University Catalog 2024-2025

English

The M.A. is a 33-hour program offered in four concentrations: literature, rhetoric and composition, linguistics and film studies. Regardless of which path you choose, you'll select from a broad array of courses that will help you meet your personal and professional goals.

Requirements for MA in English

We offer four areas of concentration that represent distinct dimensions of our discipline. Focus Tracks are as follows:

Degrees earned will be distributed as "Master of Arts in English" or "Master of Arts in English" with the concentration specified.

While all options share an emphasis on research and critical thinking, each provides diverse pathways for exploring culture and language. You'll hone your expertise through each concentration's core and elective curriculum. At the end of the 33-hour program, you'll fine-tune and showcase your knowledge through a capstone project.

Student Financial Support

Teaching assistantships are available for a limited number of promising students. Assistantships are awarded upon admission and are only available for full-time students who begin their graduate work in the fall semester. These students will work with an experienced faculty member during their first year in the program before teaching classes during their second year. Most TAs will teach composition in the First-Year Writing Program while a few others may teach linguistics or film studies. 

More Information

English Program Website

Admissions Requirements

Students must submit a personal statement, writing sample, and two letters of recommendations, with an optional third letter. The application deadline is June 15 for fall semester admission and November 1 for spring. The application deadline to be considered for a teaching assistantship is February 1. Students are admitted for either the fall or spring semesters.

Applicant Information

  • Delivery Method: On Campus
  • Entrance Exam: None
  • Interview Required: None

Application Deadlines

  • Fall: June 15; February 1 (Aid)
  • Spring: November 15

Faculty

  • Christopher M. Anson
  • Barbara A. Bennett
  • Belle McQuaide Boggs
  • Kirsti Karra Cole
  • Huiling Ding
  • Robin M. Dodsworth
  • Marsha Gabrielle Gordon
  • Hans Dodds Kellner
  • Christopher Lindgren
  • Jorge Mari
  • LaTanya Denise McQueen
  • Jeffrey Ingle Mielke
  • Jason Miller
  • James S. Mulholland
  • Miriam E. Orr
  • Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
  • Jeffrey Leo Reaser
  • Laura Ruth Severin
  • Carter Sickels
  • Jason Swarts
  • Justin Tackett
  • Anu Thapa
  • Erik R. Thomas
  • Walter A. Wolfram
  • Anne Baker
  • Agnes Bolonyai
  • Helen Jane Burgess
  • Christopher James Crosbie
  • Marc K. Dudley
  • Casie J. Fedukovich
  • Paul Camm Fyfe
  • Andrew Robert Johnston
  • Jennifer Anne Nolan
  • Stacey L. Pigg
  • David M. Rieder
  • Margaret Simon
  • Timothy Linwood Stinson
  • Douglas M. Walls
  • Rebecca Ann Walsh
  • Zachary Charles Beare
  • Michelle McMullin
  • Brian Blackley
  • Anna Marie Gibson-Knowles
  • John J. Kessel
  • James Robert Knowles
  • Jill Collins McCorkle
  • Joseph H. Millar
  • John Paul Stadler
  • Deborah Hooker
  • John J. Kessel
  • Lucinda H. MacKethan

Emeritus Faculty

  • Barbara Baines
  • Anne Baker
  • John Balaban
  • William Wilton Barhardt
  • Phillip E. Blank
  • Michael P. Carter
  • James W. Clark
  • David H. Covington
  • Angela Davis-Gardner
  • Robert S. Dicks
  • Joseph A. Gomez
  • James M. Grimwood
  • Charlotte Gross
  • Antony Howard Harrison
  • Linda Holley
  • Marvin Hunt
  • Susan M. Katz
  • Margaret King
  • Robert Kochersberger
  • Dorianne Louise Laux
  • Lucinda MacKethan
  • Leila S. May
  • Carolyn Rae Miller
  • Catherine E. Moore
  • John Morillo
  • Devin A. Orgeron
  • Ann M. Penrose
  • Carmine A. Prioli
  • Dick J. Reavis
  • Sharon M. Setzer
  • Judy Jo Small
  • Lee Smith
  • Jean J. Smoot
  • Allen Frederick Stein
  • Jon F. Thompson
  • Mary Helen Thuente
  • John N. Wall
  • Catherine A. Warren
  • Harry C. West
  • Robert V. Young

Assistant Professor

  • Yasheng She

Courses

ENG 507  Writing for Health and Environmental Sciences  (3 credit hours)  

Readings, on-site research, document gathering, and analysis of writing in health and environmental science fields. Students study, practice, and present major forms of writing in their profession. Professional portfolio due at the end of the semester. Intended for students interested in exploring or pursuing writing careers in medicine, pharmaceuticals, nutrition, agriculture, ecology, or other health and environmental science-related industries, or professionals who wish to improve knowledge and skills.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing, Doctoral student, Master's student

Typically offered in Fall only

This course is offered alternate odd years

ENG 508  Usability Studies for Technical Communication  (3 credit hours)  

Advanced study of usability inspection, inquiry, and testing theories and practices related to instrumental and instructive texts (i.e., computer-related, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, financial, etc.). Practical experience testing a variety of texts using several testing methods, including completion of a substantial, lab-based usability test. For students planning careers in technical communication, human factors, software design, and multimedia design.

Prerequisite: ENG 517

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 509  Old English Literature  (3 credit hours)  

Study of Old English language with selections from important poems including Beowulf. Examination of the poetry in the light of various modern critical approaches.

Typically offered in Spring only

This course is offered alternate years

ENG 510  Middle English Literature  (3 credit hours)  

Study of major works of medieval English literature (exclusive of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) in historical context, as reflections of and influences on social and cultural change. Includes works such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Langland's Piers Plowman and Malory's Morte d'Arthur.

Typically offered in Spring only

This course is offered alternate years

ENG 511  Theory and Research In Composition  (3 credit hours)  

Research and scholarship in composition and the teaching of writing. Major theoretical perspectives (such as expressive, social, cognitive, feminist), current issues (such as audience, invention, revision, evaluation) and various research methods.

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 512  Theory and Research In Professional Writing  (3 credit hours)  

Introduction to research and scholarship in professional writing and writing in the workplace. Major theoretical perspectives for studying writing; current issues (such as usability, readability, collaboration, gender, authorship); and various research methods.

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 513  Empirical Research In Composition  (3 credit hours)  

Reading and evaluation of empirical research in written composition; guided practice in qualitative and quantitative methods. Basic principles of research; problem definition, research design and statistical analysis, description and assessment of written products and processes.

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 514/COM 514  History Of Rhetoric  (3 credit hours)  

Historical development of rhetorical theory with attention to contemporaneous rhetorical practice and philosophical trends. Major focus on the classical period with briefer coverage of medieval, Renaissance, 18th-century, and 19th-century developments. Implications for contemporary theory and practice, including pedagogical practice.

Typically offered in Fall only

This course is offered alternate even years

ENG 515  Rhetoric Of Science and Technology  (3 credit hours)  

The relationships among rhetoric, scientific knowledge and technological development and of changes in how these relationships understood historically. Practice in critical analysis of scientific and technical discourse. Consideration of scientific and technical language and of public controversy concerning science and technology.

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 516/COM 516  Rhetorical Criticism: Theory and Practice  (3 credit hours)  

Development, achievements, limitation of major critical methods in the 20th century, including neo-Aristotelian, generic, metaphoric, dramatistic, feminist, social-movement, fantasy-theme and postmodern approaches. Criticism of political discourse,institutional discourse, discourses of law, medicine, religion, education, science, the media. Relations between rhetorical and literary criticism and other forms of cultural analysis.

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or the equivalent of COM/ENG 321 or COM/ENG 411

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 517  Advanced Technical Writing, Editing and Document Design  (3 credit hours)  

Advanced study of technical communication practice, including content management, document design, and technical editing and usability. For students planning careers as technical communicators.

P: ENG 314 or graduate standing

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 518  Publication Management for Technical Communicators  (3 credit hours)  

Advanced study of publication and team management issues such as staffing, scheduling, cost-reduction and subcontracting. For students planning careers as technical communicators.

Prerequisite: ENG 517

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 519  Online Information Design and Evaluation  (3 credit hours)  

Concepts and practices related to multimedia information design, information architectures, human-computer interaction, and genre for complex websites.

Prerequisite: ENG 517

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 520  Science Writing for the Media  (3 credit hours)  

Coverage of three areas: how to write science articles for a variety of mass media, how to think critically about how mass media cover science, and how to think critically about science itself. Preparation for careers not only in mass media, but also in scientific and technological organizations.

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 523  Language Variation Research Seminar  (3 credit hours)  

Field-initiated research. Group and individual research topics focused on current sociolinguistic issues related to language variation and changes. Ethnographic and quantitative methods of analysis.

Prerequisite: ENG 525

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 524  Introduction to Linguistics  (3 credit hours)  

Introduction to theoretical linguistics, especially for students in language, writing and literature curricula. Phonology, syntax, semantics, history of linguistics; relation of linguistics to philosophy, sociology and psychology; application of theory to analysis of texts.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or 12 hrs. in ENG

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 525  Variety In Language  (3 credit hours)  

Language variation description, theory, method and application; focus on regional, social, ethnic and gender varieties; sociolinguistic analysis, basic discourse analysis.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or 12 hrs. in ENG

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 527/ENG 727  Discourse Analysis  (3 credit hours)  

Overview of major issues, theories, and research methods in contemporary discourse analysis. It explores how language as a form of social practice regulates social actions, relations and identities; how ways of speaking construct and are constructed by social order, cultural practice, and individual agency. Texts/discourses are analyzed to examine how speakers create meaning through formal linguistic choices; what the micro-organization of talk reveals about social order; how critical understanding of discourse helps to interpret complex processes of social life.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 528  Sociophonetics  (3 credit hours)  

A survey of sociophonetics: the study of language variation using modern phonetic techniques. Acoustic analysis of consonants, vowels, prosody, voice quality. Speech perception experiments and how they can be applied to a variety of issues. Applications to theoretical issues in sound change, sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology, and cognition of language. Graduate standing required.

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 529  16th-Century Non-Dramatic English Literature  (3 credit hours)  

Prose and poetry of the English Renaissance, excluding drama. Special attention to major authors, including Spenser and Sidney, and to intellectual, cultural and literary backgrounds and developments. Introduction to pertinent methods and issues of scholarly inquiry and critical interpretation.

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 530  17th-Century English Literature  (3 credit hours)  

A close examination of the literature of England from 1600 to 1660 with emphasis on major literary figures and movements, development of important literary forms and genres and relationship between literary texts of this period and their philosophical, political and theological contexts. Some bibliographical and textural assignments. Content and focus varies according to instructor's emphasis, but writers covered usually include Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Marvell and Browne.

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 531  American Colonial Literature  (3 credit hours)  

Survey of American literature and thought from the beginning to adoption of the constitution. Representative works such as travel and exploration reports, Indian captivity narratives, diaries, journals, auto biographies, sermons and poetry.

Typically offered in Spring only

This course is offered alternate years

ENG 532  Narrative Analysis  (3 credit hours)  

Introduction to theories concerning the structure, use, and interpretation of narratively organized discourse; application of methods of narrative analysis to both spoken and written narratives.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing

Typically offered in Fall only

This course is offered alternate even years

ENG 533  Bilingualism and Language Contact  (3 credit hours)  

Linguistic, cultural and socio-political aspects of bi- and mulitlingualism in a global context. Issues and implications of bilingualism from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Topics inlcude: language maintenance and shift; child and adult bilingualism; relationship between language, culture and identity in bi- and multilingual situations; psycholinguistic aspects and lingustic outcomes of bilingual contact, such as code-switching, convergence and language attrition; language ideology, the politics of language choice and language policy; globalization and intercultural communication. Must hold graduate standing or get consent of instructor for advanced undergraduate students.

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 539/WL 539  Seminar In World Literature  (3 credit hours)  

Rotating topics in world literature, including treatment of the subject's theoretical or methodological framework. Possible subjects: colonialism and literature; orality and literature; the Renaissance; the Enlightenment; translation; comparison ofNorth and South American literatures; African literary traditions; post-modernism and gender. Readings in English (original languages encouraged but not required).

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 540  History Of Literary Criticism  (3 credit hours)  

Survey of the history of literary criticism from Antiquity to early Modern period. Introduction to major theoretical definitions of literature and modes of practical criticism. Close study of Aristotle's Poetics, Sidney's Apology for Poetry, Pope's Essay on Criticism, Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, Eliot's essays and other landmark works in development of literary criticism.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or PBS status

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 541  Literary and Cultural Theory  (3 credit hours)  

A survey of literary theory in the 20th century from New Criticism to postmodernism. Examines the virtues and pitfalls of these approaches to the study of culture and literature. A course on issues, concepts, theorists and the sociohistorical and political context in which the theorists are writing. Taught in English. No formal pre-requisites. However, students who have not had advanced literature will be disadvantaged.

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 548/AFS 548/ENG 448/AFS 448  African-American Literature  (3 credit hours)  

Survey of African-American literature and its relationships to American culture, with an emphasis on fiction and poetry since 1945. Writers such as Bontemps, Morrison, Hurston, Baldwin, Hayden, Brooks, Naylor, Harper, and Dove.

Requirement: Junior Standing

GEP Humanities

Typically offered in Fall and Summer

ENG 549  Modern African Literature  (3 credit hours)  

The works of the most important writers shaping modern African literature in English (and English translation). Selections from East, West, North and South Africa, spanning colonial through post-colonial Africa--from literature of protest and culture conflict to that of disillusionment, reappraisal and feminism.

Typically offered in Spring only

This course is offered alternate years

ENG 550  British Romantic Period  (3 credit hours)  

A study of British literature during the Romantic era (1780s-1830s), including poetry, periodicals, novels, drama, and criticism as well as their political and cultural contexts.

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 551/ENG 451  Chaucer  (3 credit hours)  

Introduction to the study of Chaucer through an intensive reading of The Canterbury Tales.

R: Sophomore standing and above

GEP Global Knowledge, GEP Humanities

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 555  American Romantic Period  (3 credit hours)  

The literary culture of the United States from 1820s through 1860s, setting works of transcendentalists and other romantic writers within sociohistorical contexts. Consideration of writing by women, slave narratives and popular fiction as well as such major figures as Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Melville.

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 558  Studies In Shakespeare  (3 credit hours)  

An intensive study of a particular phase of the Shakespeare canon. Emphasis will normally be on one dramatic genre (tragedy, comedy, history), but occasionally the focus may be more limited.

Typically offered in Fall and Summer

ENG 560  British Victorian Period  (3 credit hours)  

Explore how writers represented the tumultuous Victorian era (1837-1901), spanning responses to industrialization, political reform, religion, colonialism, class, gender, and race at home and abroad. The course covers an array of literary forms and seeks to include perspectives from within the British Isles as well as from across the British empire.

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 561  Milton  (3 credit hours)  

An intensive reading of Milton with attention to background materials in history and culture of seventeenth-century England.

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 562  18TH-Century English Literature  (3 credit hours)  

British writers of the period 1600-1790 studied in historical and cultural contexts. Usually includes works by Dryden, Swift, Pope, Defoe, Mandeville, Boswell and Johnson, but addition of other significant writers possible.

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 563  18TH-Century English Novel  (3 credit hours)  

Selected British novels of the Restoration and eighteenth century from a variety of contemporary critical perspectives. Such writers as Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Burney, Smollett and Austen.

Typically offered in Spring only

This course is offered alternate years

ENG 564  Victorian Novel  (3 credit hours)  

Study of selected British novels published between 1837 and 1901 in contexts of the development of the genre, historical period and current literary theory. Such writers as Dickens, Thackeray, Bronte, Trollope, Eliot, Meredith and Hardy.

Typically offered in Spring only

This course is offered alternate years

ENG 565  American Realism and Naturalism  (3 credit hours)  

Study of literary culture of United States from 1860s to early 1900s with emphasis on fiction by such realists and naturalists as Twain, Howells, Chesnutt, James, Crane, Wharton, Dreiser and Norris. Inclusion of prose of writers such as Adams and DuBois possible.

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 570  20TH-Century British Prose  (3 credit hours)  

Examination of British fiction of this century and relationship of significant intellectual, historical and political issues. Inclusion of such writers as Joyce, Conrad, Woolf, Lawrence, Beckett and Murdoch possible but also post-colonial novelists as well.

Typically offered in Fall only

This course is offered alternate years

ENG 571  20TH-Century British Poetry  (3 credit hours)  

Development of English poetry from its late Victorian phase through Modernism to present post-war scene. Inclusion of such writers as Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Smith, Auden, Larkin, Heaney, Wolcott and Hill possible.

Typically offered in Spring only

This course is offered alternate years

ENG 572  Modern British Drama  (3 credit hours)  

Survey of modern British drama from its beginnings at turn of the century to present.

Typically offered in Fall only

This course is offered alternate years

ENG 573  Modern American Drama  (3 credit hours)  

A survey of modern American drama centering on major figures.

Typically offered in Fall only

This course is offered alternate years

ENG 575  Southern Writers  (3 credit hours)  

Introduction to literary culture of "the South," tracing the roots of the twentieth-century "Southern Renaissance" in such ante-bellum genres as plantation fiction, Southwestern humor, fugitive-slave narration and pastoral elegy. Examination of persistence of "Southern" writing within increasingly standardized culture of the United States.

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 576  20TH-Century American Poetry  (3 credit hours)  

Development of modern American poetry from rebellion against the romantic and genteel verse of the 1890's; special attention to Robinson, Frost, Pound, Williams, Stevens and Ransom.

Typically offered in Spring only

This course is offered alternate years

ENG 577  20th-Century American Prose  (3 credit hours)  

An examination of representative American writers of novel and short fiction.

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 578  English Drama To 1642  (3 credit hours)  

Elizabethan and Jacobean drama from 1580 to 1642, excluding Shakespeare. Coverage of such writers as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher, Heywood, Tourneur and Ford.

Prerequisite: ENG 261 and upper division or Graduate standing

Typically offered in Fall only

This course is offered alternate years

ENG 579  Restoration and 18th-Century Drama  (3 credit hours)  

Representative British plays of the period 1660-1780 studied in cultural, social and ethical contexts. Usually includes works by Etherege, Wycherley, Behn, Dry-den, Otway, Vanburgh, Farquhar, Congreve, Lillo, Gay, Goldsmith and Sheridan.

Typically offered in Spring only

This course is offered alternate years

ENG 580  Literary Postmodernism  (3 credit hours)  

Post-1945 literary theory in relationship with representative avant-garde writers. Theoretical and argumentative essays in such areas as chaos theory, deconstruction, feminism and the limits of fiction. Fiction readings by Calvino, Pynchon, Barthelme, Cortazar and others.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing

Typically offered in Spring only

This course is offered alternate years

ENG 582  Studies in Literature  (3 credit hours)  

Variation in content. Selected problems and issues in literature.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 583  Studies In Rhetoric and Writing  (3 credit hours)  

Variation in content. Selected problems and issues in rhetoric and writing.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 584  Studies In Linguistics  (3 credit hours)  

Variation in content. Selected problems and issues in linguistics.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 585  Studies In Film  (3 credit hours)  

Variation in content. Selected problems and issues in film.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 586  Studies In Theory  (3 credit hours)  

Variation in content. Selected problems and issues in theory.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 587  Interdisciplinary Studies in English  (3 credit hours)  

Content varies. Selected topics and issues that cross disciplinary boundaries in English Studies. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Graduate standing is required.

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 588  Fiction Writing Workshop  (3 credit hours)  

Advanced work in techniques of writing fiction for students with substantial experience in writing. Workshop sessions with students commenting on each other's work.

Prerequisite: ENG 488 or ENG 489

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 589  Poetry Writing Workshop  (3 credit hours)  

Advanced work in techniques of writing poetry for students with substantial experience in writing. Workshop sessions with students commenting on each other's work.

Prerequisite: ENG 488 or ENG 489

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 590  Studies In Creative Writing  (3 credit hours)  

Techniques special to a particular kind of writing within the traditional genres of prose, poetry or drama, such as "Speculative Fiction" or "The Long Poem or Poetic Sequence." Various subjects.

Prerequisite: ENG 588 or 589

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 591  Studies in National Cinemas  (3 credit hours)  

Aesthetic develpments and historical importance of national cinema traditions in specific cultural contexts. Focus on the relation between cinema and linguistic, literary and artistic develpments within a national setting or in regional or international contexts. Topics, which change each year, may include Italian Neorealism, French New Wave, and British Social Realism.

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 592  Special Topics in Film Styles and Genres  (1-6 credit hours)  

Critical approaches to focused film topics involving film genres, directorial styles, or trends within a national cinema. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Students cannot obtain credit for both ENG 492 and ENG 592.

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 610  Special Topics English  (1-6 credit hours)  

Typically offered in Fall, Spring, and Summer

ENG 624  Teaching College Composition  (3 credit hours)  

Preparation for teaching college composition. Introduction to pedagogical principles and practices. Practice in setting course goals, designing writing assignments to meet those goals, developing instructional activities to support assignments, andevaluating student writing. The course is scheduled as a 5-day workshop before classes begin, followed by weekly meetings and mentoring during the fall semester.

Prerequisite: ENG 511 and mentored assistantship in ENG 101

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 626  Advanced Writing for Empirical Research  (3 credit hours)  

A seminar and workshop for graduate students in empirical research fields working on grant proposals, theses and dissertations, papers for professional journals, conference proposals, and other significant research texts. Intensive practice and feedback on writing, grounded in an introduction to theory and research on writing processes, products, and contexts. Requirements include three major writing projects designed by the student, review and discussion of drafts written by other workshop members, analysis and presentation of discipline-specific communication patterns and practices.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 636  Directed Readings  (1-6 credit hours)  

Intensive study of a specific topic from various specializations of the English faculty. Negotiation between the student and the director for variable credit and approved by Director of Graduate Studies.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing

Typically offered in Fall, Spring, and Summer

ENG 669  Literature, Methods, and the Profession  (3 credit hours)  

This course initiates students into ways of thinking and practicing in English literary studies. We will explore critical traditions, research methods, and emerging approaches, including literary criticism and theory, globalization, transnationalism, and postcolonialism in literature, together with introductions to cultural studies, rhetoric, composition, film studies, and media studies as they influenced literary criticism and theories. The course also prepares students to begin formulating their own academic and professional pathways with attention to practical considerations of how to become a professional in graduate school. You will become familiar with faculty from the department, develop research plans, and discover resources to start trajectories that include careers in writing, media, and teaching.

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 675  Projects in Technical Communication  (3 credit hours)  

Capstone course for M.S. in Technical Communication. Students engage in major semester-long individual project under direction of instructor.

Prerequisite: ENG 518

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 676  Master's Project in English  (3 credit hours)  

Individual capstone project in English Studies. Topic and mode of study determined in consultation with faculty project advisor. For students in the final semester of the English MA program.

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 685  Master's Supervised Teaching  (1-3 credit hours)  

Teaching experience under the mentorship of faculty who assist the student in planning for the teaching assignment, observe and provide feedback to the student during the teaching assignment, and evaluate the student upon completion of the assignment.

Prerequisite: Master's student

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 688  Non-Thesis Masters Continuous Registration - Half Time Registration  (1 credit hours)  

For students in non-thesis master's programs who have completed all credit hour requirements for their degree but need to maintain half-time continuous registration to complete incomplete grades, projects, final master's exam, etc.

Prerequisite: Master's student

Typically offered in Fall only

ENG 690  Master's Examination  (1-9 credit hours)  

For students in non thesis master's programs who have completed all other requirements of the degree except preparing for and taking the final master's exam.

Prerequisite: Master's student

Typically offered in Fall, Spring, and Summer

ENG 693  Master's Supervised Research  (1-9 credit hours)  

Instruction in research and research under the mentorship of a member of the Graduate Faculty.

Prerequisite: Master's student

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 695  Master's Thesis Research  (1-9 credit hours)  

Thesis research.

Prerequisite: Master's student

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 696  Summer Thesis Research  (1 credit hours)  

For graduate students whose programs of work specify no formal course work during a summer session and who will be devoting full time to thesis research.

Prerequisite: Master's student

Typically offered in Summer only

ENG 699  Master's Thesis Preparation  (1-9 credit hours)  

For students who have completed all credit hour requirements and full-time enrollment for the master's degree and are writing and defending their theses.

Prerequisite: Master's student

Typically offered in Summer only

ENG 722  Linguistics and Literacy  (3 credit hours)  

Focus on two-way relationship between linguistic theory and literacy. Metalinguistic awareness and acquisition of literacy, orthography and phonology, oral vs. written language, oral vs. literate cultures, and metalinguistic assumptions in linguistic theory.

Prerequisite: ENG 525

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 727/ENG 527  Discourse Analysis  (3 credit hours)  

Overview of major issues, theories, and research methods in contemporary discourse analysis. It explores how language as a form of social practice regulates social actions, relations and identities; how ways of speaking construct and are constructed by social order, cultural practice, and individual agency. Texts/discourses are analyzed to examine how speakers create meaning through formal linguistic choices; what the micro-organization of talk reveals about social order; how critical understanding of discourse helps to interpret complex processes of social life.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing

Typically offered in Spring only

ENG 798  Special Topics in English Studies  (3-6 credit hours)  

Intensive exploration of specialized or emerging topics in an area of language, literature, rhetoric, film, or other aspect of English studies. Emphasis on student research and writing. May be used to test and develop new courses. May be repeated for credit.

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

This course is offered alternate odd years

ENG 810  Directed Readings in English Studies  (1-6 credit hours)  

Intensive study of a specific topic from various specializations of the English faculty. Negotiation between the student and the director for the variable credit and approved by the director of Graduate Studies. May be repeated for credit.

Typically offered in Fall and Spring

ENG 896  Summer Dissert Res  (1 credit hours)