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Educational Leadership Library Media
  

  • ELLM 5130 Foundations of School Librarianship

    Focusing on the roles and responsibilities of the school library media specialist, this course explores the concept of information literacy and how these skills can be developed in pre-K-12 students. Professional standards, resources and practices at the local, state and national levels will be examined, as well as current topics, issues, and research in the field.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELLM 5140 Instructional Design

    Instructional design is an introduction to systems theory as applied to the design of instruction. Students will plan and implement staff development activities to increase teacher competence in using a systematic instructional development process to design, develop, produce, implement and evaluate instructional units, lessons, and activities related to school library media resources and technology. They will learn techniques in collaborating with teachers in integrating instructional resources, including core literature, into the development of instruction and learning across the curriculum areas. As part of this process, students will select, prepare, and use strategies, activities, and resources appropriate for diverse populations with varying backgrounds, cultures, abilities, and interests.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELLM 5150 Technical Processes in School Libraries

    An examination of the technical processes (acquisitions, cataloging, processing, and circulation) necessary for the access, organization, and maintenance of media materials in the school library media center.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELLM 5160 Technologies for Teaching and Learning in School Library Media Centers

    This course explores a variety of current technologies wihich are used by library media specialists, teachers, and students in K-12 settings. It is designed to familiarize candidates with the many information and communication technologies that are part of the teaching and learning process, including those for research, presentation, productivity, and organization. The course addresses hardware and software, assistive technologies, collaborative and social networking tools, and various technologies for teaching, learning, and online research strategies.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELLM 5170 Information Sources and Services

    This course provides a general conceptual foundation for client-centered information services and instruction in library media centers. Includes discussion of the accessibility to all types of resources and equipment by identifying, establishing, and using delivery systems to retrieve information in all formats. Special emphasis is placed upon developing positive attitudes towards reading, both in school and at home. Candidates examine sources in the humanities, social sciences, and technology with the view of meeting the information needs of various targeted audiences.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELLM 5180 Educational Theory and Teaching Methods for School Librarians

    This course examines the historical and philosophical foundations and major theories of education, as well as knowledge of lesson planning, teaching methods, learning styles, legal issues, code of ethics, and culturally responsive teaching. Students will develop an educational philosophy.
     
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELLM 5990 Selected Topics

    Courses offered to cover a topic or topics not covered by an existing graduate level course. Includes varying subject matter deemed appropriate for developing skills and knowledge.
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
  

  • ELLM 6110 Management of the School Library Media Program

    An examination of the administrative aspects of initiating and organizing a media program is explored. Processes of media management are studied, including planning, organizing, staffing, budgeting and evaluating; acquiring, scheduling, circulating, and producing media; planning in-service workshops programs, and models for directing, controlling, and organizing; and developing and implementing media programs in the curriculum. Case studies, observation and interviewing, library research, and professional development activities will be employed. This course meets 3 credits toward the Supervisor’s Certificate.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELLM 6120 School Library Media Specialist Selects Literature for the School Age Child

    An exploration of literature for children and young adults from grades P-12. Emphasis is placed on selection, reading, analyzing, evaluation, and using literature to complement the diverse curriculum and NJCCCS neds as well as personal needs of students. Each class involves a lecture, literature readings, and discussion. Candidates complete weekly readings of new and classic tales and trade books, learn strategies for selecting and evaluating titles, find the best books for school library collection development, learn about authors and illustrators, and design reader’s advisory instruments - surveys and activities for stimulating a life-long love of reading.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELLM 6210 Field Experiences in School Library Media Centers

    This course is designed to give the school library media specialist candidate 150 clock hours of work in a school library media center approved by the University instructor. It is expected to provide a forum to evaluate student competencies resulting from the cumulative knowledge including concepts of diversity and inclusion gained through coursework. Cooperatively, the University instructor, school library media center director, and the graduate candidate plan a program of work that will satisfy the requirements. Supervision is provided by the cooperating school library media center director and the University instructor. Seminars are held on campus and online.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELLM 7000 Independent Study

    Independent research arranged with a faculty sponsor and agreed upon by the department chair and dean.
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0

Educational Leadership Reading
  

  • ELRL 5990 Selected Topics

    Courses offered to cover a topic or topics not covered by an existing graduate level course. Includes varying subject matter deemed appropriate for developing skills and knowledge relevant.
  

  • ELRL 6010 Theoretical Foundations of Literacy

    This course provides a historical perspective on theory and practice in the teaching of reading as well as a survey of current research, theory and practice related to reading acquisition and reading processes from the perspective of developmental and cognitive psychology, social constructivism, and linguistic and cultural influence
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6030 Literacy and Content Area Instruction for English Language Learners

    This course will focus on research, literature and current issues of literacy and content area instruction for K-12 English Language Learners (ELLs). The course will emphasize instructional strategies and techniques in literacy and content area instruction for students who are at the beginning or intermediate stages of English language acquisition. This course is designed for reading specialists, graduate students in education, and in-service teachers who have ELLs in their classrooms (not for ESL majors). Practical hands on ideas as well as theory will be covered. Effective integration of multicultural literature and multilingual materials to enhance ELLs’ reading and writing across the curriculum will also be addressed.​
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6040 Recent Trends in Children’s Literature

    Focuses on current trends and ways to extend literature with children. Opportunities to study child responses and views in relation to particular literary works are provided. Such topics as author, illustrator and editor roles; child as critic; teaching reading and writing through literature; and multicultural literature are considered.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6050 Advanced Inquiry into Literature for Children and Youth

    An investigation of literacy and content print and nonprint media. Considers questions related to materials, language sources, modern programs, instructional systems, and organizational arrangements appropriate for use in today’s classrooms and alternative settings. Special attention is given to the preparation of teacher, parent, and librarian guides to literature; adaptation of materials for children and youth; and analysis of recent research studies.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6170 Young Children’s Literacy and Curriculum Design

    This course focuses on a new definition of children’s literacy. Through personal and shared inquiry, multiple literacies (including media, intertextual, and visual literacies) are examined in the context of children’s literacy development, literacy curriculum design and development, state and national standards, current research and theory, and classroom practices and materials. Critical issues including the digital divide, politics and literacy, parents and appropriate technology use, and gender and ethnic bias are explored. This course meets 3 credits toward the Supervisor’s Certificate.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6200 Diagnosis of Reading Problems: Practicum

    This course will provide the prospective reading specialist with the background, knowledge, strategies, and skills necessary for diagnosing and prescribing for the remediation of problem readers. Basic to any diagnosis are a thorough understanding of students, their individual differences, the reading processes, and the reasons children have problems. Prospective specialists will work with students and develop a case study through interviews, observations, reading and writing samples, and formal and informal measures. All of the above measures will be utilized to obtain an accurate and objective assessment of the client’s performance. The information gained will be examined and studied for the specific purpose of planning, developing, and executing an individual educational, remedial program for the reader with difficulties. Prerequisite(s): ELRL 6170  AND ELRL 6330  or CIRL 6170 and CIRL 6330
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6210 Remediation of Reading Problems: Practicum

    This course is concerned with methodology, strategies, and skills in developmental and remedial reading programs. The reading/writing process is examined in depth from its earliest stages through secondary school so those graduate students acquire the background and knowledge to work with readers who have problems at different levels. In planning specific remedial sessions, graduate students study the data collected for each client from CIRL 620. Students also focus on child development, the environment, the family background, language, culture, and the child’s strengths and weaknesses. Students then plan, develop, and execute remediation sessions based on their findings and specific needs of the client. Through clinical sessions, shared discussions, literacy circles, outside readings, research, audiovisual tapes, and modeling, graduate students also study the problems faced by disabled readers. Focus is on planning and executing effective remedial sessions for improving the client’s literacy skills. Prerequisite(s): ELRL 6200  or CIRL6200
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6230 Practicum Teaching Reading

    This course continues to develop reading specialists who are decision-makers and problem-solvers. Students have the opportunity to grow professionally and become more knowledgeable about reading, writing, and oral language processes through readings, conversations with colleagues, viewing each others’ classrooms, and reflections on practicum teaching and research experiences. Students begin a classroom inquiry project that develops into their master’s thesis. Prerequisite(s): ELRL 6200  AND ELRL 6210  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6240 Administration and Supervision of Reading Programs

    This graduate course is designed to study various process models for developing, implementing, and evaluating K-12 reading programs. By examining the roles of classroom teachers, reading specialists, reading supervisors, staff developers, and principals, students will understand how personnel responsibilities affect program development. Students will apply this understanding to their evaluation of the total reading program in one school system. Prerequisite(s): ELRL 6200  AND ELRL 6210  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6250 Adolescent and Adult Literacy and Curriculum Design

    This course focuses on creating a new definition of adolescent and adult literacy. Current literay research, theory, curriculum design, development, materials, and teaching practices for adolescents and adults using various print media including multimedia are explored. Through personal and shared inquiry, multiple literacies-including media, intertextual, visual, and critical literacies-are examined. Particular attention is given to the areas of study skills, selection of appropriate materials, comprehension problems, reading and writing programs, and the development of lifelong literacy habits. Critical issues including the grey digital divide, censorship, politics and literacy, and plagiarism and Web quests are explored.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6260 Literature for Adolescents

    A critical study of literature and effective ways of using it for junior and senior high school students. Special attention is given to ways of developing recreational reading programs for individual students on the basis of ability and reading interest.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6270 Research in Reading

    This course is designed to develop the student as a discriminating consumer of research and a knowledgeable practitioner of classroom-based action research. The student is introduced to the major kinds of research (experimental, ethnographic, descriptive, historical, naturalistic), rudimentary statistics, and the components of a classic research study. The student is expected to complete a graduate project involving the posing of researchable questions, the collection of data, and the writing of a five-chapter thesis. Prerequisite(s): ELRL 6210  AND ELRL 6230  or CIRL 6210 AND CIRL 6230  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6310 Written Expression With Technology

    An intensive investigation of written communication. Ecompasses various forms of written expression, including stories, exposition, and poetry. Students study sources of the substance and nature of the processes of imaginative and functional writing and pursue in depth a particular aspect of written expression. Students are offered experiences with selected word processing programs.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6330 Socio-Psycholinguistics and Reading

    An introduction to psycholinguistics and socio-linguistics with special attention to those aspects having implications for teaching reading and writing, this course will explain how the thinking/language/learning processes work. It is recommended for reading specialists and teachers, curriculum planners, and administrators. Prerequisite(s): ELRL 6170  or CIRL 6170
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6340 Teaching Critical Reading in the Content Areas

    The nature and importance of critical reading in today’s society is considered in relation to thinking. Specific strategies and materials are used to develop critical readers in all areas of the curriculum. Articles, tests, and research in the field are examined.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 6350 Folklore

    This course deals with old literature as a form of literature derived out of the oral tradition and from human imagination to explain human conditions. The concept of world understanding through folk literature and language and examples of folk literature from world collections are examined. The art of verbal communications as an interchange of thoughts, feelings, and ideas through words, either oral or written with nonverbal influences, is a major course focus. Folk literature is one vehicle for developing the various components of the language arts: listening, speaking, reading, writing. How to build content and skills with diverse populations is explored. Storytelling experiences are provided.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ELRL 7000 Independent Study

    An independent project as approved and to be arranged through the department.  1 - 6 credits
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0

English
  

  • ENG 5000 Studies in American Renaissance

    A study of nineteenth-century American writers of fiction, non-fiction, and/or poetry, which may include the following: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allen Poe, Fanny Fern, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. The literary texts will be studied within the contexts of their historical/cultural context and will include literary criticism and literary theory. Issues explored related to the American Renaissance could include: an interest in individualism, nature and the natural world, the Civil War, the rights of women, and the anti-slavery movement. The course will focus on a particular topic, genre, or writer based on the instructor’s interests.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 5100 Studies in American Realism and Naturalism

    A study of the literature of the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century (from the Civil War to World War I) typically takes into account issues of national identity and Americanization in an age of imperialist expansion. It might also include discussions of such topics as, industrialism and the diversity of writing from women, immigrants, and African Americans. This study of turn-of-the century writers may include the following: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Booker T. Washington, Charles Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sui Sin Far, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, James Weldon Johnson, and Upton Sinclair. The outline (themes and authors) will vary depending upon the instructor’s interests and expertise.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 5110 Studies in Twentieth Century American Literature

    A study of twentieth-century American writers of fiction, drama, and/or poetry, which many include the following representative writers: novelists such as Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Sandra Cisneros; playwrights such as Eugene O’Neil, Tennessee Williams, Lorraine Hansberry, Suzan-Lori Parks; poets such as Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes. The course might examine the major cultural and social movements such as the Beat Generation, Modernism, Minimalist Literature, and Post-Modernism that took place during the twentieth century in America. It may also include writings from women, African Americans, Latino/a voices, and Asian Americans among other underrepresented groups and their impact on literary production. The course will focus on a particular topic, genre, or writer based on the instructor’s interests.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 5130 Studies in Latino Literature

    This course examines the complexity and creativity of Latino/a literature (Chicano/a) across a number of genres, time periods and geographical locations. The goal of the course is to discuss and to reflect on the Latino/a (Chicano/a) experience through an analysis of literature that has emerged from Mexicans, Cubans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, dual identity American/Latinos and recent Latin American/South American immigrants. Literary works will be discussed in the context of assimilation, authenticity, hybridity, displacement, language, the American Dream and more. Authors may include Rosario Ferre, Junot Díaz, Cristina Garcia, Ana Castillo, Esmeralda Santiago, John Rechy, Rudolfo Anaya, Pedro Pietri, Rudolfo “Corky” Gonzalez, Piri Thomas, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Julia Alvarez, Oscar Hijuelos, and Ernesto Quinonez. The course will focus on a particular topic, genre, or writer based on the instructor’s interests.
     
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 5500 Studies in Medieval Literature

    An examination of literature and society as both developed over the thousand years that encompass the Medieval Period. While this course takes English literature and society as its core, it also acknowledges the pre-modern absence of nation states and recognizes the influences played on English literature by Celtic culture in the very early period, Nordic culture in the Anglo-Saxon Period, French culture in the high medieval period, and Italian culture in the pre- and early-Renaissance period. The course is designed to permit instructors to tailor the course according to their interests and strengths, such as focusing on Anglo-Saxon Heroic literature, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, high-medieval epics like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Medieval Drama (including mystery and morality plays), Arthurian literature, Medieval women’s literature (including the mystics), or Medieval Romance literature. Cross Listed Course(s): ENG 6080  ENG 6320 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 5510 Studies in Renaissance Literature

    A study of the literature of the Renaissance, this course examines selected works of representative writers from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The course introduces students to the historical context of Renaissance England by relating literature to the period’s complex political, religious, economic, and social developments. Students may explore examples of prose, poetry, and drama, and authors may include William Shakespeare, Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, Aemilia Lanyer, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Elizabeth Cary, Robert Greene, and others. Students will also engage with the modern critical approaches that have been especially influential in Renaissance studies, such as New Historicism and Cultural Materialism. The course will focus on a particular topic, genre, or writer based on the instructor’s interests.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 5520 Studies in 17th Century Literature

    This course will explore the literature of the seventeenth century, with a particular emphasis on such poets as Jonson, Herrick, Milton, King, Carew, Lovelace, Donne, Marvell, Herbert, Vaughn, Crashaw, Traherne, and Philips. The course may also familiarize students with other important genres of the seventeenth century, including masques, travel narratives, pamphlets, essays, and ballads. The course will examine literature in the context of the major social, political, cultural, economic, and religious developments of the period. The course will focus on a particular topic, genre, or writer based on the instructor’s interests.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 5530 Studies in British Lit 18th Century

    Studies in British Literature of the Long 18th Century aims to provide an understanding of the literature and culture of Britain during the long 18-century (1660-1832), as it was influenced by historical, political, and social developments of the period. Potential subjects of study include but are not limited to Restoration Drama, the development of the novel, travel writing, prose and poetry of the Augustan period, biographies, the Graveyard poets, or the Gothic novel.  Writers studied may include Aphra Behn, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Oliver Goldsmith, Sarah Scott, Henry Mackenzie, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Janet Schaw, Frances Burney, and others. The literary texts will be studied within the contexts of contemporary literary criticism and literary theory.  Instructors may focus on a genre or theme of their choice.
     
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 5540 Studies in British Romantic Literature

    An examination of the major historical, political, cultural and social movements that took place during the Romantic Era-the Rights of Man, the Rights of Women, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Abolition of the Slave Trade, The Printing Press- and its impact on the major authors from that period. It is designed to permit instructors to tailor the course according to their interests and strengths. Writers studied Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Ann Radcliff, William Godwin, Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 5550 Studies in Victorian Literature

    The Victorian era was one of intense social change. Industrial development, class instability, and the age of Empire produced new possibilities to rise (or fall) in the world, generated attachment to a disappearing past, and challenged old assumptions about values, about English society, about human nature itself. The course will study literature in this historical and cultural context, and within the context of contemporary literary criticism and literary theory. The course will study writers such as Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Christina Rossetti, John Ruskin, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred Tennyson, and Oscar Wilde. The instructor will select specific writers and texts based on the theme (such as a specific topic, genre, or writer) chosen for the course.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 5560 Studies in 20th Century British Literature

    A study of twentieth-century British writers of fiction, drama, and/or poetry, including but not limited to Conrad, Joyce, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, Woolf, Mansfield, Forster, Orton, Osborne, Pinter, Delaney, Stoppard, Hare, Churchill, Gems, Matura, Pinnock, Eliot, Lawrence, Graves, Auden, S. Smith, Loy, Spender, Lewis, D. Thomas, Ted Hughes. A portion of the course readings may be devoted to writers from British colonial and/or postcolonial regions as well as literature written in the twenty-first century. The literary texts will be studied within the contexts of contemporary literary criticism and literary theory. The course will focus on a particular topic, genre, or writer based on the instructor’s interests.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 5900 Graduate Internship

    This course will offer qualified MA and MFA graduate students in English on-the-job training as interns for regional and online employers. The primary goal of the course is to offer graduate students an opportunity to apply their skills and knowledge as MFA and MA students in a professional setting. The aim is for students togain skills to qualify them for potential career paths relevant to their degree.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 5990 Selected Topics

    Emphasis on a particular author or group of authors, subject(s), theme(s), literary movement(s), related literary interests, not considered as extensively in the other courses listed here.
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
  

  • ENG 6000 Women, The Bible and Modern Literature

    Attitudes toward women in the Old and New Testaments and other religious literature, the modern liberationist response, and attempts to strike a humanistic balance. Consideration of the role of women in several recent novels, plays and poems: Dickinson, the Bront¿ sisters, A. Walker, T. Morrison, Z. N. Hurston, A. Rich and others.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6080 Poe/Hawthorne/Melville

    Examination of the major and minor works of Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and their contemporaries against the background of their political, cultural, and philosophical contexts.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6140 Applied English Linguistics: Grammar and Style

    A study of modern English grammars (traditional-structural and transformational-generative) and their application to the understanding and appreciation of style in language and literature.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6150 Advanced Critical Writing

    This course explores various modes of essay writing, especially analytical and argumentative essays, along with narratives and critical interpretations of culture and society. Class readings survey the critical and belletristic tradition of the essay form. Students are encouraged to expand and deepen their thematic range, refine their writing styles, and further develop their own voices.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6160 Creative Writing

    Workshop devoted to writing in a variety of genres including fiction, poetry, and drama. Discussion is devoted to the style and technique of established and contemporary authors.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6170 Modern Techniques of Composition

    An introduction to, and practical application of, modern techniques of teaching and learning composition, including free writing, embedding, imitation and cumulation. Emphasis is on writing as process, from self-expression through exposition to imaginative creation.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6180 Modrn English and Background

    Study of the English language from its origins to the present, with detailed attention to changes in grammar, syntax, phonology and vocabulary.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6190 Writing Magazine Market

    Intended for students interested in developing a professional style of writing. Types of writing may include fiction, nonfiction, poetry-anything that is suitable for periodicals, commercial or noncommercial.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6200 Teaching Writing as Process I

    Designed primarily for high school English teachers, this intensive seminar introduces the many new techniques of teaching composition, discusses the process of writing and explores the results of the latest research. Members of the seminar participate in practical workshops in which they evolve individual methods for use in their own school districts, thereby enhancing the writing process for their students.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6210 Ficition Writing Seminar I

    This intensive seminar covers fundamental as well as experimental techniques employed in the writing of fiction. Students practice a variety of writing, reading, and workshop skills, and peruse contemporary published writing with an eye on its style, voice, theme, and craft.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6220 Fiction Writing Seminar II

    Designed for those students who have completed Fiction Writing Seminar I and who wish to continue their study of fiction writing technique in greater depth. Classroom time is divided among lecture, discussion and analysis of student manuscripts. Each participant should bring a complete, or nearly complete, first draft of a manuscript (a short story or section of a novel) to the first session of the seminar. Prerequisite(s): ENG 6210 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6230 Poetry Writing Seminar

    This intensive seminar covers fundamental as well as experimental techniques employed in the writing of poetry. Students practice a variety of writing, reading, and workshop skills, and peruse contemporary published writing with an eye on its style, voice, theme, and craft. Cross Listed Course(s): ENG 623
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6240 Contemporary Poetry Writing Seminar

    This intensive seminar is for those students interested in an in-depth study of poetry writing. The course focuses on contemporary writing techniques from mainstream to cutting-edge poetry, studying work primarily from the past two decades.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6250 Teaching Writing as Process II

    An advanced seminar for those teachers or administrators who want to apply the principles learned in “Teaching Writing as Process” or a comparable introductory-level course in composition teaching. Students use their understanding of composition theory to design courses or curricula for use in their institutions. Emphasis is placed on designing assignments, conducting workshops, contemporary research on the project, institutional support, evaluation modes, research opportunities present and preparation of a manuscript for publication. Prerequisite(s): ENG 6200  or equivalent
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6260 Creative Writing II

    An advanced workshop required for students in the writing program. Students may be proficient in one or several genres including poetry, fiction, playwriting, screenwriting, memoir, biography, and autobiography. Students will more fully explore their own voices and will be encouraged to try longer, more sustained efforts. Prerequisite(s): ENG 6160 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6270 Writing Scripts

    This course is designed to give students practice in writing for movies and television, emphasizing skills in developing pitches, treatments, characters, dialogue, visual cues, scenes and plots. Student writing is supplemented by readings of professional scripts with occasional study of their adaptation to either the big or small screen.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6275 Pedagogy of Creative Writing

    The Pedagogy of Creative Writing offers students insight into strategies for teaching fiction and poetry at the college level. Targeted towards students interested in teaching creative writing after graduation, this course provides practical advice and guidance in the creation of syllabi, lesson plans, writing exercises, and assessment strategies for the creative writing classroom. This hands-on, workshop-intensive course will offer students the opportunity to reflect upon and explore their own learning and teaching styles as they experiment with various approaches to generating lesson plans as well as assessment tools, and guiding others in pre-writing, drafting, and revision exercises. Prerequisite(s): ENG 6160 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6280 Short Story Writing

    This course explores the fundamentals of writing short fiction. Students practice a variety of writing, reading, and workshopping skills, and peruse contemporary and traditional published short story writing with an eye to its style, voice, theme, and craft.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6290 Playwriting

    The principles of dramatic writing applied to the creation of fictional scripts for the stage. Emphasis is on literary style, craft, and structure. There is some lecture and discussion, although the class primarily concerns itself with the critique of student work.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6300 Book/Magazine Editing

    The course is aimed primarily at the student planning a career in publishing. It should, however, be of value to anyone interested in writing, in modern techniques of printing or in the process of book and magazine production. The main focus of the course is on basic skills that any editor must know: copy editing, proofreading, copyfitting, typemarking and indexing.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6310 Creative Non Fiction

    This course is a seminar and writing-intensive workshop in the art of creative nonfictional prose. Students read and write a series of essays, which may include memoirs of childhood, family histories, biographical sketches, travelogues, environmental pieces, reflections on cultural texts, explorations of self identity, or contemplative intellectual works.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6320 Emerson/Thoreau/Whitman

    Examination of the major and minor works of Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman against the background of their political and philosophical contexts.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6370 Literature from the Writer’s Perspective

    This course will analyze contemporary literary works from the writer’s perspective in order to focus student writers on the methods, conventions, styles, techniques, and forms in a particular genre of creative writing. In order to enhance the student’s own creative writing endeavors, the course will pay particular attention to the characteristic choices creative writers have made across several eras and literary generations. The course will concentrate on the technical craft of creative writing both from the reader’s and writer’s perspectives. While focusing on how choices and techniques shape a text’s literary quality and significance, the course will situate each model work of literature in its aesthetic and contextual lineage while also measuring the “newness” of popular historical and contemporary literary movements in a particular genre. Depending on the instructor, this course may focus on poetry, drama, fiction, or creative nonfiction. Prerequisite(s): This course will analyze contemporary literary works from the writer’s perspective in order to focus student writers on the methods, conventions, styles, techniques, and forms in a particular genre of creative writing. In order to enhance the student’s own creative writing endeavors, the course will pay particular attention to the characteristic choices creative writers have made across several eras and literary generations. The course will concentrate on the technical craft of creative writing both from the reader’s and writer’s perspectives. While focusing on how choices and techniques shape a text’s literary quality and significance, the course will situate each model work of literature in its aesthetic and contextual lineage while also measuring the “newness” of popular historical and contemporary literary movements in a particular genre. Depending on the instructor, this course may focus on poetry, drama, fiction, or creative nonfiction.

    Prerequisites: none
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • ENG 6380 Chaucer/Canterbury

    A study of the Canterbury Tales with special attention to the tales as a reflection of Chaucer’s times. Emphasis is placed on Chaucer’s language. Also considered are some of Chaucer’s other works, such as Troilus and Criseyde.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6400 Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Romances

    A close study of selected tragedies and romances, with an emphasis on their historical content and in light of contemporary critical theory.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6410 Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories

    A close study of selected comedies and histories, with an emphasis on their historical context and in light of contemporary critical theory.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6420 Shakespeares Roman Works

    This course explores the political nature of Shakespeare’s “Roman” works (The Rape of Lucrece, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus, Cymbeline) within the context of Plato’s theory of constitutional decline as set forth in The Republic.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6430 Golden Age of Drama

    A study of plays selected to illustrate the development of English drama from the early reign of Elizabeth through the accession of James I. Dramatists include Jonson, Marlowe, Kyd, Dekker, Greene, Chapman, and Webster.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6440 Milton’s Poetry and Prose

    A study of John Milton’s poetry and prose, with emphasis on the cultural context in which they were written. Works may include Lycidas, sonnets, Paradise Lost, Areopagitica, and Paradise Regained.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6470 Lake/Wordsworth/Colrdige

    A study of the major poems of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, their critical theories, their relationship to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century precursors and contemporaries and to women writers of the period, and the chief criticism and historical contexts of their work.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6480 Byron/Shelley/Keats

    A study of the major work of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, of their relationship to women writers of the period, and of the philosophical and political backgrounds of the Romantic movement.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6500 Rossetti and Circle

    A study of representative works by Morris, Meredith, the Rossettis, Swinburne, Hardy, Wilde, the Yellow Book group, and others.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6510 Women Writers:

    A study of women writers from a variety of racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds arranged by a given genre and theme to determine how these textual works and their authors have imagined and constructed women’s roles. The course could include women writers across cultures and at different historical times. Different theoretical approaches like feminism and cultural criticism will also be used in the examination of women’s writing. Writers studied might include Jane Austen, Harriet Jacobs, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Arundhati Roy, Edwidge Danticat, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Louise Erdrich, and Sandra Cisneros. The course material will depend upon the individual instructor.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6530 20th Century British Drama

    A study of plays by representative British dramatists from the 1890s to the present, with an emphasis on the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Other dramatists include Wilde, Yeats, Synge, Granville-Barker, O’Casey, T. S. Eliot, Osborne, and Pinter.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6540 20th Century British Poetry

    A study of the major British poets representing various schools and movements, including Eliot, Yeats, Lawrence, Graves, Auden, Spender, Lewis, D. Thomas, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6550 Twentieth-Century British Fiction

    A study of major novelists and story writers, including such authors as Conrad, Joyce, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Woolf, Mansfield, Bennett, Galsworthy, and Forster. The major criticism of their work is also studied.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6560 Contemporary Modes of Criticism

    An examination of various contemporary approaches to the analysis and evaluation of literature. Beginning with a consideration of traditional approaches to literary criticism and analysis in Aristotle, Longinus, and Horace, and in twentieth-century normative critics such as Eliot, Brooks, and Richards. The second part of the course introduces the student to trends in contemporary criticism such as Deconstructionism, New Historicism, Feminist Criticism, Queer Theory, and Postcolonial Theory. The principal aim of the course is to familiarize the student with a range of approaches for later exploration. Cross Listed Course(s): ENG 656
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6620 Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Literature

    Discussion of the poetry of Donne, Marvell, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, Thomas Traherne, Katherine Philips, and the prose of Sir Thomas Browne and Jeremy Taylor. Emphasis is on the metaphysical vision of a universe that is one and organic, concepts of human sexuality and death, and the techniques of private-mode poetry and prose.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6630 Jonson, Herrick and Their Contemporaries

    Discussion of the Cavalier or Social Poets of the seventeenth century, including Jonson, Herrick, King, Carew, and Lovelace; the Public Poets, Milton and Dryden; and selected prose of Milton, Burton, and Bacon. Emphasis is on the concept of friendship and the nature of true happiness, which is central to these artists, and on the techniques of social and public poetry and prose.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6650 Studies in Irish Literature

    This course provides an examination of literature written in English by Irish writers.  It will focus on the complex relationships between political nationalism and culture in Ireland and/or the Irish diaspora and address central issues including the relationship between politics and language, the role of British imperialism in forming Irish identities, and the ways in which the Irish attempted to revise such definitions. The course also will touch on issues of gender, social class, and race and ethnicity. The outline (themes and authors) will vary depending upon the instructor’s interests and expertise.
     
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6660 Studies in the European Novel

    Studies in the European Novel aims to provide an understanding of the development of the novel in Europe, as influenced by European history and geography, as well as the range of narrative possibilities and themes, focusing on connections and differences of period, culture and nation. Potential subjects of study include but are not limited to Cervantes, de La Fayette, Goethe, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Stendhal, Flaubert, Pérez Galdós, Manzoni, de Queiroz, Camilo Jose Cela, Eco, Camus, Duras, Robbe-Grillet, or Saramago. The literary texts will be studied within the contexts of contemporary literary criticism and literary theory, including the nature of narrative and the formal techniques and devices of narration. Instructors may focus on a period of their choosing, such as: the picaresque novel and the romance; the 19th-century novel; the 20th-century novel or others. Cross Listed Course(s): ENG 6910
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6710 Literature of Psychoanalysis

    Examines the interrelationship between depth psychology and literature, and the use of psychoanalysis in interpreting works, in analyzing artistic creativity and in practicing literary criticism. Selected authors studied include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Joyce, Gide, Beckett and Dostoevski.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6730 Fiction and Film

    An examination of literature that has been adapted from novel, story, play, myth, legend, and the Bible into various film forms, including narrative and animation. Works discussed and viewed may include Tom Jones, Death in Venice, “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “Beauty and the Beast,” Black Orpheus, Hamlet, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, and Cinderella.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6740 Literature and the Arts

    A study of literature adapted to art, dance, film, music, opera, television, and spoken-word recording that may include The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and the Disney animation; the Bible and paintings by the Masters; Beaumarchais’ The Barber of Seville and Rossini’s opera; Henry James’s The Golden Bowl and the video adaptation; E. T. A. Hoffmann’s stories, The Tales of Hoffmann opera by Offenbach, the Nutcracker ballet by Baryshnikov; Shakespeare’s Othello and Verdi’s opera adaptation; and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in many of the arts, including Zeffirelli’s film, Delius’s opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, the B.B.C. video production, and Michael Smuin’s ballet.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6750 Cultural Percept Books and Films

    This course explores the various ways an individual country, its people, and their culture are depicted and perceived by writers and film makers, both natives and non-natives alike. The course focuses on only one country and follows a given theme through a variety of works, although the country and the theme may vary from semester to semester.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6760 Women and Film Noir

    Through film, literature, and cultural history, this course examines key issues raised by the genre of film noir and the film noir heroine. Topics for discussion include what makes a “bad” heroine, the purpose of the film noir heroine fantasy for its audience, how the portrayal of noir heroines reflects historical shifts in attitudes about the role of women, and the relationship between between the noir heroine’s rapacious desires and the articulation of selfhood.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6770 Ethnic American Literature

    This course explores the rich multicultural nature of the American experience focusing on immigrant, Native-American, and African-American literatures in their historical and cultural contexts. Students are encouraged to explore their own ethnic roots and family histories.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6780 Modern Literary Biography

    In this course, students examine the evolving genre of biography by reading biographies of literary figures and selected works that established the reputations of these writers. Issues for discussion include the art of writing biography, how critical theory influences the ways biographers approach their subjects and their audience, whether or not connections can be established between a writer’s life and a writer’s work. Students will have the opportunity to conduct formal biographical research themselves.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6790 Beat Generation

    This course concentrates on the poetry and prose of the Beat Generation with special attention paid to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs, and including Diane DiPrima, Amiri Baraka, and Bob Kaufman. Consideration will be paid as well to other alternative schools of American poetry of the fifties and sixties with which Beat literature shared aesthetic and social concerns–The Black Mountain School, The New York School, and The San Francisco Renaissance.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6800 Virginia Woolf and Circle

    A study of the major works of Virginia Woolf by placing her in the different circles in which she moved - modern female writers, modern male writers, artists, poets, biographers, and gay and lesbian writers. This course includes different genres: fiction, poetry, essays, drama, and biography, and also studies developments in art. Gender and sexuality, the new modernist aesthetic, and political ideas such as socialism and pacifism are among the issues explored.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6810 Literature of the 1950s

    This course provides an examination of cultural history, popular culture, literary movements, and cultural anxieties of an era fraught with contradictions. Students study fiction, poetry, films, and plays produced in the 1950’s, as well as cultural artifacts, commentary, and memoir that look back to this era.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6820 Law and Literature

    Using materials from all genres, and cutting across historical periods, the course explores the complex interrelationship between law and literature, using methods of approach from literary theory, legal theory, and cultural studies.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6830 Post-Colonial Literature

    An in-depth study of colonial and post-colonial works, written in English, of Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, within cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts. Students pay close attention to representations of race, nationality, class and gender, to Eurocentric assumptions about culture, and how post-colonial fiction influences and is illuminated by contemporary post-colonial theory. Authors may include Kipling, Conrad, Achebe, Rao, Markandaya, Rhys, Brathwaite, Coetzee, Soyinka, Mukherjee, Kincaid, Jhabvala, Naipaul, Walcott, and others.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6840 Gay, Lesbian or Queer Literature

    This course offers a historical survey of gay, lesbian, or queer literary texts from the Renaissance to the present, with a focus on the aesthetic values, literary forms, and styles in which writers portray same-sex desire.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6850 Irish Literary Renaissance

    This course provides an examination of literature written by Irish writers at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, with a focus on the complex relationships between political nationalism and culture in modern Ireland. Issues addressed include the relationship between politics and language, the role of English imperialism in forming Irish identities and the ways in which the Irish Literary Renaissance attempted to revise such definitions, the relationship between the Irish present and the Irish past, and the hot-button issue of religion. Selected texts by Irish writers who chose not to make “Irish” Ireland an overt subject of their work are also discussed.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6860 James Joyce

    This course engages students in a close reading of James Joyce’s major works: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses. Joyce’s works are examined from a variety of critical perspectives which may include feminist and gender criticism, post-colonial criticism, deconstruction theory, reader-response theory, and Marxist criticism.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6870 Travel Writing Seminar

    This course addresses the field of travel writing in both its literary and journalistic forms. Readings and writings are assigned on a weekly basis. Students produce original material in this intensive writing workshop.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • ENG 6880 Studies in Global Literature

    This course adopts a comparative, texts-in-context  approach to studying selections of literature from across the world, either Anglophone or in translation, from pre-modern epic, poetry, and drama to modern and contemporary literature. The course guides students to analyze the popularity of such courses  in the metropolitan academy within a broad framework of  “world/global literatures” and understand key theoretical approaches to the study of world literatures. Individual courses may be organized either by genre, historical or literary period, topics or theme. Literary texts will be studied within the contexts of contemporary literary criticism and literary theory.
     
    Credits: 3.0
 

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