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Education
  

  • EDUC 2000 Preparing for the Education Profession

    This required course prepares teacher candidates to enter the education profession by building an understanding of professional standards and College of Education (COE) competencies, providing guidance for the requirements for progressing through the teacher preparation program; promoting an understanding of professional expectations and legal responsibilities; and fostering reflective practices.  Through class activities, discussions and professional activities, teacher candidates will acquire the necessary knowledge and skills and support materials to successfully progress though the education professional sequence including clinical experiences.  

    Prerequisites
        Officially progressed into the professional education sequence 
    -    Pass Praxis CORE or equivalent
    -    Successful completion of 60 credits with a WP 3.0 GPA
    -    Successful completion of DAP Interview

    Co-Requisites
    First education course (will differ by point of entry)
    Credits: 0

  

  • EDUC 2400 History of Modern Education

    This course introduces students to the discipline of history by exploring the development and uses of education in the context of the formation of the modern world from the 18th century to the present.  It traces how educational ideas, institutions, and policies interacted with political, economic, social, and cultural developments among the principal regions of the world - Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas - from the Atlantic Revolutions and their aftermath to our contemporary era.  Topics include: how historians study history, and the impact of the Enlightenment, Atlantic Revolutions, Industrialization, “New” Imperialism, Nationalism, Cold War, and globalization on educational ideas, institutions, and policies.  This course meets the UCC Area 3B: Historical Perspectives requirement.

    Pre-requisites:  None
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • EDUC 3990 Selected Topics

    Topics not presently offered in other courses. Content changes each semester.
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
  

  • EDUC 4110 Clinical Practice I

    This clinical internship course provides teacher candidates with the opportunity to connect theory to practice through observing, teaching and reflecting upon their teaching within a P-12 school setting.  Mentored by the clinical educator and clinical supervisor, teacher candidates work with a clinical educator within a P-12 classroom setting that is appropriate for his/her certification three days per week to practice the effective cycle of teaching and expectations of professional practice.  Teacher candidates are observed and are provided feedback on planning, implementing, assessing and reflecting on their teaching by a clinical supervisor a minimum of four times. Through practicing the cycle of effective teaching candidates prepare for formal submission of edTPA by implementing and reflecting on a learning segment as detailed edTPA handbook. This clinical internship requires the teacher candidate to attend their clinical placement a minimum of seven (7) hours per day, three (3) days per week for the length of a full semester.  

     

      Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites:All pre-clinical practice courses in the professional sequence including:
    CIED 2070  
    CIED 2130  
    CIEE 3290  
    CIEE 3120  
    Have taken all appropriate PRAXIS Subject Assessment(s) for certification(s) sought Co-requisite(s): CIED 3140  
    Credits: 1.0

  

  • EDUC 4140 Student Teaching Internship/Seminar and Portfolio Assessment

    The internship is a full-semester teaching experience in a field placement. It is designed to apply learning about professional knowledge, humanistic practices, and reflective thinking to classroom situations on a full-time basis for one semester. Students are observed a minimum of eight times by a University supervisor who regularly reviews student journals. A once a week, one hour and forty minute seminar accompanies the internship and has three goals: 1) discussion and reflection of current issues and students’ teaching experiences, while brainstorming solutions to classroom problems; 2) creation of an e-portfolio; for K-5, students link artifacts to ten New Jersey Teaching Standards and are guided in writing reflective statements for each standard; for P-3, students link artifacts to the NAEYC teaching standards; the Seminar instructor provides evaluates and provides feedback on each portfolio using a rubric; and 3) career development information is also made available (e.g., resume writing, interviewing skills, organizing credential files). Students will be charged an additional Student Teaching Fee when enrolling in this course.
    Credits: 10.00
  

  • EDUC 4150 Senior Teachng Internship

    The internship is a 16 week teaching experience in a field placement. It is designed to apply learning about professional knowledge, humanistic practices and reflective thinking to classroom situations on a full-time basis for one semester. Students are observed a minimum of eight times by a University supervisor who regularly reviews student journals including lesson plans, reflective writing, and other documents. In conjunction with the field experience, students attend a weekly seminar that meets for the entire semester and has three primary goals: 1) discussion and reflection of current issues and students’ teaching experiences, while brainstorming solutions to classroom problems 2)creation of a Professional Portfolio (an E-Portfolio - Live Text) which includes lesson plans, evaluations, philosophy of education, teaching artifacts linked to New Jersey Standards, and other documents. Students write reflective statements related to the standards 3) career development skills and documents are developed including preparation of a resume and cover letter, interviewing skills, credentials filed, etc. the seminar instructor provides feedback on each portfolio and assists students in developing appropriate materials. Students will be charged an additional Student Teaching Fee when enrolling in this course.
    Credits: 12.0
  

  • EDUC 4170 Student Teaching Internship and Seminar

    The student teaching internship is designed for the student to apply learnings about professional knowledge, humanistic practices and reflective thinking to a classroom situation on a full-time basis for one semester. The student works with an experienced teacher who guides the student in his or her subject field, working with individual, small group, and whole-class instruction. The student is observed by a University supervisor who, along with the cooperating teacher, provides appropriate feedback and guidance. A 15-hour seminar is part of the course. Prerequisite(s): CISE 3510 AND (CISE 4110  OR CISE 4120  OR CISE 4130  OR CISE 4140 )
    Credits: 12.0
  

  • EDUC 4185 Clinical Practice I:Physical Education

    This clinical internship course provides teacher candidates with the opportunity to connect theory to practice through observing, teaching and reflecting upon their teaching within a P-12 school setting.  Mentored by the clinical educator and clinical supervisor, teacher candidates work with a clinical educator within a P-12 classroom setting that is appropriate for his/her certification three days per week to practice the effective cycle of teaching and expectations of professional practice.  Teacher candidates are observed and are provided feedback on planning, implementing, assessing and reflecting on their teaching by a clinical supervisor a minimum of four times. Through practicing the cycle of effective teaching candidates prepare for formal submission of edTPA by implementing and reflecting on a learning segment as detailed edTPA handbook. This clinical internship requires the teacher candidate to attend their clinical placement a minimum of seven (7) hours per day, three (3) days per week for the length of a full semester.   Prerequisite(s): PETC 3970   and PETC 3980  

    Have taken all appropriate PRAXIS Subject Assessment(s) for certification(s)
    Credits: 1.0

  

  • EDUC 4190 Clinical Practice I-Secondary

    This clinical internship course provides teacher candidates with the opportunity to connect theory to practice through observing, teaching and reflecting upon their teaching within a P-12 school setting.  Mentored by the clinical educator and clinical supervisor, teacher candidates work with a clinical educator within a P-12 classroom setting that is appropriate for his/her certification three days per week to practice the effective cycle of teaching and expectations of professional practice.  Teacher candidates are observed and are provided feedback on planning, implementing, assessing and reflecting on their teaching by a clinical supervisor a minimum of four times. Through practicing the cycle of effective teaching candidates prepare for formal submission of edTPA by implementing and reflecting on a learning segment as detailed edTPA handbook. Students will be charged an additional Fee when enrolling in this class.
    Credits: 1.0
  

  • EDUC 4210 Clinical Practice II: Elementary Education

    This clinical internship course provides teacher candidates with the opportunity to connect theory to practice through observing, teaching and reflecting upon their teaching within a P-12 school setting and is a more intensive continuation of Clinical Practice I.  Mentored by the clinical educator and clinical supervisor, teacher candidates continue to work within a P-12 classroom setting that is appropriate for his/her certification five days per week to practice and demonstrate proficiency in the effective cycle of teaching and expectations of professional practice. Teacher candidates are observed and provided feedback on planning, implementing, assessing and reflecting on their teaching by a clinical supervisor a minimum of every other week or eight times. Through practicing the cycle of effective teaching candidates conduct selected learning segments for formal submission of edTPA.  Students will be charged additional Student Teaching Fee. This clinical internship requires the teacher candidate to attend their clinical placement a minimum of seven (7) hours per day, five (5) days per week for the length of a full semester.   Elementary Education Majors Only Prerequisite(s): CIED 3140  , EDUC 4110  

    Passing all appropriate PRAXIS Subject Assessments for certification area(s) sought
    Credits: 6.0

  

  • EDUC 4240 Clinical Practice II:Early Childhood

    This clinical internship course provides teacher candidates with the opportunity to connect theory to practice through observing, teaching and reflecting upon their teaching within a P-12 school setting and is a more intensive continuation of Clinical Practice I.  Mentored by the clinical educator and clinical supervisor, teacher candidates continue to work within a P-12 classroom setting that is appropriate for his/her certification five days per week to practice and demonstrate proficiency in the effective cycle of teaching and expectations of professional practice.  Teacher candidates are observed and provided feedback on planning, implementing, assessing and reflecting on their teaching by a clinical supervisor a minimum of every other week or eight times. Through practicing the cycle of effective teaching candidates conduct selected learning segments for formal submission of edTPA. This clinical internship requires the teacher candidate to attend their clinical placement a minimum of seven (7) hours per day, five (5) days per week for the length of a full semester.   

    This course fulfills UCC Area 5: Civic Engagement

      Students will be charged an additional Student Teaching fee and edTPA Testing Fee. Prerequisite(s): CIED 3140   and EDUC 4200  

    Passing all appropriate PRAXIS Subject Assessments for certification area(s) sought Co-requisite(s): CIED 3240  
    Credits: 6.0

  

  • EDUC 4249 Clinical Practice I-Music Education

    This clinical internship course provides teacher candidates with the opportunity to connect theory to practice through observing, teaching and reflecting upon their teaching within a P-12 school setting.  Mentored by the clinical educator and clinical supervisor, teacher candidates work with a clinical educator within a P-12 classroom setting that is appropriate for his/her certification three days per week to practice the effective cycle of teaching and expectations of professional practice.  Teacher candidates are observed and are provided feedback on planning, implementing, assessing and reflecting on their teaching by a clinical supervisor a minimum of four times. Through practicing the cycle of effective teaching candidates prepare for formal submission of edTPA by implementing and reflecting on a learning segment as detailed edTPA handbook. This clinical internship requires the teacher candidate to attend their clinical placement a minimum of seven (7) hours per day, two (2) days per week for the length of a full semester.  

      Prerequisite(s): CIED 2070 ,MUSI 1250 ,MUSI 3250 ,MUSI 3260 ,MUSI 3260   or MUSI 3291,MUSI 4250 ,PSY 1100  

    Pass the Praxis CORE (or have equivalent SAT scores), Completed the Music Content Knowledge Praxis Exam and a 3.0 GPA
      Co-requisite(s): MUSI 4290  
    Credits: 1.0

  

  • EDUC 4250 Clinical Practice II:Music Education

    This clinical internship course provides teacher candidates with the opportunity to connect theory to practice through observing, teaching and reflecting upon their teaching within a P-12 school setting and is a more intensive continuation of Clinical Practice I.  Mentored by the clinical educator and clinical supervisor, teacher candidates continue to work within a P-12 classroom setting that is appropriate for his/her certification five days per week to practice and demonstrate proficiency in the effective cycle of teaching and expectations of professional practice.  Teacher candidates are observed and provided feedback on planning, implementing, assessing and reflecting on their teaching by a clinical supervisor a minimum of every other week or eight times. Through practicing the cycle of effective teaching candidates conduct selected learning segments for formal submission of edTPA. This clinical internship requires the teacher candidate to attend their clinical placement a minimum of seven (7) hours per day, five (5) days per week for the length of a full semester.  

    This course fulfills UCC Area 5: Community and Civic Engagement

      Prerequisite(s): Pass the Praxis CORE (or have equivalent SAT scores); Pass the Music Content Knowledge Praxis Exam and a 3.00 GPA.

    MUSI 4290   andEDUC 4249  

      Co-requisite(s): MUSI 4291  
    Credits: 6.0

  

  • EDUC 4280 Clinical Practice I:Secondary Education

    This clinical internship course provides teacher candidates with the opportunity to connect theory to practice through observing, teaching and reflecting upon their teaching within a P-12 school setting.  Mentored by the clinical educator and clinical supervisor, teacher candidates work with a clinical educator within a P-12 classroom setting that is appropriate for his/her certification three days per week to practice the effective cycle of teaching and expectations of professional practice.  Teacher candidates are observed and are provided feedback on planning, implementing, assessing and reflecting on their teaching by a clinical supervisor a minimum of four times. Through practicing the cycle of effective teaching candidates prepare for formal submission of edTPA by implementing and reflecting on a learning segment as detailed edTPA handbook.This clinical internship requires the teacher candidate to attend their clinical placement a minimum of seven (7) hours per day, three (3) days per week for the length of a full semester.    

      Prerequisite(s): CIED 2070 ,CIED 2130 ,CISE 2955 ,CISE 3700 
    One of the following based on content area :CISE 4110 ,CISE 4120 ,CISE 4130 ,CISE 4170 ,CISE 4190  
    Have taken all appropriate PRAXIS Subject Assessment(s) for certification(s) sought.

      Co-requisite(s): CIED 3140 ; One of the following based on content area:CISE 4210  , CISE 4220  ,CISE 4230  ,CISE 4270  ,CISE 4290  
    Credits: 1.0

  

  • EDUC 4285 Clinical Practice II: Physical Education

    This clinical internship course provides teacher candidates with the opportunity to connect theory to practice through observing, teaching and reflecting upon their teaching within a P-12 school setting and is a more intensive continuation of Clinical Practice I.  Mentored by the clinical educator and clinical supervisor, teacher candidates continue to work within a P-12 classroom setting that is appropriate for his/her certification four days per week to practice and demonstrate proficiency in the effective cycle of teaching and expectations of professional practice.  Teacher candidates are observed and provided feedback on planning, implementing, assessing and reflecting on their teaching by a clinical supervisor a minimum of every other week or eight times. Through practicing the cycle of effective teaching candidates conduct selected learning segments for formal submission of edTPA.   Students will be charged additional Student Teaching Fee. This clinical internship requires the teacher candidate to attend their clinical placement a minimum of seven (7) hours per day, four (4) days per week for the length of a full semester.  

    This course fulfills UCC Area 5: Community and Civic Engagment. Prerequisite(s): Passing all appropriate PRAXIS Subject Assessments for certification area(s) sought.  

    EDUC 4185   and PETC 4180  

      Co-requisite(s): PETC 4280  
    Credits: 6.0

  

  • EDUC 4290 Clinical Practice II-Secondary

    This clinical internship course provides teacher candidates with the opportunity to connect theory to practice through observing, teaching and reflecting upon their teaching within a P-12 school setting and is a more intensive continuation of Clinical Practice I.  Mentored by the clinical educator and clinical supervisor, teacher candidates continue to work within a P-12 classroom setting that is appropriate for his/her certification five days per week to practice and demonstrate proficiency in the effective cycle of teaching and expectations of professional practice.  Teacher candidates are observed and provided feedback on planning, implementing, assessing and reflecting on their teaching by a clinical supervisor a minimum of every other week or eight times. Through practicing the cycle of effective teaching candidates conduct selected learning segments for formal submission of edTPA.   Students will be assessed additional fees when enrolling in this class. This clinical internship requires the teacher candidate to attend their clinical placement a minimum of seven (7) hours per day, five (5) days per week for the length of a full semester.  

    This course Fulfills UCC Area 5:Community and Civic Engagement

     

     

      Prerequisite(s): Passing all appropriate PRAXIS Subject Assessments for certification area(s) sought.

    CIED 3140   and EDUC 4190   Co-requisite(s): CIED 3240  
    Credits: 6.0

  

  • EDUC 4990 Independent Study

    As approved and to be arranged.
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0

English
  

  • ENG 1080 Basic Writing

    Emphasizes fluency and coherence in written expression. Students write and revise short, whole pieces to prepare for the more advanced writing required in ENG 1100 . Note: Credits for this basic skills course are not applicable toward degree requirements.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 1100 College Writing

    A workshop course in which students read about writing practice and theory and learn strategies for developing and revising pieces of non-fiction writing.  Students share their writing with the instructor and their peers, get feedback on drafts, and consider this feedback as they progress through the writing process. At least one writing project should be developed over four different drafts. This course develops students’ writing competency on the college level. Students must attain a grade of C to pass this course.  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 1500 Experiences in Literature

    A writing-intensive course in which students examine how literary texts affect readers and in which students develop and sharpen this understanding though drafting, discussing, and revising written responses to these texts. Literary texts may include different genres: (short fiction, poetry, film, drama, etc.).
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 2000 Introduction to Literary Analysis

    An writing-intensive course in which students undertake an in-depth study of selected short stories, poems, plays, and/or novels, with focus on analytical and evaluative techniques of interpretation. Within the context of various critical frameworks, students gain practice in employing precise literary terms, understanding genre conventions, situating work in historical, biographic, cultural, and theoretical contexts, and conducting research. This portal course is required for all English majors. This class is writing intensive. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 2020 Language and Technology

    This technology-intensive course introduces basic concepts and practices of modern linguistic analysis: how linguists analyze language structure and usage.  Meeting ISTE (International Standards for Technology in Education) and National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers, the course offers systematic training in adapting electronic technologies to linguistic ends.  Students will survey fundamental linguistic categories (e.g. morphemes; phonemes) and techniques, developing their ability to use common hardware/software to collect, analyze and present linguistic data in ethical context. This course is writing intensive.
      Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 2030 Structure Standard English

    An introduction to the structure of standard American English, emphasizing both grammatical knowledge and intensive practice in manipulation of grammatical structures for clarity, emphasis, and grace. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1100 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 2040 Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric

    This course is Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric, the study of written, visual, and digital language and how that language is used to create knowledge, effect change, shape thought, and influence power in our society. Students will examine how rhetoric and writing is situated within our culture, and how humans identify with and make meaning through the language and knowledge that underpins and influences public discourse. This course examines the role of discourse in shaping the world in which we live, and it investigates how we can use language to understand and navigate that world more effectively. Students will also explore theories and practices of modern rhetoric and writing studies, including recent advancements in the knowledge of how we as writers learn and write effectively for academic, civic, and professional life. *This course is Writing Intensive*
     
  

  • ENG 2050 Exploring Careers in English Studies

    This course will guide students interested English Studies in researching and exploring career options and graduate and professional programs. Students will use research and analytical skills to learn about careers in various fields that require research, analysis, and advanced critical writing abilities. Using writing and editing skills, they will learn how to compose appropriate resumes, CVs, business letters, and job and postgraduate school applications. As a culminating project, students will create a portfolio, including a potential career trajectory, plans for postgrad or professional studies, as well as resumes, cover letters, and interview questions that are designed for specific career objectives. This course will be offered in the spring.


     
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • ENG 2070 Effective Business Writing

    This course will help students develop knowledge of and capability in various approaches to business writing contexts, as well as the forms and styles of business writing. Students will study and produce different products typical in business writing, including such items as reports, letters, proposals, and analyses. This is a writing intensive course.

    This class is writing intensive. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1100  
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • ENG 2080 Bible and Literature

    Examines the Bible as literature and its influence on other works. Authors may include Dante, Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Twain, Levertov, and others. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 2110 Modern Drama

    Introduces modern drama and performance through a study of representative works of modern European and American drama, emphasizing the nineteenth-century roots in Ibsen, Strindberg, and Shaw; twentieth-century masters like Pirandello, O’Neill, and Miller; contemporary playwrights like Stoppard, Kushner, and Sondheim; and theorists like Artaud and Brecht. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 2140 Contemporary Drama

    Studies the mid-century roots of contemporary drama in playwrights like Beckett and Albee, and of recent realistic, experimental, and musical theater. Playwrights may include Stoppard, Mamet, Fierstein, Fornes, Sondheim, Shaffer, Wasserstein, Hwang, Kushner, Soyinka, Churchill, Shepard, Valdez, and Wilson. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 2160 Science Fiction/Fantasy

    Studies classical and recent science fiction, fantasy for adults and children, and utopian and anti- utopian fiction. The course explores genre conventions as well as the historical significance of the texts. Authors may include Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, Gilman, Heinlein, LeGuin, Lewis, Tolkien, Vonnegut, and Wells. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 2170 Women in Literature

    This course will examine representations of women in literature across diverse cultural contexts to study how literary texts enlarge our understanding of how gender roles are both constructed and contested, beyond a conventional gendered binary. The thematic focus of this course will be on women’s struggles for identity and their efforts to negotiate between the conflicting demands of family, tradition, and security versus the desire for independence, autonomy, and agency. The course will examine the ways in which discrimination and injustice against women, variously defined/self-identified in diverse ways, is complicated by issues of race, ethnicity, class, caste, and sexuality. An analysis of various literary texts will reflect the narrative strategies that writers deploy to negotiate complex and overlapping issues of gender injustices, and gender as it is inhabited across a range of sexualities and gender identifications from trans, cis, and queer categories.

    This class fulfills UCC area 4:Diversity and Justice and is Writing Intensive Prerequisite(s): ENG 1100   and ENG 1500   Cross Listed Course(s): WGS 2170  
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • ENG 2190 19Th Century Women’s Voices

    Studies various writers of the nineteenth century whose work challenges traditional assumptions about women’s roles. Attention is paid to the political and cultural contexts of the works. Writers may include Mary Shelley, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charlotte Bronte, Louisa May Alcott, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Kate Chopin. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 2210 Mystery Story

    An historical, philosophical, cultural, and literary study of the mystery story through an examination of such fictional works as the detective story, the suspense novel, the story of strange or frightening adventure, the tale of espionage, the tale of crime, and the Gothic novel – with emphasis on detection. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 2220 Literature and Popular Culture

    This course will introduce students to the study of popular culture with an emphasis on literature. Through close consideration of a variety of genres, students will explore how our ways of seeing the world are influenced by the production and consumption of popular culture, with particular attention to the ways popular forms of entertainment with literary components - such as television, film, comic books, and novels - allow us to understand the social, cultural, and economic forces that shape our lives. By interrogating the distinction between popular and high culture, students will think critically about the complex social dimensions of contemporary culture. The course will utilize theories and concepts that are commonly applied to the study of popular culture, including feminism, Marxism, post-colonialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, and critical race theory. The particular content of the course is open and will reflect the instructor’s interests and area(s) of specialization. Possible sources might include comic books and graphic novels, popular fiction, folklore, new media, television, and modern day adaptations of the classics. This is a writing intensive course. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 2280 Latino/A Literature in The US

    An introduction to the various cultural expressions that have emerged from Mexicans, Cubans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, dual identity American/Latinos, and recent Latin American migrations into and within the United States, this course promotes awareness, knowledge, and appreciation of the development of Latino/a literature. Authors include but are not limited to: Cristina Garcia, Jose Marti, Richard Rodriguez, Cherrie Moraga, John Rechy, and Gloria Anzaldua.

    This course fulfills UCC-Area 4:Diversity and Justice
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • ENG 2290 Films and Literature

    The study of selected stories, plays, and novels, and their film adaptations. An examination of the challenges of adapting fiction to film. Works to be studied may include Romeo and Juliet, A Room with a View, It Happened One Night, Rear Window, Rashomon, and Blow-up. In addition, race and gender issues are considered in such works as The Joy That Kills and Almos’ a Man. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 2310 Introduction To Creative Writing

    A workshop leading to the development of writing skills in poetry and fiction; may also cover such genres as drama, screenwriting, and creative non-fiction. Through readings and discussions on topics such as style, theme, and voice, students are encouraged to develop imaginative power and originality in creative writing. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 2500 Literature of The Harlem Renaissance

    This is a course that studies the historical, artistic, and political movement centered in Harlem, New York from the 1910s to the mid 1930s commonly referred to as the Harlem Renaissance. It investigates the diasporic connections between Harlem and both Africa and the Caribbean. In addition, it emphasizes the contributions of women writers to a movement traditionally seen as a largely male preserve. Further, it investigates the fraught relationship between race, sexuality, and artistic expression. Readings may include texts by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Alain Locke, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, and others. This is a Writing Intensive course. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3000 Technical Writing

    Intensive work on the elements of successful technical writing through such forms as the expanded definition, instructions, the informative abstract and the long technical report.

    This course is both Writing and Technology Intensive. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1100  
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • ENG 3010 English Literature Through The Neoclassical Period

    Introduces selected representative works of British literature, from the Old English period through the eighteenth century, with attention to the formal elements of the texts and genres in which the authors wrote. Special emphasis is placed on the socio-cultural contexts of the works. Selected writers/texts may include Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer, Margery Kemp, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Dryden, Swift, and Pope. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3020 English Literature: Romantic Through Modern

    Critically studies selected prose and poetry from the early nineteenth century to the present in its social, intellectual, and national contexts. Included are such major authors as Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson, the Brownings, Emily Bronte, Christine Rosetti, Wilde, Joyce, Yeats, Woolf, Achebe, Caryl Churchill, and others. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3030 American Literature To 1865

    Critically studies American authors from the Colonial period through the American Renaissance with attention to their social and intellectual background. Authors may include Columbus, Bradford, Rowlandson, Bradstreet, Wheatley, Occom, Cooper, Stowe, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3040 American Literature 1865-1914

    Critical study of American authors from the Civil War to World War I, with attention to their social and intellectual backgrounds. Readings may include Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Chopin, James, Wharton, and Crane. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3050 Literature West Europe To Renaissance

    Surveys of the Western canon drawn from two thousands years of continental European literature, beginning with Green and Roman writers like Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, Plato, and Virgil; continuing through the Judeo-Christian Bibles, St. Augustine, and Dante; and concluding with Renaissance figures like Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Cervantes. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3060 Literature of Western Europe: Renaissance Through Modern

    Surveys the Western canon drawn from continental European literature of the last 300 years, beginning with neoclassical writers like Moliere, Racine, Marie de LaFayette, and Voltaire; continuing with romantic, realistic, naturalistic, and symbolist writers like Rousseau, Goethe, Hugo, Pushkin, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, Tolstoy, and Ibsen; and concluding with modernist writers like Pirandello, Proust, Mann, Rilke, Kafka, Lorca, and Camus. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3070 Latino Cultural Studies

    This course offers a comparative, analytical, and critical perspective on the popular culture of the Latino population in the United States. It examines the interplay of history, belief systems, cultural assumptions, traditions, and worldviews as expressed in the literature, film, music, television, and cultural artifacts produced by and for the twenty-two million Latinos currently living in this country. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3080 Japanese Film and Literature in Translation

    This course examines Japanese literature and film as world literature and global cinema. Through the study of major works we will seek to understand why Japan’s aesthetics, literary themes, and popular expressions have become integral to global culture today. We will trace the multiple cultural influences flowing to and from Japan, asking what has changed and what has continued over the centuries. Drawing upon novels, drama, poetry, and movies- ranging from classics like The Tale of Genji, Nobel-winning authors, and manga superstars to the “new classics” on celluloid and animé-the course traces the movement of Japanese literature from isolation on the edge of Asia to a position of cultural centrality in today’s world, while we examine the works on their merits. This is a writing intensive course.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3090 Book and Magazine Editing

    Develops skills in the basic techniques of editing books and magazines. Designed for those interested in a publishing career and for the general reader and writer. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3100 Elizbeth/Jacobean Drama

    A critical reading of Shakespeare’s forerunners and contemporaries in drama: Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and others. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3110 Literature Eng Renaissance

    Selected English prose and poetry of the sixteenth century. Special attention is given to the early English humanist theories of education, eloquence, and language and their literary influence, and important developments in English poetry. The focus is on figures such as Thomas More, Philip Sidney, and Edmund Spenser. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3120 Donne/Jonson/Contmporary

    A study of several representative works of the first sixty years of the seventeenth century in Britain, with particular emphasis on John Donne and Ben Jonson. Attention is paid to the various literary forms and genres of the seventeenth century, the cultural and intellectual context in which authors were writing, and the authors’ influences on one another. In addition to Donne and Jonson, selected authors may include Webster, Wroth, Bacon, Hobbes, Herbert, Marvell, Herrick, Philips, and Milton. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3130 Literature British Empire 1660-1750

    This course explores the literature of the Restoration and of the early 18th century in England, Scotland, and Wales, with attention to the writing of the newly developing British empire, especially the literature of the Atlantic. Writers studied include Behn, Defoe, Locke, Selina Hastings, Swift, and others. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3140 Age of Johnson

    The course focuses on the decline of Augustanism and the rise of Romanticism (1750-98). Students read imaginative, critical, and political works by writers such as Johnson, Boswell, Goldsmith, Radcliffe, Burke, Burney, Inchwalk, Sterne, Burns, and Wollstonecraft. The class examines issues such as sentimentalism, manners, revolution, and the emergence of the novel. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3150 Romantic Movement in England

    Critically studies Romantic poetry and prose within the contexts of literary and cultural history. The course addresses the works’ thematic content and form as well as issues such as gender, class, nation, ethnicity, religion, and education. Authors may include Blake, Wollstonecraft, Baillie, Burns, Wordsworth (William and Dorothy), Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Shelley (Percy and Mary), Hemans, Keats, and the Brontes. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3160 Literature Culture Victorians

    This course examines the poetry, fiction, nonfictional prose, and drama of the Victorians in their social context. Readings may include such poets as Tennyson, the Brownings, and Arnold; novelists such as Eliot, Stoker, Dickens, and Hardy; nonfictional writers such as Carlyle, Mill, and Pater; and playwrights including Shaw and Wilde. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3170 Modern American Literature

    Introduces major movements like modernism, social protest, regionalism, and confessional writing that shaped American fiction, poetry, and drama in the period from the end of World War I to the end of the Vietnam War. Writers may include Frost, Eliot, Hughes, Millay, Ginsberg, and Plath; Glaspell, O’Neill, Hellman, and Albee; Cather, Fitzgerald, Parker, Hemingway, Faulkner, Hurston, Steinbeck, O’Connor, Kerouac, and Barthelme. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3180 Modern British Literature

    Introduces the major developments in modern British literature, emphasizing the development of modernism in Joyce, Eliot, and Woolf; drama from Shaw through Beckett to Osborne and Stoppard; the poetry of Yeats and Auden, Thomas and Larkin; the fiction of Lawrence, Greene, Orwell, and Lessing; and the impact of the literatures of the Empire in Ireland, Africa, the Caribbean, and India/Pakistan. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3190 Modern British and American Poetry

    Study of selected British and American poets of the twentieth century such as W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, H.D., T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Seamus Heaney. Literary movements and social conflicts that distinguish the period are discussed. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3200 Novel:Defoe-Austen

    Critically studies the origins of the English novel in the eighteenth century, with attention to the ways it emerged out of contemporary genres such as travel narrative, letters, memoirs, scandal chronicles, and journalism. Authors may include Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Walpole, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Radcliffe, Edgeworth, and Austen. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3210 The English Novel: Dickens To Hardy

    Critically studies novels of the Victorian period and their contexts - social, scientific, political, religious, domestic, economic, historical, and literary. Selected authors may include Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope, the Brontes, and Hardy. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3220 19th Century European Novel

    Studies major continental European fiction against the social, political, and intellectual milieu of nineteenth-century Europe. Within the framework of the romantic, realistic, and the naturalistic literary movements, the novelists may include Lermontov, Manzoni, Balzac, Turgenev, Sand, Stendhal, Hugo, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Zola. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3230 20th Century European Fiction

    Studies major continental European fiction against the social, political, and intellectual milieu of twentieth-century Europe. Within the framework of the modernist and postmodernist literary movements, authors may include Gide, Colette, Proust, Dinesen, Rilke, Malraux, Camus, Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Duras, Celine, Nin, Bernanos, Unamuno, Mann, Remarque, Kafka, Boll, Aichinger, Roch, Grass, Kunera, Calvino, Svevo, Moravia, Silone, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Babel. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3240 Modern Biography and Autobiography

    Includes modern autobiographies and biographies of writers, artists, musicians, and figures from history and popular culture. A study of how autobiography and biography function as art forms and reflect the political and cultural contexts of their times. An exploration of the process of writing autobiography and biography. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3250 Literature Across the Americas

    The course will focus on fiction, poetry and drama produced in North, Central and South America, offering comparative readings of selected texts. Writers may include Munro, Atwood, Ondaatje, Hurston, Faulkner, Hemingway, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Clarice Lispector, Graciliano Ramos, Jorge Amado, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid. Satisfies survey requirement; pre-1900 requirement. ENG 1100  and ENG 1500 .
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3260 Native American Literature

    A study of the work of contemporary Native American writers including Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, N. Scott Momaday, and Sherman Alexi. The course focuses on novels but may include poetry, short fiction, and some works that defy classification. Themes such as orality, myth, community, storytelling, and genre boundaries are examined. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3270 Literature and Environment

    The course will familiarize students with the established canons of nature writing and environmental literature. Using an ecocritical lens, students will study the vital relationship between literature and environmental values that exists even in literature not directly identified with environmental traditions. In addition, students will engage in one or more of the following activities: research and analysis of strategies for environmental activism; critical interaction with local (urban, suburban, and/or rural) ecosystems in order to investigate the concept of “environment”; and active participation in environmental activism. In these ways, the course may prove beneficial not only to understanding our regional, national, and global environmental crises, but for resolving them, too. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  & Complete Area 4 of UCC requirements
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3280 Studies in African American Literature

    A study of African American Literature and its literary movements, the course will look at African American literature in its cultural and historical contexts to examine issues of race, class, and gender, as well as cultural/social movements and their impact on literary production.  The course will cover slave narratives, the pre-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and post-1970/contemporary texts. It may also include neo-slave narratives, autobiographies, afro-futurism, narratives of “passing” and urban literature. This is a UCC Writing Intensive course. 

      Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • ENG 3290 Stigmatized Englishes

    This course examines the diversity of stigmatized dialects of American English in terms of structural features, social status of the speakers, narrative structure, and logic of vernacular discourse.  The course also examines features common to several such varieties, as well as those that are unique.  Varieties to be studied include: white working-class speech, African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), Appalachian English, and varieties spoken by Latin Americans in the U.S. Cross Listed Course(s): LANG 3010 , PHIL 3010  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3300 Critical Writing I

    This course in nonfiction writing covers a variety of forms and genres, such as the academic paper, the book or film review, the personal essay, and the editorial. Students produce frequent expository and/or analytical writings on selected cultural topics. While learning to edit their own as well as others’ work, students develop skills in writing-as-process, grammar and style, argument, persuasion, and research. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3320 Advanced Creative Writing

    Designed for students who have successfully completed one semester of creative writing and want additional specialized instruction in a variety of genres. Prerequisite(s): ENG 2310 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3330 Critical Writing II

    This writing-intensive course covers advanced nonfiction writing techniques for a variety of purposes and audiences. In writing essays or analyzing literature, mass media, or other cultural texts, students practice various critical approaches and persuasion strategies. The course may also treat advanced topics in manuscript conventions, style and voice, research methods, logical argument, and rhetoric. Prerequisite(s): ENG 3300 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3340 Creative Non-Fiction

    This advanced writing seminar covers various forms of creative non-fiction prose, treating such genres as the personal essay, memoir, literary journalism, the nature piece, and the travel essay. Prerequisite(s): ENG 2310  OR ENG 3300 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3360 Introduction to Adolescent Literature

    A study of classical and contemporary coming-of-age narratives written by, for, and about adolescents. The course may include works by writers such as Twain, Frank, Salinger, and Kincaid. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3370 Children’s Literature

    A study of genres including fairytales, historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction in a variety of classical and contemporary works. The course may include works by writers such as Carroll, White, Barrie, Rowling, and Taylor. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3380 Fiction Writing

    A writing workshop with an emphasis on crafting stories or longer fictional works. The elements of fiction - character, dialogue, narrative voice, description, point of view, plot, structure - are discussed and analyzed in the work of professional story-writers. Prerequisite(s): ENG 2310  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3390 Poetry Writing Seminar

    An advanced workshop for students committed to further work in poetry, with emphasis on exposure to a variety of poetic methods and forms and the development of each writer’s individual voice and style. Students work on individual projects as well as meet as a group to discuss craft, collaborate in editing workshops, and gain background in the history of poetry. Prerequisite(s): ENG 2310 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3400 Contemporary Literature

    An introduction to both traditional and experimental fiction, poetry, and drama drawn from all cultures from approximately 1960 to the present. Novelists may include Marquez, Morrison, Kundera, Kureishi, Carver, Oates, and Cisneros; poets may include Rich, Ashbery, Walcott, Heaney, Amichai, Lorde, Milosz, and Szymborska; and playwrights may include Albee, Stoppard, Mamet, Kushner, Wassersein, and Fugard. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3410 The Beat Generation

    An exploration of the poetry, fiction, and memoirs of the Beat Generation. Authors may include Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Bowles, Diane de Prima, and Helen Adam. The course also assesses the legacy of the Beat Generation. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3420 Contemporary American Fiction

    A survey of American fiction since 1968, this course explores selected works of imporant short story writers and novelists in their aesthetic, historical, and cultural contexts. Authors may include Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, T.C. Boyle, George Saunders, Sandra Cisneros, Bharati Mukherjee, E.L. Doctorow, DonDeLillo, Toni Morrison, and Barbara Kingsolver. The course familiarizes students with the conventions of the short story and novel genres, as well as investigates how post-modern sensibilities, consumer/mass culture, and multi-ethnic and global issues impinge on current American literary practices. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3430 Writing Experimental Fiction

    This advanced writing class focuses on the creation of experimental fiction, with attention to its twentieth-century, literary history. Students practice techniques of surrealism, metafiction, pastiche, cut-ups, and other non-realistic, non-traditional and postmodern methods of producing fiction. In a workshop format, sutdents share their writings and critique the work of peers throughout the semester. Readings include innovative fiction by the likes of John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Jamaica Kincaid, Rick Moody, Haruki Murakami, and others. Prerequisite(s): ENG 2310 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3500 Literature of American Cultures

    This course will offer a study of the literature of American cultures with a focus on Native American, Latino/a, Asian American, and African American writers and texts. In its focus on issues of identity(racial-based, class-based, and gender-based), this comparative study of Ethnic American literature explores the ways in which identities are constructed in literary texts. To understand the socio-cultural context of literary works, the course will encourage students to examine the historical background of each author and his/her text as examples of how each respective group responds to life in the United States, in particular its often conflicted and mediated relation with dominant cultural norms. Finally, we will examine how authors deploy imaginative, narrative, and linguistic strategies in literature to comment upon issues of diversity and social injustice. This course may include short stories, novels, poetry, autobiography,memoir, and drama.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3510 Asian American Literature

    A literature course introducing modern and contemporary Asian American literature, including oral histories, novels, poetry, and memoir. These works are examined within their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Authors may include Kingston, Hwang, Mukherjee, Jen, Hagedorn, Yamanaka, Hongo, Bulosan. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3520 African American Poetry

    Critically studies African American poetry, including vernacular forms. Identifies formal elements of poetry while attending to the political and historical contexts of the writing. Authors may include Wheatley, Horton, Hammon, F.E.W. Harper, DuBois, J.W. Johnson, Dunbar, Hughes, McKay, Toomer, Spencer, G.D. Johnson, Brooks, Jones, M. Harper, Hayden, Jordan, Reed, Giovanni, Sanchez, Clifton, Mullen, Alexander, and Komunyakaa. Vernacular forms studied may include spirituals, work songs, sermons, the blues, gospel, jazz, and hip hop. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3530 Modern Indian Literature

    An examination of significant works of the literature of India, from the colonial period to the present, which may include novels, poetry, memoirs, and travelogues. The course focuses on modern and contemporary authors and offers an opportunity to examine works in their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Authors may include Rudyard Kipling, R.K. Naryan, Rabindranath Tagore, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, and Arundhati Roy. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  AND ASN 2010   Cross Listed Course(s): (Cross-Listed with ASN 3530 ).
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3540 Readings in Global Literature

    This course introduces students to representative texts in literatures from across the world, focusing especially on literatures from the global south/ non-western world, which may range from the ancient to the modern and contemporary periods. The course emphasizes a broadly comparative perspective which situates literary texts, either Anglophone or in translation, from different regions, both in specific cultural and political contexts, as well as studies them in depth from a boadly literary perspective in conversation and canonical western literary texts and genres. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  and ENG 2000 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3550 Writing Sudden Fiction

    This advanced writing class focuses on the composition of brief works of fictional prose known variously as sudden fiction, short-short fiction, micro fiction, and flash fiction. Through reading and writing assignments, the course explores the full range of this thriving genre - touching on the prose poem, the anecdote, the epistle, the fable, the parable, and other related forms along the way. Throughout the semester, students share their writings and critique the work of their peers in a workshop format. Readings include short literary texts by Baudelaire, Kawabata, Cisneros, Edson, Kincaid, Lydia Davis, Alessandro Baricco, and others. Prerequisite(s): ENG 2310 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3560 Literature and Medicine

    In this course, students will explore how humans have experienced, interpreted, and represented disease, illness, health, and wellness through literature and film from a variety of world cultures. Students will investigate the historical and social contexts of illness and health, and the ways that belief systems, tradition, and culture construct our understanding of health and illness, as well as the meanings we assign to disease, illness, disability, health, and well-being in world literature.

      Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • ENG 3570 Becoming New York: Literature, History, Culture: 1844-1898

    A multi-disciplinary approach to the literature, history, and culture of New York that includes subjects such as immigration, the Civil War and the draft riots; the intrigue of New York as celebrated by Melville, Poe, Whitman, James, and Howell; the impact of building public transporation and public space such as Central Park and the Brooklyn Bridge; tenement housing and reform movements; and the unification of the five boroughs. Also included are films such as The Gangs of New York and Washington Square. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3580 Women in Modern Japanese Literature

    This course examines the portrayal of women, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Japanese culture and society. Drawing on literary genres from the traditional to manga art and animé creations, the course explores such universal topics as notions of the self, national and gender identity, colonialism, war and its atomic aftermath, sexual liberation, globalism, and aging in Japan’s modern period (1868 - present). What Japanese writers have learned from and transmitted to Japan’s regional neighbors and world literature and how the concerns of the global women’s movement have manifested themselves in Japanese literature are major focii of discussion. All readings will be in English. Cross Listed Course(s): Cross listed with ASN 3250 , JPAN 3250 , WGS 3560 .
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3590 Literature and the Politics of Food

    Although food is fundamental to survival, it is also political and at the heart of ritualized eating practices-from simple to ceremonial-that shape identity and define notions of community. This course explores the power and meaning of food within the broad contexts of social, cultural, political, and economic relations as expressed in literary and cultural texts. Students will explore the fraught relationship of food to class, race, caste, and gender issues and the varying aesthetic and narrative strategies used to illuminate these conflicts in literature, across comparative cultural contexts. This is a UCC 5 Civic Engagement course. This is a writing intensive course.  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3600 Digital Writing and Editing

    This course focuses on designing and creating content for digital spaces. Students will learn to analyze and to write, both individually and collaboratively, in digital genres for various audiences. Students will explore methods of writing and editing for online publication, from site architecture analysis and design strategies to content development and line editing. Students will understand how the arrangement of content and the choice of digital genre impact writing effectiveness, and they will learn to use editing strategies and tools employed by professional writers in a wide range of digital situations. This course is UCC Writing Intensive and UCC Technology Intensive.

      Prerequisite(s): ENG 1100  
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • ENG 3690 Imagining War

    This course will develop students’ appreciation and understanding of the literary and historical context of war and challenge them to explore a variety of issues (gender, social class, pacifism, nationalism, the Home Front) through reading, writing, and discussion of literary and historical texts. These texts may vary by genre, historical period, or country of origin, and may include primary sources, memoir, poetry, fiction, film, media, and the visual arts. The goal of the course is to explore a single war from the 20th or 21st century. This is a writing intensive course. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3760 Life/Writings Indigenous Women

    This course studies the richness of the culture and literatures of women from indigenous communities, and the systemic oppression that they have been/are subject to due to race, caste, gender, and class. The communities include Native American, Australian Aborigine, and Dalit women from India. The traditional and historical status of these women in relation to their social, economic, and political status today is studied in individual stores, memoirs, songs, poetry, and fiction. Significant texts in translated literary forms and works are used as primary resources. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1100 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 3990 Selected Topics

    A topic of literary interest proposed by a faculty member for one semester only.
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
  

  • ENG 4010 Linguistics/Grammar

    Study of contemporary grammars to understand the structures and functions of the varieties of English. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1100 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 4020 Develop English Language

    A historical survey of changes in English vocabulary, pronunciation, spelling, and grammar, including the social context of language change. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1100 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 4030 Grammar and Style

    The study of the contemporary American English sentence in its historical and sociolinguistic contexts, with attention to the structure of the sentence, editing problems for writers, the role of Standard English, and variation for stylistic effect. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1100 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • Eng 4040 Digital Rhetoric

    This course explores digital rhetoric in society, examining the ways in which digital information and discourse influences what we value, how we learn, and how we create knowledge in our networked culture. Students will analyze various means of electronic discourse and the ways in which they shape identity, create cultural practices, and redefine community. In this course, students will explore the credibility of digital information and the effects of digital circulation on human interactions. Students will examine the convergence of culture and digitality and analyze its impact on contemporary life. This course is UCC Writing Intensive.

      Prerequisite(s): ENG 1100  
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • ENG 4100 Chaucer and His Age

    Emphasis is on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Chaucer’s language, late Middle English of the South East Midlands. Some attention is given to the historical background of the period and, if time permits, a number of Chaucer’s shorter works are read and discussed. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 4110 Shakespeare Comedy/Hist

    Study of such plays as Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0
 

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