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ENG 237 - Coming of Age in America
The process of moving from innocence to experience has many faces in America, as our literature in the last few decades has begun to chronicle. Explores stories of coming of age in American fiction, nonfiction and film of the last fifty years from writers to many traditions, including Franco-American, Latino-Latina, Native American, African-American and Asian-American.
Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Credits: 3
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ENG 238 - Nature and Literature
Looks at the many different ways people have looked at nature and examines the philosophies and values which inform humans’ interactions with their environment. Authors will be drawn from traditional literary figures, American nature writers, environmentalists and especially, authors from Maine. Assignment may include field experience.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Credits: 3
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ENG 241 - American Literature Survey: Beginnings Through Romanticism
The major themes, ideas, attitudes and techniques which have developed in our
national poetry, fiction, drama, and essay and which have defined them as particularly
American.
Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Artistic and Creative
Expression Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of literature or permission. (ENG 170 recommended.)
Credits: 3
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ENG 242 - American Literature Survey: Realism to The Present
The major themes, ideas, attitudes and techniques which have developed in our
national poetry, fiction, drama, and essay and which have defined them as particularly
American.
Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Artistic and Creative
Expression Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of literature or permission. (ENG 170 recommended.)
Credits: 3
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ENG 243 - Topics in Multicultural Literature
Topics will vary, including such titles as Ethnicity and Race in American Literature; Caribbean Literature; Third World Literature; and other topics in African, Asian, Francophone, Native American, Chicano and ethnic literatures in the English language.
Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Ethics Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Credits: 3
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ENG 244 - Writers of Maine
An exploration of the varied nature of the Maine experience as exemplified by writers of fiction, poetry, essays, and other creative genres.
Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Artistic and Creative Expression and Ethics Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ENG 245 - American Short Fiction
A study of genre, form, and theme in representative works of American short fiction from Irving to the present.
Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Artistic and Creative Expression and Ethics Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Credits: 3
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ENG 246 - American Women’s Literature
A survey of the main traditions and writers in American women’s literature from the origins to the present.
Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Ethics Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 248 - Literature and the Sea
Provides students with an overview of the major sea writers and genres, including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, and film. For students who identify in themselves a strong feeling for the sea, for the people who live and work under its many influences, and for the way literature transforms experience into art.
Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition Requirement.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Credits: 3
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ENG 249 - American Sports Literature and Film
Uses readings in fiction, poetry, drama, essays and films to explore social, humanistic, ethical and aesthetic issues in sports and its literature. Examines ways writers capture physical action and the role of sports in various genres and media.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Artistic and Creative Expression Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Credits: 3
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ENG 251 - English Literature Survey: Beginnings Through Neoclassicism
The major patterns of development within the English literary tradition, with
emphasis on the cultural and historical forces which have shaped this tradition.
Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Artistic and Creative
Expression Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of literature or permission. (ENG 170 recommended.)
Credits: 3
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ENG 252 - English Literature Survey: Romanticism to the Present
The major patterns of development within the English literary tradition, with
emphasis on the cultural and historical forces which have shaped this tradition.
Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Artistic and Creative
Expression Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of literature or permission. (ENG 170 recommended.)
Credits: 3
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ENG 253 - Shakespeare: Selected Plays
A study of ten to twelve plays, selected to represent the range of Shakespeare’s achievement as a playwright. Recommended for non-majors. Not open to students who have taken ENG 453.
Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Artistic and Creative Expression and Ethics Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Credits: 3
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ENG 256 - British Women’s Literature
A survey of British women writers and their traditions from the origins to the present.
Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 271 - The Act of Interpretation
An introduction to critical theory. Study of individual critics or schools of literary theory. Application of these interpretative strategies to literary texts.
Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 170.
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring semesters.
Credits: 3
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ENG 280 - Introduction to Film
A survey of the history of motion pictures and an exploration of the rhetoric of film, designed to give students with no prior film study an integrated approach to understanding the moving image and how it functions.
Satisfies the General Education Social Context and Institutions and Artistic and Creative Expression Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Credits: 3
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ENG 301 - Advanced Composition
A seminar that combines writing practice with the study of composition theory, helping students to gain command of a range of academic styles.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 212 or ENG 395.
Credits: 3
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ENG 307 - Writing Fiction
The writing of fiction, for students of demonstrated ability. Submission of writing sample.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 205 or ENG 206 and approval of a portfolio by instructor
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Credits: 3
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ENG 308 - Writing Poetry
A course in the writing of poetry, for students of demonstrated ability.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 205 or ENG 206 or permission of instructor. Submission of writing sample.
Credits: 3
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ENG 309 - Writing Creative Nonfiction
An intermediate course in such forms of creative nonfiction as memoir, travel literature, autobiography and personal essays.
Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 205 or ENG 206 or ENG 212 or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 317 - Business and Technical Writing
Supervised practice in the writing of business and technical reports, professional correspondence, and related materials.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 or equivalent and junior standing.
Credits: 3
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ENG 395 - English Internship
An advanced course in writing and collaborative learning. Students first experience collaborative work in essay writing, critical reading of peers’ essays, and rigorous practice in written and oral criticism. They participate in supervised tutoring in the English Department’s writing center.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 or equivalent and at least one other writing intensive course, a recommendation from a UM faculty member, submission of writing sample and permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 405 - Topics in Creative Writing
A senior level course designed to provide students with an opportunity to work intensively in a specifically defined genre, form,, or methods of creative writing. May also address the broader issues of production and publication. Sample topics: graphic novel, hypertext, mixed-media, electronic writing, translation, traditional poetic forms, the epic, publication, book-making, magazine editing, the serial poem, the long poem, collaboration. ENG 405 and/or ENG 406 may be taken for credit up to a total of 6 credit hours.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ENG 407 - Advanced Fiction Writing
A fiction workshop at the advanced level. This is the advanced level course for fiction writers in the English concentration in creative writing, and may be taken in tandem with ENG 499 (capstone experience). May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisites: ENG 307 and permission of Instructor.
Credits: 3
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ENG 408 - Advanced Poetry Writing
A poetry workshop at the advanced level. This is the advanced level course for poets in the English concentration in creative writing, and may be taken in tandem with ENG 499 (capstone experience). May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisites: ENG 308 and permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ENG 418 - Topics in Professional Writing
Topics vary according to changes in the field, expertise of the faculty, and needs of the students. Possible topics include editing, document design and desktop publishing, and professional writing in intercultural contexts. May be repeated for credit.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 credits in writing, including ENG 317, and permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ENG 429 - Topics in Literature
Subject matter varies with faculty interest. Previous topics have included utopian literature, the graphic novel, and revenge in literature. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 430 - Topics in European Literature
Varies in content from generic studies (the novel, the drama) to period studies (the Renaissance, Neo-Classicism).
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Credits: 3
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ENG 435 - The Bible and Near Eastern Literature: A Multicultural Perspective
Focuses on the Bible as an anthology of fiction, myth, and polemic arising out of specific cultural and philosophical contexts; exploration of the relationship between Hebrew, Canaanite, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, and Christian literature.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 436 - Topics in Canadian Literature
An intensive study of a major Canadian writer or a small group of Canadian writers, or an examination of a major theme in Canadian literature. Specific topic varies from semester to semester.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 440 - Major American Writers
An in-depth study from one to three major American writers. Topics vary, depending
on the professor; student writing and revision will be emphasized. May be repeated
for credit when writers differ.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 442 - Native American Literature
Surveys literature by Native American authors from a wide range of tribal backgrounds. Considers the development of a written tradition over time in relation to oral genres.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Credits: 3
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ENG 443 - The American Romantics
Major works of such early and mid-19th century writers as Irving, Cooper, Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 444 - Contemporary American Fiction
A survey of major trends in American fiction since 1945, such as the continuing tradition of realism, black humor, metafiction and postmodernism, magical realism, hyper-realism, and fiction from African-American, Asian-American, and Native American writers.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 445 - The American Novel
Readings from the major American novelists: Stowe, Melville, James, Twain, Dreiser, Wharton, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cather, and Faulkner, among others. Focus on thematic, technical, and narrative developments in the 19th and 20th century American novel.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Credits: 3
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ENG 446 - American Poetry
Readings from the major American poets. One third of the course is devoted to the 19th century and earlier. The last two thirds covers the 20th century: Robinson, Frost, Pound, Eliot, Williams, H.D., Moore, Stevens, H. Crane.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 447 - American Drama
A study of 20th-Century American dramatists, including O’Neill, Hellman, Williams, Miller, Albee, Shepard, Mamet, and Henley.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Credits: 3
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ENG 449 - Contemporary American Poetry
American poetry written after World War II. Provides students of poetry with both an historical context for the present practice of poetry in the United States and an introduction to the diverse schools of contemporary poetry and poetics.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 450 - Cultural Borderlands in Contemporary American Literature
Explores the psychic middle ground where tensions between competing claims for
identity, myth and belonging play out. The tenacity of cultural distinctions,
the deep hunger of people for roots, and conflicts between national and cultural
mythos will be explored in fiction and nonfiction from contemporary American writers
whose native cultural traditions strongly inform their work, including Franco-American,
Native American, Latino-Latina and African-American writers.
Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Writing Intensive
Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 451 - Chaucer and Medieval Literature
Readings from Chaucer and his English contemporaries. Focus on understanding the nature of the Medieval world and its expression in the literature of the time, and on developing reading skill in Middle English.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics, Western Cultural Tradition and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 453 - The Works of Shakespeare
Readings in the plays of Shakespeare, with some additional attention to his sonnets and narrative poems.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Credits: 3
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ENG 454 - Elizabethan and Seventeenth Century Lyric and Narrative Poetry
Readings in the lyric and narrative poets, with particular emphasis on the Elizabethan sonnet, the erotic and religious verse of Donne, the narrative poetry of Spenser and Milton, and the metaphysical and Cavalier poetry of the 17th century.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 455 - Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Satire, and Poetry
Readings from the major 18th-century prose writers, such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, Burney, Addison, Steele, Boswell, Johnson, and Goldsmith; the poets and satirists, Dryden, Swift, Pope and Gray, among others. Focus on the legitimation of emotion and of individualism in literature.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 456 - The English Romantics
The works of the major Romantic poets including Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, with some attention to their critical writing. Focus on close reading of texts as well as on developing a sense of the historical and intellectual context of Romanticism.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 457 - Victorian Literature and Culture
Readings from the major Victorian British poets, such as Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold; the major essayists, such as Carlyle, Mill, Newman, and Pater. Focus on the major literary and intellectual issues from Romanticism to the beginning of modernism.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 458 - British Modernism
Readings from British fin de siecle and modernist writers such as Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, D.H Lawrence, Wilfred Owen, Edith Sitwell, H.G. Wells, Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. The course studies the evolution of British modernism from its roots in the late nineteenth-century through and beyond its climax in the early 1920’s.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 459 - Contemporary British Literature
Readings from contemporary British writers such as Auden, Orwell, Beckett, Pinter, Spark, Lessing, Stevie Smith, Murdoch, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, and Hugh MacDiarmid. Studies the various traditions that have emerged since the advent of modernism and their place in the English tradition. Examines the concepts of “modernism” and “postmodernism,” in particular.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 460 - Major British Authors
An in-depth study of from one to three major British writers. Topics vary, depending on the professor; student writing and revision will be emphasized. May be repeated for credit.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 465 - The English Novel
Readings from the major English novelists: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Austen, The Brontes, Gaskell, Eliot, Dickens, and Hardy, among others. Focus on the development of the genre, its characteristic themes and methods, from “low entertainment” to respectable art form.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 467 - British Drama
Readings in the major British dramatists, such as Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, Congreve, Sheridan, Wilde, Shaw, Synge, Beckett, and Stoppard. Focus on Renaissance tragedy, Restoration comedy, and modern absurdist drama with some attention to the historical/generic shifts from tragedy to melodrama and from comedy to farce and tragic farce.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 470 - Topics in Literary Theory and Criticism
Studies in the history of literary criticism, in selected theoretic perspectives,
or in the application of specific critical approaches. Specific topic varies from
year to year.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 471 - Literature, Gender, and Gender Theory
Introduction to gender theory and issues of gender as reflected in the reception, interpretations, and transmission of literary texts. Emphasis on cultural assumptions surrounding gender, which involve both women and men.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 476 - History of the English Language
Main aspects of the development of Modern English from Old and Middle English; words and their backgrounds; changes in sound, form, and meaning.
Prerequisites: INT 410 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ENG 477 - Modern Grammar
Generative-transformational grammar of English, with emphasis on syntax and semantics.
Attention is given to the relation of a transformational to structural grammar.
Prerequisites: INT 410 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ENG 480 - Topics in Film
A study of film topics at a more advanced level than ENG 280. Specific topics
vary from year to year but might include study of a major director(s), of a national
cinema, of certain film genres, of aspects of film theory, or of women in films.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature.
Credits: 3
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ENG 481 - Topics in Women’s Literature
An advanced study of specific areas of women’s literature: for example, African-American Women’s Literature, Women and the Rise of the Novel, Emily Dickinson, etc.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 490 - Research Seminar in Literature
A seminar course on a small body of primary literary texts and the critical communities concerned with them. Students propose and write original researched papers that demonstrate knowledge of current research in the field, using appropriate research methods and conventions of scholarly bibliography.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive and Capstone Experience Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 and 3 credit hours of Literature at the 300 or 400 level.
Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Credits: 3
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ENG 496 - Field Experience in Professional Writing
Students work with businesses, professions, and other organizations approved by the department. The work in the course varies with each student enrolled and with the needs of the cooperating employer but normally involves either research, public relations, reporting, editing, interviewing, indexing, or other allied activity requiring skill in reading and writing. May be repeated for credit up to 6 credit hours.
Satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirement.
Prerequisites: 9 hours of writing including ENG 317 and permission.
Credits: 1-6
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ENG 497 - Independent Study in English
Advanced study and research in literature and/or theory not covered by other courses.
Prerequisites: Senior Standing and permission of the instructor. May not be repeated.
Credits: 1-3
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ENG 505 - Creative Writing Workshop
Discussion of work in progress by students working under faculty direction on extended literary projects.
Prerequisites: Limited to the creative writing MA concentration. Others by permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 506 - Rhetorical Theory: Civic Tradition
Survey of basic issues in and the contributions of major theorists in the philosophy of rhetoric from classical times to the present, emphasizing the relation of rhetoric to civil societies. (CMJ 506 and ENG 506 are identical courses).
Prerequisites: Permission
Credits: 3
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ENG 507 - Graduate Fiction Workshop
A graduate fiction workshop for M.A. students concentrating in creative writing. May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisites: English M.A. student, writing sample and faculty permission is needed.
Credits: 3
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ENG 508 - Graduate Poetry Workshop
Graduate poetry workshop for M.A. students concentrating in creative writing. May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisites: Writing sample and permission needed.
Credits: 3
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ENG 515 - Approaches to Reports, Proposals, and Grants in Academic and Workplace Settings
This course focuses on the theoretical and practical approaches to reports, proposals, and grants written in academic and workplace settings. Students will learn how to be the lead writer/project manager on collaboratively written documents. The course is appropriate for graduate students wanting to work on their own research reports and proposals and for students wanting to learn how to write and how to manage the collaborative process of writing reports, proposals, and grants in workplace settings.
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing.
Credits: 3
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ENG 516 - Perspectives on Technical Editing and Information Design
Theoretical and practical approaches to technical editing and information design will be covered through topics such as visual rhetoric, visual literacy, cognitive psychology, color theory, visual ethics, and information graphic design. Hands-on work will include learning traditional proofreading marks, online editing techniques, document layout and design principles, and the application of style manuals to specific writing tasks. Projects will include creating a document for a client, practice in developmental editing, and practice in line editing.
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 518 - Topics in Professional and Technical Writing
Topics vary according to changes in the field, expertise of the faculty, and needs of the students. Possible topics include visual literacy, technical editing, information design, usability testing theories and practice, and professional writing in international contexts. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing.
Credits: 3
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ENG 529 - Studies in Literature
Intended to supplement and allow occasional experiments within the existing curriculum at the 500 level.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 536 - Studies in Canadian Literature
In-depth study of literature by Canadians, focusing on a particular period, group, movement, issue or major author: e.g. pre-Confederation literature, the Tish poets, the McGill Movement, novels by writers of color, Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 541 - American Literature from Colonial Through Romantic
A study of major and representative figures in American Literature up to 1865, with emphasis on Romantics such as Cooper, Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Thoreau, Fuller, Stowe and Whitman.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 542 - Studies in Multicultural American Literature
In-depth study of works by American writers of particular ethnic traditions focusing on a particular period, group, movement, issue or individual(s); e.g. Contemporary Native American Writers, African American Literary Tradition and Theory, Literature of Mixed Blood Experience, Jewish American Literature, or Maine Literary History–Franco-American and Wabanaki.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 545 - American Realism and Naturalism
Emphasis on fiction, and especially on the novels of Twain, Howells, James, Crane, Dreiser, and Wharton.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 546 - Modern American Literature
A study of significant themes, literary and cultural, and the esthetics of such authors as Frost, Williams, Pound, Eliot, Stein, Moore, Crane, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Porter, Dos Passos, Faulkner.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 549 - Studies in Gender and Literature
Intensive study of workings of gender in language and literature. Topics will vary widely, and may include studies of women writers, of feminist criticism, gender criticism, or queer theory, of femininities and/or masculinities in particular literary periods or schools, as well as of specific theoretical questions such as the gendered nature of language. May be repeated for credit. (Offered annually).
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 551 - Medieval English Literature
The major works of the Medieval period, including works by Chaucer, Langland, Malory and the Pearl Poet.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 553 - Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, and Ford, among others. To test dramatic effects and critical principles, the course emphasizes revenge tragedy, city comedy, and tragic farce.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 554 - Renaissance and 17th-Century Literature
Readings in the lyric and narrative poetry and in the prose of the period from 1520 to 1660. Special emphasis on Sidney, Spenser, Donne, and Milton. (Offered once every two years.)
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 555 - Literature of the Enlightenment
Investigates unique features of 18th-century literature: e.g., prose satire, the gothic novel, domestic tragedy, the biography, periodical literature, etc.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 556 - English Romanticism
A survey of the six major romantic poets with attention to the critical writings of the period.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 557 - Victorian Literature
A study of Victorian poetry, prose, and fiction by the major authors: Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, Newman, Ruskin, Morris, Hardy and Yeats. (Offered once every two years.)
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 558 - Modern British Literature
Readings in such major poets as Hardy, Yeats, Auden, and Dylan Thomas; and such novelists as Conrad, Ford, Forster, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence and Beckett.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 570 - Critical Theory
Readings in the theoretical traditions that have determined the possibilities for scholarship and interpretation in literary criticism, and a consideration of significant contemporary experiments that have redefined these possibilities.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 579 - The Theory of Composition
A study in the rhetorical, stylistic and cognitive perspectives–from classical formulations to current research–on the nature of written composition and issues in composition teaching. (Offered once every two years.)
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 580 - Topics in Poetry and Poetics
Intensive study of literary language and practice focusing primarily but not exclusively on poetry. Topics will vary widely but fit one or more of the following general areas of emphasis: theories of poetry and poetic production; surveys focusing on work from more than one historical period or national literature; studies of the critical and other prose writings of poets; courses on critical theory in which poetry plays a key role; narratology and genre theory. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 596 - Graduate Internship in Professional Writing
Supervised work in professional writing. Graduate students may work with businesses, professionals, organizations approved by the department in an area of professional writing. The work varies for each student enrolled, but normally involves writing, editing, research, reporting, interviewing, indexing, or other writing-related activity. Students must apply for this course before the semester of enrollment. Students are expected to work approximately 12 to 15 hours per week per 3 hours credit. May be repeated for credit up to 6 credit hours.
Prerequisites: ENG 515 or ENG 516.
Credits: 1-6
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ENG 606 - Rhetorical Theory: Critical Tradition
Survey of basic issues in and the contributions of major theorists in the critical tradition of the philosophy of rhetoric (This course is identical to ENG 606.)
Prerequisites: permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 649 - Seminar in Modernist and Postmodernist American Poetry
Offers an in-depth study of poets of the Modernist and Postmodernist periods. Modernist poets studied may include Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, H.D., Marianne Moore, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens or T.S. Eliot. Postmodernist poets may include the Objectivists, the poets of the Black Mountain or New York Schools, poets of the San Francisco Renaissance and the “Language” poets. Specific topics will vary from semester to semester. Normally, the seminar will cover three to six poets, but at times the seminar may focus on a single poet.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years.
Credits: 3
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ENG 693 - Teaching College Composition
A study of the theory and practice of composition instruction. Required of all teaching assistants in the department of English during their first teaching semester.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in English or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 697 - Independent Reading/Writing
Independent Reading/Writing
Prerequisites: 6 hours of graduate study in English and permission of graduate coordinator.
Credits: 1-3
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ENG 699 - Graduate Thesis / Research
Graduate Thesis
Credits: Ar
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EPY 521 - Educational Psychology (Masters)
A seminar to explore theoretical and empirical issues in educational psychology.
Credits: 3
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EPY 621 - Advanced Educational Psychology
A seminar to explore theoretical and empirical issues in educational psychology.
Prerequisites: EDB 221 and EDS 521 or equivalents.
Credits: 3
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ERL 317 - Children’s Literature
An overview of literature written for children between the ages of four and twelve. Emphasis on developing criteria for evaluating various types of books and selecting for individual children.
Prerequisites: Elementary Education major or Child Development and Family Relations-Early Childhood Education major; Junior standing; English Literature Course; Corequisite: ERL 319
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring semesters.
Credits: 3
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ERL 319 - Teaching Reading and Language Arts in Preschool to Grade 3
Current methods, materials, and assessment tools in teaching reading and writing to children preschool to grade three, including early literacy development, guided reading/shared reading, spelling and oral language development, handwriting instruction, the writing processes of young children, and reading and writing reciprocity in literacy development. Field experience required as part of the course.
Prerequisites: Elementary Education major or Child Developement and Family Relations-Early Childhood Education option major; junior standing; PSY 100. Corequisite: ERL 317.
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring semesters.
Credits: 4
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ERL 320 - Teaching Reading and Language Arts in Grades 4-8
Current methods, materials, strategies, and assessment tools to teach and assess reading and writing in grades 4-8, including the foundation for teaching using vocabulary, content area reading, the reading/writing connection, narrative and informational text, and print skills with intermediate/middle grades students.
Prerequisites: Elementary Education major; Junior standing; ERL 317, ERL 319, PSY 100.
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring semesters.
Credits: 3
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ERL 418 - Teaching Young Adult Literature
Explores the field and characteristic works of young adult literature, its curricular and recreational uses, critical issues surrounding its use, ways of sharing and encouraging reading of a variety of this literature with students, and ways to teach effectively and integrate adolescent literature into various instructional environments.
Prerequisites: Secondary Education majors.
Credits: 3
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ERL 440 - Teaching Reading in the Secondary School
An exploratory course for high school teachers who wish to develop competence in teaching reading. Includes the nature of the reading process, rationales for continuing reading instruction in junior and senior high schools, reading and study strategies, improving rates of reading, organization, evaluation.
Prerequisites: Secondary Education majors.
Credits: 3
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