Graduate English
Graduate English
2011 Spring Term
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LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS
ENGLISH 510
This course will explore the history and development of adolescent literature, with special emphasis on the period since 1960. Recent novels which have proven popular and influential with young people and teachers will be analyzed using literary and educational criteria. Participants will consider works within the context of intellectual freedom and potential censorship.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1800 TO PRESENT
ENGLISH 545
A survey of essays, prose fiction, drama, and poetry written by African-Americans from the colonial period to the present.
TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC WRITING
ENGLISH 572
Practice in expository, descriptive, and report writing, with special application to technical and scientific subject matter.
FICTION WRITING
ENGLISH 575
Theory, techniques, and practice of the writing of fiction. Graduate students will be required to write 75 pages and to complete a critical study of creative writing publications.
PROSE STYLISTICS
ENGLISH 578
Introduction to analysis of prose style through intensive study of a broad range of contemporary styles ranging from popular to business, technical and academic styles. Application of the principles of style in student writing.
TOPICS IN LINGUISTICS
ENGLISH 585
Advanced study of a branch of linguistics or of the application of a branch of linguistics to a cognate field, e.g., pedagogy of literary criticism, the particular topic to be published before registration. Repeatable only with change of topic.
SHAKESPEARE
ENGLISH 605
A study of the works of Shakespeare which will include representative genres and which will not duplicate works studied in ENGLISH 604.
VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN LITERATURE
ENGLISH 620
A survey of Anglo-Irish literature in the Victorian and Edwardian periods (c. 1830-1914), emphasizing the movement of ideas in the period from romanticism to modernism.
CURRENT THEORIES OF COMPOSITION FOR TEACHERS
ENGLISH 671
A course in theories and methods of teaching composition, including practice in the evaluation of student writing.
TRAVEL STUDY
ENGLISH 691
Variable topics. Faculty-led courses abroad.