Faculty: Professors W. Berry, P. Bridges, H. Burns, J. Palmer, A. Stuart, W. Tanner, S. Webb; Associate Professors J. Bean, V. Casper, N. Nik, M. Randeri, S. Souris, L. Thompson; Assistant Professors R. Greer, S. M. Gresham, D. Grigar, A. Litton.

The Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages offers major programs leading to the Bachelor of Arts, the Master of Arts, and the Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric. It offers minors in English and Spanish. For more details, contact the chair of the Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages and visit the Department’s home page.

Admission Requirements

Please see Admissions section of this catalog.

Undergraduate Degrees

B.A. in English

The Bachelor of Arts Degree in English

Please check with the Department for a current description of the B.A. in English since modifications are being planned. To earn the Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in English, a student will complete 12 semester hours of English (1013, 1023, 2013, 2023), and amass a minimum of 30 semester hours in advanced English, including credit in the following required courses:

3 hours: American Literature: 3323, 3283, 3293, 4283, 4393, or 4903

3 hours: Language/Linguistics: 3303, 3363, or 3373

3 hours: Advanced Grammar and Composition: 3203

3 hours: Shakespeare: 3333

3 hours: Novel: 3313, 3323, or 3353

3 hours: English Literature: 4243 or 4903

12 hours: Advanced courses (to be chosen from literature, language, linguistics, cooperative education, professional writing courses)

Certification Programs Offered

The Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages offers the following options in teacher certification programs in English:*

Option I: 8-12 English/Language Arts - 42 hours in English*

All students seeking certification at TWU from the Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages must complete no less than nine (9) hours of upper division courses in English with this department.

3 hours: English 1013
3 hours: English 1023
3 hours: English 2013: British Literature I**
3 hours: English 2023: British Literature II**
3 hours: English 3203: Advanced Grammar and Composition (ExCET Requirement)
3 hours: English 3243. Literary Analysis and Criticism*** (ExCET Requirement)
3 hours: Advanced British Literature
3 hours: English 3283: American Literature I
3 hours: English 3293: American Literature II
3 hours: English 4333: World Literature
3 hours: Linguistics. Any of the following: ENG 3303, ENG 3363, ENG 3373
9 hours: Electives. Any upper division English courses.

Minors Offered

English
Spanish

For information concerning the Master of Arts degree in English and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Rhetoric, see the Graduate Catalog.

English Undergraduate Courses

ENG 1003. Introduction to Writing. Required of all freshmen who do not meet entrance requirements for ENG 1013. Includes intensive instruction and exercise in syntax, punctuation, spelling, and vocabulary development. English 1003 does not satisfy any English requirement, and hours earned will not count toward graduation requirements. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 1013. Composition I. Theory and practice of written and oral exposition and research in traditional and electronic environments; rhetorical principles and organization in practice. Prerequisite: ENG 1003, passing score on or exemption from placement exam. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 1023. Composition II. Theory and practice of critical exposition and rhetorical analysis in traditional and electronic environments; composing persuasive and investigative texts based on research. Prerequisite: ENG 1013 or its equivalent. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 2013. English Literary Masterpieces. Major prose and poetry written before 1760 studied in chronological sequence. Emphasis on the artistry and the relation of technique to content of the works studied. Prerequisite: ENG 1023 or its equivalent. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 2023. English Literary Masterpieces. Major works of literature written since 1760 studied in chronological sequence. Emphasis on the artistry of the works studied. Prerequisite: ENG 1023 or its equivalent. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 2033. American Literary Masterpieces. Major works of American literature studied in chronological sequence. Attention to both poetry and prose. Prerequisite: ENG 1023 or its equivalent. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 2043. World Literary Masterpieces. Survey of the masterworks of western literature, beginning with the earliest Greek works. Emphasis on the acquisition of an overview of world literature as well as knowledge about the genres, literary epochs, and literary history which has informed British and American literature. Prerequisite: ENG 1023 or its equivalent. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 2053. World Literary Masterpieces, 1600 to Present. Survey of the masterworks of western literature, beginning with the seventeenth century and reaching to recent times. Emphasis on the acquisition of an overview of world literature as well as knowledge about the genres, literary epochs, and literary history which has informed British and American literature. Prerequisite: ENG 1023 or its equivalent. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three Hours.

ENG 2123. Poetry. An introduction to the art of lyric poetry. Intensive analysis of individual poems with special attention to terms and techniques. Poetry selections are from different literary periods in English and American literature. Prerequisite: ENG 1023 or its equivalent. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 2133. Drama. An introduction to the art of drama with emphasis on analysis of types of drama from classical Greek to modern times. Prerequisite: ENG 1023 or its equivalent. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 2143. Fiction. An introduction to the art of fiction, including the study of short stories, novellas, and novels, with an emphasis on critical reading. Prerequisite: ENG 1023 or its equivalent. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

*ENG 3013. Representative Works of British Literature to 1760. Examines significant works in depth with study of authors and genres in relation to the aesthetic, historical and cultural contexts. Requires research with primary and secondary sources. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

*ENG 3023. Representative Works of British Literature from 1760 to Present. Examines significant works in depth with study of authors and genres in relation to the aesthetic, historical and cultural contexts. Requires research with primary and secondary sources. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 3103. Writing Center Internship. Theory and practice of writing pedagogy in a tutorial setting. Developing and using techniques for writing instruction, composition theory. Writing, revising, tutoring of peers. Prerequisite: ENG 1023 and one sophomore or advanced English course. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 3111. Writing Laboratory. Guided study in ways students may improve writing competencies through learning editing skills. May be repeated for credit. Two laboratory hours a week. Credit: One hour.

ENG 3143. Modern African-American Drama. Concentration on a close reading of classic plays by the most important and celebrated African-American playwrights. Focus on the plays of August Wilson. Fulfills university core curriculum multicultural course requirement. Prerequisites: Six hours of composition. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 3153. American Ethnic Literature. Major themes, subjects, forms, and styles employed by American ethnic writers. Focus may be on particular themes, genres, or ethnic groups. Prerequisite: Six hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 3203. Advanced Grammar and Composition. Concentration on the basic terminology and procedures of English grammar, rhetoric, and composition, with intensive practice. Prerequisites: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
*Subject to approval by the Coordinating Board Texas College and University Systems.

*ENG. 3243. Literary Analysis and Criticism. Analysis of fiction, poetry, and drama, using representative historical periods and contemporary texts. Focus on literary history, schools of criticism, literary terminology, genres, principles of analysis with intensive writing practice. Prerequisite: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: three hours.

ENG 3273. Film and Literature. A critical study of the film in its relations to drama, the novel, the short story, poetry, and myth. Prerequisite: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 3283. Survey of American Literature: Colonial Through Romantic. Major prose and poetry written in the United States during the Colonial Period through the Romantic Period studied chronologically. Artistry and technique of the works studied along with attention to the periods in which the works were written and read. Prerequisite: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 3293. Survey of American Literature: Realism to the Present. Major prose and poetry written in the United States during the Realistic Period up to and including the present studied chronologically. Artistry and technique of the works studied along with some attention to the periods in which the works were written and read. Prerequisite: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 3303. The English Language: Development, Nature, and Structure. Modern English with historical backgrounds: phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, and usage. Prerequisites: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 3313. The English Novel. Great novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, selected as illustrating types and trends in development, analyzed for fictional patterns and as representative of the greatest novelists from Defoe through Hardy. Prerequisites: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 3323. American Fiction. American fiction from the eighteenth century to the present, with stress on major novels and short stories. Prerequisites: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 3333. Major Plays of Shakespeare. A close reading of Shakespeare’s major plays, with an examination of Shakespeare’s background in the thought of the English Renaissance. Prerequisites: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 3353. The Twentieth-Century English Novel. Analysis of works by the major novelists from 1900 to the present, including such figures as Conrad, Joyce, Waugh, and Greene. Prerequisite: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 3363. Introduction to Linguistics. A survey of the techniques and practice of recent linguistic theory, including the structural and transformational concepts of English syntax and semantics. Prerequisite: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
*Subject to approval by the Coordinating Board Texas College and University Systems.

ENG 3373. Contrastive Linguistics. Contrastive analysis of the linguistic differences (phonological, lexical, and syntactical) between Standard American English and Spanish and between Standard English and minority dialects. Prerequisites: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 3433. Professional Writing. Strategies and practice in selected rhetorical forms; reading and rhetorical analysis of selected works. Prerequisite: Nine hours of English or permission of instructor. Will not substitute for a sophomore literature course. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 4243. Poetry of the Romantic Period. Philosophic and aesthetic approaches to the study of the work of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Prerequisites: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 4283. Twentieth-Century American Drama. Concentration on a close reading of representative plays of O’Neill, Miller, Williams, and Albee. Attention given to other important dramatists, various types and styles of drama, and historical relevance of plays studied. Prerequisites: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 4333. Introduction to the Study of World Literature. Study of representative masterpieces of ancient, classical, medieval, and modern literature in translation. Stress on intercultural relationships as well as individualizing characteristics of works analyzed. Prerequisites: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 4393. American Women and Literature. Emphasis on the changing images of major female characters and on the contributions of major female writers from the colonial period to the present. Focus may be on fiction or on poetry and drama. Prerequisites: Six hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for credit when the topic varies.

ENG 4903. Selected Topics. Varied topics of literature: a period, specific authors, specific themes. Prerequisites: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for credit when the topic varies.

ENG 4911. Independent Study. Detailed study of a specialized topic in English. Prerequisite: Nine hours of English or permission of instructor. Credit: One hour. May be repeated for credit when the topic of investigation varies.

ENG 4913. Independent Study. Directed study of a specific focus in literature. Readings, conferences, special projects. Prerequisites: Nine hours of English or permission of instructor. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for credit when the topic varies.

ENG 4953. Cooperative Education.

Graduate Courses

ENG 5033. Chaucer

ENG 5043. English Grammar and Syntax

ENG 5083. Bibliography and Research Methods

ENG 5143. Drama of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

ENG 5153. Studies in Twentieth-Century American and British Literature

ENG 5163. Sociolinguistics

ENG 5213. Studies in the English Renaissance

ENG 5223. Studies in Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose

ENG 5233. Studies in the Literature of the Eighteenth Century

ENG 5243. Studies in the Romantic Period

ENG 5253. Studies in the Victorian Period

ENG 5263. Studies in American Literature

ENG 5273. Studies in Fiction

ENG 5283. Studies in Literary Criticism

ENG 5343. Rhetoric and Composition: Theory and Practice

ENG 5353. Rhetoric and Composition: Theory and Practice of Electronic Texts

ENG 5363. Studies in Linguistics

ENG 5393. Women and American Literature

ENG 5703. Studies in Folklore

ENG 5713. Old and Middle English Language and Literature

ENG 5913. Individual Study

ENG 5973. Professional Paper

ENG 5983. Thesis

ENG 5993. Thesis

ENG 6033. Renaissance Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare

ENG 6053. Professional Writing

ENG 6083. Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition

ENG 6123. Milton

ENG 6203. History of Rhetoric I

ENG 6213. History of Rhetoric II

ENG 6313. Studies in Rhetorical Criticism and Discourse Analysis

ENG 6323. Studies in Feminist Rhetoric

ENG 6343. Major Rhetorical Theories

ENG 6733. Studies in the Profession of Rhetoric and Composition

ENG 6913. Individual Study

ENG 6983. Dissertation

ENG 6993. Dissertation

SPEECH

Speech Undergraduate Courses

SPCH 1013. Oral Communication. (SPCH 1311) Elements and processes of interpersonal communication in all modes. Small group activities, oral interpretation of literature, and extemporaneous speaking. Evaluative listening and speaking experience. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

SPCH 3203. Multicultural Communication. Theory and practice of multicultural communication. Students explore American co-cultures - including, but not limited to Native-Americans, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans - within the contexts of political rhetoric, business communication, and education. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

SPCH 3903. Political Communication and Women of Color. Examines the rhetorical strategies and the cultural-historical differences and similarities of women of color in the U.S. Focuses on race/ethnicity, class and gender as socially and politically constructed and the influences of various media used for political discourse and identity. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

SPCH 4913. Independent Study. Detailed study of specialized topics in speech. Prerequisite: Junior standing. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for credit when the topic of investigation varies.

Spanish

Spanish may be selected as a minor field of study for the Bachelor of Arts or the Bachelor of Science degree. At least 18 semester hours of credit in Spanish are required for a minor in Spanish. Six semester hours must be at the advanced level. The department also offers courses in support of the Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language programs.

Foreign Language Undergraduate Courses

FL 1033. English for International Students. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

FL 1043. English for International Students. Continuation of FL 1033. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

FL 2013. Mythology. A survey of world mythologies and their global influence on the fine arts and literature. Prerequisite: ENG 1013 and ENG 1023 or equivalents. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

FL 4913. Independent Study. For students in whose program there is a need for study in an area not available to them otherwise because of timing or schedule difficulties. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

Graduate Courses

FL 5043. English for International Students

FL 5913. Individual Study

French Undergraduate Courses

FR 1011. Audio-Lingual Practice. To be taken concurrently with FR 1013. One lecture and one laboratory hour a week. Credit: One hour.

FR 1013. Elementary French. (FREN 1311) For students with no previous instruction in French. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

FR 1021. Audio-Lingual Practice. Continuation of FR 1011. To be taken concurrently with FR 1023. Prerequisite: FR 1013. One lecture and one laboratory hour a week. Credit: One hour.

FR 1023. Elementary French. (FREN 1312) Continuation of FR 1013. Prerequisite: FR 1013. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

FR 4911. Independent Study. For students in whose program there is a need for foreign language study not available to them otherwise because of timing or schedule difficulties. One lecture hour and one laboratory hour a week. Credit: One hour.

FR 4913. Independent Study. Selected topics in French language and literature. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

Spanish Undergraduate Courses

SPAN 1011. Audio-Lingual Drill. (SPAN 1101) To be taken concurrently with SPAN 1013. Two hours of audio-lingual practice a week. Credit: One hour.

SPAN 1013. Elementary Spanish. (SPAN 1313) For students with no previous instruction in Spanish. A student who presents two admission units in Spanish should enroll in Spanish 1033. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

SPAN 1021. Audio-Lingual Practice. Continuation of SPAN 1011. To be taken concurrently with SPAN 1023. Prerequisite: SPAN 1013. Two hours of audio-lingual practice a week. Credit: One hour.

SPAN 1023. Elementary Spanish. (SPAN 1314) Continuation of SPAN 1013. Prerequisite: SPAN 1013. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

*SPAN 1026. Elementary Spanish Immersion. Includes six hours of intensive instruction in basic conversational Spanish and grammatical structures during a Summer session.

SPAN 1033. Review of Grammar; Conversation; Reading. Prerequisite: Two admission units in Spanish or SPAN 1023. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

SPAN 1043. Review of Grammar; Conversation; Reading. Continuation of SPAN 1033. Prerequisite: SPAN 1033. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

SPAN 3153. Spanish Grammar, Composition, and Literature I. The development of writing and reading skills and vocabulary in Spanish. Prerequisites: Three years of high school Spanish, twelve hours of college-level Spanish, or permission of the instructor. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

SPAN 3163. Spanish Grammar, Composition, and Literature II. Continuation of Spanish 3153. Prerequisite: Spanish 3153. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

*SPAN 3173. Spanish for Professions. Instruction and practice in understanding and speaking Spanish encountered in various professions, business, community health, criminal justice, social work, sociology, OT, PT, and mass communications. Prerequisite: Two years of college-level Spanish or permission of instructor. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

SPAN 4911. Independent Study. For students in whose program there is a need for foreign language study not available to them otherwise because of timing or schedule difficulties. One lecture hour and one laboratory hour a week. Credit: One hour.

SPAN 4913. Independent Study. Selected studies in Spanish language and literature. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

*Subject to approval by the Coordinating Board Texas College and University Systems.