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
bases of multilingualism. 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 or her 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 be 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. May be
repeated for credit when the specific topic of investigation varies.
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 for credit when the
specific topic of investigation varies.
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 and literature. Investigates 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, discourse analysis, linguistics, and
composition. May be repeated for credit when the specific topic of investigation
varies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
*ENG 5373: Professional and Academic Communication. Topics such as
managerial communication, academic writing, technical writing. Projects develop
writing and communication skills in the student’s discipline. Prerequisite: Nine
hours of graduate study or permission of the instructor. May be repeated when
topic varies. Three 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. May be repeated for credit
when the specific topic of the investigation varies.
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 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. 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 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 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 as
discourse theory. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 6313: Studies in Rhetorical Criticism and Discourse Analysis.
Directed investigation of topics in semiotics, narratology, discourse analysis,
and stylistics as approaches to 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 lecture 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 of 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,
rhetorical, or linguistic area. Conferences, readings, lectures. Prerequisites:
Graduate standing and an undergraduate concentration in English. One lecture and
four laboratory hours a week. May be repeated for credit when the specific topic
of investigation varies. Credit: Three hours.
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.
