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ENGL 329 THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SHORT STORY (Alternate SPRING Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course provides an in-depth exploration of selected major African American short Story writers,
such as Chesnutt, Hughes, Baldwin, Wright, Kelley, Petry, Bontemps, etc.

ENGL 330 AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY AND POETICS (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course provides an in-depth exploration of selected African American poets and their impact on
American culture. Poets studied might include Phyllis Wheatley, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka. The
course also seeks to enlarge and complicate our sense of African American and African diasporic poetics by looking at poets who rarely show up
in the literature curriculum including Melvin B. Tolson, Bob Kaufman, Stephen Jonas, Kamau Brathwaite, Harryette Mullen, and Tracie Morris.
ENGL 331 THE AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR TRADITION (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236.This course is a study of the African American Vernacular Tradition from the period of enslavement to
the present. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: spirituals, ballads, tales, speeches, sermons, work songs, blues,
jazz, spoken word and rap songs. This course will also examine the ways in which the vernacular tradition informs the African American literary
canon, including writing by Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Etheridge Knight, Amiri Baraka, and Paule Marshall.

ENGL 333 Graphic Novels (FALL, SPRING) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course uses the analytic tools of literary theory and cultural studies to study the graphic novel and the
way in which this medium creates narrative meaning through the dynamic interplay of images and words. Students will learn the history
of graphic novels and read works created domestically and internationally with special attention given to image-text relationships, form,
style, and the cultural identities of characters, artists, and readers.
ENGL 337 LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS (SPRING) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102, ENGL 236, EDUC 101, and passing scores on PRAXIS I and English Proficiency Examination. This course emphasizes
readings in major genres, current and classic; determines reading levels for appropriate selection of classroom literature; explores interests and
needs of adolescents; identifies sources of literary material for adolescents; and emphasizes techniques for and improving skills in the reading
of various types of prose and poetry.
ENGL 340 MODERN DRAMA (Alternate SPRING Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course considers trends in the theatre through analysis of representative plays by playwrights from
Ibsen to the present. Analyses of developments in society and in the theatre as shaping forces in drama are conducted.
ENGL 345 INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL LINGUISTICS I (FALL) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: ENGL 102. This course is an introduction to trends in contemporary linguistic theory, language acquisition, and dialects, with
special emphasis on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
ENGL 346 INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL LINGUISTICS II (Alternate SPRING Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: ENGL 345. This course focuses on the most important syntactic rules of English and how these rules interact in the formation of
individual sentences. Close attention will be given to analyzing English sentences.

ENGL 353 SPECIAL TOPICS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This is a study of literature written by and about women, focusing upon special topics beyond the
traditional categories of period and genre. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: contemporary women writers; women
in post-slavery and post-colonial environments; images of women in Renaissance Literature; images of women in Victorian writing by women and
men; and the literary representation of mothers and daughters in twentieth-century fiction.

ENGL 357 CREATIVE WRITING III: FICTION (Alternate FALL Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and Junior Status, with at Least One Course in the ENGL 257-260 Series or Permission of Creative Writing
Instructor. This course provides advanced practice in the techniques of writing fiction. It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique
students’ original creative work, emphasizing the relationship between content (including technique and form) and style and published work as
models.
ENGL 358 CREATIVE WRITING III: POETRY (Alternate FALL Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and Junior Status, with at Least One Course in the ENGL 257-260 Series or Permission of Creative Writing
Instructor. This course provides advanced practice in the techniques of writing poetry. It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique
students’ original creative work, emphasizing the relationship between content (including technique and form) and style, with close reading of
published work as models.

ENGL 359 CREATIVE WRITING III: DRAMA (Alternate SPRING Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and Junior Status, with at Least One Course in the ENGL 257-260 Series or Permission of Creative Writing
Instructor. This course provides advanced practice in the techniques of writing drama. It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique
students’ original creative work, emphasizing the relationship between content (including technique and form) and style, with close reading of
published work as models.
ENGL 360 CREATIVE WRITING III: NON-FICTION (Alternate SPRING Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and Junior Status, with at Least One Course in the ENGL 257-260 Series or Permission of Creative Writing
Instructor. This course provides advanced practice in the techniques of writing non-fiction prose, most recently referred to as “creative non-
fiction.” It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique students’ original creative work, emphasizing the relationship between content
(including technique and form) and style, with close reading of published work as models.

ENGL 361 TECHNICAL WRITING (FALL, SPRING) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 102. This course is a study of the particular requirements of technical and report writing, coupled with
review and refinement of basic grammar and composition skills, designed to prepare students for career-related assignments. The course
requires extensive work with computers, which includes word processing, graphics, and working on the Internet.

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