Eng 99 Basic Writing Skills

A course that develops accuracy and clarity in writing. Conferences with the instructor and tutorials with peers provide maximum opportunities for individual development. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 103 Freshman Rhetoric

The theory and practice of writing effective essays. Students have the opportunity to master a variety of essay modes and the research paper and to develop their writing styles in a wide range of assignments. Students also have access to a computer lab and help in composing their essays on a computer. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 104 Writing About Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 103. An introduction to the basic genres of literature: fiction, drama, and poetry, including techniques for analyzing and writing critical papers about different types of literary works. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 204 Creative Writing

Prerequisite, Eng 104. An introduction to the art of writing fiction, poetry, and drama under the direction of an instructor. Students will have the opportunity to publish their works in Calliope II, the Chapman literary magazine. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 210 Panther Workshop

Experience in working for The Panther. Students join the staff of the university newspaper to write and edit stories. Training includes setting goals and responsibilities, making ethical and political decisions, and meeting deadlines. Graded on a pass/no pass basis. Letter grade optional. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits.

Eng 215 Theory and Practice of Journalism

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Students study and practice the basic principles of news gathering and reporting, with emphasis on developing writing skills. Assignments provide experience in finding news sources, using interviewing techniques, and writing acceptable news copy and feature stories, editorials, critical reviews, and personal interviews. The history, philosophy, ethics, and major criticism of the news media are covered. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 229 Literary Topics

Prerequisite, Eng 104. An experimental course relating literature to relevant interests and concerns. Students may help to refine the focus and structure of the course. Recent offerings have included: The Literature of Money and The Short Story. (Offered on demand.) 3 credits.

Eng 240 World Literature I CH I

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Students read selected world masterpieces from the beginning to the fall of Rome, 476 A.D. The course includes readings from myth, epic, tragedy, and comedy from western and eastern cultures. Writers may include Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Aristophanes, Sappho and Virgil. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 242 World Literature II CH I

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. Great works of world literature from 476 A.D. to 1660, the English Restoration. Students will read works by such authors as Lady Murasaki Shikibu, Rumi, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare. Materials from the visual arts, history, philosophy, religion, and politics will be used to enrich the students' reading. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 244 World Literature III CH I

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Students read chosen works of world literature from 1660 to the present day. Emphasis may vary from year to year to focus on the relationship of literature to the other arts and cultures. Authors may include Swift, Pope, Moliere, DeBeauvoir, Voltaire, Allende, Flaubert, Melville, Marquez, Dostoyevsky, Nabokov, Ellison, Fowles, and Woolf. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 250 Introduction to Fiction

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. A discovery of some of the most powerful examples of fiction written throughout the world. Students learn to analyze and understand selected major short stories and novels. Works chosen will represent writers from many literary schools (Gogol, Kafka, Hemingway), backgrounds (Camus, Conrad, Chopin), and cultures (Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez, Leslie Marmon Silko). (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 252 Introduction to Poetry

Prerequisite, Eng 104. An exploration of the pleasures of poetry. Designed especially for the student with little background, this class cultivates an understanding of and appreciation for a wide range of poetry, from William Blake to Langston Hughes, from Emily Dickinson to Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn Brooks. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 254 Introduction to Drama

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. A study of world drama. This course, concentrating on plays from ancient to modern times, in a variety of cultures, includes comedy, tragedy, and the variant literary forms that lie between, ranging from melodrama to farce, from satire to the absurd. Class may attend live theatre and film presentations. Modern playwrights may include Puig, Mamet, Hwang, Wilson, and Wasserstein. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 258 Introduction to Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 103. A course designed to provide a thorough introduction to the various forms of literature, especially fiction, poetry, and drama. (Offered only at Chapman Academic Centers.) 3 credits.

Eng 299 Individual Study

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Directed reading and/or research designed to meet specific needs of superior students.
1-3 credits.

Eng 300 Writing for Essay Proficiency

Prerequisite, deficient or fail on Junior Writing Proficiency Exam. A composition course designed for students who have received either a "fail" or "deficient" on the Junior Writing Proficiency Exam and who need to develop the skills needed for writing across the curriculum and in their future professional careers. Benefiting from a practical approach, in which the audience, purpose, and methodology will be defined, students will have the opportunity to read effectively written essays in a variety of fields and develop their writing and revising skills. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 302 Writing About Diverse Cultures CH II

A study of citizens of the world learning to blend their many cultures on the cusp of a new millenium. Students will read works from writers representing many cultures throughout the world, then discuss and write about such topics as identity, family, gender roles, violence, work, and myth. A special emphasis will be placed on a comparison of these issues between the students' native cultures and cultures represented in non-western countries. This course is designed for students who have fulfilled their basic writing requirements but who need additional writing instruction and practice to be better prepared to meet the requirements in upper-division courses. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 303 Technical Writing

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Intensive practice in writing for students who wish to work in technical or professional fields: reports, specifications, proposals, visuals, documentation. Recommended for majors in natural science, social sciences, business, and prelaw. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 304 Advanced Creative Writing

Prerequisite, Eng 104. More specialized than introductory creative writing, this course focuses on single genres: fiction, poetry, or drama. Students receive extensive training and practice in their chosen genre, are encouraged to submit their work to Calliope II, Chapman's literary journal, and prepare a portfolio of their work to use for off-campus publication or interviews with agents and publishers. May be repeated. (Offered every semester.)

3 credits.

Eng 305 Business Writing

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Experience in the various areas of writing for business, industry, and government: business reports, job descriptions, résumés, abstracts, letters, and memoranda. Emphasis might be placed on the formal report and attention will be given to international and intercultural business communication. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 306 Business Communication: Writing Skills

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Students develop business communication skills through the practice of such rhetorical strategies in writing and speaking as good news, bad news, and persuasive messages. The course provides students with experience in business writing applications from letters and memos through formal reports and business presentations. Emphasis is placed on the integration of oral and written business communication principles. Students must enroll concurrently in Com 306. Lab included. For accounting and business majors only. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 308 Advanced News Reporting and Writing

Prerequisite, Eng 215 or instructor's approval. The process of writing news stories for print and broadcast media, with an emphasis on public affairs reporting. How to gather information, obtain public documents, and write various beat stories, including police, courts, city and county government. The organization of the newsroom, skills in news gathering, developing sources, interviewing, writing and copy preparation. Reporting and writing on press conferences and speeches, how to produce news features, trend pieces and news analysis. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 320 American Literature from the Puritans to Dickinson

Prerequisites, Eng 104, 252. A study of major American writers and the origins of important themes and ideas in American culture from the Colonial period through the Civil War. Authors include Edwards, Wheatley, Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson. An examination of Puritanism, Transcendentalism, the Frontier Myth, and their inþuence on American thought. (Offered every third semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 322 American Literature from Clemens to 1950

Prerequisites, Eng 104, 252. A survey of the beginnings of modernism as found in major writers from the turn of the century to 1950. Literary ideas such as realism, nat-uralism, impressionism, and the roots of modern æsthetic theories will be studied in the works of Clemens, Dreiser, Ellison, James, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eliot, Pound, Frost, Faulkner, O'Neill, Wharton, and Wright. (Offered every third semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 324 Contemporary American Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Students read some of the boldest, most interesting works of American post-modernism in order to understand contemporary American fiction, poetry, and drama. Students will study poets of various post World War II movements (the Beats, the New York poets; the confessional, concrete and objectivist poets); novelists such as Angelou, Didion, Barth, Barthelme, Morrison and Tan; and dramatists such as Albee, Hansberry, Kushner, Mamet, Wilson and Williams. (Offered every third semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 326 American Themes

Prerequisite, Eng 104. A penetrating study of various powerful themes in American literature. Courses that treat different themes may be repeated for credit. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.

American Dream

An interdisciplinary study of the origins and signi-ficance of the most vital myth operating in American society as defined by authors from Puritan New England to the present day. Concepts examined: The New Adam, Inþuence of the Frontier, Individualism and Transcendentalism, Man, Machine, and Monopolies. Writers may include: Cather, Cooper, Ellison, Fitzgerald, Sinclair, Steinbeck, Twain, or Walker.

The Hollywood Novel

Readings in fiction of the most incisive Hollywood writers. The glamorous world of Hollywood both seduced and appalled the many writers who were lured west to write for the silver screen. The screenplays these writers produced were generally less than superb, but their novels produced from the experiences were often quite brilliant. Among these novels are: The Deer Park, The Loved One, The Last Tycoon, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, and Day of the Locust.

Eng 327 The Minority Experience in American Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 104. An examination of the themes of alienation, assimilation, oppression, ethnic pride, and the twin searches for meaning and an authentic voice in minority literature in America. Imaginative readings may be chosen from such books as Ellison's Invisible Man, Okada's No-No Boy, Wright's Native Son, Ortega's We are Chicanos, Kingston's Woman Warrior, Farrell's Studs Lonigan, and Cahan's the Rise of David Levinsky. This course might focus on one minority such as African-American, Asian-American, or Chicano literature. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 330 Medieval Literature

Prerequisites, Eng 104, 252. The spellbinding literature and culture of medieval Europe, particularly Great Britain, is covered, emphasizing Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Course may include: Beowulf, Arthurian romances, ballads, cycles of religious plays, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Vision of Piers Plowman, The Pearl, or Chaucer's earlier poetry. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 331 Elizabethan Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. The new directions of thought and feeling in poetry, prose, and drama in the Elizabethan age. The course explores historical and cultural backgrounds, especially the English Reformation. Some attention to music and the visual arts in England and on the Continent. Emphasis will be placed on Spenser's Faerie Queene and other poems. Consideration will also be given to Sir Philip Sidney's "Defence of Poesy," the English sonnet, lyrical poetry and prose. The development of English drama will be examined from such plays as Ralph Roister Doister, Gorbodoc and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 333 Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. A comprehensive survey of the literature of England from 1660 to 1784, with special emphasis on social and psychological transitions to modern times. Themes to be traced include the stereotyping of sex-roles and family life, the rise of the middle-class morality, social and political satire, the conþict between religion and the "new science," and the growth of sentimentalism. Writers may include Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Johnson. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 334 The Romantic Period

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. The romantic explosion in English literature from the late 18th century to 1832, concentrating on the poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Students relate this literature to the larger cultural context of European Romanticism and will include some study of prose writers such as Mary Wollstone craft and William Hazlitt. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 335 The Literature of Victorian England

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. A study of the tensions--artistic, moral, and social--inherent in Victorian England from 1832­1900. While reading the works of such writers as Tennyson, Arnold, Browning, Bronte, Dickens, Hardy, Hopkins, and Wilde, students will discover how these works relate to trends in art, architecture, fashion, politics, science, and philosophy. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 336 20th Century British Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. A discovery of some of the most compelling works of 20th century British fiction, poetry, and drama. Examining the impact of innovative modernism and post-modernism on Britain's illustrious literary tradition, students will measure experimentation and conservation of tradition in representative works. Students will observe the changes in literary sensibility as Britain moves from a world power to her recent diminished position, burdened by economic and political problems. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 340 The Bible as Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 104. An exploration of the wonders of the Old and New Testaments. From the song of creation to the apocalypse of Revelation, the course will examine the stories and poetry of the Bible, which shaped our culture and nurtured our values, as literary expressions of ancient Israel and the early Christians. (Offered Inter-term, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 341 Non-Western Mythology

Prerequisite, Eng 104. An introduction to the visionary myths of non-European cultures and how these myths were transformed as culture moved from the magical spells of oral communication to early pictographic writing and finally to phonetic spelling. The myths and magical stories of pre-literate, tribal cultures; the myths contained in early pictographic writing; and the myths contained in early phonetic scripts are emphasized. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 342 Science and Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Students explore the cultural interaction between scientific models and literature. Students focus on a specific scientific topic or a specific historical era. Sample courses may be selected from the following: Pythagorean Science and Classic Greek Literature, the Copernican Revolution and Metaphysical Poetry, Newton and the Enlightenment, Darwin's Evolutionary Theory and 19th Century Literature, Literature in the Age of Einstein. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 343 Introduction to Comparative Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 104. An introduction to the theory and methods of comparative analysis, as well as to the interdisciplinary study of literature. The course will begin with an examination of the history of the discipline and an overview of representative comparativist categories. The class as a whole will examine literary texts in comparative historical, linguistic, cultural and interdisciplinary contexts. In addition, after consultation with a faculty mentor, each student will develop a final research project that utilizes a comparativist critical approach. (Offered fall semester.)3 credits.

Eng 346 Special Studies in Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 104. The course is concentrated on one limited area--such as Restoration and 18th century drama or the epic poem. Credit may be arranged with an instructor to travel in a foreign country while studying the literature of that country. The course may be designed to meet individual student needs. The London Theatre Tour and the Experiencing England Tour are offered as sections of Eng 346. (Offered as needed.) 1-6 credits.

Eng 347 Society, Culture, and Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent.An exploration of the sociological and/or anthropolitical contexts of literature. The course varies in content depending on the instructor, but the topics to be selected might include the following: urban literature and life; rural, pastoral, or utopian environment; literature and sex roles; the literature of work; the influence of anthropological works on 20th-century literature; poetry and narrative in preliterate society; and the Cambridge School of Classicists and their theories about various myths of the hero. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 348 Psychological Approaches to Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. A study of psychological theories of the 20th century and their influences on the criticism of literature and/or film. Psychologists such as Freud, Jung, and Lacan will be studied in connection with their approaches to textual analysis. The course may also focus on such psychological movements as Gestalt, Behaviorism, and archetypal analysis as they have affected understanding of literature and/or film. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 349 Religion in Literature and Film

A study of the challenges of portraying religious topics and themes in literature and film and of how such portrayals reflect society's values and concerns. Topics may include the literature and films of the Holocaust such as Schindler's List; the portrayals of saints and heretics from Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ to Shaw's St. Joan, The Passion of Joan of Arc. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 358 Writing and Literary Analysis

Prerequisite, Eng 103. Development of critical thinking and writing skills through the in-depth analysis and discussion of fiction, drama, and poetry. (Offered only at Academic Centers.) 3 credits.

Eng 360 Literature into Film

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. Studies of selected poems, stories, plays, and novels that have been turned into movies. Discussions will focus on the difference imposed by the printed word and cinema in shaping the same material into two different artistic expressions. Typical readings/films might include Chopin’s Awakenings, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day, and Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 361 Images of Business in Literature and Film

Prerequisite, Eng 104. An examination of literature that depicts the world of business, capitalism, consumerism, or corporate structure. Placing novels and poems in their social and political context, students trace the evolution of portraits of business. Studying films, students examine attitudes in the general culture and discuss whether or not the literary or film treatments of business uctuate, reacting to the national economy, or remain stable--and speculate on the reason many artists tend to portray unsympathetically the business world. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 362 Popular Fiction and Film

Prerequisite, Eng 104; other prerequisites vary according to topic. See instructor or syllabus. (Courses that treat different themes may be repeated for credit.) (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.

Designed primarily for the non-English major and varying in subject matter from semester to semester in the following ways:

Adventure Fiction and Film

Exploring the suspense and intrigue of various adventure novels and films, students will evaluate and compare secret agents, saboteurs, terrorists, soldiers of fortune, and other daredevils who live by danger and often die by other hands. Fiction includes works by Conrad, Maugham, Ludlum, Forsythe, Trevanian, Fleming, Greene, and LeCarre. Films could include Day of the Jackal, Diamonds Are Forever, 39 Steps, Ministry of Fear, Eiger Sanction, Ipcress File, Sabotage, Secret Agent, Spy Who Came In From the Cold, or Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Romance Literature and Film

Although disparaged by many as a sub-standard trashy form in its most recent Harlequin incarnation, the romance has a long and noble lineage as a popular art form. Beginning with the Gothic romance in the late 18th century, this form has managed to mutate but thrive in its many transformations until the present day. Novels could include the following: Mysteries of Udolpho, The Monk, Jane Eyre, Northanger Abbey, The Woman in White, Dracula, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Rebecca. Sample films might include: Agnes of God, Jane Eyre, and Rebecca.

Western Literature and Film

Developed as an outgrowth of Rousseau's "noble savage" theory, and begun as a quintessential American form by J. Fenimore Cooper, the Western has þourished nostalgically in the 20th century, on the heels of the closing of the frontier. Works to be studied in literature and/or film include: The Covered Wagon, The Westerner, Cimarron, Billy the Kid, Destry Rides Again, Stagecoach, Jesse James, The Oxbow Incident, Red River, My Darling Clementine, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, High Noon, Hondo, The Wild Bunch, Blazing Saddles, and Lonesome Dove.

Eng 363 Literature Into Dance and Film

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Students analyze the transformation of literary works into dance, featuring video tapes and films of dances adapted from literary works. Beginning with biblical narrative and mythology and moving through Shakespeare to Eliot's Cats, this class emphasizes close reading of literary texts and careful analysis of choreography. Students concentrate on how a verbal art form can be successfully transposed to a non-verbal medium, and may find their classes occasionally graced with lectures by noted choreographers and supplemented by attendance at dance performances. (Offered Interterm, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 364 Shakespeare into Film

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. Students will study the fascinating films made from some of Shakespeare's greatest plays including the many Olivier productions such as the epic Henry V, the stunning Richard III, the Freudian Hamlet, and the eccentric Othello. Students might compare the various versions of Macbeth--including the Welles, the Polanski, and the Kurosawa (Throne of Blood)--with Shakespeare's original play and the Holinshed sources. (Offered fall semester and Interterm, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 366 Politics in Literature and Film

Prerequisite, Eng 104. The dynamic and diverse world of politics as seen in the great works of fiction, poetry, drama, and cinema. Students will examine a wide range of political themes including war, peace, corruption, statesmanship, class conþict, and the search for utopia. The literature and films studied will vary from semester to semester, but may include Z, Clockwork Orange, El Norte, War Games, All the King's Men, 1984, Under Fire, The Trial, The Jungle, and Brave New World. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 367 Horror Fiction and Film

Prerequisite, Eng 104. An opportunity to experience the genre of the macabre in both literature and film. Students start with the Gothic novel and such early classic writers as Mary Shelley, Poe, Lovecraft, and Stevenson and proceed to present day shockers such as William Blatty and Stephen King. Films may include such vehicles of terror as Phantom of the Opera, Bride of Frankenstein, Freaks, Night of the Living Dead, Psycho, The Exorcist, and Poltergeist. (Offered Interterm, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 368 Science Fiction and Film

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. An entrance to the imaginative world of the bizarre in science fiction and film that deals with such themes as utopias, outer space, aliens, robots, and monsters. Fiction may include such writers as Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Orwell, Huxley, Bradbury, Van Vogt, Clarke, Asimov, Sturgeon, Herbert, and Niven. Films may include such classics as Metropolis, The Thing, 2001, Clockwork Orange, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Time After Time, The Empire Strikes Back, and ET. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 369 Detective Fiction and Film

Prerequisite, Eng 104. An invitation to study the methods of the great fictional sleuths whose powers of deduction enable them to solve the most baffling of mysteries. Beginning with the 19th century pioneers: Poe, Collins, and Doyle, and advancing to the 20th century masters: Christie, Hammett, Chandler, Sayers, and the MacDonalds (Ross, John, Gregory, and Philip), students will discover all facets of detective fiction. Films viewed include The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Laura, And Then There Were None, and Murder by Death. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 400 Advanced Rhetoric

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. The study and practice of persuasive and expository prose. Students investigate methods of invention and models of form and style in readings from discourse theorists as well as from established masters of the essay. Workshops and tutorials focus on cultivating a personal style, editing, and redrafting for publication. Participants are encouraged to master word-processing on Macintosh or IBM programs and to assist in editing college journals. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 404 Techniques of Writing Fiction/Poetry/Drama

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. Students learn the basic techniques necessary to produce publishable fiction or poetry. Course may vary by genre from semester to semester. Techniques of fiction may include plot development, point of view, characterization, dialogue, settings, and theme. Techniques of poetry may include prosody, imagery, figurative language, symbolism, and mechanics. Lecture and workshop combined. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 406 Advanced Workshop in Writing

Prerequisite, Eng 404. Students discuss, criticize, and evaluate novel chapters (in the fiction workshop) or individual poems (in the poetry workshop) in order to produce a publishable novel, group of short stories, or collection of poetry. Query letters to editors and agents are discussed, as well as the art of synopsis writing. Literary agents and published novelists or poets occasionally make guest appearances. Students work within their chosen genre and form, and the guidelines of various genres (categories) and forms are examined. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 407 Writing and Publishing for the Internet

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. The digital age is upon us. Now we have new ways of communicating, of retrieving and filing information, of publishing our work. How are the Internet and the World Wide Web changing the craft of writing and the business of publishing? How can a writer participate in new media? How can a reader determine the credibility of the information she/he finds in cyberspace? This course is designed to help students gain a greater understanding of the Internet opportunities to publish their own work. (Offered alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 408 Writing for Publication

Prerequisite, Eng 204 or instructor’s consent. A writing workshop with a publishing component for students who are ready to explore the realm of creative writing from a practical perspective. This course is designed to assist writers of poetry, fiction, and drama in developing publishable material. Although emphasis is placed on writing, revising, polishing, and submitting material to editors, agents, and publishers, the career of writing is also examined. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 410 Panther Workshop

Prerequisite, Eng 215. (Same as Eng 210.) (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits.

Eng 412 Investigative Reporting

Prerequisites, Eng 104 or equivalent, Eng 215, 308, or instructor's permission. Development of advanced interviewing, researching, and writing skills for investigative articles and stories for print and broadcast media. Attention will be given to specific investigative circumstances in such areas as government, politics, business, private organizations, and law, with readings in award-winning investigative articles. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 413 Magazine Production

Prerequisite, Eng 215 or instructor's approval. Students study the organization, layout, writing, and production of magazines. Students examine editorial administration, special interest magazines, design and layout, magazine formula, editing and typography, advertising and writing. Students create their own magazine as well as assist on a campus magazine or journal. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 414 Feature Writing

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent and Eng 215. An in-depth study in feature writing with an emphasis on the extended feature article and personality profile. Assignments may also include advanced practice in writing editorials, critical reviews, humor, columns, and advertising copy. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 415 Topics in Journalism

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. Designed for the student interested in contemporary journalism and the role journalism plays in the world or specific arenas. Sample topics around which the course will be structured include: current trends in journalism, the foreign press today, journalism and the business world, minorities and the press, contemporary newspaper literature, reporting public affairs. May be repeated for credit. (Offered Interterm, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 417 Copy Editing

Prerequisite,Eng 104 or equivalent, and Eng 215. Students gain experience and direction in developing efficient copy editing skills for newspaper and magazine journalism. Students examine the role of the copy editor in journalistic administration and practice formal copy editing on various kinds of copy including wire copy. Attention is also given to such areas as picture editing, writing captions and cutlines, fundamentals of design, and editing broadcast news and feature copy. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 418 Layout and Design

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Students study the fundamentals of design in newspaper and magazine journalism. Students examine the æsthetic components that create newspaper and magazine formulæ: components of design, types of layout, photography and art, typography, and production stages. Students are expected to contribute to the design of a campus or community publication. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 1-3 credits.

Eng 429 Literary Topics

(Same as Eng 229.) Prerequisite, Eng 104. (Offered on demand, minimum of ten participants.) 3 credits.

Eng 430 Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. Students study Shakespeare's exciting development from his earliest plays to mid-career. Students discover his delightful comedies and absorbing historical plays with some attention to his most significant poetry and unforgettable tragedies. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 432 Shakespeare's Tragedies and Romances

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. Students study Shakespeare's plays from mid-career to his richest, most mature plays. Students explore his moving tragedies and haunting romances with some attention to the brilliant sonnets and joyous comedies. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 434 The English Novel

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Origins and development of the English novel to 1900. Selected works relate to the social and psychological factors that inþuenced their making, including politics, religion, history, and social conditions. Writers to be studied include Fielding, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, and Hardy. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 440 Continental Fiction to 1900

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Students examine fiction of the most significant European writers from the ancient Greek and Roman romances to the 19th century French and Russian realists. Students read great masterworks like Petronius' Satyricon, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Voltaire's Candide, Balzac's Pere Goriot, and Tolstoy's War and Peace. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 441 20th Century Drama

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. The course covers theatre innovations in Europe and America, from Andre Antoine's Theatre Libre, the alienation theories of Bertolt Brecht, to the pauses of Harold Pinter. Students will survey a variety of 20th century innovators. Focus may vary from time to time as it moves from Chekov, Ibsen, Strindberg to Beckett, Sam Shepard, and new wave playwrights of the last twenty years. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 442 20th Century Poetry

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. A penetrating study of significant 20th century poetry and its roots in the late 19th century. The course may concentrate on a comparative approach to either a group of national poetry or at least two national or shared language poetry. Modernism, post-modernism, and their precursors in the poetry of England, France, Germany, Spain, the Caribbean, and the Americas; poetic experimentation in Spain and Latin America; or the French tradition and early twentieth-century British and American poetry are possible foci. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.)

3 credits.

Eng 443 20th Century Fiction

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. An in-depth study of world fiction of the 20th century. Students read short stories, novels, and novellas from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and North America written between 1900 and the present. Writers might include Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, D.H. Lawrence, Umberto Eco, Gabriel García Márquez, Kobo Abe, Andrei Bely, and Marguerite Duras. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 444 Comparative Readings

Focuses on contrastive analysis of texts from different historical periods, cultures, and traditions. The course may follow a variety of approaches: generic (the Picaresque Tradition, Bildungsroman and its Evolution); thematic (Literature of Exploration and Utopia, Murdering Women); mythical/archetypal (Don Juan, Don Quixote, and Faust), period-centered (masters of European Realism: Balzac, Dickens, Perez Galdos, Verga); author-to-author relationships (Ibsen/Joyce, Cervantes/Fielding, Balzac/Dostoevsky). (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 445 Major Author(s)

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Students concentrate on the writings of either one significant author or a group of authors who can be profitably studied together. Examples of major figures include, but are not limited to, Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Keats, Dickens, Hawthorne, Melville, Pound, Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, Proust, Kazantzakis, and Faulkner. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 446 Women in Literature and Art

Prerequisite, Eng 104. A provocative exploration of portrayals of women by both female and male writers/artists in literature and the visual arts. The primary thrust of the course will be women as makers, subjects, and muses of painting, sculpture, photography, fiction, and poetry. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 447 Topics in Comparative Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 104; other prerequisites vary according to topic. See instructor or syllabus. Analysis of key themes, motifs, and principles which integrate philosophy, psychology, politics, sociology, or the history of ideas with literature. Recent themes have included: Poetics of the Novel; Writers Writing from the Margin; Women in Love and Other Emotional States; Poetry or Prose? Courses that treat different themes may be repeated for credit. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 448 Psychology in Literature and Film

(Same as Psy 448.) Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. Students study the intriguing cross-inþuences between literature and psychological theory. Particular attention is given to works of literature and film which have provided basic materials for psychologists and to the reþexive impact of psychological theory upon writers. Students examine the use made by modern poetry, drama, fiction, and film of such psychological concepts as archetypes, unconscious processes, the Œdipal complex, role-playing, and symbol. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 449 Cross-cultural Studies in Literature CH II

A study of culture and values as they are expressed through literature. Students will study literary works from cultures throughout the world in order to increase awareness of diversity in value systems, traditions, and behavior. Literature from various countries, with specific emphasis on non-western literature, and from various literary genres (poetry, fiction, drama, essay, film) will be covered. Special focus might be given to a topic such as women's rights, refugees, civil rights, or personal identity. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 450 Literature of Children and Young Adults

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. Students will study the genre of children's literature from diverse cultures and experiences, including authors such as Faith Ringgold, Demi, E.B. White, Louisa May Alcott, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, and Maya Angelou. Both teachers and writers of children's literature will benefit from this study of style, technique, and methods for introducing the young to the pleasures of literacy. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 453 Photojournalism

Laboratory and lecture class in practice and history of photojournalism. Must have access to 35mm camera. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 1 credit.

Eng 454 Literary Criticism to 1900

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. An introduction to critical theories about literature from classical Greece to Victorian England. Critics' discussions about literature's moral value, the artist's creative process, and the relationship between art and life are considered from a historical perspective. Authors studied include Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Sidney, Dryden, Johnson, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Arnold, and Wilde. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 456 Literary Criticism of the 20th Century

Prerequisite, Eng 104. An introduction to the rich and varied forms of modern criticism and theory. Focusing on important critical questions (the role of the reader in determining the meaning of a literary text; the social role of literature; the problems of censorship), students explore modern critical approaches ranging from New Criticism, structuralism, and the "new" historicism, to deconstruction, feminist criticism, and semiotics. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 462 The Literature and Film of Diverse Cultures

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. Depending on the instructor, this course could focus on the emerging nations of Africa, the Middle East, or Central or South America. Writers and filmmakers that might be studied include Chinua Achebe, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Ousmane Sembene, Peter Weir, or Satyajet Ray. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 463 Music, Literature, and Film

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. An opportunity to enjoy through music and literature the treatment of literary and musical subject and structure. Sample emphases may include the relationship between musical and literary themes; the musical structure of literature and the literary structure of music; or literary structure and film scores. (Offered Interterm, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 465 Images in Literature and the Visual Arts

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. Perspectives on Western culture through the study of myth, religion, literature, and the visual arts. Themes and subject matter will vary but may include pagan art and literature from Sumer and Greece, as well as early Christian, Renaissance, and modern examples. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 466 Images of Teachers and Schooling in Film and Literature

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. This class will view films and read novels, plays, and short stories which have schools as their setting, teachers and/or students as their main characters, or education as their primary theme. Each selection will be analyzed in terms of style, imagery, effectiveness, and the insights it provides into educational issues. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 467 Law in Literature and Film

Analysis of the legal system as portrayed in literature and film. From such classic works as Fielding's Jonathan Wild and Dickens' Bleak House to such contemporary works as Traver's Anatomy of a Murder and Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, this course will focus on attorneys and DAs embroiled in courtroom drama. Contemporary writers Scott Turow, John Grisham, and other novelists and playwrights will also be studied. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 471 Introduction to Linguistics

Prerequisite, Eng 104. An introduction to the major characteristics and components of human language. Students become familiar with the power and complexity of language, the way it inþuences our interaction with other people, and its potential contribution to understanding ourselves and society. Studying the work of current language theorists such as Chomsky, Hymes, Halliday, and Vygotsky will be central to the course. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 472 The Structure of Modern English

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Students study the syntax of contemporary English. Developing familiarity with a substantial range of syntactic phenomena in English is emphasized. Syntactic value in writing and understanding literature is demonstrated and implication for teaching English discussed. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.

Eng 473 Dictionaries, Words, and Meaning

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Students are introduced to words: their origins, development, and meaning drift; idioms and other combinations; sense relations between words; distinguishing word meaning from pragmatics (inferences from other knowledge) and from sentence meaning; their interaction with syntax; componential analysis and semantic fields; dictionaries, their origins, uses, history, shortcomings, and future development. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 474 Psycholinguistics

Prerequisite, Eng 471 or equivalent. Students study how language and cognition inþuence each other, drawn from work in linguistic theory and psychological experiment. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 475 The Story of English

Prerequisite, Eng 104. The story of the English language from its Indo-European origins to its contemporary varieties, especially American English. Students view the outstanding PBS production, The Story of English, and study changes in the structure and vocabulary of English throughout its history as well as differences between its major varieties. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 477 First and Second Language Acquisition

Prerequisites, Eng 471 and two years of foreign language study or equivalent. A study of past and present theories of language acquisition and development with an emphasis on the comparisons between first and second language acquisition. Discussions will include learning versus acquisition (Krashen), competence and performance (Hymes), language universals (Chomsky), cognitive variations in language learning and psycho/sociolinguistics. The influence of theory on the language classroom will also be included. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.

Eng 480 Workshop in Teaching Composition

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. A seminar-practicum for students who wish to gain experience as tutors, administrators, and researchers in the Writing Center. Participants will practice various techniques for helping student-writers compose clear and purposive essays, perfect diagnostic and editing skills, design individual programs for improvement and enhancement, validate students' progress. Students also choose an option of study or participation appropriate to their experience and career plans. One hour seminar discussion; three to nine hours direct tutoring per week. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits.

Eng 490/491 Independent Internship/Cooperative Education

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Students gain experience in the fields of business, industry, or academe. Work assignments relate to the major and may take place in law, editing, and business offices, print production and retail firms, newspapers, libraries, schools, or brokerage companies. Graded on a pass/no pass basis. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits.

Eng 492 Seminar Internship

Prerequisite, Eng 104 or equivalent. As offered by the Department of English and Comparative Literature, the Internship Seminar offers students an opportunity to earn credit and learn professional skills "on the job," by working for an educational or professional organization. The classroom component of the Internship Seminar provides students with the tools necessary to write a resume and cover letter, develop interview skills, build networking connections, and establish a foundation for pursuing a career after graduation.

Additionally, students who are interested in post-graduate studies (M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D.) will find the Internship Seminar helpful as they build their application files and determine their strategies for additional education and future employment.

After successful completion of the Internship Seminar, a student may enroll in an additional three credits of another internship with a different organization for credit, without attending the seminar. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits.

Eng 499 Individual Study

Prerequisite, Eng 104. Directed reading and/or research designed to meet specific needs of superior upper-division students. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits.

Graduate Courses

Eng 500 Advanced Rhetoric

Eng 502 Theories of Composition

Eng 504 Techniques of Writing

Eng 506 Advanced Workshop in Writing

Eng 520 Early 19th Century American Literature

Eng 522 Modernism in American Literature

Eng 524 American Literature Since World War II

Eng 530 Medievalism

Eng 531 The English Renaissance

Eng 533 The Augustan Age

Eng 534 Romanticism

Eng 535 Victorianism

Eng 536 Modern British Literature

Eng 545 Major Author(s)

Eng 546 Special Studies in Literature

Eng 547 Topics in Comparative Literature

Eng 548 Psychology in Literature and Film

Eng 573 Dictionaries, Words, and Meaning

Eng 580 Workshop in Teaching Composition

Eng 590/591 Independent Internship/Cooperative Education

Eng 592 Seminar in Literary Non-Fiction

Eng 594 Seminar: Problems in Literary Analysis

Eng 596 Seminar in Film and Literary Studies

Eng 599 Independent Study in Literature or Language

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