ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION
Go to class! As a discipline, English is defined by both materials and methods. While students can certainly access the materials—texts of many kinds, defined in many ways—on their own, the methods require participation in a community of scholars, which is the role of the classroom lecture and discussion. Students learn from each other as well as from faculty, and miss a significant portion of the educational experience when they miss class meetings or fail to participate in discussions. The English Department therefore affirms the importance of regular class attendance and supports penalties for non-attendance as indicated on the syllabi of individual faculty members.
Courses at the 500-level
Students are introduced to the advanced study of literature and to current critical theories and methodologies.
3 credit hours
- Graduate status and consent of department chair
Various approaches to language and composition studies are offered. Topics will vary and may include history of the language, linguistics, rhetoric, or the current state of composition theory and pedagogy.
3 credit hours
- Graduate status and consent of department chair
Students view texts as cultural products and as forms of cultural practice in the context of such issues as racial, sexual, and class politics.
3 credit hours
- Graduate status and consent of department chair
Focus is on one or more areas of contemporary feminist theory in conjunction with literature by women and/or representations of women in literature.
3 credit hours
- Graduate status and consent of department chair
Issues of culture, identity, race, and power are considered in the literature of one or more ethnic groups and/or of African Americans.
3 credit hours
- Graduate status and consent of department chair
Students examine representative ideas found in African, South Asian, and Caribbean postcolonial literatures and their contributions to Western discourses of race, ethnicity, and gender and to debates about literary form and canon formation.
3 credit hours
- Graduate status and consent of department chair
Focus is on the theory and practice of a particular genre or on a comparative cross-genre approach.
3 credit hours
- Graduate status and consent of department chair
Achievements of British writers from the medieval and Renaissance periods are considered within their cultural contexts. Periods, topics, and approaches vary with instructor.
3 credit hours
- Graduate status and consent of department chair
Achievements of Restoration and eighteenth-century, romantic and Victorian British writers are considered within their cultural contexts. Periods, topics, and approaches vary with instructor.
3 credit hours
- Graduate status and consent of department chair
Achievements of modern and contemporary British writers are considered within their cultural contexts. Periods, topics, and approaches vary with instructor.
3 credit hours
- Graduate status and consent of department chair
Achievements of American writers from the beginning through the nineteenth century are explored within their cultural contexts. Periods, topics, and approaches vary with instructor.
3 credit hours
- graduate status and consent of department chair
Achievements of American writers of the past century are examined within their cultural contexts. Periods, topics, and
approaches vary with instructor.
3 credit hours
- graduate status and consent of department chair
Significant issues in literary and cultural theory are considered.
3 credit hours
- Graduate status and consent of department chair
Students write, revise, and present original work to be discussed and critiqued by workshop members under the direction of the instructor. Work of publishable quality is the goal.
12 credit hours
- Consent of department chair
- Graduate status
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