Intensive instruction in English writing skills, grammar, usage, and reading comprehension, with individualized attention to problem areas. This course is a prerequisite for ENG 1302 for all students whose diagnostic test indicates the inability to do satisfactory work in ENG 1302. Credit for this course does not apply toward any degree program.

Practice in listening and comprehension, pronunciation, and conversation skills for both academic and social competency. Required attendance in language laboratory. This course does not satisfy the English requirements for any degree program.

Review and instruction in English grammar, usage, and vocabulary development, with attention to composition and reading skills, for non-native speakers of English. This course does not satisfy the English requirements for any degree program. Placement in this course is determined by language and writing tests given when the student enrolls in the University.

A course designed to help students better understand English grammar, rhetoric, and usage for correct and effective writing. The course focuses on the several steps in organizing and writing the expository essay for a variety of purposes. Essay assignments develop students' capacity for logical thought and expression.

Provides forum to discuss, analyze, and create nonfiction texts to develop the writing abilities, research skills, and rhetorical knowledge for academic, personal, professional, and civic pursuits. May include themes such as faith, pop culture, social media, sports, social justice, and communities.

Literature of the United States, from the colonial encounter to the 21st century, emphasizing major works of American literature, by men and women from different regions of the United States, and from many cultural backgrounds. A student with credit in ENG 2304 may not earn credit for ENG 2310.

History and structure of the English lexicon, including the semantics, word-formation processes, and pronunciation of both native English and borrowed words.

See LING 3315 for course information.

Matter and methods of modern linguistics, including the nature of language and linguistics, phonology, morphology and grammar, and historical/comparative linguistics.

Old English (Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, and English poetry, prose, and drama to 1600, studied in relation to the cultural and social character of the period.

See LING 3319 for course description.

Workshop course with emphasis on imaginative writing of young adult novels.

Topics exploring the relationship between religion and literature, and between religious ideas and the literary expression of those ideas.

Development and forms of the short story.

A study of film, with an emphasis on film's literary qualities and on various forms of cinematic theory and criticism.

Topics not included in ENG 4374 seminars, especially topics such as detective fiction and science fiction. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated for a total of nine credit hours with content change.

Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.

Origin, growth, and structure of the English language.

Specialized topics in medieval studies, such as paleography, the medieval mystics, and Chaucer and the Italian tradition. Topic announced for each semester or session.

See LING 4319 for course information.

Topics not ordinarily included in period, genre, or author courses. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated once for a total of six credit hours with content change.

Various topics and texts of the Western World. Periods, themes, genres, or problems may be the organizing element, e.g., Greek Tragedy, Roman Elegy, the Medieval Mind, the Enlightenment, French Post-war Intellectual Thought.

A study of the works of a particular writer. Topics announced for each semester or session. May be repeated once under different topic.

See REL 4388 for course information.

An internship to provide literature majors supervised experience in a business or professional setting. Elective credit only. Student may register for course in last semester of senior year only.

Aesthetic Perception and Experience (ARTH/ENG/MUS 43C1) presents specific analytical approaches to visual art, literature, and music, leading students to learn analytical skills in those three areas. The professors then lead students to arrive at, then apply, general principles for aesthetic experience for all artistic fields.

Supervised individual reading and research. Repeat once with change of topic for maximum of six hours.

Supervised individual writing. Repeat once with change of topic for maximum of six hours.

Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.