The request to revise the M.A. in English emphases
Date: March 25, 2016
To: College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
From: Office of Academic Affairs
Approved On: March 7, 2016
Approved by: Graduate Council
Implementation Date: Fall 2016
Note: Deletions are strikethroughs. Insertions are underlined.
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Courses that MA students in the Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, Children’s literature and Applied Linguistics concentrations can take to fulfill their six hours of literature courses requirement. Caveat: Not all these courses are offered every semester and other (5050, 6070) literature courses may also fulfil this requirement. Please check with the graduate director.
ENGL 5002. Women and Literature.
ENGL 5050. Topics in English.
ENGL 5090. Major Authors.
ENGL 5102. British Children’s Literature.
ENGL 5103. American Children’s Literature.
ENGL 5104. Multiculturalism and Children’s Literature.
ENGL 5114. Milton.
ENGL 5116. Shakespeare’s Early Plays
ENGL 5121. The 18th-Century British Novel.
ENGL 5122. The Victorian Novel.
ENGL 5123. The Modern British Novel.
ENGL 5124. Modern Irish Literature.
ENGL 5131. British Drama to 1600, Excluding Shakespeare.
ENGL 5132. British Drama from 1600-1642, Excluding Shakespeare
ENGL 5133. British Drama of Wit and Intrigue, 1660-1780.
ENGL 5143. The American Novel of the 19th Century.
ENGL 5144. The American Novel of the 20th Century.
ENGL 5145. Literature of the American South
ENGL 5146. Contemporary Jewish-American Literature.
ENGL 5147. Early Black American Literature.
ENGL 5148. Twentieth-Century Black American Literature: Prose.
ENGL 5150. Contemporary Poetry.
ENGL 5151. Modern Drama.
ENGL 5152. Modern European Literature.
ENGL 5153. Contemporary Fiction.
ENGL 5155. Pan-African Literature.
ENGL 5156. Gender and African American Literature.
ENGL 5157. African American Poetry
ENGL 5158. African American Literary Theory and Criticism. Cross-listed as AFRS 4108.
ENGL 5210. Greek and Roman Drama in Translation.
ENGL 5251. Literary Criticism through Arnold.
ENGL 5252. Modern Literary Criticism.
ENGL 6102. Literary Theory
ENGL 6103. Introduction to Children’s Literature and Culture.
ENGL 6104. Major Figures and Themes in Children’s Literature.
ENGL 6111. Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories.
ENGL 6112. Shakespeare’s Tragedies.
ENGL 6113. Milton.
ENGL 6123. The Augustan Age, 1660-1785.
ENGL 6125. The Romantic Era, 1785-1832.
ENGL 6126. The Victorian Era, 1832-1900.
ENGL 6141. American Romanticism.
ENGL 6142. American Realism and Naturalism.
ENGL 6142. American Realism and Naturalism.
ENGL 6144. Stylistics.
ENGL 6147. Perspectives in African-American Literature.
Courses that students in the Literature, Children’s Literature, and Applied Linguistics concentrations can take to fulfill their writing/rhetoric requirement. Not all these courses are offered every semester and other (5050, 6070) courses may also fulfil this requirement. Please check with the graduate director.
ENGL 5008. Topics in Advanced Technical Communication.
ENGL 5180. Theories of Technical Communication.
ENGL 5181. Writing and Designing User Documents.
ENGL 5182. Information Design and Digital Publishing.
ENGL 5183. Editing Technical Documents.
ENGL 5202. Writing Poetry.
ENGL 5203. Writing Fiction.
ENGL 5204. Expository Writing
ENGL 5205. Advanced Expository Writing.
ENGL 5208. Poetry Writing Workshop.
ENGL 5209. Fiction Writing Workshop.
ENGL 5264. Literacy in Family and Community
ENGL 5400. English Composition Practicum.
ENGL 6008. Topics in Advanced Technical Communication.
ENGL 6062. Topics in Rhetoric.
ENGL 6116. Technical/Professional Writing
ENGL 6166. Rhetorical Theory.
ENGL 6181. Composition Theory and Pedagogy.
ENGL 6183. Critical Pedagogy and the Teaching of Writing.
ENGL 6195. Teaching College English.