Fall 2012 Undergraduate Course Offerings and Descriptions


Recent course offerings:Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012

Fall 2011 Message from Dr. Mark Parker, English Department Head
On new course numbering and Spring special topics courses


 

GAMST 200 Introduction to American Studies
0002 (Henigman) TT 9:30-10:45
M 6:30-9:00 required film showing

GENG 221 Literature/Culture/Ideas (Castellano)
0001 MWF 2:30-3:20 Literature, Nature and Environment

GENG 235 Survey of English Literature I (Beowulf to 18th Century) (Favila &           Goode)
0001 TT 6:30-7:45pm

GENG 236 Survey of English Literature II (18th Century to Modern)
0001 (Parker & Robinette) MWF 12:20-1:10
0002 (White) TT 5:00-6:15

GENG 239 Studies in World Literature (Osotsi)
0001 TT 6:30-7:45pm

GENG 247 Survey of American Literature I (Rebhorn)
0001 MWF 11:15-12:05

GENG 248 Survey of American Literature II (Gaughran)
0001 MWF 1:25-2:15

GENG 260 Survey of African American Literature (Fagan & Thompson)
0001 MWF 10:10-11:00

GENG260H Survey of African American Literature (Honors Students Only)
          (Bleeg)
0001 TT 11:00-12:15

GAMST and GHUM courses fulfill General Education Cluster II
requirements; they do not fulfill requirements for the English Major

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ENG 294 Internship in English.
0001 (Rankin) Corresponds to 1-credit internships
0002 (Rankin) Corresponds to 2-credit internships
0003 (Rankin) Corresponds to 3-credit internships

ENG 299 Writing about Literature
0001 (Robinette) MW 2:30-3:45
0002 (Gaughran) MWF 11:15-12:05
0003 (Bankert) TT 9:30-10:45
0004 (Henigman) TT 12:30-1:45
0005 (Federico) TT 3:30-4:45

ENG 302 Special Topics in Literature and Language
0001 (Robinette) MWF 10:10-11:00 British Cinema; M 8:00-10:00am required           film showing
0002 (Cote) TT 2:00-3:15 Semantics and Pragmatics
0003 (L'Heureux) TT 11:00-12:15 Literature from American Wars of the 20th           Century
0004 (Lespinasse) TT 12:30-1:45 Literature of the Caribean Diaspora

ENG 305 Mythology (crosslisted with CLAS 360) (Moore)
0001 TT 11:00-12:15

ENG 308 Introduction to Linguistics (Cote)
0001 TT 11:00-12:15

ENG 309 Traditional English Grammar (Johnson)
0001 TT 9:30-10:45

ENG 315 Seventeenth Century British Literature (Johnson)
0001 TT 12:30-1:45

ENG 316 Early Modern Drama (Favila)
0001 W 5:00-7:45pm

ENG 317 Shakespeare's Tragedies and Romances (Rankin)
0001 MWF 11:15-12:05

ENG 319 Teaching Shakespeare (Rankin)
0001 MWF 9:05-9:55

ENG 322 Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Drama (Goode)
0001 TT 12:30-1:45

ENG 327 Gothic Literature: The Female Gothic (Castellano)
0001 MW 4:40-5:55pm

ENG 330 Nineteenth Century British Novel (Federico)
0001 TT 12:30-1:45

ENG 334 Contemporary Drama (Rebhorn)
0001 MW 3:35-4:50pm

ENG 343 Antebellum American Literature (Rebhorn)
0001 MW 1:25-2:40

ENG 357 Contemporary American Literature (Fagan)
0001 MWF 12:20-1:10

ENG 361 African American Fiction Writers
0001 (Lespinasse) TT 2:00-3:15

ENG 368
Women's Literature (crosslisted with WMST 368) (Thompson)
0001 MWF 12:20-1:10

ENG 381 An Introduction to Film to 1960 (Gaughran)
0001 MW 5:00-6:15pm (required film showing Thurs. 6:30-9:00pm)

ENG 391 Introduction to Creative Writing - Nonfiction
0001 (Bogard) TT 3:30-4:45
0002 (Bleeg) TT 2:00-3:15

ENG 392 Introduction to Creative Writing - Poetry
0001 (S. Facknitz) MWF 9:05-9:55
0002 (S. Facknitz) MWF 10:10-11:00
0003 (Kutchins) TT 12:30-1:45

ENG 393 Introduction to Creative Writing - Fiction
0001 (Majors) W 12:20-3:05
0002 (Martin) MWF 9:05-9:55
0003 (Martin) MWF 10:10-11:00
0004 (Fitzgerald) TT 9:30-10:45

ENG 396 Advanced Composition
0001 (L'Heuruex) TT 8:00-9:15
0003 (L'Heuruex) TT 12:30-1:45

ENG 401 Advanced Studies in Medieval Literature: Reinventing the
          Middle Ages (Bankert)
0001 TT 12:30-1:45

ENG 403 Advanced Studies in British Literature After 1700: The Eighteenth-
          Century Novel (Goode)
0001 TT 3:30-4:45

ENG 410 Advanced Studies in Author
0001 (Cash) MW 2:30-3:45 Larry Brown & His Idols
0002 (Gabbin) TT 9:30-10:45

ENG 413 Advanced Studies in Literature and Ideas (Morey)
0001 TT 9:30-10:45 Considering the Great American Novel: 20th Century           American Women

ENG 415 Advanced Studies in Textuality and the History of the Book: The
          Unfinished American Novel (Fagan)
0001 MW 2:30-3:45

ENG 432 Advanced Studies in African Literature (Osotsi)
0001 TT 3:30-4:45

ENG 437 Studies in Italian Literature (crosslisted with ITAL 437) (Fazzion)
0001 TT 5:00-6:15pm

ENG 466 Advanced Studies in Women's Literature (Thompson)
0001 MWF 1:25-2:15 Magical Realism and Women Writers

ENG 493 Advanced Creative Nonfiction (Bogard)
0001 TT 12:30-1:45

ENG 494 Advanced Poetry Writing (Kutchins)
0001 Tu 3:30-6:15

ENG 495 Advanced Fiction Writing
0001 (Majors) M 12:20-3:05

ENG 496 Advanced Topics in Creative Writing
0001 (S. Facknitz) MW 2:30-3:45
0002 (Bleeg) TT 5:00-6:15pm

 

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Course descriptions and other information are available in the 2011-12 Undergraduate Catalogue.

 

 

 

 
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