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ENG 241 - Film and Literature
Studies the history and aesthetics of film and the relationship of film to literature. Material and focus will vary from year to year. Suitable for non-majors.
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ENG 242 - Contemporary American Short Fiction
Covers short stories written since 1975 by key contemporary authors of short fiction. Topics may include civil rights, feminism, the legacy of Vietnam, or the mundane challenges of simply getting out of bed in the morning and going to work.
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ENG 245 - Selected Studies in Popular Culture
Studies the theories, forms, themes, and genres of popular culture. Compares the ways various media (e.g., fiction, film, television, radio) interpret and present similar subjects. Suitable for non-majors.
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ENG 249 - Darkness Visible – Radio Drama
Studies the almost nonexistent art of radio drama. Students are responsible for writing, directing, producing, and starring in their own weekly radio drama show on Rollins’ WPRK (Tuesdays, 9:00 p.m.).
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ENG 260 - Writer’s Studio
Students will learn about creative potential and how to nurture it. They will take up a writing “practice” that includes regular writing and attention to the conditions under which they are most creative and productive. Responding effectively to the writing of others and basic techniques of craft that good writers use to achieve effect and meaning will be explored. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
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ENG 267 - Topics/Techniques in Writing
“Topics” version of this course offers an introduction to a very specific genre of writing (fiction, autobiography, humor writing, etc.), giving close attention to the defining characteristics of the genre and offering a sequence of short reading and writing assignments designed to develop facility in producing the genre. “Techniques” version of this course offers a close study of a specific literary technique (point of view, character/dialogue, narrative design, voice), and requires practicing the technique in short, focused writing assignments with emphasis on both literary and technical excellence. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
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ENG 268 - Writing Intensives
Seven (7) intensive experiences in specific genres: memoir, short-short story, profile, sonnet, and writing about art. Each session introduces students to a particular type of writing and leads them in a series of exercises to practice writing the genre. Sessions are designed to be fun, informative, and inspirational. Instructors provide specific strategies for tackling a type of writing and for deepening and extending daily writing practice.
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ENG 271 - Personal Writing
Writing by self-discovery and self-expression. Explores writing as a means to discover thoughts, feelings, and intuitions, which would otherwise remain inchoate. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
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ENG 273 - Journalistic Writing I
Evolution of journalism and contemporary practices of news gathering and writing. Critical analyses of traditional and converging forms of journalism, the journalistic landscape, and student roles as reporters. Emphasizes journalism in the 21st century, and timeless tools essential for reporters. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 or equivalent.
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ENG 275 - Selected Studies in Minority Literature
Minority literary studies. Offerings vary year to year. Suitable for non-majors.
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ENG 276 - Writing for the Future
How do we depict ourselves when we are communicating on the Internet? How does our understanding of audience shift? This course in the genre of cyberspace writing explores how our own personal reading and writing are being changed by advances in technology, as well as how online forms and practices are reshaping corporate and academic writing. Focusing on new skills we would like to master, we all consider whether our ability to learn is affected by our uses of technology. Previous experience is NOT a prerequisite.
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ENG 277 - Visual and Verbal Text Design
Investigates how visuals (pictures, graphics, color, and layout) interact with words to add or disrupt meaning in texts. Studies cutting-edge research on visual perception. Practices document design using InDesign software. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140
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ENG 278 - The Beat: Writing and Reporting in the Community
Explores interests with eyes and ears of journalists, picking a beat (e.g., Politics, Environment) to generate stories, identify stories off campus of interest to report on campus. Enables students to evaluate sources, enterprise content, write in lively journalistic styles. Submissions to Sandspur encouraged. Fulfills a core course in Professional Writing Minor. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 or equivalent.
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ENG 291 - Magical Realism
When a love story filters through the centuries or a man awakens as a giant cockroach (this could happen in Florida); when an owl perches on a window crying sweet warnings or a baron lives his life in the treetops; when a dead baby rises from the grave or the local shopping mall draws us into fairyland – what are we to think? Exploring several works of magical realism, this course offers delightful metaphors, strange dreams, strategies for reading literature, and a whole new way of understanding experience. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 or equivalent.
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ENG 295 - Studies in Nonfiction
Focus on forms, themes, and techniques of specific nonfiction prose genres (biography, environmental writing, etc.). Students study closely both peer and professional examples of the genre, learning to develop their own style and voice in practicing the form. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
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ENG 300 - Expository Writing
Assumes that writing is a primary way to understand, organize, and give meaning to experience, and is thus an integral part of a liberal studies curriculum. Develops writing strategies and forms that give meaningful shape to attitudes and experiences within the context of previously published ideas. Analysis of professional and anonymous student essays, as well as students’ own writings. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
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ENG 303 - Historical Approaches to American Literature
Explores representative works from the beginnings of American literature to the present, covering the evolution of literary periodization and changes in literary form, against their historical and cultural backgrounds. Prerequisite(s): ENG 201 , ENG 202 or instructor consent.
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ENG 304A - Genre Study in American Literature: Drama
Examines drama in American literature, emphasizing the changing forms and conventions of the genre. Playwrights discussed include Treadwell, Miller, Williams, Hansberry, Shepard, Mamet, and Finley. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
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ENG 304B - Genre Study in American Literature: Fiction
Examines fiction in American literature, emphasizing the changing forms and conventions of the genre. Focus varies, sometimes by broad literary movement (American Renaissance, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Postmodernism), sometimes by theme (race, gender, experimentation, the West). Prerequisite(s): ENG 201 , ENG 202 or instructor consent.
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ENG 304C - Genre Study in American Literature: Poetry
Examines poetry in American literature, emphasizing the changing forms and conventions of the genre. Focus varies, sometimes by broad literary movement (American Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism), sometimes by theme (race, gender, experimentation). Prerequisite(s): ENG 201 , ENG 202 or instructor consent.
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ENG 305 - American Literature I: Beginnings through 1865
Explores representative works of the period, focusing on the evolution of American literary consciousness and shifting literary strategies, against their historical and cultural backgrounds. Includes traditional canonical works, as well as works that expand that canon. Prerequisite(s): ENG 201 , ENG 202 or instructor consent.
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ENG 306 - American Literature II: 1865 to Present
Explores representative works of the period, focusing on the evolution of American literary consciousness and shifting literary strategies, against their historical and cultural backgrounds. Includes traditional canonical works, as well as works that expand that canon. Prerequisite(s): ENG 201 , ENG 202 or instructor consent.
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ENG 307 - American Literature IV: African American Literature
Explores African American literary forms from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, in the context of the social, historical, economic, and cultural politics of literary production in this specific racial community. Prerequisite(s): Junior standing
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ENG 310 - Studies in Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
Studies literature in historical context of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English periods, from 600 to 1500, in England. Emphasis on the history of the language, the cultural diversity, and the oral-formulaic nature of the poetry. Primary focus: Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
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ENG 311 - Studies in Renaissance Literature
Examines English literature of the 16th and 17th centuries, excepting Shakespeare, in the context of the times. Focus varies from term to term, sometimes by genre (prose, lyric, epic, dramatic), sometimes by theme.
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ENG 312 - Studies in Shakespeare
Studies selected poems and plays by Shakespeare, viewed in the context of Elizabethan conventions and ideas. Focus varies from term to term, sometime by genre (comedy, tragedy, history, or romance), sometimes by theme, sometimes by emphasis on lyric and narrative verse.
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ENG 314 - Topics in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
Examines major writers and writings of the Restoration and neoclassical periods. Focus on novel as a literary genre, comic potential of the war between the sexes, and poets’ efforts to offer the emerging middle class a sense of both the past and the world of ideas.
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ENG 315 - Studies in 19th-Century British Literature
Examines major writers and writings of the romantic and Victorian periods. Emphases may include works of either period, the forms of lyric poetry, the rise of the novel, or literary movements in their cultural contexts.
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ENG 319 - Studies in 20th-Century British Literature
Examines major writers and writings of the modern and contemporary periods. Emphases may include movements in poetry, fiction, or drama – especially those that represent experiments in new modes of expression at the beginning and end of the century.
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ENG 321 - Topics in World Literature
Introduces major writers and theoretical approaches in one or more literary traditions other than - or in combination with - British and/or American. Specific topics vary. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
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ENG 324 - Selected Studies in Minority Literature
Minority literary studies. Offerings vary year to year. Suitable for non-majors.
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ENG 325 - Modern Drama
Focuses on American, British, and Continental plays written/produced from 1890 to 1945. Representative playwrights include Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Shaw, Synge, O’Neill, Treadwell, Pirandello, and Eliot. Emphasizes critical analysis, historical significance, and issues of performance.
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ENG 326 - Southern Writers
Studies selected Southern writers, including novelists, dramatists, and poets. Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing
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ENG 328 - Contemporary American Literature
Studies American literature in the last half of the 20th century, from the end of World War II and the emergence of the Beats, through the tumultuous 60’s and 70’s, and on into the fin de siècle.
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ENG 329 - Selected Studies in American Literature
Studies forms, traditions, themes, and genres, varying from year to year. Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing
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ENG 335 - Critical Approaches to Literature
Focuses on major works of critical theory as well as applications of critical theory to literary texts. Includes emphasis on literary terminology. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 or equivalent.
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ENG 336 - Twentieth-Century English and American Poetry
Seminar on British and American poets of the 20th century, with emphasis upon the major poets.
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ENG 341 - Film and Literature
Focuses on the history and aesthetics of film and its relationship to literature. Specific topics vary. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 or equivalent.
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ENG 342 - Speculative Fiction
Specific topics vary. May focus on science fiction; fantasy; utopias/dystopias; horror and the occult; magical realism; other; a combination thereof. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 or equivalent.
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ENG 344 - Literature and Cultural Studies
Specific topics vary. Possibilities include The Postmodern; Visual Culture; Media Mixtures; Interactive Literary Venues; or some combination thereof. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 or equivalent.
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ENG 345 - Studies in Classical Rhetoric
The Art and Science of Persuasion: A close study of the classical tradition of rhetoric. Students will become familiar with the work of the major figures of classical rhetoric (Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Quintilliam), their theories of rhetoric, how those theories differ and overlap, and how they have influenced modern notions of persuasiveness. Fulfills elective requirements in classical studies and communication.
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ENG 360 - Creative Nonfiction Workshops
Courses focus on the broad range of intellectual, rhetorical, and composition skills necessary to compose creative nonfiction prose characteristic of a single discourse form. Extensive use of a workshop approach to drafting, revising, and critiquing writing.
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ENG 360A - Creative Nonfiction Workshop – Autobiography
Advanced writing course for upper-level students who wish to extend the basic intellectual, rhetorical, and composition skills necessary to compose clear and substantive prose. Studies various ways that autobiographical sketches, stories, and essays have been structured by contemporary American writers. Develops students single autobiographical text. Emphasis on a workshop approach to drafting, revising, and critiquing student writing.
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ENG 360B - Creative Nonfiction Workshop – Travel Writing
Students consider the nature of travel and reflect on their journeys while trying out strategies of travel writing in this workshop course. Through conversation, campus (or central Florida) trips, and the shaping of a polished piece of travel writing, the class looks at creation of people and place. Exploring the journey as both meaning and metaphor for the lived experience of travel writers, students recall previous travels or write about their own locales. Extensive travel not expected.
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ENG 360C - Creative Nonfiction Workshop – Literary Journalism
This course introduces advanced techniques of non-fiction writing in the tradition of Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, John McPhee and Susan Orlean. Students will become familiar with applying descriptive writing techniques and developing character and plot through a variety of non-fiction writing projects, including first-person narratives and personality profiles.
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ENG 361 - Writing for the Professions
Enables students to make the transition from student to professional. Gives students experience in developing the writing and presentation skills expected of them in their careers. Students will learn and apply specific communication principles typical of the forms and practices of professionals. Coursework is done both independently and in groups. Appropriate for all majors. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
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ENG 367 - Creative Writing Workshops
Emphasis on various writing genres (fiction, creative nonfiction, etc.). Requires strong, established creative writing skills and experience in writing workshops. Prerequisite(s): ENG 167 .
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ENG 367A - Creative Writing Workshop – Poetry
Focuses on the writing of poetry through workshops run by the student participants and supervised by the professor in a conventional creative writing format. Includes some reading and discussion of contemporary poets. Prerequisite(s): ENG 167 .
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ENG 367B - Creative Writing Workshop - Children’s Writing
Workshop course in the writing of poetry or short fiction. Students will complete writing exercises, discuss structures of poems and stories, and make presentations of their original work. Prerequisite(s): ENG 167 .
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ENG 367C - Creative Writing Workshop – Fiction
Focuses on the writing of short fiction through writing workshops run by the student participants and supervised by the professor in a conventional creative writing format. Includes some reading and discussion of contemporary short story writers. Prerequisite(s): ENG 167 .
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ENG 367D - Creative Writing Workshop – Screenwriting
Through the reading of screenplays, watching of films, and multiple workshops, students write a full-length screenplay. Prerequisite(s): ENG 167 .
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ENG 370 - Spiritual Autobiography
Examines the life and work of autobiographers who have fostered social activism and profound spirituality in others. In addition to oral and written projects, students explore a variety of reflective practices. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
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ENG 372 - Winter with the Writers
Conducted in conjunction with the visiting authors series, whose work will be the focus of study. Includes biographical research and critical studies in papers and panels in advance of writers visits. Provides opportunity to meet these writers and discuss their work in master classes. Offers opportunity to combine an academic experience with a deeper involvement in the literary community on the campus. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
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ENG 373 - Journalistic Writing II
Students act as functioning journalists, researching and writing stories, dealing with sources, meeting deadlines, and working with fellow students in an editorial context. Prerequisite(s): ENG 273 or instructor consent.
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ENG 374 - Editing Essentials
Focuses on editing writing at three levels: for correctness (grammar and punctuation); for precision (unity, order, coherence, emphasis, language); and for style (syntax, levels of detail, tone, diction, voice). Students will perform close analysis of surface features of their own and professional writing, and they will complete exercises designed to strengthen their ability to edit writing at the three levels mentioned above. This course is especially appropriate for students preparing to be teachers or engage in any profession that requires writing. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
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ENG 375 - The Critic’s Role – Review Writing
Considers the role that “professional” critics play in our world – as “reviewers” and as shapers of our culture. Students practice writing techniques that critics use when discussing art forms such as cinema, music, and literature, or such issues as economic and social policies. Strongly recommended for students considering a minor in writing or a career in writing or publishing. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
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ENG 377 - Studies in Professional Writing
Studies select topics, genres, and practices in professional writing. Topics may include writing for digital media, writing for communities, business writing, and journalistic writing. Each class involves both theoretical study and skills development.
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ENG 380 - Language Studies: Readers and Writers
Investigates the dynamics of language from historical, sociological, and rhetorical perspectives. Students will learn the best tools for understanding language and for editing their own work and that of others. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
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ENG 385 - Prose Style
Writing exercises designed to increase understanding and control of fine elements of style: word choice, sentence variety, point of view, tone, rhythm, etc.
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ENG 390 - Major Author(s)
Focuses on the works of a single author (excluding Shakespeare) OR a group of closely connected authors. Assigned texts may include secondary sources as well as primary works. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 or equivalent.
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ENG 392 - Environmental Writing
Fosters skills in writing argumentative essays, technical reports, book reviews, and personal essays about nature and the environment. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 or instructor consent. Suitable for non-majors.
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ENG 395 - Studies in Nonfiction
Challenges writers to experiment with various forms, themes, and genres of nonfiction prose including biography, environmental writing, food writing, etc. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 or equivalent. Suitable for non-majors.
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ENG 396 - Journal Production: SPECS.
Produces SPECS, a national journal of literature and culture. Includes reading, discussion, selection, and editing of material for the journal. Students review online submissions, readings on the journal theme, and participate in class discussion. Examines past issues of the journal and other national journals, discussing principles of design, content, and aesthetics. Requires final project based on the call for papers for the current issue.
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ENG 397 - Internship in Writing
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ENG 410 - Studies in Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
Studies literature in historical context of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English periods, from 600 to 1500, in England. Emphasis on the history of the language, the cultural diversity, and the oral-formulaic nature of the poetry. Primary focus: Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
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ENG 411 - Studies in Renaissance Literature
Examines English literature of the 16th and 17th centuries, excepting Shakespeare, in the context of the times. Focus varies from term to term, sometimes by genre (prose, lyric, epic, dramatic), sometimes by theme.
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ENG 412 - Studies in Shakespeare
Studies selected poems and plays by Shakespeare, viewed in the context of Elizabethan conventions and ideas. Focus varies from term to term, sometime by genre (comedy, tragedy, history, or romance), sometimes by theme, sometimes by emphasis on lyric and narrative verse.
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ENG 414 - Topics in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
Examines major writers and writings of the Restoration and neoclassical periods. Focus on novel as a literary genre, comic potential of the war between the sexes, and poets’ efforts to offer the emerging middle class a sense of both the past and the world of ideas.
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ENG 415 - Studies in 19th-Century British Literature
Examines major writers and writings of the romantic and Victorian periods. Emphases may include works of either period, the forms of lyric poetry, the rise of the novel, or literary movements in their cultural contexts.
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ENG 419 - Studies in 20th-Century British Literature
Examines major writers and writings of the modern and contemporary periods. Emphases may include movements in poetry, fiction, or drama – especially those that represent experiments in new modes of expression at the beginning and end of the century.
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ENG 426 - Southern Writers
Studies selected Southern writers, including novelists, dramatists, and poets. Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing
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ENG 428 - Contemporary American Literature
Studies American literature in the last half of the 20th century, from the end of World War II and the emergence of the Beats, through the tumultuous 60’s and 70’s, and on into the fin de siècle.
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ENG 429 - Selected Studies in American Literature
Studies forms, traditions, themes, and genres, varying from year to year.
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ENG 436 - Twentieth-Century English and American Poetry
Seminar on British and American poets of the 20th century, with emphasis upon the major poets.
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ENG 440 - Topic in World Literature
Specific topics vary. Possibilities include a theme; a period; a selection of authors. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 or equivalent.
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ENG 444 - Topics in Advanced Literature and Cultural Studies
Offers advanced study in literature and culture with focus on critical theory. Specific topics vary. Possibilities include theories of gender and sexuality, critical race theory, post-colonialism, performance, and formal innovation.
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ENG 459 - The Writers Portfolio
Examines issues for students serious about keeping writing in their lives. Assists students in defining themselves as writers, framing their work for the public, and balancing the desire for voice with the need for professionalism. May also introduce an editing process for correctness (grammar, punctuation), precision (unity, coherence, emphasis), and style (syntax, voice, tone). Required for the minor in writing.
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ENG 467 - Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
Focuses on readings and writing in a chosen genre. Frequent deadlines and critiques in a workshop atmosphere emphasizing individual instruction. Revision and submission of works encouraged. May be taken three (3) times for credit. Prerequisite(s): ENG 367 .
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ENG 475 - Creative Writing Colloquy
Capstone course that engages writing minors in a culminating workshop, facilitates an edited compilation of best work from the minor, and prepares them to continue writing and market their work. Prerequisite(s): Must have completed the twenty (20) semester hours required for the creative writing minor except for this final course. By permission, a student may take this course concurrent with one other course to fulfill the minor.
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ENG 482 - Writing for Publication
Identifies the demands/restrictions of various publications (newspapers, magazines, literary journals, literary contests, etc.). Students conduct research on the genre, style, and audience of specific publications, write queries and proposals, and submit to at least two publications.
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ENG 490 - Advanced Major Author(s) Study
Focuses on the works of a single author (excluding Shakespeare) OR a group of closely connected authors. Assigned texts include secondary sources as well as primary works. Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 or equivalent.
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ENG 497 - Internship in Writing
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ENG 498 - Independent Study/Research
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ENG 499 - Independent Study/Research
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ENV 105 - Topics: Environmental Studies
Examines contemporary environmental issues. Topics vary from year to year.
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ENV 130 - The Geosphere with Lab
Introductory earth science course exploring the dynamic interactions between the earth’s climate, landforms, water, ecosystems, and soils. Emphasizes key environmental issues such as climate change, water scarcity, natural hazards, and tropical deforestation.
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ENV 189 - The Environmental Crisis in its Cultural Context
Weighs humanity’s responsibility to nature, technocratic drift of society, and conflicts between material and environmental values. Traces development of mechanistic worldview and re-emergence of organic or holistic perspectives.
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ENV 204 - Landscapes of Promise: The Ecological Transformation of the West
Historical study of regional ecology with a critical analysis of economic change. Optional field study component focuses on regional landscapes that reflect the competing attempts to transform and preserve the natural world.
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ENV 205 - Topics: Environmental Studies
Examines contemporary environmental issues. Topics vary from year to year.
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ENV 206 - Caribbean Environmental History
Explores the tension among American, European, and African cultures in the Caribbean. Topics include the Spanish conquest, the slave economy, and the exchange of organisms between Old and New World environments.
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ENV 225 - The Biosphere w/Lab
Introduces ecological principles forming the basis for understanding environmental issues and policy. Explores scientific concepts and laboratory field techniques used to study and assess ecosystems.
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ENV 240 - Ecosystems of North America
Examines the geographic distribution, characteristics, and present status of terrestrial biomes in North America. Emphasizes case studies of critical environmental regions including the Everglades, the Colorado Plateau, and the Pacific Northwest.
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ENV 250 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
A project-based course that explores the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the mapping of land, and how to use GIS to make well-informed decisions regarding land use.
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ENV 270 - Environmental Literature
Features poets, novelists, and essayists who have spoken out strongly for preservation of the environment – including Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Muir, Leopold, and Abbey.
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ENV 289 - Nature in the City
Examines the origins of suburban sprawl, its problems and ongoing solutions. Traces efforts of design professionals from Frederick Law Olmstead to the present and examines their efforts to harmonize urban and natural worlds.
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ENV 292 - Political Economy of Environmental Issues
Traces transformation of organic society into market society and resulting commodification of nature.
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ENV 302 - Traditional Town Planning
Explores movement to return to pedestrian-friendly communities built along natural lines. Examines problems of suburbanization: traffic congestion, pollution, visual blight, strip malls, and housing designed for autos at the expense of pedestrians and children.
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ENV 305 - Topics: Environmental Studies
Examines contemporary environmental issues. Topics vary from year to year.
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ENV 310 - Ecological Restoration
Analysis of the origins and evolution of ecological restoration. Field trips and field projects supplement the classroom experience, which will analyze restoration projects in a variety of settings. Prerequisite(s): ENV 130 or ENV 225 or ENV 289 .
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ENV 323 - Conservation of Biodiversity
Examines our present biodiversity crisis through the lens of biogeography, an integrative field of study focused on large-scale human interactions with the earth’s ecosystems. Case studies presented throughout the semester sharpen our focus on specific regions. Prerequisite(s): ENV 130 or ENV 225 .
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