Course Listing

Course Listing ENG 100: Fundamentals of Writing

3 credit hours A course designed to prepare students for college-level composition through intensive practice in writing, editing, and revising sentences and paragraphs.

ENG 112: Composition

3-4 credit hours; CTC credit Prerequisite: Placement or C or better in ENG 100 A one-semester course in writing that emphasizes organization and effective expression of ideas, expository and argumentative modes of essay writing, conventions of standard written English, analytical and interpretive reading skills, and use of evidence from written sources of various kinds. A specific research project is assigned. Offered fall and spring.

ENG 147: Literary Magazine Publication PRISM

1 credit hour/year: Students may repeat this course for additional credit, up to 3 credits A course in which students design, edit, and produce the WPU literary magazine, the PRISM. Responsibilities include organization of staff, establishment of procedures and standards, solicitation of student contributions of prose, poetry, artwork, and desktop publishing. Offered spring.

ENG 185: Introduction to Creative Writing

3 credit hours A writing workshop emphasizing poetry and/or short fiction. Student writing will be analyzed in class and in individual conferences.

ENG 211: Writing about British Literature Before 1700

3 credit hours; CTC credit Prerequisite: C or better in ENG 112; this course fulfills the 200-level writing requirement An introduction to major works of British literature from its beginnings through the eighteenth century, including such figures as Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Offered spring.

ENG 212: Writing about British Literature After 1700

3 credit hours; CTC credit Prerequisite: C or better in ENG 112; this course fulfills the 200-level writing requirement An examination of British literature from 1700 until the present, focusing on theme and ideology within literary, historical, and cultural contexts. The course treats various genres, with emphasis on poetry and fiction. Offered fall.

ENG 214: Writing about Studies in Fiction

3 credit hours; CTC credit Prerequisite: C or better in ENG 112; this course fulfills the 200-level writing requirement An introduction to novels and short fiction illustrating the evolution of fiction as a genre.

ENG 216: Writing about American Literature After 1700

3 credit hours; CTC credit Prerequisite: C or better in ENG 112; this course fulfills the 200-level writing requirement An introduction to the works and authors of American literature from 1700 to the present. The course examines works within their historical, cultural, and literary contexts. Offered fall and spring.

ENG 219: Writing about Latin American Literature

3 credit hours; CTC-NW credit

Prerequisite: C or better in ENG 112; this course fulfills the 200-level writing requirement This course introduces students to the main periods and movements of Latin American literature from the conquest and colonial periods to “the Boom” and “post-Boom” movements of the twentieth century and beyond. All selections will be taught in translation, including authors such as: Colón, de las Casas, Sor Juana, Bolívar, Darío, Martí, Mistral, Vallejo, Neruda, Rulfo, García Márquez, and Fuentes.

ENG 220: Writing about World Literature Before 1700

3-4 credit hours; CTC credit Prerequisite: C or better in ENG 112; this course fulfills the 200-level writing requirement This course provides an introduction to world literature from its ancient beginnings through 1700 C.E. An emphasis will be placed on genre or literary style, as well as the beliefs and practices of the cultures that produced these important literary works. Several overarching themes, such as the journey, cross-cultural encounters, and the definition of love, are explored in an attempt to discover more about ourselves and the human condition. Offered fall.

ENG 221: Writing about World Literature After 1700

3 credit hours; CTC credit Prerequisite: C or better in ENG 112; this course fulfills the 200-level writing requirement This course provides an introduction to literature from 1700 forward. An emphasis will be placed on genre or literary style, as well as the beliefs and practices of the cultures that produced these important literary works. Several overarching themes, such as colonialism, women’s rights, and the meeting of East and West, are explored in an attempt to discover more about ourselves and the human condition. Offered spring.

ENG 223: Writing About Film

3 credit hours; CTC credit Prerequisite: C or better in ENG 112; this course fulfills the 200-level writing requirement An introduction to film theory and criticism that focuses on analyzing the thematic purposes of scene construction and writing basic arguments about moving genres and their cultural impact.

ENG 225H: Honors Writing about Literature

3-4 credit hours; CTC credit Prerequisite: C or better in ENG 112; this course fulfills the 200-level writing requirement. Acceptance in the Honors program or permission of the Honors Coordinator. A course whose content may vary from term to term according to the needs of the academic department, student demand, or interests of the faculty member.

ENG 252: Writing about African-American Literature

3 credit hours; CTC credit Prerequisite: C or better in ENG 112; this course fulfills the 200-level writing requirement. A study of African-American writers from the beginnings to the present and their relationship to American culture and history, including figures such as Wheatley, Douglass, Chesnutt, Dunbar, DuBois, Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Baldwin, Morrison, and Walker.

ENG 311: Science and Nature Writing

3 credit hours Prerequisite: C or better in 200-level writing course; this course fulfills the 300-level writing requirement This course explores multiple practical strategies by which writers can accommodate science for specific audiences, including non-experts. The course also asks students to evaluate and propose best practices for such accommodations of specialized knowledge. Extra attention is paid to scientific processes of knowledge

making rather than science as a product. That is, in this course, interpretations of how we know are valued as highly as what we know.

ENG 312: Advanced Topics in Writing

3 credit hours Prerequisite: C or better in 200‐level writing course; this course fulfills the 300‐level writing requirement An upper‐level writing course designed to focus on style and complexity of development. The theme or topic of the course may vary, but the emphasis is placed on the development of mature writing styles. The course offers practice in writing non‐fiction: profiles, essays, opinion pieces, investigative reports, interviews, and/or personal narratives. Students use rhetorical strategies, principles, and standards of proof appropriate to subject matter, audience, and language.

ENG 313: Writing About Storytelling in Simulation

3 credit hours Prerequisite: C or better in 200-level writing course; this course fulfills the 300-level writing requirement This course analyzes how our contemporary technology‐driven society understands the concept of story. To what degree have traditional terms such as “plot” and “character” changed in a culture that experiences them primarily through television, movies, and video games? How have new forms of pop culture narratives affected what we expect from beginnings and endings in the stories that we tell about ourselves? Students write analysis papers, conduct research, and propose arguments that evaluate changes in a range of storytelling techniques from traditional fictions to the newer interactive standards inspired by video games, cloud computing, and social networks.

ENG 314: Professional Writing

3 credit hours Prerequisite: C or better in 200-level writing course; this course fulfills the 300-level writing requirement Study of written communication in professional organizations, emphasizing specialized documents, technical editing, and publication management. Intensive practice in preparing documents – such as letters, proposals, and reports – according to appropriate principles of writing and design. Offered fall and spring.

ENG 316: Advanced Grammar

3 credit hours Prerequisite: C or better in 200-level writing course; this course fulfills the 300-level writing requirement An in-depth study of grammar. The course begins with the basics of sentence structure and progresses to the advanced level. Emphasis is given to improving style as a way of improving clarity and meaning.

ENG 318: Advanced Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing

3 credit hours Prerequisite: C or better in 200-level writing course; this course fulfills the 300-level writing requirement This course focuses on advanced strategies for writing fiction and creative non‐fiction. Students analyze respected examples of both genres and demonstrate their ability to make informed and sophisticated choices about such literary elements as structure, point of view, tone, and dialogue. The final goal of the course is to produce a sustained piece of writing that would be appropriate to submit for publication.

ENG 400L: Writing Lab

1 credit hour; Online Prerequisites: Successful completion of ENG 112, and both an ENG 200- and 300-level writing course. Students must be registered simultaneously in PHL 400 (TUG only). This course fulfills the ENG 400-level writing requirement. Students participate in a writing lab linked to their PHL 400 coursework. Early sessions emphasize review and mastery of the writing skills taught throughout the previous three years of writing courses. When

students begin work on comprehensive writing projects in PHL 400, this lab will serve as a place to work through the writing process with peer review, workshops, and individual help. Offered fall and spring.

ENG 419: American Drama

Prerequisite: A 200-level literature course A study of popular and influential American plays and playwrights from the end of the 19th century to the present day, emphasizing the relationship between developments in American history and stylistic innovations in the writing of texts and theatrical productions of them.

ENG 422: Shakespeare

3 credit hours Prerequisite: a 200-level literature course A study of major Shakespearean plays, including at least one from each of the main genres–history, comedy, tragedy, and romance.

ENG 423: Critical Approaches to Film

3 credit hours Prerequisite: a 200-level literature course; ENG 223 and/or ENG 313 strongly recommended An exploration of various models of film theory. The primary emphasis is on feature length, narrative films, but attention is also paid to documentaries and experimental films. The course content may vary from term to term by focusing on a particular theme or issue.

ENG 425: Women on Stage

3 credit hours Prerequisite: a 200-level literature course The lines between queens and “queans” (Renaissance slang for prostitutes), actresses and courtesans, singers and scandal makers has always disturbed the (mostly male) writers and lawmakers attempting to regulate the spectacle of a woman displaying herself in public during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examining plays and other texts from the time when boys took female roles through the introduction of the actress to the public theatres, this course will interrogate the social, political, artistic, and moral implications of women on stage.

ENG 438: Twentieth-Century Fiction

3 credit hours Prerequisite: a 200-level literature course A study of significant fiction (short stories and/or novels). Depending on the instructor, the course may be organized thematically and/or geographically.

ENG 444: Utopias and Dystopias

3 credit hours Prerequisite: a 200-level literature course Utopia literally means “no place” (of Greek origin: ou ‘not’ + topos ‘place’). Is it constructive or potentially dangerous to even imagine a place where everything is “ideal”? Should we (as individuals, communities, citizens) strive to bring these imagined places into existence? A dystopia is also an imagined place, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one, in which everything is unpleasant or bad. What accounts for contemporary trends in dystopic popular fiction? This course will explore various conceptualizations of the ideal—and how and why these dreams fail.

ENG 454: Southern American Literature

3 credit hours Prerequisite: a 200-level literature course

A study of major Southern writers, emphasizing those of the 1920s Renaissance and contemporary writers.

ENG 456: The American Novel

3 credit hours Prerequisite; a 200-level literature course A study of the American novel. Depending on the instructor, the course may be organized chronologically, thematically and/or geographically.

ENG 460: The Gothic: Ghosts and Vampires

3 credit hours Prerequisite: a 200-level literature course The 19th century invented some of the great scary stories of our imaginative culture: Frankenstein (1818), Dracula (1897), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, etc. This course studies the genre of the Gothic, a fascinating blend of monsters, psychological trauma, and cultural hauntings, through classic texts in the British and American tradition. Beginning with the Romantic poets and their nightmares of sea monsters and woodland vampire-witches and continuing to contemporary ghost stories and Stephen King, this course evaluates the ongoing role of Gothic terror in our modern psychology and popular culture.

ENG 474: The Image of Women

3 credit hours Prerequisite: a 200-level literature course Throughout history, many women have been determined by the larger culture to be culturally unacceptable. This has resulted in them being marginalized, outcast, confined, even institutionalized, for their thoughts and behaviors. Continuing the work of literary critics Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar in The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination (1979) and professor of psychology Phyllis Chesler in Women and Madness (1970), this course will focus on twentieth century texts and the image of women in works produced by both men and women.

ENG 478: Children’s Literature

3 credit hours Prerequisite: a 200-level literature course or permission of the instructor An introduction to literature written for children.

ENG 485: Senior Seminar

3 credit hours Prerequisites: a “C” or better in coursework in the major, senior status Students will read and respond to a selected list of literary works focused on a particular theme, genre, or author, in scheduled class meetings for the first half of the semester. During the second half of the semester, class meetings may alternate with conferences. In class, students will give focused responses to the reading assignments, demonstrate competency in various forms of composition, complete a working bibliography, and write a near article-length manuscript on a subject derived from the readings. At term’s end, students will deliver substantive oral presentations based on their critical research to the English faculty. Offered fall.

ENG 295/395/495: Writing About Literature - Special Topics

1-4 credit hours Prerequisite: ENG 112for ENG 295, a 200‐level literature course or permission of the instructor for 395 and 495 A course whose content may vary from term to term according to the needs of the academic department, student demand, or the interests of the faculty member.

ENG 392/492: Directed Study

2-4 credit hours

Prerequisite: junior or senior status A course of study addressing a specific topic or problem of interest to a student, designed collaboratively by the student and faculty member(s), and resulting in a paper, report, critiqued performance or production, or other assessable evidence of value added to the student’s educational experience. A contract of expectations by the student and by the supervising faculty member(s) must be approved by the advisor and the Vice President for Academic Affairs prior to registration. No more than six (6) semester hours toward the baccalaureate degree can consist of directed study credit.

ENG 499: Research in English

1-4 credit hours Prerequisite: junior or senior status In collaboration with a faculty sponsor, students will conduct a research project, generally, but not necessarily, resulting in an essay suitable for formal presentation or publication. Interested students should consult with an English faculty member before registering. Registration will be limited on the basis of a minimum of a 3.0 GPA in major, viability of proposed topic, and potential for successful completion.