The following courses, numbered 5000-9999, are offered for graduate credit. Courses numbered 5000-6999 which are offered for undergraduate credit only may be found in the undergraduate bulletin, as well as all other undergraduate courses (numbered 0900-4999). Courses in the following list numbered 5000-6999 may be taken for undergraduate credit unless specifically restricted to graduate students as indicated by individual course limitations. For interpretation of numbering system, signs and abbreviations, see University Courses.
Prereq: grade of B or better in an intermediate writing course or consent of instructor. Advanced study and practice in various forms of expository prose, especially the essay. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Thematic, critical or generic study of women and literature. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: ENG 2450 or another film course or consent of instructor. Survey of the major film theories from Munsterberg to contemporary film semiotics; examination of various attempts made at a systematic understanding of the cinema. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (Y)
May not be elected more than three times. Specific movements or tendencies in film historiography. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes
(B)
Study of significant works within selected genres: the western, the horror film, comedies. Emphasis on styles of particular directors. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (Y)
Topics (such as film and fusion of the arts) to be announced in Schedule of Classes. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (Y)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Study of cultural formations and practices from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives furnished by history, semiotics, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, feminism, psychoanalysis, rhetoric, etc. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. Required of English majors, but one may substitute another course in cross-disciplinary or comparative studies. (Y)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Study of literary and cultural theory in various contexts -- urban, metropolitan, ethnic, global -- with reference to primary texts. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. Required of English majors; another theory course may be substituted. (Y)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Readings in Old and Middle English literature (900-1500), mostly in translation. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Readings from The Canterbury Tales and from Chaucer's other works in cultural context. (I)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Themes, genres, writers in English and continental Medieval literature. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
The fundamentals of language and grammar and the literary analysis of Old English texts. (Y)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. For English majors and others interested in more intensive study than is offered in ENG 2200. Some attention to Shakespearean scholarship. (B)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Survey of literature in all genres from Skelton through Milton, with an emphasis on non-dramatic poetry and prose. (B)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Emphasis on Milton's major poetry through attention to his prose and to historical background. (I)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Studies of particular authors or groups of authors from 1500-1660 or of literary works from period, generic, thematic or methodological focuses. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes . (B)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. A survey of English literature from 1660 to 1784. Readings from authors such as John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Mary Astell, Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Montagu, Jonathan Swift. (B)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. For students familiar with literary history of the period. Special topics for detailed study of a genre, movement or author to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. A survey of nineteenth century British literature, with works selected from such authors as Wordsworth, Keats, Dickens, Carlyle, Tennyson, Swinburne and Hardy. (B)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. A survey of English literature from 1789-1832. Emphasis on the major poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Byron), with some attention to the major essayists (De Quincey, Hazlitt and Lamb) and novelists (Austen and Scott). (B)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. A survey of English literature from 1832-1901. Emphasis on major poets (Tennyson, Arnold, Swinburne), novelists (Dickens, Eliot, Hardy), and prose writers (Carlyle and Ruskin). (B)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Readings emphasize thematic, generic, historic or aesthetic concerns in literature of the period. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Selected works in all genres from 1900 to the present. (B)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Selected writers, themes, or genres, movements: Eliot, Auden, Shaw, Lawrence; the modern novel, Bloomsbury, The Great War, the 'Thirties. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. A survey of American literature from the beginnings through the early national period, emphasizing the constructions of crucial cultural phenomena like nation-building, colonialism, liberty and union, assimilation. (B)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Survey of writers, themes and movements which have had dramatic influence in defining American culture. Writers such as Dickinson, Douglass and Emerson, and literary movements like Transcendentalism and Romanticism are studied as well as the forces that produced them, especially race, class and gender. (B)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Survey of important literary texts that arose from cultural phenomena like post-reconstruction, urbanization, immigration, the suffrage movement, and native rights. Literary movements like Realism and Naturalism will be studied as well as influential writers like Cahan, Chopin, Dreiser and Dunbar. (Y)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Survey of culturally-significant writers, themes and movements since 1914, such as: the Harlem Renaissance, Modernism, Postmodernism; authors like Ellison, Hemingway, Morrison, Stein. (Y)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Twentieth century literature from specific perspectives, such as generic, historical, thematic. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Historical survey of African-American literature from Colonial times through the twentieth century. (B)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Thematic, generic or historical perspectives: topics such as early black writers, Harlem Renaissance, African-American poetry, contemporary black writers. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Thematic, generic, or historical perspectives; may cover writers of different periods. Topics such as American humor, the theme of work, Southern literature, the city in literature. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Generic, historical or thematic perspectives. Topics such as the romantic hero, the divided self in modern literature; to be announced in Schedule of Classes.
(I)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. Major twentieth century Irish writers in the context of Irish history and politics: W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, major dramatists. (I)
Methods and theories of translation, analysis of distinguished literary translations and student practice. Required of all students in the Comparative Literature Program. (I)
Prereq: 12 credits in ENG above the 1000 level. The study of literary texts from an international point of view. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)
Basic concepts, methods, and issues of folklore study. Comparative and interdisciplinary approach to problems of definition, form, creation, performance, transmission, and cultural, historical, psychological and literary significance. (B)
Identification and analysis of the interrelations of folklore and literature. (B)
Topics such as fieldwork; analysis of collected oral literature; study of separate genres of oral literature, social folk custom, and folk arts. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)
Introduction to the scientific study of language and methodologies of linguistic analysis: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics. Introduction to selected disciplinary and interdisciplinary topics: typology and universals, communication systems, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics. (T)
Prereq: ENG 5700 or LIN 5700. Basic introduction to articulatory phonetics; natural language sound systems and phonological processes studied through data analysis of phonological problems from a wide range of languages. (B)
Introduction to linguistics with emphasis on applications to education. (T)
Comprehensive analysis of English sentence structure and parts of speech using the terminology and descriptive approach of traditional grammar. (F,W)
Prereq: ENG 5700 or LIN 5700. The theory of grammatical systems examined through analysis of sentence and word formation in a variety of human languages. Diversity and universals in grammar discussed and various theories of syntax reviewed. (B)
Investigation of theories in second language acquisition. Review of research in development of second language competence: acquisition of phonology, lexicon, semantics, syntax, discourse, and pragmatics. (B)
Survey of chief social and geographic dialects of American English and introduction to theory of language variation. (I)
Identification of sociolinguistic principles used by English speakers and writers in choosing among the different English codes, styles, registers and social dialects in American and other communities. (B)
Review of linguistic, rhetorical, and/or literary theories of written language. Analysis of the principles, purposes, types, and modes of written discourse. Course includes extensive reading and writing. (B)
Undergrad. prereq: junior or senior standing, written consent of internship director; grad. prereq: written consent of graduate director. Students work 18-20 hours per week as writers, editors or researchers in publishing firms and in public information and research divisions of other businesses and community organizations; students meet once per week in classroom sessions on analytical, literary and other scholarly texts related to their workplace experience. (T)
Prereq: grade of B or better in intermediate writing course or consent of instructor. Intensive writing course that develops communication skills used in the workplace. Designed for students preparing to become technical writers/editors and students who will write as part of their professional work. (B)
Prereq: ENG 5830 or consent of adviser. Survey of the theory and practice of technical and professional communication. Topics include the rhetoric and teaching of technical communication, analysis of on-the-job writing and rhetorical situations, and use of new communications technology. Some technical report writing, a research paper, and extensive reading and writing. (B)
Prereq: ENG 3810, 3820, or 3830; or consent of instructor after submission of manuscript. Topics include new genres, new media, and writing for public audiences. (Y)
Prereq: ENG 3810, 3820, or 3830; or consent of instructor after submission of manuscript. The writing of poetry, conducted on a seminar basis; discussion and criticism of the work of students in the course. Frequent individual conferences. (Y)
Prereq: ENG 3810, 3820, or 3830; or consent of instructor after submission of manuscript. The writing of fiction, conducted on a seminar basis; discussion and criticism of the work of students in the course. Frequent individual conferences. (Y)
Prereq: ENG 3830 or consent of instructor. Advanced study, in a workshop setting, of dramatic structure and writing for the theatre, terminating in the writing of an original stage play. (Y)
Undergrad. prereq: 3.0 g.p.a., proposal submitted in preceding term, written consent of instructor and chairperson; grad. prereq: written consent of adviser and graduate officer. Advanced work for superior students whose program cannot be adequately met by scheduled classes. Course requires substantial written work. (T)
Prereq: written consent of departmental adviser. Open only to students admitted to Salford-WSU Exchange Program. (F,W)
The fundamentals of language and grammar and the literary analysis of Old English texts. (Y)
Topics such as: morphology, semantics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, history of English, language and gender, language variation; to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (F,W)
Prereq: grade of B or better in any 5000-level creative writing course or consent of instructor after submission of manuscript. Writing in any of the creative forms. Work by students presented in seminar meetings; individual conferences. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: graduate standing. Contemporary approaches to literary theory, scholarship, and criticism. (F)
Prereq: graduate standing. Seminar on such topics as: the writing process, computers in composition, theory of basic writing, theory of technical/professional writing. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: graduate standing. Analyzing and evaluating research and research methods in reading, cognitive psychology, rhetoric, linguistics, composition, and other areas related to writing. (Y)
Prereq: graduate standing. Theory of teaching of expository writing: empirical and theoretical exploration of the writing process, written language competence, orality and literacy, and rhetorical theory. Review of pedagogical approaches, including use of the computer in composing. (Y)
Prereq: graduate standing. Analysis of critical texts and ideas in specific writers and periods. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: graduate standing. Introduction to research methods in composition studies: case studies, ethnographies, cognitive studies, discourse analysis, interview studies, survey research, descriptive and experimental studies, historical research. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: graduate standing. Historical background on current theories and practices in composition and writing theory. Students survey past theories of rhetoric and investigate their historical and cultural contexts. (B)
Prereq: graduate standing; ENG 5140 or 6100 or equiv. Selected topics such as Beowulf, poetry of the Exeter Book, gnomic literature, saints' lives. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes.
(I)
Prereq: graduate standing. Selected topics, such as Arthurian legend, the alliterative revival, problems in Chaucer criticism. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: graduate standing. Special problems in current scholarship and criticism. (B)
Prereq: graduate standing. Advanced studies of particular authors or groups of authors from 1500-1660, or of literary works from special sub-period, generic, thematic, or methodological focuses. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)
Prereq: graduate standing. Studies of particular authors or genres. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: graduate standing. Topics, such as Wordsworth and Coleridge, crisis and triumph of the romantic imagination, to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: graduate standing. Poetry, non-fictional prose, drama, fiction. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: graduate standing. Problems in American or British literature. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: graduate standing. Study of specific genres (drama, poetry, utopia, elegy, pastoral, film noir, and the like) using English or American texts (or using a comparative literature approach). Topics to be announced in the Schedule of Classes. (B)
Prereq: graduate standing. Advanced study of the novel. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)
Prereq: graduate standing. Advanced study of such topics as Puritanism, Transcendentalism, Fugitive Slave Narratives and Indian Captivity Narratives as evidenced in such authors as Dickinson, Douglass, Franklin, Hawthorne, Hutchinson, Jacobs, Whitman. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)
Prereq: graduate standing. Advanced study of literary representations of crucial cultural issues as demonstrated among writers, movements, and selected texts. Possible writers include T.S. Eliot, Toni Morrison, Gertrude Stein; movements like Modernism and Postmodernism, and cultural phenomena like assimilation and reification may be treated. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)
Prereq: graduate standing. Advanced studies in American literature from generic, historical, thematic or theoretical perspectives. Topics such as realism, assimilation, naturalism, urbanization, immigration, colonialism, construction and reconstruction. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)
Prereq: graduate standing. Advanced study of topics in African-American literature. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)
Prereq: graduate standing. Graduate seminar in film studies: methods of analysis, historical approaches, theoretical issues. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: graduate standing. Advanced studies in film from theoretical, generic, historical, and auteurist perspectives. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: graduate standing. Canonical/traditional and non-traditional materials of contemporary culture. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: graduate standing. The interrelations of literatures: movements, genres, periods, themes and motifs. Required of M.A. candidates in Comparative Literature when offered as "Literary Theory and the Comparative Study of Literature." Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: graduate standing. Advanced studies in English and American literature from specific perspectives such as generic, historical or thematic. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: graduate standing. Advanced study of the interrelations of folklore and literature. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: graduate standing. Folklore theory and techniques applied to the study of oral and written literature, social folk custom and folk arts. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: graduate standing. Current issues in linguistic theory, including problems in phonology, morphology, syntax, formal semantics; also included are grammatical organization and the interrelationships among components, constraints on rules, and linguistic metatheory. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: graduate standing. Current problems in language use, including issues in language variation, pidgins and creoles, first language acquisition, perception and production, and linguistic stylistics. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: graduate standing. Analysis of inter-sentential relationships and of larger patterns. Implied and actual exchanges. Information ordering. Multi-level and intersectional analysis of expository prose. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)
Prereq: graduate standing. Intensive advanced study in creative writing and/or relevant critical theory. Topics such as: Writing the Novel, Narrative Perspective, Creative Text and Reader Response, to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: written proposal submitted to graduate officer in preceding semester; written consent of adviser and graduate officer. Advanced work for superior English majors whose program of study cannot be adequately met by scheduled classes. (T)
Prereq: written consent of adviser. (T)
Prereq: written consent of graduate adviser. Open only to doctoral students. Advanced seminar on particular critical problem in English studies (literary theory, literary history, cultural studies, discourse and language studies, representation, and the like). Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: written consent of graduate adviser. Open only to doctoral students. Advanced seminar in some aspect or area of English literature. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: written consent of graduate adviser. Open only to doctoral students. Advanced seminar on some aspect or area of American literature. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: written consent of adviser. (T)
Prereq: consent of department. For Ph.D. program applicants. Offered for S and U grades only. Research in preparation for doctoral dissertation. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; Ph.D. candidate in department. Required in academic-year semester following advancement to Ph.D. candidacy. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; ENG 9991. Required in academic-year semester following ENG 9991. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; ENG 9992. Required in academic-year semester following ENG 9992. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; ENG 9993. Required in academic-year semester following ENG 9993. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; completion of 30 credits in ENG 9999, or 9991-9994. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: written consent of doctoral adviser. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)