EN 100 BASIC WRITING. (3)
A study of essentials of grammar and composition with emphasis upon
paragraph development. Instruction and exercises in writing and revision
of writing. Required of freshmen whose proficiency in composition and reading
is determined by testing to be below collegiate standards maintained in
English 101. Prerequisite for entrance in English 101 for students identified
for the course. This course cannot be used to satisfy graduation requirements.
EN 101 ENGLISH COMPOSITION. (3)
Required of all students. Does not count toward the English major.
A study of the principles of composition, effective paragraph and sentence
structure, vocabulary, and reading. The course will require expository,
descriptive, and narrative composition, at least one documented work, parallel
readings, peer editing conferences, and conferences with the instructor.
Some sections are computer assisted. Final grade is A, B, C, No Credit.
A student must earn a grade of at least C in the course before enrolling
in any other English course. A grade of No Credit will not affect
a student's quality point average. After enrolling at MUW, a student must
take all composition core requirements at MUW.
EN 101 IS PREREQUISITE FOR ALL SUBSEQUENT ENGLISH COURSES.
EN 201 SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE I. (3)
Prerequisite: EN 101
A study in chronological order of selected masterpieces representative
of different periods of English literature from Beowulf through the mid
eighteenth century. Collateral reading, critical essays.
EN 202 SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE II.(3)
Prerequisite: EN 101
A study in chronological order of selected masterpieces representative
of different periods of English literature from the eighteenth century
to modern times. Collateral reading; critical essays.
EN 203 SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE I. (3)
Prerequisite:
EN 101
A study of the development of American literature with emphasis on
major writings and their relation to the main currents of American thought
from the Spanish colonization to the mid nineteen century. Collateral reading,
critical essays.
EN 204 SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE II. (3)
Prerequisite: EN 101
A study of the development of American literature, with emphasis upon
major writings and their relation to the main currents of American thought
from the mid nineteenth century through the present.. Collateral reading;
critical essays.
EN 231 SURVEY OF WORLD LITERATURE I. (3)
Prerequisite: EN 101
A survey of major texts in the literatures of Europe, Africa, Asia,
the Americas, and the Middle East, focusing on myth, drama, epic, and lyric
from the ancient world to the early modern era.Collateral reading, critical
essays.
EN 232 SURVEY OF WORLD LITERATURE II. (3)
Prerequisite: EN 101
A study of major texts in the literatures of Europe, Africa, Asia,
and the Americas focusing on important works of prose, drama, and poetry
from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century. Collateral reading; critical
essays.
EN 240 ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN MYTH. (3)
A study of ancient Greek and Roman myth in translation. Authors include
Homer, Pindar, Ovid, Virgil, Hesiod, and others.
EN 299 SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENGLISH. (1-3)
Prerequisite: EN 101
This course will be used for lower-level seminars. The course
content will vary each time the course is offered.
EN 300 ENGLISH COMPOSITION. (3)
Required of all students. Does not count toward the English major. Prerequisites:
EN 101, junior standing, or consent of Humanities Division Head.
A continuation of the study and computer-assisted practice of expository
writing in standard English. The course focuses on analytical and practical
writing skills. Some papers are based on documented research and reading
in the student's major field; others will simulate writing required in
professional or work-place situations. Parallel readings, peer editing
conferences, and conferences with the instructor are also included.
Final grade is A, B, C, No Credit. A grade of C is required for graduation.
A grade of No Credit will not affect a student's quality point average.
EN 301 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS. (3)
An introduction to English phonology, morphology, and syntax from the
perspectives of traditional, structural, and transformational-generative
theories of linguistics.
EN 303-304 SHAKESPEARE. (3-3)
A critical reading in approximate chronological order of a number of
the plays and poems of Shakespeare. Collateral reading; critical essays.
EN 311 NONFICTION PROSE WRITING. (3)
A study of various types of advanced exposition, formal and informal
essays, and the principles of the short narrative, with collateral readings
and practice in original writing of the various forms studied.
EN 312 CREATIVE WRITING. (3)
A study of the craft of creative writing. The course will focus
on the development of a portfolio of poetry and short fiction through workshop
discussions and individual conferences, along with collateral readings
on the creative process, literary terms, and forms..
EN 317 TECHNICAL AND BUSINESS WRITING. (3)
Ability to type strongly recommended.
Combined lecture-workshop approach to special forms, styles, and problems
encountered in writing for industry, business, and technology. Includes
writing of mechanism description, process analysis, instructions, formal
and informal reports, research reports, proposals; also includes audience
analysis, technical editing, and use of graphics.
EN 321 MODERN POETRY. (3)
A study of Modern Poetry from 1900 to 1950. The course will focus on
modernist movements including Imagism, Vorticism, Futurism, Expressionism,
Dada, and Surrealism. Readings will include major poets from America, Britain,
and the Continent, such as Yeats, Lawrence, Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams,
Moore, H.D., Hughes, Cullen, Stramm, Ball, Arp, Desnos, Breton, Mayakovski,
and others.
EN 322 CONTEMPORARY POETRY. (3)
A study of the poetry of the latter half of the twentieth century.
Poets studied may include Wright, Wilbur, Bishop, Berryman, Roethke, Plath,
Brooks, Olson, Snyder, Ginsberg, O'Hara, Bly, Rich, Angelou, and others.
EN 330 LITERATURE IN THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD.
(3) Prerequisites: EN 101 and one of the following: EN
202, EN 204, EN 232, or permission of the instructor.
A study of major literary works from emerging postcolonial societies
in Africa, the Caribbean, South and Central America, and Asia after 1945.
Authors studied may include Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka,
Jean Rhys, Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipul, Mahasweta Devi, and Salman Rushdie.
EN 341 TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE.
(3) Prerequisites: Six (6) hours of English.
Introduction to major theories, methodology, and strategies of teaching
English as a second language including an introduction to the historical
background of methods used for teaching languages to non-native speakers
and to various strategies that have been proposed in the field to improve
listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. This task-based class
will also focus on syllabi and lesson plan preparations.
EN 342 SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. (3) Prerequisites:
Six (6) hours of English.
A survey of the major theories of language acquisition including theories
of first language acquisition, theories of second language acquisition,
theories of language learning, styles and strategies of language learning,
effect of personality and sociocultural factors on second language learning,
and communicative competence with an emphasis on methods of acquiring a
second language.
EN 350 IMAGES OF WOMEN IN LITERATURE. (3)
This course introduces students to both traditional stereotypes of
women in literature and new ways to analyze literature by and about women.
Using introductory feminist critical texts, students will learn to focus
on what literature says and implies about women: their nature, their roles,
their place in society. Readings will include works by Austen, George Eliot,
the Brontes, Flaubert, Woolf, Stein, Welty, Atwood, Walker, and Rich.
EN 360 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE. (3)
A study of the major movements in the evolution of African-American
literature from the eighteenth century to the present. It includes literary
genres such as autobiography, fiction, poetry, and drama. Authors may include
Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen,
James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison,
Alice Walker.
EN 375 IMAGES OF WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE.
(3)
A study of the literature of the medieval period both by and about
women, with special attention to the impact of the anti-feminist tradition.
Some authors/works may include Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, Christine de
Pisan, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Margery Kempe, and Marie
de France.
EN 401 INTERNSHIP. (Variable, 3-6)
Prerequisite: Advanced standing and permission of division head.
Qualified students may earn credit for participating in a program approved
in advance by the faculty advisor and division head. The nature of the
internship and the number of hours to be worked will determine the number
of credit hours. A minimum of 120 hours is required for 3 hours credit.
Three hours may be applied toward the major. Remaining hours will count
as elective credit toward graduation.
EN 409 ADOLESCENT AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE.
(3)
Prerequisites: EN 101 and a six hour literature survey. A study of
adolescent fiction and picture books from the nineteenth century to the
present. This course will investigate various issues in children=s
literature theory, including but not limited to, teaching methods and pedagogy.
Collateral reading; critical essays.
EN 410 METHODS & MATERIALS IN SECONDARY
ENGLISH. (3) Fall.
Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education.
A survey of major theories of composition and literature pedagogy,
with practical applications to classroom situations. The course requires
close reading of selected literary texts to prepare the texts for teaching;
it also examines the process of writing--prewriting, writing, revision--with
attention to making and evaluating writing assignments. Required for teacher
certification. This course does not count toward the English major or minor.
EN 411 FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP. (3)
Prerequisite: EN 312.
An advanced study of fiction writing, the course will focus on the
development of a portfolio of short fiction and involve workshop discussion
of student works, along with collateral readings on the craft of fiction
and contemporary short stories.
EN 412 POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP. (3)
Prerequisite: EN 312.
An advanced study of poetry writing, the course will focus on the development
of a portfolio of poems and involve workshop discussion of student works,
along with collateral readings of poetics and recent poetry.
EN 415 ADVANCED WRITING WORKSHOP. (3)
Prerequisites: EN 411 or EN 412 and consent of the instructor.
The advanced workshop provides students with the opportunity to continue
their study of fiction or poetry writing beyond the workshop level. It
may be taken in conjunction with a workshop in fiction or poetry, or it
may be taken as an independent study. May be repeated once for credit if
genre content or instructor changes.
EN 420 SEMINAR IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. (3 to 6)
EN 425 SEMINAR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. (3 to 6)
EN 430 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. (3)
Basic linguistic concepts; major language families and their relationships;
development of English pronunciation, morphology, vocabulary, and grammar
from their beginning to modern times, with special emphasis on Old English.
EN 451 CHAUCER. (3)
A study of a selection of Chaucer’s poetry in the original Middle English,
with emphasis on Chaucer’s utilization of genre. Collateral reading may
also include relevant background material and critical essays.
EN 453 ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA. (3)
A study of the development of English dramatic literature, with the
exception of Shakespeare, from the early church beginnings to the closing
of the theatres in 1642. Emphasis on Elizabethan drama exclusive of Shakespeare.
EN 459 SPENSER. (3)
A concentrated study of Spenser with emphasis on the Faerie Queene.
EN 467 MILTON. (3)
A study of Milton's poetry and prose and of the literary, religious,
political, and scientific thought of the day.
EN 473 RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BRITISH
LITERATURE. (3)
An intensive study of British literature from the Restoration of Charles
II in 1660 to 1800 in cultural context. Includes an emphasis on the novel.
Authors may include, but are not limited to, Aphra Behn, John Dryden, Eliza
Haywood, Daniel Defoe, Charlotte Lennox, Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney,
and Samuel Johnson.
EN 474 EARLY BRITISH GOTHIC LITERATURE. (3)
An intensive study of British Gothic literature from the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries in cultural context. Includes an emphasis
on fiction and on the problems of gender and genre that the Gothic raises.
Authors may include, but are not limited to, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe,
Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Dacre, Mary Shelley, and Walter Scott.
EN 475 THE ENGLISH NOVEL. (3)
A study of the development of the novel in Britain through the nineteenth
century. The novels selected for study will represent a variety of
fictional types and techniques. Collateral readings; critical essays.
EN 478 ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE EARLY NINETEENTH
CENTURY. (3)
A study of selected works of poetry, fiction, and essays of the
early nineteenth century. Writers studied may include Burns, Blake, Dorothy
and William Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, Byron, the Shelleys,
Keats, DeQuincey. Collateral reading; critical essays.
EN 479 ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE LATER NINETEENTH
CENTURY. (3)
A study of representative works of poetry, fiction, and essays of the
Victorian era. Attention will also be given to the social and political
issues of the time. Collateral reading, critical essays.
EN 480 LITERARY THEORY. (3)
An intensive study of some of the major schools of contemporary literary
theory, the philosophical traditions from which they derive, and the critical
issues that they raise. Practical applications to literary analysis.
EN 484 AMERICAN LITERATURE OF THE EARLY NINETEENTH
CENTURY. (3)
A study of American literature from the early nineteenth century to
the 1860's. Readings in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and autobiography;
may include Melville, Poe, Douglass, Jacobs, Alcott, Emerson, Whitman,
Dickinson, and others. Collateral reading and research; critical essays.
EN 485 AMERICAN LITERATURE OF THE LATER NINETEENTH
CENTURY. (3)
A study of the literature associated with the realistic and naturalistic
periods in American literature. Authors may include, but are not limited
to, Rebecca Harding Davis, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Sarah
Orne Jewett, W. D. Howells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Frank Norris, Sinclair
Lewis; collateral readings.
EN 490 THE LITERATURE OF THE SOUTH. (3)
A survey of Southern writers of the United States from colonial to
modern times.Collateral readings.
EN 495 TWENTIETH CENTURY DRAMA. (3)
A study of selected European and American dramas from Ibsen to the
present. Collateral reading; critical essays.
EN 497 TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION.
(3)
A study of representative novels of American writers of the twentieth
century. Collateral reading; critical essays.
EN 498 TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION. (3)
A study of representative novels of British writers of the twentieth
century. Collateral reading; critical essays.
EN 499 ENGLISH CAPSTONE COURSE. (3)
Required of all majors. Prerequisite: senior standing and 24 hours of English,
exclusive of 101 and 300.
An integrated study of major literary movements in American, British,
and World Literature, which will place these movements in their historical,
political and social backgrounds. Several analytical essays will culminate
in a senior thesis that will be presented to students and faculty.