| ENGL 090 Basic English Laboratory -- 0-1 Credit Hours -- Fall & Spring | |
| This course includes tutoring of individual students or small groups in the fundamentals of punctuation, spelling and other mechanics, grammar, and composition. It is required of students who need a basic review. It is also available without registration to students enrolled in other courses who wish only temporary help. This course may be repeated and is graded as satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Credit for this course will not count toward graduation. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 120 Introductory English Composition -- 3 Credit Hours -- Fall & Spring | |
| This course covers descriptive, narrative, and expository writing as required for successful college study and the responsibilities of a well-educated person. It includes a concentrated review of the principles of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, as well as research and documentation. The final examination is common to all sections of the course. Students who receive a “C” or better in ENGL 120 at KWU will receive credit for passing the English Proficiency Exam. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 121 Intermediate English Composition -- 3 Credit Hours -- Fall & Spring | |
| This course includes argumentative and persuasive writing, critical analysis and interpretation of various kinds of rhetoric, and study of ethical problems involved in rhetoric, as well as logic, library research, and documentation. Students prepare a term paper. Prerequisites: ENGL 120 or equivalent. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 125 Introduction to Literature -- 3 Credit Hours -- Fall & Spring | |
| This course is an introduction to literature as a humane art (that is, an especially enriching means of sharing human experience). Various genres are studied, including poetry, fiction, and drama. Prerequisite: ENGL 120 | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 206 World Literature: The European Tradition -- 3 Credit Hours -- Odd Year Fall | |
| This course surveys Continental literature and its antecedents in the Near East and North Africa from antiquity to the early twentieth century. Like all courses in literature, this one has a prerequisite of English composition, already required in Liberal Studies: ENGL 121 | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 209 Major British Writers I -- 3 Credit Hours -- Odd Year Fall | |
| This course surveys British literature from its beginnings to the end of the Neo-Classical Period in the eighteenth century. It may include Beowulf, Chaucer, Wyatt, Marlowe, Spenser, Ben Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Milton, Dryden, Behn, Goldsmith, and Samuel Johnson among others. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or equivalent. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 210 Major British Writers II -- 3 Credit Hours -- Even Year Spring | |
| This course surveys British literature from the beginning of the Romantic Period in the late eighteenth century to the present. It may include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Dickens, Browning, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Hardy, Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Beckett among others. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or equivalent. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 211 American Literature I -- 3 Credit Hours -- Even Year Fall | |
| This course surveys American literature from the colonial period through the nineteenth century. It may include Bradford, Bradstreet, Edwards, Wheatley, Franklin, Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Bryant, Longfellow, Stowe, Douglass, Dickinson, Whitman, Twain, and the works of Native American origin among others. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or equivalent. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 212 American Literature II -- 3 Credit Hours -- Odd Year Spring | |
| This course surveys major American writers from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. It may include, among others, E.A. Robinson, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, O’Neill, Eliot, Pound, Frost, Cather, Stevens, Hughes, Steinbeck, O’Connor, Baldwin, Updike, and Morrison. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or equivalent. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 230 The Film -- 3 Credit Hours -- Even Year Spring | |
| This course is an introduction to film as a humane art: its history, its techniques, its aesthetics, its relation to other arts, and its criticism. The class will discuss of selected films and certain writings on film. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or equivalent. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 286 Special Topics -- 3 Credit Hours -- On Demand | |
This course provides the opportunity for intensive study of special topics and selected materials for underclassmen. Under different subtitles this course may be repeated for credit. Possible topics include Introduction to Creative Writing and Introduction to the Short Story. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or equivalent. |
|
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 301 Shakespeare -- 3 Credit Hours -- Odd Year Spring | |
| This course includes representative comedies, tragedies, histories, and sonnets by William Shakespeare. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or equivalent. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 302 Introduction to Linguistics -- 3 Credit Hours -- Even Year Fall | |
| This course is an introduction to the methods of describing and classifying the features of language: grammar, phonetics, phonology, morphology, and semantics. It discusses the relation between English and other languages, especially French, German, Spanish, and Latin. Language development in children, the history of the English language, sociolinguistics, and the implications of different linguistic theories also receive special attention. Prerequisites: ENGL 121 or equivalent. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 305 Studies in British Literature -- 3 Credit Hours -- Odd Year Spring | |
| This course provides the opportunity for intensive study of special topics and selected texts in British Literature. Under different subtitles, the course may be repeated for credit. Possible topics include Thomas Hardy, Chaucer, Satire, The English Lyric, The Development of the English Novel, and Women Writers from Austen to Wolfe. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or equivalent. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 306 Studies in American Literature -- 3 Credit Hours -- Even Year Spring | |
| This course provides the opportunity for an intensive study of special topics and selected texts in American Literature. Under different subtitles, this course may be repeated for credit. Possible topics include Mark Twain, The American Realists, The Harlem Renaissance, Melville and Hawthorne, Literature of the 1920’s, Chief American Poets, and Women Fiction Writers. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or equivalent. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 307 Studies in World Literature -- 3 Credit Hours -- On Demand | |
| This course provides the opportunity for an intensive study of special topics and selected texts in world literature (that is, literature not originating in the British Isles or in what is now the United States). Possible topics include Modern European Literature, Symbolism as an International Movement, The African Novel, Contemporary South American Fiction, Tragedy, Comedy, Sartre and Camus, Comparative Mythology. Prerequisite: ENGL121 or the equivalent | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 360 Advanced Creative Writing -- 3 Credit Hours -- Odd Year Fall | |
| This course includes the study of fictional technique and of prosody. It emphasizes the writing of three genres: the personal essay, the short story, and the lyric poem. Intermediate English Composition or equivalent is the prerequisite. Strongly recommended is a course in literature (as required by the Liberal Studies Program). Students without a course in literature should consult with the instructor and seek his or her consent. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 361 Advanced Composition -- 3 Credit Hours -- Even Year Fall | |
| Advanced Composition includes the study of rhetoric, traditional and modern, and the writing of essays, mainly expository, analytical, critical, persuasive, and argumentative. Students will work on the honing of style, compositional strategies, and techniques for the use of illustration and the effective presentation of evidence. Prerequisites: ENGL 121 and completion of the English Proficiency Requirement. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 380 Practicum in English Education -- 2 Credit Hours -- Odd Year Spring | |
| This course includes a review of basic grammar, instruction in teaching composition, and practice in tutoring. It may also include guided practice in the evaluation and grading of tests and compositions. This course must be taken before student teaching. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the teacher education program. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 404 Seminar in Literary Criticism -- 3 Credit Hours -- Even Year Fall | |
| The seminar includes a historical review of major approaches to literary criticism and an application of critical methods to individual projects culminating in seminar papers. It is a capstone for majors in English, English Education, and Literature and Language. Open to juniors and seniors with those majors. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 485 Special Topics -- 3 Credit Hours -- On Demand | |
| This course provides the opportunity for intensive study of special topics and selected materials for upperclassmen. Under different subtitles this course may be repeated for credit. Possible topics include: The History of the English Language, Film Comedy from Sennett to Capra, Anglo-Saxon, Translation: Theory and Practice, The Films of Ingmar Bergman, and Languages of the World. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or equivalent. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ENGL 490 Independent Study -- Variable Credit -- On Demand | |
| Independent Study consists of research, readings, or other scholarly investigation or creative work. See Independent Study under Alternate Means to Academic Credit for a more detailed description. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ESL 120 Introductory ESL Composition -- 3 Credit Hours -- On Demand | |
| This course covers descriptive, narrative and expository writing as required for successful college research and writing, with a special focus on the needs of students whose first language is not English. It includes a review of English grammar, punctuation, and mechanics. The final examination is taken in conjunction with ENGL 120 sections and serves as practice for the English Proficiency Exam. Prerequisite: ESL 090C or by instructor’s permission. | |
Top of Page | |
|
| ESL 121 Intermediate ESL Composition -- 3 Credit Hours -- On Demand | |
| The primary purpose of this course is to help ESL students become better writers. In the class students learn elements of logic and argumentation, style, research methods and documentation, and techniques for becoming more critical readers. By the end of the course the students should be able to compose logical, persuasive essays, analyze the writings of others with greater insight and sensitivity, and write a consistent and well-documented research paper. In addition to a midterm and final, students take the English Proficiency Exam at the conclusion of the course. Prerequisite: ESL 120 or equivalent. | |
Top of Page | |
|