English Department Three-Year/Multi-Year Schedule
General Education and Writing Courses
| Every semester: | 1100 (Freshman Composition), 1130 (Topics in Literature), 3100 (Advanced Expository Writing), 3120 (Business Writing), 3130 (Technical Writing), 3150 (Feature Writing), 4860 (Editing), 4890 (Writing Internship), 4892 (Independent Writing Project) |
| Every year: | 1100 (Freshman Composition for International Students), 2080 (Advertising Copywriting), 3160 (Writing in the Sciences) |
| Every other year: | 2120 (Topics in Writing), 3800 (Topics in Women and Literature), 3110 (Advanced Expository Writing for International Students), 3140 (Newswriting), 3280 (Public Relations Writing) |
| Occasionally: | 1120 (Literary Types), |
Creative Writing Courses
| Every semester: | 2030 (Introduction to the Writing of Poetry) , 2040 (Introduction to the Writing of Fiction) |
| Every year: | 4140 (Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop), 4160 (Advanced Workshop in Fiction & Poetry Writing), 4985 (Editing Litmag) |
| Every other year: | 3040 ( Fiction Writing Workshop: Narrative Techniques) 3030 (Poetry Writing Workshop: Lyric and Form), 4130 (Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop) |
English Education Courses
| Every semester: | 4880 (Writing for Teachers), 4885 (Curriculum and Methods of Teaching English), 4888 (English Teaching Seminar) |
Courses for the English Major—Lower Division
| Every semester: | 2310 (English Literature I), 2320 (English Literature II), 2710(American Literature I), 2720 (American Literature II), 2810 (Traditional Grammar), 3090 (Practical Criticism: Writing About Literature) |
| Every year: | 2280 (The Contemporary World in Literature) |
| Occasionally: | 2330 (Introduction to Poetry), 2340 (Introduction to Drama), 2350 (Introduction to Fiction) |
Courses for the English Major—Upper Division
| At least two 4000-level American Literature courses will be offered each semester: | 4610 (Selected Major American Writers I), 4620 (Selected Major American Writers II), 4640 (American Fiction to World War I ), 4650 (Modern American Fiction), 4740 (Poetry since World War II) |
| At least two 4000-level British Literature courses before 1790 will be offered each semester: | 4260 (Chaucer), 4270 (Medieval English Literature), 4320 (Elizabethan Poetry and Prose), 4340 (Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose), 4350 (Milton), 4370 (Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances), 4380( Shakespeare: Comedies and Histories), 4450 (The Eighteenth-Century English Novel), 4931(English Women Writers, 1300-1750) |
| At least two 4000-level British Literature courses after 1790, will be offered each semester: | 4510 (Early Romantic Poetry and Prose), 4520 (Later Romantic Poetry and Prose), 4540 (The Nineteenth-Century English Novel), 4550 (Novels into Film: The Nineteenth Century), 4560 (Prose and Poetry of the Victorian Period), 4580(Literature of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries), 4750 (Modern British Fiction), 4934 (Austen and the Brontes), 4935 (Women Heroes and Romantic Tales) |
Additional elective courses at the 4000-level will be offered according to the following schedule:
| Every year: | 4060 (Adolescent Literature), 4800 (Linguistics), 4810 (English Grammar), 4820 (History of the English Language), 4850 (Topics in Teaching of Writing), 4900 (Seminar [topics vary]), 4950 (Special Topics in Literature [topics vary]) |
| Every other year: | 4640 (American Fiction to World War I), 4740 (Poetry since World War II), 4760 (Modern Drama), 4770 (Modern Poetry), 4920 (Major Works of European Fiction), 4930 (Studies in Gender and Literature) |
| Occasionally: | 4000 (History of Literary Criticism), 4030 (Contemporary Critical Theory), 4050 (Forms and Modes of Poetry), 4070 (The Two Cultures: Literature and Science), 4080 (Narrative, Cognition, and Emotion), 4360 (Tudor and Stuart Drama), 4410 (Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama), 4440 (Age of Johnson), 4630 (African American Literature prior to 1900), 4660 (African American Literature since 1900), 4870 (Advanced Business & Technical Writing), 4932 (Female Gothic), 4933 (Female Novel of Development), 4936 (Tales of the Islamic East), 4937 (Irish & Irish-American Women Writers), 4938 (American Women Poets of 20th/21st Centuries), 4940 (Special Topics in Jewish Literature), 4960 (Ethnic Literature), 4970 (Short Fiction in World Literature) |