theory and/or practice in composition.
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| ENC4930:
Topics in Theory and/or Practice in Composition | 3 | Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission of instructor. Topics of importance in theory and/or practice in composition. May be repeated for a total of 12 credits under different topics.
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| ENG3613:
(CD) Topics in Disability Studies | 3 | The course will focus on the nature, meaning, and consequences of what it is to be defined as disabled and explore the historical and cultural dynamics of disability. It will primarily address the stereotypes associated with and the experiential aspects of disability as these are deployed in literature, film, television, the arts, and other cultural media. It will address disability rights, legal issues, and public policy as secondary issues. Course may be repeated for a total of 6 credits with different topics.
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| ENG3930:
Topics in Criticism and Interpretation of Literature | 3 | Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Topics in criticism and interpretation of literature. May be repeated for a total of 12 credits under different topics.
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| ENG4013:
Approaches to Literary Interpretation | 3 | Applied criticism of principal modern approaches, including psychological, formalist, and mythic. Students read theory and model criticism, practicing interpretation with various genres.
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| ENG4105:
Film and Literature | 3 | Film and literature courses bring visual and print text together in the course of study. Course content varies as does approach and purpose. Courses could include the study of one author's novels and screenplays; or the study of a literary genre put to film, such as drama; or the study of film adaptations of literary works; or any configuration of literature and film.
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| ENG4905:
Tutorial in Criticism and Interpretation of Literature | 3 | Prerequisite: Junior standing and permission of instructor. Topics in criticism and interpretation of literature. May be repeated for a total of 12 credits under different topics.
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| ENG4930:
Topics in Criticism and Interpretation of Literature | 3 | Prerequisite: Senior standing and permission of instructor. Topics in criticism and interpretation of literature. May be repeated for a total of 12 credits under different topics.
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| ENG4933:
Seminar | v. 1-3 | Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits.
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| ENL3112:
G(W) British Novel I | 3 | The development of the novel in England to about 1875. Such authors as Bunyan, Defoe, Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Sterne, Austen, Scott, Dickens, the Brontes, Thackeray, Eliot, Trollope and Lewis Carroll. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENL3132:
G(W) British Novel II | 3 | The novel in Britain from about 1875 to the present. Such authors as Hardy, Kipling, Conrad, Forster, Joyce, Lawrence, Ford, Woolf, Waugh, Greene, Cary, Beckett, Spark and Fowles. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENL3203:
Old English | 3 | This course introduces students to Old English, the ancient ancestor of Modern English with a focus on reading knowledge through grammar study, translation, and pronunciation and on the history, culture, and literature of Anglo-Saxon England.
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| ENL3333:
Shakespeare | 3 | This course studies selected aspects of the dramatic works from the early comedies to the late romances. Consideration of non-dramatic poetry may also be included.
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| ENL3501:
G(W) Periods of Early British Literature | 3 | Prerequisite: One course in literature. This course consists of readings in British literature from its beginnings to 1800, with particular attention to two or more distinct periods. This course will examine the kinds of aesthetic, linguistic, and cultural changes by which periods are constructed, and how useful are they to an understanding of literature. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENL3503:
G(W) Periods of Later British Literature | 3 | Prerequisite: One course in literature. This course consists of readings in British literature from approximately 1800 to the present, with particular attention to two or more distinct periods. This course will examine the kinds of aesthetic, linguistic, and cultural changes by which periods are constructed, and how useful are they to an understanding of literature. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| ENL4220:
Studies in Renaissance Literature | 3 | Written works from 1500-1660 by such authors as Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Marvell and Milton.
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| ENL4230:
Studies in Restoration and 18th Century English Literature | 3 | Works by such writers as Dryden, Wycherly, Addison, Steele, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Burke, Gray and Collins.
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| ENL4240:
Studies in English Romantic Literature | 3 | Representative works by such writers as Blake, Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey and Scott.
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| ENL4251:
Studies in Victorian Literature | 3 | Literature and culture of the pre-modern period. May be organized as a major-authors course one time, as a theme-based course the next. Such authors as Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Arnold, Tennyson, Browning, Rossetti, Swinburne and Wilde.
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| FIL2000:
Film Appreciation | 3 | This course introduces students to film interpretation and analysis by teaching cinematic vocabulary and technique as they have emerged and developed through the history of international cinema.
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| FIL3006:
Analyzing Films | 3 | This course introduces students to key terms and concepts for analyzing film critically. Students will learn how to inventory the elements of a film, analyze scenes, explain the relation between cinematic forms and meaning, and write analytic film essays. This course provides a foundation for more specialized courses in the film studies minor. It will also benefit anyone who wants to better understand how movies affect us and who wants to learn how to write critical film analyses.
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| FIL3300:
Documentary Studies | 3 | Documentary Studies introduces students to documentary research, techniques, generic features, styles, aesthetic dimensions, and ethical issues.
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| FIL3826:
American Film Survey | 3 | Prerequisite: FIL 2000, LIT 3213
This course will survey the entire span of American Film from the silent films of D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin to Classical Hollywood to Film Noir to the New Hollywood of the 1970s and beyond. The course will examine the emergence of genre films, including melodrama, comedy, western, musical, science fiction, horror, war, and drama. Special attention will be paid to cultural and historical context of American Film.
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| FIL3828:
International Film | 3 | Prerequisite: Sophomore, junior, or senior standing. This course involves studying films from foreign cultures, such as French, German, Japanese, Australian. Films studied are classic or significant films representing both the cultures and important statements about the human encounter. Longer in-class experience allows for viewing and discussing each film in class, plus background on both the films and the culture.
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| FIL3930:
Topics in Film | 3 | This course offers varied topics, themes, or movements in film. It may cover themes, such as race in film; or survey a specific period. Such as colonial Latin American history in film; or focus on a specific genre, such as American Vietnam War films or musicals. By way of specific focus, Topic in Film contributes to students' broad understanding of film. Every offering will use film as its primary medium of study and refine students' viewing skills.
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| FIL4848:
(CD) World Cinema and the Cross-Cultural Encounter | 3 | Prerequisite: FIL 2000
Based on a set of films that focus on the situation of the cross-cultural encounter, ncluding tourism, immigration, and transnational romance, paired with critical readings in world cinema studies, this course will provide students with the analytical tools to address three central questions: What does it mean to be "abroad"? What are the pleasures, privileges, and perils of being "lost in translation"? And how does the cinema both reflect and participate in globalization? Our exploration of these questions will also entail that students be self-critical about how their encounter with world cinema is a cross-cultural experience. The principle analytical tools will be drawn from the diverse interdisciplinary fields of cinema and media studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and cultural anthropology.
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| FIL4882:
(CD) Cinema and Culture | 3 | This course examines films as cultural texts. Topics may include: representations of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, ideology, cross-cultural exchange, and globalization. This course is open to students, in any discipline, who are interested in understanding the influence of the historical and cultural context on film.
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| FIL4900:
Directed Independent Study in Film | v. 1-4 | This course provides students with the opportunity to undertake an advanced, independent study of film. Course content will vary by instructor.
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| FIL4931:
Advanced Topics in Film | 3 | Prerequisites: FIL 2000, LIT 3213
This course covers advanced topics, themes, or movements in Film. It may cover themes, such as crime in mass media; or survey a specific period, such as American film of the 1970's in cultural context; or focus on a specific genre, such kitchen sink realism in British film; or trace cinematic movements, such as avant-garde film. By way of specific focus, Advanced Topics in Film contributes to students' broad understanding of film while also increasing their ability to study a topic in depth. Every offering will use film as its primary medium of study to refine students' viewing skills and to advance analytical skills.
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| FIL4932:
Advanced Documentary Studies | 3 | Prerequisite: FIL 3300
Advanced documentary studies builds on the coursework in Documentary Studies. Students undertake advanced documentary research, refine their understanding of documentary techniques, extend their analysis of and work with the generic features of documentary film, explore the aesthetic implications of the choices a documentarian must make, and reflect on the ethical complexities of documentary film in relation to the artistic history that informs this genre.
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| LIN3010:
Principles of Linguistics | 3 | Overview of the modern linguist's approach to language. Analysis of phonological, morphological and syntactic systems. Brief survey of psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and semantics.
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| LIN3930:
Special Topics in Linguistics | 3 | Prerequisite: LIN 3010 or equivalent. Topics of importance in the study of language. May be repeated for up to 12 credits under different topics.
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| LIN4930:
Special Topics in Linguistics | v. 1-3 | Prerequisite: LIN 3010 or equivalent. Topics of importance in the study of language. May be repeated for up to 12 credits under different topics.
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| LIS1001:
Beginning Library and Information Systems Strategies | 1 | This course is designed to acquaint the novice researcher with both traditional and computerized means of storing, locating, retrieving and evaluating information. This course emphasizes critical thinking and research skills and is especially recommended to freshmen.
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| LIT2000:
Introduction to Literature | 3 | Prerequisite: ENC 1101
The course will introduce students to writing about literature with a focus on the close reading, critical analysis, and informed appreciation of different kinds of literary texts.
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| LIT2930:
G(W) Special Topics in Literature | 3 | Variable topics in literature. May be repeated up to 6 credits with different topics.
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| LIT3043:
G(W) Modern and Contemporary Drama | 3 | This course will examine European and American drama of the twentieth century. It begins with the founders of modern drama, Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg, moves through those who experimented with realism such as Beckett or Baraka, and ends with contemporary works by Shephard or Churchill. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| LIT3045:
Periods of Dramatic Literature | 3 | A survey of select periods in the development of Western drama from the Greeks to the Twentieth Century. Students will evaluate how historical events shaped the formation of dramatic literature while reading the works of such dramatists as Sophocles, Shakespeare, Congreve, or Lorca.
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| LIT3184:
FC - G(W) Introduction to Irish Literature and Culture | 3 | This course provides an overview of Irish literature and culture, from their Celtic origins to the present. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| LIT3193:
FC - G(W) Literature of the East | 3 | Interpretive study of drama and fiction of India, China and Japan, focusing on Oriental mythic, social and intellectual backgrounds. Includes such writers as Sudraka, Kalidasa, Tagore, Mae Tun, Lusin, Ibuse and others. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| LIT3213:
The Art of Critical Reading | 3 | This course introduces students to the intensity of reading by giving them the tools and habits of literary interpretation. Students will learn the vocabulary of traditional literary techniques and basic concepts of literary theory and then they will put these tools to work through written literary analysis. This class provides a solid foundation for the understanding of narrative and the practice of critical thought.
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| LIT3304:
G(W) Literature of Popular American Culture | 3 | Interpretation and exploration of American mass culture from late 1800s to present, including literature of all types, from novels, song lyrics and plays, to film and film scripts, rock operas and best-sellers. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| LIT3331:
G(W) Children's Literature | 3 | This course examines literature for children from social, psychological, educational, and other points of view. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| LIT3333:
G(W) Adolescent Literature | 3 | This course examines literature for adolescents from social, psychological, educational, and other points of view. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| LIT3408:
Approaches to Literature: Myth | 3 | A survey of selected mythologies such as classical, Germanic, Hindu, biblical, American Indian, or Egyptian with attention to myth theory and the place of myth within literary culture.
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| LIT3420:
Approaches to Literature: Psychology | 3 | Readings in major theories of psychology and in literary works to which they apply.
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| LIT3930:
Special Topics: Literature | 3 | Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. Variable topics in literature. May be repeated up to 12 credits under different topics. Gordon Rule English credit.
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| LIT4041:
Studies in Drama | 3 | This course focuses on an historical or artistic problem or a period, style, or playwright; it includes reading and acting of scenes. The topic varies. The course may be repeated up to 6 credits with different topics.
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| LIT4083:
Studies in Modern Literature | 3 | Literature and culture of the modern era (roughly late 19th century to mid-20th century). May focus on a particular theme, author, genre, group of authors or national literature. Course may be repeated up to 12 credits under different topics.
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| LIT4093:
Contemporary Literature | 3 | Various approaches to the literature of the generations since World War II. May be international in scope or may concentrate on the literature of one nation. Course may be repeated up to 12 credits under different topics.
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| LIT4104:
Studies in Medieval Literature | 3 | Medieval culture as expressed through literary works by such authors as Chaucer, Dante, Langland, Gottfried von Strassburg and Petrarch. Literature interpreted in relation to social and artistic developments of the time.
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| LIT4186:
Studies in Irish Literature | 3 | Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Approaches to the literature of Ireland, in English. May be a comprehensive course, including poetry, fiction and drama; may focus on one of these literary types. Writers such as Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O'Casey, Bowen, O'Connor, Trevor, Montague, O'Brien, and Heaney. Course may be repeated up to 6 credits with different topics.
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| LIT4243:
Major Authors | 3 | Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Study of writings by one or more authors. Variable topics. May be repeated up to 12 credits under different topics.
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| LIT4650:
Comparative Literature | 3 | Variable topics; world literatures in translation. Course may be repeated up to 12 credits under different topics.
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| LIT4905:
Independent Study | v. 1-3 | Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and department chairperson. Tutorials or senior theses handled under this title. May be repeated up to 12 credits under different topics and permission of department.
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| LIT4930:
Special Topics in Literature | v. 1-3 | Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Topics of importance in literature. Course may be repeated up to 12 credits under different topics.
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| LIT4931:
Special Topics in Cultural Studies | 3 | This course studies the interaction among texts and culture from diverse perspectives-aesthetic, economic, historical, and technological. Texts may be literary, filmic, televisual, or musical. Variable topics in cultural studies. May be repeated up to 6 credits with different topics.
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| LIT4934:
Seminar in Literature | 3 | Prerequisites: 4 upper-division English courses or permission of instructor. This course serves as an advanced capstone for English majors. Its purpose is to provide an opportunity for small-group, intensive study and practice with both primary texts and approaches to literary criticism. Thus, integration of both in-depth studies of literary texts and critical skills will characterize the course experience.
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| LIT4935:
G(W) Literary Themes | 3 | This course will analyze literary themes as they occur in several genres, periods, texts and traditions. The course may be repeated for credit with variable content.
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| SLS1990:
First Year Seminar | v. 0-1 | This course is designed to assist students with their general transition from high school to college. It will provide students with the knowledge, skills and values for a successful academic career. Students will be introduced to academic expectations, the culture of the university, effective study skills and habits, healthy and safe lifestyle choices, campus opportunities, information technology, academic resources, and career planning. The course will encourage active student involvement in the learning process.
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| THE2000:
Theater Appreciation | 3 | This course is for students interested in understanding and appreciating one of the oldest art forms in the world. For thousands of years, humans have put on masks and adopted personas and behaved as if they were different from the people they are. Why? Why have they felt the need to pretend to be who they are not, to express feelings that are not really their own, and to direct their bodies to act out stories in front of spectators, stories in which they come into conflict with others? In order to address these and related questions, students will read plays, analyze scripts, and attend and write about local productions. They may also complete a group project in a live theater. No acting experience is required. The course can be applied to Category C for non-applied fine arts General Education credit.
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| THE4923:
Play Production | v. 1-4 | In this course, students help produce a major dramatic production sponsored by the Department. With the professor, they plan and execute all aspects of play production and participate in the practical exigencies of translating a script into a theatrical event. The course offers opportunities for acting and theatrical work. May be repeated for up to twelve (12) credits.
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| THE4935:
Special Topics-Theatre | v. 1-3 | Permission of instructor and department chair required. May be repeated up to 6 hours for credit under different topics.
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| TPP2100:
Acting I | 3 | This is a beginning course in the fundamentals of acting. Students learn a working vocabulary and acquire basic skills of the acting process. Through formal and improvisational techniques for developing vocal, physical, and analytical skills associated with behavior-based acting, students explore the imagination as the actor's primary resource for building a character. Emphasis is on relaxation, trust, and mental agility. Some monologue and/or scene work may be required.
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| TPP3103:
Acting II | 3 | Prerequisite: TPP 2100 or permission of instructor
This is an advanced course in acting that builds on skills learned in Acting I. Students gain a working knowledge of the analysis, rehearsal, and performance techniques associated with particular acting methods or styles. Different semesters focus on different styles depending on the semester's production schedule. Acting methods and styles include techniques associated with works in Realism and the American "Method" as practiced by Adler, Meisner, and Hagen; techniques associated with analysis and performance of the classical verse drama of Shakespeare and Moliere; techniques associated with Commedia, Expressionism, and Brechtian theater; techniques associated with more physically based systems such as Alexander and Suzuki. Students will read dramatic texts and theory. A commitment to substantial scene rehearsal is required. May be repeated for up to 6 credits.
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