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- ENGL 1100First-Year WritingThis course integrates critical reading, writing, and thinking skills and studies actual writing practices. Sequenced reading and writing assignments build cumulatively to more complex assignments. Course activities may include formal and informal writing, drafting and revising, editing for correctness, synthesizing source material, and documenting sources accurately. This course fulfills the University's general education first-year writing requirement. It does not count toward the major in English.
- ENGL 1110Frst-Yr Wrtng Intl StdntsPrerequisite: Essay proficiency test or a TOFEL score of 500 or above. This course is designed for any student whose first language is not English. It integrates critical reading, writing, and thinking skills and studies actual writing practices. Sequenced reading and writing assignments build cumulatively to more complex assignments. Course activities may include formal and informal writing, drafting and revising, editing for correctness, synthesizing source material, and documenting sources accurately. Special attention given to verb tenses, idioms, articles, and syntax. It does not count toward the major in English. This course substitutes for ENGL 1100 in all university requirements.
- ENGL 2040Fiction Writing JumpstartPrerequisites: ENGL 1100 or equivalent. This course provides exercises, discussions, models, and practice for discovering short stories and the many ways to tell them. Students will read published short stories to learn how other writers have worked with point of view, distance, voice, plot, dialogue, setting, and characterization. Students will also write exercises and stories for workshop critique. Students who have taken ENGL 2060 may not take ENGL 2040 for credit. This course fulfills the English core requirement for the Creative Writing area and counts toward the Certificate in Writing.
- ENGL 2110Information LiteracyThis course is designed especially for humanities and fine arts majors. It introduces students to the main components of information literacy, including digital, web, and media literacies as well as library databases. Students work with both digital and print materials to find, evaluate, and synthesize information while applying the critical thinking habits of questioning and reasoning. Frequent writing and multimedia assignments will provide practice in using various technologies to assemble and to share information. This course fulfills the University's general education information literacy requirement.
- ENGL 2180Introduction to News WritingSame as MEDIA ST 2180. This course focuses on developing stories and news writing; staff of The Current and other student publications are encouraged to enroll.
- ENGL 2188Public Relations WritingSame as COMM 2180. Prerequisites: COMM 1150 or ENGL 1100 or MEDIA ST 2180. This course is an introduction to the process of planning, producing, and evaluating messages in public relations. It examines various forms of contemporary public relations writing, with special emphasis on preparation of messages for different media and audiences, setting long-range and short-term goals and objectives, and identifying appropriate message channels.
- ENGL 2340Introduction to DramaA close study of major dramatic works in various modes, to introduce the student to the forms and techniques of dramatic literature.
- ENGL 2360Hey, Have You Read ______?Prerequisites: ENGL 1100 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. This course introduces students to approaches to reading literature in the 21st century. The course can focus on a specialty area, such as a genre, time period, or nationality, or on a theme transcending several specialty areas. Students will learn to read closely and begin to look at literature through various theoretical or cultural lenses. This course satisfies the English core requirement for the Literature in English area.
- ENGL 2400Rhetorical Ways with WordsPrerequisites: ENGL 1100 or equivalent. This course focuses on the diverse purposes and uses of language and writing, encouraging students to consider these functions beyond solely academic and literary realms. Specifically, students will investigate how language and writing are connected to identity, power, community, and knowledge creation. To accomplish these broad goals, students will read critical scholarship from a variety of related disciplines. They may practice field-specific methods of inquiry and/or investigate local, regional, individual rhetorical and language practices and engage in print and/or multimodal composition. This course satisfies the English core requirement for the Language and Writing Studies area.
- ENGL 3090Kaleidoscope: Looking at TextsPrerequisites: ENGL 1100 or equivalent and 48 credit hours. This course introduces the use of literary theory in reading and writing about literary texts. Students will learn and practice conventions of writing in English studies, basic literary research, and MLA documentation. This course is strongly recommended for English majors specializing in literature or anticipating graduate study in English. It may not be taken on satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Counts towards the Certificate in Writing.
- ENGL 3100Junior-Level WritingPrerequisites: ENGL 1100 or equivalent (3-6 credit hours) and 48 credit hours. This course enhances analytical, communicative, persuasive, and explanatory capabilities in contemporary American English. It emphasizes academic reading, writing, research, and documentation. It fulfills the university's junior-level writing requirement and counts towards the Writing Certificate.
- ENGL 3120Business WritingPrerequisites: ENGL 1100 or equivalent (3-6 hours) and 48 credit hours. This course further develops the experienced writer's style and analytical capabilities to the level of sophistication necessary for business and professional settings. Writing assignments may include business correspondence, reports, resumes, proposals, analyses, presentations, marketing, promotional, and multi-modal materials, discussion postings and blogs, articles for in-house publications, and research and documentation. The course fulfills the University's junior-level writing requirement and may not be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
- ENGL 3130Technical WritingPrerequisites: ENGL 1100 or equivalent (3-6 hours) and 48 credit hours. This course introduces students to the major elements of industrial technical writing. Writing assignments may include technical definitions, abstracts and summaries, mechanism descriptions, instructions, process analyses, technical reports and proposals. The course also includes an introduction to research methods and documentation. This course satisfies the University's junior-level writing requirement and may not be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory option.
- ENGL 3160Writing in the SciencesPrerequisites: ENGL 1100 or equivalent (3-6 hours) and 48 credit hours. This course is designed to teach students how to write effectively in the sciences. Writing assignments may include short reports, proposals and a major project; projects may include a research or analytical report, a formal proposal or a procedures/instructions manual. The course includes an introduction to research methods and documentation. This course fulfills the University's junior-level writing requirement and may not be taken on the satisfactory/unsatisfactory option.
- ENGL 3310Eng Lit Before 1790Prerequisite: ENGL 1100 or equivalent. This course examines the development of English literature from the Middle Ages through the eighteenth century. Students will be introduced to major literary movements and themes through the reading and analysis of representative works of selected major authors. This course fulfills the British Literature requirement for the major.
- ENGL 3500Special StudiesPrerequisite: A course in area of proposed work and consent of instructor. Individual work, with conferences adjusted to needs of the student. May not be used to meet specific English department distribution and language requirements. May be repeated for a maximum total of four hours credit.
- ENGL 3530Contemporary World LitPrerequisites: ENGL 1100 or equivalent. This course covers selected World Literature from the 20th and 21st centuries with emphasis on non-European literatures. This course may include works from Europe, Latin American, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia; it excludes literature from the United States and England.
- ENGL 3720Amer Lit After 1865Prerequisites: ENGL 1100 or equivalent. This course examines dramatic upheavals in society that have engendered continuous innovation in American literature since 1865. It will look closely at a variety of individual authors motivated by these artistic, cultural, political, and psychological disturbances; we will also pay close attention to specific literary movements, from Naturalism to Transrealism, energized by these societal changes. This course fulfills the American Literature requirement for the major.
- ENGL 4150Creative Non-FictionPrerequisites: ENGL 3030, ENGL 3040, or consent of instructor. This course will examine the aesthetic and technical concerns of the writer of creative non-fiction. Students will read published essays and write their own to submit for workshops. This course counts toward the Certificate in Writing.
- ENGL 4162Writers at WorkPrerequisites: ENGL 3100 or equivalent. This course introduces students to writing professions. Students will research various writing professions and practice different professional writing genres, such as corporate writing, public relations writing, blogging, magazine writing, copywriting, and editing. Students will work on portfolios that will help them to obtain writing internships or jobs. Readings will help students conduct a meta-analysis of their own writing and writing process.
- ENGL 4380Shakespeare: Comedy & HistoryPrerequisites: ENGL 3100 or equivalent or consent of instructor. This course explores Shakespeare's comedies and histories, with particular attention to their genre as well as their relation to the cultural issues of Shakespeare's time, above all, the place of women and the importance of marriage and male friendship. Students will learn how Shakespeare's plays explore the rights of citizens and perhaps challenge accepted notions of political power. Students will also uncover Shakespeare's debt to ancient and contemporary forms of comedy as well as his innovative contributions to that dramatic form. The sonnets, as well as modern film adaptations, may also be brought into the discussion of these questions.
- ENGL 4790Rhetoric and Social JusticePrerequisites: ENGL 3100 or equivalent or consent of instructor. This course introduces students to rhetoric as integral to language, communication, and meaning-making. Students will read rhetorical history and contemporary scholarship and theory, apply theories to various scenarios and artifacts, and become more thoughtful practitioners of rhetoric in their own lives. Specifically, the course introduces rhetoric through the lens of social justice, offering students an opportunity to use rhetorical theories and methods to understand better current social events, activist movements, practices of civic engagement, and corresponding media representations.
- ENGL 4820Hist English LanguagePrerequisites: ENGL 3100 or equivalent or consent of instructor. This course is a historical survey of the English language from its Indo-European roots through Old and Middle English to the present. Topics may include changes in sound, meaning, and grammar, as well as developments in American English, including regional and social dialects.
- ENGL 4864Technical EditingPrerequisites: ENGL 1100 or equivalent (3-6 hours) and junior standing. This course covers the principles and practices of technical editing, including usability, audience analysis, contextual editing, the conventions of scientific and technical communication, and the role of the editor in document development and publication. Students will also learn standard practices of copy editing and the use of style guides.
- ENGL 4890Writing InternshipPrerequisites: ENGL 3100 or equivalent, and consent of instructor. This course allows students to work in a supervised internship to complete professional writing assignments. It is limited to students who are completing certificates in writing. It may be taken concurrently with the final course in the certificate sequence. A special consent form is required.
- ENGL 4892Independent Writing ProjectPrerequisites: ENGL 3100 or equivalent, and consent of instructor. This course allows students to work individually with an instructor to complete an extensive creative writing or critical analysis writing project. It is limited to students who are completing their certificates in writing. It may be taken concurrently with the final course in the certificate sequence. This course is available on a limited basis only with the approval of the Coordinator and faculty sponsor. A special consent form is required.
- ENGL 4895Editing LitmagPrerequisites: ENGL 3100 or equivalent and at least two of the following: ENGL 1030, ENGL 2020, ENGL 2030, ENGL 2040, ENGL 3030, ENGL 3040, ENGL 4130, ENGL 4140, ENGL 4150, ENGL 4180. This course allows students to create "Litmag," the UM-St. Louis student literary magazine. It is primarily for students nearing the end of their certificates in writing. Students will call for submissions, read and select work to be published, and produce the magazine. They will handle issues like format, budget, proofreading, print run, advertising, distribution, and publicity. The course is offered only in the spring and culminates with the publication of "Litmag" in late April.
- ENGL 4950Special Topics In LitSpecial topics in literature that are not covered in other 4000-level English courses. Since the topics of ENGL 4950 may change each semester, the course may be repeated for credit if the topics are substantially different.
- ENGL 5100Grad Workshop in PoetryPrerequisites: Open to students in the creative writing program and to others with permission of instructor. Consists of a writing workshop in which the poetry written by the students enrolled in the course is discussed and analyzed by the intructor and members of the class. Students taking this course will be expected to write original poetry throughout the course. May be repeated for maximim graduate credit of fifteen (15) hours.
- ENGL 5110Grad Workshop in FictionPrerequisites: Open to students in the creative writing program and to others with permission of instructor. Consists of a writing workshop in which the fiction (short stories or chapters of a novel) written by the students enrolled in the course is discussed and analyzed by the instructor and members of the class. Students taking this course will be expected to write original fiction thoughout the course. May be repeated for maximum graduate credit of fifteen (15) hours.
- ENGL 5170Tech, Meth, Eff Fic WrtgPrerequisite: Open to students in the MFA program and to others with consent of the instructor. This course analyzes the technical choices made by important contemporary fiction writers in the areas of point of view, tone, setting, form, and plot structure, and it examines the effects of those choices. Close consideration is given to fictional techniques that contribute to a story's characterization, tension, interest, reliability, drama, irony, and humor. The course is primarily for creative writers.
- ENGL 5190Literary Journal EditingPrerequisites: Open to students in the MFA program who have had at least two graduate writing workshops and to others with consent of the instructor. In this course students serve as the first readers of all submissions to the university's literary magazine, Natural Bridge. Students will read and evaluate poems, short stories, and essays and recommend a body of work to the editorial board of the magazine. The editorial board will then consider the class consensus in its final selection of material for publication. In addition to this primary task of editorial selection, students will also be involved in the productions of an issue of the magazine. May be repeated for maximum graduate credit of nine hours.
- ENGL 5200MFA ReadingsPrerequisites: Open to students in the MFA program and to others with consent of the instructor. This is an independent reading course. In consultation with an MFA faculty member, students choose works from the MFA Reading List and read them with the goal of broadening and sharpening their technical skills as writers. Students ordinarily choose works in one genre: poetry, the short story, or the novel. Each week the student reads and reports on at least one work. The course may be taken only once.
- ENGL 5800Modern LinguisticsPrerequisite: A study of selected topics in the structure of the English language, combining readings in current linguistics publications with original research.
- ENGL 5850Studies in CompositionThe study of special topics in composition. Topics may include history of composition, psychology of writing, reader response theory, etc.
- ENGL 5940Sem in Gender and LiterSame as GS 5940. Gender studies in literature of different periods, types, and genres; satisfies area requirement (1-6) appropriate to its period, national literature, and genre.
- ENGL 5950Seminar in Special TopicSpecial topics which are not covered in other graduate-level English courses.
- ENGL 5970Independent ReadingDirected study in areas of English for which courses are not available.
- ENGL 6000ThesisPrerequisite: 3.5 graduate GPA. Thesis research and writing on a selected topic in English studies. May be taken over two semesters, three (3) hours each semester.
- ENGL 6880Ldrshp in Tchg WrtgSame as TCH ED 6880. Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course is an intensive study in the writing process and the writing curriculum, designed for in-service teachers and writers interested in writing pedagogy. Readings of current theory and research will be related to participants' experience as writers and as teachers. May be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 hours may be applied toward the M.Ed; summer course offering will fulfill 6 hours. This course counts toward the Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of Writing.