ENGL 101 Writing
Development of writing skills necessary for academic work at all levels, including skills in rhetoric, grammar, electronic research, and documentation. Required of all students except those placed in an advanced writing course. At least a C— is required to complete the college’s English 101 requirement.

ENGL 199 Writing Review
Review and practice in the basics of grammar and writing skills. One semester hour.

ENGL 201 Western World Literature I
Western literature from the ancient Greeks through the Renaissance, including origins and development of literary genres and traditions. Attention to mythology, religion, philosophy, and the multicultural aspects of Western culture.

ENGL 202 Western World Literature II
Continuation of study of Western world literature and culture in the neo-classical, romantic, and modern periods.

ENGL 231 Studies in Poetry
Introduction to selected poets’ treatment of genre, form, technique, and theme, in aesthetic, social, and political contexts.

ENGL 232 Studies in Short Fiction
Introduction to short fiction; international development from Chekhov to Dinesen to Barthelme; variety of forms from classical narrative to fantasy to expressionism.

ENGL 233 Studies in Drama I
Introduction to ancient and early modern drama, including Greek and Roman, classical Japanese, Medieval, Renaissance, Neoclassical, and Romantic, with readings in theory related to each period.

ENGL 234 Studies in Drama II
Introduction to modern drama, including realism and naturalism, expressionism and absurdism, African American, postmodern, postcolonial, and other current international developments, with readings in theory related to each period.

ENGL 251 Major British Writers II
Selected works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, G. Eliot, Woolf, Yeats, and T.S. Eliot. English majors should complete 251 before the end of the sophomore year.

ENGL 271 Introduction to Film
Study of film techniques and conventions; consideration of the social, artistic, and historical contexts of films, how they shape and are shaped by their time; and systematic exploration of such influential film genres as silent film, documentary, film noir, New Cinema, and auteur analysis.

ENGL 304 The Nineteenth Century
Developments in Romantic and Victorian poetry and non-fiction prose, and cultural-political contexts that motivated literary changes and movements.

ENGL 305 The Twentieth Century
Study of the social and political contexts of literature from Modernism through Postmodernism to Postcolonialism, including authors such as Woolf, Yeats, Soyinka, and Rushdie.

ENGL 312 Major American Writers to 1865: Puritanism and Romanticism
Selected works by colonial New England writers (Bradstreet, Edwards, Taylor) and by Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Douglass, Whitman, and Dickinson.

ENGL 313 Major American Writers: The Rise of Realism and Naturalism
Late 19th-century and early 20th-century literature, with attention to work of the Local Colorists, Twain, Howells, James, Crane, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather.

ENGL 314 Modern and Contemporary American Writers
Selected American writers from Eliot, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald to the present.

ENGL 315 African American Writers
Introduction to major authors from the late 19th century to the present, including Chesnutt, Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Baldwin, Ellison, Gaines, Morrison, and Wilson.

ENGL 316 Modern Southern Writers
Twentieth-century Southern literature with emphasis on writers like Faulkner, Porter, Warren, Welty, Wright, O’Connor, Styron, Percy, Gaines, and Walker.

ENGL 317 Literature for Children and Young Adults
Survey of traditional and modern books for children and young adults to assist teachers, parents, and librarians in selecting and creatively presenting the best and most appropriate literature for each period of a young person’s life.

ENGL 320 Writing About Literature
Instruction in analyzing literature, writing academic discourse, and using electronic research and documentation. Introduction to selected modern critical theories. English majors are encouraged to take this course before upper-level literary studies.

ENGL 321 Advanced Expository Writing
Writing and reading longer forms of exposition, such as research papers, magazine articles, informational bulletins, project reports, oral reports and public speeches, and refining skills in electronic research, and in documentation.

ENGL 322 Writing Poetry
The writing of poetry; analysis and evaluation of theories and achievements in contemporary poetry.

ENGL 323 Writing Prose Fiction
The writing of prose fiction, with emphasis on techniques of characterization, voice, plot development, and theme.

ENGL 324 The Teaching of Writing
Survey of theories about the composing process and recent approaches to the teaching of composition; design and evaluation of effective writing assignments; use of electronic research and documentation. Prerequisite: junior status or permission of instructor.

ENGL 325X Playwriting (Theatre 325)

ENGL 332 Critical Perspectives in Literature
An applied study of critical perspectives on literature and theatrical performance. Emphasis on the varied aims, languages, methods, and arguments of contemporary critical discourse.

ENGL 333 Linguistics
Structural and transformational grammar, with attention also to history of language, dictionaries, regional and social varieties of English and kinesics.

ENGL 334 Appalachian Literature
Survey of Appalachian literature and the forces that shaped it, from traditional ballads, folktales, and early portraits of Appalachia to major modern authors such as Stuart, Arnow, Still, Ehle, Chappell, Morgan, Miller, Smith, and Giardina.

ENGL 341 Studies in the Novel
Study of the novel as a genre and the evolution of its distinctive character and shape, focusing on selected authors such as Austen, Dickens, and Eliot.

ENGL 343 Contemporary Poetry
Survey of selected poetry written since 1945, with an emphasis on cultural and literary diversity. Study of such authors as Amichai, Dove, Hughes, Milosz, Neruda, Olds, Piercy, and Rich.

ENGL 345 Women in Literature
Study of novels, poems, plays, short stories, and non-fiction by women of different cultures and time periods, including some writing about women by men.

ENGL 350 Special Topics
Studies of particular writers, movements, issues, or periods within any area of the English curriculum.

ENGL 351X Contemporary Literature and the Christian Faith (Religion 351)

ENGL 360 Shakespeare
Representative comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances from his early, middle, and late periods, studied in the context of cultural and dramatic history and the Elizabethan theatre.

ENGL 380 Comparative Cultures and Literature
Comparison of selected international literatures and cultures, such as Africa, the Caribbean, the Far and Middle East, Oceania, and alternative American cultures such as Native American and African American.

ENGL 385 Major Russian and Soviet Authors
Study of major 19th-century Russian authors, including Gogol, Lermontov, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and 20th-century Soviet protest literature of Solzhenitsyn and others.

ENGL 402 Senior Seminar
Analysis of a selected literary topic with related study of schools of critical theory. Evaluation of student presentations by the entire English Department. For seniors only, except with permission of department chair.

ENGL 403 Senior Creative Writing Workshop
Intensive writing workshop experience; includes introduction to critical theories of literature and the development of independent creative writing projects. Participation of the entire English Department in reviewing student writing projects. Prerequisites: 321, 322, and 323, or permission of instructor.

ENGL 460 Independent Study
Advanced independent research in special area of literature and criticism, or a creative writing project, under the supervision of a faculty member. Prerequisite: departmental approval. One to four semester hours.

ENGL 470 and 471 Internship I and II
Work experience related to field in student’s major, jointly supervised by department and a professional in the field. Prerequisite: approval of department. Pass-Fail only.

ENGL 490 Honors Project
Prerequisites: junior standing, GPA of 3.5 in the major and 3.3 overall, and approval of all faculty members in the department. Six semester hours.