English Department

Lower Division

ENGL 90 DEVELOPMENTAL WRITING (3-0-0). Introduction to college writing with attention to fluency, development, organization, revision, and editing/proofreading. Required if writing sample or placement tests demonstrate need. Also for basic review.

ENGL 101 ENGLISH COMPOSITION (3-0-3)(Core). Introduction to critical reading and to writing processes, including invention, revision, and editing. Emphasis on writing thoughtful explorations of readings, observation, ideas, and experiences; developing the author's voice and inventiveness; editing for style and conventions of standard usage. PREREQ: ACT or SAT percentile score of 20 or above, or P (Pass) in ENGL 90 or ENGL 123.

ENGL 102 ENGLISH COMPOSITION (3-0-3)(Core). An inquiry-based course that continues work with critical reading and writing processes and provides experience with methods and genres of researched writing. Students will initiate research projects, gather information from a range of sources, and demonstrate they can write about that information purposefully, using appropriate documentation. PREREQ: Grade of C or above in ENGL 101 or ACT/SAT percentile score of 80 or above.

ENGL 111, 112 HONORS COMPOSITION (3-0-3)(Core). Provides superior student challenge emphasizing independent study and original writing. Introduction to critical writing and study of ideas through literature. Honors 111 concentrates on lyric poetry, essays, and short fiction. Honors 112 concentrates on epic poetry, drama, and the novel. Normal prerequisite: SAT or ACT of 80th percentile or above for ENGL 111. PREREQ: ENGL 111 or PERM/CHAIR for ENGL 112.

ENGL 121 ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (5-0-3)(F/S). Special emphasis on vocabulary development, reading, and development of skills in written English. Graded Pass/Fail. PREREQ: Placement exam and recommendation from Foreign Student Admissions.

ENGL 122 COMPOSITION AND READING FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS (5-0-3) (F/S). Practice in reading and composition, development of special vocabulary skills related to individual needs, and advanced English sentence structure. Graded Pass/Fail. PREREQ: Placement exam and recommendation from Foreign Student Admissions or grade of Pass in ENGL 121.

ENGL 123 ADVANCED ENGLISH COMPOSITION FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS (5-0-3)(F/S). Study of and practice in the principles of formal and informal written English, principles of the essay and research paper, continuation of vocabulary development, and mastery of the more complex types of English structure. Successful completion of the competency exam required. Graded Pass/Fail. Successful completion of ENGL 123 qualifies the student for entrance into ENGL 101. PREREQ: Placement exam and recommendation from Foreign Student Admissions or grade of Pass in ENGL 122.

ENGL 201 NONFICTION WRITING (3-0-3)(F,S). Further development of skills and strategies learned in ENGL 102. Student will study and write nonfiction prose, particularly research and persuasive writing. Writing practice will stress the writer's awareness of his or her own style and the manipulation of stylistic elements. PREREQ: ENGL 102.

ENGL 202 TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION (3-0-3)(F/S). An overview of the principles and applications of technical communication for those students who expect to write on the job. Assignments are related to each student's background and field of interest. Topics include letters, instructions, reports, and technical presentations, as well as audience analysis, the writing process, graphics, document design, and the ethics of technical communication. PREREQ: ENGL 102 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 205 POETRY WRITING (3-0-3)(F). Based on evaluation of student's original work. May be repeated for a total of nine credit hours.

ENGL 206 FICTION WRITING (3-0-3)(S). Introduction to fiction writing with a concentration on descriptive technique. Readings in the short story. May be repeated for a total of nine credit hours.

ENGL 211 THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE (3-0-3)(S). Examines selected historical, biographical, poetic, dramatic teaching, and letter-writing portions of Hebrew-Christian testaments. Emphasis on literary aspects with discussions of notable concepts in major writings. PREREQ: ENGL 102.

ENGL 213 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE (3-0-3)(S). The African-American experience reflected in the development of African-American literature. The course relates African-American writing to its social and cultural conditions, exploring recurrent, characteristic themes, techniques, and genres from slavery to present. Emphasis on such writers as Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and contemporaries. PREREQ: ENGL 102.

ENGL 215 FAR EASTERN LITERATURE, IN TRANSLATION (3-0-3)(S)(Area I). Survey of literature of Far Eastern countries with major emphasis on China, India, and Japan. An introduction to the cultural and religious environment of each country is covered. PREREQ: ENGL 102.

ENGL 217 MYTHOLOGY (3-0-3)(F). Mythologies and mythological concepts having most influence on Western civilization. Emphasis on Greek, Norse, and Judeo-Christian mythologies and their relation to religion, literature, art, and modern psychology. PREREQ: ENGL 102.

ENGL 257 WESTERN WORLD LITERATURE (3-0-3)(F)(Area I)(Formerly ENGL 230). Introduction to writings of the great minds in the Western tradition which have shaped our cultural and literary past and present. Reading includes selections from ancient Greece, Imperial Rome, and medieval and renaissance Europe. PREREQ: ENGL 102.

ENGL 258 WESTERN WORLD LITERATURE (3-0-3)(S)(Area I)(Formerly ENGL 235). An introduction to the Western literary tradition as it has developed during the last four centuries. Attention will be paid to the way in which the older values and attitudes are challenged by the new spirit of skepticism and rebellion. PREREQ: ENGL 102.

ENGL 267 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1790 (3-0-3)(F)(Area I) (Formerly ENGL 240). Examines the dominant cultural movements and literary forms in England from the middle ages through the 18th century. PREREQ: ENGL 102.

ENGL 268 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE: 1790 TO PRESENT (3-0-3)(S) (Area I)(Formerly ENGL 260). The reflection of social and cultural changes in the poetry and prose of Romantic, Victorian, and modern England. PREREQ: ENGL 102.

ENGL 275 INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES (3-0-3)(F/S). Preparation for upper-division literature courses. Emphasizes literary critical thinking and writing. Introduces principal types of literature, central questions in literary studies, ways of conducting literary research, and writing literary papers. PREREQ: ENGL 102 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 277 SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS TO CIVIL WAR (3-0-3)(F/S)(Area I)(Formerly ENGL 271). This course traces the artistic, philosophic, social, scientific, and intellectual influences on American writers and the emergence of an independent American outlook, as seen in the literary works of such authors as Bradstreet, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Whitman, and Stowe. PREREQ: ENGL 102.

ENGL 278 SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: CIVIL WAR TO PRESENT (3-0-3)(F/S)(Area I)(Formerly ENGL 272). This course traces the continued development of American literary thought as revealed in the works of such authors as Dickinson, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Hemingway, Eliot, Faulkner, and Morrison. PREREQ: ENGL 102.

Upper Division

ENGL 301 TEACHING ENGLISH COMPOSITION (3-0-3)(S). Theories and techniques for teaching English composition in secondary schools, with emphasis on individualization of instruction, student-centered activity, creativity, and relationships between composition and other aspects of English. Intended for students with a teaching option and a major or minor in English, and for teachers. PREREQ: Upper-division standing or in-service teaching.

ENGL 302 TECHNICAL RHETORIC (3-0-3)(F/S). An introduction to the rhetoric of technical communication for English majors and others who are considering a career in the field. Topics include information design, technical communication ethics, instructional writing, and strategies of visual and verbal rhetoric. PREREQ: ENGL 102 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 303 THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TUTORING WRITING (3-0-3)(F/S). Preparation for tutoring for the BSU Writing Center. Emphasis on writing processes, interpersonal dynamics, questioning techniques, evaluation of writing-in-progress, and rhetorical theory as it pertains to tutoring. Includes four hours per week of observation and supervised tutoring in the Writing Center. PREREQ: ENGL 102 and PERM/INST.

ENGL 309 INTRODUCTION TO BOOK ARTS (3-0-3)(F/S). The course introduces students to the study of basic history of books, including papermaking, typography, printing, binding, book decoration, and contemporary bookworks. Students produce a classroom edition of their own text and/or visual material.

ENGL 336 NINETEENTH-CENTURY CONTINENTAL LITERATURE (3-0-3)(S) (Alternate years). Major European writers in the 19th century in translation. Reading maintains a chronological approach stressing the relationship of the literature to the socioeconomic and political conditions of the times. Works of Goethe, Stendahl, Flaubert, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy are included. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 338 TWENTIETH-CENTURY CONTINENTAL LITERATURE (3-0-3)(S) (Alternate years). Twentieth-century philosophical trends and cultural themes are emphasized in the reading. Includes works by Mann, Mauriac, Kafka, Hesse, Grass, and Solzhenitzyn, which examine mythological, existential, religious, and political themes in relation to contemporary human values. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 340 CHAUCER (3-0-3)(F)(Alternate years). Emphasis on The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Also representative minor works. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 341 MEDIEVAL NARRATIVE (3-0-3)(F/S)(Alternate years). Representative English and continental narrative literature, including such works as Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Arthurian romances by Chretien de Troyes and Marie de France, The Song of Roland, and Dante's Divine Comedy. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 342 MEDIEVAL DRAMA (3-0-3)(F/S)(Alternate years). An investigation of the development of theater in Europe from the early Middle Ages through the early Renaissance. Readings will provide a survey of representative works, but the focus will be on the English Corpus Christi plays. Production of one of these plays will be a part of the course. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 343 MEDIEVAL ARTHURIAN LITERATURE (3-0-3)(F/S)(Alternate years). The origins of the Arthurian legend. Beginning with the earliest references to King Arthur, the material traces the development of the tales through Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chretien de Troyes, the Welsh Mabinogion, miscellaneous isolated tales, and Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 345 SHAKESPEARE: TRAGEDIES AND HISTORIES (3-0-3)(F/S). A selection of the tragic plays including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and King Lear and the best plays concerning English history. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 346 SHAKESPEARE: COMEDIES AND ROMANCES (3-0-3)(F/S). Representative plays such as The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and the Tempest. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 348 BRITISH RENAISSANCE POETRY AND PROSE (3-0-3)(F/S)(Alternate years). A study of the poetry and prose of the English Renaissance, including works by More, Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Bacon. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 349 ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA (3-0-3)(F/S)(Alternate years). Tragic and comic plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries such as Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Tourneur, Chapman, Middleton, Marston, Webster, and Ford. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 350 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY POETRY AND PROSE (3-0-3)(S)(Alternate years). The works of English authors such as Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Thomas Browne, who flourished in the first 60 years of the 17th century. The social, philosophical, and scientific background of this period. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 351 MILTON (3-0-3)(S)(Alternate years). A study of John Milton's major poetry and prose, with special emphasis on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 356 BRITISH DRAMA: THE RESTORATION TO THE DECADENT MOVEMENT (3-0-3)(F/S)(Alternate years). A study of Restoration tragedy, the comedy of manners, sentimental comedy, and comic opera. Playwrights read include Wycherley, Dryden, Etherege, Congreve, Gay, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Wilde. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/CHAIR.

ENGL 358 RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY AND PROSE (3-0-3)(F/S)(Alternate years). A study of literary currents in the British Enlightenment from satiric to sentimental, reasonable to fanciful. Emphasis: Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Johnson, plus works by Addison and Steele, Thomson, Boswell, Gray, Gibbon, Burke, and others. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 359 BRITISH NOVEL: BEGINNINGS THROUGH AUSTEN (3-0-3)(F). An investigation of the novel tracing its roots and exploring the work of Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Austen, and others. The emergence of the most popular genre of literature helps us to understand how fiction reflects our assumption about the world around us. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 360 BRITISH ROMANTIC POETRY AND PROSE (3-0-3)(F). Readings in Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and others. These Romantics provide freshly imagined patterns of emotional and intellectual response to nature and our place in it. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 365 VICTORIAN POETRY (3-0-3)(S)(Alternate years). Readings in Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, and others. Their poems are the sometimes sane, sometimes shocking results of trying to find and keep artistic and moral hope amidst vital but unhealthy times. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 366 VICTORIAN PROSE (3-0-3)(S)(Alternate years). Great prose stylists, including Carlyle, Arnold, Newman, Ruskin, and Pater, bring insights to controversy over issues still with us. Their subjects range from industrialism to mysticism, their purposes from amusement to reformation. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 369 BRITISH NOVEL: SCOTT THROUGH HARDY (3-0-3)(S). An investigation of the development of the English novel during the nineteenth century with particular attention to the impact of Victorian thought on the genre and to the emergence of the modern novel. Includes Scott, Dickens, Gaskell, Thackeray, the Brontes, Trollope, Eliot, and Hardy. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 375 LITERATURE OF THE NEW REPUBLIC (3-0-3)(F/S). A study in the first generation of the American literary experience (from the 1700's to the 1830's), when the founders of the republic shaped American character and culture. Includes such writers as Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Hanna Foster, Washington Irving, and Catherine Maria Sedwick. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 376 NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN NONFICTION (3-0-3)(F/S). Studies some of our nation's most central texts selected from the expression prompted by slavery, the Civil War, westward expansion, and rapid social and intellectual changes. Includes writers such as John Burroughs, George Catlin, Mary Boykin Chesnutt, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ulysses S. Grant, and Harriet Jacobs. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 377 AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (3-0-3)(F/S). A study in the second generation of the American literary experience when such leading writers as Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, and Whitman, acting under the varied impulses of Puritanism, Romanticism, and idealism, created the first universal vision of human experience to appear in American literature. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 378 AMERICAN REALISM (3-0-3)(F/S). American literature from the Civil War to World War I. Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Henry James, W. D. Howells, Kate Chopin, and fellow Realists wrote about the average person in the light of common day. Their works show how American writers were increasingly influenced by science, business, and art. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 381 ENGLISH TEACHING: WRITING, READING, AND LANGUAGE (3-0-3) (F/S). Theories and methods of teaching secondary school English language arts, instructional planning, and integration of composition, literature, and language. PREREQ: ENGL 275.

ENGL 384 LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST (3-0-3)(F/S). The literary merits of works by representative Western writers such as Wallace Stegner, Owen Wister, H.L. Davis, John Steinbeck, and Willa Cather. Also discussed are regional values and Western types such as the mountain man, the cowboy, and the pioneer. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 386 TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH FICTION (3-0-3)(F/S). This course studies the varied literary movements in British fiction against the background of British historical and cultural change in the 20th century. Representative writers will include such names as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Joyce Cary, Doris Lessing, William Golding, Fay Weldon, Wole Soyinka, Peter Carey, Martin Amis, Jeanette Winterson, Anita Brookner, and Margaret Forster. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 387 TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION (3-0-3)(F/S). A comprehensive investigation of the form and modes of modern American thought and literary directions through a study of representative fiction of the 20th century. Readings will be selected from such American writers as Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, Ishmael Reed, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Paul Auster. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 389 TWENTIETH-CENTURY DRAMA WRITTEN IN ENGLISH (3-0-3)(F/S). A study of plays, theory, and dramatic practice as they developed in the twentieth century, including such playwrights as G. B. Shaw, J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, Lorraine Hansberry, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, Caryl Churchill, Athol Fugard, August Wilson, and Wole Soyinka. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 390 FOLKLORE (3-0-3)(F/S). Study of what folklore is, its written and oral traditions, and its different genres. PREREQ: ENGL 102.

ENGL 391 NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN FOLKLORE AND LITERATURE (3-0-3) (F/S). An examination of traditional Native American world views and belief systems as reflected in oral narratives and written literature. Study topics include aspects of cosmology, religious life, seasonal round, and life cycle as presented in the oral redactions of specific tribal/culture areas and in the literary poetry and prose of major creative writers. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 393 HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM (3-0-3)(F). A survey of critical approaches to literature from Plato to the twentieth century. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 401-401G ADVANCED NONFICTION WRITING (3-0-3)(F/S). Advanced practice in nonfiction genres, and study of how writers read and learn from other writers. Experimentation with subjects, voice, organization, and style. Students may take the course twice, for a total of 6 credits. Students seeking graduate credit will produce a greater quantity and high quality of original work, will have a separate and more extensive reading list, and will be expected to participate more fully in class activities. PREREQ: ENGL 201.

ENGL 402 ADVANCED TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION (3-0-3)(F/S). An advanced study of technical communication for those students who are considering a career in the field. Assignments are related to each student's background and field of interest. Topics include in-depth work in technical style, technical presentations, and the common kinds of documents produced in business and industry, including proposals, progress reports, formal reports, and Web sites. PREREQ: ENGL 302 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 403 TECHNICAL EDITING (3-0-3)(F). An introduction to the role of the technical editor in organizational settings. Topics include copyediting, comprehensive editing, proofreading, working with authors, and preparing documents for publication. PREREQ: ENGL 402 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 405-405G DOCUMENT AND WEB SITE PRODUCTION (3-0-3)(F/S). An advanced study and application of the principles of producing effective technical documents. Topics include the relationship between page layout and readability, techniques for combining textual and nontextual information, and the use of desktop publishing, graphics, and Web-authoring software. The course will be taught as a workshop in which students produce basic print and electronic documents, such as brochures, data sheets, flyers, and Web sites. Students seeking graduate credit will produce a greater quantity and higher quality of original work, will have a separate, more extensive reading list, and will be expected to participate more fully in class activities. PREREQ: ENGL 402 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 406-406G ADVANCED POETRY WRITING (3-0-3)(S). Advanced practice in poetry writing, and the study of how poets read and learn from other poets. May be repeated for nine credit hours. Students seeking graduate credit will produce a greater quantity and higher quality of original work, will have a separate and more extensive reading list, and will be expected to participate more fully in class activities.PREREQ: ENGL 205 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 407-407G ADVANCED FICTION WRITING (3-0-3)(F). Exploration of narrative technique, dialogue form, and the short story. Students seeking graduate credit will produce a greater quantity and higher quality of original work, will have a separate and more extensive reading list, and will be expected to participate more fully in class activities. Recommended: ENGL 206. May be repeated for nine credit hours.

ENGL 410 TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NONFICTION (3-0-3)(F/S). American nonfiction prose from 1900 to present, including autobiography, biography, history, journalism, social and cultural criticism, science and nature writing. Typical authors include W. E. B. Dubois, H. L. Mencken, James Agee, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, John McPhee, Annie Dillard, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Kingston, Loren Eiseley, and Wallace Stegner. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 412-412G WOMEN WRITERS (3-0-3)(F/S)(Alternate years). Literature by English speaking women, with special attention to cultural contexts, the themes and methods used by women writers, and how women writers have created their own tradition. The course may focus on writings of a particular period. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 413 THE NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH (3-0-3)(F/S). An introduction to the important authors, themes, characteristics, and developments in the newly emerging literatures written in English outside the traditions of Britain and the United States. Focus on contemporary writers from Africa, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and West Indies, with an introduction to the cultural and socio-political background of each country. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 481 LITERATURE FOR USE IN JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL (3-0-3)(F). A literary content course designed for prospective or experienced teachers of secondary school English. Primary emphasis is on critical reading of literature ordinarily used with adolescents in secondary schools. Secondary emphasis is on methods of critical analysis appropriate to secondary students. All genres will be discussed. Both classical and popular authors will be included. PREREQ: Either ENGL 275 and two literature courses, or PERM/INST.

ENGL 485 BRITISH AND AMERICAN POETRY: 1900-1945 (3-0-3)(F/S)(Offered alternately with ENGL 486). A study of the radical changes that W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and others made in poetry's traditional aesthetic and thematic concerns, as seen in their work from the turn of the century through two world wars. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 486 BRITISH AND AMERICAN POETRY: 1945-PRESENT (3-0-3)(F/S) (Offered alternately with ENGL 485). A study of significant poets beginning or reaching the culmination of their careers in post-World War II England and America. Concerns include the influences on their writing of earlier poets, including the Modernists, and the nature of the categories, such as those designated “Movement,” “Confessional,” and “Feminist,” into which critics, scholars, and their peers place these poets. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 498 SENIOR SEMINAR (3-0-3)(S). Required of all senior English majors. PREREQ: Senior standing or PERM/CHAIR.

HUMANITIES

HUM 207, 208 INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES (3-0-3)(F/S)(Area I). The human intellectual and creative heritage as reflected in art, literature, philosophy, and architecture. PREREQ: ENGL 102 or PERM/CHAIR.

LINGUISTICS

LING 305 INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE STUDIES (3-0-3)(F/S). A general survey of contemporary language study as it is carried on in the fields of linguistics, anthropology, and psychology, with emphasis on meaning, sounds, words, and sentence formation in English. PREREQ: ENGL 102 or PERM/CHAIR.

LING 306 MODERN ENGLISH GRAMMAR (3-0-3)(F/S). An approach to modern English grammar based on linguistic principles. The course will cover word formation and sentence structure, including transformational, structural, and newly developing theories of grammar. PREREQ: LING 305.

LING 307 APPLIED ENGLISH LINGUISTICS (3-0-3)(F/S)(Alternate years). A survey of applied linguistics with emphasis on theories, concepts, and methods relevant to the teaching of English. Topics include word meaning, language variation, language and context, oral and written discourse, writing systems, literature analysis, dictionaries and grammars, bilingualism, and language planning and problems in teaching English as a first and second language. PREREQ: LING 305.

LING 309 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (3-0-3)(F/S). A study of the periods in the development of English; Indo-European and Germanic backgrounds; development of writing; internal and social forces of change; dialects of English. Concentrated work with written documents in English language history. PREREQ: LING 305 or PERM/CHAIR.

LING 406 PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (3-0-3)(F/S). The study of language in relation to mind and cognition. Topics include the relationship between language, thought, and memory; language acquisition; language disorders; and the psychological processes involved in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and spelling. PREREQ: LING 305.

LING 407-407G APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (3-0-3)(F/S)(Alternate years). Designed to help teachers in the bilingual classroom or teachers of students of limited proficiency in speaking English to understand how to deal with the process of learning English. It will focus on identifying, defining, and remedying the specific problems that confront learners of a second language. PREREQ: LING 305.

LING 411 (ANTH 411) LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND SOCIETY (3-0-3)(S)(Cross listed ANTH 411)(Alternate years). The course provides an introduction to the nature of the relationships among language, culture, and society. Major topics explored are: language and thought; conversational theory; the ethnography of communication; language change; language variation; speech communities; pidgins and creoles; diglossia, code switching, and mixing; solidarity and politeness. Several languages are examined in specific social and cultural contexts. LING 305 or a foreign language recommended. This course may be taken for LING or ANTH credit, but not both.