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Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course provides an analysis of the major trends in current literature—poetry, fiction, drama—with
special emphasis on works written during the past decade, the Jewish and African American schools of fiction, the absurd drama, and
experimental poetry.

ENGL 418 MAJOR AMERICAN WRITERS ((Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course provides an intensive study of major American writers, from Poe to the present. This
course will focus on no more than six authors in any given semester to permit analysis of background, characteristic themes, style, and critical
response.
ENGL 424 NEO-SLAVE NARRATIVES (SPRING) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 324 or ENGL 325. This course studies fictionalized and poetic treatment of the traditional slave narrative as rendered by
contemporary African American writers such as Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Octavia Butler, Charles Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Robert Hayden,
Margaret Walker, Ernest Gaines and Lalita Tademy.
ENGL 425 SEMINAR IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (Alternate SPRING Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is an examination of novels and collections of short fiction by major contemporary African
American novelists, such as Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ernest Gaines, etc.
ENGL 436 MODERN EUROPEAN NOVEL (Alternate FALL Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of major developments in the novel within the aesthetic and
cultural milieu of European modernism. Major writers to be studied include Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Gide, Mann, Sarte, de Beauvoir, Camus,
Unamuno, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, and Orwell. Topics may include narratology, the stream-of-consciousness novel, existentialism, technology and
modernization, politics and the novel.

ENGL 437 HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY (SPRING) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: Senior Standing and Permission of Chair. This course is a historical survey of literary criticism and theory since Plato culminating in
an overview of contemporary theories, including psychoanalytic, Marxist, reader-response, feminist, deconstruction, New Historicist, race, and
post-colonial theories and cultural criticism.
ENGL 438 SEMINAR FOR MAJORS AND MINORS (SPRING) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: Permission of Chair. This course is an intensive review across the genres of the English literary canon from its Celtic and Anglo- Saxon
beginnings through the post-modern period. The course will also review American and African American literature. The course is designed
to prepare majors and minors for graduate study and for professional careers. Of importance will be a senior comprehensive examination and a
major research paper to be presented by each student at the senior symposium.
ENGL 445 ADVANCED GRAMMAR (SPRING) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: ENGL 102. This course is a practical focus on language form and usage. It is an intensive study of American English grammar,
drawing upon contributions from traditional language scholarship and from more recent communicative approaches to grammar study.
ENGL 446 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Alternate FALL Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing. This course is a study of the origin and development of the English language. Some attention is given to
the development of the English vocabulary, semantics, and social, regional and functional varieties of English usage.
ENGL 455 ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING I (FALL Every Three Years) 3 CREDITS

Prerequisites: Two courses from ENGL 367, ENGL 358, ENGL 359, and ENGL 360, or permission of the Instructor. This course allows the more
advanced student the opportunity to develop greater skills in writing fiction, poetry, plays, or nonfiction prose. It is conducted primarily as a
workshop. Advanced Creative Writing I provides extensive analyses of students’ works in progress.
ENGL 456 ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING II (SPRING Every Three Years) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: Five Creative Writing Courses with a “C” or higher, or Permission of the Instructor. This course is an independent study in creative
writing designed for the serious student writer who will work closely with a faculty member to produce a novella, a group of short stories, a
collection of poetry, a play, or a significant work of creative nonfiction.

ENGL 466 TECHNICAL EDITING (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: Working knowledge of at least one word processing system, ENGL 101 and 102, and ENGL 361 or Permission of Instructor. This course
is an intensive study of and practicum for editing and designing complex documents such as technical manuals, proposals, and research reports.
The course will provide students with the skills necessary for editing these documents as it applies to invention, arrangement, style, and
delivery. Students will examine strategies for document management and explore the theoretical justifications for making editing decisions.

ENGL 470 METHODS OF TEACHING ENGLISH (FALL only) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: Permission of Chair Based on PRAXIS results. This course is a study of the objectives, methods, and materials in teaching English in
the secondary school. Should be taken the First Semester of the senior year with SCED 305 Practicum III.
ENGL 498 TEACHING A SECOND LANGUAGE (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. This course is a study of the new techniques and procedures for teaching a second language. Problems of
teaching the language and the culture, traditional methods, audio-oral, and cognitive approaches will be discussed.

FINA: FINANCE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
FINA 222 PERSONAL FINANCE (FALL, SPRING) 3 CREDITS
This course focuses on the development and management of family income and the critical analysis of the potential benefits and associated
cost of a particular financial decision. This course also emphasizes both short- and long-term financial goals. Issues to be examined include,

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