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Literature Division Graduate Courses
Although the English Department does not have a graduate program at this time, we generally offer at least one graduate course per semester. Following are descriptions of recent graduate course offerings.
ENGL 619 - LITERATURE, VALUES AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
An intensive study of the relationships between literature and some aspect of the physical, biological or social sciences. Topics to be announced each semester offered.
PREREQUISITE: Permission of the instructor.
ENGL 630 - THE INTERPRETATION OF LITERARY MASTERWORKS
This course will examine a selection of important works from the world literary tradition in the light of enduring ideas, themes and interpretive problems. Topics, which will vary from semester to semester, may deal with such concerns as the conception and uses of time in narrative, the poetry of political engagement, changing concepts of the hero. NOTE: Also listed as HUM 630.
PREREQUISITE: Permission of the instructor.
ENGL 631 - CONTEMPORARY ISSUES: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS
Focuses on an issue of current importance and examines its representation in selected works of modern and contemporary literature. Topics, which will vary from semester to semester, may deal with such problems as ethos and action; politics and culture; the representation of the natural environment; contemporary self-consciousness
masculine and feminine in modern fiction; relativity in art, science and society. NOTE: Also listed as HUM 631.
PREREQUISITE: Permission of the instructor.
ENGL 641 - LITERATURE, VALUES, AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Focus: Community and Literacy in Computer-assisted Writing Environments
LLC 641 investigates the impact of technology –rich writing spaces on communication, community, and literacy—textual and visual. We will meet in class one time each week; the writers will share and analyze their experiences of literacy development and community within the physical and virtual writing spaces they populate. As they hone and reflect upon their own changing writing process, participants in this decentralized, student-centered, interactive, composition classroom will study computer-assisted writing theory and practice as social constructs. How are electronic writing spaces enabling new kinds of communities? What are the literacy expectations of new media?
Designed for students in all disciplines, LLC 641/Engl 641 is open to LLC students and graduate students and to undergraduate students, by permission only. The course fulfills an LLC technology track course and an English Communication Track course.
PREREQUISITE: Permission of the instructor.
ENGL 648 - SEMINAR IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Study of the relationship between literature and culture, with emphasis on literature as a product and manifestation of culture forces. Topics are announced each semester.
PREREQUISITE: Permission of the instructor.
ENGL 686 - TEACHING COMPOSITION: THEORY AND PRACTICE
This course examines our changing understanding of the teaching of composition during the past 30 years by tracing key theories and pedagogies across this period. These sometimes conflicting approaches to the teaching of writing include the following orientations: cognitive, expressivist, social constructionist, and political. The
course is intended for current and prospective teachers of English at elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels.
PREREQUISITE: Permission of the instructor.
ENGL 688 - TEACHING WRITING WITH COMPUTER - ASSISTED INSTRUCTION
This course introduces the methods of computer-assisted writing instruction to current and prospective teachers across the curriculum. It allows participants to practice these methods in class and provides opportunities for discussion and investigation. Designed for educators in all disciplines and at all levels, this course invites participants to explore ways of integrating technologies into their own classrooms and curricula.
PREREQUISITE: Permission of the instructor.
ENGL 690 - TOPICS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
A study of various aspects of the English language. These might include a historical survey of the structure of the language from Old English through Middle English to Modern English; contemporary varieties of English, both standard and non-standard; and the development of New Englishes around the world.
PREREQUISITE: Permission of the instructor.
ENGL 692 - TOPICS IN RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION
This course will emphasize one of two ways for students to examine theories of speaking and writing. The first, historical in emphasis, will trace current models of the writing process to their traditional sources in Greek and Latin rhetoric. The second, contemporary in emphasis,
will examine present trends in writing research, the problems of different methodologies and new developments that influence how researchers study writing.
PREREQUISITE: Permission of the instructor.
ENGL 693 - AMERICAN ENGLISH STRUCTURE FOR ESL/FL TEACHERS: SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY
An overview of the syntactic and morphological systems of modern American English. An in-depth examination of the most productive and important rules of English grammar from the point of view of English as a second language and English as secondary foreign language. Practice in detecting and diagnosing the errors, explaining rules simply and clearly, and employing effective instructional techniques will be provided.
PREREQUISITE: Permission of the instructor.
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