ENGU 099 Basic Writing Skills
A course that develops accuracy and clarity in writing. Conferences with the instructor and tutorials with peers provide maximum opportunities for individual development. 3 credits.
ENGU 103 Freshman Rhetoric
In this course on the theory and practice of writing effective essays, students master a variety of essay modes by completing a wide range of assignments. Student also learn to compose essays on a computer. 3 credits.
ENGU 104 Writing About Literature
Prerequisite: ENGU 103. This course introduces students to four literary genres (poetry, drama, fiction and film), and teaches techniques for interpreting and writing critical papers about literature. 3 credits.
ENGU 240 World Literature I
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. Students read selected world masterpieces from the beginning to the fall of Rome, 476 A.D. The course includes readings from myth, epic, tragedy, and comedy from Western and Eastern cultures. Writers may include Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Aristophanes, Sappho and Virgil. 3 credits.
ENGU 242 World Literature II
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. Great works of world literature from the fall of Rome in 476 A.D. to 1660, the English Restoration. Students will read works by such authors as Lady Murasaki Shikibu, Rumi, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare. Materials from the visual arts, history, philosophy, religion, and politics will be used to enrich the students' reading. 3 credits.
ENGU 244 World Literature III
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. Students read chosen works of world literature from 1660 to the present day. Emphasis may vary from year to year to focus on the relationship of literature to the other arts and cultures. Authors may include Swift, Pope, Moliere, DeBeauvoir, Voltaire, Allende, Flaubert, Melville, Marquez, Dostoyevsky, Nabokov, Ellison, Fowles, and Woolf. 3 credits.
ENGU 300 Writing for Essay Proficiency
Prerequisites: ENGU 104 and placement from the JWP exam or permission of instructor. A mid-point expository writing course designed for students who want to attain higher level skills for writing across their college curriculum or for their professional careers. Benefiting from a practical approach in which the audience, purpose, and methodology will be defined, students will have the opportunity to read effectively written essays in a variety of disciplines and further develop their writing and revising skills. (A grade of "C" (2.0) or higher is required for a "pass" equivalence on the JWP exam for those students who have previously received a "fail" or "deficiency" on that exam.) 3 credits.
ENGU 303 Technical Writing
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. Intensive practice in writing for students who wish to work in technical or professional fields: reports, specifications, proposals, visuals, documentation. 3 credits.
ENGU 304 Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. More specialized than introductory creative writing, this course focuses on single genres: fiction, poetry, or drama. Students receive extensive training and practice in their chosen genre. 3 credits.
ENGU 305 Business Writing
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. This course focuses on the various areas of writing for business, industry, and government: business reports, job descriptions, résumés, abstracts, letters, and memoranda. Emphasis may be placed on the formal report and attention will be given to international and intercultural business communication. 3 credits.
ENGU 324 Contemporary American Literature
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. Students read some of the boldest, most interesting works of American post-modernism in order to understand contemporary American fiction, poetry, and drama. Students will study poets of various post World War II movements (the Beats, the New York poets; the confessional, concrete and objectivist poets); novelists such as Angelou, Didion, Barth, Barthelme, Morrison and Tan; and dramatists such as Albee, Hansberry, Kushner, Mamet, Wilson and Williams. 3 credits.
ENGU 326 American Themes
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. A penetrating study of various powerful themes in American literature. Courses that treat different themes may be repeated for credit. 3 credits.
ENGU 329 Experimental Topics in English
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. An examination of selected topics in English relevant to evolving areas of importance to the field. Syllabi must be approved by the Dean and announced to the Curriculum and Academic Committee prior to being offered. May be repeated for credit provided the course content is different. 3 credits.
ENGU 340 The Bible as Literature
(Same as RELU 340) An exploration of the wonders of the Old and New Testaments. From the song of creation to the apocalypse of Revelation, the course will examine the stories and poetry of the Bible, which shaped our culture and nurtured our values, as literary expressions of ancient Israel and the early Christians. 3 credits.
ENGU 347 Society, Culture, and Literature
(Same as HUMU 347/SOCU 347) An exploration of the sociological and/or anthropolitical contexts of literature. The course varies in content depending on the instructor, but the topics to be selected might include the following: urban literature and life; rural, pastoral, or utopian environment; literature and sex roles; the literature of work; the influence of anthropological works on 20th-century literature; poetry and narrative in preliterate society; and the Cambridge School of Classicists and their theories about various myths of the hero. 3 credits.
ENGU 360 Literature into Film
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. Studies of selected poems, stories, plays, and novels that have been turned into movies. Discussions will focus on the difference imposed by the printed word and cinema in shaping the same material into two different artistic expressions. Typical readings/films might include Chopin's Awakenings, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. 3 credits.
ENGU 400 Advanced Rhetoric
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. The study and practice of persuasive and expository prose. Students investigate methods of invention and models of form and style in readings from discourse theorists as well as from established masters of the essay. Workshops and tutorials focus on cultivating a personal style, editing, and redrafting for publication. 3 credits.
ENGU 404 Techniques of Writing Fiction/Poetry/Drama
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. Students learn the basic techniques necessary to produce publishable fiction or poetry. Course may vary by genre from semester to semester. Techniques of fiction and drama may include plot development, viewpoint selection, three-dimensional characterization, dialogue, scene and summary, settings, theme. Techniques of poetry may include study of sound, imagery, figurative language, symbolism, and mechanics. Lecture and workshop combined. 3 credits.
ENGU 407 Writing and Publishing for the Internet
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. The digital age is upon us. Now we have new ways of communicating, of retrieving and filing information, of publishing our work. How are the Internet and the World Wide Web changing the craft of writing and the business of publishing? How can a writer participate in new media? How can a reader determine the credibility of the information she/he finds in cyberspace? This course is designed to help students gain a greater understanding of the Internet opportunities to publish their own work. 3 credits.
ENGU 431 Shakespeare's Greatest Hits
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. This course studies a selection of Shakespeare's greatest tragic, comic, satiric and historical plays framed by the theatrical milieus of Elizabethan and Jacobean England and contrasted with their modern media productions. This course will begin by viewing box-office hit, film versions of his plays and proceed back in time to distinguish Shakespeare's artistic intent from his modern interpreters'. 3 credits.
ENGU 445 Major Author(s)
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. Students concentrate on the writings of either one significant author or a group of authors who can be studied profitably together. Examples of major figures include, but are not limited to, Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Keats, Dickens, Hawthorne, Melville, Pound, Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, Proust, Kazantzakis, and Faulkner. 3 credits.
ENGU 448 Psychology in Literature and Film
(Same as PSYU 448) A study of the intriguing cross-influences between literature and psychological theory. Particular attention will be given to the works of literature and film which have provided basic materials for psychologists and to the reflexive impact of psychological theory upon writers. Students will examine the use made by modern poetry, drama, fiction, and film of such psychological concepts as archetypes, unconscious processes, the Oedipal complex, role-playing, and symbol. 3 credits.
ENGU 449/SSCU 449 Multicultural Perspectives
(Same as SSCU 449) Students examine culture, identity and ethnic diversity. Students study the value systems which underlie customs, traditions, folklore, history, geography, art and literature. The goal of the course is to increase awareness and respect for similarities and differences among global and domestic cultures and subcultures. 3 credits.
ENGU 450 Literature of Children and Young Adults
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. Students will study the classic works and the lyrical, narrative and dramatic aspects of children's literature. They will be introduced to the types, history, themes, and trends of children's literature and its role in a child's cultural socialization. Both teachers and writers of children's literature will benefit from this study of style, technique, and methods for introducing the young to the pleasures of literacy and elements of literary quality, from diverse cultures and experiences, including authors, such as Faith Ringgold, Demi, E.B. White, Louisa May Alcott, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, and Maya Angelou. 3 credits.
ENGU 462 The Literature and Film of Diverse Cultures
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. Depending on the instructor, this course could focus on the emerging nations of Africa, the Middle East, or Central or South America. Writers and filmmakers that might be studied include Chinua Achebe, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Ousmane Sembene, Peter Weir, or Satyajet Ray. 3 credits.
ENGU 471 Introduction to Linguistics
Prerequisite: ENGU 104. An introduction to the major characteristics and components of human language. Students become familiar with the power and complexity of language, the way it influences our interaction with other people, and its potential contribution to understanding ourselves and society. Studying the work of current language theorists such as Chomsky, Hymes, Halliday, and Vygotsky will be central to the course. 3 credits.
ENGU 499 Independent Study
Prerequisite: Instructor's approval and approval of petition. Directed reading and/or research designed to meet specific needs of superior upper division students. 1-3 credits.