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.
Credits: 3 hours
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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.
Credits: 3 hours
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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.
Credits: 3 hours
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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.
Credits: 3 hours
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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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 300      Interdisciplinary Studies:Cluster Course Offerings
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 300CB      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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 300CD      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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 300CE      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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 300CN      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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 300CQ      Cluster Course: Race in American 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 405CD and History 300CF.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 300CR      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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 300CS      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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 300CW      Critical Issues in Women's & Gender Studies
This class is an interdisciplinary upper-level course that will examine critical issues in women's and gender studies by focusing on the intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, and social context. Through their study of these intersections, students will be more sensitive to the impact of social structures on gender and the experiences of women and men. This course may be cross-listed with CC SOC 300CW.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 300CY      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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 300F      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
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 301WI      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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 303WI      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.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 304WI      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: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 305WI      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.
Credits: 3 hours
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