Explore our course offerings for the Fall 2023 semester.

ENG
100-level Courses

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ENG 101 - ACADEMIC WRITING AND RESEARCH (4 CREDITS)

Intensive instruction in academic writing and research. Basic principles of rhetoric and strategies for academic inquiry and argument. Instruction and practice in critical reading, including the generative and responsible use of print and electronic sources for academic research. Exploration of literate practices across a range of academic domains, laying the foundation for further writing development in college. Continued attention to grammar and conventions of standard written English. Most sections meet in computer classrooms. Successful completion of ENG 101 requires a grade of C- or better. This course satisfies the Introduction to Writing component of the General Education Program.
Prerequisite: A grade of C- or better in ENG 100 or placement via English department guidelines.

200-level Courses

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ENG 202 - DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES IN WRITING (3 CREDITS)

Examination of the uses of writing and research within academic disciplines; analysis, synthesis,
and reflection on what makes effective academic arguments; development of an understanding
of the rhetorical demands of disciplinary writing, including attention to audience, purpose, and
context; instruction in critical research practices; engagement in reflective activities on writing
and research processes to help students gain facility in academic writing across disciplines and
within their own discipline. Restricted to transfer students with 3 hours of ENG1** or ENG1GEP
transfer credit.
Sections: 001, 002, 301, 302, 303, 601

ENG 208 - STUDIES IN FICTION

Thomas Phillips
Representative examples of novels and short stories from different periods, emphasizing
understanding and appreciation of fiction as a genre, a knowledge of the features and techniques of
fiction, and a sense of the development of the genre.
Section: 001

ENG 209 - INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE (3 CREDITS)

Paul Broyles, Christopher Crosbie
Shakespeare for non-English majors. Seven to ten major plays, including representative
comedies, such as The Taming of the Shrew; histories, such as Richard III; tragedies, such as
Hamlet; and romances, such as The Tempest. Does not satisfy requirements for English major.
Sections: 001, 002, 003

ENG 210 - INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (3 CREDITS)

Daulton Selke, Agnes Bolonyai, Aston Patrick
Linguistics theory and method. Topics include the English sound system, morphology, syntactic
structure, semantics, and historical and contemporary dialect variation. Language acquisition,
language and the brain, and computer processing and human language.
Sections: 001, 002, 003

ENG 214 - INTRODUCTION TO EDITING (3 CREDITS)

Paul Isom, Christa Gala
Basic editorial skills with a wide range of publications. Stylistic editing [conventions of written
English, consistency, effectiveness of syntax, appropriateness of diction], substantive editing
[accuracy, legal issues, ethics], and production editing [layout, typography, electronic publication
processing]. Introduction to resources such as standard reference works and professional
organizations.
Sections: 002, 601, 602

ENG 219 - STUDIES IN GREAT WORKS OF NON-WESTERN LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)

Nathaniel Issacson, Sujata Mody
Readings, in English translation, or non-Western literary masterpieces from the beginnings of
literacy in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa to the modern period, including excerpts from texts
such as the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Sundiata, Gilgamesh, A Thousand and One
Nights, and the Quran and such authors as Confucius, Oe Kenzaburo, Omar Khayyam, Rumi,
and Amos Oz.
Sections: 001, 002

ENG 223 - CONTEMPORARY WORLD LITERATURE I (3 CREDITS)

Blanka Maderova
Twentieth-century literature of some of the following cultures: Russian, Eastern European,
Western European, Latin American, Canadian, Australian.
Section: 501

ENG 232 - LITERATURE AND MEDICINE (3 CREDITS)

Taylor Schey
Literary, cultural, and philosophical perspectives on medical science and practice, illness,
epidemics, and related topics. Readings will include fiction, poetry, personal essays, film, and
other media.
Section: 001

ENG 246 - LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST (3 CREDITS)

Hans Kellner
Fictional and nonfictional versions of the Holocaust, focusing on themes of survival, justice,
theology, and the limits of human endurance.
Section: 001

ENG 248 - SURVEY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)

Marc Dudley
African-American writing and its relationships to American culture and history. Covers such
writers as Wheatley, Douglass, Chesnutt, Dunbar, DuBois, Hughes, Hurston, Wright, and
Morrison.
Section: 001

ENG 251 - MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS (3 CREDITS)

Brian Blackley
Significant British authors chosen from among such figures as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton,
Swift, Pope, Austen, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Bronte, Dickens, Joyce,
Eliot, Woolf, and Yeats.Credit will not be given for both ENG 251 and either ENG 261 or 262.
Section: 001Q

ENG 261 - ENGLISH LITERATURE I (3 CREDITS)

ENG 261- 001
Jim Knowles
This course is an introduction to English literature of the medieval and early modern periods, covering a 500-year period from the late twelfth century to the late seventeenth century. We will read a selection of major writers and texts from the Anglo-Norman period (Marie de France), the Middle English period (the Gawain poet, Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe), the English Renaissance (Shakespeare), and the seventeenth century (Donne, Herbert, Milton). Our approach to reading and discussing these texts will be twofold. First, the aesthetic approach to reading asks us to recognize these poems and plays as works of art with transhistorical value and enduring appeal. Secondly, the historical approach to reading literature asks us to understand the same texts as cultural objects which are deeply embedded in the times, places, and circumstances of their creation. Part of our task will be to recognize how and when our own twenty first-century moral and aesthetic impulses (what we find beautiful or moving or offensive) diverge from (or converge with) those of the writers we are studying. Over the course of the semester, students will acquire the necessary vocabulary and technical skills needed to analyze literary texts on their own terms and to situate texts within their original cultural contexts. For CHASS majors, fulfills Literature I requirement. Fulfills GEP Humanities credit (3 hours).
Section: 601

ENG 261-601
Timothy Stinson
Intensive study of a specific topic from various specializations of the English faculty. Negotiation
between the student and the director for the variable credit and approved by the director of graduate
studies. May be repeated for credit.

ENG 262 - ENGLISH LITERATURE II (3 CREDITS)

Anna Gibson
This online asynchronous survey of English literature begins in the 1790s and brings to the present, taking us on a journey through the poetry, fiction, and prose of major British writers. Along the way we will focus most of our attention on three literary periods: the Romantic, the Victorian, and Twentieth-Century Modernism and Postmodernism. Studying works of literature in the context of these eras will allow us to listen to the writers’ conversations and disagreements across and within these literary periods and to situate these conversations within the changing landscape of British cultural history. How did literary texts respond to massive social changes such as industrialization, a growing population, the rise of cities, shifting gender roles and social classes, and two world wars? And how did these texts shape people’s experiences of such changes? How did writers across this time period offer new ways of thinking about the relationship between self and world? How do these texts reflect, shape, and/or critique aspects of the social contexts in which they were written, including race, class, gender, nation, empire, and “Britishness”/”Englishness”? We will ask these questions as we read works by Willaim Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Mary Prince, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden, Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, and Warsan Shire. Your work in this course will have weekly deadlines and will include watching lesson videos, taking lesson check quizzes, and sharing your thoughts about our reading via collaborative annotations and reading responses. There will be three unit tests, a small creative project, and a final reflective writing project.
Section: 601

ENG 266 - AMERICAN LITERATURE II (3 CREDITS)

Catherine Mainland
This course will be based upon discussions, individual and group activities, and close readings
of key passages in the texts, as well as examinations of their historical context and continuing
relevance.The goals of this course are to introduce you to a number of the most well-known and
influential works of American literature, to explore the ways in which literature is a product of its
time and geography, and to develop your reading and writing skills. By the end of this course
you will be equipped to read any literature of any period or nation in a more engaged, active,
and creative way.
Section: 001Q

ENG 281 - INTRO TO CREATIVE NONFICTION (3 CREDITS)

Catey Christiansen
This is an introductory course that will instruct students in writing, editing and appreciating the
professional nonfiction one finds in magazines, on issue-oriented websites, and in general
interest publications, from the New Yorker-style long article to the personal columns one finds
on online media outlets: writing about an issue or event in a personal, stylish way while
obtaining the rigor of journalism in scrupulous research and clarity. In an ever-enlarging media
universe, this is the most visible and commercial of all the creative writing genres.
Section: 001

ENG 282 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM (3 CREDITS)

Stephen Spanellis, Shirin Maleki, Chance Lachowitzer, McKinley Keener
Examination of basic film techniques and methods of film analysis. Emphasis on understanding
and appreciating film as a major US and international art form and industry operating in various
national, cultural, and historical contexts.
Sections: 001, 002, 003, 004, 005, 006

ENG 287 - EXPLORATIONS IN CREATIVE WRITING (3 CREDITS)

Belle Boggs, Prairie Dalton, Phi Chu, Ryan Fitzgerald
Introduction to the basic elements and principles of three genres of creative writing: poetry,
fiction and drama. Reading and class discussion of student work. Recommended for students
with no prior experience in creative writing.
Sections: 001, 002, 00, 004, 005, 006

ENG 288 - FICTION WRITING (3 CREDITS)

Chirodip Naha, Katherine Medline
Experience in writing short prose fiction. Class critiquing of student work and instruction in techniques of fiction.
Sections: 001, 002, 003

ENG 289 - POETRY WRITING (3 CREDITS)

Chelsea Krieg, Joshua Aelick
Experience in writing poetry. Class critiquing of student work and instruction in techniques of poetry.
Sections: 001, 002, 003

ENG 292 - WRITING ABOUT FILM (3 CREDITS)

Comprehensive study of various approaches to writing about film. Primary focus is on the critical and
evaluative practice involved in writing film criticism for non-academic audiences. Film screenings,
discussion of assigned readings, and in-class writing workshops aid students in preparing a portfolio
of film writing that includes film reviews of various lengths.
Section: 001

300-level Courses

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ENG 300 - CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)

This course introduces fundamental questions in literary history and critical theory. It emphasizes critical reading skills and prepares students for the interpretive and analytic work required of them in survey, genre, author and problem-based literature courses that are part of the English major.
Section: 001

ENG 314 - TECHNICAL DOCUMENT DESIGN AND EDITING (3 CREDITS)

Layout and design principles for written documents; desktop building; legibility, readability testing; conventions of proposals, instructions and reports; basics of technical editing: usage, vocabulary, style manuals, editing mathematical equations, graphs and tables.
Section: 001

ENG 315 - PHONETICS (3 CREDITS)

This course is an introduction to phonetics: how spoken language is produced and perceived, and the physical properties of speech. An understanding of phonetics is fundamental to scientific and clinical approaches to speech and language. This course is meant to build both skills and knowledge.
Section: 001

ENG 316 - INTRODUCTION TO NEWS AND ARTICLE WRITING (3 CREDITS)

Techniques of writing news stories and feature articles for print and the web. Components of
newsworthiness, examination of evidence, interview techniques, varied writing styles. Role of
print- and web-based journalism in America.
Sections: 001,002, 003

ENG 320 - ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF SPEECH (3 CREDITS)

Students will learn about the anatomy and physiology of the speech mechanism including the muscular, skeletal and nervous system structures involved in respiration, phonation and articulation. This knowledge may be applied in clinical fields such as speech-language pathology or serve as the basis for the study of linguistic phonetics.
Section: 001

ENG 323 - WRITING IN THE RHETORICAL TRADITIONS

A writing course based on the study of rhetoric. Readings on the principles of invention,
arrangement, and style; analysis of written texts; writing of persuasive texts for a variety of
audiences and purposes.
Sections: 001, 002

ENG 324 - MODERN ENGLISH SYNTAX (3 CREDITS)

Erik Thomas
Modern English Syntax examines the grammatical structure of English sentences. The course
begins with discussions of what grammar means, including prescriptive and descriptive
definitions. It moves on to lexical classes, or “parts of speech,” and numerous concepts related
to them and how these categories operate in English. Much of the second half of the course
explores the constituency of English sentences using a simplified form of X-bar syntax. This
portion of the course offers students a means of understanding the more common constructions
in English in a way that they can apply to their future writing and linguistic work. There is also a
short foray into semantic roles such as agent and patient and into grammatical relations such as
subject and direct object.
Section: 001

ENG 328 - LANGUAGE AND WRITING (3 CREDITS)

Jeffrey Reaser
Study of language structure; specific attention to differences between spoken and written
language; print conventions; error analysis; and the application of linguistics to rhetoric and
composition. Analysis of a variety of grammatical approaches; how to evaluate grammar
textbooks and compositions. Intended for English Education majors.
Section: 001

ENG 330 - SCREENWRITING (3 CREDITS)

Tommy Jenkins
Through lectures, film clips, screenplay examples, collaborations, writing exercises, and sharing
of students’ work we will explore the craft and art of screenwriting. Students will learn about
structure, characterization, creating dynamic dialogue, subtext, subplots, theme, exposition, etc.
utilizing established screenplay formats. The course will involve studying great films and scripts,
participating in critiques, and the writing and revising of original material. At the end of the
semester the students should have a clear understanding of cinematic storytelling techniques
and will have a work-in-progress screenplay.
Section: 001

ENG 331 - COMMUNICATION FOR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (3 CREDITS)

Prerequisite: Junior standing
Written communication in industrial and technical organizations, emphasizing internal communication with managers and technical personnel and including external communication with regulators, vendors, and clients. Intensive practice in writing; relationship of writing to oral and visual communication. For students in engineering and other primarily technological curricula.

ENG 332 - COMMUNICATION FOR BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (3 CREDITS)

Prerequisite: Junior standing
Written communication in business and public organizations, including both internal communication [such as instructions, policies, management reports] and external communication with clients, vendors and publics. Intensive practice in writing; relationship of writing to oral and visual communication. For students in business and management-related programs.

ENG 333 - COMMUNICATION FOR SCIENCE AND RESEARCH (3 CREDITS)

Prerequisite: Junior standing
Written communication in scientific and research contexts, emphasizing relationship between
research and writing in problem formulation, interpretation of results, and support and
acceptance of research. Intensive practice in writing; relationship of writing to oral and visual
communication. For students who plan careers in scientific research.

ENG 339 - LITERATURE AND TECHNOLOGY

Paul Fyfe
How does literature represent emerging technologies? What does literature reveal about the
socio-technical imaginary of different moments in history? And how might literature itself change
with the very technologies used to write, publish, and read it? In this course, we dive into the
relationships between literature and technology from the nineteenth-century telegraph to the
Internet. Using a variety of novels, short stories, poetry, and criticism, we will identify how
literary representations of technology change over time, then analyze the social and cultural
commentary these representations make possible. Whenever possible, we will also try out or
explore some of the technologies in question. Authors may include Mark Twain, E.M. Forster,
Emily St John Mandel, Colson Whitehead, Ted Chiang, Patricia Lockwood.

ENG 364 - HISTORY OF FILM TO 1940 (3 CREDITS)*

ENG 370 - AMERICAN FICTION, TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND

Miriam Orr
Study of narrative fiction written in the twentieth-century and after by American writers. This course
will examine major developments in narrative form and technique, based on developments in
important literary traditions such as realism, modernism or postmodernism. The course will situate
the fiction in key contexts, whether literary or cultural. Representative writers: Ernest Hemingway,
Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy.
Section: 001

ENG 375 - AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA

John Stadler
Survey and analysis of African American film culture from 1900-present. Examination of pre-
Hollywood, classical Hollywood, and Independent filmmaking. Particular focus on independent
filmmakers' response to dominant industry representations and the work of filmmakers who seek to create a specifically African American cinematic style.
Section: 001

ENG 376 - SCIENCE FICTION (3 CREDITS)

Thomas Phillips
Representative works of science fiction. Emphasis on works written in the twentieth century, with
some attention to the history and development of the genre.
Section: 001

ENG 382 - FILM AND LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)

Ways of adapting literary works to film form. Similarities and differences between these two media.
Emphasis on the practical art of transforming literature into film. Attention to the impact of film upon
literature.
Section: 001

ENG 388 - INTERMEDIATE FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP (3 CREDITS)

An intermediate workshop in creative writing for students with demonstrated understanding of the
basic techniques of writing prose fiction.

ENG 389 - INTERMEDIATE POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP (3 CREDITS)

Sumita Chakraborty
An intermediate workshop in creative writing for students with demonstrated understanding of the basic techniques of writing poetry.

ENG 392 - MAJOR WORLD AUTHOR

Samuel Sotillo
Intensive study in English, of the writings of one [or two] author[s] from outside the English and American traditions. Sample subjects: Homer, Virgil and Ovid, Lady Murasaki, Marie de France and Christine de Pizan, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, Balzacand Flaubert, Kafka, Proust, Lessing and Gordimer, Borges and Marquez, Neruda, Achebe, Soyinka, Calvino, Walcott and Naipaul. Topics will vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit with new topic.

ENG 393 - STUDIES IN LITERARY GENRE

Sujuata Mody
Concentrated treatment of one literary genre, such as the epic, the lyric, the drama, satire, romance,
autobiography, the essay, the novel or the short story. Treatment of materials from several national
or ethnic cultures and several periods. All readings in English. Course may be taken three times for
credit. Course may be taken 3 times in different genres.

ENG 394 - STUDIES IN WORLD LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)

Catherine Mainland, Nilakshi Phukan
Study of a subject in world literature: for example, African literature, Asian literature, Hispanic literature, East European literature, comedy, the epic, the lyric, autobiography, the Faust legend, or metamorphosis. Subjects vary according to availability of faculty. Readings in English translation.
Section: 001, 002

ENG 395 - STUDIES IN RHETORIC AND DIGITAL MEDIA (3 CREDITS)

Study of the influence of emerging technologies on rhetorical theory and practice. Rhetorical analysis of texts, including visual and audio texts. Invention and construction of digital media texts as a means of engaging rhetorical theory and analysis. Topics vary to adapt to emerging technologies and changing vernacular practices.

ENG 395-001: ANIMATING QUEER RHETORIC
Travis Merchant-Knudsen
Queer rhetoric emphasizes social constructions of gender, sexual identity, and the self by interrogating sexual norms and how queer identities subvert them. This class will engage with queer rhetoric and modern animated media objects—television shows, films, online videos, and video games. The class will begin with an examination of rhetorical appeals, space and time, and embodiment as it relates to the core of queer, feminist, and comparative rhetorics to dissect the ways we construct our social and individual identities. These lessons will then inform two primary objectives for the class: rhetorically analyzing animated media objects and generating digital media content as it relates to the social construction of identity, sexuality, and queerness.

ENG 395-002: EXPLORING AND DESIGNING VIRTUAL WORLDS
Jack Fennimore
In this class students will investigate what makes virtual worlds so compelling and versatile, and find a variety of applications for them. Whether a student is interested in learning innovative ways to treat phobias, teaching complex topics in a technologically mediated classroom, critically exploring a concept through a creative installation, or designing the immersive fantasy world of their dream video game, this class will help them achieve their goals. Students will not only analyze virtual worlds through multiple theoretical perspectives, but also develop and design their own living virtual worlds based on the needs and interests of their academic discipline.

400-level Courses

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ENG 400 - APPLIED CRITICISM (3 CREDITS)

WJ Miller
Types and methods of literary criticism designed specifically for students intending to teach English in high school.
Section: 001

ENG 405 - LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS (3 CREDITS)

Barbara Bennett
Visit the NC State University online course catalog for the general course description for this course.

ENG 416 - ADVANCED NEWS AND ARTICLE WRITING (3 CREDITS)

Paul Isom
Advanced work in writing news stories, profiles, features, and investigative stories. Includes analysis and critical reading of print media. Assumes thorough knowledge of AP style and rudiments of news and feature writing.
Section: 001

ENG 425 - ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL WRITING

The role of communication in the creation of scientific knowledge and technical designs and
artifacts; methods of analyzing texts and of studying their creation and use; relationships between
writing and other forms of communication. Field research in a scientific or technological setting.
Section: 001

ENG 426 - ANALYZING STYLE (3 CREDITS)

This semester, you will be introduced to the rhetorical canon of style. We will focus on a variety of ways in which style is used in both language, media, and culture to move or suade audiences toward new ways of thinking, feeling, and relating to self and world. We’ll begin with an examination of the ‘flowers of rhetoric,’ namely the schemes, which are a long list of patterns of ‘artfully deviant’ or syncopated uses of language, in literature, poetry, and song lyrics. From there, we’ll look at examples of link-based, hypertextual writing, to appreciate the ways in which style can be found in digital media. Finally, we’ll move off the page and screen to study some of the ways in which American culture and society have been transformed post-WW II into an increasingly stylized and aestheticized experience.
Section: 001

ENG 439 - STUDIES IN THE RENAISSANCE: RENAISSANCE REBOOT

Margaret Simon
You've probably read some Shakespeare, and might have learned about the European Renaissance in history class. But what do the term and period really signify, especially for literature written in English? This course introduces you to the poets, politicians, historians, and cultural figures of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. We'll read the work of well-known writers like William Shakespeare and John Donne, but we'll also spend a lot of time encountering authors you've likely never heard of, particularly women writers and non-elite individuals writing for a growing print market. We'll consider the production of English literature within a global context. How, for example, can we speak of an English cultural Renaissance ("rebirth"), with all of its positive connotations, during a period that saw the brutal establishment of England's settler plantations and the trade in enslaved individuals? We'll consider how we can best interpret the signal works of an era and culture that often suppressed the voices of anyone outside of a male English elite. With trips to the library's Special Collections and work with texts in their original print and manuscript forms, we will consider what we can learn about both well-known and marginalized voices through archival research and non-canonical literature.
Section: 001

ENG 448 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE

Marc Dudley
Survey of African-American literature and its relationships to American culture, with an emphasis on fiction and poetry since 1945. Writers such as Bontemps, Morrison, Hurston, Baldwin, Hayden, Brooks, Naylor, Harper and Dove.
Section: 001

ENG 451 - CHAUCER

Jim Knowles
This course is an introduction to one of the great literary works of the English Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. We will read a broad selection of the tales in their original language. We now call this language “Middle English,” but to Chaucer and his contemporaries it was just plain English, the language of everyday speech -- as opposed to the official French and Latin used by the government and the church. As such, our first task (an ongoing one) will be to learn to read and pronounce and understand Chaucer’s English. We will do this slowly, as a group, pausing as often as necessary to learn unfamiliar words and the historical and cultural contexts from which they derive their meanings. If you have never read Middle English before, do not fear. After a few weeks of practice you will be very comfortable with Chaucer’s language. We can then get on with the fun stuff: to read the poetry with a critical eye and ear; to be amazed at the sheer scope and audacity of Chaucer’s poetic project; to be awestruck by his mastery of multiple forms and genres; to get his dirty jokes (there are lots of these); and finally to try to grasp what made Chaucer an important writer in his own time and why he remains a crucial figure for the study of English literature in the twenty-first century. Research projects will allow students to explore Chaucer’s many contexts (historical, social, political, literary, linguistic, codicological, etc.) and will introduce students to the long and diverse tradition of scholarship on the Tales. Fulfills GEP Humanities credit (3 hours) and Global Knowledge co-req. For English majors, the course fulfills requirements for British Literature (core), the Major Author or Genre requirement, and the pre-1800 co-req for the LLT concentration.

ENG 485 - SHAKESPEARE, RESOURCES, REVISIONS

Brian Blackley
If Shakespeare were writing today he would be the subject of many lawsuits contesting his right to use source material from various authors. Consistent with the Renaissance ideal of imitatio, Shakespeare freely borrowed from, mixed, and re-visioned material from short stories, history books, poems, and dramas to create his stage plots. Likewise, many contemporary film producers and directors have made their own adaptations, mixing the modern and the Elizabethan to re-create and re-invigorate the plays. This study proposes to examine carefully the various source materials – from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to Holinshed’s Chronicles – that Shakespeare used in some of his most esteemed plays. Most importantly we will examine what he left out of the source materials, and ask how those decisions and revisions make the plays uniquely Shakespearean. As a final consideration for each play we will examine what contemporary film adaptations have deleted or revised in order to entertain audiences. Students will have at least five reading quizzes, make an in-class presentation, take a midterm and final, and write one long essay.

ENG 488 - ADVANCED FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP (3 CREDITS)

An advanced workshop in creative writing for students with demonstrated understanding and
accomplishment in the techniques of writing prose fiction. This course is restricted to juniors and seniors. Departmental approval required.
Section: 001

ENG 489 - ADVANCED POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP (3 CREDITS)

Sumita Chakraborty
Think about all it takes to make you feel as though you are living in the world in which you live—what it takes to feel as though you are somewhere, living somewhere, situated in a place and a space and a time. You have to know what your senses tell you; you have to have a sense (no matter how ephemeral or murky) of the history of where you are and the others who inhabit the space, or who have gone before you in it; you have to know what the weather’s like; you have to know what food and drink are or are not available; you have to know what objects you regularly touch, what languages are or are not spoken and what kind of cultural resonances they have, where and how people gather, and much more. These things don’t factor into every single interaction you might have in a day or every experience you have: if you tell a story about something that happens to you one night, for example, your story probably won’t involve any (or all) of this information. But they are always present. While we commonly think of this kind of information as much more relevant to fiction and other narrative modes, “world-building” is also crucial in poetry, where—much like in life—even if the main story you’re telling about your speaker has absolutely nothing to do with most of the rest of the world, having a fully developed sense of the world your poems inhabit suffuses them with depth and complexity. In this course, we’re going to read poets who build worlds in their poems, think about the strategies they use to do so and the sociopolitical stakes for world-building more broadly, and build our own poetic worlds.
Section: 001

ENG 491 - HONORS IN ENGLISH (3 CREDITS)

Sumita Chakraborty
Intensive course or independent study project designed as one portion of the Honors Program in
English. Subject varies.
Section: 001H

ENG 492 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN FILM STYLES AND GENRES (3 CREDITS)

Marsha Gordon
Critical approaches to focused film topics involving film genres, directorial styles, or trends within a
national cinema. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Section: 001

ENG 494 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN LINGUISTICS (3 CREDITS)

Methodology and analysis within various branches of linguistics, e.g. syntax, semantics,
computational linguistics, phonology, dialectology, historical linguistics and discourse analysis.
Examination of the topic's basic methods, controversial issues and analysis of linguistic data. Projects
may include novel analyses of English constructions, parsing programs or field work reports.
Sections: 002, 003, 004

ENG 498 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENGLISH

With artificial intelligence systems becoming more integrated into today’s society, it is important for citizens to develop the ability to critically engage with the fundamental challenges and concerns introduced by such AI tools. In this course, you will learn how to identify biases and discrimination embedded in AI systems and how to use interdisciplinary research to encourage public engagement, inform public discourses about the social impacts of AI, and help create more responsible AI. Topics can include rhetorical theories, data ethics, AI ethics, algorithm systems and risks, AI Model Lifecycle Management, AI in job searches, medicine/healthcare, and finance; and biases and discrimination in automated decision-making systems.
Section: 001

500-level Courses

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ENG 505 - WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION: THEORY, PRACTICE AND RESEARCH (3 CREDITS)

Seminar designed to focus on current theories, research, and practices of writing program administration, including curricular design and assessment, faculty development, assessment of student achievement, budget oversight, the politics of administration in higher education, and historical studies of writing program administration. Designed for all interested MA, MFA and PhD students, but particularly valuable for those considering administrative work in first-year writing programs, writing centers, or WAC/WID/CAC programs at a range of institutions [community colleges, small liberal arts colleges, and large research universities]. Course involves the study of an existing program through contact with its director[s].
Section: 001

ENG 508  - USABILITY STUDIES FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION (3 CREDITS)

Advanced study of usability inspection, inquiry, and testing theories and practices related to instrumental and instructive texts [i.e., computer-related, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, financial, etc.]. Practical experience testing a variety of texts using several testing methods, including completion of a substantial, lab-based usability test. For students planning careers in technical communication, human factors, software design, and multimedia design.
Section: 001

ENG 510 - MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)

Study of major works of medieval English literature [exclusive of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales] in
historical context, as reflections of and influences on social and cultural change. Includes works such
as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Langland's Piers Plowman and Malory's Morte d'Arthur.
Section: 001

ENG 511 - THEORY AND RESEARCH IN COMPOSITION (3 CREDITS)

Research and scholarship in composition and the teaching of writing. Major theoretical perspectives
[such as expressive, social, cognitive, feminist], current issues [such as audience, invention,
revision, evaluation] and various research methods.
Section: 001

ENG 512 - THEORY AND RESEARCH IN PROFESSIONAL WRITING (3 CREDITS)

Introduction to research and scholarship in professional writing and writing in the workplace. Major
theoretical perspectives for studying writing; current issues [such as usability, readability,
collaboration, gender, authorship]; and various research methods.

ENG 515 - RHETORIC OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (3 CREDITS)

The relationships among rhetoric, scientific knowledge and technological development and of
changes in how these relationships understood historically. Practice in critical analysis of scientific
and technical discourse. Consideration of scientific and technical language and of public controversy
concerning science and technology.
Section: 001

ENG 517 - ADVANCED TECHNICAL WRITING, EDITING AND DOCUMENT DESIGN (3 CREDITS)

Advanced study of technical communication practice, including content management, document
design, and technical editing and usability. For students planning careers as technical
communicators.
Section: 001

ENG 525 - VARIETY IN LANGUAGE (3 CREDITS)

Language variation description, theory, method and application; focus on regional, social, ethnic and
gender varieties; sociolinguistic analysis, basic discourse analysis.
Section: 001

ENG 527 - DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (3 CREDITS)

Overview of major issues, theories, and research methods in contemporary discourse analysis. It
explores how language as a form of social practice regulates social actions, relations and identities;
how ways of speaking construct and are constructed by social order, cultural practice, and individual
agency. Texts/discourses are analyzed to examine how speakers create meaning through formal
linguistic choices; what the micro-organization of talk reveals about social order; how critical
understanding of discourse helps to interpret complex processes of social life.
Section: 001

ENG 539 - SEMINAR IN WORLD LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)

Rotating topics in world literature, including treatment of the subject's theoretical or methodological framework. Possible subjects: colonialism and literature; orality and literature; the Renaissance; the Enlightenment; translation; comparison ofNorth and South American literatures; African literary traditions; post-modernism and gender. Readings in English [original languages encouraged but not required].
Section: 001

ENG 550 - BRITISH ROMANTIC PERIOD (3 CREDITS)

A study of British literature during the Romantic era [1780s-1830s], including poetry, periodicals,
novels, drama, and criticism as well as their political and cultural contexts.
Section: 001

ENG 558- STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE (3 CREDITS)

An intensive study of a particular phase of the Shakespeare canon. Emphasis will normally be on
one dramatic genre [tragedy, comedy, history], but occasionally the focus may be more limited.

ENG 582 - STUDIES IN LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)

Barbara Bennett, Meg Day
Variation in content. Selected problems and issues in literature.
Section: 001

ENG 583/798 - MULTIMODAL COMPOSITION IN PRACTICE

Kristi Cole
In this course, students will explore and experiment with the major theoretical, historical and pedagogical issues relevant to multimodal composition, as well as a variety of digital writing technologies in the practices that shape multimodal literacies and digital identity.

ENG 584 - STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS (3 CREDITS)

Variation in content. Selected problems and issues in linguistics.
Section: 001

ENG 585 - STUDIES IN FILM (3 CREDITS)

Variation in content. Selected problems and issues in film.
Section: 001

ENG 587 - INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN ENGLISH (3 CREDITS)

Content varies. Selected topics and issues that cross disciplinary boundaires in English studies. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Graduate standing is required.
Section: 001

ENG 588 - FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP (3 CREDITS)

Advanced work in techniques of writing fiction for studens with substantial experience in writing. Workshop sessions with students commenting on each other's work.
Section: 001

ENG 589 - POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP (3 CREDITS)

Advanced work in techniques of writing poetry for students with substaintial experience in writing. Workshop session with students commenting on each other's work.
Section: 001

ENG 590 - STUDIES IN CREATIVE WRITING (3 CREDITS)

Techniques special to a particular kind of writing within the traditional genres of prose, poetry or drama, such as "speculative fiction" or "the long poem or poetic sequence." Various subjects.
Sections: 001, 002

ENG 592 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN FILM STYLES AND GENRES (3 CREDITS)

Critical approaches to focused film topics involving film genres, directorial styles, or trends within a
national cinema. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Students cannot obtain credit for both
ENG 492 and ENG 592.
Section: 001

600-level Courses

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ENG 624 - TEACHING COLLEGE COMPOSITION (3 CREDITS)

Preparation for teaching college composition. Introduction to pedagogical principles and practices. Practice in setting course goals, designing writing assignments to meet those goals, developing instructional activities to support assignments, and evaluating student writing. The course is scheduled as a 5-day workshop before classes begin, followed by weekly meetings and mentoring during the fall semester.
Section: 001

ENG 636 - DIRECTED READINGS

Intensive study of a specific topic from various specializations of the English faculty. Negotiation
between the student and the director for variable credit and approved by director of graduate
studies.
Section: 001

ENG 669 - LITERATURE, METHODS, AND THE PROFESSION (3 CREDITS)

This course initiates students into ways of thinking and practicing in English literary studies. We will
explore critical traditions, research methods, and emerging approaches, including literary criticism and theory, globalization, transnationalism, and postcolonialism in literature, together with introductions to cultural studies, rhetoric, composition, film studies, and media studies as they influenced literary criticism and theories. The course also prepares students to begin formulating their own academic and professional pathways with attention to practical considerations of how to become a professional in graduate school. You will become familiar with faculty from the department, develop research plans, and discover resources to start trajectories that include careers in writing, media, and teaching.
Section: 001

ENG 676 - MASTER'S PROJECT IN ENGLISH (3 CREDITS)

Individual capstone project in English Studies. Topic and mode of study determined in consultation with faculty project advisor. For students in the final semester of the English MA program.
Section: 001

ENG 685 - MASTER'S SUPERVISED TEACHING

Teaching experience under the mentorship of faculty who assist the student in planning for the
teaching assignment, observe and provide feedback to the student during the teaching assignment,
and evaluate the student upon completion of the assignment.
Section: 001

ENG 695 - MASTER'S THESIS RESEARCH 

Thesis research.
Section: 001

700-level Courses

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ENG 731 - APPLIED SOCIOLINGUISTICS

This course will introduce the main research concentrations and methods in applied sociolinguistics, including first language acquisition and teaching, second language learning, bilingualism and clinical assessment and treatment of communication disorders. Students will be introducd to the basic foundations of language variation from linguistic and sociocultural/historical perspectives and learn how sociolinguistic variation affects clinical and educational processes and organizations.

ENG 798 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENGLISH STUDIES (3 CREDITS)

Intensive exploration of specialized or emerging topics in an area of language, literature, rhetoric, film, or other aspect of English studies. Emphasis on student research and writing. May be used to test and develop new courses. May be repeated for credit.
Sections: 001, 002, 003, 004, 005, 006, 008, 009

ENG 583/798 - MULTIMODAL COMPOSITION IN PRACTICE
Kristi Cole
In this course, students will explore and experiment with the major theoretical, historical and pedagogical issues relevant to multimodal composition, as well as a variety of digital writing technologies in the practices that shape multimodal literacies and digital identity.

800-level Courses

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ENG 810 - DIRECTED READINGS IN ENGLISH STUDIES 

Intensive study of a specific topic from various specializations of the English faculty. Negotiation between the student and the director for the variable credit and approved by the director of graduate
studies. May be repeated for credit.