ENGLISH 5500      Introduction To Graduate Study In English
An introduction to historical and contemporary methods of research and scholarship related to English Studies. The course uses a wide spectrum of print and digital materials, library facilities (including archives and Special Collections), databases, and other resources such as microfilm, to explore English studies as an academic discipline.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5501      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 copy right 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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5502      Magazine Nonfiction
This course emphasizes the origination and execution of nonfiction magazine articles for a variety of publications. Special attention is given to successful queries and the various writing techniques required for different kinds or articles. Students learn re-structuring and revision and the legalities affecting writers. Students are expected to complete three publishable articles.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5503      Old English
This course is a study of Old English, its grammar, its poetic style, and its literature, both poetry and prose.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5504      Radio And Television Writing
A course in how to write scripts, both dramatic and comic, for radio and television. Special emphasis is placed on the genesis and continuation of the radio and television series. Principles of dramaturgy for broadcast media are also stressed. Students are expected to write at least one broadcast play, and the pilots for at least three series. Attention will also be given to the marketing of broadcast scripts and to local production of their writing.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5508      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. Offered: On demand
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5510      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 19th and 20th 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 writings as well as individual texts.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5512      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. Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5513      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. Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5514      Milton
A study of Milton's prose and poetry, with special attention to ""Paradise Lost"". Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5515      Restoration And Early 18th-Century British Literature
British literature from the late 17th century to the mid-18th cetury. Selected writers may include Addison and Steele, Behn, Congreve, Defoe, Dryden, Finch, Pope, Rochester, Swift, and Wortley Montagu.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5516      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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5517      Modern Poetry
Study of works by modernist poets such as Hopkins, Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Moore, Pound, H.D., Eliot, Millay, Hughes. Students will make in class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographic work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5518      19th-Century American Literature
An intensive study of either selected major American writers in the 19th century or of 19th-century literary movements. Students will make in class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5519      Teaching Writing: Theories, Histories, Contexts, Practices
This course focuses on issues related to the teaching of English at the high school and college levels, with an emphasis on the teaching of writing. Issues addressed may include assignment design, teaching invention and revision, response to and evaluation of writing, collaborative learning, relationships between reading and writing, classroom uses of electronic media, and institutional contexts within which teachers work. The course is required of Graduate Teaching Assistants in the UMKC Composition Program, to be taken either prior to or concurrently with their first semester of teaching. Secondary English teachers and others interested in English teaching are also welcome.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5520      Greater Kansas City Writing Project
Studies in methods and objectives for the teaching of English with special attention to secondary school teaching. This course is repeatable for credit with advisor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5522      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. Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5523      Renaissance Literature II
English literature from 1600 to the beginning of the Restoration, including the works of Donne, Jonson, Milton, and other contemporaries. Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5526      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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5527      Contemporary Poetry
Study of works by contemporary poets (post- World War II), such as Auden, Bishop, Hayden, Berryman, Rukeyser, Larkin, Rich, Plath, Heaney, Boland, and Komunyakaa. Students will make in class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographic work.
Credits: 3 hours
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