Graduate English Courses
ENG 5033. Chaucer.
Major works of Chaucer studied as literature and as linguistic
examples of Middle English; attention to significant scholarship and
criticism. Prerequisites: Bachelor's degree with concentration in
English and ENG 3303 or its equivalent. Three lecture hours a week
Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for credit when the specific
works to be studied vary.
ENG 5043. English Grammar and Syntax. Historical background
of morphology and syntax related to basic structure and the
contributions of the prescriptive and the descriptive grammarians
and the transformationists. Prerequisites: Bachelor's degree with
concentration in English and ENG 3303 or its equivalent. Three
lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5083. Bibliography and Research Methods. Methods of
research, with focus on techniques appropriate to the thesis or
dissertation. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for credit up to 12
hours.
ENG 5143. Drama of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century.
Representative comedies, tragedies, and other plays studied as
reflections of the literary trends of the period. Attention to
significant criticism and to the position of this drama in the
development of the English drama. Prerequisites: Graduate standing
and a concentration in English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours.
ENG 5153. Studies in Twentieth-Century American and British
Literature. Directed investigation of a topic relating to a
trend, a work, a genre, or an author in twentieth-century American
and/or British literature. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or
approval of the instructor of the course. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for credit when the topic
of investigation varies.
ENG 5163: Sociolinguistics. Investigates relationships
between language and society. Includes linguistic identity of social
groups, social attitudes to language, patterns of national language
use, social varieties of language, social basis of multilingualism,
etc. Employs both empirical and ethnographic methods. Three seminar
hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5213. Studies in the English Renaissance. Directed
investigation of a problem in the dramatic and non-dramatic
literature of the sixteenth century. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree
with a concentration in English. Three lecture hours a week Credit:
Three hours. May be repeated for credit when the specific topic of
investigation varies.
ENG 5223. Studies in Seventeenth Century Poetry and Prose.
Directed investigation of a problem in the literary career of a
writer, in a single work, or in an aspect of the century related to
literature. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree with a concentration in
English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours. May be
repeated for credit when the specific topic of investigation varies.
ENG 5233. Studies in the Literature of the Eighteenth Century.
Directed investigation of a problem relating to such subjects as an
author, a work, a genre, an idea, a critical principle, an aesthetic
theory. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree with a concentration in
English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours. May be
repeated for credit when the specific topic of investigation varies.
ENG 5243. Studies in the Romantic Period. Directed
investigation of a topic related to genre, style, thought, critical
theory, and the interrelationship of the artist and his art in the
Romantic Period or to a major poet, such as Blake, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, or Keats. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree
with a concentration in English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours. May he repeated for credit when the specific topic of
investigation varies.
ENG 5253. Studies in the Victorian Period. Directed
investigation of a topic concerning a prose work by Carlyle or
Macaulay or the poetry and criticism of Arnold or the poetry of
Tennyson and Browning. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree with a
concentration in English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three
hours.
ENG 5263. Studies in American Literature. Directed
investigation of a problem in the literary career of a writer, in a
work, or in a trend in American literature. Prerequisite: Bachelor's
degree with a concentration in English. three lecture hours a week.
Credit: Three hours. May be repeated or credit when the specific
topic of investigation vary.
ENG 5273. Studies in Fiction. Directed investigation of a
problem in English or American fiction in the eighteenth,
nineteenth, and/or twentieth centuries, Prerequisite: Bachelor's
degree with a concentration in English. Three lecture hours a week.
Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for credit when the specific
topic of investigation varies.
ENG 5283. Studies in Literary Criticism. The schools of
criticism, focusing on postmodern criticism; the application of some
critical theories to the practice of rhetoric; critical theory in a
given period. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree with a concentration
in English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5343. Rhetoric and Composition: Theory and Practice.
Introduction to theory and research in rhetoric and composition with
special emphasis on preparation for teaching college composition.
Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree with a concentration in English or
allied field. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5353. Rhetoric and Composition: Theory and Pedagogy of
Electronic Texts. Rhetorical theories and techniques of teaching
with non-print texts, particular attention to writing, literature,
and interactions between text and image. Prerequisite: ENG 5343.
Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.May be repeated for
credit when topics vary.
ENG 5363: Studies in Linguistics. Directed investigation of
problems such as feminism and language, pragmatics, linguistic
discourse analysis, linguistics and composition. May be repeated for
credit when the specific topic of investigation varies. Three
lecture or seminar hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5393. Women and American Literature. Focus on changing
images of female characters and on contributions of female writers
throughout American literature. Emphasis may be on fiction or on
poetry and drama. Prerequisites: Concentration in English and
graduate standing. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
May be repeated for credit when the topic varies.
ENG 5703. Studies in Folklore. Focus on the major aspects of
folklore, particularly the transmission of knowledge and cultural
values through the oral tradition. Special emphasis on the impact of
folklore on literature. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three
semester hours.
ENG 5713. Old and Middle English Language and Literature.
Topics in language and literature before 1500 including history and
development of the language before 1500, and survey of Old and
Middle English Literature. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three
semester hours.
ENG 5903. Special Topics. Investigation in traditional
lecture format of a specific literary or linguistic topic.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and an undergraduate concentration
in English. Three lecture hours per week. Credit: Three hours. May
be repeated for credit when the specific topic of investigation
varies.
ENG 5913. Individual Study. Intensive Investigation of a
literary or linguistic area. Conferences, readings, lectures.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and an undergraduate concentration
in English. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for credit when the
specific topic of investigation varies.
ENG 5953. Cooperative Education. Cooperative work-study
arrangements between the University and business, industry, or
selected institutions appropriate to the graduate English program.
Job assignments are made on the basis of student interests, skills,
and degree program. The student will apply the ideas and processes
learned in other courses in practical experience under cooperative
supervision. Cooperative planning and evaluation are essential
elements in the course. For three hours of credit, 15-20 hours of
work per week are required.
ENG 5973. Professional Paper. Required of all master's
students electing the non-thesis option. Prerequisites: Bachelor's
degree with a concentration in English and ENG 5083. Credit: Three
hours. May be repeated.
ENG 5983. Thesis. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree with
concentration in English. It is recommended that the student amass
several hours' credit in graduate courses before beginning study for
the thesis. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated.
ENG 5993. Thesis. Prerequisite: ENG 5983. Credit: Three
hours. May be repeated.
ENG 6083. Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition.
Students design and conduct research through methods such as
textual, ethnographic, historical, and empirical analysis in
rhetoric and composition. Students learn to discriminate among types
of research, examine scholarship critically, and select appropriate
research designs. Seminar and research projects. Three lecture hours
a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 6123. Milton. The major poetic works and selected prose
works of John Milton, against the background of seventeenth-century
English life. Attention to significant scholarship and criticism.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and a concentration in English.
Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 6203. History of Rhetoric I Foundations of classical,
medieval, renaissance, and seventeenth-century rhetoric.
Readings in Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, medieval
rhetorical handbooks, schools in the Renaissance, humanism, poetics
and rhetoric in the seventeenth century. Three lecture hours a week.
Credit: Three hours.
ENG 6213. History of Rhetoric II Historical survey of rhetoric
from the Enlightenment to the present. Readings in Locke, Vico,
contributions of Blair, Campbell, and Whately, pulpit oratory,
elocution, American composition and rhetoric, new perspectives,
contemporary rhetorical strategies, invention and discourse theory.
Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 6313. Studies in Rhetorical Criticism and Discourse Analysis.
Directed investigation of topics in the patterned use of language
such as semiotics, narratology, discourse analysis, and stylistics
as approaches to criticism of written texts and other forms of
symbolic communication. May be repeated for credit when the specific
topic of investigation varies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours.
ENG 6323. Studies in Feminist Rhetoric. Directed
investigation of problems in feminism and rhetoric such as feminist
histories of rhetoric, feminist rhetorical theories, feminist
composition pedagogy, feminism and technology, and feminist
epistemology. May be repeated for credit when the specific topic of
investigation varies. Three seminar hours a week. Credit: Three
hours.
ENG 6343. Major Rhetorical Theories. Intensive investigation
of selected major rhetoricians and schools of rhetorical thought
within the history and development or rhetoric. Prerequisite: ENG
6203 or permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit up to
12 hours when specific topic of investigation varies. Three lecture
hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 6733. Studies in the Profession of Rhetoric and Composition.
Current theoretical issues and skills needed for professions in
academic and non-academic settings, such as administering writing
programs, designing cross-discipline writing programs, or pursuing
careers in writing and editing in business settings. May be repeated
for credit when topic of investigation varies. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 6913. Individual Study. Intensive investigation of a
literary or linguistic area. Conferences, readings, lectures.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and an undergraduate concentration
in English. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for credit when the
specific topic of investigation varies.
ENG 6983. Dissertation. Prerequisite: Successful completion
of the qualifying examination. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated
for additional credit.
ENG 6993. Dissertation. Prerequisite: ENG 6983. Credit: Three
hours. May be repeated for additional credit.
