Fall, Spring. Credit, three hours. Introduction to writing and inquiry in the liberal arts, with attention to variations across disciplines and rhetorical situations. Intensive practice in academic reading, writing, and research. Guidance in writing strategies and processes for diverse purposes and genres. First-year writing requirement.
Fall. Credit, three hours. Introduction to writing and inquiry in the liberal arts, with attention to diverse disciplines and situations. Intensive practice in academic reading, writing, and research for students whose home language is not English. Guidance in writing strategies for diverse purposes. First-year writing requirement.
Fall, Spring. Credit, one hour. Permission required prior to enrollment. Designed as a companion to first semester experienceas a Writing & Communication Center tutor. Course includes reflection on tutoring experiences and practice in tutoring strategies. Includes the history of writing centers, theoretical and pedagogical readings, and writing center research.
Fall, Spring. Credit, three hours. Prerequisite: English 185. Analysis and appreciation of poetry as an art form. Primary emphasis on the critical essay. Required of English majors and minors.
On Demand. Credit, four hours. Introduction to rhetoric and rhetorical analysis. Students will apply Greco-Roman, contemporary, and/or global rhetorical traditions to their own writing and speaking. Attention to the ethics of rhetorical practice.
On Demand. Credit, three hours. Practical introduction to specific genres, media, and contexts of writing. Intended for intensive writing practice beyond first-year writing. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
Spring. Credit, three hours. Readings in significant American literature to 1865 with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
Fall, Spring. Credit, three hours. Readings in significant American literature since 1865 with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
Fall. Credit, three hours. Readings in significant English literature to 1660 with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
Fall, Spring. Credit, three hours. Readings in significant English literature since 1660 with attention to cultural and Historical backgrounds.
Fall, Spring. Credit, three hours. An overview of African American literature since 1900. Study of the major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction, essay, poetry, and nonfiction. (Cross-listed with African American Studies 262)
Spring. Credit, four hours. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Introductory workshop in creative writing. Normally covers two genres, most often fiction and poetry. Not designed as a sequential prerequisite for other creative writing courses. May not be repeated for credit.
Spring. Credit, four hours. Introductory workshop in poetry writing. Counts as a prerequisite for 300-level Creative Writing workshops but not for Advanced Fiction, Advanced Poetry, or Advanced Playwriting. May not be repeated for credit.
Fall, Spring. Credit, four hours. Introductory workshop in fiction writing. Counts as a prerequisite for 300-level intermediate workshops but not for Advanced Fiction, Advanced Poetry, or Advanced Playwriting. May not be repeated for credit.
Fall, Spring. Credit, three hours. Selected plays from the histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances.
TBA. Credit, three hours. Special topics in the study of Shakespeare. May include historical approaches, thematic emphases, performance studies, etc.
TBA. Credit, three hours. Selected major works (poetry and prose) with particular emphasis on the early lyric verse, Comus, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes.
TBA. Credit, three hours. Selected poems of Romantic poets such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Selections from Romantic prose writers such as Hazlitt, DeQuincey, and Lamb.
TBA. Credit, three hours. The development of the English novel from the early nineteenth century through the Victorian period, with representative works from novelists such as Austen, the Brontës, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and Conrad.
Fall. Credit, three hours. World Literature in English since 1950. Selected works may include texts on African, Caribbean, Indian, Pacific, and Canadian literatures.
Fall. Credit, three hours. Selected works from various genres by British and/or American writers from the 1950s to the present.
Spring. Credit, three hours. Selected works of major contemporary Southern writers, including Faulkner, Wolfe, Warren, and Welty.
Fall, every two years. Credit, four hours. Major literary traditions of African American writers from 1900 to the present.
Fall, Spring. Credit, three hours. Select topics or practice in rhetoric, writing, and literacy. Possible topics include writing for specific purposes, rhetorical theory, and digital literacies. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
Spring. Credit, one to four hours. Topics and perspectives vary but may include the political novel or feminist poetics. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. This course will be accepted toward a major or minor in women’s studies.
Fall (alternate years). Credit, three hours. The relationship of critical theory to various literary forms. Specific material for analysis will vary in successive offerings of this course (writing course).
Fall, Spring. Credit, one to four hours. Individual literary topics and problems vary. May be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Fall, Spring. Credit, one to four hours. For students desiring to pursue a specific individual project of their own design. Students must have project approved by the instructor in advance of preregistration. This course does not satisfy distribution requirements in humanities.
