Sep 22, 2024  
2017-2018 Graduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Engineering Management (ENMG)

  
  • ENMG 501 - Capstone Project

    3-6 Credit Hours
    Application-oriented project to show competence in major academic area.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires enrollment in engineering management.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ENMG 502 - Registration for Use of Facilities

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses university facilities and/or faculty time before degree is completed.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Credit Restriction: May not be used toward degree requirements.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ENMG 532 - Productivity and Quality Engineering

    3 Credit Hours
    Productivity and quality measures defined and used to analyze current competitive position of important sectors of American industry with respect to national and international competition. Study of management theories and systems which promote or inhibit productivity or quality improvements.
  
  • ENMG 533 - Theory and Practice of Engineering Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Principles of engineering management, including: business and organization design, culture, leadership, marketing and competition in global economy, motivation and performance management, empowerment, organizational behavior, and diversity. Systems thinking, learning organizations, and systems dynamics modeling. Principle application to work settings and case studies.
  
  • ENMG 534 - Financial Management for Engineering Managers

    3 Credit Hours
    Financial and managerial accounting in engineering and technology management. Transaction recording, financial statements, ratios and analysis, activity-based accounting, and standard practices for costing, budgeting, assessment, and control.
  
  • ENMG 536 - Project Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Development and management of engineering and technology projects. Project proposal preparation; resource and cost estimating; and project planning, organizing, and controlling: network diagrams and other techniques. Role of project manager: team building, conflict resolution, and contract negotiations. Discussion of typical problems and alternative solutions. Case studies and student projects.
    Recommended Background: Graduate standing in Engineering or Business.
  
  • ENMG 537 - Analytical Methods for Engineering Managers

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of management analysis and control systems through industrial engineering techniques. Qualitative and quantitative systems: methods analysis, work measurement, incentive systems, wage and salary development, production and inventory control, facility layout, linear programming, and applied operations research techniques.
    Credit Restriction: Credit only for students with undergraduate degrees in industrial engineering.
  
  • ENMG 538 - New Venture Formation

    3 Credit Hours
    Factors other than mechanical or chemical which enter into successful establishment of manufacturing or service enterprise. Organizational and financial planning and evaluation. Cost and location studies and market analysis to determine commercial feasibility of new ventures.
    Recommended Background: Graduate standing in Engineering or Business.
  
  • ENMG 539 - Strategic Management in Technical Organizations

    3 Credit Hours
    Strategic planning process and strategic management in practice; corporate vision and mission; product, market, organizational, and financial strategies; external factors; commercialization of new technologies; and competition and beyond.
    Recommended Background: Graduate standing in Engineering or Business.
  
  • ENMG 541 - Managing Change and Improvement in Technical Organizations

    3 Credit Hours
    Current topics, theories, and applications for managing change and innovation for performance improvement in organizations. Multi-initiative approaches: quality management, organizational effectiveness, employee empowerment, performance measurement, and application of statistical tools and techniques. Self-assessment and Baldrige criteria for performance excellence. Change agent, team building, and leadership issues. Case studies.
    Recommended Background: Graduate standing in Engineering or Business.
  
  • ENMG 542 - Design of Experiments for Engineering Managers

    3 Credit Hours
    Methodology for experiments in product, service, and process improvements. Factorial experiments, screening designs, variance reduction, and other selected topics for engineering managers. Taguchi philosophy and concepts. Optimization and response surface methods. Case studies.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Industrial Engineering 516.
  
  • ENMG 543 - Legal and Ethical Aspects of Engineering Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Legal aspects imposed by government and ethical considerations in engineering practice. Selected readings, lecture, discussion, and student presentations. Current topics from government and industry.
  
  • ENMG 595 - Special Topics in Engineering Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Problems and topics relevant to current issues in the field.
    Repeatability: May be repeated if topic differs. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • ENMG 600 - Doctoral Research and Dissertation

    3-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ENMG 601 - Systems Theory and Engineering

    3 Credit Hours
    Technology course that will examine theoretical foundations of General System Theory applied to engineering and organizational enterprises addressing issues concerning systems, the effectiveness of organizations in the context of traditional management related issues, as well as incorporating the critical impact of systems thinking on the socio-technical environment. Among the topics to be covered in the course are: the meaning of General Systems Theory (GST); GST and the unity of science; the concept of Equifinality; the characteristics and modeling of open systems; the concepts of the Learning Organization; the principle of Leverage; building Learning Organizations; and issues related to Socio-Technical Systems. Systems Engineering focuses on defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, then proceeding with design synthesis and system validation while considering the complete problem including operations, performance, test, manufacturing, cost, and schedule. This subject emphasizes the links of systems engineering to fundamentals of decision theory, statistics, and optimization.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 533.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ENMG 691 - Advanced Topics in Engineering Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Forum to study advanced topics individually or in groups.
    Repeatability: May be repeated if topic differs. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.

English (ENGL)

  
  • ENGL 401 - Medieval Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Reading and analysis of a selection of literary works from the Old and Middle English period, as well as some continental texts; most will be read in modern English translation, and no previous knowledge of Middle English is required.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Medieval and Renaissance Studies 405.)

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 402 - Chaucer

    3 Credit Hours
    Reading and analysis of the Canterbury Tales and Troylus and Criseyde in Middle English.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Medieval and Renaissance Studies 406.)

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 403 - Introduction to Middle English

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of the language and literature of England from the 12th through the 15th centuries. Reading of prose works and shorter poetry will be done in Middle English with special attention paid to grammar, style, dialect, and language change. The class will explore the culture of medieval England through critical essays, histories, and supplementary texts in translation.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 404 - Shakespeare I: Early Plays

    3 Credit Hours
    Shakespeare’s dramatic achievement before 1601. Reading and discussion of selected plays from romantic comedies, including Twelfth Night; English histories, including Henry IV; and early tragedy, including Hamlet.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 405 - Shakespeare II: Later Plays

    3 Credit Hours
    Shakespeare’s dramatic achievement between 1601 and 1613. Reading and discussion of selected plays from great tragedies, including Othello; problem plays, including Measure for Measure; and dramatic romances, including The Tempest.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 406 - Shakespeare’s Contemporaries I: Renaissance Drama

    3 Credit Hours
    English theatre between 1590 and 1640. Representative plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries—Marlowe, Webster, and Jonson.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 409 - Shakespeare’s Contemporaries II: Renaissance Poetry and Prose

    3 Credit Hours
    Principal achievements in poetry and prose of 16th-century authors—More, Wyatt, Marlowe, Spenser, Sidney, and Donne.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 410 - Donne, Milton, and Their Contemporaries

    3 Credit Hours
    Principal achievements in poetry and prose of the first two-thirds of the 17th century. Includes such writers as Donne, Herbert, Lanyer, Bacon, Browne, Marvell, and Milton.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 411 - Literature of the Restoration and Early 18th-Century: Dryden to Pope

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of English literature and culture from 1660 to 1745.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 412 - Literature of Later 18th-Century: Johnson to Burns

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of English literature and culture from 1745 to 1800.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 413 - Restoration and 18th-Century Genres and Modes

    3 Credit Hours
    Study of one major genre or literary mode such as drama, novel, poetry, nonfiction, prose, satire, romance, or epic written between 1660 and 1800.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 414 - Romantic Poetry and Prose I

    3 Credit Hours
    Emphasis on Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Blake; with readings from Lamb, De Quincey, and other prose writers.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 415 - Romantic Poetry and Prose II

    3 Credit Hours
    Emphasis on Keats, Shelley and Byron; with readings from Hazlitt, Peacock, and other prose writers.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 419 - Later Victorian Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    May include poetry by the Pre-Raphaelites, Arnold, Hopkins, and Hardy; prose by Arnold, Ruskin, and Carroll; plays by Gilbert and Wilde.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 420 - The 19th-Century British Novel

    3 Credit Hours
    Major novelists from Scott to Hardy.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 421 - Modern British Novel

    3 Credit Hours
    Authors such as Joyce and Woolf through contemporary British fiction writers.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 422 - Women Writers in Britain

    3 Credit Hours
    Emphasis on the literary consciousness and works of women writers in Britain. Course content will vary. Authors covered may include Marie de France, Margery Kempe, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, Aphra Behn, Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Doris Lessing. Writing-emphasis course.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Women, Gender, and Sexuality 422.)

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 423 - Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Emphasis on historical and theoretical methodologies for reading colonial and post-colonial literature.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with instructor’s consent. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 431 - Early American Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    From the earliest texts to 1830, including exploration and discovery, Native American, colonial, revolutionary, and early national works.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 432 - American Romanticism and Transcendentalism

    3 Credit Hours
    Prose and poetry of the American Renaissance from 1830 to the end of the Civil War. Includes writers such as Cooper, Emerson, Fuller, Poe, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, Jacobs, Whitman, and Dickinson.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 433 - American Realism and Naturalism

    3 Credit Hours
    Literature from the time of the Civil War to World War I. Includes writers such as Alcott, Twain, Howells, James, Jewett, Harper, Crane, Norris, and Wharton.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 434 - Modern American Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    World War I to the present.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 435 - American Fiction to 1900

    3 Credit Hours
    Explores the development of American novels and short fiction published between the Revolutionary era and the end of the nineteenth century. Includes such writers as Rowson, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, James, Twain, and Chesnutt.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 436 - Modern American Novel

    3 Credit Hours
    Authors such as Faulkner, Steinbeck, Welty.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 441 - Southern Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Southern writing from colonial period into the 20th-century, including frontier humorists, local color writers, and the Southern Literary Renaissance.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 442 - American Humor

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of American humor from the early 19th-century into the 20th-century, with particular emphasis on Mark Twain.
    Cross-listed: (Same as American Studies 442.)

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 443 - Topics in Black Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies according to particular genres, authors, or theories from 1845 to present, including Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks, writing by black women, international black literature in English, and black American autobiography.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Africana Studies 443.)

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 444 - Appalachian Literature and Culture

    3 Credit Hours
    Appalachian literature in the context of parallel developments in art, music, and cultural history.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 451 - Modern British and American Poetry

    3 Credit Hours
    Formal, cultural, and thematic movements in 20th-century British and American poetry published before 1950. Includes such writers as Yeats, Frost, Eliot, Pound, Williams, Moore, Stevens, Stein, Hughes, and Auden.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 452 - Modern Drama

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of British, American, and international drama from 1880 to the end of World War II. Includes such playwrights as Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, Synge, O’Neill, Glaspell, Treadwell, Hughes, Pirandello, Brecht, and Wilder.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 453 - Contemporary Drama

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of British, American, and international drama since World War II. Includes such playwrights as Williams, Miller, Beckett, Drrenmatt, Stoppard, Churchill, Shepard, Mamet, Shange, Wilson, Friel, Maponya, Highway, and Kushner.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 454 - 20th-Century International Novel

    3 Credit Hours
    Fiction in English translation from such writers as Kafka and Camus through contemporary authors.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 455 - Persuasive Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Focuses on writing and analyzing persuasive texts in public, private, and academic contexts.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 456 - Contemporary Fiction/Narrative

    3 Credit Hours
    Formal, literary-historical, and thematic movements in post-World War II British and American fiction and international fiction in translation. Focus on postmodern novels and short stories written after 1945, but readings may include some newly influential narrative forms such as the graphic novel, hypertext and digital fiction and the nonfiction novel.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 459 - Contemporary Poetry

    3 Credit Hours
    Formal, cultural, and thematic movements in poetry published since 1950. Includes such writers as Lowell, Bishop, Brooks, Ginsberg, Plath, Larkin, Ashbery, Heaney, Baraka, and Walcott.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 460 - Technical Editing

    3 Credit Hours
    Editing technical material for publication. Principles of style, format, graphics, layout, and production management.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 462 - Writing for Publication

    3 Credit Hours
    Principles and practices of writing for publication. Dissertations, theses, articles, and reports in science and technology.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 463 - Advanced Poetry Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of skills acquired in basic poetry-writing course.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 363.
  
  • ENGL 464 - Advanced Fiction Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of skills acquired in basic fiction-writing course.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 364.
  
  • ENGL 466 - Writing, Layout, and Production of Technical Documents

    3 Credit Hours
    Principles of design for desktop publishing. Production of various documents to be incorporated into a professional portfolio.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 470 - Special Topics in Rhetoric

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 471 - Sociolinguistics

    3 Credit Hours
    Language in relation to societies. Theoretical and empirical study of language variation in individuals (style-shifting) and among social, cultural, and national/international groups.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Linguistics 471.)

    Recommended Background: 371 or 372 or Linguistics 200 or consent of instructor.
  
  • ENGL 472 - American English

    3 Credit Hours
    Phonological, morphological, and syntactic characteristics of major social and regional varieties of American English, with attention to their origins, functions, and implications for cultural pluralism.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Linguistics 472.)

    Recommended Background: 371 or 372 or Linguistics 200, or consent of instructor.
  
  • ENGL 474 - Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language I

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduces major issues surrounding teaching ESL/EFL, including political implications of teaching ESL/EFL. Introduction to second language acquisition, learner variables in language learning, traditional and innovative approaches to ESL/EFL, basic features of American English grammar necessary for teaching ESL.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Linguistics 474.)

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
    Recommended Background: Second year of foreign language or consent of instructor.
  
  • ENGL 476 - Second Language Acquisition

    3 Credit Hours
    How humans learn second languages. Examines theoretical models and research on such issues as differences between first and second language acquisition; the effect of age; cognitive factors in second language acquisition; learner variables; sociocultural factors; and implications for second/foreign language instruction.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Linguistics 476.)

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 477 - Pedagogical Grammar for ESL Teachers

    3 Credit Hours
    Aspects of English syntax and morphology presenting difficulties for non-native learners of English. Basic and complex sentence structures; noun and article system; and verb tense, aspect, modality, and complementation.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Linguistics 477.)

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 479 - Literary Criticism

    3 Credit Hours
    Historical survey of major works of literary criticism.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 480 - Fairy Tale, Legend, and Myth: Folk Narrative

    3 Credit Hours
    Study of forms of folk narrative. Normally includes Grimms’, Andersen’s, Irish, English, Appalachian, African, and Native American tales.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 481 - Studies in Folklore

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary.
    Repeatability: May be repeated if topic differs. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 482 - Major Authors

    3 Credit Hours
    Concentrated study of at least one of the most influential writers in British or American literary history (e.g., Donne, Pope, Austen, Tennyson, Whitman, Faulkner, Lawrence, Baldwin, or Morrison). Content varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 483 - Special Topics in Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Topic varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 484 - Special Topics in Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Original writing integrated with reading, usually taught by professional author.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 485 - Special Topics in Language

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (Same as Linguistics 485.)

    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 486 - Special Topics in Criticism

    3 Credit Hours
    Special topics in theoretical and practical approaches to British and American literature. Content varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 489 - Special Topics in Film

    3 Credit Hours
    Particular directors, film genres, national cinema movements, or other topics. Content varies.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Cinema Studies 489.)

    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 490 - Language and Law

    3 Credit Hours
    Language in the Anglo-American legal process. Focus on differences between spoken and written language; lexical and syntactic ambiguity; pragmatics; speech act analysis; and the language rights of linguistic minorities.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Linguistics 490.)

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • ENGL 494 - Cultural Rhetorics

    3 Credit Hours
    Rhetoric as cultural practice in connection with place, identity, and community. Focus on developing rhetorical understanding and theorizing through considerations that include language, constructions of the body, community, place, and material cultures.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 102, 118, 132, 290, or 298.
    Recommended Background: 355 or consent of instructor.
  
  • ENGL 495 - Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to the historical, theoretical, and empirical modes of inquiry in rhetoric and composition and their implications for the teaching of composition.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 355.
  
  • ENGL 496 - The Rhetoric of Legal Discourse

    3 Credit Hours
    Nature of legal language and written discourse types (opinions, memoranda, briefs). Introduction to legal research resources and techniques. Issue identification and argumentative techniques. Students will write position papers, memoranda, and briefs. No prior legal knowledge necessary.
    Recommended Background: 355 or consent of instructor.
  
  • ENGL 500 - Thesis

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ENGL 502 - Registration for Use of Facilities

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses university facilities and/or faculty time before degree is completed.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Credit Restriction: May not be used toward degree requirements.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ENGL 505 - Composition Pedagogy

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to teaching composition through study of various pedagogical theories and methods. Enrollment limited to English Department GAs/GTAs or by permission of the instructor.
  
  • ENGL 507 - Applied Criticism: The Rhetoric of Literary Forms

    3 Credit Hours
    Study and application of ways in which major critics have analyzed form in poetry and prose fiction.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • ENGL 508 - History of the English Language I

    3 Credit Hours
    Phonological, morphological, and syntactic development of English language: Old and Middle English.
  
  • ENGL 509 - History of the English Language II

    3 Credit Hours
    Phonological, morphological, and syntactic development of the English language with concentration on developments after 1500, especially in American English.
  
  • ENGL 513 - Readings in Medieval Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Reading and analysis of selected masterpieces of Old and Middle English literature and their continental sources in modern English.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • ENGL 514 - Readings in Medieval Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Reading and analysis of selected masterpieces of Old and Middle English literature and their continental sources in modern English.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • ENGL 520 - Readings and Analysis in Selected Areas of 16th- and 17th-Century Prose, Poetry, and Drama

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies: genre, theme, literary movement, or other coherent emphasis.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • ENGL 521 - Readings and Analysis in Selected Areas of 16th- and 17th-Century Prose, Poetry, and Drama

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies: genre, theme, literary movement, or other coherent emphasis.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • ENGL 531 - Readings in English Literature of the Restoration and 18th-Century

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary. Genre: poetry, prose, fiction, drama; or period: Restoration, earlier 18th-century, later 18th-century.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • ENGL 540 - Readings in English Literature of the 19th-Century I

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies: genre, theme, literary movement, or other coherent emphasis.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • ENGL 541 - Readings in English Literature of the 19th-Century II

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies: genre, theme, literary movement, or other coherent emphasis.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • ENGL 550 - Readings in American Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies: genre, theme, literary movement, or other coherent emphasis.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • ENGL 551 - Readings in American Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies: genre, theme, literary movement, or other coherent emphasis.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • ENGL 552 - Readings in Black American Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies: genre, theme, literary movement, or other coherent emphasis.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • ENGL 555 - Creative Thesis

    1-6 Credit Hours
    Supervised writing of a book-length creative thesis, typically a collection of poems or short stories or a novel.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Fine Arts – English major. Minimum student level - graduate.
  
  • ENGL 560 - Readings in 20th-Century Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies: genre, theme, literary movement, or other coherent emphasis.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • ENGL 561 - Readings in 20th-Century Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies: genre, theme, literary movement, or other coherent emphasis.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • ENGL 575 - Issues in Second/Foreign Language Rhetoric and Composition

    3 Credit Hours
    Examination of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural issues in the development of academic writing proficiency in a second/foreign language.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Linguistics 575.)

  
  • ENGL 576 - Introduction to Contemporary Criticism

    3 Credit Hours
    Introductory survey of 20th-century literary criticism from New Criticism to present.
  
  • ENGL 580 - Fiction Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Advanced fiction projects under supervision of instructor and time for independent study.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
    Recommended Background: Extensive background in reading and writing fiction.
  
  • ENGL 581 - Colloquium in Poetry Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Major poetic project or continuation of project begun in 463. Individual consultation with instructor supplements class analysis; readings in contemporary poetry and theory.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • ENGL 582 - Special Topics in Writing

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
    Comment(s): Enrollment by consent of director of graduate studies.
  
  • ENGL 583 - Special Topics in Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary: genres, modes, and other literary subjects not in standard period divisions.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
 

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