ENG - English

Advanced ESL reading and writing; study skills; vocabulary; sentence structure; writing of paragraphs and short essays to prepare students for college writing.

Development of writing skills with emphasis on instruction and practice in writing the college essay and the library research paper. Restricted to students with 59 or fewer credit hours. Students with 60 or more credit hours who are not exempted from ENG 107 take ENG 311.

Introduction to literary genres and the tools of literary interpretation and criticism promoting reader understanding and enjoyment. Recommended as preparation for upper-division literature courses. A writing-embedded course.

This course provides English majors and other students with an introduction to literary research and theory, applying both to works of literature. It also provides students with an introduction to effective use of the academic library and of online resources as part of the research process. Required of English majors. Can be taken concurrently with a 300-level English course.

Elements of poetry for poets who wish to receive guidance for their own work and who wish to read the work of both contemporary poets and fellow students; an opportunity for writing, reading, and discussing poetry and poetics.

Principles and techniques necessary to the short story writer. Analysis of professional fiction as well as guidance for original work of beginning and intermediate writers. Limited to juniors and seniors.

The writing and editing of various kinds of essays in a workshop setting, plus an examination of the writing process itself and the reading of fine essays.

Study of relevant research and theory from composition, rhetoric, linguistics, and psychology applicable to practice. Intended for nominated Writing Assistants in training; others may join with instructor consent.

From Beowulf to 1500, readings from key poets, playwrights, and prose writers from the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods examined in the context of linguistic, social, and literary history.

A study of Chaucer's major works, especially the Canterbury Tales in a Middle English text, examined in the context of linguistic, social, and literary history and fourteenth-century literary history and historical background.

Readings from the greatest playwrights, poets, and prose writers of the British Renaissance, set within a framework of the changing ideas and fascinating cultural tapestry of the period. Authors studied include More, Marlowe, Spenser, Jonson, Shakespeare, Webster, Donne, Wroth, Herbert, Lanyer, and Milton.

Readings in the fiction, poetry, drama, and essays of the wittiest, most pungently satirical, most artfully artificial era of British literature (1660-1770). Special attention to the cultural and economic background and the origins of the novel. Works by Dryden, Behn, Congreve, Swift, Defoe, Pope, Finch, Astell, Manley, Fielding, Johnson, Burney, Haywood, Barker, Hogarth, Addison, and others.

Introduction to Shakespeare's works including analysis and discussion of several of the comedies, histories, and tragedies with attention given to the cultural background and the interesting particulars of the Elizabethan theater.

A study of Dante's epic journey through the realms of hell, purgatory, and heaven in search of justice, love, and happiness, with a study of Dante's Vita Nuova, which shows his allegorical style and the significance of his love for Beatrice.

A selection of novels, short story collections, and memoirs by Arab writers from the 20th-21st century, examined within their historical and cultural contexts. Topics include: religion, gender, war, Post-Colonialism, Pan-Arabism, forced migration, and Bedouin culture. Features authors from the Levant, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Study of classic authors and texts from France, Germany, Russia and Scandinavia including Lafayette, Laclos, Flaubert, Mann, Chekhov, Tolstoy and Ibsen among others, situating the texts within their specific cultural and historical contexts and highlighting gender and class as thematic concerns.

Intensive analysis of the key techniques, practitioners, and representative themes of English-language novels and short stories. Readings may focus solely on short fiction or the novel, or a combination of both genres.

Intensive practice in reading lyric poetry in English (plus a few snippets from English narrative epics) in the framework of the history of the genre, with attention paid to representative forms, subjects, themes, and kinds of poetry from the beginnings of modern English to the present.

Intensive analysis of the methods, modes, and manipulations of nonfiction prose. Readings may draw from such nonfiction works as essays, memoirs, political documents, documentaries, and reportage to explore topics of truth and falsehood, representation and reality, medium and message.

Works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Bryon, Shelley, Clare, and Keats examined in the context of political, social, and literary history of the early nineteenth century.

Works of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Dickens, Hardy, and Wilde examined in the context of the political, social, and literary history of the late nineteenth century.

A survey of representative authors and texts from 1900 to 1945, including Conrad, Forster, Ford, Lawrence, Joyce, Shaw, Woolf, Mansfield, and the war poets, with special focus on the Great War's aesthetic, social, and historical repercussions on literature and culture.

Survey of representative works published since World War II, with an emphasis on historical and cultural contexts. Authors may include Bowen, Greene, Spark, Stoppard, Pinter, McEwan, Byatt, Barker, Lively, Weldon, and Ishiguro.

Examination of literary works that turns upon historical and political events. Emphasis given to the characteristics of fiction as opposed to the requirements of history and to fiction as a means of interpreting political events.

Explorations in the themes, forms, and theories of satire, past and present, examining how great writers have turned malice and moral indignation into witty, funny, or biting fiction, poetry, and drama. Readings drawn from authors such as Orwell, Houellebecq, Heller, West, Voltaire, Swift, Atwood, Pope, Jonson, Horace, and Juvenal.

Investigating a century of imaginative synergy between the medium of film and the medium of literature, this course explores connections, divisions, and adaptations between these two vehicles for narrative and ideas. Readings and viewings will exemplify how history, genre, and artistic form influence the translations of pictures and words.

An overview of the foundations of the American literary tradition as well as an investigation of its first flourishing in the nineteenth century. Possible inclusions are Bradford, Bradstreet, Taylor, Franklin, Wheatley, Bryant, Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson.

Investigation of the major literary figures and the artistic response to the United States' emergence as a world power in the years 1865-1914. Possible inclusions: Dickinson, Howells, Twain, Crane, James, Chopin, Norris, Wharton, Chesnutt.

Investigation of the multiple American artistic responses to twentieth-century modernity. Possible inclusions are Pound, H.D., Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Faulkner, Cather, Hemingway, and O'Neill.

An intensive investigation of recent movements in American literature, including various aspects of postmodernism. Possible inclusions are Ginsberg, Kerouac, Bishop, Roethke, Plath, Lowell, Nabokov, Morrison, Dillard, Barth, Pynchon, Kushner, and Spiegelman.

Study of British and American authors from the eighteenth century to today who have creatively considered and analyzed humans' relationship to and representation of the environment. Selected authors may include William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, and Michael Pollan.

A survey of representative women writers and major texts from the American or British traditions with the introduction of key concepts of feminist theory and criticism.

A comparative study of representative works by American writers of African, Asian, Latin American, American Indian, and Jewish descent, within a historically situated understanding of issues, such as cultural continuity, immigration, assimilation, civil rights, and citizenship, affecting the lives of ethnic Americans.

This survey of Irish fiction, drama, and poetry from 1900 to today explores issues of identity, nationalism, gender, history, and faith through works by heavyweights Joyce and Yeats, but also by Lady Gregory, Sean O'Casey, Edna O'Brien, Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibin, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Marina Carr, among others.

Explores representations of otherness in medieval and/ or Renaissance literature including issues such as gender, race, religion, and sexuality in texts written between 1000 and 1700. Looks at texts written by and about women, Jews, Muslims, etc.. Discussions will involve both close readings of these texts and their relationship to theories of alterity.

The impact of language on human life, especially its importance in creating and sustaining peace or violence. Works of contemporary writers.

Study of literary classics paired with contemporary revisions or adaptations, with discussion of issues and concepts such as canonicity, reception history, intertextuality, and adaptations as critical interpretations.

Diverse voices of contemporary American poetry, lyric and narrative; essays on poetics; a sampling of poems from the 1950s-1980s by Lowell, Bishop, Wilbur, Ginsburg, O'Hara, Snyder, and others; and books by recent poets such as Gluck, Doty, Oliver, Dove, C.K. Williams, Levine, Twichell, Jarman, and Stallings.

Selections from the prose and poetry of past and present Northwest writers. Includes works of Berry, Doig, Kesey, LeGuin, Lopez, Roethke, and Stafford.

Can humans “speak for” nonhuman things? Should we eat animals? In what sense do inert materials and nonliving things participate in the world? The literary texts and literary theory engaged in this course attempt to think non-anthropocentrically and imagine the world beyond or outside the “human”.

Most of the human population now lives in cities. Americans, in particular, saw their lives restructured around cities throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through the varying formats of prose, poetry, and drama, this course explores questions of politics, power, identity, growth, individualism, and cooperation, which evolving configurations of urban space force us to ask.

An intensive investigation of figures associated with the flowering of a distinct American romanticism occurring in the mid-19th century. Possible inclusions are Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Poe, Stowe, Sedgwick, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman.

Study of important works by African American writers, from the slave narratives of the nineteenth century to the prose, poetry, and drama of the twentieth century.

Historically framed survey of representative authors from former British colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Introduction to key theorists of postcolonialism from Said to Spivak and discussion of key concepts such as imperialism, racism, hybridity, mimicry, decolonization, neo-colonialism, nationalism(s), and immigration.

Involves students in professional-level research by assisting faculty in research or creative projects. An opportunity for mentoring beyond the classroom and involvement in processes and procedures of research and publication. Work will vary, but could include researching primary and secondary materials, summarizing articles and books, compiling bibliographies, indexing, copy editing, manuscript preparation, and dissemination of manuscripts.

Academic internships are available for qualified students (3.0 G.P.A.; 3.25 G.P.A. in English). Internships provide English majors with job experience pertinent to the study of English. The internship may be taken for one to three credit hours, and the credit can apply to the English major. Students may receive an IP (In Progress) grade until the completion of their internship.

Research, study, or original work directed by a faculty mentor leading to a scholarly thesis and public presentation of results. Senior Capstone is usually taken in conjunction with an upper division English class. Required: approval of thesis director, department chair, dean, and the director of the honors program, when appropriate.