Active Course List

Course in which English Studies majors will synthesize, evaluate, and reflect upon coursework and prepare portfolios connecting their work to program outcomes. Must be taken during the last year in the major.

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

English Studies (BA)

On-site field experience, the nature of which is determined by the specific needs of the student's program option. May be repeated with change in topic.

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

Teaching English as a Foreign Language (CERT) | Technical Communication (BS)

Extensive reading and writing in an area for which the student has had basic preparation. May be repeated with change in topic.

Prerequisites:

Consent

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

Human-Animal Studies Minor | Scandinavian Studies Minor

Students will examine a current area of interest in the field of Writing Studies, including the topic's theoretical, scholarly, and pedagogical implications for writing and/or the teaching of writing. This course can be repeated for credit as the topic changes each time it is offered.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

Teaching Writing (GC)

Content changes. May be repeated.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Study of literature from the 21st Century, with an emphasis on how these works reflect contemporary concerns.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

The course will begin by discussing major issues in the field of Arab American Studies, the history of immigration and citizenship, the formation of a literary canon, and developments in Arab American writing. Students will learn about the waves of immigration in the 1880s through the 1920s, the literary communities that formed, and their contemporary legacy. The course will enable the students to better comprehend the historical and cultural contexts in which Arab American literature and art has evolved and the diverse perspectives of individual writers and artists.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Topics in genres such as fantasy and historical fiction and thematic topics such as survival or journeys. May be repeated with different subject matter.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

English (MA) English Education

Selected periods of literary study.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Topics on themes, issues, and developments in genres of the literatures of the world. Content changes. May be repeated.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

A study of selected novels from a variety of time periods and cultures, including Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

This course surveys the earliest Native American literary works, from oral tradition and songs to contemporary works and authors, with a particular emphasis on tribal and cultural contexts that identify these works as Native American.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

This course surveys the origins and development of Chicana/o and Latina/o literature, from oral narratives, early poetry, and narrative fiction and memoirs, through the Chicano Movement and the emergence of Chicana/o literature and drama. The course also examines contemporary Chicana/o and Latina/o narrative fiction, including issues related to im/migration, the urban experience, Chicana/o and Latina/o subjectivity, and the reappropriation and reinterpretation of myths, legends, and cultural figures in transnational context.Grading Method

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

This course surveys the earliest African American literary works, including slave narratives, poetry, folklore, and oration, through the 20th century movements such as the Jazz age, Harlem Renaissance, and the Black Arts movements of the 1960s, to contemporary works and authors.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

An advanced course in writing critical essays.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Advanced interdisciplinary writing emphasizes critical reading and thinking, argumentative writing, library research, and documentation of sources in an academic setting. Practice and study of selected rhetorics of inquiry employed in academic disciplines preparing students for different systems of writing.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

Literature and Composition (MA) | Teaching Writing (GC)

This course is designed to familiarize students with current theories and practices of writing centers as well as to provide training in working with writers one-on-one. During the course, students will discuss best practices for teaching writing and examine the roles writing centers play in helping students negotiate the terrain of college literacy. The focus of the course will be to prepare students in the history of writing centers, to discuss the current scholarship and theory on best practices in writing centers, and to outline and provide interactive opportunities into the pedagogy of writing center tutoring.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

Literature and Composition (MA) | Teaching Writing (GC)

Selected works of literature for students in grades 5-12 from a variety of countries and cultures.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

English (MA) English Education

Motivation and interests of and materials for adolescent readers.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

English (MA) English Education

Survey of books suitable for the Middle School classroom, covering a variety of topics and genres.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

English (MA) English Education

Introduces students to theories of usability and teaches students various methods to evaluate design for usability including heuristic evaluations, card-sorting, task-based evaluations, and fieldwork.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

Technical Communication (GC) | Technical Communication (MS)

Students learn how to research and write technical information for multiple cultures, both locally and internationally.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

Professional Communication (GC) | Technical Communication (GC) | Technical Communication (MS)

This course is designed to introduce students to technical project management. This introduction is achieved through participation in a simulated project management experience. Assignments include standard documentation associated with project management and reflective writing.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

Technical Communication (GC) | Technical Communication (MS)

Analysis and training focused on concepts and practices of visual design as they relate to technical and professional communication.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

Creative Writing (MFA) | Professional Communication (GC) | Technical Communication (GC) | Technical Communication (MS)

Topics in theory and practice of technical communication. Hands-on course which implements the theories discussed. May be repeated with different subject matter.

Areas of Interest:

Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Programs:

Technical Communication (GC) | Technical Communication (MS)