Department
of English
275 Fretwell
704-687-2296
http://www.uncc.edu/engldept/
Degree
M. A., Certificates
Coordinator
Dr. Tony Jackson
Graduate Faculty
Deborah Bosley, Associate Professor
Lil Brannon, Professor
Paula Connolly, Associate Professor
Boyd Davis, Professor
Christopher Davis, Associate Professor
Susan Gardner, Associate Professor
Elizabeth Gargano, Assistant Professor
Leon Gatlin, Associate Professor
Sandra Govan, Professor
Robert Grey, Associate Professor
Aaron Gwyn, Assistant Professor
Tony Jackson, Associate Professor
Cy Knoblauch, Chair, and Professor, Department of English
Jeffrey Leak, Assistant Professor
Ronald F. Lunsford, Professor
James Holt McGavran, Professor
Kirk Melnikoff, Assistant Professor
Margaret Morgan, Associate Professor
Anita Moss, Professor
Jennifer Munroe, Assistant Professor
Aimee Parkison, Assistant Professor
Malin Pereira, Associate Professor
Alan Rauch, Associate Professor
Blair Rudes, Associate Professor
Anthony Scott, Assistant Professor
Daniel Shealy, Professor
John Staunton, Assistant Professor
Ralf Thiede, Associate Professor
Mark I. West, Professor
Greg Wickliff, Associate Professor
The master’s program in English is designed to accommodate a wide variety of students: those seeking personal enrichment through increased knowledge and understanding; those preparing to pursue a Ph.D. in English or other advanced professional degrees; and those seeking professional advancement in such fields as writing, publishing, or teaching on the primary, secondary, or college levels. The Department offers a broad range of courses in literature, writing/rhetoric, and language, including second language studies and applied linguistics. The Department also offers concentrations in children's literature and technical/professional writing.
Additional
Admission Requirements
In addition to the general requirements for admission to the
1) Thirty hours of undergraduate coursework in English beyond the freshman level, or evidence of equivalent academic preparation for graduate study in English, as approved by the Department.
2) A satisfactory score on the Aptitude portion of the Graduate Record Examination or on the Miller Analogies Test.
Degree
Requirements
The program requires a minimum of 36 semester hours of graduate credit with grades of A or B. (A course in which a graduate student receives a grade of C is not allowable as part of the 36 required hours.) At least 18 semester hours must be in English courses at the 6000-level, open only to graduate students. A student must choose one of these emphases: literature, writing/rhetoric, applied linguistics, or a concentration in either children's literature or technical/professional writing.
Courses beyond 36 hours of graduate credit may be required to remove deficiencies or to satisfy requirements for graduate licensure, or may be recommended to develop areas of need, to pursue particular interests, or to gain specific experience.
Of the 36 hours of graduate credit, 30 must be in English courses; the remaining 6 hours may be taken in English or in another discipline. If the hours are to be taken outside of English, the student must submit a written request to the Coordinator of Graduate Studies, explaining how these hours will enrich his/her program.
No more than 6 hours of ENGL 6890 (Directed Reading), may be applied to the degree without written permission of the Chair of the Department.
Assistantships
A number of graduate assistantships are available each year. Applications must be submitted by March 15 for assistantships beginning the following academic year. Further information is available in the Department.
Internships
ENGL 5410. The Department of English offers a number of internships for graduate students (limited to 3 hours of credit), which provide program-related experience in local television and radio stations, non-profit and government agencies, and local businesses and corporations. Further information is available in the Department.
Advising
The graduate coordinator and other graduate faculty member acting as his/her designated assistant will advise graduate students.
Licensure
Students seeking licensure in English should refer to the requirements of the M. A. in English Education program.
Comprehensive
Examination
Students must satisfactorily complete a written examination based on a reading list keyed to their chosen emphasis. These lists are available in the Department office. The written examination may not be attempted sooner than the last semester of coursework, exclusive of thesis credits. The reading lists were revised for students entering the program in Spring 2002 and thereafter.
Thesis
The M.A. thesis is optional; it may be either scholarly or creative. See course description for ENGL 6996.
Tuition
Waivers
Each year, one out-of-state tuition waiver is available for a new graduate assistant. In-state tuition waiver funds are also available for new graduate assistants and sometimes for other outstanding applicants.
Core
Courses
All M.A. candidates, regardless of which concentration or emphasis is chosen, are required to take ENGL 6101 (Introduction to English Studies) and ENGL 6160 (Introduction to the English Language).
Emphasis
Descriptions
The Literature Emphasis
The literature emphasis includes five literature courses, at least three of which are historically oriented. Two of these courses must be in one national literature and a third in a different national literature. In addition, one writing/rhetoric course, one literary theory-intensive course, and three electives are required.
The Writing Emphasis
The writing emphasis includes four writing/rhetoric courses, one writing/rhetoric theory-intensive course, two literature courses, and three electives. The writing emphasis may focus on creative writing, technical/professional writing, or writing and pedagogy.
The Applied Linguistics Emphasis
The Applied Linguistics emphasis includes two writing/rhetoric courses, two literature courses, and four courses selected from the following:
ENGL5161 Modern Grammar
ENGL5165 Language and Culture
ENGL5166 Comparative Language Studies for Teachers
ENGL5260 History of the English Language or:
ENGL6162 History of the English Language
ENGL5263 Linguistics and Language Learning
ENGL6163 Language Acquisition
ENGL6161 Introduction to Linguistics
ENGL6070 Topics in English (Approval of Graduate Coordinator required)
In addition, students will choose one course from the following:
ENGL5050 Topics in English (linguistics topics only)
ENGL5254 Teaching English/Communications Skills to Middle and Secondary School Learners
ENGL5400 English Composition Practicum
ENGL5264 Literacy in Community/Family
ENGL6195
The
Technical/Professional Writing Concentration
Students accepted into the MA in English program may elect a concentration in Technical/Professional Writing. The curriculum includes 1) working for real clients; 2) learning Internet and Webpage design; 3) building project management and teamwork skills; and 4) learning applications such as Adobe PageMaker, PowerPoint, authoring tools, and word-processing systems.
Students will learn new computing applications, how to work as members of development teams, how to design and manage complex publication projects, both online and print, and how to assemble professional portfolios. Required courses include:
ENGL6116 Technical/Professional Writing (this class should be taken in the first year)
ENGL5180 Theories of Technical Communication
ENGL5410 Professional Internship
ENGL6008 Topics in Technical Communication (may be repeated for credit)
ENGL6166 Rhetorical Theory
15 hours selected from: 5181, 5182, 5183, 5204, 5205, 5008 (may be repeated for credit), 5852, 6062 (maybe repeated for credit), 6890, 6996,up to 6 hours of Creative Writing, Literature, or Linguistics courses
The
Children's Literature Concentration
This concentration is premised on the assumptions that children's literature is an integral part of many literary traditions and that students studying children's literature should develop an understanding of the connection between children's literature and other forms of literature. Students will take:
6 hours in literature (not Children’s Literature)
6 hours in writing/rhetoric
ENGL 6103 Juvenile Literature
12 hours selected from: 5102, 5103, 5104, 6104, 6890, 6996, 6070 (Children’s Literature Winners), 5050 (topics that relate to Children’s Literature), READ 6100, EDUC 5000 (Children’s Literature across the Curriculum)
3 hours of an English elective
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS
The Graduate Certificate Program in Applied linguistics enables professionals to focus and solidify or update their work with language teaching and research applications. As technology-supported applications of language theory increase, and as teaching and research opportunities change in response to demographic and educational demands both in the U.S. and in the global community, this Certificate grounds the participants in both current theory and practice and makes courses in the Applied Linguistics Concentration available to persons with related degrees and professional aspirations.
Admission
Requirements
Students are admitted to the
Certificate
Requirements
The Graduate Certificate in Applied linguistics requires 15 hours in approved courses, including at least 6 hours at the 6000-level. A typical program might include 4 of the following courses: ENGL 5161 (Modern English Grammar), ENGL 5165 (Language and Culture), ENGL 6161 (Introduction to Linguistics), ENGL 6163 (Language Acquisition), ENGL 6195 (Teaching College English). Students must earn a grade of “B” or better in all courses presented for the certificate, and must complete the program within four years from the time of first enrollment in a certificate course.
Substitutions from the broader linguistics emphasis and graduate program will be allowed with approval of the Certificate Coordinator, who will act as adviser for those enrolled in the Certificate program.
Students whose dominant language is not English will elect coursework in Second Language Writing: Theory and Applications.
Transfer credits are not accepted in the Certificate
program. Students seeking licensure for the teaching of English at levels K-12
should consult the
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN TECHNICAL/PROFESSIONAL
WRITING
The
Admission
Requirements
Students must apply for admission to the graduate school and must have a minimum undergraduate GPA of 2.75. Applicants will be required to submit: 1) a current GRE score; 2) a current MAT score; or 3) a portfolio of professional documents. Only graduate courses taken at UNC Charlotte will count towards this Graduate Certificate.
Certificate Requirements (9 hours):
ENGL6166 Rhetorical Theory
ENGL6008 Topics in Advanced Technical Communication
ENGL5410 Professional Internship
Electives (12 hours)
ENGL5180 Theories of Technical Communication
ENGL5181 Writing User Documents
ENGL5182 Writing & Designing Computer-based Documents
ENGL5183 Editing Technical Documents
ENGL5008 Topics in Technical Communication
Other Courses: as appropriate and approved by the Department
Courses in English
ENGL 5002. Women and Literature. (3) Selected topics focusing on women and literature, such as images of women, women as writers, and women as literary critics. With permission of the English Department, may be repeated for credit as topics vary. (However, only six hours may be used for the requirements for the English major.) (Yearly)
ENGL 5008. Topics in Advanced Technical Communication. (3) Prerequisites: ENGL 2116 and COMM 1101. Exploration, both theoretically and practically, of the interrelation of written, oral and graphic communication within technical rhetorical contexts. May be repeated once for additional credit with the approval of the English Department. (On demand)
ENGL 5050. Topics in English. (3) Special topics not included in other courses. May be repeated for additional credit with approval of the English Department. (On demand)
ENGL 5090. Major Authors. (3) The works, ideas and life of one to three significant authors. With permission of the English Department, may be repeated once for credit as long as different authors are considered. (On demand)
ENGL 5102. Classics in British Children’s Literature. (3) Focuses on pivotal works in the history of British and British Colonial Children’s Literature. (Fall)
ENGL 5103. Classics in American Children’s Literature. (3) Focuses on pivotal works in the history of American Children’s Literature. (Spring)
ENGL 5104. Multiculturalism and Children’s
Literature. (3) Focuses on works that represent one or more kinds
of cultural, ethnic, or social diversity of the
ENGL 5114.
(On demand)
ENGL 5116. Shakespeare’s Early Plays. (3) A study of 10 representative plays from the comedies, histories and tragedies written 1590-1600. (Yearly)
ENGL 5117. Shakespeare’s Late Plays. (3) A study of 10 representative plays from the period 1600-1611, including the late tragedies and tragi-comedies. (Yearly)
ENGL 5121. The 18th-Century British Novel. (3) The novel as narrative form and as mirror of the individual in society. Emphasis on fiction by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Austen, with further readings in the novel of manners and the Gothic romance. (On demand)
ENGL 5122. The Victorian Novel. (3)
ENGL 5123. The Modern British Novel. (3) Representative British novels that embody the cultural and literary developments of the 20th century: the impact of two world wars, the influence of important psychological and economic factors of modern life and their relationships to new techniques in art and literature. (Alternate years)
ENGL 5124. Modern Irish Literature. (3)
ENGL 5131. British Drama to 1600, Excluding Shakespeare. (3) A survey of the development of British drama to 1600, with representative plays from the Mystery-Miracle Cycles, the Morality Plays, and Tudor drama, including Lyly, Kyd, Marlowe, Peele, Greene, Dekker. (On demand)
ENGL 5132. British Drama from 1600-1642, Excluding Shakespeare. (3) A survey of Jacobean and Caroline drama, including plays by Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster, Middleton, Shirley, Ford. (On demand)
ENGL 5133. British Drama of Wit and Intrigue, 1660-1780. (3) The famous bawdy comedy of manners and the heroic drama of the Restoration, followed by the sentimental comedy and satiric burlesque of the 18th century. (On demand)
ENGL 5143. The American Novel of the 19th Century. (3) Major novelists and traditions from the beginnings of the American novel through the rise of realism, including such novelists as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Howells, James. (Alternate years)
ENGL 5144. The American Novel of the 20th Century. (3) Major novelists and traditions from the emergence of naturalism to the present, including such novelists as Crane, Dreiser, Hemingway, Faulkner. (Yearly)
ENGL 5145. Literature of the American South. (3) Selected works of Southern writers which reflect literary and cultural concerns from Colonial times to the present, including such authors as Poe, the early humorists, local color writers, Chopin, Faulkner, Warren, O’Connor, Welty. (Yearly)
ENGL 5146. Contemporary Jewish-American Literature. (3) An introduction to the scope and shape of the contemporary Jewish-American literary traditions. Such writers as Bellow, Malamud, Roth, Singer, and Potok will be studied. (On demand)
ENGL 5147. Early Black American Literature. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 2301. A survey of significant writings by black Americans before the Harlem Renaissance. (Alternate years)
ENGL 5148. Twentieth-Century Black American Literature: Prose. (3) Intensive study of selected black American 20th-century writers of fiction and nonfiction, beginning with the Harlem Renaissance. (Alternate years)
ENGL 5150. Contemporary Poetry. (3) Poetry in English (including translations) since 1940. (On demand)
ENGL 5151. Modern Drama. (3) Representative Continental, British, and American plays, from Shaw to the present. (On demand)
ENGL 5152. Modern European Literature. (3) Selected modern European authors, translated into English, whose works have been of special interest to readers and writes of British and American literature. (On demand)
ENGL 5153. Contemporary Fiction. (3)
Selected present-day fiction, with an emphasis upon works from outside the
ENGL 5155. Pan-African Literature. (3)
Introduction to significant Pan-African literature, emphasizing the oral
tradition, selected works of major authors in the Caribbean and
ENGL 5156. Gender and African American Literature. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 2301, 3100 and 3200, or permission of instructor or graduate status. Exploration of the intersection of gender and African American Literature, focusing on either Black women writers or Black male writers, or a combination in dialogue. Cross-listed as AAA S 4106. (On demand)
ENGL 5157. African American Poetry. (3) Prerequisites: ENGL 2301, 3100 and 3200, or permission of instructor or graduate status. Intensive study of African American poetry, focusing on one period or traversing several. Cross-listed as AAAS 4107. (Alternate years)
ENGL 5158. African American Literary Theory and Criticism. (3) Prerequisites: ENGL 2301, 3100 and 3200, or permission of instructor or graduate status. History of an African American approach to literary analysis, including a practicum in modern criticism. Cross-listed as AAAS 4108. (Alternate years)
ENGL 5161. Modern English Grammar. (3) A study of the structure of contemporary English, with an emphasis on descriptive approaches. (Alternate years)
ENGL 5165. Language and Culture. (3)
ENGL 5166. Comparative Language Studies for Teachers. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 3132, or ENGL 6161, or permission of the Department. An introductory course designed to aid the teacher of English as a Second Language in comparing the systems of sound and structure of another language with those systems in English. (Yearly)
ENGL 5180. Theories of Technical Communication. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 2116. Rhetorical, psychological, and anthropological theories which underscore the interrelations of written and graphic communication within technical, rhetorical contexts. (Fall)
ENGL 5181. Writing User Documents. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 2116. Researching and analyzing audiences to write publishable instructions. This includes the production, testing, and revision of tutorials, reference manuals and on-line documents for users of computers and other devices. (Spring)
ENGL 5182. Writing and Designing Computer-based Documents. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 2116. Theoretical and practical exploration of desktop publishing. Students will write and publish camera-ready documents by rhetorically integrating text and graphics using computer aids. (Fall)
ENGL 5183. Editing Technical Documents. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 2116. Document editing, including copy editing, proofreading, substantive editing, and project management. (Spring)
ENGL 5202. Writing Poetry. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 2126, or graduate status, or permission of instructor. Further study of and practice in the writing of poetry within a workshop format. May be repeated once for credit with the consent of the English Department. (Fall, Spring) (Evenings)
ENGL 5203. Writing Fiction. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 2126, or graduate status, or permission of instructor. This course provides further study of and practice in the writing of fiction within a workshop format. May be repeated once for credit with the consent of the English Department. (Fall, Spring) (Evenings)
ENGL 5204. Expository Writing. (3) Writing of essays, criticism and various forms of exposition. (Fall, Spring) (Evenings)
ENGL 5205. Advanced Expository Writing. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 5204. May be repeated once for credit with permission of the English Department. (Alternate years)
ENGL 5208. Poetry Writing Workshop. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 5202. Designed for advanced writers of poetry. Focuses primarily on student work and peer criticism of it. May be repeated once for credit with permission of department. (Yearly)
ENGL 5209. Fiction Writing Workshops. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 5203. Designed for advanced writers of fiction. Focuses primarily on student work and peer criticism of it. May be repeated once for credit with permission of department. (Yearly)
ENGL 5210. Greek and Roman Drama in Translation. (3) A study of selected plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plautus, Terence, and Seneca with emphasis on dramaturgy and the development of the Greek and Roman theater. (On demand)
ENGL 5211. Chaucer. (3) The poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, including the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. (Alternate years)
ENGL 5251. Literary Criticism Through
ENGL 5252. Modern Literary Criticism. (3) Theories of the modern schools of criticism. (On demand)
ENGL 5254. Teaching English/Communications Skills to Middle and Secondary School Learners. (1-3) Approaches to the teaching of English, including recent theories and research related to writing and literary study, designed primarily for teaching in grades 6-12. (Yearly)
ENGL 5260. History of the English Language. (3) Origins and development of the English language, both spoken and written, from its earliest forms to contemporary usage. (Alternate years)
ENGL 5263. Linguistics and Language Learning.
(3)
ENGL 5264. Literacy in Family and Community. (3) Exploration of literacy issues and outreach in schools, agencies, and work sites. (Alternate years)
ENGL 5290. Advanced Creative Project. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 5208 or 5209 or permission of the instructor. The planning, writing, and polishing of a work of at least 20 pages of poetry or at least 40 pages of fiction or creative non-fiction by advanced undergraduate or graduate students with the guidance of a member of the Department’s creative writing faculty. The final work may be a single piece or a collection of pieces and will evolve under the supervision of the primary instructor. With permission of the Department, students who took the course as undergraduates may repeat as graduate students. (On demand)
ENGL 5400. English Composition Practicum. (1-3) Prerequisite: consent of the instructor. Through supervised tutorial experience and seminars, this course introduces the student to current developments concerning composition and to a variety of methods for teaching English composition. This course is highly recommended for those planning to teach or those currently engaged in teaching. With permission of the English Department may be repeated once for credit. (Fall, Spring)
ENGL 5410. Professional Internship. (3 or 6) Prerequisites: permission of English Internship Coordinator. Restricted to juniors, seniors, graduate students majoring in English or minoring in English or communications who have at least a 2.5 GPA and a course in professional communication (e.g., journalism, technical communication, public relations, public relations lab, or mass media). Students work 8-10 hours (3 hours credit) or 16-20 hours (6 hours credit) per week in a placement arranged by the Internship coordinator. Only three credit hours may be applied to the English major at either the undergraduate or graduate level; three additional hours may be counted as a University or Communications elective. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
ENGL 5852. Independent Study. (1-3) Prerequisite: consent of the Department. Individual investigations and appropriate exposition of the results. (Unless special permission is granted by the Department Chair, no more than six hours may apply toward the English major.) May be repeated for additional credit with approval of the English Department. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
ENGL 6008. Topics in Advanced Technical Communication. (3) Theoretical and practical exploration of advanced topics in technical communication, including projects in which students write and publish documents by rhetorically integrating text, graphics, and other media using computer aids. (Yearly)
ENGL 6062. Topics in Rhetoric. (3) Examination of and/or research concerning selected issues in rhetorical theory or pedagogy. May be repeated for credit with English Department approval. (Fall, Spring)
ENGL 6070. Topics in English. (3) Selected topics of literature and language. May be repeated for credit as topics vary and with English Department approval. (Fall, Spring)
ENGL 6101. Introduction to English Studies. (3) The discipline of English--its nature, its history, and its methods. Emphasis on (1) the interrelations of literature, language, and writing; and (2) the diversity of cultural origins and critical perspectives in English studies, with concentration on selected major critical approaches. Intensive writing and practice in methods of research. Required of all M.A. in English students, preferably at or near the beginning of their programs. (Fall, Spring)
ENGL 6102. Literary Theory. (3) Modern literary theory focusing on the theoretical concepts which underpin literary analysis. Emphases may differ from semester to semester; readings will focus on major theoretical statements and on criticism which applies several approaches to particular literary works. Students will be required to apply what they have learned. (Yearly)
ENGL 6103. The Worlds of Juvenile Literature. (3) Covers a range of literature for children and adolescents including both historical and contemporary works. (Yearly)
ENGL 6104. Major Figures in Children’s Literature. (3) Focuses on specific authors or illustrators who have made important contributions to the evolution of children’s literature. (Spring)
ENGL 6111. Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories. (3) Source materials, textual problems and stage conventions in selected comedies and history plays illustrating Shakespeare’s dramaturgy. (Yearly)
ENGL 6112. Shakespeare’s Tragedies. (3) Source materials, textual problems and stage conventions of the great tragedies, illustrating Shakespeare’s dramaturgy. (Yearly)
ENGL 6113.
ENGL 6123. The Augustan Age, 1660-1785. (3) Close reading of Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson,, and a consideration of other literary figures and trends, in the light of intellectual and historical currents. (On demand)
ENGL 6125. The Romantic Era, 1785-1832. (3) Development of the Romantic movement, with emphasis on the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge and other major poets. (Alternate years)
ENGL 6126. The Victorian Era, 1832-1900. (3) Emphasis on Tennyson, Robert Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, Ruskin, Newman. (Alternate years)
ENGL 6141. American Romanticism. (3) Major writers of the 1830s, 40s, and 50s, including Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendental Movement. (Alternate years)
ENGL 6142. American Realism and Naturalism. (3) Major writers of the two movements before and after the end of the 19th century, including Twain, Howells, James, Crane, Dreiser, Norris. (Alternate years)
ENGL 6143. American Modernism. (3) Six to eight writers of the period since World War I, both prose and poetry. (Alternate years)
ENGL 6144. Stylistics. (3) Methodologies for analysis of the style of texts, with special emphasis on diction, syntax, prose, rhythm, voice, and metaphor. (On demand)
ENGL 6147. Perspectives in African-American Literature. (3) A survey of African-American literature, emphasizing the major authors, those relevant historical and social factors, and those specific literary movements that have influenced the development of African-American literature. (Alternate years)
ENGL 6160. Introduction to the English Language. (3) History and nature of English, its grammar, syntax, and lexicon. Integrates the study of language-based rhetorical and literary theory, asks students to consider the nature of language in general, its impact on the user, and the development of the systems of English, concentrating on features of major British and American dialects and registers. (Fall, Spring)
ENGL 6161. Introduction to Linguistics. (3) Introduction to linguistics, its techniques and objectives, descriptive and historical approaches, language families, language and culture. (Yearly)
ENGL 6162. History of the English Language. (3) Origins and development of spoken and written English, from its earliest forms to contemporary usage, with some attention to dialects and lexicography. (May not also receive credit for ENGL 4260.) (Alternate years)
ENGL 6163. Language Acquisition. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 6160 or permission of the instructor. Linguistic theories of first and second language acquisition, including processes and stages of language development. (May not also receive credit for ENGL 4263.) (Yearly)
ENGL 6166. Rhetorical Theory. (3) Rhetorical theories, past and present, focusing on ways that these varied frameworks of understanding have informed the generation, understanding, and pedagogy of writing and other modes of discourse. Emphases will vary from semester to semester, readings will concentrate on major selected rhetorical theories and on implications of these theories for the understanding and pedagogy of discourse. (Yearly)
ENGL 6195.
ENGL 6274. Contexts and Issues in the Teaching of English. (4) Prerequisites: Admission to the Program. Examine the key concepts of the discipline. Consider own identities as readers, writers, teachers, researches, makers of meaning. Emphasis upon critical approaches and pedagogical issues, with special attention to technology in the teaching of language, composition, and literature, as well as cultural contexts for the study of English. (Fall) (Evenings)
ENGL 6495. Internship in College Teaching. (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 6195. Teaching in one section offered by the English Department under the supervision of English faculty. Students will be accepted for internship only near the end of the degree program and upon approval of the department. Students will be assigned to teach selected basic courses, and also will participate in periodic conferences and seminars. It is strongly recommended that students also take ENGL 4400 before ENGL 6195. (Fall, Spring)
ENGL 6674. Applied Research Methods in the Teaching of English. (4) Prerequisites: Completion of ENGL/EDUC 6274 and 12 hours of graduate credit toward this degree. Building on the research basis established in ENGL/EDUC 6274, this course provides the opportunity to apply research methods in classrooms. Examine identities as readers, writers, teachers, and especially as classroom researchers. (Spring) (Evenings)
ENGL 6680. Seminar in British Literature. (3) (Yearly) (Evenings)
ENGL 6685. Seminar in American Literature. (3) (Yearly) (Evenings)
ENGL 6890. Directed
ENGL 6974. Thesis/Project in the Teaching of English. (6) Research integrating the fields of English and Education in a theoretical or application-oriented study. If the thesis/project is the outgrowth of previous coursework, considerable additional research and exposition must be done. (Department approval)
ENGL 6996. Thesis. (6) Appropriate research and written exposition of that research, which may or may not be an outgrowth of work done in previous courses. If the thesis is the outgrowth of previous coursework, considerable additional research and exposition must be done beyond that previously undertaken. The proposed thesis work, as well as the final product, will be approved by a committee of three graduate faculty appropriate to the topic, appointed by the graduate coordinator after consultation with the student, on the basis of a written proposal from the student. It is recommended that thesis work not be undertaken until near the end of progress toward the degree. The thesis title is to be shown on the student’s final transcript. A Creative thesis option is available for students who have completed appropriate coursework in Creative Writing. (A statement of recommendations and requirements for form and procedures is available in the English Department office.) (Fall, Spring, Summer)
ENGL 7999. Masters Degree Graduate Residence. (1) (Fall, Spring, Summer)