Courses

ENGL 10113 - Introduction to Poetry

Reading and analysis of a wide variety of American and British poetry. The goal of the course will be to help students understand that poetry is not difficult and dull, but understandable, worthwhile, and enjoyable.

ENGL 10123 - Introduction to Drama

Reading and analysis of the various dramatic genres.

ENGL 10203 - Introduction to Creative Writing

Workshops in which students present their writing (fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction) for class analysis will be complemented by lectures on the genres and readings that exemplify outstanding technique.

ENGL 10303 - Approaches to Film

A study of aesthetic and ideological differences between literary source texts and the films, scripts, television series, video games, and other media adapted from and inspired by them.

ENGL 10433 - Literature: Freshman Seminar

Topics may vary each time it is offered.

ENGL 10503 - Introduction to Nonfiction Genres

This course provides an introductory-level study of a variety of genres that do not fit the mold of fiction, poetry or drama. Readings will vary by semester, and may include such genres as oratory, essay, memoir, autobiography, oral history, diary, speeches, letters, belles lettres, chronicles, periodicals, treatises, manifestos, travelogues, weblogs, podcasts, dialogues, debates, didactic and religious writings and/or documentary film and television.

ENGL 10703 - Introduction to Critical Writing

Introduction to critical writing, reading, and research in the university. ENGL 10703, when followed by a designated section of ENGL 10803, gives students the opportunity to engage in a year-long study of academic writing. Includes attention to invention, drafting, revision, and editing of various genres of academic writing. Designed for students who do not have extensive experience writing research-based academic essays. Not available to student who have credit for ENGL 10803 or ENGL 10833.

ENGL 10803 - Introductory Composition: Writing as Inquiry

Course satisfies Written Communication 1 (WCO) requirement in the TCU Core Curriculum. Credit not awarded for both 10803 and 10833. Either ENGL 10803 or 10833 is a prerequisite to all upper-division English courses and advanced writing courses at TCU. Writing workshop where students compose multiple pieces in a range of genres using appropriate rhetorical conventions, learn strategies for reading texts and visual critically, and incorporate suitable sources. Students will engage in processes for invention, drafting, critiquing, revising, and editing of prose.

ENGL 10833 - Introductory Composition: First-year Seminar

Course satisfies Written Communication 1 (WCO) requirement in the TCU Core Curriculum. Credit not awarded for both 10803 and 10833. Either ENGL 10803 or 10833 is a prerequisite to all upper-division English courses and advanced writing courses at TCU. Topics may vary each time it is offered. Writing workshop with a themed focus where student compose multiple pieces in a range of genres using appropriate rhetorical conventions, learn strategies for reading texts and visuals critically, and incorporate suitable sources. Students will engage in processes for invention, drafting, critiquing, revising, and editing of prose.

ENGL 20333 - Language, Technology, and Society

An introduction to the ways in which social organizations, technology, and language influence one another.

ENGL 20403 - Major British Writers

Studies of texts by major British writers from the beginnings of English literature to the present. Texts vary by semester.

ENGL 20433 - Introduction to Shakespeare

Introduction to and analysis of 6-7 plays, with reference to the sociocultural context in which the plays were composed and the ways they (and their author) have been interpreted and appropriated since the late sixteenth century. This course is designed for undergraduates with little or no preparation in literary studies.

ENGL 20503 - Major American Writers

Studies of texts by major American writers from the beginnings of American literature to the present. Texts vary by semester.

ENGL 20523 - Sports in Modern American Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803. ENGL 20803 may be taken concurrently with ENGL 20523. An examination of the question of why so many of modern America's greatest authors employ sports-centered materials in their work. The readings will focus on baseball, football, basketball, and boxing.

ENGL 20533 - The American Dream

The American success dream as depicted and evaluated by major writers from Colonial times to the present.

ENGL 20543 - The American Short Story

A survey of the American short story from its origins to the present.

ENGL 20583 - The Western

The American West and the Western hero in fiction, from James Fenimore Cooper to selected contemporary authors.

ENGL 20603 - Western World Literature I

Two period surveys, the first from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, and the second from the Enlightenment to the present. The primary emphasis will be historical, but individual instructors may vary the choice and treatment of texts to explore important developments of theme (e.g., the hero, journey, monsters) or genre (e.g., tragedy, epic, romance, lyric). Students may take both courses or either course.

ENGL 20613 - Western World Literature II

Two period surveys, the first from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, and the second from the Enlightenment to the present. The primary emphasis will be historical, but individual instructors may vary the choice and treatment of texts to explore important developments of theme (e.g., the hero, journey, monsters) or genre (e.g., tragedy, epic, romance, lyric). Students may take both courses or either course.

ENGL 20623 - Women in Literature and Culture

Using gender as a category for literary and cultural analysis, this course examines women writers who create forms of expression as well as contribute to traditional genres. The course may focus on a specific historical period or may cover a more extensive time span. Writers may include Sappho, Marie de France, Behn, Wollstonecraft, Bronte, Austen, Dickinson, Woolf, Hurston, Welty, Plath, Morrison, Kingston, Tan, Joubert, McCafferty, Maraga, and Menchu.

ENGL 20633 - Mythology

Study of major Greek and Roman myths, gods, and heroes, as these reflect cultural values and problems, and including some study of major literary forms.

ENGL 20643 - Fable and Fantasy

An examination of a wide range of texts, some that are classified as fable or fantasy literature as well as some that incorporate elements from these genres. The course may focus on a specific historical period or may cover a more extensive time span. Texts may include The Arabian Nights, Lucian's A True History, Aesop's and Marie de France's Fables, medieval Arthurian romances, eighteenth- to twentieth-century versions of fairy tales, Ursula LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, and Naguib Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days.

ENGL 20653 - The Romantic Imagination

A study of the means by which the spirit of romanticism is embodied in literature since the late 18th century.

ENGL 20663 - Why Read Lit?

Why do people read literature, and in what ways might it matter? This course explores the personal, civic, and cultural significance of reading literature through assigned readings and a service learning component. Students will thus explore literary works and theories about literature’s significance in multiple contexts: in individual reading and reflection, in group discussions in the classroom, and in dialogue with community residents in the civic context of Fort Worth.

ENGL 20733 - Science Fiction

Historical development of science fiction as a literary genre with particular attention given to significant authors and themes.

ENGL 20743 - Detective Fiction

Detective and suspense fiction in its social and historical context, illustrated by selected major works and authors.

ENGL 20803 - Intermediate Composition: Writing Argument

Course satisfies Written Communication 2 (WCO) requirement in the TCU Core Curriculum. Credit not awarded for both ENGL 20803 and 20833. Prerequisite: ENGL 10803 or equivalent and sophomore standing (24 hours). Either ENGL 20803 or 20833 is a prerequisite to all upper-division English courses and advanced writing courses at TCU. Writing workshop that builds on ENGL 10803 by focusing on the analysis and production of arguments in a variety of media (i.e., print, visual, oral, digital). Students will work individually and collaboratively to read, research, and compose effective arguments on issues of local and national importance.

ENGL 20833 - Intermediate Composition:Sophomore Seminar

Course satisfies Written Communication 2 (WCO) requirements in the TCU Core Curriculum. Credit not awarded for both ENGL 20803 and 20833. Prerequisite: ENGL 10803 or equivalent and sophomore standing (24 hours). Either ENGL 20803 or 20833 is a prerequisite to all upper-division English courses and advanced writing courses at TCU. Topics may vary each time it is offered. Writing workshop that builds on ENGL 10803 by focusing on the analysis an production of arguments in a variety of media (i.e., print, visual, oral, digital) with a particular themed focus. Students will work individually and collaboratively to read, research, and compose effective arguments on issues related to the theme of the course.

ENGL 20913 - Literature and Civilizations I

This two-semester sequence explores the role of literary, rhetorical and dramatic expression in the development of cultural ideas, institutions and values. The first semester will focus on the cultural foundations of Britain and the United States; the second semester will focus on responses to these developments registered within various literary and rhetorical texts from around the world.

ENGL 20923 - Literature and Civilizations II

Prerequisite: ENGL 20913. This two-semester sequence explores the role of literary, rhetorical and dramatic expression in the development of cultural ideas, institutions and values. The first semester will focus on the cultural foundations of Britain and the United States; the second semester will focus on responses to these developments registered within various literary and rhetorical texts from around the world.

ENGL 20990 - International Residential Study

This course represents credit earned through a semester study abroad experience with an institution or program with which Texas Christian University has an official agreement to accept credit. The site and specific content will be identified on the official transcript. Courses appearing on a student's official transcript have been included in the student's grade point average.

ENGL 30003 - Junior Honors Seminar

Independent projects in literature.

ENGL 30103 - Introduction to Literary Theory

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. An introductory investigation into the peculiar aesthetic problems involved in reading and interpreting literary language. Particular attention is given to the tensions between literature, readers, and cultural contexts. Both traditional and contemporary approaches are examined. Readings range from folk tales to literary classics to recent writing in the philosophy of language.

ENGL 30113 - British Literature to 1800

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. An introductory investigation into the peculiar aesthetic problems involved in reading and interpreting literary language. Particular attention is given to the tensions between literature, readers, and cultural contexts. Both traditional and contemporary approaches are examined. Readings range from folk tales to literary classics to recent writing in the philosophy of language.

ENGL 30123 - British Literature since 1800

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Two period surveys, the first of medieval and early modern literature, and the second of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. Both courses will consider literary antecedents, the conventions of various genres, the cultural circumstances of composition, and interpretive strategies. Students may take both courses or either course. The English Department recommends that ENGL 30113 and 30123 be taken consecutively.

ENGL 30133 - American Literature to 1900

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Two period surveys, the first from Colonial times to the Realist movement, and the second from the Realist movement to the present. Both courses will consider literary antecedents, the conventions of various genres, the cultural circumstances of composition, and interpretive strategies. Students may take both courses or either course. The English Department recommends that ENGL 30133 and 30143 be taken consecutively.

ENGL 30143 - American Literature since 1900

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Two period surveys, the first from Colonial times to the Realist movement, and the second from the Realist movement to the present. Both courses will consider literary antecedents, the conventions of various genres, the cultural circumstances of composition, and interpretive strategies. Students may take both courses or either course. The English Department recommends that ENGL 30133 and 30143 be taken consecutively.

ENGL 30153 - Nature Writing in Nature

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 or 20833, and at least one additional 10000- or 20000-level English course. The seminar focuses on Nature writers and texts from the eighteenth century to the present and will cover a variety of genres, including exploration accounts, travel narratives, memoirs, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Field trips are required..

ENGL 30163 - Urban Experiences in American Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 or 20833, and at least one 10000- or 20000- level ENGL course. An examination of depictions of cities in American literature, with attention to the ways urban experiences shape Americans' lives, social interactions, and identities. The historical period under inquiry may vary by semester.

ENGL 30203 - Urban Rhetorics

A rhetorical analysis of cities, parks, memorials, planned communities, and civic discourse in and around what gets composed as an urban text.  From a rhetorical perspective, this course will explore the historical, social, cultural and racial texts constructed in the urban environment which shape our sense of citizenship and identity in both public and private contexts. Examines current trends and topics in the American urbanscape.

ENGL 30213 - Advanced Composition

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A development of the principles, primarily of exposition, into a more advanced level of composing than might be expected of the first year college student.

ENGL 30223 - Technical Writing and Document Design

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000-or 20000-level ENGL course. A course in practical communication with a concentration on report writing, including oral presentations and use of visual materials. Assignments are tailored to fit students' major fields and professional interests.

ENGL 30233 - Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop I

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803, and ENGL 10203. A creative nonfiction writing class for students with some experience in creative writing. In this course, students will get experience writing memoir, personal essays, autobiography, oral history, and in other nonfiction genres. The course may also include reading of major nonfiction writers from the Renaissance to the present.

ENGL 30243 - Rhetorical Practices in Culture

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Appropriation of the vocabulary, taxonomies, and strategies of classical and modern rhetoric for the purposes of critical inquiry into contemporary communication and behavior.

ENGL 30253 - Rhetorical Traditions

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000-or 20000-level ENGL course. An introduction to the ideas, issues and individuals that shaped rhetoric and its relationship to literature and poetics, including the relationship between orality and literacy, the impact of cultural and religious views on discourse, and the role of technology in communication.

ENGL 30263 - Style and Usage

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Analysis of the ways in which writers deploy vocabulary and syntax to create a prose voice that is responsive to the demands of audience, purpose, and occasion.

ENGL 30273 - Argument and Persuasion

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Analysis of the logic by which writers construct arguments; analysis of the various means that writers use to persuade an audience; practice in writing one's own argumentative and persuasive discourse.

ENGL 30283 - Cyberliteracy

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. This course will investigate issues related to cyberliteracy: what it means to read, write, communicate, and make knowledge in a digital world. In particular, the course will consider how computer technologies challenge traditional notions of literacy, identity, and community.

Engl 30293 - Intro to Multimedia Authoring: Image and Hypertext

Investigates the relationship between new media, culture, and design, with particular emphasis on mulimodal, interactive texts. Course emphasizes concepts in rhetoric, multimedia, and authorship in digital environments. Students design and compose a variety of multimedia products incorporating print, image, hypertext, and other modes.

ENGL 30343 - Fiction Writing Workshop I

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803, and ENGL 10203. A fiction writing class for students with some experience in creative writing.

ENGL 30353 - Poetry Writing Workshop I

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803, and ENGL 10203. A poetry writing class for students with some experience in creative writing.

ENGL 30413 - British Literature to 1500

Prerequisite: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course, and ENGL 30113 or permission of instructor. A survey of Old and Middle English literature from Beowulf to medieval drama. Emphasis is on introducing a wide range of medieval poetic and narrative forms including epic, lyric and romance, and a selection of recurring themes such as pilgrimage, death and antifeminism. Some texts are read in modern English translations.

ENGL 30423 - Early British Drama

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Survey of early British dramatic literature, from morality- and mystery-plays of the 15th century through revenge tragedies and city comedies of the 16th and 17th. The course examines drama as a cultural force and traces the growth of tragic and comic genres.

ENGL 30433 - Renaissance Poetry

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Survey of 16th- and 17th-century English verse, with particular attention to aesthetic, political, and religious functions of poetry; the status of poets in early modern England; and the effects of societal changes on the production of poetry in the period.

ENGL 30443 - Twentieth Century Irish Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A survey of drama, poetry, prose and film from all 32 counties of Ireland beginning with the Irish literary revival exemplified by, for example, W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, James Joyce, J.M. Synge and concluding with Ireland's second renaissance e.g., works by Seamus Heaney, Paula Meehan, Roddy Doyle, Brian Friel, and Neil Jordan.

ENGL 30453 - The Victorian Novel

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. This course examines the genre of the Victorian novel, asking why it emerges in this period to challenge the preeminence of poetry, why realism becomes its dominant style, and how particular novelists respond to the substantial changes occurring in British society, including industrialization, political reform, and changing relations between the sexes and classes.

ENGL 30463 - British Literature: The Bloomsbury Group

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A close scrutiny of early 20th century British literature and criticism written by and about the intellectual circle called the Bloomsbury Group. Writers and artists may include Virginia and Leonard Woolf, E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Vanessa and Clive Bell, and Desmond MacCarthy. Emphasis will be given to the writers' engagement with, contributions to, and/or repudiation of Modernism, Empire, sexual norms, and class consciousness.

ENGL 30473 - Wilde Years: Oscar Wilde and the 1890s

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. This course examines the writings of Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries to explore how literature constructs and reflects gender, sexuality, and social debates. Particular attention will be given to diverse sexualities represented by New Woman writers, new theories of "sexual inversion" developed in the 1890s, and Oscar Wilde's trials and imprisonment on the grounds of indecency with another man.

ENGL 30493 - Women Poets and Poetic Tradition

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A survey of British, American and Anglophone women poets from the 16th century to the present. Emphasis will be given to women writers' engagement with, contribution to, and rewriting of poetic tradition; to the social and historical conditions affecting women's poetic production; and to the relation between poetry, poetics, and theories of gender.

ENGL 30503 - The Roaring Twenties

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A study of major American authors emerging in the Twenties, the cultural context for their art, and the influences of their achievements.

ENGL 30513 - American Poetry

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Survey emphasizing major poets from Colonial times to the present, including some poetic theory and criticism.

ENGL 30533 - Modern American-Jewish Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A survey of the contributions of major American-Jewish authors to modern American literature. Prospective students need no special knowledge, since this is a course in American literature and not in Judaism.

ENGL 30553 - 19th Century American Novel

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Development of the American novel from its origins through the beginning of the 20th Century. Readings may include works by James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Frank Norris, and will emphasis the novels' close ties to contemporaneous social, scientific, and political issues.

ENGL 30563 - American Drama

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Representative plays by the major playwrights of the American theatre. Movements in theater and

ENGL 30573 - Travail and Triumph: A Survey of African-American Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. An analysis of the fiction, poetry, drama and essays of African-Americans from the slave era through post-civil rights, exploring chronologically the historical, social, cultural and racial contexts which shape the literature.

ENGL 30583 - Early American Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. The development of American literature from the period of earliest settlement through the era of the Early Republic, emphasizing the religious and socio-political evolution of American thought; attention will also be given to the development of imaginative literature, such as the novel. Among the figures included will be William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Susannah Rowson, and Charles Brockden Brown.

ENGL 30593 - American Fiction, 1960 to the Present

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A study in the development of American Fiction from 1960 to the present. Explores the relationship between literature and the concerns of contemporary society. Examines current trends and topics in American Fiction and introduces students to recent literary analysis and critical debates.

ENGL 30613 - Women's Lives: Memoir and Fiction

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Readings in contemporary women's writing that reflect women's lives and experiences with self, family, and society, with some attention to the theory and practice of writing the memoir. Discussion of works as both literature and social commentary.

ENGL 30623 - Medieval Literature in Translation

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A survey of major thinkers and writers of the West from the fall of Rome to 1500, in part devoted to drawing a coherent picture of medieval thought: Heavenly versus earthly order; the nature of desire; the power of human agency; the value and uses of the past, including the classical past; gender roles. The often surprising ways in which individual writers deviate from and even criticize this cultural heritage.

ENGL 30633 - Medieval and Early Modern Women Writers

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. The development of beliefs about women's roles and characters and the ways these beliefs were accepted, challenged, or discredited. Authors studied are writers of prose fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, biography, letters, religious visions. They may include Christine de Pizan, whose Book of the City Ladies (1405) attempts to counteract the negative view of women, and Aphra Behn, whose Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave (1688) questions hierarchizing of people according to gender, ethnicity, religion, and class.

ENGL 30653 - Jane Austen: Novels and Films

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803, and a least one 10000 or 20000-level course. A study of Jane Austen's biography, letters, and novels and the film adaptations based upon them, from 1940 to the present day.

ENGL 30663 - Women’s Rhetorics

Women's Rhetorics will explore the ways in which women use language to persuade in both  public and private spheres. The course will use rhetorical theory to study a variety of primary texts by women representing a range of historical periods from Classical times to the present, with special attention to both traditional rhetorical genres (speeches, letters, sermons, editorials) and nontraditional texts (quilts, recipe books, blogs, performance art).

ENGL 30673 - King Arthur in Literature and Legend

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000-or 20000-level ENGL course. Surveys the growth of the Arthurian tradition from legend and medieval literature into the 19th and 20th centuries, with special attention to Malory, Tennyson, Twain, and Bradley.

ENGL 30683 - Post-Colonial Anglophone Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000-or 20000-level ENGL course. This course examines contemporary writers of English whose literary works were influenced or shaped by colonialism or its aftermath. Emphasis will be placed on writers from India, Australia, Ireland, Africa or the Caribbean.

ENGL 30693 - Multi-Ethnic Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. An analysis of the fiction, poetry, drama and essays of major ethnic writers from the United States and other parts of the world. From a comparative angle, this course will explore the historical, social, cultural and racial contexts which shape the literature. Several critical approaches will be taken to show interrelationships among writers.

ENGL 30703 - Contemporary Latino Lit

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A study of English literary works in various genres by U.S. authors of Puerto Rican, Mexican, Nicaraguan, Cuban, Dominican, and/or Chicano/a backgrounds. Historical emphasis will be limited to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Topics of analysis include race, gender, class, nationality, migration, immigration, and urban studies.

ENGL 30713 - Mexican American Literature and Culture in the Borderlands

The course examines literature as a part of expressive culture that reflects and shapes the way people think, behave, and give their lives meaning. Literature is also considered as a resource for people to address their needs and circumstances, especially in relation to social positions, gender, self-identification, politics, and ethics. Other topics include, U.S. Mexico relations, social conflict, resistance movements, religion, and cultural poetics.

ENGL 30723 - Short Story

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A survey of the development of the genre through the 19th and 20th centuries.

ENGL 30733 - Satire

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Examines the nature and uses of satire, concentrating on the variety of satiric forms. Readings will include prose fiction, essays, and poetry written by European and American satirists.

ENGL 30743 - Illustrated Storytelling:Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Art and Film

Prerequisites:; ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803, and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. The course examines sequential illustrated storytelling -- including comic books, graphic novels, political cartoons, and engravings -- from a variety of cultures over the past 300 years. The perspective will be literary and historical.

ENGL 30753 - Literature and Film

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000-or 20000-level ENGL course. A study of aesthetic and ideological differences, considering both how various literary works have been filmed and how films images may be analyzed using interpretive techniques developed by literary criticism.

ENGL 30763 - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Authors and Themes in Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803, and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. This course examines themes of sexual identity in literature by authors from antiquity to the present.

ENGL 30773 - India: Texts and Traditions

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000-or 20000-level ENGL course. A consideration of selected classic works of religious and literary imagination in Indian culture. Versions and interpretations of the Hindu epics Mahabharata and Ramayana will be examined in translation.

ENGL 30783 - Modern India: Literature and Culture

A study of the literature and culture of modern, post-independence (post-1947) India through the lens of literature. The course introduces students to India's history of colonization and religious diversity to understand Indian heritage and provide a context for modern Indian literature. Literature is the focal point but the course includes readings about India's history, religion and philosophy.

ENGL 30793 - Multiethnic Literature of the World

An analysis of the fiction, poetry, drama and essays of major ethnic writers and New Literatures in English from Britain, the Commonwealth and other parts of the world. From a comparative angle, this course will explore the historical, social, cultural and racial contexts which shape the literature. Several critical approaches will be taken to show interrelationships among writers.

ENGL 30973 - Directed Studies in English

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Directed Study in English.

ENGL 30990 - International Residential Study

This course represents credit earned through a semester study abroad experience with an institution or program with which Texas Christian University has an official agreement to accept credit. The site and specific content will be identified on the official transcript. Courses appearing on a student's official transcript have been included in the student's grade point average.

ENGL 37990 - International Residential Study

This course represents credit earned through a semester study abroad experience with an institution or program with which Texas Christian University has an official agreement to accept credit. The site and specific content will be identified on the official transcript. Courses appearing on a student's official transcript have been included in the student's grade point average.

ENGL 40003 - Senior Honors Seminar

Independent projects in literature resulting in Senior Honors Thesis.

ENGL 40123 - Literary Criticism

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. An historical study of major developments in the theory of literature since Plato. The first half of the course surveys representatives of the most important positions, the second half surveys how these positions remain influential in 20th century thought.

ENGL 40203 - Fiction Writing Workshop II

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803, and ENGL 10203. An advanced fiction-writing workshop, focusing on the growth of students' own work. Prior to enrollment, students are also strongly encouraged to take ENGL 30343 (Fiction Writing Workshop I).

ENGL 40213 - Poetry Writing Workshop II

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803, and ENGL 10203. An advanced poetry-writing workshop, focusing on the growth of students' own work. Prior to enrollment, students are also strongly encouraged to take ENGL 30353 (Poetry Writing Workshop I).

ENGL 40223 - Drama Writing Workshop II

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803, and ENGL 10203. An advanced dramatic writing workshop, focusing on the growth of students' own work in playwriting and/or screenwriting. Prior to enrollment, students are strongly encouraged to take another 30000- level course in creative writing.

ENGL 40233 - Writing for Publication

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A survey of the possibilities of writing for magazine publication and the construction of essays and articles for specific markets.

ENGL 40243 - Professional Writing and Editing

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A course in writing and editing appropriate to diverse professions. Examples from the writing of lawyers, scientists, and other professional writers are used as models and for editing practice. Students learn to write prose that is lucid, concise, and graceful.

ENGL 40253 - Propaganda Analysis and Persuasion

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000-or 20000-level ENGL course. The nature of persuasive discourse and social movements involving propaganda explored through illustrations and theories that facilitate their understanding.

ENGL 40263 - Advanced Multimedia Authoring: Animation and Film

Prerequisites: ENGL 30293 or instructor approval. Explores the complex relationship between new media, culture, and design, with particular emphasis on cinematic or time-based rhetoric. Course emphasizes concepts in rhetoric, multimedia, and authorship in digital environments. Students design and compose a variety of multimedia products incorporating print, image, film, and other modes.

ENGL 40273 - Writing Internship

Prerequisites: 60 credit hours; GPA of 3.0, English GPA of 3.0; approval of the department. Students are placed with agencies in publishing or related fields for workplace experience. Duties, varied to fit the needs and opportunities associated with the participating agencies, generally include writing, editing, and production of published documents.

ENGL 40323 - History of the Language

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. The study of the origins and development of Modern English.

ENGL 40333 - Language, Rhetoric, and Culture

Explores the role of language in human communication and culture, with attention to the implications of language ideologies to various forms of communicative interaction. Review and critique of theories of language and communication as a social and political phenomena.

ENGL 40403 - Chaucer

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course, and 30113 or permission of instructor. An intensive study of Chaucer's major poetry, especially The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, in Middle English. Emphasis is on Chaucer as inheritor and innovator of medieval ideas about God, social order, gender, authorship, the morality of reading and the function of poetry. Some prior experience with early literature is expected.

ENGL 40413 - Renaissance in England

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. The prose writers, dramatists, and poets of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England in relation to the cultural circumstances influencing and being influenced by their works. Topics may include the prospect and enactment of censorship; the centrality of the patronage system; courts and courtiers; changing views of monarchy and obedience; religious controversy; issues of gender, ethnicity, and class; literature and science; pseudo-nonfictional strategies; adaptations of the bible, history, and mythology; and early book production and circulation.

ENGL 40423 - Restoration and 18th Century Literature, 1660-1790

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. The poetry and prose of Pepys, Dryden, Prior, Pope, Swift, Defoe, Thomson, Goldsmith, Gray, Johnson, Burns, and others writing between 1660 and 1798.

ENGL 40433 - 19th Century Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A general survey of British literature from 1790-1900.

ENGL 40443 - 20th Century Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A general survey of British literature from 1900 to the present.

ENGL 40453 - British Novel to 1832

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Survey of the novel through the early 19th century.

ENGL 40463 - British Novel since 1832

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Survey of the novel from the mid19th century to the present.

ENGL 40473 - Milton and his Contemporaries

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803, and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. This course examines major literary texts written during and immediately after the English Revolution of 1640-1660 with a focus on the poetry and prose of John Milton and his major contemporaries. Topics include Protestant and Catholic poetics, poetry and theology, literary responses to political upheaval and the rise of the new empirical sciences, the status of epic poetry in modern society, and the literary consequences of changes in the structure of family life and gender.

ENGL 40483 - Shakespeare and Marlowe

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000-or 20000-level ENGL course. Comparative study of several plays each by Shakespeare and Marlowe, placing their work in historical and social contexts. Reading includes historical documents and literary theory.

ENGL 40493 - Shakespeare

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000-or 20000-level ENGL course. An intensive study of Shakespeare's major works. Emphasis will be on developing interpretive strategies for understanding Shakespeare's aesthetic achievement within larger literary and historical contexts. Topics may include attention to how Shakespeare's works were written, performed, and published as ways of understanding their significance to both early modern and contemporary culture.

ENGL 40523 - Emerson and Thoreau

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Works of two 19th century American literary masters, read in their social and historical context.

ENGL 40533 - Toni Morrison

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. An intensive study of the works of Toni Morrison. Attention will also be given to the cultural contexts (historical and contemporary) which structure the worlds of Morrison's fiction and influence the reception of her work.

ENGL 40543 - Studies in Early American Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 (or 10833) and one 20000-level ENGL course (excluding 20803). Concentrated study of American literature before 1830. Topics, genres, authors, and approaches will vary by semester. May be taken more than once for credit under different subheadings.

ENGL 40553 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Prerequisites: 10803 (or 10833) and on 20000-level ENGL course (excluding 20803.) Concentrated study of American literature, 18001899. Topics, genres, authors, and approaches will vary by semester. May be taken more than once for credit under different sub-headings

ENGL 40563 - U.S. Women's Writing

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803, and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A study of U.S. women's writings, with attention to the ways the literature reflects, responds to, and shapes perceptions of women's roles, identities, and opportunities at various historical moments. Topics, authors, genres, and approaches may vary by semester.

ENGL 40573 - Mark Twain

The seminar will focus on the life and works of Mark Twain.  Readings will include several of his major novels, a broad sampling of his short stories, and a selection of his essays and letters.  Attention will be given to both the hsitorical and contemporary contexts that have shaped the reception of Twain's writing.

ENGL 40583 - Contemporary American Poetry

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Intensive study of contemporary American poets, poetic movements and relevant issues in aesthetics.

ENGL 40593 - Faulkner

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Examination of several of Faulkner's major Yoknapatawpha County novels and of Faulkner scholarship. The course will be a mixture of lecture and discussion.

ENGL 40643 - British Romanticism

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803, and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. This class will survey British literature from 1790-1830, examining the aesthetic movement of Romanticism in its social and historical context. Authors include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Barbauld, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, Keats, Hemans, and De Quincey.

ENGL 40653 - Renaissance Literature and the 'New' Science

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. This course examines how and why artists and scientists in the century c. 1550-1650 interacted intellectually as they did. Topics include influences of scientific developments and discoveries upon European (chiefly British) letters; strategies used by writers to appropriate, revise, or contest scientific development in astronomy, medicine, philosophy and other disciplines; and relationships between scientific and literary discourses of change.

ENGL 40663 - Modern Fiction

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Considerations of modernism as a literary movement with readings in modernist fiction. Among figures included will be Dostoevsky, Mann, Kafka, Ellison, Faulkner, Barth, and Barthelme.

ENGL 40673 - Modern Drama

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000-or 20000-level ENGL course. Close study of representative plays marking significant movements in modern theater, including realism, surrealism, absurdism, and the theatre of alienation.

ENGL 40683 - Studies in 20th Century American Literature

Concentrated study of American literature, 1900 to the present. Topics, genres, authors, and approaches will vary by semester. May be taken more than once for credit under different sub-headings.

ENGL 40693 - 20th Century British and Irish Poetry

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000-or 20000-level ENGL course. An intensive study of contemporary British and/or Irish poets, poetic movements and relevant issues in aesthetics.

ENGL 40733 - Children's Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A study of the history and criticism of children's literature, with an emphasis on Anglophone works from the last 200 years.

ENGL 40743 - The Long Novel

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000-or 20000-level ENGL course. An intensive study of the pleasures and difficulties of long novels, which represent a unique genre of literature. Each semester focuses on three or four novels generally regarded as works of tremendous influence, but which may be too involved for study in survey courses. The novels will be selected from different periods, cultures, and languages.

ENGL 40831 - Senior Seminar

Prerequisites: English majors only; students must have senior standing and must have completed 21 hours in English courses beyond 10803/10833 and 20803/20833. This seminar is intended as a capstone course for all English majors. Students will discuss and examine the practical and professional aspects of the English major while attempting to synthesize and integrate their various learning experiences in literature and writing. Students will also attend special workshops and seminars intended to inform them about various areas of professional activity (and as well meet professionals active in these areas.) Students will prepare and submit a final writing portfolio, representing their work as an English major.