ENGL 10103 Introduction to Fiction. Reading and analysis of prose fiction by a variety of authors. The course may focus on a specific historical period or may cover a more extensive time span. Students will become familiar with interpretive strategies and will examine the course texts in relation to literary antecedents, the conventions of various genres, and the cultural circumstances of composition.

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 10433 Literature: Freshman Seminar. Topics may vary each time it is offered.

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 from Sources. Prerequisite to all advanced writing courses at TCU. Strategies for reading, evaluating, and responding to written texts in academically productive ways, and for revising and editing students' own work. The course also teaches students how to present their own ideas and how to incorporate the ideas of others into their own writing. Course activities include writing summaries, analyses, syntheses, and arguments.

ENGL 10803 Introductory Composition: Writing from Sources. Prerequisite to all advanced writing courses at TCU. Strategies for reading, evaluating, and responding to written texts in academically productive ways, and for revising and editing students' own work. The course also teaches students how to present their own ideas and how to incorporate the ideas of others into their own writing. Course activities include writing summaries, analyses, syntheses, and arguments.

ENGL 10833 Composition: Freshman Seminar. Course satisfies Written Communication 1 (WCO) requirement in the TCU Core Curriculum. Topics may vary each time it is offered.

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 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 20733 Science Fiction. Historical development of science fiction as a literary genre with particular attention given to significant authors and themes.

ENGL 20743 Detective Novel. Detective and suspense fiction in its social and historical context, illustrated by selected major works and authors.

ENGL 20803 Intermediate Composition: Writing within Communities. Prerequisite: English 10803 and sophomore standing 24 hours. Strategies for adjusting one's writing to a variety of tasks, genres, contexts, and audiences. The course also teaches research techniques, with an emphasis on identifying sources that are valuable to a given community and building an argument from them. Course activities include critical reading, collaborative writing and editing, and revising for style.

ENGL 20833 Intermediate Composition:Sophomore Seminar in English. Prerequisite: ENGL 10803 or equivalent. ENGL 20833 is an Intermediate Composition course and writing workshop that builds on and goes beyond ENGL 10803 by focusing on the analysis and production of arguments in a variety of media including print, visual, oral, and digital, with a particular focus on literature. In the course, students will analyze and produce arguments using literary texts as the topic of the course. Student will work individually and in groups to read, write, and research arguments on issues of local and national importance. ENGL 20833 is a parallel option to sophomore level composition (ENGL 20803) and is a comparable option to ENGL 10833.

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 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 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 The Essay. Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Primarily a writing course with an emphasis on developing a personal style appropriate to private journal, letters, or magazine journalism, the course includes reading of major essayists 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 30343 Intermediate Fiction Writing. Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803, and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Prior to enrollment, students are also strongly encouraged to take ENGL 10203 (Introduction to Writing.)

ENGL 30353 Intermediate Poetry Writing. Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803, and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. Prior to enrollment, students are also strongly encouraged to take ENGL 10203 (Introduction to 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 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 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 30543 The American Short Story. Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. A survey of the American short story from its origins to the present.

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 changes in theatrical conventions will provide a historical context. Limited readings in criticism.

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 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 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 t othe 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 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 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 Creative Writing-Fiction. Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. An advanced fiction-writing workshop, focusing on the growth of students' own work. Enrollment requires instructor's permission.

ENGL 40213 Creative Writing-Poetry. Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. An advanced poetry-writing workshop, focusing on the growth of students' own work. Enrollment requires instructor's permission.

ENGL 40223 Creative Writing-Drama. Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. An advanced drama-writing workshop, focusing on the growth of students' own work. Enrollment requires instructor's permission.

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 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 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 mid-19th 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 sub-headings.

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, 1800-1899. 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 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 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 Social History of Children's Literature. Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. British and American children's literature of the 19th and 20th centuries examined in its social and historical context and illustrated by selected major themes, works, and authors.

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.

ENGL 50233 Studies in Creative Writing. Prerequisites: ENGL 10203, and 20803. Prior to enrollment, students are also strongly encouraged to take the 30000-level course appropriate to the semester's genre. ENGL 50233 is an intensive creative writing workshop open to students (graduate and advanced undergraduates) who have a strong background in literature and imaginative writing. Depending on the semester and the selected genre, this course will pay special attention to invention, point-of-view, voice, form, and genre-appropriate theory.

ENGL 50243 Teaching Writing. Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, and one 20000-level ENGL course. A course for teachers of English combining theories of composition with practical pedagogy and classroom strategies for the teaching of writing. Not applicable toward degree requirements for the Ph.D. in English.

ENGL 50253 Classical Rhetoric. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, permission of instructor. This course examines the emergence of rhetoric in Antiquity and traces the impact of classical rhetoric up to the Middle Ages. A substantial amount of the course is devoted to learning about the relationship between oral and written discourse, the impact of literacy, and the adaptability of systems of communication to technology and society. The implications of such phenomena are examined in different periods in an effort to develop an historical perspective about the relationship between cognition and expression within cultural conditions.

ENGL 50973 Directed Study in English. Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, and one 20000-level ENGL course. Directed Study in English.