This topics course at the 1000 level is designed to offer flexibility for the English department for lower division offerings. Students may enroll up to 3 times to total no more than 9 credits but the topics must differ for each course. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Focuses on the abilities and skills needed to write effective expository prose. Emphasizes frequent writing, both in and out of class, with special attention to writing short essays well. Writers learn to write confidently at the sentence and paragraph levels, and to develop their grammatical and mechanical skills.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Provides opportunities to write for different purposes and audiences, with an emphasis on learning how to respond to various rhetorical situations; improving critical thinking, reading, and writing abilities; understanding various writing processes; and gaining a deeper knowledge of language conventions. GT: Course is approved by the Colorado Dept of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer, GT-C01.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Additional Information: Denver Core Requirement, English Composition; GT courses GT Pathways, GT-CO1, Communication.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Prepares students for college-level reading and writing. Students receive one-on-one and small-group instruction on analytical and argumentative writing.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Studies English words derived from Latin and Greek by analyzing their component parts (prefixes, stems, and suffixes). Cross-listed with LATN 1050.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to Freshman level students

Typically Offered: Fall.

Introduces class members to the works of famous authors as well as to major themes, elements, and techniques of fiction in both short stories and novels.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Helps students develop a sense of literary techniques and issues so they can bring an improved critical sensibility to their reading and writing. Note: Designed for students who are seriously interested in literature. Note: this course assumes that students have completed or are currently taking ENGL 1020.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Asks students to explore how stories determine who we are. Everything people do fits into a narrative pattern, evident everywhere from TV news to memory to daily schedules. We tell ourselves stories about ourselves and others--how do these stories shape who we are as cultural beings? Note: this course assumes that students have completed or are currently taking ENGL 1020. GT: Course is approved by the Colorado Dept of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer, GT-AH2.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Additional Information: Denver Core Requirement, Humanities; GT courses GT Pathways, GT-AH2, Arts Hum: Lit Humanities.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Focuses on academic and other types of research-based writing and builds on the work completed in ENGL 1020. Focuses on critical thinking, reading and writing as well as working with primary and secondary source material to produce a variety of research-based essays. Emphasis on using both print-based and electronic-based information. GT: Course is approved by the Colorado Dept of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer, GT-C02.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENGL 1020 with a C- or higher.

Additional Information: Denver Core Requirement, English Composition; GT courses GT Pathways, GT-CO2, Communication.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Introduces students to the topics of study in the English Writing major. Topics include writing studies (literacy, genre, research, and multimodality), rhetoric (history and theory), and the teaching of writing (pedagogy and practice).

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENGL 1020

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Teaches the basics of English grammar in order to develop a rhetorical and stylistic confidence in reading and writing, using an approach that is more descriptive than prescriptive. Teaches students how to evaluate the grammatical choices of established writers and how to develop flexibility in the grammatical choices they make in their own writing. Note: this course assumes that students have completed ENGL 1020.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Reading, discussing, writing short fiction and poetry in a workshop setting. Note: this course assumes that students have completed ENGL 1020.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Additional Information: Denver Core Requirement, Arts; GT courses GT Pathways, GT-AH1, Arts Hum: Arts Expression.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Introduces students to the critical study of cinema as an art form and a cultural phenomenon. Topics include cinematography, editing, mise-en-scene and sound; the connections between cinema and related art forms; film genres; the social dimensions of film production and reception; and films by such key filmmakers as Alfred Hitchcock, Maya Deren and Spike Lee.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Summer.

Courses supplement the regular program of the department, offering such topics as: literary perceptions of motherhood, Asian-American literature, literary classics of science, and contemporary women writers. Note: Can be taken more than once if topics vary. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Examines narrative screenwriting elements--premise, theme, conflict, protagonist/antagonist, setting/situation, dialogue, plot structure, imagery--required to create a strong narrative short film.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Provides students with close reading, viewing and analytical skills to explore a variety of literary and visual texts. Introduces discipline-specific genres, methods and terms for assessing literature, cinema, and related art forms through discussion, lectures and writing assignments.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Additional Information: Denver Core Requirement, Humanities.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Surveys influential literature from Greece and Rome. Among the Greek works are Homer's epics, Sophocles's tragedies, Plato's and Aristotle's philosophical writings. Among the Roman works are the writings of Vergil, Ovid, the elegists and historians. A brief look at Augustine's writings concludes the course.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Introduces students to biblical literature. Selections from the various genres of writing in Hebrew (history, wisdom, prophecy, literature) are read and discussed, as well as representative sections from the New Testament, including the gospels and the writings of Paul. Cross-listed with RLST 2700.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Offers a cultural history of the best-seller over several hundred years, ranging from blockbuster films to popular novels, viral videos, and musical "hits." We will explore popular works in a range of different media, asking how they achieved the status of a best-seller in different cultural settings. GT: Course is approved by the Colorado Dept of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer, GT-AH2.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Additional Information: Denver Core Requirement, Humanities; GT courses GT Pathways, GT-AH2, Arts Hum: Lit Humanities.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Department consent required. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Introduces literary theory to provide extensive practice in writing about literature. Note: Required of English majors and minors with a literature option and education English majors.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite course of ENGL 2451 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to English majors only (all ENGL subplans) and Education and Human Development majors with the English 7-12 or 6-12 subplan.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Practical workshop for developing poetic craft, focusing on writing process and specialized topics.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Beginning workshop for defining and developing narrative craft, focusing on writing process and specialized topics.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Examines the history of cinema from a variety of national perspectives. Topics rotate and may include Silent Era Cinema, Classical Hollywood Film, New Hollywood, French New Wave, German Expressionism, etc. Note: May be taken more than once when topics vary. Cross-listed with HIST 3070. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

An intensive study of films of one or more significant genres, such as comedy, film noir, science fiction. Note: May be taken more than once when genres vary. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Studies topics in international cinema, with particular attention to native production in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Note: May be taken more than once when topics vary. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Offers students opportunities to examine and compose texts where language is integrated with other media, such as video, still images, music, etc. Includes basic instruction in digital multimedia composition and design tools. ENGL 2070 recommended.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: junior standing or higher

Additional Information: Denver Core Requirement, Arts.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

An intensive study of the films of one or more major directors, such as Chaplin, Keaton, Hitchcock, Welles, Coen Brothers. Note: May be taken more than once when directors vary. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Interested in writing for newspapers, magazines, or new media? Get real-world and practical experience with this introduction to working in modern journalism. Students will work closely with the CU Denver student newspaper "The Sentry", have the chance to get their writing published, and get involved with student media. It's the best way to start writing professionally: with hands-on training. No previous experience necessary--just a passion for journalism and a desire to see your work in print!

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

In Writing and Editing with AI we’ll explore the history of writing as a technology, learn about recent advances in generative artificial intelligence and natural language processing, grapple with concepts such as “emergence,” explore various AI writing and editing tools, and apply what we learn to a current problem through a “problem-cause-solution” final project. Note: EWRT and ENGL majors must take ENGL 2060.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Requires prerequisite course of ENGL 2060 or HIST 3260 or COMM 3081 (minimum grade C-).

Typically Offered: Spring.

Introduces students to technical writing through study of and hands-on practice writing texts that communicate complex information, solve problems, and complete tasks. Students write proposals, reports, instructions, memos, documentation, white papers, data visualizations, and web content. Students practice content management, project management, audience engagement, and usability testing. Often, students work with industry and community partners on a technical writing project. ENGL 2070 recommended.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Provides a basic introduction to linguistics and language theory, including phonetics, grammar, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, cognitive processing, and language acquisition. Includes practical applications of the theories and methodologies presented. ENGL 2070 recommended.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Focuses on the strategies and techniques of business writing, with emphasis on reader, message and form. ENGL 2070 recommended.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Teaches students to analyze and produce types of writing common to the sub-disciplines of the social sciences. Emphasizes the dialogic nature of academic writing, and thus foregrounds the importance of understanding, evaluating, and responding to existing scholarship.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENGL 2030

An introduction to writing centers and to theories of composition, education, and writing pedagogy with a focus on collaborative learning practices and the dynamics of the consulting relationship. Students will have opportunities to research, observe, and engage in the teaching practices of the Writing Center at CU Denver.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENGL 2030 with a B or higher

Explores the relationship between literature and cinema; the process of adapting and transforming a novel into a feature-length film; and the historical, cultural, and commercial influences that shaped the creation of each novel and film studied.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Summer.

Courses supplement the department's regular course offerings. Recent topics have included women and film, movies as history and film comedy. Note: Open to both majors and non-majors. Can be taken more than once when topics vary. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Courses supplement the department's regular course offerings. Recent topics have included women and film, movies as history and film comedy. Focus on general film history. Note: Open to both majors and non-majors. Can be taken more than once when topics vary. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Courses supplement the department's regular course offerings. Recent topics have included women and film, movies as history and film comedy. Focus on gender. Note: Open to both majors and non-majors. Can be taken more than once when topics vary. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Courses supplement the department's regular course offerings. Recent topics have included women and film, movies as history and film comedy. Focus on genre and/or global culture. Note: Open to both majors and non-majors. Can be taken more than once when topics vary. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Courses supplement the department's regular course offerings. Recent topics have included women and film, movies as history and film comedy. Focus on American identities. Note: Open to both majors and non-majors. Can be taken more than once when topics vary. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

May look at specific genres, aesthetic approaches to literature, ideological or socio-political agendas, or other special topics in literature and/or works of major authors. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

May look at specific genres, aesthetic approaches to literature, ideological or socio-political agendas, or other special topics in literature and/or works of major authors. Focus on general literature and film history. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

May look at specific genres, aesthetic approaches to literature, ideological or socio-political agendas, or other special topics in literature and/or works of major authors. Focus on gender. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

May look at specific genres, aesthetic approaches to literature, ideological or socio-political agendas, or other special topics in literature and/or works of major authors. Focus on genre and/or global culture. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

May look at specific genres, aesthetic approaches to literature, ideological or socio-political agendas, or other special topics in literature and/or works of major authors. Focus on American identities. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Continues and expands ENGL 2415. The course combines analytical discussion of film screenplays with a writing worksop format. By the end of ENGL 3415, students have completed the first two acts of a feature-length screenplay.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

An intensive, practical course in writing non-fiction with an emphasis on journalistic approaches for daily, weekly, and monthly publications.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq or Coreq: ENGL 2030

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

Students will examine public relations writing techniques and journalistic style, public relations theory and ethics, and practical client work. Note: this course assumes that students have completed ENGL 1020.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Examines how women write about a specific theme, such as home, work, family, the "Other," as well as how women's writing may differ from men's. Theme and genre vary. Cross-listed with WGST 3450.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

How does drama change from the pioneering realism of Ibsen and Chekhov to the Absurdism of Ionesco and Pinter and beyond? The course covers plays in English and translation from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century, with attention to performance as well as literary texts.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Investigates the language and structure of religious discourse in Western literature. Welcomes interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives with a focus on cultural constructions of the sacred. Cross-listed with RLST 3720.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Introduces some of Shakespeare's major plays and poems, which usually includes Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, Othello, King Lear, Anthony and Cleopatra and The Tempest.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Surveys American literature from the colonial era to the Civil War. Note: this course assumes that students have completed ENGL 1020.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Surveys American literature from the Civil War to the contemporary era. Note: this course assumes that students have completed ENGL 1020.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Focuses alternately on one of several ethnic American literary traditions (e.g. African American, Chicano) and their historical, geographical, social and economic communities.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Additional Information: Denver Core Requirement, Cultural Diversity.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Fosters an understanding of peoples outside of the U.S. through the study and appreciation of non-western literature. Investigates how historical, cultural, and ideological forces constitute race, ethnicity, nationalism, and alienation in a single country or across a region. Topic and country/region varies by semester. Note: May be repeated for credit when title and content are different. All texts in English translation.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Additional Information: Denver Core Requirement, International Perspectives.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Department consent required. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Employment situations designed and supervised by members of the faculty; concepts and skills developed in the classroom are used in business and public service contexts. Before enrolling, students should contact the Career Center. Note: Up to six hours may be counted toward the major. Note: students must work with the Experiential Learning Center advising to complete a course contract and gain approval. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Prereq: junior standing or higher

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

An intensive study of works of one major author or director in British, American, or world literature. Examples: Dickens, Eliot, Hitchcock. Cross-listed with ENGL 5000. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

An intensive study of works of one major author or director in British, American, or world literature. Focus on historical influence. Examples: Cather and American Modernism, Chaplin and Keaton. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

An intensive study of works of one major British or American author, before 1650, e.g., Gawain-poet. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

An intensive study of works of one major author or director in British, American, or world literature. Focus on genre and/or global culture. Examples: Nobel Authors, Global Shakespeare, Kurosawa, the Western. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

An intensive study of works of one major author or director in British, American, or world literature. Focus on American identities. Examples: Morrison, Coppola, Peele. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Advanced poetic craft, including exercises in mode, genre and advanced revision.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENGL 3020

Typically Offered: Spring.

Advanced workshop for developing and deepening narrative craft, focusing on writing process and specialized topics.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENGL 3050. Restriction: English majors and minors only.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Literary editing in theory and practice, using UCD’s nationally recognized journal "Copper Nickel." Topics may include evaluating fiction, poetry and nonfiction; design and aesthetics; line editing; the business of literary journals. Cross-listed with ENGL 5088

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENGL 3020 or ENGL 3050

Typically Offered: Spring.

"Mechanics" of poetry in English, including meter, rhythm, rhyme, line, and other systems of measurement and logic. Emphasis is on historical development of poetic art in English. Note: this course assumes that students have completed ENGL 2451. Cross-listed with ENGL 5160

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Examines major American poets and poetic trends from the colonial period to the present, with attention to cultural contexts and to development of distinctively American practices. Cross-listed with ENGL 5166.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Provides rhetorical analyses of scientific discourse and student practice in writing research reports and proposals. Cross-listed with ENGL 5175. Students will not receive credit for this class if they have already received credit for ENGL 3175.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENGL 2030 with a C- or higher Restriction: Restricted to sophomore or higher standing

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Provides instruction in the conventions of editing in the genre of technical communication. Students develop skills they can use to edit a variety of technical documents. Cross-listed with ENGL 5177.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENGL 2030 with a C- or higher

Typically Offered: Spring.

Explores the history of logic and its role in argumentation, studies various types of logical structures, and analyzes current uses of argumentation, with attention to writing arguments on current public issues. ENGL 3084 recommended.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: junior standing or higher

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Focuses on particular issues in rhetoric and writing as they pertain to reading and writing, including language and gender, language and culture, and language of political action. ENGL 3084 recommended. Cross-listed with ENGL 5190. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Prereq: junior standing or higher

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Rise and development of the English novel from its beginnings in the 18th century through the end of the 19th century, including such writers as Defore, Fielding, Austen, Shelley, the Brontes, Thackeray, and Dickens. Cross-listed with ENGL 5200.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Overview of the English novel from mid-19th century to World War II, emphasizing the important developments which the form underwent in the hands of notable novelists, including Charles Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Cross-listed with ENGL 5210.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Surveys African-American literature with special emphasis on post-Civil War writing. Cross-listed with ENGL 5220, ETST 4220 and ETST 5220.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Surveys major developments in the American novel from the 18th century to the 21st century. Cross-listed with ENGL 5230.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

Studies the works of Faulkner's high period with special attention to southern themes and Faulkner's experimentation with narrative form. Cross-listed with ENGL 5235.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Traces the development of the short story in the United States, from its beginnings in colonial tales to its contemporary renaissance as a dominant literary form. Cross-listed with ENGL 5236.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Seminar focusing on a segment of contemporary American literature. Cross-listed with ENGL 5240.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Deals with novels originating in a variety of countries in an effort to see the similarities and differences that varying nationalities bring to the genre. Cross-listed with ENGL 5250. Term offered: fall.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Usability is concerned with how people interact with design and technology; usability is commonly known as the "ease of use" of products and technologies by a range of users. This course emphasizes usability and user research and will explore the intersection of usability and writing. We will investigate definitions of usability and human-centered design principles, and we will explore a variety of usability research methods including heuristic evaluation, personas, journey maps, and usability testing. The course is a community-engaged learning course, and students will partner with organizations to conduct usability research and testing and write recommendations reports. Cross-listed with ENGL 5270

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Students learn how to find funding sources, write proposals, and manage grants for nonprofit, research, and industry contexts. Students practice the entire process of proposal and grant writing: 1) describing the problem in context; 2) identifying sponsors, building relationships, and finding a match;3) designing, writing, revising, and completing all proposal components; 4)conceptualizing and using persuasive visual and design elements; 5)responding to sponsors and managing grant funds. Often, students work with academic, industry, and community partners on a grant writing project. ENGL 3084 recommended. Cross-listed with ENGL 5280.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: junior standing or higher

Typically Offered: Spring.

Investigates the relationship between rhetoric and the body, with attention to theoretical and practical implications. Welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives, and often considers rhetorical topics from historical, medical, disability studies, economic, and/or gendered perspectives.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Intended as a survey of British drama from the miracle plays of the medieval period, through the Renaissance and Restoration, to the "kitchen sink" realists of the 1960s. Cross-listed with ENGL 5300.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Examines changes and continuities in feminist thought from the 18th century to the present, using historical and literary materials. Explores the ways that women's characteristics, experiences, and capabilities have been understood and challenged. Cross-listed with ENGL 5306, HIST 4306, 5306, WGST 4306, 5306.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course explores contemporary feminist thought in philosophy and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Topics include lesbianism, black feminism, Chicana feminism, transgender identity, women and work and others. Cross-listed with ENGL 5308, PHIL 4308, PHIL 5308, WGST 4308, WGST 5308.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Instruction in the Old English language. Note: this course assumes that students have completed ENGL 2070 or one year of college level coursework in a foreign language. One year of college foreign language or ENGL 2070 recommended. Cross-listed with ENGL 5400.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Continuing training in the reading of Old English and intensive reading of Beowulf. Cross-listed with ENGL 5410. Note: this course assumes that students have completed ENGL 4400 or 5400.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

(1) Familiarizes students with some of the central concepts and debates in film theory and criticism, both classic and contemporary, (2) enables students to develop advanced analytic and interpretive skills, and (3) guides students toward discovering and articulating original critical and theoretical perspectives. Note: this course assumes that students have completed ENGL 2250, ENGL 3070, ENGL 3080. Cross-listed with ENGL 5420.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Surveys literature written by world writers since World War II. Note: Texts read in English. Cross-listed with ENGL 5460.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Introduces representative writers from the Norman Conquest to about 1550. Emphasis on a variety of genres, including religious poetry, Arthurian romance, dream vision and drama. Cross-listed with ENGL 5500.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Studies how women are presented in texts, as well as works by women. Investigates the roles open to women and societal attitudes toward women, who were considered seductresses, saints, scholars and warriors in the middle ages. Note: this course assumes that students have completed at least 9 hours of literature coursework. Cross-listed with ENGL 5510, RLST 4730/5730, WGST 4510/5510.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Introduces some of the important writers in this major period of English literature (1500-1660). Special attention to the works of Sidney, Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert and Johnson. Cross-listed with ENGL 5520.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Extensive reading in John Milton's poetry (Lycidas, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes) as well as his political, social and theological writings. Cross-listed with ENGL 5530.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Introduces some of the important writers of the "Age of Reason." Emphasis on such figures as Bunyan, Burke, Dryden, Johnson, Pope and Swift. Cross-listed with ENGL 5540.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Studies major works of the chief English writers of the first part of the 19th century, with emphasis on such representative figures as Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Byron, Keats and Shelley. Cross-listed with ENGL 5560.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Examines the main currents of Victorian thought in prose and poetry from about 1830 to the end of the century, including such writers as Browning, Carlyle, Mill, Newman, Ruskin, Swinburne and Tennyson. Cross-listed with ENGL 5580.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Modernist literature from the beginning of the 20th century through World War II, including such writers as Eliot, Joyce, Forester, Ford, Yeats, Woolf and Barnes. Examines the social-political influences as well as the aesthetic and stylistic elements which define modernist writing. Cross-listed with ENGL 5600.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Overview of basic principles and practices in the learning and teaching of English as a second language. ENGL 3160 recommended. Cross-listed with ENGL 5601.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: junior standing or higher

Typically Offered: Fall.

A critical and theoretical exploration of the elements of narrative -e.g., plot, character, dialogue, discourse-in literature and film. This course is especially useful for fiction-writing students in the Creative Writing Track. Cross-listed with ENGL 5610

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENGL 2450

Typically Offered: Fall.

Topics include: similarities between first & second language writing, the processes of composition & revision, teacher response to student writing, student processing of feedback, writing assessment, and the reading/writing connection. ENGL 3160 recommended. Cross-listed with ENGL 5651.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: junior standing or higher

Typically Offered: Spring.

Produce dossier-quality multimedia shorts by researching and writing digital compositions for selected community organizations. Topics for research range across numerous social issues and involve all disciplines. Cross-listed with ENGL 5701.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENGL 2030, 3154, and 3170 with a C- or higher.

Designed for students taking departmental honors in English.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Extensive reading in Chaucer's works in Middle English, including his lyrics, dream visions, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Canterbury Tales. Examines sources, historical and ideological factors influencing the texts. Cross-listed with ENGL 5730.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Designed for students taking departmental honors in English writing.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Investigates medical and biological writing over the last two centuries with an emphasis on reception, ethical issues, and the differences between professional and popular writing. Cross-listed with ENGL 5745.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Introduces students to the fundamentals of legal reasoning and legal argumentation, through intensive class discussion, formal debate, and writing. Particular focus is given to the relationship between case and statutory law, and their application in trial courts and appeal courts in the United States. Cross-listed with COMM 4750, COMM 5750, PSCI 4757 and PSCI 5747.

Grading Basis: Conversion

Narratives of mental, chronic or terminal illness, and disability have become common over the past decades. There are a number of ways in which these stories are told by those reflecting on their experiences: individuals choosing to tell such stories must consider how their stories will be received and what they are revealing about themselves in dealing with their conditions. Many issues arise when looking at the production and reception of these narratives, including acceptation and assimilation, stigmatization, access and quality of treatment, discrimination, accommodation, pity and stereotyping responses. These narratives are consumed, usurped, and reacted to by clinicians, communities and society at large with their own agendas, expectations, fears and judgments of the stories and of the individuals telling their stories. This course is about the issues and concerns of producing an illness or disability narrative and the consumption/reception of those narratives by health professionals, communities, and society at large. In addition, English majors are required to have taken ENGL 3001, 3084, or 4701, and HEHM minors using this as their capstone are required to have taken HEHM 3100 with a C or higher. Cross-listed with ENGL 5755.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Pre-req ENGL 1020 and 2030 with a C or higher. In addition, English majors are required to have taken ENGL 3001, 3084, or 4701, and HEHM minors using this as their capstone are required to have taken HEHM 3100 with a C or higher.

May look at specific genres, aesthetic approaches to literature and film, ideological or socio-political agendas, or other special topics in literature and/or film. Cross-listed with ENGL 5770. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 12.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

May look at specific genres, aesthetic approaches, ideological or socio-political agendas, or other special topics in literature and/or film. Focus on lit and film history. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

May look at specific genres, aesthetic approaches to literature, ideological or socio-political agendas, or other special topics in literature and/or film. Focus on gender in lit and film. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 12.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall.

May look at specific genres, aesthetic approaches to literature, ideological or socio-political agendas, or other special topics in literature and/or film. Focus on genre and global culture. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 12.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall.

May look at specific genres, aesthetic approaches to literature, ideological or socio-political agendas, or other special topics in literature and/or film. Focus on American identities. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 12.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall.

May look at specific genres, aesthetic approaches to literature, ideological or socio-political agendas, or other special topics in literature and/or film from 1650-1900. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 12.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

May look at specific genres, aesthetic approaches to literature, ideological or socio-political agendas, or other special topics in literature and/or film after 1900, e.g., Philosophy and Lit., Mental Health in Lit., Environmental Lit. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher.

Writing-intensive courses combining reading, directed writing, peer- and instructor-led workshops in a topic to be determined by instructor. Topics may include projects in a specialized genre, such as science fiction or noir writing, or in a field of professional endeavor related to creative writing, such as the editing and production of a literary journal. Note: this course assumes that students have completed a previous college-level creative writing course. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Writing-intensive courses combining reading, directed writing, peer- and instructor-led workshops in a topic to be determined by instructor. Topics will include projects in poetry. Note: this course assumes that students have completed a previous college-level creative writing course. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Writing-intensive courses combining reading, directed writing, peer- and instructor-led workshops in a topic to be determined by instructor. Topics will include projects in fiction. Note: this course assumes that students have completed a previous college-level creative writing course. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Practicum for students interested in editing in a literary field, e.g., literary magazines, book manuscripts, anthology projects. Each semester the parameter of the practicum will be set by the instructor. All other students must have instructor's permission.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to ENGL majors or minors

This course explores different approaches to creative nonfiction. Students will produce 5 short exercises and one full-length, original work (10-15 pages), read selections from CNF genres, including memoir, personal essay, science writing, food writing, travel writing, and literary journalism, and write and present detailed critiques of peers’ material. The ultimate goal of this course is to recognize and understand the various genres pertaining to creative nonfiction, and to introduce the practice of writing inventive prose that is both objectively and subjectively true. We will devote a significant amount of time in the classroom to determining just what that means. Note: this course assumes that students have completed at least one creative writing course at the 2000 or 3000 level.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Capstone workshop for students within the Creative Writing major track or Creative Writing minor. Emphasis on a single, sustained project developed by the student.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENGL 4025

Typically Offered: Spring.

Department consent required. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 12.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Capstone workshop designed to deepen the understanding of narrative, and consciously apply the strategies of narrative craft to modern markets. Course will focus on the writing and publishing processes, culminating in a classroom narrative defense and submission to professional outlets.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENGL 4055

Typically Offered: Spring.

Students will engage in original research projects supervised and mentored by faculty. Students must work with faculty prior to registration to develop a proposal for their project and receive permission to take this course. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Explores an area of English literature not covered in regular course work. Note: May be taken as a precursor to honors essay, in which case student should consult with the honors advisor. Department consent required.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restrictions: Restricted to Senior standing.

Individual writing project consisting of a creative manuscript or critical study. Manuscript must be 30 pages of high quality text. Note: Available only to students in the creative writing and film tracks. Department consent required. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restrictions: Restricted to Senior standing.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Individual writing project in any genre and any discipline upon approval of faculty advisor. Manuscript must be 30 pages of high quality text. Department consent required.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restrictions: Restricted to Senior standing.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.