5000 Level English Classes
5014: INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY RESEARCH
This course introduces the materials and methods of research used in English
Studies. Students learn how to locate primary texts, contextual documents,
and critical scholarship, to evaluate their kinds and degrees of authority,
and to incorporate and cite this material in original research. (3H, 3C)
5024: CRITICAL THEORY IN ENGLISH STUDIES
This course introduces students to principal issues, concepts, terms,
and methods currently employed in literary criticism and the interdisciplinary
study of culture. (3H, 3C)
5034: PRACTICUM
Practical training in teaching composition at the university level. Required
of all Graduate Teaching Assistants in English. PASS/FAIL ONLY. Pre: Appointment
as an English GTA.
5054: COMPOSITION THEORY AND PRACTICE
Theory and practice of teaching composition at the college level. Analysis
and implementation of theories of teaching composition, including basic writing
skills.
5064: TOPICS IN LANGUAGE
Rotating topics in language study, exploring various theories of language
and their bearing on literary interpretation, rhetoric, and textual criticism.
Content will vary; may be repeated once for credit.
5074: INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES
This course introduces students to the history and critical theory
necessary to understand the broad import of digital technology for English
Studies and to the knowledge and skills required to critique and produce digital
documents. (3H, 3C)
5114: STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
Rotating studies in medieval literature, focusing on particular themes,
genres, works, or figures within their historical, social and literary context.
Content will vary; may be repeated once for credit.
5124: STUDIES IN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
Rotating studies in British literature from 1500 to 1660, focusing on literary
traditions, themes, or representative writers. May be repeated once for credit.
5134: STUDIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
Rotating studies in English Literature of the eighteenth century, focusing
on literary traditions, themes, or representative writers. Content will vary;
may be repeated once for credit.
5144: STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
Rotating studies in English literature of the nineteenth century, focusing
on literary traditions, genres, themes, or representative writers. Content
will vary; may be repeated once for credit.
5154: STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE 1900
Rotating studies in American literature before 1900, focusing on literary
traditions, themes, or representative writers. Content will vary; may be repeated
once for credit.
5164: STUDIES IN BLACK AMERICAN LITERATURE
Rotating studies in Black American literature, focusing on its roots in
folk and oral traditions; on key periods, such as the Harlem Renaissance; or
on themes, genres, or selected figures. Content will vary; may be repeated
once for credit.
5174: STUDIES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY TEXTS
Rotating studies in twentieth century literature in English. Typically,
the course will concentrate on a kind of writing, a movement, a theme, or a
critical issue. Content will vary; may be repeated once for credit.
5224: STUDIES IN EARLY ENGLISH AUTHORS
Rotating studies in the works of such early writers as Chaucer, Shakespeare,
or Milton, focusing on their relationship to history; on key texts; on themes
or genres; or on critical approaches. Content will vary; may be repeated once
for credit.
5234: STUDIES IN LATER ENGLISH AUTHORS
Rotating studies in the works of one or two later English writers, such
as Dickens, Hardy, Tennyson, Woolf, Joyce, Yeats, and others. Contents will
vary; may be repeated once for credit.
5244: STUDIES IN AMERICAN AUTHORS
Rotating studies which offer intensive treatment of one or two American
authors, with particular attention to historical, biographical, cultural, and/or
critical and theoretical contexts. Content will vary; may be repeated once
for credit.
5314: GENRE STUDIES
Rotating studies of particular genres--lyric, biography, literary criticism,
speculative fiction--in relation to their social, intellectual, and literary
contexts. Content will vary; may be repeated once for credit.
5334: SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE
Approaches to the study of literature that cross the boundaries of genre,
period, and nationality, exploring innovative combinations of texts, critical
methods, and interpretive approaches. Content will vary; may be repeated once
for credit.
5354: COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN LITERATURE
Rotating studies in global literature and theory, focusing on comparisons
of authors, works, periods, or genres of different regions, countries, and/or
cultures. Content will vary; may be repeated once for credit.
5454: STUDIES IN THEORY
Rotating studies of the major issues, figures, and movements in literary
and critical theory. Content will vary; may be repeated once for credit.
5514: AMERICAN LITERATURE OF THE LATER 19th CENTURY American literature from the Civil War to the end of the century, with emphasis on Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Crane. (3H,3C).
5534: STUDIES IN LITERARY HISTORY
Rotating studies in literary history. Topics, periods, and approaches will
vary; may be repeated once for credit.
5544: CURRENT TOPICS IN LITERARY STUDY
Special topics in frontier areas of literary study. Reserved for and taught
by distinguished visiting faculty. Content will vary; may be repeated once
for credit.
5894: FINAL EXAMINATION
For non-thesis candidates who are required to register for their final
examination and have completed their program of study. Not to be included in
minimum 36 hours required for degree. PASS/FAIL ONLY.
5974: INDEPENDENT STUDY
PASS/FAIL ONLY. Variable credit course.
5984: SPECIAL STUDY
Variable credit course.
5994: RESEARCH AND THESIS
Variable credit course.