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2014-2015 Graduate Catalog 
    
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Graduate Courses


 
  
  • EMBA 705 - Applied Statistics


    Credits 2

    Effective business research and decision making with the aid of statistical analysis. Hands-on experience with computer spreadsheet software. Covers how to find, manage, analyze, interpret, and effectively present actual business and economic data.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 706 - Organizational Theory: Strategy Implementation Processes


    Credits 2

    Effective implementation of organizational decisions and strategies. Draws on scholarly research in sociology, psychology, anthropology, and a wide variety of related social sciences. Executive-level overview of organization theory.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 707 - Financial Accounting for Managers


    Credits 2

    Examines process which determines economic impact of organization activities. Performance measurement, recording, and reporting. Focuses on methods and procedures that lend to the preparation of financial statements and reports to external audiences.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 708 - Global and Macroeconomic Environment for Business


    Credits 2

    Provides an understanding of macroeconomic conditions that impact firms operating in the global economy. Topics include aggregate demand and national income; business cycles; inflation; unemployment; interest rates; exchange rates; international trade in goods and capital; and fiscal and monetary government policies.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 709 - Organization Behavior


    Credits 2

    Important concepts and applications in management including motivation, leadership, group dynamics, organization design, decision making, strategic planning and organizational change. Special emphasis on analyzing leadership skills of others and improving leadership potential of participants.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 710 - Business Finance


    Credits 2

    Examines the role of financial management in creating firm value. Covers fundamental business finance topics and the application of basic finance concepts for decision making in a business environment. Taught from the perspective of a senior-level manager.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 711 - Managerial Accounting


    Credits 2

    Focus on the use and potential misuse of accounting data by managers. Provides a foundation for identifying and analyzing decision alternatives and evaluating success in accomplishing organizational goals.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 712 - Seminar in Financial Management


    Credits 2

    Covers major financial management issues pertaining to a firm’s operations. Taught primarily through case discussions and use of spreadsheets in financial analysis.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 713 - Principles of Marketing Strategy


    Credits 2

    Designed to introduce executives to conceptual and analytical frameworks that inform the development and execution of marketing strategy. A blend of readings and case studies will be used to build fundamental knowledge of the discipline and simulate marketing strategy decision making.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 714 - Management of Entrepreneurial Organizations


    Credits 3

    Examines issues involved in developing and managing entrepreneurial organizations. Topics include: why some firms fail while others succeed; stages of growth and organization effectiveness; and management systems in an entrepreneurial context, such as strategic planning, organizational development, and leadership.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 715 - Strategic Management: Business Strategy and Corporate Strategy


    Credits 3

    Explores business strategies (cost leadership, differentiation, tacit collusion, and strategic alliances) and corporate strategies (vertical integration, diversification, merger and acquisition, and globalization strategies.) Economic theories of competition and cooperation. Includes case studies of firms which have successfully or unsuccessfully employed a variety of strategies.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 716 - International Business


    Credits 2

    Problems and opportunities of business in a global context. Examines international economic, institutional, cultural and legal differences and analyzes their impact on business decisions including: product design, production and marketing, human resources strategy; investment analysis; financial strategy and risk management. May be repeated to a maximum of two credits.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 717 - Negotiations and Conflict Resolution


    Credits 3

    Examines the nature of conflict and the negotiation process as a tool for managing conflict. Includes preparing negotiations, negotiating strategies and tactics, organizing negotiating teams, coalition bargaining, the importance of individual difference variables, international issues, the role of third parties, and ethical issues.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 718 - Executive Decision Making: Strategy Formation Processes


    Credits 2

    Explores classic cases and texts on organizational decision-making processes in order to improve participants’ capacities to contribute to the effective manufacturing of organizational decisions.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 719 - Executive Assessment and Development


    Credits 1

    Helps participants to be more capable of understanding and leading change. Includes framework of leadership competency grounded in paradoxical thinking. Leadership concepts presented. Leadership assessment completed for each participant.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 720 - International Seminar


    Credits 3

    Includes problems and environment of international business, which require integrative analysis of these problems. Under faculty supervision, students visit selected international enterprises operating outside the United States and produce a written analysis including specific recommendations. May be repeated to a maximum of three credits.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 722 - Service Operations


    Credits 2

    This course introduces students to the strategies, concepts, practices, and challenges of successful service operations. This course prepares students to identify and apply appropriate strategies and management processes to ensure efficient, effective, and quality oriented service operations, while achieving operational competitiveness.

    Prerequisites
    Admission to EMBA program and approval of Dean’s Office.

  
  • EMBA 723 - Applied Strategic Marketing


    Credits 2

    Designed to give executives the opportunity to apply marketing concepts in an effort to analyze, initiate and change marketing actions. Provides the knowledge and tools needed to analyze marketing problems.

    Prerequisites
    EMBA 713

  
  • EMBA 725 - Corporate Risk Management


    Credits 3

    This course will focus on the fundamentals of corporate risk management from a strategic decision-making perspective. The course emphasizes how exposures to strategic, operational, financial and pure risks affect the firm, and how risk exposures can be re-engineered to enhance shareholder value. Topics further include the major sources of risk, the measurement of risk exposures, methods, and strategies of managing and controlling risk.

    Prerequisites
      

  
  • ENG 601A - Advanced Composition


    Credits 3

    Explores writing and literacy. Students will develop greater awareness of themselves as strategic writiers by studying and creating texts for different audiences, purposes and contexts in a variety of styles and genres.

  
  • ENG 602A - Advanced Creative Writing II


    Credits 3

    Advanced workshop designed to hone students’ skills in writing fiction or poetry.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 402A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 605B - Research and Editing


    Library research, as distinct from experimental or laboratory research, and report writing and editing for students in all disciplines.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 405B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 605C - Writing For Publication


    Intensive study of the business of writing, designed to serve the needs of the freelance writer. Includes discussion of literary markets and popular literary genres.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 405C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 607B - Fundamentals of Technical Writing


    Credits 3

    Examines the rhetorical principles and composing practices necessary for writing effective technical documents and the role of writing in technical and industrial settings.

  
  • ENG 608A - Tutorial Techniques in English


    This undergraduate course, when taught by a member of the graduate faculty, may be used toward graduate degrees with the permission of advisor (maximum: six credits). A full description of this course may be found in the Undergraduate Catalog under the corresponding 400 number.

  
  • ENG 609A - Visual Rhetoric


    Study of the persuasive and aesthetic effects that visual elements have on readers/users in print and online documents. Visual elements include typography, graphics, images, color, paper or screen textures, alignment, and multimedia.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 409A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 609B - Rhetoric and the Environment


    Studies discourse about environmental topics using classical and contemporary rhetorical theory. The focus is on non-fiction prose and specialized genres including websites and technical documents. Students will learn a theoretical framework to analyze environmental discourse, and also gain practice in producing works of environmental rhetoric.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 409B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 611A - Advanced Linguistics


    Credits 3

    Applies the principles of linguistics to the analysis of English poetry and prose.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 411A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 611B - Principles of Modern Grammar


    Credits 3

    Surveys the structure of contemporary English grammar. Examines the workings of the English language from a linguistic perspective, concentrating primarily on sentence structure.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 411B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 612C - Seminar in Language and Cognition


    Credits 3

    This undergraduate course, when taught by a member of the graduate faculty, may be used toward graduate degrees with the permission of advisor (maximum: six credits). A full description of this course may be found in the Undergraduate Catalog under the corresponding 400 number.

  
  • ENG 614A - History of the English Language


    Credits 3

    History and development of the English language from its beginnings.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 414A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 614B - Development of American English


    Credits 3

    Introduction to the history of the English language in America and to the regional and social varieties of English which have resulted from this development. Includes survey of distinctively American vocabulary, pronunciation, spelling, and syntax.

    Formerly
    ENG 614

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 414B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 614C - Old English II


    Credits 3

    Continuation of the study of Old English through the reading of more complex literary texts such as Beowulf, the poems of the Exeter Book, the writings of Aelfric, etc.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 415C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 615B - Old English I


    Credits 3

    Study of the language and literature of England in the Anglo-Saxon period. After a review of the grammar, students will read basic prose and poetry in Old English. English majors may substitute this course for one semester of foreign language.

    Formerly
    ENG 614B

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 415B. Credit at 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 616A - Special Problems in English


    This undergraduate course, when taught by a member of the graduate faculty, may be used toward graduate degrees with the permission of advisor (maximum: six credits). A full description of this course may be found in the Undergraduate Catalog under the corresponding 400 number.

  
  • ENG 616C - Special Problems in English


    Credits 1-6

    Workshops in language and literature. May be repeated.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 416C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 622A - Topics in Literary Theory


    Credits 3

    Selected topics and issues in literary and cultural theory.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 422A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 625A - Themes of Literature


    Credits 3

    Study of themes, ideas, or literary attitudes significant in literary history.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 425A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits.

  
  • ENG 626A - Religion and Literature


    Credits 3

    Insights and relationships of religious themes, beliefs, and assumptions as they may bear upon the analysis of literary texts.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 426A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

    Prerequisites
    Graduate standing

  
  • ENG 626B - Mythology


    Credits 3

    Study of mythologies, such as Greek, Roman, and Native American, in cultural context.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 426B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 627B - Gender and Literature


    Credits 3

    Study of gender and literature through the ages. Focus may be aesthetic, historical, or thematic. Topics may vary.

    Same as
    WMST 427B

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 427B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 629A - Early American Humor


    Credits 3

    Investigation of the writings of American humorists from the eighteenth century through Mark Twain. Examines works by anonymous writers as well as humorists of New England, the Old Southwest, and the Far West.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 429A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 629B - Modern American Humor


    Credits 3

    Investigation of the writings of American humorists from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the works of Mark Twain, James Thurber, Dorothy Parker, Woody Allen, and Tom Robbins.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 429B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 629C - Literature of the American West


    Credits 3

    Study of literature of the American West.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 429C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 630A - Major Figures in British Literature


    Credits 3

    Seminar on one or more major figures in English literature.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 340A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 632A - Chaucer


    Credits 3

    Study of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, with emphasis on the Canterbury Tales.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 432A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 634A - Shakespeare: Tragedies


    Credits 3

    Intensive study of Shakespeare’s major tragedies.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 434A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 634B - Shakespeare: Comedies and Histories


    Credits 3

    Intensive study of Shakespeare’s major comedies and histories.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 434B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 635A - Milton


    Credits 3

    Intensive study of Milton’s poetry and selected prose.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 435A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 636A - Major Figures in American Literature


    Credits 3

    Seminar on one or more major figures in American literature.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 436A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 640A - Medieval English Literature


    Credits 3

    Study of the literature written in England from the sixth through the fifteenth century. Topics may include dream visions, romance, heroic poetry, saints’ lives, etc.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 440A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 640B - Gender and Early Literature


    Credits 3

    Study of gender, sexuality, and literature from the beginning to the Early Modern period. Topics may vary.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 440B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 641A - The Renaissance


    Credits 3

    Study of English literature of the sixteenth century, primarily Elizabethan.

  
  • ENG 641B - Gender and Renaissance Literature


    Credits 3

    Study of gender and literature in the Renaissance.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 441B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 642A - The Seventeenth Century


    Credits 3

    Study of English literature from 1603 to 1660.

  
  • ENG 643A - Restoration and Augustan Literature


    Credits 3

    Study of British literature from 1660 to 1740. Topics may include the genres of neoclassical drama and mock-epic, satire from Dryden through the Scriblerians, the periodical essay, and the birth of aesthetics.

  
  • ENG 643C - Later Eighteenth Century


    Credits 3

    Study of eighteenth-century British literature after 1740. Topics may include the growth in female authorship, the Johnson circle, and cultural contexts such as feminism and nationalism.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 443C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 644B - The Romantic Poets


    Credits 3

    Major poets in the Romantic Movement.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 444B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 645B - Victorian Poetry


    Credits 3

    Poetry of the middle and later nineteenth century.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 445B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 645C - Nineteenth-Century Prose Writers


    Credits 3

    Major prose writers of the Romantic and Victorian periods and their intellectual and literary milieu.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 445C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 646A - Modern British Literature


    Credits 3

    Study of British writing since 1900, including fiction, drama, and poetry.


    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 446A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 646B - Gender and Modern British Literature


    Credits 3

    Study of gender and literature in the British tradition. Topics may vary.

    Same as
    WMST 446B

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 446B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 652A - American Literature, 1620-1800


    Credits 3

    Study of American writing through 1800.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 452A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 652B - American Literature, 1800-1865


    Credits 3

    Study of American literature from 1800 to 1865.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 452B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 653A - American Literature, 1865-1918


    Credits 3

    Study of American literature from the Civil War through World War I.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 453A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 653B - American Literature, 1918-Present


    Credits 3

    Study of American literature from 1918 to the present.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 453B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 654B - Gender and Modern American Literature


    Credits 3

    Study of gender and literature in the American tradition. Topics may vary.


    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 454B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 660 - The American Short Story


    Credits 3

    Survey of the short story in America from the beginnings to modern times.

    Formerly
    ENG 674A

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 460. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 660A - Heroic Epic


    Credits 3

    Comparative approach to the forms, themes, and manners of performance of the epic and closely related genres.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 460A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 661A - The Study of Poetry and Poetics


    Credits 3

    Provides the student with the basic tools for the intelligent reading of poetry by extensive reading of poetry by English and American authors.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 461A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 662A - Modern British Poetry


    Credits 3

    Study of British poetry since 1900.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 462A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 662C - Modern American Poetry


    Credits 3

    Study of American poetry since 1900.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 462C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 663A - Classical Drama in Translation


    Credits 3

    Study of major Greek and Latin playwrights.

    Same as
    CLA 450

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 463A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 664A - English Drama to 1642


    Credits 3

    Survey of medieval and Renaissance drama to the closing of the theaters.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 464A. Credit at the 600-level requries additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 665B - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama


    Credits 3

    Survey of English drama from 1660 to 1800.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 465B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 666A - Nineteenth-Century Drama


    Credits 3

    Study of world drama in the nineteenth century.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 466A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 667A - Modern British Drama


    Credits 3

    Study of British drama from Shaw to the present.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 467A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 667B - Modern American Drama


    Credits 3

    Study of American drama since 1900.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 467B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 670A - The British Novel I


    Credits 3

    Study of the British novel from its origins to about 1800. Topics may include the rise of the novel from the materials of romance and realism, the formative decade of the 1740s, and the sub genres of Gothic and historical fiction.

  
  • ENG 670B - The British Novel II


    Credits 3

    Study of the British novel from about 1800 to 1914. Topics may include the role of serialization and circulating library and sub genres such as the bildungsroman, the social-problem novel, and imperial Gothic.

  
  • ENG 671A - Modern English Novel


    Credits 3

    British fiction from Conrad to 1945.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 471A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 credits.

  
  • ENG 671B - Contemporary English Novel


    Credits 3

    British fiction since 1945.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 471B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 673A - The Early American Novel


    Credits 3

    Study of the development of the novel in America to the time of Twain.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 473A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 673B - The Modern American Novel


    Credits 3

    The American novel from Twain through 1945.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 473B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 673C - The Contemporary American Novel


    The American novel since 1945.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 473C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 677A - Film and Literature


    Credits 3

    Comparative study of the relations of prose, poetry, and drama to the structure and themes of the cinema, from Dickens to the present.

  
  • ENG 678C - Special Topics in Folklore


    Credits 3

    This undergraduate course, when taught by a member of the graduate faculty, may be used toward graduate degrees with the permission of advisor (maximum: six credits). A full description of this course may be found in the Undergraduate Catalog under the corresponding 400 number.

  
  • ENG 684A - The Bible as Literature


    Credits 3

    Study of selected books of the Old and New Testaments as literature in their broader cultural contexts.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 484A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 685A - Asian Literature


    Credits 3

    Study of modern and contemporary Asian literature, including comparison and contrast with Western literature and culture. Content varies by semester.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 485A. Credit at the 600 level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 686A - Postcolonial Theory


    Credits 3

    Examines the significance of the Other in ex-colony. Reflects of colonialism, independence, subordination, hybridity, resistance, and ideology. Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spicak, Malcolm X, Stephen Greenblatt, among others, will be considered.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 468A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

    Prerequisites
    Any of the following: ENG 101 and ENG 102.

  
  • ENG 686B - Postcolonial Literature


    Credits 3

    Probes literature from the ex-colony: Africa, the Caribbean, Ireland, India, America, Canada, Australia. V.S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, Saman Rushdie, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Claude McKay, Maya Angelou, David Dabydeen, Chinua Achebe, among others, will be considered.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 486B. Credit at the 600-level require additional work.

    Prerequisites
    ENG 101 and ENG 102

  
  • ENG 691B - Environmental Literature


    Credits 3

    Study of environmental literature, both fiction and non-fiction.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 491B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 694A - Native American Literature


    Literature of Native-American peoples, oral traditions through contemporary works.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 494A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 695A - Early African-American Literature


    Study of early African-American literature, with emphasis upon the historical development of the African-American tradition in creative and critical writing.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 495A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 695B - Modern African-American Literature


    Credits 3

    Study of recent and contemporary works of African-American literature.

    Same as
    AAS 492

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 495B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

  
  • ENG 696B - Early Latino/a Literature


    Credits 3

    Examines prose and poetry by Latino and Latina writers from the colonial era through the end of the nineteenth century in the United States.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 496B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 696C - Contemporary Latino/a Literature


    Credits 3

    Examines prose and poetry by Latino and Latina writers since 1900 in the United States.

    Notes
    This course is crosslisted with ENG 496C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

  
  • ENG 700 - Bibliography and Methods


    Credits 3

    Bibliography, reference tools, introduction to scholarly methods, modern research techniques in language and literature, preparation and presentation of documented investigation.

    Notes
    To be taken in the student’s first year of graduate study.

  
  • ENG 701 - Contemporary Composition Theory


    Credits 3

    Theories that underline contemporary composition as a discipline and a profession, including the practical implications of literacy as it relates to college writing instruction, administration, and practice.

    Prerequisites
    Graduate standing.

  
  • ENG 702 - History of Rhetoric and Composition


    Credits 3

    Survey of ancient, medieval, Renaissance, enlightenment, and twentieth-century texts that establish terminologies and raise issues still vital to the theory and practice of composition and language study today.

    Prerequisites
    Graduate standing.

 

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