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2020-2021 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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  • EGR 497 - Bioengineering Capstone Design I

    Credits 2
    Lecture / 2 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: BNG 311; Corequisite or Prerequisite ENL 266 or permission of instructor
    Professional and management activities of project engineering as a two course sequence. Students working in teams will integrate their learning by selecting a senior Bioengineering design project, leading to a written and oral presentation of a project proposal. Intellectual property rights, ethics and economic issues, as well as applicable regulations will be considered.
    Graded
  

  • EGR 498 - Bioengineering Capstone Design II

    Credits 2Satisfies University Studies requirement: Capstone Study
    Lecture / 2 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: EGR 497
    Application of knowledge gained in various courses to the synthesis, analysis, and design of a system in a particular bioengineering field of interest selected by the student’s team. The product proposed in EGR 497 will be built in EGR 498.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 99 - Critical Writing & Reading I Workshop

    Credits 1
    Workshop
    Requirements: Corequisite: ENL 101
    Provides students additional support for ENL 101 Critical Writing and Reading I work. Students develop college-level reading and writing skills and work closely with the instructor as well as independently, in small groups, and as a class.Developmental writing workshop co-requisite for ENL 101 Critical Writing and Reading I.
    Exclude Credit
  

  • ENL 100 - Basic English Review

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    This course develops rhetorical awareness and effectiveness, as well as fluency in standard English, through focus on essential features common to any writing situation (purpose, audience needs, content, organization, style and correctness) at the level of the paragraph and basic essay. Requires one hour per week in the Writing/Reading center in addition to three class hours. Preparation for ENL 101.
    Exclude Credit
  

  • ENL 101 - Critical Writing and Reading I

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Critical Writing & Reading I
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Argument-focused course that introduces students to scholarly reading and writing strategies. Students practice widely-applicable methods of reading, writing, and revising arguments. Students read college-level arguments from diverse popular, public, and academic genres in order to develop their academic skills of analyzing single arguments, synthesizing multiple perspectives, and composing informed responses to an ongoing conversation.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 102 - Critical Writing and Reading II

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Critical Writing & Reading II
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 101
    Synthesis-focused course that builds on ENL 101. Students sharpen analytical skills by reading complex texts across public and academic genres. Students also create individual research questions, build college-level research skills, compose sophisticated syntheses, and revise their own argumentative, academic contributions to a defined conversation. Students leave the course prepared for intermediate reading and writing tasks in a broad variety of disciplines as well as with improved research skills and the reflective habits of successful, life-long learners.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 196 - Directed Study

    Credits variable; 1.00 to 6.00
    Independent Study
    Requirements: Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor, chairperson, and college dean
    Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered. Conditions and hours to be arranged.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 200 - Studies in Literature

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Literature Literature
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A study of selected readings dealing with a special topic chosen by the instructor. Recent special topics include New England Literature, Children’s Literature, the Artist in Literature, Black Music, and Black Literature. May be repeated with change of content. Cross-listed as BLS 200; LST 200. Cross-listed with BLS 200
    Graded
  

  • ENL 201 - Major British Writers

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    Exploration of British literature from medieval to modern times, focusing on about ten seminal texts by such writers as Chaucer, Malory, Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Austen, Tennyson, Dickens, Joyce, Woolf, Rushdie, and others. Selections from their contemporaries present historical and cultural contexts and offer opportunities to compare views of the course’s unifying theme, which changes each semester.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 202 - Major American Writers

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Literature
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A study of selected works, from several genres, by outstanding American authors.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 203 - Survey World Lit I

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Literature
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A study of selected masterpieces from the Golden Age of Greece to the Renaissance.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 204 - Survey of World Literature II

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Literature
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A study of selected masterpieces from the Renaissance to the present.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 205 - Travel Literature

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Literature
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    Exploration of contemporary travel writing and the genre it represents, creative nonfiction. It treats the history, forms, and thematic concerns of travel literature and the nature of the “fourth genre” of creative nonfiction. In addition to reading travel literature, students explore a variety of contextual materials online, such as articles, interviews, podcasts, blogs, and videos. A passport to virtual travel, the course examines a wide range of ideas about the world and the ways we live in it and develops one’s sense of global geography.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 206 - Detective Fiction

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A study of famous mystery, suspense, and detective fiction.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 209 - Bible as Literature

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    Readings from the Old and New Testament discussed in the context of the history of ideas, literary genres, the effectiveness of communication to the intended audience, and influences on other literature.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 210 - Lit of American West

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    An exploration of the myths and realities of the American West (west of the Mississippi) as they are reflected in literature - e.g., the cowboy, westward expansion, the Spanish conquistadors.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 211 - American Dream

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A study of the meaning of success as reflected in works ranging from those of Benjamin Franklin and Horatio Alger to the plays of Arthur Miller. Cross-listed as LST 211. Cross-listed with LST 211
    Graded
  

  • ENL 212 - Introduction to Shakespeare

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Literature
    Lecture
    A course designed primarily for non-English majors, which examines some of the typical plays of the greatest dramatist in the English language.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 214 - African American Literature

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    Chronological survey beginning with Gustavus Vassa and Robert Hayden’s “Middle Passage” and continuing through contemporary writers. Toward the end of the course there will be focus on new women writers and major writers through the 1990s. Cross-listed with BLS 214, LST 214, WGS 214
    Graded
  

  • ENL 216 - Comedy and Satire

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Literature
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A study of the philosophy and psychology of literary and other forms of comedy and satire, including works by such writers as Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Swift, Voltaire, Wilde, Shaw, Waugh, Heller, Vonnegut, and others, as well as film artists such as Chaplin, Sellers, and Woody Allen.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 217 - Greek Myth & Drama

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    An exploration of the role of myth in the creation of the plots of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 218 - Literature & Society

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A study of the relationship between the individual and society through readings in modern literature. Cross-listed as LST 218. Cross-listed with JST 218, LST 218
    Graded
  

  • ENL 223 - Fantasy Literature

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A study of fantasy as a genre, comparing other works with Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 224 - Jewish Literature

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A study of modern Jewish stories and novels with emphasis on such writers as Singer, Bellow, Wiesel, Malamud, and others. Cross-listed as JST 224.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 226 - Multicultural Am Lit

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A study of imaginative literature by writers representing the rich variety of racial, ethnic, religious, social, and regional groups in America. Specific focus of the course may vary depending on the instructor.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 227 - Semiotics of Culture

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    Introduces basic theories of communication and models of semiotic analysis. Topics include iconicity, proxemics, kinetics, and the multiple levels of decoding. Readings include analysis of common cultural artifact, verbal and visual media. Students will analyze popular myths and television and print advertising.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 236 - Ancient World-Renaissance

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A study of the origins of English literature embedded in Biblical, Classical, and Medieval sources, with special emphasis on Homer, the Greek dramatists, Virgil, and Dante. Designed to help English majors understand the allusions that enrich English literature.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 246 - Women Writers

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Literature Literature Literature
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    When the subject matter is related to the minor: an examination of the relationship between the woman writer and her work through a study of literature by and about women. Satisfies literature distribution requirement. Cross-listed with BLS 246, WGS 246
    Graded
  

  • ENL 250 - Introduction to Poetry

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A course in the analysis of poetry showing how formalistic and thematic elements in the poem interact to create meaning through an examination of a variety of poetic forms.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 251 - Introduction to the Short Story

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A consideration of short fiction to illustrate the history, range, and properties of the genre. The course treats such representative authors as Poe, Hawthorne, Tolstoy, Joyce, Faulkner, and other 19th and 20th century figures from a variety of national literatures.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 252 - Introduction to The Novel

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A study of how to read and identify the various types of novels, coupled with an introduction to the history of the novel.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 253 - Introduction to Drama

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    An introductory course in how to read and view a play, including instruction in the nature and methods of tragedy, comedy, melodrama, tragicomedy.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 254 - Autobiographical Writing

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A course emphasizing the development of techniques of lifewriting through exercises in journal-keeping and autobiographical writing. The course includes readings in sample journals and autobiographies and study of autobiographical theory.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 255 - Introduction to Film

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    Provides beginning students of film with a comprehensive view of its history, aesthetics, and critical terminology. Attention will also be paid to elementary film theory, to a comparison of film with other genres (especially drama and narration), and to representative works of such major figures in the artistic development of the genre as Chaplin, Renoir, Welles, Bergman, Hitchcock, and Kurosawa.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 257 - Rhetoric I: Introduction to Rhetoric

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 101, ENL 102, English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations or Permission of Instructor
    The study and contemporary application of ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory. Students will apply rhetorical theory in ongoing analyses of a wide range of communication media (written, spoken, visual) and in their own writing.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 258 - Literary Studies

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Literature
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 102; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts Majors, or permission of instructor
    A foundation course for all English majors, examining traditions and innovations in literature and in the study of literature in English. Students develop writing and research skills in the discipline and improve their knowledge of literary terms and forms, literary history and conventions, literary influence, and new and emerging forms and approaches. Genres studied include poetry, drama, fiction, and literary (creative) non-fiction. The course also examines key issues in the profession of literary studies, such as the development of departments of literature, canon formation, and the relationship of literary theory to literary practice.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 259 - Critical Methods: Theory and Practice

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 102; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts Majors, or permission of instructor
    A foundation course for English majors in the literature concentration. Introduce students to literary criticism, as well as critical thinking and writing in English Studies. Emphasis in on the application of principles and methods of literary study to selected texts, which prepares students to examine and respond to texts from a variety of critical perspectives.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 260 - Intermediate Composition

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Intermediate Writing
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 102; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts Majors, or permission of instructor
    A course emphasizing the development of skill in organizing materials, the formation of a lively and concrete style and an authentic personal voice, and the growth of useful techniques in the arts of exposition, persuasion, and argumentation.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 262 - Introduction to Journalism

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    An introduction to the principles of journalism, news, and article writing. The course concentrates on reporting practice and techniques, information gathering, writing style, ethics, objectivity in reporting, and current trends in journalism.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 264 - Communicating in the Sciences

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Intermediate Writing
    Workshop
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    Introduction to the writing and communication skills required in the sciences. Students read and analyze scientific texts, create documents to meet the needs of various audiences, and deliver conference-style (oral) presentations.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 265 - Business Communication

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Intermediate Writing
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    Introduction to the communication skills required in business and industry. Students will learn how to prepare, produce, revise, and deliver business reports, professional communications, computer-supported presentations, and oral presentations.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 266 - Technical Communication

    Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Intermediate Writing
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    Introduction to the technical communication skills used in business and industry. Students practice techniques for creating, managing, and presenting information in written, oral, visual, and electronic forms and use a variety of tools to research and collaborate on projects that relate to many audiences, purposes, forms, and formats of technical communication.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 267 - Creative Writing: Poetry

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    The study of contemporary techniques in the writing of poetry. Manuscripts are read and discussed in class and during individual conferences. Workshop format.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 268 - Creative Writing: Fiction

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    Techniques of writing fiction. Guides students through writing and refining short fiction. This course develops students’ abilities to create and revise short stories reflecting an understanding of the elements of fiction, including characterization, dialogue, plot, setting, point of view, and theme. In addition, students will analyze their own writing, peer stories, and model stories. Students will learn how to respond to the writing of their peers and offer helpful feedback. Workshop format.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 269 - Creative Writing: Drama

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    A study of the fundamental principles of dramaturgy. Manuscripts are read and discussed in class and during individual conferences. Workshop format.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 270 - Speech Communication

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    An introduction to the art of public speaking through the study of effective principles combined with practice in speaking before a group.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 271 - Oral Interpretation of Literature I

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    Study of and practice in the oral interpretation of literary works with heavy emphasis on acting and the Stanislavski method. Cross-listed with BLS 271
    Graded
  

  • ENL 272 - Oral Interpretation of Literature II

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    Study of and practice in the oral interpretation of literary works with heavy emphasis on acting and the Stanislavski method.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 276 - Contemporary International Films

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL102
    An intensive study of outstanding films with attention to the techniques of film criticism.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 296 - Directed Study

    Credits variable; 1.00 to 6.00
    Independent Study
    Requirements: Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor, chairperson, and college dean
    Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered. Conditions and hours to be arranged.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 298 - Experience Program

    Credits variable; 1.00 to 6.00
    Practicum
    Requirements: Prerequisite: At least Sophomore standing, GPA 2.0 or greater. Permission of the instructor, department chair, and college dean.
    Work experience at an elective level supervised for academic credit by a faculty member in an appropriate academic field. Conditions and hours to be arranged. Graded CR/NC. For specific procedures and regulations, see section of catalog on Other Learning Experiences. Cross-listed with ENL 900
    Credit / No Credit
  

  • ENL 300 - Survey of British Literature I

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of British literature from Beowulf to 1798, with attention given to the cultural and historical context.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 302 - Survey of British Literature II

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of British literature from 1798 to the mid-20th Century, with attention given to cultural and historical context.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 303 - Survey of American Literature I

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A survey of American writing from the Colonial Period to the Civil War, with emphasis on the historical, cultural, and philosophical developments which parallel the development of an American literature.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 304 - Survey of American Literature II

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A continuation of ENL 303. A survey of American writing from the Civil War to the present, with some emphasis on historical, cultural, and philosophical developments in America during the period covered.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 305 - Medieval Literature

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    An exploration of the range of vernacular literatures that developed during the European Middle Ages between the decline of the Roman empire and the height of the Renaissance, roughly during the period from 500-1500 CE. May also include comparative analysis of literary texts from within this historical time period but from outside Europe.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 307 - The English Renaissance

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A chronological overview of the major literary works, themes, and genres of the English Renaissance from Caxton and the inception of printing through Milton and the last of the great Renaissance epics. The course focuses on the development of poetic genres and on representative prose forms. Writers studied include Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, Vaughn, and Milton.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 308 - The Enlightenment

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of English Neo-classical and Pre-romantic writings by Dryden, Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, Goldsmith, and others.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 309 - Romantic Age

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A survey of English literature from 1796-1832 stressing the major poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, with some study of novels and personal essays.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 310 - Victorian Age

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of the major English writers of nonfiction from 1832-1900, covering some prose nonfiction (Carlyle, Ruskin, Mill), but emphasizing such poets as Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Rossetti, Swinburne, Meredith, Hopkins, and Housman.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 311 - Western Literature I

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Studies the origins of English literature embedded in Biblical, Classical and Medieval sources, with special emphasis on Homer, the Greek dramatists, Virgil, and Dante. Designed to help English majors understand the allusions that enrich English literature.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 314 - Colonial American Lit

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of 17th and 18th Century American literature from Captain John Smith through Benjamin Franklin with emphasis on the historical background and the various types of literature produced in the period.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 315 - American Renaissance

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 101 & ENL 102 or permission of instructor
    A study of selected major writers from mid 19th century America: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Fuller and Douglass. Additional readings about the intellectual and social movements of the period are required.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 316 - The 19th Century American Novel

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of American novelists from Cooper to Crane and Chopin with focus on individual novels as works of art and as examples of the development of the novel form in America in the 19th century.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 317 - 19 Cent American Poetry

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 101 & ENL 102 or permission of instructor
    A careful study of the major American poets of the 19th century from Freneau to Whitman and Dickinson.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 318 - Chaucer

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Intensive and critical reading of Chaucer’s major writings with attention to his cultural context. This course is designed primarily for English majors.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 319 - Shakespeare

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A careful reading of Shakespeare’s plays selected from the comedies, tragedies, and histories. The course explores Shakespeare’s development as a dramatist, the reasons for his reputation as the greatest poet in the language, and the manner in which his plays reflect Elizabethan custom, attitudes, and beliefs. Some outside readings required in Shakespearean criticism and in the background of the period.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 320 - Major Author

    Credits 3
    Lecture
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Intensive and critical reading of a major author with attention to cultural contexts. Selected author will vary and be identified each time the course is scheduled. Course may be repeated with change of author.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 321 - Golden Age of Drama

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Representative plays from the most famous and most productive eras in the history of world drama - Fifth Century B.C. Greece, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the age of Molière, and the realistic and romantic drama of 19th century France and Germany.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 323 - Postcolonial Theory & Criticism

    Credits 3
    Lecture
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258
    Introduction to basic concepts, keywords questions and critical debates in the field of postcolonial theory and criticism. The course will begin with an examination of the term “postcolonial” before engaging with a variety of postcolonial thinkers and historical contexts. Key ideas and issues explored will include: colonialism, Orientalism, empire, nationalism, race, gender and sexuality, migration, globalization and diaspora.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 326 - Studies in Modern Irish Literature and Culture I

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Development of Irish literature from the end of the 19th century through the first decades of the 20th century. Writers include Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O’Casey. The course examines the cultural, historical, and political background of Anglo-Irish relations.
    Graded
  

  • ENL 328 - Survey of African American Literature I

    Credits 3
    Lecture
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Survey of African American Literature from colonial times to the turn of the twentieth century. Course surveys genres of poetry, slave narrative, fiction, essay, and drama with attention to the social, political, and cultural histories of African Americans from slavery to freedom to Reconstruction. This course may also include sections on oral narratives (oral slave narratives, speeches, folktales, and sermons) and music (such as sorrow songs and spirituals). Cross-listed with BLS 328, WGS 328
    Graded
  

  • ENL 329 - Survey of African American Literature II

    Credits 3
    Lecture
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Survey of African American Literature from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Course begins with the work of DuBois and Washington and continues through the Harlem Renaissance, the post-war period, the Black Arts Era, into the present, paying particular attention to the women writers who led the post-1970s Renaissance. Course examines all genres of literature and may also include sections on oral literature (such as spoken word poetry) and music (such as jazz, rap, and hip hop). Like the Survey of African American Literature I, this course pays particular attention to the social, political, intellectual, and cultural climate surrounding the literature. Cross-listed with BLS 329, WGS 329
    Graded
  

  • ENL 331 - Postcolonial Literature

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    An introduction to 20th century Anglophone Postcolonial Literature from Africa, Caribbean, and South Asia. Course surveys genres of fiction, drama, poetry, theoretical writing, with attention to the socio-political and historical contexts. This course may also include study of other cultural forms such as films.
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  • ENL 333 - Modern British Poetry

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of the chief trends and the major poets and movements in modern British poetry.
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  • ENL 334 - The Victorian Novel

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of the Victorian novel, both historically and generically, from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, including works by Austen, the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Trollope, Meredith and Hardy.
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  • ENL 335 - 20th Century American Fiction

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of the 20th-century American novel including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, West, and McCullers.
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  • ENL 336 - 20th Century American Fiction - 1945 to the Present

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of significant fiction in America since the middle of the 20th century, including Bellow, Ellison, Heller, Pynchon, LeGuin, Doctorow, Morrison, O’Brien, and others.
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  • ENL 337 - 20th Century American Poetry

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of major American poets of this century from Frost to Richard Wilbur.
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  • ENL 338 - Modern Drama

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of modern dramatists from Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg through such playwrights as Shaw, Brecht, O’Neill, Galsworthy, Eliot, Williams, Miller, Giraudoux, Albee, Pinter, and Ionesco.
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  • ENL 339 - American Drama

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 101 & ENL 102 or permission of instructor
    A study of American drama from its beginnings to the present.
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  • ENL 340 - Literature & Psychology

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    An introduction to psychological interpretations of literary works, including character analysis, ethnopoetics, and the psychology of audience. The course requires reading of selected literary texts in all genres, as well as works by psychoanalytical literary critics, philosophers, and anthropologists.
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  • ENL 341 - Copywriting

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 101 & ENL 102 or permission of instructor
    Explores copywriting theories, principles, and techniques. Students will learn to compose within a variety of copywriting genres, such as space advertising, brochures, sales letters, radio scripts, and interactive advertising.
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  • ENL 345 - Literary Theory

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Introduction to key primary documents in the history of literary theory, from Plato and Aristotle through contemporary critical theory.
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  • ENL 347 - Special Topics in Women’s Literature

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Advanced study of a specialized topic chosen by the instructor. Cross-listed as WMS 347. Cross-listed with WGS 347
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  • ENL 348 - American Women Playwrights

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Analysis, evaluation, comparison, and appreciation of plays by 20th-century American women playwrights and insights into their themes and the images of women which they create. Cross-listed with WGS 348
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  • ENL 350 - Report and Proposal Writing

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 260; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Advanced professional writing course focusing on reports and proposals as used in the workplace. Students learn methods of gathering, analyzing, and presenting information in written and visual forms and use a variety of tools to create documents that are accessible, usable, and relevant to the audience.
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  • ENL 351 - Comedy Writing

    Credits 3
    Seminar / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite:Major in English and ENL 260; or Minor in Writing, Rhetoric and Communication and ENL 264, 265, 266 or 260; or Minor in Communication and ENL 264, 265, 266 or 260; or LAR-BA
    An advanced course on the subject of comedy writing. Students will study the techniques of successful comedy - voice, timing, exaggeration, introspection, and social commentary - by analyzing a variety of genres, from satire to personal essay, to stand-up. Using writers and performers like Jonathan Swift, David Sedaris, Nora Ephron, Louis C.K. and Richard Pryor as models, students will investigate the role of comedy in cultural discourse, while also crafting and editing their own original pieces, both written and performed.
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  • ENL 352 - Public Relations Writing

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 262ENL 352
    Development of a comprehensive understanding of the principles and purposes of public relations. This writing-intensive course explores rhetorical strategies used by individuals, agencies, corporations, and governments to reach intended audiences. Students gain experience in public speaking and writing press releases, brochures, speeches, and audio-visual press releases.
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  • ENL 353 - Sports Writing

    Credits 3
    Seminar / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 262
    An advanced writing course focusing on sports-related literary journalism. Students will read examples of great sports writing from the past century, from writers like Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, and Joyce Carol Oates, and use those pieces as models for their own work. Students will use the topic of sports as a vehicle through which to practice the techniques of opinion writing, personal writing, and deeply researched literary journalism.
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  • ENL 354 - Usability Studies

    Credits 3
    Lecture
    Requirements: Prereq: ENL 260
    Principles and methods for creating user-centered documents. Students learn techniques that professional writers use to research and interpret the needs of their audience to create reader-based documents. Students design and conduct a usability test, analyzing specific documents (print and online) from a user’s perspective. Students also use a variety of tools to write, design, and test documents.
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  • ENL 355 - Rhetoric II: Advanced Rhetoric

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Pre-reqs: ENL 257 and 260; English Majors, Minors, or Liberal Arts English Concentrations
    Non-traditional, modern, or emerging rhetorical theories. Building from Rhetoric I, students will apply post-Classical rhetorical approaches to study and practice public and professional forms of communication, across a range of media.
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  • ENL 356 - Language and Culture

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 260; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    An examination of language’s pivotal role in shaping a culture’s values, beliefs, biases, and world view. By reading a broad range of essays, excerpts, and articles, students will learn how language shapes thought, molds perceptions, and determines how we think about and react to various people, groups, and cultures. Students will write a series of articles for lay audiences based on what they learn during the course.
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  • ENL 357 - Special Topics in Rhetorical Studies

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite:Major in English and ENL 260; or Minor in Writing, Rhetoric and Communication and ENL 264, 265, 266 or 260; or Minor in Communication and ENL 264, 265, 266 or 260; or LAR-BA
    Advanced study of rhetorical communication within a specific genre, field, historical period, or community. Focus will change with instructor, but may include such topics as: Social Activism; Photography and Iconography; Music; Public Policy; more. Course may be repeated for credit with a change in topic.
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  • ENL 358 - Theories of Visual Communication

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Pre-reqs: ENL 260 ENL 257; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Exploration of current theories and processes of visual communication within the public sphere. Drawing on notions of visuality in rhetoric, visual studies, cultural studies, art history, media studies, and communication studies, this course considers the role of the visual in our increasingly hyper-visualized and digital world.
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  • ENL 359 - Tutoring Writing

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequsite: ENL 102
    Theories and dynamics of writing consultation and course-based tutoring. Readings theorize the writing process, conflicting ideas about writing itself, as well as writing center history, theory, and practice. The course is highly interactive, calling on students to use readings as the grounding for the critical examination of writing consultant practices, as well as the co-construction of classroom discussions and activities. Field work (one hour per week) as a writing consultant is required.
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  • ENL 360 - Special Topics in Writing and Communications

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 260; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Intensive writing course emphasizing an advanced critical approach to a topic in writing, writing studies, communications or rhetoric. Through readings, class discussions, independent research, and writing assignments, students will practice refining analytic and persuasive content.
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  • ENL 361 - Techniques of Critical Writing and Communications

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 260; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Advanced critical writing and communications course with emphasis selected by the instructor. The course requires composition of a wide array of essays ranging from critical examinations of critical techniques to analysis of advanced persuasive discourses. Intensive practice in the critical, linguistic, or rhetorical evaluation of selected texts.
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  • ENL 362 - Writing Reviews

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 262
    Fosters the ability to write effectively and to communicate the journalist’s own interpretation and evaluation of art forms. Students produce reviews suitable for publication on and off campus.
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  • ENL 363 - Topics in Journalism

    Credits 3
    Lecture / 3 hours per week
    Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 260 & ENL 262
    Exploration of news writing and reporting in selected areas of politics, social services, social science, technology, environment, law, natural science, education, arts, media, business, and other significant media subject areas. The course concentrates on effective research, story design, and writing technique for news stories and features across these areas.
    Graded
 

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