Course Descriptions for the English Studies & Communications Skills Department

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ENGL1040 - Reading Literat: Coming Of Age

Spring 2024

This course teaches students the processes of close reading, analysis, and interpretation of literature and invites students to make connections between literature and their experiences. Students learn to distinguish between reading for comprehension and reading for pleasure, to recognize key principles of storytelling, and to distinguish types of literary works. Introducing students to texts that are international and multicultural in scope as well as to Western literature, the course focuses on works that treat the themes of initiation and development, especially coming of age.
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000
3 Credits

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 M  Monday
 T  Tuesday
 W  Wednesday
 R  Thursday
 F  Friday
 S  Saturday
 U  Sunday

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Page 1 of 1
Credits: 3
Days: APPT
Location: Moon
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: ** Staff **
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 104
Time: 11:00-12:15 pm
Instructor: Kennedy
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: M W F
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 201
Time: 10:00-10:50 am
Instructor: Burgess-Lefebvre
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 104
Time: 09:30-10:45 am
Instructor: November
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Kiliany
Session: 2 (01/13/2024 - 03/08/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000
Course is taught Fully Online.

Credits: 3
Days: M W F
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 201
Time: 11:00-11:50 am
Instructor: Burgess-Lefebvre
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Todd
Session: 2 (05/07/2024 - 06/28/2024)
Term: Summer 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000
Course is taught Fully Online.

Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Kiliany
Session: 4 (06/29/2024 - 08/23/2024)
Term: Summer 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000
Course is taught Fully Online.

Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Todd
Session: 2 (08/24/2024 - 10/18/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000
Course is taught Fully Online.

Credits: 3
Days: M W
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 201
Time: 04:00-05:15 pm
Instructor: Todd
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: M W F
Location: Moon
Room: Wheatley Center 112
Time: 09:00-09:50 am
Instructor: Burgess-Lefebvre
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: M W F
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 303
Time: 02:00-02:50 pm
Instructor: Burgess-Lefebvre
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 105
Time: 08:00-09:15 am
Instructor: ** Staff **
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: M W F
Location: Moon
Room: Wheatley Center 111
Time: 01:00-01:50 pm
Instructor: Kiliany
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000


ENGL1050 - Reading Lit:Classics/Cntr Trad

Spring 2024

This is course (Reading Literature: Classics and Counter-Traditions) teaches students the processes of close reading, analysis, and interpretation of literature and invites students to make connections between literature and their experiences. Students learn to distinguish between reading for comprehension and reading for pleasure, to recognize key principles of storytelling, and to distinguish types of literary works. Introducing students to texts that are international and multicultural in scope as well as to Western literature, the course focuses on the social processes and literary qualities that affect how particular works come to be considered "classics."
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 207
Time: 12:30-01:45 pm
Instructor: Ed
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 309
Time: 11:00-12:15 pm
Instructor: Ed
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Todd
Session: 2 (01/13/2024 - 03/08/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000
Course is taught Fully Online.

Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Burgess-Lefebvre
Session: 4 (06/29/2024 - 08/23/2024)
Term: Summer 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000
Course is taught Fully Online.

Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 102
Time: 12:30-01:45 pm
Instructor: ** Staff **
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: John Jay 263
Time: 11:00-12:15 pm
Instructor: ** Staff **
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000


ENGL1060 - Reading Literature: Myths

Spring 2024

This course teaches students the processes of close reading, analysis and interpretation of literature and invites students to make connections between literature and their experiences. Students learn to distinguish between reading for comprehension and reading for pleasure, to recognize key principles of storytelling, and to distinguish types of literary works. Introducing students to texts that are international and multicultural in scope as well as to Western literature, the course focuses on the repeatable, universal patterns that inform various literatures and cultures and the effects of various cultural myths on literary works.
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: M W F
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 102
Time: 01:00-01:50 pm
Instructor: Graf
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 104
Time: 02:00-03:15 pm
Instructor: Kennedy
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: APPT
Location: Moon
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: ** Staff **
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Kiliany
Session: 4 (03/09/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000
Course is taught Fully Online.

Credits: 3
Days: M W F
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 104
Time: 02:00-02:50 pm
Instructor: Graf
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: M W F
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 102
Time: 12:00-12:50 pm
Instructor: Graf
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Todd
Session: 2 (05/07/2024 - 06/28/2024)
Term: Summer 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000
Course is taught Fully Online.

Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Kiliany
Session: 4 (10/19/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000
Course is taught Fully Online.

Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Kiliany
Session: 2 (08/24/2024 - 10/18/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000
Course is taught Fully Online.

Credits: 3
Days: M W F
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 302
Time: 12:00-12:50 pm
Instructor: ** Staff **
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000

Credits: 3
Days: M W F
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 207
Time: 01:00-01:50 pm
Instructor: ** Staff **
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1010 or CSEN1000


ENGL1070 - Children´s Literature

Spring 2024

This course is a survey course in Children's Literature designed to assist pre-service teachers to become familiar with the touchstone books, classic texts, and new publications in children's literature. Caldecott and Newbery medal winners will be presented and discussed in the course. Pre-service education students will learn the best practices for evaluating children's literature, integrating children's literature into the school curriculum, choosing trade books for the classroom, and motivating children to want to learn to read. **This course does not count towards the RMU Core General Education requirement for literature.**
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Burgess-Lefebvre
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Course is taught Fully Online.


ENGL2000 - The Study Of Literature

Spring 2024

considers the nature of literary interpretation by introducing students to concepts, debates and controversies in criticism today. Students learn about common critical terms and theoretical approaches and apply these terms and approaches to a variety of fictional texts, such as drama, short stories, poetry and novels. In doing so, students learn how to use disciplinary frameworks to ask new questions about texts, to develop their interpretative skills and to participate in the professional discourse of this field.
Prerequisite: CSEN1020 (COSK1221) or CSHR1020 (COSK1225)
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Wheatley Center 113
Time: 12:30-01:45 pm
Instructor: Karshner
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1020 (COSK1221) or CSHR1020 (COSK1225)

Credits: 3
Days: APPT
Location: Moon
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Karshner
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1020 (COSK1221) or CSHR1020 (COSK1225)


ENGL2010 - Reading Nonfiction

Spring 2024

This course introduces students to the study of the historical origin and development of the essay as a genre through analysis of select essays written during the Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment (16th through 18th centuries) as well as essays by 19th century Romantic and Victorian authors. Students are also exposed to contemporary essays written in English from a variety of perspectives by a culturally diverse group of essayists. In addition, students learn fundamental rhetorical principles of invention, arrangement, and style in order to analyze the essays read for the course and to construct personal and scholarly essays.
Prerequisite: CSEN1020 (COSK1221) or CSHR1020 (COSK1225)
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Karshner
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisite: CSEN1020 (COSK1221) or CSHR1020 (COSK1225)
Course is taught Fully Online.


ENGL2030 - African Ameri Lit & Experience

Spring 2024

The course focuses on texts created by African Americans which reflect the diverse thoughts, beliefs, customs, struggles, achievements, and visions of African American writers. This course teaches students the process of close reading, analysis, and interpretation of literature and invites students to make connections between literature and their experiences. The course stresses in-depth reading and concentrates on the interrelationships of literary works and the social and cultural values and beliefs reflected in and affected by those works. Some attention is given to the terminology basic to literary study and to the place of literature in a well-rounded education. The course is designed for students without prior coursework in literature.
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Todd
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Course is taught Fully Online.


ENGL2040 - Literature and Medicine

Spring 2024

This course connects practices common in literary analysis (analyzing point of view, authorial reliability, plot, theme, symbol, characterization etc.) with skills relevant to the health sciences (such as verbal reasoning, critical thinking, pursuing implications, clarifying ambiguity, making inferences etc.). Students apply literary analysis to novels, short stories, plays and/or poetry in order to understand concepts related to the health sciences, such as health, wellness, death, dying, disability, autonomy, professionalism and others. The course's interdisciplinary approach emphasizes the importance of narrative in health care and is designed for students without prior coursework in literature. The course is open to all students.
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 302
Time: 09:30-10:45 am
Instructor: Pamboukian
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024


ENGL2050 - Dramatic Writing

Spring 2024

Course description unavailable, please contact Academic Services. Please try again at a later time 3 Credits
3 Credits

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No Courses Found

ENGL2055 - World Literature

Spring 2024

This course examines ancient and modern texts from a variety of cultures. This course teaches students the process of close reading, analysis, and interpretation of literature and invites students to make connections between literature and their experiences. The course stresses in-depth reading and concentrates on the interrelationships of literary works and the social and cultural values and beliefs reflected in and affected by those works. Some attention is given to the terminology basic to literary study and to the place of literature in a well-rounded education. The course is designed for students without prior coursework in literature.
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Karshner
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Course is taught Fully Online.


ENGL2075 - Honors Literature

Spring 2024

This course enables students to engage in detailed literary study of selected genres and national literatures. Students will synthesize and evaluate key issues of literary scholarship through studies of the texts, literary biography, and literary criticism. Texts will be examined for their aesthetic values, their social and political contexts, their rhetorical and generic strategies, and biographical facts about the authors/ literary movements in which they participate. Students may compile annotated bibliographies, make oral presentations, write short papers, and write one substantial scholarly essay or creative project, based on research. This course is open to Honors Program students.
Prerequisite: approval of the honors director. 3 Credits
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 302
Time: 11:00-12:15 pm
Instructor: Pamboukian
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: approval of the honors director. 3 Credits


ENGL2080 - Women and Literature

Spring 2024

This course focuses on texts created by women writers which reflect the diverse thoughts, beliefs, customs, struggles, achievements, and visions of women. This course teaches students the process of close reading, analysis, and interpretation of literature and invites students to make connections between literature and their experiences. The course stresses in-depth reading and concentrates on the interrelationships of literary works and the social and cultural values and beliefs reflected in and affected by those works. Some attention is given to the terminology basic to literary study and to the place of literature in a well-rounded education. The course is designed for students without prior coursework in literature.
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: W
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 104
Time: 06:00-08:50 pm
Instructor: Todd
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024


ENGL2110 - History Of English Language

Spring 2024

This course introduces the study of historical linguistics and examines the history of the English language from its birth in the fifth and sixth centuries to its present position as a world language. Students study phonetic changes, vocabulary growth and changes, and syntactic variations. Students identify and distinguish among the languages and cultures of Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English. Also, students study the social, political, and technological histories of English-speaking peoples, and invasions and cultural movements that shape the development of English. Historical changes in the development of the English language will be illustrated with literary and cultural texts.
3 Credits

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No Courses Found

ENGL2150 - Storytelling For Multimedia

Spring 2024

"Students learn and apply the writing, reading, listening, and visual techniques of storytelling, using various media, as they consider specific audiences and purposes for the construction of narrative texts. Students use a variety of genres: advertising, podcasting, scriptwriting, Youtubing, and other forms of creative content and rhetorical methods to practice a process-oriented approach to writing, content creation, and production. This course stresses the professional aspects of storytelling by utilizing the creative and rhetorical skills necessary for both creative and professional storytelling. Preq: None
3 Credits

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No Courses Found

ENGL2520 - Dramatic Art Of Shakespeare

Spring 2024

This course enables students to study drama as practiced by Shakespeare. While examining the history of Shakespearean production and the historical and cultural contexts of Shakespeare's England, students practice close, critical readings of at least one tragedy, one comedy, and one history play. To help them grasp Shakespeare's dramatic technique, students may participate in dramatic readings, block and deliver short scenes from key plays, and compare and contrast actors' interpretations of various dramatic scenes.
Prerequisites: CSCM1030 or CSHR1030 and any ENGL course
3 Credits

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No Courses Found

ENGL2999 - Electives In English

Spring 2024

Course description unavailable, please contact Academic Services.

3 Credits

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No Courses Found

ENGL3010 - Modern Engl Grammar & Editing

Spring 2024

This course is designed to integrate the study of the structure of English with work on grammar and mechanics. The course incorporates traditional, structural, and transformational theories of grammar so as to help students to better understand their language intuitions and instincts through a variety of ways of understanding and explaining English grammar and usage. The course avoids role learning and engages students in analytical thinking; it encourages learning concepts through prototypical cases and applying these cases to the analysis of the usual and exceptional. The course emphasizes an understanding sentence patterns, word forms and functions, style and meaning, grammatical terminology, and usage and correctness. It is strongly recommended that Education and Communication majors take ENGL2540(The Study of Language) before taking this course. 3 credits
Prerequisites: CSCM1030 (COSK2220) or CSHR1030 (COSK2225) and any ELIT course 3 Credits
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Wheatley Center 111
Time: 03:30-04:45 pm
Instructor: Ruzich
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisites: CSCM1030 (COSK2220) or CSHR1030 (COSK2225) and any ELIT course 3 Credits


ENGL3020 - Creative Writing

Spring 2024

This course introduces college students to creative writing. In a workshop setting, students are asked to produce original pieces of poetry, short fiction, and drama. Students will critique their own and peers' pieces, use revision and editing techniques, share their pieces in small and large group, and discuss ways in which creative writing may be taught and shared with others. Additionally, students will submit at least one piece for publication. This course is unusual in its emphases both on oral performance in all three genres and on effective reading of others' writings as a source for original work.
Prerequisites: CSCM1030 (COSK2220) or CSHR1030 (COSK2225) and any ELIT course 3 Credits
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Wheatley Center 113
Time: 02:00-03:15 pm
Instructor: Karshner
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisites: CSCM1030 (COSK2220) or CSHR1030 (COSK2225) and any ELIT course 3 Credits


ENGL3025 - Technical Writing

Spring 2024

Course description unavailable, please contact Academic Services. Please try again at a later time 3 Credits
3 Credits

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No Courses Found

ENGL3030 - Teach Eng/Comm In Sec School

Spring 2024

This course (Teaching English and Communication in the Secondary School) prepares the prospective teacher of English and communication to face the theoretical and practical challenges of the profession. The course enables teacher candidates to clarify and articulate their own teaching philosophies and practices through reading, discussing, and reflecting on some of the major contributions to the nature of instruction in and evaluation of adolescent and classic literature, composition, grammar, and media studies. Some attention is given to the links between theory and classroom materials.
Prerequisites: ELIT1040, ELIT1050, ELIT1060 and permission of Department Head) 3 Credits
3 Credits

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No Courses Found

ENGL3040 - Technical Editing

Spring 2024

Course description unavailable, please contact Academic Services. Please try again at a later time 3 Credits
3 Credits

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No Courses Found

ENGL3041 - Spec Top In Lit: Select Poets

Spring 2024

This course enables students to study the lives and works of important poets from a literary critical point of view, examining the historical evolution of poetry and poetic forms, the distinctive features of poetry, the unique qualities of individual poets, the historical and cultural contexts of their writing, and strategies for reading and interpreting poetry. The course will include examples of epic, narrative, and lyric poetry and may include the study of important poets in translation (such as Sappho, Dante, Mallarme, or Rilke).
Prerequisites: ELIT2000: Study of Literature
3 Credits

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ENGL3050 - Special Top In Lit: Brit/Irish

Spring 2024

This course enables students to engage in detailed literary study of two major figures in Irish literature, as well as the culture and history that surround Yeats and Joyce. Students will synthesize and evaluate the key issues of Irish literary scholarship through detailed studies of the works, biography and criticism of Yeats and Joyce. They will engage in the reading of the history of Ireland in the late Nineteenth and the early Twentieth centuries. Selected novels, poems, plays, and short stories of the two writers will be examined in the seminar for their aesthetic values, their social and political contexts, their rhetorical and genre strategies, and their connections with the biographical facts of the authors' lives. Students will compile annotated bibliographies, make oral presentations, write short papers, and write one 15 page scholarly essay based on research.
Prerequisites: ELIT2000
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: M W F
Location: Moon
Room: Wheatley Center 110
Time: 01:00-01:50 pm
Instructor: Pamboukian
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisites: ELIT2000


ENGL3070 - Special Topic In Lit: Clas Nov

Spring 2024

This course enables English majors to engage in detailed literary study of select nineteenth century novels. Primarily a reading course for English Literature and English Education majors, students will read a number of British, American, French and Russian novels. Close attention will be paid to historical context in order to analyze the economic, social, political and philosophical concerns of novels produced during the early, middle and late years of the Industrial Revolution. A variety of rhetorical and literary critical approaches will be used by students to examine the novels. Special attention will be paid to social and economic conditions created by the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the United States. Students will compile annotated bibliographies, make oral presentations, write short papers defining critical problems, and write one 15 page scholarly essay as a result of their research.
Prerequisite: ELIT2000: Study of Literature
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 302
Time: 11:00-12:15 pm
Instructor: Pamboukian
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: ELIT2000: Study of Literature


ENGL3080 - American Lit Before 1865

Spring 2024

This course examines the historical growth, philosophical premises, and literary techniques of important writers in American literature up through the Civil War. Students read a wide, diverse range of literature, such as Native American, Spanish American, and African American literatures, in the genres of fiction, essays, poetry, journals, autobiographies, and slave narratives. Students also study aesthetic and intellectual movements such as Neo-classicism, Romanticism, and Transcendentalism. The course focuses on historical development with emphasis on the American Renaissance of the 1850's. Students investigate print, internet resources, and electronic databases and write literacy research essays in MLA format.
Prerequisites: CSCM1030 (COSK2220) or CSHR1030 (COSK2225) and any ELIT course
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Wheatley Center 111
Time: 02:00-03:15 pm
Instructor: Ruzich
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisites: CSCM1030 (COSK2220) or CSHR1030 (COSK2225) and any ELIT course


ENGL3090 - American Lit From 1865-Present

Spring 2024

This course enables students to study the historical growth, philosophical premises, and literary techniques of important writers in American literature from the Civil War to today with emphasis on the modern period. Students read a wide, diverse range of literature including minority literatures, especially the immigrant experience. Students also study genres such as fiction, poetry, journals, and autobiographies, and aesthetic movements such as realism, naturalism, and modernism. Students investigate print, internet resources, and electronic databases and write literacy research essays in MLA format.
Prerequisites: CSCM1030 (COSK2220) and any ELIT course
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: M W F
Location: Moon
Room: Business School 106
Time: 02:00-02:50 pm
Instructor: Tatone
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisites: CSCM1030 (COSK2220) and any ELIT course


ENGL3125 - Creative Writing

Spring 2024

This course introduces college students to creative writing. In a workshop setting, students are asked to produce original pieces of poetry, short fiction, and drama. Students will critique their own and peers' pieces, use revision and editing techniques, share their pieces in small and large group, and discuss ways in which creative writing may be taught and shared with others. Additionally, students will submit at least one piece for publication. This course is unusual in its emphases both on oral performance in all three genres and on effective reading of others' writings as a source for original work.
Prerequisites: CSCM1030 (COSK2220) or CSHR1030 (COSK2225) and any ELIT course 3 Credits
3 Credits

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ENGL3130 - British Literature 1789-Presen

Spring 2024

British literature from 1789 examines the historical growth, philosophical premises, and literary techniques of important writers in British and Commonwealth literature from the late 18th century to the modern era. Students read a wide range of literature, including fiction, drama, essays, poetry, journals, and autobiographies. The course focuses on historical development with emphasis on significant schools and movements such as Romanticism, Victorian writers, and Modernism. Students investigate print, internet resources, and electronic databases and write literary research essays in MLA format.
Prerequisites: CSCM030 and any ELIT course
3 Credits

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ENGL3200 - Fiction Writing

Spring 2024

This course provides students with the opportunity to develop their skills in writing fiction. In a workshop setting, students produce original short stories and flash fiction; they may also explore longer forms of fiction such as the novel and the novella. Students are introduced to techniques for generating story ideas; they critique their own and peers' pieces, use revision and editing techniques, share their work in small and large groups, and research online and print media for sharing their work with audiences. Students submit at least one piece of original fiction for publication. This course emphasizes effective reading of existing texts as a source for original work. 3 Credits Course
Prerequisites: CSCM1030, ENGL3020, and any ELIT course.
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: ONLINE
Location: Internet/ Online
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Karshner
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisites: CSCM1030, ENGL3020, and any ELIT course.
Course is taught Fully Online.


ENGL3500 - Study Of Persuasion

Spring 2024

This course explores the nature and place of discourse, especially persuasive discourse, in society and in history. Much attention is given to classical, modern, and contemporary rhetorical systems; to the mutual influence of rhetoric and other academic disciplines; and to the relationship of rhetoric, communication, and various media. Also considered are rhetorical criticism, audience-text-writer constraints, and how these constraints interact to make meaning.
Prerequisites: CSCM1030 (COSK2220) or CSHR1030 (COSK2225) and any ELIT course 3 Credits
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: T R
Location: Moon
Room: Hale Center 104
Time: 03:30-04:45 pm
Instructor: Karshner
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisites: CSCM1030 (COSK2220) or CSHR1030 (COSK2225) and any ELIT course 3 Credits


ENGL4000 - The Teaching Of Writing

Spring 2024

This course explores theories and central issues surrounding the performance and teaching of writing. Studens examine connections among composition theories, practices in teaching writing, and the role of personal experience in writing. The emphasis is on developing a theoretical understanding of how people write, but pragmatic issues also receive attention. The course addresses the following questions: Why do we write? How do we learn to write? What writing processes do we or could we use? What theories or values are embedded in our conceptualizations of how people learn to write and in our definitions of the writing process? What kinds of environments foster the learning writing?
Prerequisite: 60 credits 3 Credits
3 Credits

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ENGL4010 - Writing Nonfiction

Spring 2024

This course examines genres of non-fiction writing, such as creative non-fiction, advanced expository writing, advanced argumentative writing, grant writing, community-service writing etc. by reading, evaluating and analyzing non-fiction essays, creative non-fiction works, memoirs, satires, blog posts, reviews, op-ed articles etc. and then using the rhetorical and generic conventions modeled by these readings to produce new works of non-fiction. Students develop a theoretical understanding of writing and of the writing process as well as create a substantial work of non-fiction.
Prerequisite: CSCM2040 (COSK2230) or CSHR2040 (COSK2245) 3 Credits
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: M
Location: Moon
Room: Wheatley Center 112
Time: 06:00-08:50 pm
Instructor: Ruzich
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisite: CSCM2040 (COSK2230) or CSHR2040 (COSK2245) 3 Credits


ENGL4100 - Professionalism In Tchng Engl

Spring 2024

Professionalism in the Teaching of English provides student teachers with the opportunity to reflect on their experiences during the student-teaching internship in order to grow as a professional educator. During the course, interns will record and analyze their experiences in the internship and will reflect critically on a variety of factors that impact their own performance as teachers. 3 Credits
3 Credits

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ENGL4200 - Professional Writing Capstone

Spring 2024

This course serves as the culmination of the Professional Writing major and minor and the Creative Writing minor. Students finalize a professional portfolio that demonstrates the skills they have acquired in their writing program. The course provides Professional Writing majors and minors with the opportunity to research specific jobs and organizations as audiences for their portfolios, to explore those organizations? writing-related tasks and standards, and to edit their portfolios to ensure that they meet and exceed expectations. Creative Writing minors have the opportunity to complete a substantial writing project, to conduct research on venues for disseminating their work and the standards required for acceptance, and to edit their work and prepare submission materials to meet and exceed those standards. Students are expected to bring substantial amounts of written material developed in previous courses that are worthy of inclusion in the portfolio. Rather than focus on the work of other writers, this course will encourage students to read, write, and revise their own work in a manner that addresses the rhetorical situation of their professional field.
Prerequisites: Permission of department head.
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: APPT
Location: Moon
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: ** Staff **
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisites: Permission of department head.

Credits: 3
Days: APPT
Location: Moon
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: ** Staff **
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024
Prerequisites: Permission of department head.


ENGL4800 - Seminar In English Studies

Spring 2024

This course enables senior English and English Education majors to analyze and synthesize the key issues of the discipline through detailed studies of literature and close readings of texts, considering their aesthetic values, social and political ideologies, rhetorical and genre strategies, and major biographical facts about the authors. Students compile annotated bibliographies, make oral presentations, write short papers analyzing critical problems, and write one 20-25 page scholarly essay based on their research.
Prerequisites: Any ELIT course, CSCM2040 (COSK2230) or CSHR2040 and 75 credits, or permission of department head.
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: APPT
Location: Moon
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Karshner
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024
Prerequisites: Any ELIT course, CSCM2040 (COSK2230) or CSHR2040 and 75 credits, or permission of department head.


ENGL4902 - Internship/Co-Op

Spring 2024

Course description unavailable, please contact Academic Services.

2 Credits

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Credits: 2
Days: APPT
Location: Moon
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Karshner
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024


ENGL4903 - Internship/Co-Op

Spring 2024

Need Department Head Approval
3 Credits

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Credits: 3
Days: APPT
Location: Moon
Room:
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Instructor: Karshner
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024

Credits: 3
Days: APPT
Location: Moon
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Karshner
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024

Credits: 3
Days: APPT
Location: Moon
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: Pamboukian
Session: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Term: Spring 2024

Credits: 3
Days: APPT
Location: Moon
Room:
Time: -
Instructor: ** Staff **
Session: 1 (08/26/2024 - 12/13/2024)
Term: Fall 2024


ENGL4904 - Internship/Co-Op

Spring 2024

Course description unavailable, please contact Academic Services.

4 Credits

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ENGL4906 - Internship/Co-Op

Spring 2024

Need Department Head Approval
6 Credits

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ENGL4909 - Internship/Co-Op

Spring 2024

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9 Credits

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ENGL4912 - Internship/Co-Op

Spring 2024

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12 Credits

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ENGL4913 - Internship/Co-Op

Spring 2024

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3 Credits

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ENGL4953 - Independent Study

Spring 2024

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3 Credits

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