Prerequisite/Corequisite Key
| P = Course must be taken previously | C = Course must be taken concurrently | E = Course can be taken previously or concurrently |
| (RQ) = Required | (RM) = Recommended |
ENGL 101
Critical Thinking and Writing
3 credit hours
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Application of the principles of clear thinking and effective writing to expository and argumentative essays. Must be passed with a grade of C or better. Offered each semester.
ENGL 102
Research and Writing
3 credit hours
P:
ENGL-101with a C or higher
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A continuation of ENGL 101 but including training in writing documented research papers. Each instructor may choose a topic and assign selected readings, which provide the subject matter for student writing. Must be passed with a grade of C or better. Offered each semester.
ENGL 120
Rhetoric and Writing
3 credit hours
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This course introduces students to the theories and practices of academic writing. Students will demonstrate rhetorical sensitivity in reading and writing, compose inquiry-based arguments and perform writing as a process. Must be passed with a grade of C or better.
ENGLB 120
Rhetoric and Writing Lab
1 credit hour
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ENGL 120
E:
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This is a lab course designed for students who require additional practice in developing their skills in academic writing and rhetorical analysis.
ENGL 154
Introduction to Literature
3 credit hours
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This course focuses on close reading and analysis of poetry, fiction and/or drama selections leading to a better understanding of how literature works and what it can do. Open to all students and designed for students who are NOT English majors.
ENGL 155
Introduction to Literature: Global
3 credit hours
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This course focuses on close reading and analysis of poetry, fiction and/or drama selections chosen from the literatures of the world, excluding American, leading to a better understanding of how different cultures think of the ways literature works and what it can do. Designed to satisfy the General Education Level II Literature and Global Studies requirements. Open to all students and designed for students who are NOT English majors.
ENGL 157
Introduction to Shakespeare
3 credit hours
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This course is an introduction to Shakespeare through the reading of several major plays. Open to all students and designed for students who are NOT English majors.
ENGL 160
Special Topics in Literature
1 credit hour
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This course explores literary or rhetorical topics of an introductory nature not regularly included in other English Program offerings and designed for students who are NOT English majors.
ENGL 160
SpTop:Intro Amer Short Story
3 credit hours
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Studies of topics of an introductory nature not regularly included in other program offerings and designed for students who are not English majors. Open to all students. May be taken concurrently with ENGL 160. Offered as staffing and scheduling allows.
ENGL 160
SpTop:Lit&Ideas/Lit of Travel
3 credit hours
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ENGL 160
Special Topic:Survey of the AmericanýShort Story
3 credit hours
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This course charts the development of the short story in American literature from its origins in the early 19th to the turn of the 21st century, with emphasis on examples from the last sixty years.
ENGL 160
Special Topics: Hollywood Looks atýHollywood
3 credit hours
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This course introduces students to the reading of cinematic language, the grammar of film and the workings of the cinema as an institution.
ENGL 160
Special Topics:Medieval Literature andýPop Culture
3 credit hours
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E:
E:
ENGL 160
Special Topics: Native AmericanýLiterature
3 credit hours
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An introduction to Native American Literature including some traditional literature but focusing on contemporary Native American literature, primarily fiction.
ENGL 160
Special Topic: Writing and Resistance
3 credit hours
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The course will explore expressions of resistance in a variety of societies and groups that experienced oppression deriving from their cultural, religious, gender, ethnic and national affiliations. Students in this class will analyze and discuss instances of cultural resistance to subjugation and oppression, from antiquity to modernity, as they are expressed in diverse cultural modes.
ENGL 160
Special Topics: Young Adult LiteratureýCurrent Issues
3 credit hours
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Reading and discussion of several Young Adult novels that respond to current issues, especially issues of race, class, gender and equality.
ENGL 160
Special Topics in Literature: TheýMultiethnic Midwest
3 credit hours
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This course studies texts from authors of various immigrant and migrant communities that have settled in the Midwest, broadly conceived but with ample Chicago presence. Projects include auto-ethnographical writing in which students contextualize their own lived experience with the lives depicted in the course's readings. Fulfills a General Education literature/fine arts requirement.
ENGL 160
Special Topics: Music and Literature
3 credit hours
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This course traces the history of how literature and music, once part of a single curriculum, eventually became separate disciplines of knowledge. Readings/assignments will promote understanding of the cultural politics of literature and music as a way of recording the collective memory of immigrant/refugee communities in America. Fulfills a General Education literature/fine arts requirement.
ENGL 160
Special Topics in Literature:ýIntroduction to Film Studies: HorrorýCinema
3 credit hours
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This course emphasizes the significance of studying film as a powerful medium for cultural expression. Participants will explore cinema through horror film history and will dissect pivotal moments that shaped the genre. The course fulfills a General Education literature/fine arts requirement and supports skill development in critical thinking, writing, analysis, and discussion.
ENGL 188
AP English CourseýAP English Literature Course
3 credit hours
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Course Type: GLIT- Literature
ENGL 188
AP English Non Lit
3 credit hours
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AP English - Non Literature course
ENGL 188
AICE Non Literature Course fromýCambridge International Education
3 credit hours
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ENGL 201
English Literature to 1700
3 credit hours
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This course is a survey of English literature from the Old English period to the end of the 17th century.
ENGL 201
English Literature to 1700
3 credit hours
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This course is a survey of English Literature from the Old English period to the end of the 17th century.
ENGL 202
English Literature Since 1700
3 credit hours
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This course is a survey of English literature from the 18th century to the present.
ENGL 203
American Literature to 1865
3 credit hours
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This course is a survey of American literature from the explorers' narratives to the Civil War.
ENGL 204
American Literature Since 1865
3 credit hours
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This course is a survey of American literature from the post-Civil War era to the present.
ENGL 205
World Literature to 1500
3 credit hours
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This course focuses on selected works from a wide range of world literatures from the earliest written texts through about 1500: Ancient Middle Eastern, classical Greek and Roman, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic (Arabic, Persian and Indian), African and European (except the Anglo-American tradition).
ENGL 206
World Literature Since 1500
3 credit hours
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This course focuses on selected works from a wide range of world literatures from about 1500 to the present: Chinese, Japanese, South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Latin American and European (except the Anglo-American tradition).
ENGL 207
The Study of Literature
3 credit hours
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This course is an introduction to the study of literature through a range of contemporary (1965-present) theoretical perspectives. Required of English majors and minors but also open to other interested students with strong backgrounds in the study of literature. Should be taken as soon as possible by English majors and minors.
ENGL 208
Study of Rhetoric
3 credit hours
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This course is an introduction to the discipline of rhetoric through a range of historical and contemporary rhetorical theories. Emphasizes close reading, academic writing and disciplinary inquiry. Required of all English and English Secondary Education majors.
ENGL 210
Introduction to Creative Writing
3 credit hours
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This course is an introduction to writing poetry and short fiction. Students will compose several poems and at least one short story in the context of reading classic and contemporary literature.
ENGL 220
Advanced Writing
3 credit hours
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ENGL-120HONOR 150
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This course is an intensive writing course focused on advanced argumentation in the academic context. Students will study the power of language to influence thought and behavior, advanced sentence grammar and effective style by writing and reading non-fiction texts. Required of all English and English Secondary Education majors.
ENGL 222
Greek Drama
3 credit hours
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This course is an introduction to classical Greek drama through the reading of several plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes within their literary, historical and social contexts.
ENGL 224
Professional Writing and Communication
3 credit hours
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Sophomore standing and either ENGL-120 or ENGL-102, orconsent of the instructor
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Principles of effective argument and exposition applied to writing about business and professional topics. Emphasis on the purpose, audience, and design of letters, resumes, reports and other business and professional documents.
ENGL 230
Multiethnic Literature in the UnitedýStates
3 credit hours
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This course is an introduction to major works and issues of contemporary multiethnic literature in the United States, featuring works by African-American, Asian-American, Latinx and Native American writers.
ENGL 232
Introduction to Women's Studies
3 credit hours
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This course examines the connections between biological sex and the construction of gendered identities, as well as the historical conditions that give rise to conception of identity, as inflected by gender, race, class, sexuality and other categories of difference.
ENGL 233
Middle Eastern Literature
3 credit hours
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This course focuses on selected poems, short stories, sacred texts and novels written by authors from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds from different regions of the Middle East.
ENGL 235
Literature and Sports
3 credit hours
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This course requires reading and analysis of sports classics in poetry, fiction, drama and personal-experience writing. Focus on the sporting experience as a metaphor for life and on the various ways that sports events are transformed into literature.
ENGL 236
Chinese Literature
3 credit hours
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This course includes reading and discussion of selected works of Chinese literature from the beginning to the present within their literary, historical and cultural contexts.
ENGL 239
Japanese Literature
3 credit hours
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This course includes reading and discussion of selected works of Japanese literature from the beginning to the present within their literary, historical and cultural contexts.
ENGL 240
Women and Literature
3 credit hours
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This course is a study of women's writing in all genres and from a wide range of historical contexts and ethnic groups.
ENGL 241
Introduction to Language and Linguistics
3 credit hours
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This course is an introduction to the study of language and modern linguistics, including coverage of the nature of oral and written language; grammars; semantics, syntax, morphology and phonology; the evolution of the English language; language diversity; and the impacts of cultural, economic, political and social environments on language. Designed as an introductory course both for future teachers of English language arts and for students seeking an introduction to language and how it works.
ENGL 260
Special Topics in Literature
3 credit hours
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E:
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This course focuses on the study of various literary topics designed as electives for majors and for students who are not majors.
ENGL 260
Representing Ireland/Lit/Film
3 credit hours
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E:
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ENGL 260
SpTop:Travel Writing
3 credit hours
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A course on writing about travel abroad as well as reading in the genre of non-fiction travel writing. Each offering of this course will be connected to a specific travel abroad experience led by a program faculty member. Students will keep a reading journal,record their experiences in a travel diary and write at least one short travel piece for publication.
ENGL 260
SpTop:Culture,Literature and LanguageýOf Ireland
3 credit hours
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E:
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Study Abroad course
ENGL 260
Special Topics:Japanese Literature
3 credit hours
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This course will explore some of the best known works of Japanese literature across its greater-than thousand year history. By concentrating on a selection of narratives, we will have time to absorb what is unique about Japan's extraordinary literary canon within the context of Japanese history and culture, including a close look at gender relations and the roles of women as writers and as literary characters.
ENGL 260
SpTop:Women in Mexican Culture
3 credit hours
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This class will study the role that legendary female figures have had in traditional Mexican culture and their unexpected transformation into 21st century Latina/o cultural and religious icons. The class will make use of literary and historical sources, as well as depictions in film, the plastic arts and music to analyze questions of gender, politics and national identity. Class discussion will be conducted in English. Students enrolled in English 260 will read and write in English; students enrolled in Spanish 260 will read and write in Spanish.
ENGL 260
Special Topics:Toni Morrison
3 credit hours
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Toni Morrison is the author of numerous novels, children books and short stories. She became a Nobel Laureate in 1993 when her impressive work became widely acknowledged as representative of the best of her generation. This course will explore the themes in Morrison's novels and essays, paying specific attention to her interest in language and the role it plays in the formation of individual, ethnic and gender identities. We will also consider Toni Morrison's use of memory, oral, narratives and storytelling in order to promote dialogism in the analysis and development of American consciousness.
ENGL 260
SpTop:Our America
3 credit hours
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This course will offer a new approach to the study of American Literature by situating it in the context of the Western Hemisphere. "America" will be understood not as a synonym of the United States but as a multicultural network of cultural filiations that have extended across the land from the time of colonization to the present. We will re-examine the notions of race, nation, culture and history, as we compare different models of understanding those notions and emphasize the many instances of intercultural influence across national borders. We will read authors whose work focuses on the dialogue and links between African, American, Mexican, Caribbean, South American and Canadian history and cultures. African Diaspora and Latino/a Studies will overall inform the global focus of this course.
ENGL 260
Special Topic:The Arabian Nights
3 credit hours
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A study of selected tales from The Arabian Nights within the context of the Islamic history and culture of the ninth through fourteenth centuries, within which it appeared and grew.
ENGL 260
Special Topics:Magic Realism inýContempory Film and Literature
3 credit hours
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"Magic realism" is a genre that cannot be confused with other categories of the fantastic like ghost stories, science fiction, the gothic novel or fairy tales. The objective of this course is to define the term as it became popularized by writers of the Latin American "Boom."
ENGL 260
SpTop:American War Film
3 credit hours
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In spite of current speculation by political scientists and philosophers that war may be obsolete, it has furnished the narrative for some of American Film's most enduring and controversial offerings. This course will examine those films as they comment upon and shape perceptions of gender, race and politics in shifting historical contexts of the last seventy years.
ENGL 260
Special Topics:Multiculturalism inýAl-Andalus:jews, Muslims, and Christians
3 credit hours
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The objective of this course is to learn about one of the first models of multiculturalism, the "convivencia" among Jews, Muslims and Christians, in the capital of the al-Andalus (Cordoba, Spain). We will read about Cordoba's peoples and culture to trace the development of this singular society from its beginnings in Northern Africa to the 15th century.
ENGL 260
Special Topics:Vampires and Film
3 credit hours
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From Twilight to The Vampire Diaries to Dracula, our fascination with the vampire is omnipresent in popular culture. This course will examine film depictions of the vampire and consider how he has gone from a character we fear to someone who longs to reclaim his humanity and live in community with other humans. We will also study how the vampire has come to represent marginalized persons and groups.
ENGL 260
Special Topic:Chinese Literature
3 credit hours
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This course features selected readings of Chinese literature across its more than three-thousand year history. The course helps students absorb both what is unique and what is universal about China's extraordinary literary canon within the context of Chinese history and culture, including a close look at gender relations and the roles of women as writers and as literary characters.
ENGL 260
Special Topics:Latino & LatinaýLiterature
3 credit hours
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Major trends, genres, works, themes and writers related to Latino/a culture in the U.S.A, from its beginning to early 20th century. In English.
ENGL 260
Special Topic:Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
3 credit hours
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Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1878) has been called the greatest novel ever written. We will read and discuss it within the context of nineteenth-century Russian history and culture, using available film versions to supplement our study.
ENGL 260
Special Topics in Literature:CreativeýNon Fiction Writing
3 credit hours
P:
ENGL-120
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Introduces students to the genre of creative non-fiction. Students will write several creative non-fiction essays while reading classic and contemporary texts in the genre. This course will contribute to the Writing Minor.
ENGL 260
Special Topics: Pasternak's DoctorýZhivago
3 credit hours
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This course will engage students in a close reading and discussion of Boris Pasternak's novel, Doctor Zhivago (1957), the major work of one of the most important Russian writers of the twentieth century. We will read and discuss it within the context of twentieth-century Soviet Russian history and culture, using available film versions to supplement our study.
ENGL 260
SpTp:Bulgakov's Master and Magarita
3 credit hours
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This course will engage students in a close reading and discussion of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel, "The Master and Margarita" (1928-1940), considered one of the finest novels produced in Russia since the 1917 Revolution. We will read and discuss it, within the context of twentieth-century Soviet Russian history and culture, using available film versions to supplement our study. Fifty percent of the instruction will be online, primarily in the form of streaming video of the novel and of related historical cultural sources. Course Type: GGLST-Global Studies, GLIT-Literature
ENGL 260
Literature for children:Early ChildhoodýThrough Young Adulthood P-12
3 credit hours
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Survey course of children's/adolescent/young adult literature that introduces the range of genres and formats. Evaluation, selection and uses of literature to serve the needs of students from preschool through high school. Emphasis on literature that reflects the heritage of America's multicultural and diverse population; includes critical analysis, exploration and value of literature from a variety of perspectives.
ENGL 260
Special Topic: 1Q84
3 credit hours
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Haruki Murakami's novel 1Q84 (2010) combines the Tokyo of 1984 with a parrell universe, a Tokyo of 1Q84, in which, for example, there are two moons. Students will read and discuss this multi-faceted novel within the context of contemporary Japanese history and culture.
ENGL 260
Special Topic:Gothic Literature
3 credit hours
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This course examines the macabre, the fantastical, and the grotesque in British and American literature from the 18th century through the early 20th century. The course focuses on the popularity of the Gothic novel during the Victorian period. The course examines how the Gothic genre reflects and deals with the culture's social and political backgrounds. Authors covered include Byron, Keats, Coleridge, M.Shelley, the Brontes, Stoker, Wilde, Stevenson, Faulkner, Williams and O'Connor.
ENGL 260
Special Topic: Paranoia and 1970sýAmerican Film
3 credit hours
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This course explores the manifestations of the national mood of paranoia in feature films of the 1970s. In the process, it suggests another meaning for the label of "paranoid," not just a clinical description for feelings of anxiety and persecution, but rather a state of mind that finds excess of meaning where others see only random occurrences; it sees conspiracy, not coincidence, the dynamics of deceptive, behind-the-scenes power, rather than overt structures.
ENGL 260
Special Topics:Cleopatra:Legend andýReality
3 credit hours
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This course will examine both the historical Cleopatra, a very smart, politically astute woman and ruler, and the personal and cultural myths that have grown up around her, from Roman political propaganda through Shakespeare and Shaw, to Elizabeth Taylor and beyond. Satisfies General Education Level 2 Global Studies and Literature Requirements, a requirement in the Middle-Eastern Studies minor and a requirement in the Women and Gender Studies minor.
ENGL 260
Special Topics:National Playhouse:ýBritish Performaces of Selfhood
3 credit hours
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ENGL 260
Special Topics:Dickens:Two Great Novels
3 credit hours
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Study of Charles Dickens Novels David Copperfield and Bleak House.
ENGL 260
Special Topics:Shakespeare Comedies
3 credit hours
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We will read, view, and discuss several of Shakespeare's comedies and romances within the contexts of Shakespeare's theater and modern performance and of the wider world of Shakespeare's London and England. Likely plays are The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night and the Winter's Tale.
ENGL 260
Special Topics:ModernAfrican Literature
3 credit hours
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This course focuses on selected works by modern African writers within their historical and cultural contexts. This course fulfills a reqiuirement in the African American Studies Program.
ENGL 260
Special Topics: African AmericanýLiterature
3 credit hours
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A study of African-American literature and its related issues of authority, self and cannon. Fulfills a requirement in the African American Studies Program.
ENGL 260
Special Topics:Medieval Literature andýPop Culture
3 credit hours
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This course involves students in the study of canonical and representative texts of the Medieval period and traces connections of themes and forms to popular culture.
ENGL 260
Special Topics: EnvironmentalýRhetoric
3 credit hours
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This course focuses on the development of "green" rhetorical strategies. Students will study environmental fiction and poetry, nature writing , and the local physical landscape as they develop texts that address contemporary environmental concerns.
ENGL 260
SpTp: Comics, History and TimeýSpecial Topics:Comics, History and Time
3 credit hours
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This course will be an introduction to the comics culture and its relation with the representation of our contemporary history. This course will be taught in English.
ENGL 260
Romance Revivals: Adventuring Men andýMarrying Women
3 credit hours
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This course will explore the "highs and lows" of the genre of romance, asking how readers and critics' responses at different moments in the genre's history reflect broader cultural concerns with gender, class, race, and nation. The course will explore a wide sample of romances, and the range of texts will provide opportunities for the contextualized readings and critical applications associated with literary studies.
ENGL 260
Special Topic: Reading August Wilson'sýCentury Cycle Plays
3 credit hours
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"I don't write for black people or for white people. I write about the black experience in America. And contained within that experience ... is a human experience." The result was one play for each decade of the 20th century. Together we will investigate these plays to come to a better understanding of the plays and of what Wilson sees as the Black experience in 20th century America.
ENGL 260
Special Topic: LGBTQ Literature
3 credit hours
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This course focuses on close reading and analysis of poetry, fiction and/or drama selections written by and about LGBTQ people from ancient times to the modern day. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the tropes and stereotypes related to LGBTQ characters and storylines and the historical context in which writers created the selected works.
ENGL 288
Transfer LIT/GLOBAL Course
1 credit hour
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ENGL 301
Chaucer
3 credit hours
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This course is a study of Chaucer's poetry, primarily The Canterbury Tales, in the context of late-medieval culture and language.
ENGL 304
Shakespeare
3 credit hours
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This course examines selected major comedies, histories and tragedies, including the development of Shakespeare's career in relation to his theater and society.
ENGL 311
English Literature of Romantic Period
3 credit hours
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This course explores the different genres of English romanticism as a literary movement in its cultural and social context.
ENGL 313
20th Century British Literature
3 credit hours
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This course is a study of the different literary movements and genres in relation to 20th-century British culture and society.
ENGL 315
The English Novel
3 credit hours
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This course examines the historical development of the English novel as an art form, from its inception to the present.
ENGL 317
English Literature of the VictorianýPeriod
3 credit hours
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This course explores the literature of the Victorian age in its cultural and social context.
ENGL 321
Literature of the American RomanticýPeriod
3 credit hours
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This course is a study of antebellum American literature that examines the cultural, intellectual and literary engagements with Romanticism and Transcendentalism.
ENGL 322
American Regionalism and Realism
3 credit hours
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This course is a study of post-bellum American literature that examines Realism and Naturalism in the context of Social Darwinism, populism and progressivism.
ENGL 323
American Modernism
3 credit hours
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This course is a study of American modernism that examines the movement's literary experimentation and engagements with American culture.
ENGL 325
American Fiction
3 credit hours
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This course is a study of the rise of the American novel and/or short fiction.
ENGL 330
Folklore
3 credit hours
P:
ENGL-120 or HONOR-150
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E:
Introduction to the study of the folklore of the major areas of the world. Emphasis on form, function, creation, performance, transmission, meaning and application of metaphoric speech, proverb, riddle, myth, legend, folktale, anecdote, joke, folksong, ballad, folk belief, custom, ritual, festival and folk drama.
ENGL 331
Issues in African-American Literature
3 credit hours
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A study of African-American literature and its related issues of authority, self and canon.
ENGL 332
Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
3 credit hours
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This course addresses the relationship between biological sex and the construction of gendered identities. As a result, this course deals directly with this relationship, as well as the historical conditions that give rise to this relationship, by examining writings about women and men and femininity and masculinity from a range of disciplines that include the cultural, the sociological and the anthropological.
ENGL 333
Modern African Literature
1 credit hour
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This course focuses on selected works by modern African writers within their historical and cultural contexts.
ENGL 334
Film as Text
3 credit hours
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This course is a study of the vocabulary and concepts of cinematic form and of the fundamentals of critical writing about film.
ENGL 340
Critical Theory
3 credit hours
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This course focuses on selected texts in literary, rhetorical and cultural theory, with a strong emphasis on contemporary theories. Required for all English (Global Literature and Writing/Rhetoric) and English Secondary Education majors.
ENGL 344
Young Adult Literature
3 credit hours
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A study of literature written for young adults at the high school level, designed primarily for English Education majors but open to others. The literature is studied within the context of secondary studies of theories and practices of teaching young adult literature, including the question of how adolescents read.
ENGL 345
Modern Drama
3 credit hours
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This course is a study of drama from the late 19th-century to the present.
ENGL 347
World Literature to 1500
3 credit hours
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Selected works from a wide range of world literatures from the earliest written texts through about 1500: Ancient Middle Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic (Arabic, Persian and Indian), African and European, (except the Anglo-American tradition).
ENGL 348
World Literature Since 1500
3 credit hours
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Selected works from a wide range of world literatures from about 1500 to the present: Chinese, Japanese, South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Latin American and European (except the Anglo-American tradition).
ENGL 349
Studies in World Literature
3 credit hours
P:
ENGL-120
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E:
This course explores a study of representative texts, major themes or literary movements in world literature.
ENGL 352
Writing in Digital Environment
3 credit hours
P:
ENGL-120
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E:
This is a project-based course emphasizing digital and information literacy, online identity, and the analysis and production of digital texts. Students will gain the rhetorical and design skills necessary for becoming successful, engaging online writers who can respond effectively to the unique opportunities offered within digital environments.
ENGL 353
The Writing and Editing Process
3 credit hours
P:
ENGL-120
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E:
This course is an introductory proofreading/copyediting course that presents an overview of the editorial process and instruction on the basic tools and tasks of proofreaders and copyeditors. Students will use style manuals and reference books, create style sheets, and learn methods of querying authors and project editors.
ENGL 356
Teaching Writing and Language in Middleýand Secondary Schools
3 credit hours
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This course focuses on theories and practices of teaching writing in middle and secondary English language arts classrooms. Emphasis on integrating a wide range of writing activities into the classroom and on improving students' abilities as writers. Approaches to, and practice in, integrating reading, writing, speaking, listening and technology skills into classroom units of instruction. Must be taken before ENGL/EDU 373 Methods of Teaching English. 10 clinical hours. Fall semester only (every other year).
ENGL 357
Topics in Writing
3 credit hours
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This course focuses on writing topics of a specialized nature.
ENGL 357
Topics:Writing:The Editorial Process
3 credit hours
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This beginning proofreading/copyediting course presents an overview of the editorial process, as well as the basic tools and tasks of proofreaders and copyeditors, including the use of style manuals and reference books, creation of style sheets, and methods of querying authors and project editors. Students will learn how to edit using conventional marks and symbols, apply the appropriate level of copyediting, eliminate bias, ensure consistency in style, employ and insert figures, tables and artwork, and contribute to the overall design of publications.
ENGL 357
SpTp:Writing-Digital Environment
3 credit hours
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A project-based course that introduces students to the rhetorical principles and design strategies necessary for writing in online spaces, including personal and professional websites, blogs and social networking sites.
ENGL 357
Topics in Writing:Arab Women Writers'ýRhetorics
3 credit hours
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This course rhetorically examines an array of Arab women's writings from the late 19th century to the present. Students will read fiction, memoirs and polemical pieces in order to gain an understanding of the various ways women in the Middle East are able to voice their arguments and the various issues that are presented in their texts. Discussion will focus on, among other things, Arab women and feminism; Arab women and Western representations; women and nation/nationalism; Islamic feminism; women and patriarchy; women and sexuality; and women and religion.
ENGL 357
Special Topics: Writing Back: CanýLiterature Offer Resistance?
3 credit hours
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The course will look at how contemporary world novels (from Africa, Asia, and Latin America) conceptualize themselves, that is, the act of writing. How does this literature visualize itself as an agent of social change? What anxities do these tests display about their own place in the world market? What avenues do these novels visualize for resistance to oppression?
ENGL 357
Special Topics: Creative NonfictionýWriting and Literary Journalism
3 credit hours
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This is a workshop cross-listed SPAN/ENGL/COMM course in reading and writing creative nonfiction and literary journalism. We will examine our own work and others from a critical perspective, looking carefully at issues of style, content, and relevance. During the semester we will read and carefully review various subgenres of creative nonfiction -including but not limited to personal essay, memoir, literary journalism, cultural criticism, vignette, etc.-, as we create our own projects. We aim to discuss central questions such as why writing still matters, what is creative nonfiction exactly or what does it mean to privilege truth in a world where this category is on permanent discussion. And most important, you'll have the freedom to experiment with subject matter, voice, point of view, style, form, and the use of research to enrich your writing. No subject matter or writing experiment will be considered taboo, as long as you stay faithful to the truth-or your version of it-and work to demonstrate its meaning to others. You can use this course as training for your work on The Xavierite and/or the SXU Radio Station, in both Spanish and/or English languages.
ENGL 358
Advanced Creative Writing
3 credit hours
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An advanced course on writing poetry, short fiction and drama. In addition to writing their own poetry, fiction and drama, students will read examples of classic and contemporary literature, as well as published authors on the art of writing creatively. Students will also study the process of submitting work for publication.
ENGL 359
Rhetoric, Writing, and Society
3 credit hours
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This course asks students to read theoretical and primary texts to examine the role that rhetoric plays in contemporary social movements, debates and controversies.
ENGL 360
Becoming Jane Austen:The Fiction ofýFemale Authority
3 credit hours
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First known to her contemporaries as "A Lady" and later eulogized by family for "the benevolence of her heart and the sweetness of her temper," Jane Austen possessed a genius that remained largely unacknowledged in her own time. Her gravestone in Winchester Cathedral commemorates only the "extraordinary endowments of her mind," while making no reference to her writing and even today, the critic D. A. Miller characterizes hers as a "truly out-of-body voice" which seems "to come from no enunciator at all." This course will take Jane Austen as its principal Subject, exploring the production of this wildly popular author through an analysis of her six novels, selected letters, film adaptations and secondary criticism.
ENGL 360
SpTop:Young Adult Fiction
3 credit hours
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Study of fiction geared to young adult readers.
ENGL 360
SpTop:Contemp Irish Writing
3 credit hours
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ENGL 360
Special Topics in Irish Literature
3 credit hours
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ENGL 360
Special Topics:War on Film-Film on war:ýCinema and Conflict Since 1900
3 credit hours
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This course interrogates one of the oldest and most adaptable of all film genres and examines how the war film can simultaneously glorify and protest war in the 20th and 21st centuries. The course will also open the question of realism in art with a narrative form that confronts the challenge of conveying extreme experience.
ENGL 360
SpTop:Latin Amer Colonial Responses toýColonization
3 credit hours
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This course examines Latin American responses to colonization proposed by 19th century authors, seeking to explain what constitutes Latin America in the context of its emergence from the intersection of European, African and Indigenous cultures. Explores the artistic, psychological, and political impacts of colonization through texts that focus on the diversity of the Latin American population, and explore the challenges of creating narratives of national and regional unity.
ENGL 360
Special Topic:Young Adult Literature
3 credit hours
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This course provides a study of modern young adult literature, focusing on selected texts and what that literature can tell us about young adults as readers; also covered are methods of teaching reading and writing about young adult literature.
ENGL 360
Special Topics:Writings of MemoryýViolence & Trauma Representation inýFilm and Literature
3 credit hours
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This course explores the links between collective memory of traumatic events (The Holocaust, the Spanish Civil War and Latin American dictatorships) and its representation in different narratives. First, we will explore the theoretical debates around the concept of collective memory, as well as the relations between narrative and memory. Second, we will analyze a number of works (film, literature and graphic novel) corresponding to different national contexts (from Spain, the U.S. and different countries in Latin America). We will explore the limits and possibilities of representing extreme violence and injuries as well as the therapeutic effect this representation. Taught in English.
ENGL 360
Special Topics: National Playhouse:ýBritish Performances of Selfhood
3 credit hours
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This course provides a survey of 18th and 19th Century British Literature as seen through the concept of "Performances of Selfhood".
ENGL 360
Special Topics: Topics in Literature
3 credit hours
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This course focuses on the studies of literary or rhetorical topics designed for English majors and other interested students with a background in literature or rhetoric.
ENGL 360
Special Topic: Romance Revivals: GetýYour Gothc on
3 credit hours
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This course explores the "highs and lows" of the genre of romance, looking at its origins, its flexibility, and its ability to reinvent itself. Focusing on the celebrated revivals of romance in the 19th century, the course asks how readers' and critics' responses at different moments in the genre's history reflect broader cultural concerns with gender, class, race, and nation.
ENGL 360
Special Topic: Elizabeth I and theýFemale Political Space
3 credit hours
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Queen Elizabeth I was only one of the women writers in the English Renaissance who held some form of politial power. We will read and discuss works by Queen Elizabeth, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, and Lady Mary Wroth.
ENGL 360
Special Topics: Studies in MargaretýAtwood
3 credit hours
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Margaret Atwood's fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, and other sources will be studied to appreciate/analyze how Atwood's story-telling qualifies as "speculative fiction." We will study the intersections of "poetic" and "rhetoric" in Atwood's art and message, and how these intersections culminate in stories that have been characterized by many as relevant, prophetic, and even, in one case (by Atwood herself), "optimistic."
ENGL 365
Internship
1 credit hour
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For students who perform internships and/or present an off-campus experience judged by the faculty advisor and division director to be of significant value in English studies. Note: Junior/senior standing; consent of instructor.
ENGL 371
Teaching Reading and Literature inýMiddle and Secondary Schools
3 credit hours
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This course focuses on theories and practices of teaching reading in middle and secondary English language arts classrooms. Emphasis on teaching a wide variety of texts commonly taught in middle and secondary schools (literary and non-literary, print and non-print) and on improving students' abilities as readers of those texts. Approaches to, and practice in, integrating reading, writing, speaking, listening and technology skills into classroom units of instruction. Must be taken before ENGL/EDU 373: Methods of Teaching English. 10 clinical hours. Spring semester only (every other year).
ENGL 373
Methods of Teaching English inýMiddle and Secondary Schools
3 credit hours
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This course builds on and expands on material covered in ENGL 356 and ENGL 371. Theories and practices of teaching in middle and secondary English language arts classrooms, with an emphasis on integrating reading, writing, speaking, listening and technology skills into effective lessons and units. 30 clinical hours. Offered fall.
ENGL 375
Independent Study
1 credit hour
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Offered as needed. Individual study projects for advanced students in English. Topic to be determined by instructor and student; approval of Division Director and instructor required.
ENGL 395
Senior Seminar
3 credit hours
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This course is a study of literature, rhetoric, or English education requiring student to employ current methodologies, critical approaches, and research techniques appropriate to their projects. Students write and present a senior paper under the supervision of a faculty member. NOTE: Senior standing as an English major and program approval. Offered fall.