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	ENGL 2600 - Creative Writing 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1101 with a ‘C’ or better. Description Focusing on the writing of original fiction and poetry, this course may also consider drama, screenwriting, and creative non-fiction. Workshop sessions, contemporary performances, and representative readings in a variety of genres and publications are included.
	ENGL 3040 - Introduction to Literary Studies 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: (for majors): ENGL 1102 with a grade of C or higher, or equivalent. Description Materials, methods, and terminology used in the discipline of literary studies. This course develops the skillset required for effective critical writing and introduces the forms, genres, critical theories available for advanced interpretation and analysis.
	ENGL 3050 - Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 with a grade of C or higher, or equivalent. Requirements: Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all English majors. Description Introduces students to key terms, figures, and events in the global history of practicing and teaching rhetoric, with examination, through reading and critical writing, of the legacy of communication technologies from ancient to contemporary cultures. Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) course.
	ENGL 3080 - Persuasion: History, Theory, Practice 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: (for non-majors): ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description Introduces students to studies in analyzing written arguments, studying argumentation theories, and producing persuasive texts for specific audiences. Includes global readings from ancient to contemporary times.
	ENGL 3090 - Exposition: History, Theory, Practice 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: (for non-majors): ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description Introduces students to studies in analyzing expository genres, studying theories of expository writing, and producing nonfiction texts for specific audiences. Includes global readings from ancient to contemporary times.
	ENGL 3100 - Composition Studies: History, Theory, Practice 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: (for non-majors): ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description Introduces students to historic and current theories for composing and teaching writing, with emphasis on key figures and movements in the history of composition studies.
	ENGL 3105 - Practical Grammar 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description Recognizing and describing sentence components, syntactical relationships, and other verbal patterns. Application of grammatical principles to editing problems and literary analysis.
	ENGL 3110 - Technical Writing 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: (for non-majors): ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description Intensive study of scientific and technical style; practice at various formats, including reports, proposals, instructional manuals, and professional papers.
	ENGL 3115 - Multimodal Composition 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description Introduces students to the theory and production of digital media and document design using multiple modes of communication. Includes reading, analyzing, and creating multimodal productions that relate to the history and practice of composition in our current cultural moment.
	ENGL 3120 - Digital Writing and Publishing 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: (for non-majors): ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description Introduces students to the study and practice of digital writing, design, and publishing through the use of new media, web 2.0, and mobile technologies. Includes new media theory and explores how we write, publish, and interact with others.
	ENGL 3125 - Digital Media Studies 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: (for non-majors): ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a C or higher. Description Foundations for understanding contemporary computational media and network culture through case studies, project work, and critical readings. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
	ENGL 3130 - Business Writing 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: (for non-majors): ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description Advanced composition applied to business writing techniques and problems.
	ENGL 3135 - Visual Rhetoric 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: (for non-majors): ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description Introduces students to visual communication practices and digital culture. Includes theory, analysis, and production of visual media genres such as digital documentary, built/virtual environments, digital archives, and graphic narratives.
	ENGL 3140 - Editing for Publication 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: (for non-majors): ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description Skills and resources needed for preparing unpublished documents for publication. May include academic publishing, textual editing, and commercial applications.
	ENGL 3150A - Introduction to Creative Writing - Poetry 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: (for non-majors): ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2120 , or ENGL 2130 with a grade of C or higher. Description Introduction to the writing of poetry for the novice writer; practice in styles, points of view, and structure.
	ENGL 3150B - Introduction to Creative Writing - Fiction 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Non-major prerequisite: ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2120 , or ENGL 2130 with a grade of C or higher. Description Introduction to the writing of fiction for the novice writer; practice in styles, points of view, and structure.
	ENGL 3150C - Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry & Fiction 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2120 , or ENGL 2130 ; each with a C or higher. Description Introduction to the writing of poetry and fiction for the novice writer; practice in styles, points of view, and structure.
	ENGL 3160 - Narrative Techniques 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 3150B or ENGL 3150C with a grade of C or higher. Description For the student with a special interest in short fiction. Studies in character development, story, plot, and point of view; critiques of professional and student work.
	ENGL 3170 - Poetic Techniques 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 3150A or ENGL 3150C with a grade of C or higher. Description For the student with a special interest in poetry. Studies in figurative language, symbol, metrics, and various poetic forms; critiques of professional and student work.
	ENGL 3180A - Contemporary Poetry 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: (for non-majors): ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a grade of C or higher. Description Study of important voices in contemporary American and English poetry, with discussion of current literary climates.
	ENGL 3180B - Contemporary Fiction Craft 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 3150B or ENGL 3150C and ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with grades of C or higher. Description Study of fiction technique through the reading and analysis of contemporary fiction. Designed for fiction writers.
	ENGL 3190A - Introduction to Narrative Podcasting 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Any 2000-level English course with a C or higher. Description This course focuses on the narrative storytelling principles of investigative audio nonfiction. Students will conduct exploratory research, create investigative narrative, and record, edit, and disseminate podcasts. This class provides students access to the technical resources necessary to create podcasts, and facilitates interactions with successful podcasters and writers.
	ENGL 3190B - Advanced Narrative Podcasting 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 3190A with a C or higher. Description This course focuses on the narrative storytelling principles of investigative audio nonfiction. Students will collaboratively develop a podcast series. Assignments may include field recording, interviews, archival research, scripting, recording, producing, and marketing. This class provides students access to the technical resources necessary to create podcasts, and facilitates interactions with successful podcasters.
	ENGL 3195 - Teaching in English Studies 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2140 , or ENGL 3040 ; each with a C or higher. Description This course gives students a foundation in the philosophy and practice of teaching English Studies in secondary education or in other educational settings for literacy learning, which includes teaching reading (text interpretation and explication) and writing approaches to producing academic and creative writing.
	ENGL 3205 - Topics in Creative Writing 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: non-majors ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2120 , or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Focused study and practice of one or more forms of Creative Writing. Courses may focus on topics as varied as literary translation, creative nonfiction, digital fiction, and spoken-word poetry. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
	ENGL 3210 - Advanced Grammar 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Especially recommended for those who expect to teach secondary English. Description Readings in various areas of language study; focus on syntax of modern English grammar.
	ENGL 3220 - History of the English Language 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Development of the structure and history of the English language: Indo-European, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Present Day English. Students must learn IPA for phonological study. Attention will also be given to the morphology, syntax, social and regional variations, and semantics of English.
	ENGL 3225 - The History and Future of the Book 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description From ancient scrolls to digital narratives, the forms that literature takes influences how and what people write and read. This course examines the development of the book-making process and questions what a book is. Exploring diverse case studies from the Gutenberg Bible to Fifty Shades of Grey, this course considers books as active, social objects that can be examined in a variety of ways including traditional analysis and digital text analysis.
	ENGL 3230 - History of Literary and Cultural Theory 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Monuments of western literary criticism in the context of questions raised by recent literary theory. We discuss major works of literary criticism and theory from Plato to New Criticism, including analysis of Aristotle, Sidney, Samuel Johnson, Wordsworth, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Arnold, Freud, Jung, Woolf, De Beauvoir, and others. We will focus on comprehension of challenging texts while also reframing classical problems of criticism and theory in light of recent theoretical developments.
	ENGL 3250 - Topics in Contemporary Theory 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Systematic and focused study of one or more recent critical theories that influence the study of literature, language, and culture. Individual courses will vary in focus.
	ENGL 3255 - Introduction to Digital Humanities 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 with a grade of C or higher. Description This course will provide students with an introduction to a range of digital approaches and conceptual frameworks relevant to research in the humanities, and how to both build and take part in the conversation about the issues, debates, ideas, and projects in their field. Students will develop a sense of the possibilities at the intersection of computation and the humanities and will be grounded in the global history of this work in media, information, and cultural studies, and how computation connects to close reading and analytical, critical thinking.
	ENGL 3256 - Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities: Electronic Literature and Interactive Fiction 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 C or higher and ENGL 3255 , or permission of instructor. Description This course teaches students how to read and critique interactive narratives, the systems necessary for the production of computational and generative interactive media, how to develop a work of electronic literature, and the critical literature that surrounds those productions.
	ENGL 3260 - Theories of Popular Culture 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Theories of mass cultural and their practical applications to the analysis of cultural production. May include such phenomena as popular fiction, the built environment, and the popular media.
	ENGL 3266 - British-American Culture Seminar II 3 to 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: British and American Cultures Program concentration, or consent of English or History program advisor. Description (Same as HIST 4961 .) Analyzes literary and/or historical themes from the perspectives of American and British authors, historical figures, and literatures. Offered by the English and History Departments.
	ENGL 3275 - Literature and Culture of the American South 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: British and American Cultures Program concentration, or consent of English or History program advisor. Description A selection of writing from the South from colonial times through the twentieth century. The purpose of the course is to examine the region through the vision of its authors.
	ENGL 3280 - English Drama before 1800 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Dramatic literature selected from the beginnings of English drama through the eighteenth century. Possible topics include medieval drama, the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, Restoration drama, and the emergence of professional theater.
	ENGL 3290 - English Fiction before 1800 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Fiction selected from the beginnings of the English novel or short story through the eighteenth century. Possible topics include the emergence of the novel as a form, the function of satire in popular culture, the history of publishing, and the role of the fiction in the history British imperialism.
	ENGL 3300 - Medieval English Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the fifteenth century with focus on selected genres and authors such as the Gawain Poet, the Wakefield Master, Julian of Norwich, and William Langland.
	ENGL 3310 - Old English 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description When did literature in English begin? We look back a thousand years to when “England” was just beginning to be imagined and “English” was so different that it seems like a foreign language. Study the rudiments of the Old English language and explore medieval manuscripts using the many digital resources available today. Read heroic poetry celebrating the feats of dimly remembered heroes, stories of voyages to exotic places, and the miraculous lives of saints.
	ENGL 3350 - Literature and War 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description From Homer’s Odyssey and Virigl’s Aneid, to Julius Caesar’s account of his wars in Gaul, to monster fighting in Beowulf or the idealized chivalric combat of the high middle ages, to the revolutionary upheavals of early modernity or the horrors of industrialized conflict, war has been a persistent setting and theme for Western literature. Can there be a “just” war? Can violence be controlled without more violence? This course examines texts that explore the relationship between violence and civilization.
	ENGL 3400 - Courtiers, Clergy, and Poets 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description A savvy female monarch, a burgeoning global empire, and the introduction of printed books: this course examines one of the greatest and most formative periods in English literary history. Writing focused on and emerged from three principal venues: the church, the court, and the stage. Read works by such authors as Elizabeth I, Thomas More, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare.
	ENGL 3410 - Seduction, Revolution, and the Rise of Science 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: for majors ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description When, on the morning of 30 January 1649, Charles I was led onto the scaffold outside St. James’s Palace and publicly executed, England was suddenly without a monarch. This course studies how various writers responded to and were shaped by some of the nation’s most violent and turbulent decades. It was a period in which sensual poetry flourished and modern scientific writing was published for the first time. Read works by such authors as Francis Bacon, John Donne, George Herbert, Thomas Hobbes, Aemilia Lanyer, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton.
	ENGL 3420 - Mythology 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description This course focuses on classical myths, examines how Virgil and Ovid’s stories subsequently developed in the works of both several early modern English writers, and explores how classical myths continue to shape and enrich our popular culture. Why did the Romans tell the myths that they did? And how and why do some myths and stories persist, change, or serve new purposes?.
	ENGL 3500 - Restoration and Earlier Eighteenth-Century English Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Selected works by such authors as Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Lady Mary Wortley Montague.
	ENGL 3510 - Later Eighteenth-Century English Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Selected works by such authors as Johnson, Boswell, Burney, Goldsmith, and Gray.
	ENGL 3520 - Life Writing 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Explore the emergence of biography and autobiography as a genre. This course examines the ways individual and cultural memory shapes the individual sense of self and discuss complex relationships between text and writer.
	ENGL 3550 - Early Indigenous Literatures 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Survey of early Indigenous literatures of the Americas through the Removal period of the 1820s, paying special attention to alternate literacies including but not limited to creation stories, glyph texts, oral literatures, earthworks, and tribal rhetorical traditions. We also address historical debates about colonialism, cultural appropriation, and tribal sovereignty. Selected texts and authors could include The Popol Vuh, The Codex Borgia, Codex Bodley, Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek Folktales, Blacksnake, Samson Occom, William Apess, and Elias Boudinot.
	ENGL 3600 - Early Romanticism 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Requirements: This course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement for English majors. Description Prose and poetry from the late eighteenth century with a particular focus on literature related to abolition, the French Revolution, and revolutionary ideas about human connections to nature. Emphasis on authors such as William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Olaudah Equiano.
	ENGL 3605 - Late Romanticism 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Prose and poetry from the early nineteenth century a period when the Industrial Revolution advanced rapidly, the British Empire expanded widely, the scientific discovery progressed quickly. We will look at how authors responded to the huge historical shifts with new, radical forms of literature. Authors will include John Keats, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron.
	ENGL 3610 - Love and Death in Victorian Poetry 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Survey of poets from the Victorian period. Poets of this era sought to create taste and value, to construct gender definitions, to forge national identity, and to reflect on love and mortality. Early in the twentieth century, Freud hypothesized that two dominant impulses drove human experience the drive to life and the drive to death. This course will test Freud’s hypothesis against the poetry of love and death so central to Victorian experience.
	ENGL 3620 - Victorian Novels 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Novels by authors such as Dickens, Bronte, Thackeray, Eliot, Collins, Gaskell, Trollope, James, and Hardy.
	ENGL 3630 - Haunted Texts 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Ghost stories, gothic fiction, and other literary nightmares. This course explores the haunted spaces and macabre visions found throughout Anglophone writing. Since ghost fictions so often reflect the anxieties that societies and individuals must address, we examine haunted texts in order to uncover the stories they tell about the cultures that produce them. Emphasis on writers such as Poe, Collins, James, Bronte, Bowen, Jackson, Lovecraft, Rushdie, and Atwood.
	ENGL 3690 - Honors Readings 1 to 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher; good standing with the Honors College and consent of instructor. Description Discussion and readings on selected topics.
	ENGL 3695 - LGBTQ Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Literature written by LGBTQ authors and other texts addressing queer identities and experiences. Emphasis on writers such as Wilde, Cather, Forster, Woolf, Baldwin, Auden, Williams, Ginsberg, Bechdel, Hwang, and Eugenides.
	ENGL 3700 - Early Twentieth-Century British Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Selected works by writers from Great Britain, Ireland, and other English-speaking nations. Writers such as Yeats, Joyce, Mansfield, West, Eliot, Auden, and Woolf; issues such as modernism, imperialism, and women’s suffrage.
	ENGL 3710 - Late Twentieth-Century British Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Selected works by writers from Great Britain, Ireland, South Asia, and other English-speaking regions. Writers such as Churchill, Friel, Ishiguro, Lessing, Rushdie, Stoppard, Walcott, and Winterson; issues such as postmodernism, responses to political violence, decolonization, and diaspora.
	ENGL 3720 - Twentieth-Century English Poetry 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Selected works by poets such as Yeats, H.D., Eliot, Auden, Thomas, Smith, Plath, Larkin, and Heaney.
	ENGL 3800 - Early American Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Investigation of writers such as Bradford, Bradstreet, Mather, Edwards, Franklin, Freneau, Wheatley, and Murray; focus on literary, historical, theological, and cultural traditions.
	ENGL 3810 - American Romantics 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Selected works by antebellum American writers. Possible topics include race and slavery, poetry and politics, and importance of nature in American writing. Emphasis on writers such as Poe, Fuller, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Douglass, Dickinson, and Whitman.
	ENGL 3820 - Realism and Naturalism 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Selected works by American writers of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Possible topics include the social function of realist fiction, depictions of race and gender, and emergence of regional literatures. Emphasis on writers such as Chesnutt, Twain, James, Wharton, Crane, Dreiser, Chopin, Dunbar, and Johnson.
	ENGL 3830 - American Modernisms 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Explores modernist literature of the U.S. in national and transnational contexts, with a focus on how writers responded to modernization, displacement, urbanization, and popular culture. Selected authors may include Stein, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, McKay, Faulkner, Hurston, Bishop, Cather, Dos Passos, Bulosan, Paredes, and Chandler.
	ENGL 3840 - Postmodern American Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Emphasis on writers such as Bellow, Momaday, Ellison, Welty, Miller, Albee, Bishop, Rich, Morrison, and Roethke.
	ENGL 3850 - American Poetry 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Topics to be announced. Poetry selected from the colonial period through the twentieth century. May concentrate on poetry from specific periods or of specific types or themes. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
	ENGL 3860 - American Drama 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Selected plays and theatre history, primarily from the twentieth century, including works from such playwrights as O’Neill, Glaspell, Williams, Miller, Albee, Hansberry, Fornes, Wilson, Mamet, and Shepard.
	ENGL 3865 - The Short Story 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 with a C or higher (a prerequisite for majors). Description Short fiction by writers from various regions and periods. Our close investigation of the genre explores the unique role that short stories play in the formation of reading publics, the circulation of literature in popular outlets like magazines, and the introduction of comparative reading methods.
	ENGL 3870 - American Fiction 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Topics to be announced. The novel or short fiction selected from the colonial period through the twentieth century. Individual courses may focus on specific periods or specific types or themes. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
	ENGL 3875 - Science Fiction 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description An introduction to the critical study of science fiction. The course explores the long history of speculative fiction and the cognitive estrangement created by science fiction as thought experiment. Possible topics include protoscience fiction before 1900, twentieth-century “pulp” SF (such as Asimov or Bradbury), cyberpunk, and contemporary space opera. We will also examine the extensive spread of the genre across the world, including but not limited to writing produced in the former Communist countries, South Asia, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.
	ENGL 3880 - American Non-fiction Prose 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Such genres as the essay, biography, letters, diaries, and travel literature; selected writers from the colonial period through the present. Individual courses may focus on specific periods or specific types or themes.
	ENGL 3885 - Contemporary Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a grade of C or higher. Description This course explores writing in English from around the world produced during the past 25 years. Reading lists may include fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. Possible topics include the present state of the literary marketplace, the range of forms in circulation today, and role that literature plays in narratives of globalization. Every version of the course includes works by writers who represent various regions, traditions, and ethnic backgrounds.
	ENGL 3895 - Comics and the Graphic Novel 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a grade of C or higher. Description Introduction to the critical study of comics and graphic novels. Do we judge graphic novels by literary standards? If not, what standards do we use? How do text and image function differently in combination? What are the common techniques, themes, genres, and styles that have developed over the history of comics?
	ENGL 3900 - Irish Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Selected works of literature in English and in English translation from Irish, from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries. Emphases will vary; focus on writers such as Swift, Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, Lady Gregory, Kavanagh, Heaney, and Boland.
	ENGL 3905 - Jewish Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a grade of C or higher. Description A survey of one or more branches of Jewish literature, (e.g. Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, American, British, or German), in English translation where necessary. May be comparative (e.g. Black and Jewish Literatures in the United States) and topics may vary. For English majors and/or students minoring in Jewish Studies.
	ENGL 3910 - The Tradition of Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Origin and history of children’s and young adult literature; analysis of literary forms and themes; reading and discussion of critical analyses of genre.
	ENGL 3915 - Literature of the Early South 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a grade of C or higher. Description This course explores literature of the early south, from early colonial settlement through the end of the eighteenth century. We will examine early conceptions of the region’s economic and cultural development by interrogating the consequences of the transatlantic slave trade, the dispossession of indigenous lands, and the emergence of the South as a distinct region within the newly formed United States. Selected authors may include Thomas Harriot, John Smith, Richard Ligon, Aphra Behn, Ebenezer Cooke, John Marrant, Olaudah Equiano, William Bartram, and Thomas Jefferson.
	ENGL 3920 - Southern Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Intellectual and literary achievement of the South from 1607 to the present, including works by such authors as Jefferson, Longstreet, Chopin, Faulkner, Welty, Hurston, Warren, O’Connor, and Gaines. This course may include a Signature Experience component.
	ENGL 3930 - Modern Drama 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher. Description Selected works from 1850 to the present, including but not limited to plays from Great Britain, the Continent, and the United States. Global Perspectives Course.
	ENGL 3940 - Postcolonial Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2120 , or ENGL 2130 ; each with a C or higher. Description (Depending on the topic, maybe cross-listed with Africana Studies as AAS 4970 ). Literature in English from former and current members of the British Commonwealth, such as Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria, and South Africa; consideration of cultural and political issues. Global Perspectives Course. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
	ENGL 3945 - Literature and Global Conflict 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2120 , or ENGL 2130 ; each with a C or higher. Description A study of fiction, poetry and life writing focused on the experience of modern warfare and the collective traumas of its aftermath. Possible topics include the role of conflict in narratives of globalization, the impact of new military technologies, inter-generational trauma, imperialism and nationalism, and techniques for depicting violence in literature. Courses may focus on particular historical conflicts (e.g. WWI) or survey conflict narratives from various regions and periods. Global Scholars course.
	ENGL 3950 - African-American Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a grade of C or higher. Description (Same as AAS 3880 ). Major writers from the eighteenth century to the present. Includes such authors as Equiano, DuBois, Hughes, Petry, Baldwin, Hansberry, Ellison, and Walker.
	ENGL 3960 - African-American Literature by Women 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a grade of C or higher. Description (Same as AAS 3960 and WGSS 3960.) A survey of literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Includes such authors as Wilson, Wheatley, Larsen, Hurston, Dove, Hansberry, and Morrison.
	ENGL 3965 - African Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2130 ; each with a C or higher. Description Survey of literature of the North, East, West, Central, and Southern Africa. Includes such writers as Achebe, Soyinka, Emecheta, Sembene, Mahfouz, Ngugi, Adichie, Gordimer, and Coetzee. Target: English and AAS majors. Global Scholars course.
	ENGL 3970 - Caribbean Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2130 ; each with a C or higher. Description (Same as AAS 4890 .) Survey of literature of the English-speaking or Commonwealth Caribbean. Includes such writers as Prince, Brathwaite, Kincaid, Naipaul, and Walcott. Global Scholars course.
	ENGL 3975 - Later Indigenous Literatures 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a grade of C or higher. Description An introduction to modern and contemporary Native American writers, including D’Arcy McNickle, Lynn Riggs, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Thomas King, Louis Owens, Sherman Alexie, Luci Tapahonso, Joy Harjo, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Deborah Miranda, Gerald Vizenor, and Ofelia Zepeda. The course will address debates about colonialism, cultural appropriation, and tribal sovereignty. Focus on how each writer locates stories within specific tribal worldviews, articulates individual and collective identities, and constructs a distinct voice in conversation with oral, literary, and graphic traditions.
	ENGL 3980 - Women’s Literature before 1800 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a grade of C or higher. Description Selected works by women writers before 1800, such as Julian of Norwich, Christine de Pisan, Elizabeth I, Margaret Sidney, Behn, Burney, Wollstonecraft, and Austen.
	ENGL 3990 - Women’s Literature after 1800 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a grade of C or higher. Description Selected work by women writers after 1800. Multicultural and inclusive in scope; authors studied may include Mary Shelley, the Brontes, Dickinson, Woolf, Cather, Hurston, Morrison, and Esquivel.
	ENGL 3995 - Feminist Literary Criticism 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a grade of C or higher. Description (Same as WGSS 3995 .) Critical approaches to the varieties of feminist thinking that influence studies of language, literature, and culture. Topics and writers may range from the medieval period to the present. Multicultural perspectives on issues of gender, race, and class emphasized.
	ENGL 4010 - Topics in African American Culture 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: For majors: At least 6 hours in 3000-level English courses with a C or higher. Description Advanced study of writing, art, and music emerging from or addressed to a particular movement in African American history. Possible topics include but are not limited to slave narratives, the Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts, and hip hop.
	ENGL 4020 - Advanced Study in Indigenous Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: For majors: At least 6 hours in 3000-level English courses with a C or higher. Description Advanced study of a specific tribal literary tradition. Rotating tribal literatures considered include but are not limited to: Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Dine/Navajo, and Pueblo. Focusing on an individual tribal literature encourages advanced research on the specific cultural, religious, linguistic, historical, and geographical elements of selected texts. We ask how specific tribal worldviews inform historical and contemporary debates about colonialism, cultural appropriation, and tribal sovereignty.
	ENGL 4030 - Literature and the City 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: At least 6 hours in 3000-level English courses with a C or higher. Requirements: City Scholars course. Description Advanced study of literature tied to a particular urban environment. How have writers depicting Victorian London, or bohemian San Francisco, or contemporary Atlanta shaped our understanding of city life? In addition to prose, poetry, and drama linked to the city in question, readings for this course will include examinations of the urban infrastructure, socioeconomic realities, and artistic communities that populate modern cities.
	ENGL 4040 - Religion and Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: At least 6 hours in 3000-level English courses with a C or higher. Description Advanced study of modern literature tied to particular religious tradition. Possible topics include but are not limited to Buddhism in American writing, poetics in the history of Christianity, the role of Islam in narratives of decolonization, and literary responses to secularization. Global Scholars course.
	ENGL 4050 - Transnational Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: For majors: at least 6 hours in 3000-level English courses with a C or higher. Description Advanced study of writers who depict the experience of living in multiple national or cultural contexts. Our focus on writing that crosses borders relies on theories of transnationalism and globalization, linking literature to discussions of colonialism, urbanization, hybridity, cosmopolitanism, and neoliberalism. Topics for advanced research might include literary depictions of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the advent of the spy novel, narratives of migration and diaspora, and the emergence of international political movements. Global Scholars course.
	ENGL 4100 - Study of a Single Author before 1800 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: For majors: At least 6 hours in 3000-level English courses with a C or higher. Description Concentrated study of a single author writing before 1800. In addition to detailed examination of several works by the writer in question, the course may examine the cultural, biographical, and theoretical contexts in which those works are situated.
	ENGL 4101 - Study of a Single Author after 1800 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: For majors: At least 6 hours in 3000-level English courses with a C or higher. Description Concentrated study of a single author writing after 1800. In addition to detailed examination of several works by the writer in question, the course may examine the cultural, biographical, and theoretical contexts in which those works are situated.
	ENGL 4110 - Chaucer 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: For majors: At least 6 hours in 3000-level English courses with a C or higher. Description A selection of Chaucer’s works, including Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales.
	ENGL 4130 - Shakespeare, Earlier Works 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: For majors: At least 6 hours in 3000-level English courses with a C or higher. Description Selected works from the first half of Shakespeare’s career, such as Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and early poems.
	ENGL 4140 - Shakespeare, Later Works 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: For majors: At least 6 hours in 3000-level English courses with a C or higher. Description Selected works from the second half of Shakespeare’s career, such as Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, and later poems. A student may take Engl 4140 without having taken ENGL 4130 .
	ENGL 4150 - Milton 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: For majors: At least 6 hours in 3000-level English courses with a C or higher. Description A selection of Milton’s works, including Paradise Lost, other poetry, and selected prose.
	ENGL 4201 - Special Topics before 1800 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: For majors: At least 6 hours in 3000-level English courses with a C or higher. Description Focused study of a problem, question, issue, or specialized subject related to literature before 1800. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
	ENGL 4202 - Special Topics after 1800 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: For majors: At least 6 hours in 3000-level English courses with a C or higher. Description Focused study of a problem, question, issue, or specialized subject related to literature after 1800. This course may include a Signature Experience component. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
	ENGL 4203 - Special Topics in Rhetoric and Composition 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Topics and prerequisites to be announced. Description Focused study of a problem, question, issue, or specialized subject related to Rhetoric and Composition. A variety of courses is offered; courses may focus on topics as varied as propaganda or literacy. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.

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Course Descriptions

Definitions

Corequisites

Course Credit Hours

Prerequisites

ENGL 2600 - Creative Writing

ENGL 3040 - Introduction to Literary Studies

ENGL 3050 - Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition

ENGL 3080 - Persuasion: History, Theory, Practice

ENGL 3090 - Exposition: History, Theory, Practice

ENGL 3100 - Composition Studies: History, Theory, Practice

ENGL 3105 - Practical Grammar

ENGL 3110 - Technical Writing

ENGL 3115 - Multimodal Composition

ENGL 3120 - Digital Writing and Publishing

ENGL 3125 - Digital Media Studies

ENGL 3130 - Business Writing

ENGL 3135 - Visual Rhetoric

ENGL 3140 - Editing for Publication

ENGL 3150A - Introduction to Creative Writing - Poetry

ENGL 3150B - Introduction to Creative Writing - Fiction

ENGL 3150C - Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry & Fiction

ENGL 3160 - Narrative Techniques

ENGL 3170 - Poetic Techniques

ENGL 3180A - Contemporary Poetry

ENGL 3180B - Contemporary Fiction Craft

ENGL 3190A - Introduction to Narrative Podcasting

ENGL 3190B - Advanced Narrative Podcasting

ENGL 3195 - Teaching in English Studies

ENGL 3205 - Topics in Creative Writing

ENGL 3210 - Advanced Grammar

ENGL 3220 - History of the English Language

ENGL 3225 - The History and Future of the Book

ENGL 3230 - History of Literary and Cultural Theory

ENGL 3250 - Topics in Contemporary Theory

ENGL 3255 - Introduction to Digital Humanities

ENGL 3256 - Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities: Electronic Literature and Interactive Fiction

ENGL 3260 - Theories of Popular Culture

ENGL 3266 - British-American Culture Seminar II

ENGL 3275 - Literature and Culture of the American South

ENGL 3280 - English Drama before 1800

ENGL 3290 - English Fiction before 1800

ENGL 3300 - Medieval English Literature

ENGL 3310 - Old English

ENGL 3350 - Literature and War

ENGL 3400 - Courtiers, Clergy, and Poets

ENGL 3410 - Seduction, Revolution, and the Rise of Science

ENGL 3420 - Mythology

ENGL 3500 - Restoration and Earlier Eighteenth-Century English Literature

ENGL 3510 - Later Eighteenth-Century English Literature

ENGL 3520 - Life Writing

ENGL 3550 - Early Indigenous Literatures

ENGL 3600 - Early Romanticism

ENGL 3605 - Late Romanticism

ENGL 3610 - Love and Death in Victorian Poetry

ENGL 3620 - Victorian Novels

ENGL 3630 - Haunted Texts

ENGL 3690 - Honors Readings

ENGL 3695 - LGBTQ Literature

ENGL 3700 - Early Twentieth-Century British Literature

ENGL 3710 - Late Twentieth-Century British Literature

ENGL 3720 - Twentieth-Century English Poetry

ENGL 3800 - Early American Literature

ENGL 3810 - American Romantics

ENGL 3820 - Realism and Naturalism

ENGL 3830 - American Modernisms

ENGL 3840 - Postmodern American Literature

ENGL 3850 - American Poetry

ENGL 3860 - American Drama

ENGL 3865 - The Short Story

ENGL 3870 - American Fiction

ENGL 3875 - Science Fiction

ENGL 3880 - American Non-fiction Prose

ENGL 3885 - Contemporary Literature

ENGL 3895 - Comics and the Graphic Novel

ENGL 3900 - Irish Literature

ENGL 3905 - Jewish Literature

ENGL 3910 - The Tradition of Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature

ENGL 3915 - Literature of the Early South

ENGL 3920 - Southern Literature