English (ENGL)
Credits: 0 (0-0-0)
ENGL 1100 Jaguar Bootcamp is a standalone course designed to improve students’ reading comprehension of college-level texts and their writing effectiveness. The course emphasizes annotation, reflection, critical reading, and critical writing skills. Successful completion of this course with a C or better completes TSI requirements (TSI, 2002) and prepares students to take ENGL 1301. The credit earned for this course does not count toward any degree offered by the university. *Note this course is NOT COREQUISTE. If a student wishes to take ENGL 1301 concurrently, the student should sign up for ENGL 1300 or ENGL 1101. TSI Restriction(s): none
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credit: 1 (1-0-0)
This boot camp is designed to improve students’ reading comprehension of college-level texts and their writing effectiveness. Successful completion of this course with a C or better fulfills INRW TSI requirements (TSI, 2002). Credit earned for this course does not count toward any degree offered by the university.
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate level students.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
This course is designed to improve students’ reading comprehension of college-level texts and their writing effectiveness. Successful completion of this course with a C or better fulfills INRW TSI requirements (TSI, 2002). Credit earned for this course does not count toward any degree offered by the university.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Introduces students to college-level reading and writing through the development of reading habits and composing practices that will enable students to respond critically and communicate persuasively to a variety of audiences. TSI Restriction(s): Reading
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Introduces students to college-level reading and writing through the development of reading habits and composing practices that will enable students to respond critically and communicate persuasively to a variety of audiences. This course offers the same content at ENGL 1301: Composition I, but it does not have a TSI restriction and is co-requisite with ENGL 1300.
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate level students.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Introduces students to college-level reading and writing through the development of reading habits and composing practices that will enable students to respond critically and communicate persuasively to a variety of audiences. This course offers the same content at ENGL 1301: Composition I, but it does not have a TSI restriction and is co-requisite with ENGL 1101.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
This course builds on the reading and writing skills developed in ENGL 1301 and invites students to enter into academic discourse through research wherein they will be asked to synthesize and respond to a variety of perspectives on a topic of their choosing. Students will also read and compose a variety of texts oral, written, and visual.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Students will be introduced to the craft of creative writing.
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate level students.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Intensive study and practice of technical and professional genres such as proposals, reports, instructions, policies and procedures, e-mail messages, letter, and descriptions of products and services. Students will also practice individual and collaborative processes involve in the creation of ethical and efficient documents.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
This course examines discourses associated with borderlands broadly conceived as transnational, cultural, and material spaces. Students in this course will learn about the history and theory of a range of borderland rhetorics. Students will also apply this knowledge through the analysis and production of text.
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate level students.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
This course examines writing and communication in professional contexts. Students analyze and compose in workplace genres and examine the ways these genres fulfill audience expectations, communicate information verbally and visually, and function as responses to rhetorical situations common to the workplace. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, and Writing
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate level students.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Compares a variety of texts from the British Isles, its former colonies, and Commonwealth nations, and considers the ways that literature has shaped and reflected images of British cultural identity.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Considers the ways in which literature has shaped, reflected, and challenged perceptions of American cultural identity through the study of a variety of texts, both literary and historical.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Considers texts from diverse genres, periods, and cultural traditions with special attention to critical thinking and writing within a framework of cultural diversity. Readings will include historical accounts, letters, essays, poetry, drama, memoirs, speeches, scientific writing, religious tracts, political treaties, philosophy, novels, oral traditions, and popular and folk literatures.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Introduces students to the creative art of fiction. Areas of emphasis may include American, British, Continental and/or Non-Western fiction, as well as specific historical periods. Can include prose narratives, short stories, novellas, and novels, as well as the social function of fiction more generally.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Selected topics in American, British, or continental and/or Non-Western drama. Emphasis may be on historical development, certain periods or some other approach to the study of drama.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Introduces students to the appreciation and analysis of poetry. Includes instruction in scansion and metrics, and the relationship between form and content.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
A survey of children’s literature. The course includes various authors and illustrators in such genres as the oral tradition, fantasy, realistic and historical fiction, poetry, and the picture book. TSI Restriction(s): Math
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
This course will introduce students to the contemporary work of English Studies, including but not limited to cultural studies, critical ethnic studies, literary studies, and rhetoric and composition. Students will analyze and produce texts across a variety of genres, media, and cultures, and engage in dynamic critical conversations. They will also develop and reflect on their writing process and practices. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Introduction to the interdisciplinary field of visual studies, both theoretical and practical. Includes the study of film, television, advertising, photography, and/or graphic novels.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Practice and refinement of the writing process with emphasis on audience, purpose and form; paying attention to rhetorical invention, arrangement and style appropriate to the particular topic. May be repeated once when a different topic is scheduled. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Repeat Status: Course may be repeated 1 time(s).
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
A study of the history of textual production. The course focuses on the technological innovations that have changed how texts are produced, circulated, and read. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Students with a semester level of Freshman or Sophomore may not enroll.Graduate level students may not enroll.
Repeat Status: Course may be repeated 1 time(s).
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
This course examines strategies and techniques used by professional editors across professions and disciplines. Students explore critical issues in editing and apply professional standards and ethical frameworks to edit a range of texts. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Students with a semester level of Freshman or Sophomore may not enroll.Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Required course for literature students. This course prepares students for the advanced literary analysis expected in upper-division literature courses. Students will interpret literary texts from a variety of critical perspectives and methodologies. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
This course introduces students to concepts, traditions, and debates in rhetorical theory and provides experience in the application of rhetoric in English studies as a discipline.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
This course introduces students to concepts, traditions, and debates in critical theory, and provides experience in the application of critical theory in English studies as a discipline.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
This course explores grammar in context. In addition to covering basic and advanced concepts of grammar, usage and punctuation, and techniques and practices for effective writing, this course also explores the ways in which grammar is used rhetorically by authors across contexts. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Students with a semester level of Freshman or Sophomore may not enroll.Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Introduces students to the types of writing they will be asked to do as humanities majors, including short response essays, review essays, analytic essays, argumentative essays, and research reports.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Selected readings in British literature from the Medieval period until the Early Modern period. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
In addition to introducing Shakespeare's major genres, this course invites students to consider Shakespeare's cultural status, to ask how social difference informs his works, and to study adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare in diverse contexts. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Canonical and noncanonical literature of the British Isles and Empire, covering all of or part of the period 1660-1900. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
A study of literatures and cultures across the global Anglosphere from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Study of Mexican American or Chicana/o/x literature and culture in historical context. Includes poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction prose.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Survey of early American literature and culture from the Colonial Period to the early nineteenth century. Includes poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction prose. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Canonical and noncanonical American writers from the 19th century. Explores cultural background and representative works, including poetry and nonfiction prose. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
A study of American poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction prose from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Greek and Roman mythology; epics of Western Europe, as background for the study of literature in the English language.. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Study of African American literature and culture in historical context. Includes poetry, fiction, drama and non-fictionprose.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credit: 1 (1-0-0)
This course will help prepare students to enter a professional teaching field. Students will demonstrate growth over the university experience, and prepare to for relevant educator licensing exams.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
This course supports students in developing both knowledge of any proficiency in a variety of technical writing genres. Students will pay particular attention to the ways technical writing genres fulfill audience expectations, employ usability standards, communicate information through both verbal and visual means, and fulfill ethical commitments, including commitments to environmental sustainability. Students will also gain hands-on experience writing in the genres in response to workplace scenarios. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
An introduction to the scientific study of language. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Study of advanced research methods, writing, rhetoric, and grammar.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
This course introduces students to research methodologies in the field of Rhetoric and Composition. Students examine the potential limitations of various research methods and develop and implement a research plan for their capstone project in the major. While taking the course, students will be implementing their research design in their internship or service learning experience.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (0-0-3)
Students in this course engage in a pre-approved semester-long internship or service learning project with a community partner. They also reflect on their experiences and engage in career planning. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Repeat Status: Course may be repeated 1 time(s).
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
A study of the relationship between rhetoric and culture. The course focuses on discursive practices and the ways they both shape and are shaped by human culture. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
This course examines the genre of professional grant writing. Students will learn methods for researching, writing, editing, and designing effective grants. Students will also develop strategies for working with nonprofit organizations to identify needs, to research appropriate grant opportunities, and to compose and submit grant proposals to funding agencies. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
A study of digital media and culture. The course focuses on the impact of digital media on cultural practices and human interaction. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Survey of the chief nineteenth century poets and prose writers, with some attention to their colonial predecessors.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Selected topics in British or American literature and/or world literature and language. A topic for intensive investigation will be selected for each offering of the course. May be repeated once for credit.
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Repeat Status: Course may be repeated 1 time(s).
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
This course examines Latinx writers including but not limited to those of Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Indigenous, and Latin American descent in the United States. Can also encompass the literature of the Américas more broadly as well as the immigrant experience. Emphasis may be on a selected country of origin, period, genre, theoretical perspective, or issue. (the use of "x" in Latinx is a gender neutral term that replaces the "a/o" in Latina/o.) TSI Restriction(s): Reading, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Required course for ENGL with Teacher Certification students. The course focuses on strategies for teaching language arts in grades 7-12 (including reading, viewing, and listening, the structure and development of the English language, grammar, and oral communication and media literacy). Students will create classroom activities and lesson plans, research and analyze pedagogy, and build their teaching portfolio. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Required course for ENGL with Teacher Certification students. The course focuses on strategies for teaching literature and writing for various audiences and purposes in grades 7-12. Students will create classroom activities and lesson plans, research and analyze pedagogy, and build their teaching portfolio. TSI Restriction(s): Reading and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Study of film, television, advertising, graphic novels, and/or photography as well as current theory. Includes extensive analysis of key aspects of contemporary culture that rely on visual images. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, and Writing
Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.
Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
An intensive examination of a critical literary approach or a special topic in literary and cultural studies requiring the production of an extensive research-based project. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, and Writing
Restrictions: Students with a semester level of Freshman, Junior or Sophomore may not enroll.Graduate level students may not enroll.