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ENGL 400 - English as a Second Language
Credits: 1.00 to 16.00
Improves the competence of foreign students in listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Recommended as preparation for ENGL 401. May be repeated up to a total of 16 credits. Writing intensive. Cr/F.

ENGL 401 - Freshman English
Credits: 4.00
Training to write more skillfully and to read with more appreciation and discernment. Frequent individual conferences for every student. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 401A - Freshmen English for English as a Second Language Students
Credits: 4.00
A special section of Freshmen English for students whose native language is not English. Training to write more skillfully and to read with more appreciation and discernment, with special attention to the problems of non-native speakers of English. Supplemental work on listening and speaking as necessary. Frequent individual conferences for every student. Students may not take both ENGL 401 and 401A for credit. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 401H - Honors/Freshman English
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 401. Writing intensive.

ENGL 403 - Introduction to the Study of Literature
Credits: 4.00
The art of thoughtfully enjoying various kinds of literature, the substance and language of literature and literary techniques. Writing intensive.

ENGL 404 - Writing Studio
Credits: 1.00
Regular intensive work in small instructional group on writing skills, including grammar and usage. Designed to be taken in conjunction with writing intensive courses, including Freshman English. (may be repeated once.) Cr/F.

ENGL 444A - Portable, Exportable Nation
Credits: 4.00
(Also listed as AMST 444A.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 500 - Writing about Reading: Writing About Nonfiction
Credits: 4.00
Emphasis on close reading of a variety of nonfiction sources and on intensive writing to develop interpretative skills. Prereq: ENGL 401 or permission. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 500H - Honors/Writing about Reading: Writing About Nonfiction
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 500. Writing intensive.

ENGL 501 - Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
Credits: 4.00
A writing course that explores types of creative nonfiction such as nature writing, the profile, the memoir, and the personal essay. Extensive reading of contemporary authors to study the sources and techniques used in creative nonfiction. Regular papers, conferences, and workshops. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 501H - Honors/Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 501. Writing intensive.

ENGL 502 - Technical Writing
Credits: 4.00
A writing course focusing on effective communication of technical information. Writing of various technical documents, such as business letters, proposals, reports, brochures and web pages. Special emphasis on document design usability, visual rhetoric, and the use of technology in writing. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 503 - Persuasive Writing
Credits: 4.00
Writing of all types of persuasive nonfiction prose, including argumentative essays and position papers. Special attention to argumentative structures and analysis of audiences. Weekly papers of varying lengths and formats, frequent conferences. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 505 - Introduction to Linguistics
Credits: 4.00
Overview of the study of language: universal properties of human language, Chomsky's innateness of hypothesis, language acquisition in children, dialects and language variation, language change. Includes introduction to modern grammar (phonology, syntax, semantics) and to scientific linguistic methodology. (Also offered as LING 505.)

ENGL 505H - Honors/Introduction to Linguistics
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 505.

ENGL 511 - Major Writers in English
Credits: 4.00
In-depth study and discussion of a few American and/or British writers. Topics and approaches vary depending on instructors. Writing intensive.

ENGL #512 - Introduction to American Literature
Credits: 4.00
Works of major American writers from Irving to Faulkner, with emphasis on how to adapt and present the material to high school English classes. Open only to English teaching majors. (Not offered every year.)

ENGL 513 - Survey of British Literature
Credits: 4.00
Selected works in poetry and prose considered in chronological order and historical context. Attention to the works and to the ideas and tastes of their periods. Beowulf through 18th century. Writing intensive.

ENGL 513H - Honors/Survey of British Literature
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 513. Writing intensive.

ENGL 514 - Survey of British Literature
Credits: 4.00
Selected works in poetry and prose considered in chronological order and historical context. Attention to the works and to the ideas and tastes of their periods. 1800 to the present. Writing intensive.

ENGL 514H - Honors/Survey of British Literature
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 514. Writing intensive.

ENGL 515 - Survey of American Literature
Credits: 4.00
From the beginning of American literature to the Civil War. Writing intensive.

ENGL 515H - Honors/Survey of American Literature
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 515. Writing intensive.

ENGL 516 - Survey of American Literature
Credits: 4.00
From the Civil War to the present. Writing intensive.

ENGL 516H - Honors/Survey of American Literature
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 516. Writing intensive.

ENGL 517 - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture
Credits: 4.00
An introduction to African American literature in the context of a variety of cultural perspectives. Course topics may include: major writers, literary genres, historical periods, Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts Movement, fine and folk arts, religion, music, and film. (Also offered as AMST 502.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 517H - Honors/Introduction to African American Literature and Culture
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 517. Writing intensive.

ENGL 518 - Bible as Literature
Credits: 4.00
Literature of the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha, primarily in the King James version. Writing intensive.

ENGL 518H - Honors/Bible as Literature
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 518. Writing intensive.

ENGL 519 - Introduction to Critical Analysis
Credits: 4.00
Critical Analysis of fiction, poetry, and drama. Frequent short papers. This course, or 529, is a prerequisite with a minimum grade of C for those intending to declare an English major. Students may not take both ENGL 519 and 529 for credit. Writing intensive.

ENGL 519H - Honors/Introduction to Critical Analysis
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 519. Writing intensive.

ENGL #520 - Literature and the History of Ideas
Credits: 4.00
Interdisciplinary study of literary works as influenced and illuminated by the concepts of philosophers, historians, and scientists. Barring duplication of subject, may be repeated for credit. Writing intensive.

ENGL 521 - Nature Writers
Credits: 4.00
Fiction, poetry, and nonfiction books on the natural environment. Such books as Thoreau's Walden or Maine Woods, Leopold's Sand County Almanac, Boston's Outermost House, Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek--books by naturalists who observe nature vividly and knowingly and who write out of their concern for the environment. Writing intensive.

ENGL 521H - Honors/Nature Writers
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 521. Writing intensive.

ENGL 522 - American Literary Folklore
Credits: 4.00
Folktales, songs, proverbs, beliefs, superstitions, and their use by such American authors as Irving, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Melville, Thoreau, Twain, Frost, and Faulkner; some emphasis on oral folk culture of New Hampshire. Writing intensive.

ENGL 523 - Madness in Literature
Credits: 4.00
How various writers depict insanity, and how they approach the problem of determining what attitudes and what behaviors are truly insane. Emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century works, but works from earlier periods also considered. Euripides' The Bacchae, Shakespeare's King Lear, Cervantes's Don Quixote, Hoffman's The Golden Pot, Dostoevsky's Note from the Underground, Robbe-Grillet's The Voyeur, Nabokov's Pale Fire, and other texts. Writing intensive.

ENGL #525 - Popular Culture in America
Credits: 4.00
Cultural expression in popular media. Verbal acts (best sellers, magazines, newspapers, speeches); some attention to television, film, comics, popular music. The multidisciplinary approach deals with historical context, cultural institutions, and distinction between "popular arts" and "great literature". Recurrent images, situations, and themes are investigated to see what values are celebrated and what fears revealed. Writing intensive.

ENGL 529 - Writing about Literature
Credits: 4.00
Close reading of poetry, fiction, and drama. Frequent papers. A prerequisite with a minimum grade of C for those intending to declare English as a major. Students may not take both ENGL 519 and 529 for credit. Writing intensive.

ENGL 529H - Honors/Writing about Literature
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 529. Writing intensive.

ENGL 533 - Introduction to Film Studies
Credits: 4.00
A survey of the international development of the motion picture from the silent period to the present, emphasizing film's narrative practices. The course introduces students to the study of the art, history, technology, economics, and theory of cinema. Films and film makers of various nations, periods, movements, and genres examined. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 581 - Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English
Credits: 4.00
Survey of contemporary Asian, African, and Caribbean fiction fiction, drama, travelogues, essays, and poetry from the 1950s to the present. Introduction to political, historical, and cultural contexts within which these forms are produced. Writing intensive.

ENGL 581H - Honors/Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 581. Writing intensive.

ENGL 585 - Introduction to Women in Literature
Credits: 4.00
Survey of images of women in literature. Context and approach vary depending on instructor. Writing intensive.

ENGL 585H - Honors/Introduction to Women in Literature
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 585. Writing intensive.

ENGL 586 - Introduction to Women Writers
Credits: 4.00
Survey of women writers. Content and approach vary depending on instructor. Writing intensive.

ENGL 586H - Honors/Introduction to Women Writers
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 586. Writing intensive.

ENGL 595 - Literary Topics
Credits: 1.00 to 4.00
Various faculty members investigate topics of special interest at a level appropriate for non-majors. Past topics have included Irish literature, animals in literature, and literature of the Vietnam War. See department for details of current offerings. Writing intensive.

ENGL 595H - Honors/Literary Topics
Credits: 1.00 to 4.00
See description for ENGL 595. Writing intensive.

ENGL 600 - English as a Second Language
Credits: 1.00 to 16.00
A course designed for foreign graduate students in their first semester at UNH to give them English language skills necessary for effective graduate work at the university. Includes work on listening skills (understanding lectures, note-taking, etc.), reading skills, the writing of research papers, the making of oral reports, and general study skills, with work on grammar and pronunciation for those who need it. Credits may not be used to fulfill minimum degree requirements of a graduate program. Prereq: graduate students only. May be repeated for a maximum of 16 credits. Cr/F.

ENGL 605 - Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
Credits: 4.00
Introduces analysis methods and problem solving in phonology, morphology, and syntax using data from many languages. Emphasis will be both practical (learning how to describe the grammar and sound system of a language) and theoretical (understanding languages' behavior). Prereq: ENGL/LING 505, or permission. (Also offered as LING 605.)

ENGL #607 - American Character: Religion in American Thought and Life
Credits: 4.00
Interdisciplinary study of American religious experience and its relationship to other aspects of American culture, taught by a team of three specialists, each in a different discipline: American intellectual and cultural history, American literature, and American church history. Central emphasis on several transforming themes of the 19th century and their effects upon the interplay of religion and society. (Also offered as HIST 607, HUMA 607, and RS 607.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 608 - Arts and American Society: Women Writers and Artists, 1850-present
Credits: 4.00
Team-taught course studying the impact of gender definitions on the lives and works of selected American artists. Considers lesser-known figures such as Fannie Fern, Lilly Martin Spencer, and Mary Hallock Foote as well as better-known artists such as Willa Cather and Georgia O'Keeffe. Prereq: permission or one of the following: WS 401, HIST 566, ENGL 585, 586, 685, 785, or a 600-level art history course. (Also offered as ARTS 608, HIST 608, and HUMA 608.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 609 - Ethnicity in America: The African American Experience in the 20th Century
Credits: 4.00
Team-taught course investigating music, literature, and social history of African American America in the period of the Harlem Renaissance, in the Great Depression, World War II, and in the 1960s. Special attention to the theme of accommodation with and rejection of dominant white culture. (Also offered as AMST 609, HUMA 609.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 610 - Regional Studies in America: New England Culture in Changing Times
Credits: 4.00
Team-taught course in investigating some of the major contributions New England has made to American life. Focusing on three periods: The Puritan era, 1620-90; the Transcendental period, 1830-60; and the period of emerging industrialism in the late 19th century. (Also offered as ARTS 610, HIST 610, and HUMA 610.) Not for art studio major credit. Writing intensive.

ENGL 610H - Honors/Regional Studies in America: New England Culture in Changing Times
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 610. Writing intensive.

ENGL 616 - Studies in Film
Credits: 4.00
Advanced, focused study of the narrative, dramatic, and poetic practices of cinema, within one of four possible subject areas: A) Genre; B) Authorship; C) Culture and Ideology; D) Narrative and Style. Precise issues and methods may vary, ranging from general and specific considerations of how a given subject area involves film theory, criticism, and history, to its use in diverse analyses of selected national cinemas, periods, movements, and filmmakers. Barring duplication of any four of the subject areas, and/or duplication of material taken for credit in CMN 650, course may be repeated for credit. Detailed course descriptions available in English department office during pre-registration. Prereq: ENGL 533, or CMN 550, or permission. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 616A - Studies in Film/Genre
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 616. Writing intensive.

ENGL 616B - Studies in Film/Authorship
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 616. Writing intensive.

ENGL 616C - Studies in Film/Culture and Idelogy
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 616. Writing intensive.

ENGL 616D - Studies in Film/Narrative and Style
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 616. Writing intensive.

ENGL 619 - Critical Approaches to Literature
Credits: 4.00
Selected methods of literary criticism applied to fiction, poetry, and/or drama with critical approaches varying from year to year. A follow-up of 519, course provides a second semester of training in critical reading and writing, and examining such major modern strategies as formalist, biographical, archetypal, psychological, sociological, historical, feminist, and structuralist criticism. Prereq: ENGL 519, 529, or equivalent. Writing intensive.

ENGL 620 - Applied Experience
Credits: 1.00 to 4.00
Students who have an opportunity for appropriate career-oriented work experience may arrange with a faculty sponsor to add an academic component. The work must be related to the English major, and the employer must be an established organization approved by Career Services. Research and writing will be required in addition to the job experience. Registration requires permission of employer, faculty sponsor, and major advisor. This course does not count toward the English major or minor. May be repeated with permission to a maximum of 8 credits. Cr/F.

ENGL 621 - Newswriting
Credits: 4.00
Workshops to develop reporting and writing skills. Prereq: ENGL 501 or equivalent; written permission. May be repeated with the approval of the department chairperson. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 622 - Advanced Newswriting
Credits: 4.00
An intermediate-level workshop on alternative methods of newswriting and the basics of feature writing. Students develop reporting skills while experimenting with styles and forms beyond the inverted pyramid. May be repeated for credit with approval of journalism director. Prereq: grade of B or higher in ENGL 621.

ENGL 623 - Essay Writing
Credits: 4.00
Intensive writing course emphasizing experimentation with a variety of essay forms. Also reading and discussion of contemporary essays. Prereq: ENGL 501 and written permission of instructor. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 625 - Writing Fiction
Credits: 4.00
Workshops in the fundamental techniques of fiction writing. Students work is criticized by fellow students; individual conferences with instructor. May be repeated for credit with approval of the department chairperson. Prereq: ENGL 501 or equivalent. Written permission of instructor required for registration. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 626 - Writing Fiction
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 625. Writing intensive.

ENGL 627 - Writing Poetry
Credits: 4.00
Workshop in the fundamental techniques of poetry writing. Class discussion and criticism of poems written by students. Individual conferences with instructor. Prereq: ENGL 501, or equivalent. Written permission of instructor required for registration. May be repeated for credit with the approval of the department chairperson. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 628 - Writing Poetry
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 627. Writing intensive.

ENGL 630 - Poetry
Credits: 4.00
American and British poetry. Various poetic techniques and their demonstration. See course descriptions available in department office for further information. (Not offered each semester.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 631 - Drama
Credits: 4.00
Nature and types of drama illustrated by major English, American, and (translated) European plays. How to read a play. Live and filmed performances studied as available. Writing intensive.

ENGL 632 - Fiction
Credits: 4.00
Modern novels and/or short stories. The way in which fiction communicates its meanings; the tools an methods at the fiction writer's disposal, primarily as they function in individual works. See course descriptions available in department office for further information. (Not offered each semester.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 649 - Studies in British Literature and Culture
Credits: 4.00
Special topics in British studies, varying from year to year. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 650 - Studies in American Literature and Culture
Credits: 4.00
Special topics in American studies, varying from year to year. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 651 - Comparative Literature
Credits: 4.00
Comparative studies of major authors representative of important periods of world literary achievement. Homer to Dante; common themes and the development of the epic tradition in early Western literature. Topics and approaches vary from semester to semester. Writing intensive.

ENGL 652 - Comparative Literature
Credits: 4.00
Comparative studies of major authors representative of important periods of world literary achievement. Renaissance to modern. Topics and approaches vary from semester to semester. Writing intensive.

ENGL #655 - Chaucer
Credits: 4.00
Study of Chaucer's earlier works in the context of their continental sources and analogues. All readings in translation. Writing intensive.

ENGL 657 - Shakespeare
Credits: 4.00
Ten major plays representative of the main periods of Shakespeare's career and the main types of drama which he wrote (tragedy, comedy, history). Live and filmed performances included as available. Restricted to undergraduates and designed for both English majors and students majoring in other fields. Writing intensive.

ENGL 657H - Honors/Shakespeare
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 657. Writing intensive.

ENGL #680 - Early British Drama
Credits: 4.00
A survey of the development of British drama from the Middle Ages to the closing of the theatres in 1642.

ENGL #681 - Introduction to African Literatures in English
Credits: 4.00
In-depth study of writers, literary movements, political contexts, and historical pressures that have shaped and continue to shape African literatures in the colonial and postcolonial periods. Primary focus on Anglophone texts but possibly some literature in translation. Writing intensive.

ENGL 685 - Women's Literary Traditions
Credits: 4.00
Intensive study of themes, topics, and techniques in women's literature. topics vary from year to year. Writing intensive.

ENGL #690 - Introduction to African American Literature in America
Credits: 4.00
Selected prose, fiction, drama, and poetry. Individual works and historical-cultural background. Course varies from year to year. Writing intensive.

ENGL 693 - Special Topics in Literature
Credits: 4.00
A) Old English Literature; B) Medieval Literature; C) 16th Century; D) 17th Century; E) 18th Century; F) English Romantic Period; G) Victorian Period; H) 20th Century; I) Drama; J) Novel; K) Poetry; L) Nonfiction; M) American Literature; N) A Literary Problem; O) Literature of the Renaissance. The precise topics and methods of each section vary. Barring duplication of subject, course may be repeated for credit. For details, see course descriptions available in the English department. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 694 - Special Topics in Literature
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 693. Special fee on some topics. Writing intensive.

ENGL 695 - Senior Honors
Credits: 4.00
Open to senior English majors who, in the opinion of the department, have demonstrated the capacity to do superior work; permission required. An honors project consists of supervised research leading to a substantial thesis or writing of poetry or fiction portfolio. Required of students in the honors in major program. (not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 696 - Senior Honors
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 695. Writing intensive.

ENGL 697 - English Major Seminar
Credits: 4.00
Intensive study of specialized topics that vary from year to year. Enrollment in each seminar is limited to 15 so that all students can take an active part in discussion and work closely with the instructor on their papers. Prereq: a grade of B or better in ENGL 519 or 529, and permission. For details, see course description available in the department office. Writing intensive.

ENGL 698 - English Major Seminar
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 697. Writing intensive.

ENGL 701 - Advanced Writing of Fiction
Credits: 4.00
Workshop discussion of advanced writing problems and readings of student's fiction. Individual conferences with instructor. Prereq: 625, 626, or equivalent; written permission of instructor required for registration. May be repeated for credit with the approval of the department chairperson. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 703 - Advanced Nonfiction Writing
Credits: 4.00
Workshop course for students intending to write publishable magazine articles or nonfiction books. Equal stress on research and writing techniques. Prereq: ENGL 621; 722 recommended. Written permission of instructor required. May be repeated for credit with the approval of the department chairperson. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 704 - Advanced Nonfiction Writing
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 703. Writing intensive.

ENGL 705 - Advanced Writing of Poetry
Credits: 4.00
Workshop discussion of advanced writing problems and submitted poems. Individual conferences with instructor. Prereq: ENGL 627, 628, or equivalent; written permission of the instructor. May be repeated for credit with the approval of the department chairperson. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 707 - Form and Theory of Fiction
Credits: 4.00
A writer's view of the forms, techniques, and theories of fiction. The novels, short stories, and works of criticism studied vary, depending on the instructor. Writing intensive.

ENGL 708 - Form and Theory of Nonfiction
Credits: 4.00
A writer's view of contemporary nonfiction, emphasizing the choices the writer faces in the process of research writing. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 709 - Form and Theory of Poetry
Credits: 4.00
A writer's view of the problems, traditions, and structures of poetry. Writing intensive.

ENGL 710 - Teaching Writing
Credits: 2.00 or 4.00
Introduction to the various methods of teaching writing. Combines a review of theories, methods, and texts with direct observation of teaching practices. Writing intensive.

ENGL 711 - Editing
Credits: 4.00
Emphasis on newspaper editing but principles applicable to magazine and book editing are also covered. Prereq: ENGL 612; permission. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 713 - Literary Criticism
Credits: 4.00
Major critics from Plato to the present; the chief critical approaches to literature. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 714 - Literary Criticism
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 713. Writing intensive.

ENGL 715 - Teaching English as a Second Language: Theory and Methods
Credits: 4.00
How linguistic, psychological, sociological, and neurological theory influence or even determine the choice methods of language teaching. Research on second language acquisition and bilingualism, language aptitude, and the cultural context of language acquisition. Introduction to standard and exotic methods of language teaching. Writing intensive.

ENGL 716 - Curriculum, Materials and Assessment in English as a Second Language
Credits: 4.00
Study of the problems in designing an effective teaching program for various types of ESL students. Competence and aptitude testing; choosing and adapting materials for ESL classes. Writing intensive.

ENGL 717 - World Englishes
Credits: 4.00
Study of the forms and functions of Englishes in various parts of the world and the linguistic, sociolinguistic, literary, pedagogical, and political implications of the worldwide spread of the language. Topics include language change, language policies, language and power, language and culture, language and identity, literary creativity, and linguistic imperialism. (Also listed as LING 717.)

ENGL #718 - English Linguistics and Literature
Credits: 4.00
Introduction to linguistics for students of literature. Includes a survey of the grammar of English (phonology, morphology, syntax, dialect variation, historical change) with applications to the analysis of the language of poetry and prose. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 719 - Sociolinguistics Survey
Credits: 4.00
How language varies according to the characterisitcs of its speakers: age, sex, ethnicity, attitude, time, and class. Quantitative analysis methods; relationship to theoretical linguistics. Focus is on English, but some other languages are examined. Prereq: 505 or permission.

ENGL 720 - Journalism Internship
Credits: 1.00 to 16.00
Students intending to pursue careers in journalism spend a semester working full or part time for a daily newspaper under close supervision of editors. Reporting is stressed, but students may do some editing as well. The number of internships is very limited. Prereq: ENGL 622 required; ENGL 722 recommended. permission. Writing intensive.

ENGL 721 - Advanced Reporting
Credits: 4.00
Students learn advanced techniques for developing story ideas and acquiring information from people and documents. Discussion of legal and ethical issues facing reporters. Prereq: ENGL 621 and written permission. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 722 - Feature Writing
Credits: 4.00
Students refine interviewing, reporting, and writing techniques. Emphasis on in-depth features. Prereq: ENGL 621 and ENGL 622. May be repeated for credit with the approval of department chairperson. Special fee. Writing intensive.

ENGL 725 - Seminar in English Teaching
Credits: 4.00
In this seminar on teaching English at the middle- and secondary-school levels, students meet the requirements for both English 710, Teaching Writing and English 792, Teaching Secondary School English. The two-semester course, integrates the teaching of reading, writing, speaking, and listening, addressing both theoretical and practical issues. Through the study of different approaches, students develop their own philosophies of instruction. Writing intensive.

ENGL 726 - Seminar in English Teaching
Credits: 4.00
See description for ENGL 725. Writing intensive.

ENGL 727 - Issues in Second Language Writing
Credits: 4.00
Study of various issues in second language writing theory, research, instruction and administration. Topics include the characteristics and needs of second language writers, second language writing processes, contrastive rhetoric, grammar instruction, teacher and peer feedback, assessment, course design and placement. Writing intensive.

ENGL 728 - Writing Consultation and Assessment
Credits: 4.00
This course includes instruction in philosophy and techniques of tutoring, theoretical and practical issues in collaborative learning and complex-skill formation, and cross-disciplinary conventions of writing. In addition to the classroom portion of the course, each student will undertake a supervised practicum experience in the University Writing Center. Prereq: ENGL 501 or 503. Coreq: supervised practicum experience in the Writing Center. Writing intensive.

ENGL 732 - Folklore and Folklife
Credits: 4.00
Examines the materials and methods used to study folklife, emphasizing the historical context and development of folklore studies in North America and Europe, field research, performance theory, and other topics. (Also offered as ANTH 698.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 739 - American Indian Literature
Credits: 4.00
Close study of traditional and/or contemporary American Indian literature and folklore with historical and cultural background. Writing intensive.

ENGL 741 - Literature of Early America
Credits: 4.00
Prose and poetry of the periods of exploration, colonization, early nationalism, Puritanism, Enlightenment. Individual works and historical-cultural background. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 742 - American Literature, 1815-1865
Credits: 4.00
Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in the period of romanticism, transcendentalism, nationalism. individual works and cultural background. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 743 - American Literature, 1865-1915
Credits: 4.00
Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in the period of realism, naturalism, industrialism, big money. Individual works and background. Writing intensive.

ENGL 744 - American Literature, 1915-1945
Credits: 4.00
Fiction, poetry, and drama in the period of avant-garde and leftism, jazz age, and Depression. Individual works and cultural background. Writing intensive.

ENGL 745 - Contemporary American Literature
Credits: 4.00
A gathering of forms, figures, and movements since 1945. Individual works and cultural background. Writing intensive.

ENGL #746 - Studies in American Drama
Credits: 4.00
Topics vary from year to year. Examples: 20th-century American drama; contemporary playwrights; theatricality in American life. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 747 - Studies in American Poetry
Credits: 4.00
Topics vary from year to year. Examples: poets of the open road; Pound and his followers; major American poets; contemporary American poetry. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 748 - Studies in American Fiction
Credits: 4.00
Topics vary from year to year. Examples: the romance in America; the short story; realism and naturalism; the city novel; fiction of the thirties. Writing intensive.

ENGL 749 - Major American Authors
Credits: 4.00
Intensive study of two or three writers. Examples: Melville and Faulkner; Fuller, Emerson, and Thoreau; James and Wharton; Dickinson and Frost. Writing intensive.

ENGL 750 - Special Studies in American Literature
Credits: 4.00
Topics vary from year to year. Examples: the Puritan heritage; ethnic literatures in America; landscape in American literature; five American lives; pragmatism; American humor; transcendentalism, women regionalists. Writing intensive.

ENGL 751 - Medieval Epic and Romance
Credits: 4.00
The two major types of medieval narrative; comparative study of works from England, France, Germany, and Iceland, including Beowulf, Song of Roland, the Nibelungenlied, Njal's Saga, and Malory's Morte d'Arthur. All works read in modern English translations. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 752 - History of the English Language
Credits: 4.00
Evolution of English from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. Relations between linguistic change and literary style. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 753 - Old English
Credits: 4.00
Introduction to Old English language and literature through the reading of selected poetry and prose.

ENGL 754 - Beowulf
Credits: 4.00
A reading of the poem and an introduction to the scholarship. Prereq: ENGL 753. Writing intensive.

ENGL 755 - Chaucer
Credits: 4.00
Troilus and Criseyde, in the context of medieval continental literature by Boccaccio and other influences. Writing intensive.

ENGL 756 - Chaucer
Credits: 4.00
The Canterbury Tales in its original language. Writing intensive.

ENGL 758 - Shakespeare
Credits: 4.00
A few plays studied intensively. Live and filmed performances included as available. Writing intensive.

ENGL 759 - Milton
Credits: 4.00
Milton and his age. Generous selection of Milton's prose and poetry, with secondary readings of his sources and contemporaries. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL #763 - Continental Backgrounds of the English Renaissance
Credits: 4.00
Major philosophers, artists, and writers of the continental Renaissance (in translation): Petrarch, Ficino, Pico, Vives, Valla, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Rabelais, Montaigne, Cervantes, Erasmus, and Thomas More, as representative of the early English Renaissance. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 764 - Prose and Poetry of the Elizabethans
Credits: 4.00
Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Major works, including Spenser's Faerie Queene, Sidney's Astrophel and Stella, and Shakespeare's Sonnets: their literary and intellectual backgrounds. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 765 - English Literature in the 17th Century
Credits: 4.00
Major writers of the 17th century, including Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Bacon, and Hobbes. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 767 - Literature of the Restoration and Early 18th Century
Credits: 4.00
Poetry, drama, fiction, letters, journals, and essays from the period following the restoration of Charles II to the throne of England after the English Civil War. Works by such figures as John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu studied in the historical context. Examples from the colonial world and the continent (in translation) when appropriate. Writing intensive.

ENGL 768 - Literature of the Later 18th Century
Credits: 4.00
Poetry, drama, fiction, letters, journals, essays, and biography from the period that culminated in the American and French Revolutions. Works by such figures as Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Frances Burney, Laurence Sterne, William Blake, and Mary Wallstonecraft studied in historical context. Examples from the colonial world and the continent (in translation) when appropriate. Writing intensive.

ENGL 769 - English Romantic Period
Credits: 4.00
Major literary trends and authors, 1798 to 1832. Focus on poetry but attention also to prose works and critical theories. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, DeQuincey. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 770 - English Romantic Period
Credits: 4.00
Major literary trends and authors, 1798 to 1832. Focus on poetry but attention also to prose works and critical theories. Byron, Shelley, Keats. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 771 - English Victorian Period
Credits: 4.00
The English Victorian Period-Fiction, nonfiction and poetry from 1832-1900. Money, Science, and Love. Authors include the Bronte's, Dickens, Hardy, Wilde, Tennyson. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 772 - English Victorian Period
Credits: 4.00
The English-Victorian Period-Fiction, nonfiction and poetry from 1832-1900. Art, Decadence, and Empire. Authors include the Bronte's, Dickens, Hardy, Wilde, Tennyson. (Not offered every year.)

ENGL 773 - British Literature of the 20th Century
Credits: 4.00
Poets and novelists of the modernist and postmodernist periods. W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forester, D.H. Lawrence, and other modernists. Writing intensive.

ENGL 774 - British Literature of the 20th Century
Credits: 4.00
Poets and novelists of the modernist and postmodernist periods. A selection of postmodernist or contemporary writers, such as William Golding, Doris Lessing, John Fowles, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Margaret Drabble, and others. Writing intensive.

ENGL 775 - Irish Literature
Credits: 4.00
Survey from the beginnings to present; works in Irish (read in translation) such as The Cattle Raid of Cooley, medieval lyrics, and Mad Sweeney; and works in English from Swift to the present. 20th-century authors: Joyce, Yeats, Synge, O'Casey, Beckett, and Flann O'Brien. (Not offered every year.)

ENGL 779 - Linguistic Field Methods
Credits: 4.00
Study of a non-Indo-European language by eliciting examples from an informant, rather than from written descriptions of the language. Students learn how to figure out the grammar of a language from raw data. Prereq: ENGL/LING 505. (Also offered as LING 779.) Special fee. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 780 - Drama of Shakespeare's Contemporaries
Credits: 4.00
Study of the drama of Renaissance England, emphasizing Tudor and Stuart drama. Special attention to dramatic forms, acting conventions, theatre architecture, women as patrons, writers, and subjects of drama, and the politics and social significance of theatre in the period. Writing intensive.

ENGL 781 - English Drama, 1660-1800
Credits: 4.00
Study of the selected plays, their performance and their publication. Works by such figures as William Wycherley, Thomas Otway, Mary Pix, George Lillo, Susanna Centlivre, Richard Sheridan, and Elizabeth Inchbald. Special attention to the new prominence of women in the drama of this period, changes in theatre architecture, forms of nondramatic spectacle, and the political and social significance of drama. Writing intensive.

ENGL 782 - Modern Drama
Credits: 4.00
Major English, American, and (translated) European plays of the modern period by such playwrights as Shaw, Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Pirandello, O'Neill, Brecht, Beckett, Williams, Miller, Pinter. Live and filmed performances studied as available. (Not offered every year.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 783 - English Novel of the 18th Century
Credits: 4.00
Study of the rise and development of the novel in the eighteenth century. Works by such figures as Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, Laurence Sterne, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen. Focus on writers who published their work in England but with examples from the colonial world and the continent (in translation) when appropriate. Writing intensive.

ENGL 784 - English Novel of the 19th Century
Credits: 4.00
Representative novels from among Austen, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Trollope, George Eliot, Hardy, and Conrad. Writing intensive.

ENGL 785 - Major Women Writers
Credits: 4.00
Intensive study of one or more women writers. Selections vary from year to year. Writing intensive.

ENGL 786 - 20th Century British Fiction
Credits: 4.00
Traces the development of the novel from the turn of the century to the present day. Representative novels by Lawrence, Joyce, Conrad, Wolf, West, Forester, Huxley, Waugh, Murdoch, Burgess, and Lessing. Writing intensive.

ENGL 790 - Special Topics in Linguistics
Credits: 4.00
Advanced course on a topic chosen by the instructor. Inquire at the English department office for a full course description each time the course is offered. Topics such as word formation, dialectology, linguistic theory and language acquisition, history of linguistics, language and culture, cross-disciplinary studies relating to linguistics. Barring duplication of subject, may be repeated for credit. (Also offered as LING 790.) Writing intensive.

ENGL 791 - English Grammar
Credits: 4.00
Survey of the grammar of English (pronunciation, vocabulary, sentence structure, punctuation, dialect variation, historical change) with special attention to the distinction between descriptive and prescriptive grammar and to the problems students have with formal expository writing. Writing intensive.

ENGL 792 - Teaching Secondary School English
Credits: 4.00
Methods of teaching language, composition, and literature in grades 7-12. Required of all students in the English teaching major. Open to others with permission. Writing intensive.

ENGL 793 - Phonetics and Phonology
Credits: 4.00
The sound system of English and other languages as viewed from the standpoint of modern linguistic theory, including the following topics: the acoustic and articulatory properties of speech sounds, the phonemic repertories of particular languages, phonological derivations, and prosodic phenomena such as stress and intonation. (Also offered as LING 793.) Prereq: a basic linguistics course or permission.

ENGL 794 - Syntax and Semantic Theory
Credits: 4.00
Relationship of grammar and meaning as viewed from the standpoint of modern linguistic theory. Emphasis on the syntax ad semantics of English, with special attention to the construction of arguments for or against particular analyses. (Also offered as LING 794.) Prereq: a basic linguistics course or permission. Writing intensive.

ENGL 795 - Independent Study
Credits: 1.00 to 16.00
Open to highly qualified juniors and seniors. To be elected only with permission of the department chairperson and of the supervising faculty member or members. Barring duplication of subject, may be repeated for credit up to a maximum of 16 credits. Writing intensive.

ENGL 797 - Special Studies in Literature
Credits: 2.00 to 6.00
A) Old English Literature; B) Medieval Literature; C) 16th Century; D) 17th Century; E) 18th Century; f) English Romantic Period; G) Victorian Period; H) 20th Century; I) Drama; J) Novel; K) Poetry; L) Non-fiction; M) American Literature; N) A Literary Problem; O) Literature of the Renaissance. The precise topics and methods of each section vary. Barring duplication of subject, may be repeated for credit. For details, see the course descriptions available in the English department. Special fee on some topics. Writing intensive.

ENGL 798 - Special Studies in Literature
Credits: 2.00 to 6.00
See description for ENGL 797. Writing intensive.