IAENG 204 CREATIVE WRITING
Introduction to the basic strategies and techniques of writing fiction and verse. Assigned exercises, accompanied by readings, are discussed in class. Opportunity to develop creative and critical skills through assignments and independent work. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Fall, Spring.

IHENG 220 READINGS IN BRITISH LITERATURE
Examines a particular period or literary movement, works of a particular author or group of authors from the British Isles, or a recurring theme in fiction or other literary forms. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Fall, Spring.

IHENG 240 READINGS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
An introduction to significant writers of the United States and their work, which may include fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction prose. May explore a particular theme, period, genre, or group of writers. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Fall, Spring.

IHENG 250 READINGS IN CONTINENTAL LITERATURE
Examines 18th- to 21st-century European literature in historical and cultural contexts. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Annually.

IHENG 252 LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST
Examines the culture of European Jews before the Holocaust and the literature that explores the destruction of that culture in World War II. Uses texts by such authors as Ida Fink, Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Nelly Sachs, and Jurek Becker. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Spring.

IHENG 260 READINGS IN WORLD LITERATURE
Reading and discussion of selected literary texts from the Ancient World: Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. May be repeated once as topics change. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Spring.

IHENG 286 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Reading and discussion of representative texts and illustrations from the genres of children’s literature, such as folklore, fantasy, contemporary realistic fiction, historical fiction, biography, poetry, and information books. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Fall, Spring.

IIENG 245 READINS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
An interdisciplinary introduction to African American literature and culture, which considers oral, written, and performed texts by African American cultural practitioners. Literary texts from 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-centuries. African American writers will be read in conversation with critical musical, political, and theoretical works. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Fall.

IIENG 270 LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
This interdisciplinary course introduces students to the traditions of environmental literature. Students will learn to think across the humanities, arts, and sciences. May explore a particular group of writers, genre, historical period, or bioregion. May be repeated once as topics change. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Annually.

ENG 200 LITERARY ANALYSIS
An introduction to the major in English, the course concentrates on refining critical reading abilities through intensive writing. Students will learn to ask questions about literary texts – their authorship, historical contexts, genres, construction, and the reasons for their complexity. Prerequisite: ITW 101. All English majors must take ENG 200 before completing 12 credits in English. English majors and minors only. Fall, Spring.

ENG 202 EXPOSITORY WRITING
Extensive writing and reading of various types of expository essays and other prose forms. Emphasis is on stylistic techniques and rhetorical devices. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Fall, Spring.

ENG 203 WOMEN’S WRITING
Focuses on effective rhetorical strategies for communicating women’s experiences, opinions, and knowledge, as well as personal, political, and feminist issues. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Fall.

ENG 208 TOPICS IN WRITING
Selected topics in specific areas of creative, nonfiction, professional, or other modes of writing. May be repeated once as topics change. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Annually.

ENG 261 CLASSICAL LITERATURE OF GREECE
Exploration of the literature of ancient Greece: Homeric epic, Athenian drama, and Platonic dialogue. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Fall, Spring.

ENG 280 CULTURAL STUDIES
Interdisciplinary study of texts and contexts. Texts examined may be selected from a number of fields. Topics may focus on popular culture, a cultural concept, a subculture, region, or period. May be repeated once as topics change. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Annually.

ENG 288 SCIENCE FICTION
Survey of the characteristic themes and forms of science fiction. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Spring, alternate years.

ENG 290 TOPICS
Selected topics in literature. May be repeated as topics change. Prerequisite: ITW 101. Annually.

ENG 298 INDEPENDENT STUDY
1-4 credits
Reading/writing in a selected area of English with a faculty member. Must be 4 credits to count as one of the two 200-level courses required for the English major. Prerequisite: ITW 101 or permission of instructor.

ENG 300 LITERARY FORM AND HISTORY
A study of literary form and history through readings and theoretical investigations of a single genre, such as poetry, fiction, drama, or the essay. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and ENG 200. Fall, Spring.

ENG 301 FICTION WORKSHOP
Discussion and evaluation of original manuscripts combined with reading and discussion of the theory of fiction. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Spring.

ENG 302 POETRY WORKSHOP
Class discussion of original student work combined with extensive reading in poetry and poetics. Analysis of major theories, technical innovations, and innovators. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Fall.

ENG 303 NONFICTION WORKSHOP
Nonfiction essay writing, focusing on style, rhetorical theory and strategies, and publication. Workshop format. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Fall.

ENG 304 WRITING FOR TEACHERS
Focuses on improving the writing skills of future teachers and the methods they can use to develop these skills in their future students. Prerequisites: ITW 101, one 200-level English course, and admission to Teacher Education. Spring.

ENG 306 AUTOBIOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Writing and revising several chapters of an autobiographical manuscript combined with extensive reading and discussion of the theories of autobiographical writing. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Spring.

ENG 308 ADVANCED TOPICS IN WRITING
Intensive study of writing techniques and applications in specialized areas of creative, nonfiction, or professional writing, as well as writing that does not easily fit into these categories. May be repeated once as topics change. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Annually.

ENG 312 DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR
Examination of English grammar and theory, including traditional, transformational-generative, and case grammar. Collateral readings will focus on applied linguistics and American dialects. Students develop skills for teaching grammar through written/oral exercises. Required for secondary English teacher certification. Open only to junior and senior English majors or by permission of instructor. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Fall.

ENG 321 ENGLISH LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS TO 18TH CENTURY
Survey of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the Enlightenment. Attention to historical and intellectual contexts, as well as development of the English language. Study of various genres: epic, lyric, drama, romance, and prose. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Fall.

ENG 322 ENGLISH LITERATURE: 18TH CENTURY TO PRESENT
Survey of major developments in English literature from the rise of Romanticism, the Victorian period, the literature of the World Wars I and II, and the contemporary period. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Spring.

ENG 323 MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
Advanced survey of medieval literature focusing particularly, but not exclusively, on the development of literary genres and themes in the British Isles. All texts will be read in translation. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Spring.

ENG 324 CHAUCER
A close study of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, with special attention to the connection between pilgrims and tales. We will read all tales in the original Middle English. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Fall.

ENG 326 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
Intensive study of the drama, poetry, and prose of the English renaissance. Special attention will be paid to a particular social or aesthetic dimension of these literary texts. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Fall.

ENG 327 SHAKESPEARE: POETRY AND PLAYS
A close study of Shakespeare’s poems and drama with special attention to the development of Shakespearean comedy, history, and tragedy. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Spring.

ENG 328 MILTON
A study of Milton’s art as it reflects his life’s changing allegiances – from his first identification as poet-priest to his last as blind-seer. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Spring.

ENG 329 19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
Writers and works best representing the ideals and controversies of 19th-century England from the Romantic movement to the Victorian era. Readings in such writers as Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, and others. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Every third year.

ENG 330 STUDIES IN BRITISH LITERATURE
Examines a particular author, period, or movement with a focus on the social, intellectual, and literary significance of the works considered. May be repeated as topics change. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Fall.

ENG 341 EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE
Major developments of American literature, culture, and thought from the pre-Columbian period to the 19th century. Emphasis is on American Indian oral literature, European visions, the formation of an Anglo-American literary tradition, the Enlightenment, and the American Revolution. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Fall, alternate years, beginning 2000.

ENG 342 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE
Examines major developments in American romanticism, realism, and naturalism in the context of 19th-century American culture. Emphasis on such writers as Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Douglass, Stowe, Twain, James, Howells, “local color” authors, Chopin, Crane, and Dreiser. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Alternate years.

ENG 343 20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE
Studies modern and contemporary texts by U.S. writers, with an emphasis on historical, aesthetic, and critical perspectives that link the texts to major movements such as Naturalism, Realism, and Postmodernism. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Every third semester.

ENG 344 STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Focuses on a particular theme, period, movement, or genre. Emphasis may be aesthetic, historical, or cultural. May be repeated as topics change. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Every third semester.

ENG 345 STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Examines literary traditions of African American cultural practitioners, including relations between oral and literary works, performance and reading, tradition and innovation. Texts by Black writers from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries are read in conversation with those from the contemporary moment. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Annually.

ENG 346 TRANSCENDENTALISM
Explores American Transcendentalism. Intensive reading and discussion of such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Whitman. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Alternate years.

ENG 347 MODERN AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE
Examines the major American Indian writers of the 20th century; emphasizes the American Indian literary renaissance. Historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts are explored. Authors include Momaday, Silko, Welch, Erdrich, Hogan, and Rose. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Spring.

ENG 350 STUDIES IN CONTINENTAL LITERATURE
Examines literature from Europe, with an emphasis on specific topics such as the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and Modernism. Authors may include Dante, Petrarch, Cervantes, Diderot, Voltaire, Proust, Mann, Kafka, Pirandello, Beckett, Bachmann, Duras, and Tolstoy. May be repeated as topics change. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Annually.

ENG 360 STUDIES IN WORLD LITERATURE
Examines texts from the Ancient World: Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. May be repeated as topics change. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Every third Spring.

ENG 370 STUDIES IN LITERATURES OF THE AMERICAS
Compares literatures such as those of Canada, the United States, and Central and South America. Attention to topics such as the writer’s voice, interrogation of traditions, the constructions of literary geography. May be repeated as topics change. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Alternate years.

ENG 381 WOMEN WRITERS
Emphasis is on the images, forms, contexts that shape women’s literary expression and that identify women’s lives in cultural, social, political spheres. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Annually.

ENG 390 STUDIES
Intensive study of selected topics in literature, language, and culture. May be repeated as topics change. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Occasionally.

ENG 395 SEQUENCE I
This course is the first of a full-year sequence. The Sequence I course acquaints students with a particular aspect of the field of English studies and exposes them to primary and secondary texts, as well as historical and cultural contexts. This course prepares students for the advanced seminar, ENG 495 Sequence II, which completes the yearlong sequence. Prerequisites: ITW 101, ENG 200, and ENG 300. Fall, Spring.

ENG 402 THEORY AND PRACTICE
This course examines the critical and theoretical contexts of various genres. Readings will include both theory and the genre under discussion. Students are required to write original work in the genre as well as critical and interpretive essays. May be repeated as topics change. Prerequisites: ITW 101, one 200-level English course, and one 300-level English course. Annually.

ENG 405 WRITING MINOR PORTFOLIO
Independent selection and intensive revision of writing completed for the writing minor. Students will compile a portfolio under the direction of an English faculty member. May be taken concurrently with another writing minor course. Prerequisites: ITW 101, one 200-level and one 300-level English course, 12 credits completed toward the writing minor, and permission of instructor. Fall, Spring.

ENG 490 ADVANCED STUDIES
Advanced study of selected topics in literature, language, and culture. May be repeated as topics change. Prerequisites: ITW 101, one 200-level English course, and one 300-level English course.

ENG 495 SEQUENCE II
Builds upon the student’s knowledge of the primary texts in ENG 395 Sequence I and involves students in theoretical and critical discussions in the field. Requires writing that incorporates advanced theory. Prerequisites: ITW 101, ENG 200, ENG 300, and ENG 395. Fall, Spring.

ENG 498 INDEPENDENT STUDY
1-8 credits
Advanced reading or writing in a selected area of English with a faculty member. Must be 4 credits to count as one of the three 400-level courses required for the English major. Repeatable for up to 8 credits. Prerequisites: ITW 101, one 200-level and one 300-level English course, and permission of instructor.