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2022-23 Catalog ARCHIVED CATALOG: Content may no longer be accurate.
Course Descriptions
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EET 4030 - Controls & Systems Credits: (4)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $50.00
Course Fee Purpose: Lab related consumables and maintenance of laboratory equipment.
Description: Introduction to automatic control theory, analysis, and testing, pole, zero, Bode plots, and frequency response. The design and application of programmable controllers using ladder logic, sequential functions charts, PID, and data highway.
Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include computer simulation, servo-system construction, and analysis.
Pre-requisite(s): EET 3010 , MATH 1210 , PHYS 2210 .
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EET 4040 - Signals and Systems Credits: (4)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $50.00
Course Fee Purpose: Lab related consumables and maintenance of laboratory equipment.
Description: An introduction to digital signal processing, digital filters, discrete and fast Fourier transforms, quantization, introduction to adaptive filters, industrial applications, and DSP hardware.
Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities include the design, construction, computer simulation, and analysis of digital signal processing circuits.
Pre-requisite(s): EET 3010 , MATH 1210 .
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EET 4060 - Advanced Communications Credits: (4)
Course Fee: $50.00
Course Fee Purpose: Lab related consumables and maintenance of laboratory equipment.
Description: Introduction to satellite communications, spread spectrum techniques, digital satellite communications, antennas, small signal amplifiers, Smith charts, and “S” parameter analysis.
Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include the design, construction, computer simulation and analysis of wireless communications circuits and systems.
Pre-requisite(s): EET 3010 .
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EET 4090 - Systems Design and Integration Credits: (3)
Course Fee: $50.00
Course Fee Purpose: Lab related consumables and maintenance of laboratory equipment.
Description: An introduction to the fundamentals of large-scale systems. The first part deals with systems analysis, design and integration with emphasis on input/output models, transfer functions, and interface issues. The second part discusses a variety of systems design and management approaches, particularly those concerned with system requirements, interface control, evaluation, quality assurance through configuration management, audits and reviews, and the human role in systems.
Pre-requisite(s): EET 3090 .
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EET 4800 - Individual Studies Credits: (1-4)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $5.00
Description: The student will receive credit for approved studies in an area not covered in the EET program. A maximum of four credits can be counted as electives for EET majors.
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EET 4890 INT - Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (2)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: The student will receive credit for approved electronics industrial experience. Professional development activities will include resume writing, goal setting, progress reports, and a supervisor’s evaluation.
Pre-requisite(s): Permission from the department.
The course can be taken a maximum of three times for a total of 6 credits.
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EET 4900 - Special Topics Credits: (1-4)
Variable Title
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $5.00
Description: A one-time special study course designed to introduce a new relevant topic that is not covered in the EET program.
Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to support the selected course topic.
May be repeated four times for a maximum of seven credit hours.
Note: A maximum of four credits can be counted for EET majors.
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ENGL 0900 ND - Fundamentals of College Reading and Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: A course designed to help students develop fundamental reading, writing, and thinking skills. Students in this course work closely with Skills Enhancement Center tutors in both group and one-to-one settings. Students with ACT scores in either English or Reading of 12 and below are required to take ENGL ND0900. Students without ACT scores are also placed in this course unless they are otherwise placed by Accuplacer. Students must complete this course with a grade of C or better before enrolling in ENGL 0955 .
Note: ND (non-degree) do not count toward hours required for graduation.
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ENGL 0955 ND - Developmental College Reading and Writing Credits: (6)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem Online
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem Online
Description: A course to help students develop reading, writing, and critical thinking skills prerequisite for entry-level college courses. Students in this course are supported by the Skills Enhancement Center. Students who pass ENGL 0900 with a grade of C or better, whose ACT scores in English or Reading run from 13 to 16, or who are placed by Accuplacer are placed in ENGL ND0955. Students must complete ENGL ND0955 with a grade of C or better before enrolling in ENGL 1010 .
Note: ND (non-degree) do not count toward hours required for graduation.
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ENGL 1000 - College Reading Credits: (1-3)
Description: The English department recommends this course as an excellent entry-level college course. Students in this course can expect to improve their reading comprehension, their critical thinking skills, their breadth and depth of knowledge, and their aptitude for learning.
May be repeated 4 times up to 6 credit hours.
Note: Check with Department for course availability.
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ENGL 1005 EN1 - College Reading and Introductory Writing Credits: (6)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: English 1005 introduces students to the habits and practices necessary for reading and writing at the college level. Students will focus on the writing process, writing for specific audiences, collaboration with peers, grammatical and mechanical correctness, improving reading comprehension, and the interrelationship between reading and writing. Students who have placed into ENGL 0955 (Level 2) may choose to take this accelerated course, which will satisfy the requirements for ENGL 0955 and ENGL 1010 . Students must complete ENGL 1010 satisfactorily (a grade of “C” or better) before enrolling in ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
Pre-requisite(s): Level 2 placement or ENGL 0900 with a grade of C or better.
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ENGL 1010 EN1 - Introductory College Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online, 1st Block, 1st Blk Online, 2nd Block
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online, 1st Block
Description: Students will learn practices of successful university-level writing across multiple genres. Students will focus on the writing process, writing for specific audiences, collaboration with peers, and on the interrelationship between reading and writing.
Pre-requisite(s): To enter 1010 the student must have 17 or higher on both ACT English and Reading, or equivalent. Students must complete ENGL 1010 satisfactorily (a grade of “C” or better) before enrolling in ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 2010 EN2 - Intermediate College Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online, 1st Block, 2nd Block
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online, 1st Blk Online, 2nd Block
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online, 1st Block, 2nd Block
Description: This course will focus on writing researched arguments, discerning, engaging with, and documenting sources, and writing with rhetorical awareness and persuasive force. Students will continue to learn practices of successful academic writing including the writing process, writing for specific audiences, and collaboration with peers.
Pre-requisite(s): Level 4 placement, passing ENGL 1005 or ENGL 1010 with “C” grade or better, AP Language and Composition or Literature and Composition examination with a score of 3 or better, ACT English and Reading score of 29 or better, CLEP with essay test with a score of 50 or better, or articulated transfer credit from another regionally accredited college or university.
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ENGL 2015 EN2 - Intermediate College Writing & Research Credits: (4)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Description: Intermediate College Writing & Research focuses on combining writing and research skills. It will focus on writing arguments, conducting research, and documenting sources. Students will continue to learn practices of successful academic writing including the writing process, writing for specific audiences, and collaboration with peers. Students completing this course will be able to use an academic library and the Internet to successfully identify, access, evaluate and use information resources to support academic success and lifelong learning. This course will fulfill both the English Composition and the Information Literacy General Education core requirements.
Pre-requisite(s): Level 4 placement, passing ENGL 1005 or ENGL 1010 with a grade of “C” or better, passing the AP Language and Composition or Literature and Composition examination with a score of 3 or better, achieving an ACT English and Reading score of 29 or better, a CLEP with essay test with a score of 50 or better, or an articulated transfer credit from another regionally accredited college or university.
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ENGL 2100 - Technical Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with department for course availability.
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Online
Description: This course prepares students for on-the-job writing and emphasizes the importance of audience analysis, graphics, and document design. Students study and practice writing and designing a variety of technical documents as they learn to write clearly, concisely, and persuasively to a specific audience for a specific purpose.
Pre-requisite/Co-requisite: ENGL 1010 or ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 2120 - Introduction to Writing and Document Design Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Check with department
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Through literary texts, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry as well as film and other digital mediums, this course will introduce students to the ways writing fits into various types of organizations, which are increasingly focused around knowledge work, or work that analyzes and communicates rather than manufactures products. Within the framework of writing, students will learn how organizations are networked and situated, and how collaboration, systems of power, organizational structures, and various audiences and stakeholders function.
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ENGL 2130 - Media and Technology in Texts Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Check with department
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Through the study of literary texts such as fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and film, students will gain an understanding of key concepts in the study of media and technology, including historical and forward-looking perspectives. These might include such topics as the impact of technology on society and culture, how new technologies shape information and how new media forms affect reading, writing and analysis.
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ENGL 2140 - Introduction to Professional and Technical Editing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Check with department
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course focuses on basic editing in the workplace. We examine genres, electronic editing, version control, collaboration, synchronous and asynchronous writing/editing, and literature related to editing.
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ENGL 2150 - Gender and Culture in Workplace Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Check with department for course availability.
Description: Gender and culture affect professional and technical writing and an understanding of the many roles we encounter and play through gender and culture is essential for writers. This course will overview for students the many ways gender and culture can be applied to and explored in professional and technical writing and provide practice identifying and analyzing such issues through literature.
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ENGL 2160 - Introduction to Web-Based Technical Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Check with department for course availability.
Description: This course will first cover how organizations create and share information on the web and social media, and how the differences in reader expectation and reading behavior between printed and online texts help shape the information. The course will then focus on characteristics of good online content, analysis of audience and purpose, and strategies for writing and designing content to meet the needs and expectations of the readers. Throughout the semester, students will practice, individually and collaboratively, good writing and designing skills in learning to become effective writers of a workplace.
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ENGL 2200 HU/DV - Introduction to Literature Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem Online
Description: An introduction to three major literary genres, fiction, poetry, and drama, drawn from a diverse range of authors from various cultures and historical periods. Students will learn how to read literary texts closely and critically, and how literature–reading more generally–can have a meaningful part of their daily lives. Course includes relevant practice in the principles of successful writing, including drafting, revising, and editing.
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ENGL 2210 - Introduction to Film Theory and Criticism Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course introduces students to the theory and practice of critically analyzing film. We will survey the international development of film from its origins to the present. Our focus will be on the history and methods of narrative film, including the development of film and digital technology, and on the modern viewer’s expected skill in “reading” film.
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ENGL 2220 HU/DV - Introduction to Fiction Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Description: An introduction to short stories, novellas, and novels, selected from a diverse range of authors from various cultures and historical periods. Students will learn how to read fiction carefully and critically, and how fiction can have a meaningful part in their daily lives. Course includes relevant practice in the principles of successful writing, including drafting, revising, and editing.
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ENGL 2230 HU/DV - Introduction to Drama Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Check with Department
Description: An introduction to drama from around the globe, selected from a diverse range of authors from various cultures and historical periods. Students will develop the critical and interpretive skills necessary to analyze and appreciate plays and to recognize their contemporary relevance. Course includes relevant practice in the principles of successful writing, including drafting, revising, and editing.
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ENGL 2240 HU/DV - Introduction to Poetry Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Description: An introduction to poetry written in English, selected from a diverse range of authors from various cultures and historical periods. Students will develop the critical and interpretive skills necessary to appreciate the craft of poetry as a valid and important way of talking about human experiences. Course includes relevant practice in the principles of successful writing, including drafting, revising, and editing.
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ENGL 2250 CA - CW: Introduction to Creative Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Description: In this Gen Ed course students will learn in a workshop setting to write original pieces in three genres that may include the following: short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction, and plays. As models for their own writing, students will read exemplary pieces from each genre taught from different eras and cultures, in order to build a vocabulary base. Thus, students will become familiar with aspects of storytelling such as story arc, characterization, and dialogue; and aspects of poetry such as rhyme, rhythm, and figurative language, for use in their own writing. Through regular exercises, students will generate ideas for creating original writing such as stories, poems, plays, and creative essays, and will refine oral and communicative skills. Students will critique and be critiqued by the entire class in order to revise early drafts, will analyze selected texts, and will evaluate their own and others’ work.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 1010 , ENGL 2010 , or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 2260 CA - CW: Introduction to Writing Short Fiction Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Description: This course introduces students to writing original short fiction in a workshop setting. Students will read as models a judicious sampling of stories by authors such as Edgar Allen Poe, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Truman Capote, and others as selected by the professor in order to build a vocabulary for analyzing aspects of storytelling such as plot, story arc, characterization, dialogue, meaningful detail, and story pacing. Using guided writing exercises and journaling, students will develop ideas from these sources to create original fiction for a series of in-class workshops. Students will critique, and be critiqued by, the entire class, in order to revise their stories.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 1010 , ENGL 2010 , or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 2270 CA - CW: Introduction to Writing Poetry Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem - Online
Description: This course introduces students to writing original poetry. Students will read as models a judicious sampling of poems by contemporary poets as selected by the professor in order to build a vocabulary for analyzing aspects of poetic craft, such as form, line, prosody, image, sound, narrative, and lyric. Using guided writing exercises and journaling, students will develop their ideas into original poems for a series of in-class writing workshops. Students will critique and be critiqued by their peers in order to revise their poems.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 1010 , ENGL 2010 , or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 2280 CA - CW: Introduction to Writing Creative Nonfiction Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Description: In this introductory course, students will learn the basics of writing creative nonfiction, including how to shape personal experiences into dynamic art through study, practice, and play. Students will be introduced to a variety of narrative strategies such as braided, hybrid, and lyric essays. Ultimately, students will deepen their self-understanding while refining and expanding their storytelling skillset.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 1005 or ENGL 1010 or ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 2295 - CW: Introduction to Screenwriting Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Description: In this introductory course, students will learn the basics of screenwriting, including how to use action and dialogue to convey character and establish tension. Additionally, students will begin working with screenwriting software to develop an understanding of the formatting conventions of the genre.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 1005 or ENGL 1010 or ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 2420 - Young Adult Literature Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Young Adult Literature will introduce students to a variety of literary works within this popular and compelling genre. Through close reading, we will examine various features, themes, and representations of adolescence and adulthood. We will also consider different pedagogical approaches to these texts to uncover broader literary and sociocultural dimensions.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 , or equivalent.
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ENGL 2510 HU/DV - Masterpieces of Literature Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Check with Department
Description: An introduction to select masterworks, selected from a diverse range of authors from various cultures and historical periods. Students will develop the critical and interpretive skills necessary to analyze various genres (fiction, drama, and poetry) and to reflect on the nature of literary excellence. Course includes relevant practice in the principles of successful writing, including, drafting, revising, and editing.
Note: Check with Department for course availability.
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ENGL 2710 HU/DV - Perspectives on Women’s Literature Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Check with Department
Description: The purpose of this class is to introduce students to the rich contributions of women to the field of literature. The course will cover a variety of women writers that may range from the medieval period to the present and will feature literary genres such as fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction, and journals/diaries. In discussing and writing about these works, students will consider why women were excluded or marginalized in the canon for such a large part of literary history and how society, family, and politics impacted the way these women wrote.
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ENGL 2750 HU - Topics and Ideas in the Humanities Credits: (3)
Variable Title
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Description: This variable topics course focuses on topics and ideas in the humanities. The course may consider social, political, artistic, environmental, or philosophical themes across disciplines. Students will learn the critical skills necessary to identify the intellectual currents in the texts under consideration, to engage in focused discussion and to probe the various intentions of any act of writing.
May be taken twice for a total of 6 credits.
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ENGL 2810 - Experimental Course Credits: (1-6)
Experimental
Description: Consult the semester class schedule for the current offering under this number. The specific title and credit authorized will appear on the student transcript.
May be repeated for a total maximum of 6 credit hours.
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ENGL 2830 - Directed Readings Credits: (1-3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Individual readings supervised by a faculty member.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 , ENGL 2015 , or equivalent.
May be repeated twice up to 6 credit hours.
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ENGL 2890 - Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (1-6)
Description: Open to all students in the English Department who meet the minimum Cooperative Work Experience requirements of the department. Provides academic credit for on-the-job experience. Grade and amount of credit will be determined by the department.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 , ENGL 2015 , or equivalent.
May be repeated 5 times up to 6 credit hours.
Note: Check with department for current course offerings.
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ENGL 2920 - Short Courses, Workshops, Institutes, and Special Programs Credits: (1-6)
Workshop
Description: Consult the semester class schedule for the current offering under this number. The specific title and credit authorized will appear on the student transcript.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 1010 with a “C” grade or better or equivalent.
May be repeated for a total maximum of 6 credit hours.
Note: Check with department for current course offerings.
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ENGL 2920S INT - Community Service Credits: (3)
Description: Students will receive an overview of community service and explore opportunities for service learning in the community. A weekly seminar with required readings and writings as necessary and 50 hours of community service.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 , ENGL 2015 , or equivalent.
Note: Check with department for current course offerings.
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ENGL 2999 INT - Capstone in Workplace Communication and Writing Credits: (3)
Description: This class provides an opportunity for students to synthesize and demonstrate their learning in the Associate of Workplace Communication program. The primary purpose of this course is to help students transition from earning an associate’s degree to pursuing a job and/or continued education toward a bachelor’s degree. The course will include employment-related content such as interviewing skills, job shadows, career research, portfolios, resumes, and cover letters. The course will also include a section on workplace ethics to develop responsible and productive professionals. Cross-listed with COMM 2999 .
Pre-requisite(s): Permission of Instructor Required.
Note: Check with Department for course availability.
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ENGL 3010 - Introduction to Linguistics Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with department for course availability.
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course introduces students to the scientific study of language. It looks across languages to explore what they have in common, as well as what distinguishes them from one another. Students learn basic analytic techniques in articulatory phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics and apply them to data drawn from various languages. These core concepts may be applied to other areas, such as language acquisition, language history, language and culture, language and society, language and thought, or language and literary expression.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 , ENGL 2015 , or equivalent.
Note: Students in English, foreign languages, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and history are encouraged to take this course.
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ENGL 3020 - Teaching English/Language Arts Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course is designed for English teaching majors and minors. Students in the course will study a variety of literary works to better understand the ways that literature engages interest and promotes deep learning. Students in the course will study pedagogical practices that support the effective and equitable teaching of literature in diverse and inclusive classrooms. Students will develop curriculum that is aligned with the Utah State Core Standards and that is rationalized in current research.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 , ENGL 2015 or equivalent and admitted to Secondary Education program.
Pre-requisite/Co-requisite: ENGL 2420
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ENGL 3030 - Structure of English Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with department for course availability.
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course presents the major parts of speech, grammatical functions, and constructions of Standard English. Its purpose is to show that English, like any human language, is an intricate and rule-governed system. To this end, it draws on the terminology of traditional grammar and the analytical techniques of structural and transformational grammar, including contextual definitions and tree diagramming. The course is directed toward departmental English majors, teaching majors, advanced ESL students, and students majoring in foreign language teaching.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 , or equivalent.
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ENGL 3040 - History of the English Language Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course begins by introducing the elementary vocabulary and concepts of linguistic theory as these pertain to historical linguistics. It then traces the prehistory of English from its beginnings in Indo-European, through its place in the Germanic branch, to its historical phases of Old, Middle, and Early Modern English. Attention may also be given to national varieties of English and the development of English as a world language.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3050 - Grammar, Style, and Usage for Advanced Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course presents the concepts and nomenclature of traditional grammar as a context for students wishing to increase their control of punctuation, style, and usage in order to become more proficient writers. Its purpose is to offer practical guidance in how grammatical concepts can be applied to revising and editing one’s own or others’ writing to more effectively express one’s intended meaning. The course is offered to all English majors and minors as a means of fulfilling the language requirement for the major, especially those in technical writing or creative writing. Students in communication, pre-law, and criminal justice may also find the class meets requirements.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3080 - Critical Approaches to Literature Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Description: Students will study and practice critical approaches to literature. The course will begin with New Criticism and proceed to study more resistant reading strategies such as feminism, Marxism, and deconstruction. Students will not only learn the theoretical premises behind these theories, but also practice explicating various texts from a particular critical perspective. Primarily for English majors and minors. Recommended to take early in major.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
Suggested Requisite(s): ENGL 2200 , ENGL 2220 , ENGL 2230 , or ENGL 2240 .
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ENGL 3100 - Professional and Technical Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem Online, Check with department for course availability.
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem Online
Description: This course introduces students to the basic theories and practices of technical communication. Using audience, purpose, and context as their guides, students create various professional and technical documents, such as formal and informal reports, instructions, proposals, job application materials, brochures, web media, and presentations. Working both individually, and in collaboration, students analyze their rhetorical situation as they create usable and appropriate professional documents. This course provides the practical and theoretical basis for the minor and emphasis in Professional and Technical Writing.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 3120 - Foundations in Professional & Technical Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $20.00
Course Fee Purpose: The course fees will be used to upgrade and replace computer equipment such as monitors, keyboards, computers, WSU’s software packages, and new course content-specific software.
Description: This course provides the theoretical and rhetorical knowledge that underpins the practice of technical and professional writing. Students will learn about rhetorical theories, research methods, social justice initiatives, technological theories, and ethics. The course will prepare students for understanding why technical and professional writers make the choices they do and empower students to explain the exigence of their field of study.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 3130 - Digital Writing Technologies Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $20.00
Course Fee Purpose: The course fees will be used to upgrade and replace computer equipment such as monitors, keyboards, computers, WSU’s software packages, and new course content-specific software.
Description: This course will introduce students to the tools/software that technical writers and other professionals use in the workplace. Topics include, but are not limited to, Advanced Features in MS Word (styles, macros), the Adobe Suite, Advanced Features of online collaborative tools (the Google Suite among others), the suite of Apple products. This instruction prepares students, not just English majors, for the necessary skills to enter into the workforce prepared to succeed.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 3140 - Professional and Technical Editing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $20.00
Course Fee Purpose: The course fees will be used to upgrade and replace computer equipment such as monitors, keyboards, computers, WSU’s software packages, and new course content-specific software.
Description: Building on the knowledge of technical writing genres and the writing strengths developed in ENGL 3100, this course introduces students to copyediting, comprehensive editing, and the basics of collaborative editing and document management. Technical editing is designed to strengthen students’ writing, editing, and visual design skills through attention to detail and application of style, grammar, and usage principles. Additionally, this course focuses on hard copy and soft copy editing principles.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
Suggested Requisite(s): ENGL 3100 .
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ENGL 3160 CEL - Grant Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $20.00
Course Fee Purpose: The course fees will be used to upgrade and replace computer equipment such as monitors, keyboards, computers, WSU’s software packages, and new course content-specific software.
Description: This class introduces you to the grant writing process and provides you with experience writing actual grant applications in collaboration with a local non-profit organization. By the end of the class you will know the basic elements of grant writing and be able to identify organizational needs; research appropriate funding sources; plan, develop, and write grant proposals.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 3190 CEL - Document Design Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem - Odd Years
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem - Online Even Years
Course Fee: $20.00
Course Fee Purpose: The course fees will be used to upgrade and replace computer equipment such as monitors, keyboards, computers, WSU’s software packages, and new course content-specific software.
Description: This course teaches a rhetorical approach to document design. Using the rhetorical principles of audience, purpose, and context, students will discuss sample documents, analyze the layout of documents (both professional documents and ones students create in class), and articulate what makes an effective layout and design (regarding arrangement, emphasis, clarity, conciseness, tone, and ethos). Throughout the course, students will create (both individually and collaboratively) documents that meet client specifications thereby providing practical experience and generating material for their professional portfolios.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
Suggested Requisite(s): ENGL 3100 .
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ENGL 3210 - Advanced College Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Basic expository techniques combined with other forms of discourse. Emphasis on originality, clarity and practical application for other courses as well as vocation.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 3240 - CW: Writing Creative Nonfiction Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course will introduce students to the craft of writing creative nonfiction, including forms such as personal essay, lyric essay, and memoir.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2250 or ENGL 2260 or ENGL 2270 or ENGL 2280 or ENGL 2295 .
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ENGL 3250 - CW: Advanced Fiction Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Description: Students will learn advanced fiction writing skills and strategies. Whether they plan to write novels or short fiction, this class will help them develop their use of plot, character, point of view, narrative structure, setting, image, wordplay and syntax.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2250 or ENGL 2260 or ENGL 2270 or ENGL 2280 or ENGL 2295 .
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ENGL 3260 - CW: Advanced Poetry Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem - Online
Description: Students in this course will write and revise their own original poetry. Using their drafts and/or published poems, they will improve their use of line and stanza breaks, imagery, sound and rhythm, poetic structure, and other techniques.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2250 or ENGL 2260 or ENGL 2270 or ENGL 2280 or ENGL 2295 .
Note: This course is taught every other Spring.
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ENGL 3280 - Biographical Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Check with department for course availability.
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Includes autobiographical writing and is oriented strongly toward personal and familial interests. Written assignments include the personal narrative, character sketch, as told to, and conclude with a chapter or two on a projected book-length project. Extensive written and oral input on each assignment from professor and class. Strong emphasis is placed on techniques of research including interviewing, effective characterization, narration and description. Prior experience in imaginative writing and other areas of literature is recommended.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3290 - CW: Advanced Screenwriting Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: In this advanced course, students will enhance their understanding of screenwriting by studying produced films and workshopping their own original work. We will focus on developing complex characters through action and dialogue, studying and applying the movement of the three-act structure, and creating scenes driven by desire and the obstacles to those desires. In short, students will build on the basics that they have already begun to master and will apply those towards creating more sophisticated work.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2240 or ENGL 2250 or ENGL 2260 or ENGL 2270 or ENGL 2280 or ENGL 2295 .
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ENGL 3300 - Children’s Literature Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with department for course availability.
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: Students will study the principles of literature for children with special emphasis on evaluation and selection, classroom and library use, ethnic and cultural diversity, and the development of literacy. Designed to meet the needs of teachers, those preparing to teach and those who work with children in various settings.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3350 - Studies in Literary Genres Credits: (3)
Variable Title
Typically Taught Summer Semester: NA
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This variable topics course introduces students to the historical and cultural origins of literary genres, their distinguishing features, and the dynamics of literary development. Genres may include the novel, drama, poetry, creative non-fiction, bildungsroman, the diary, biography, autobiography, satire, and others. It may be taken more than once with different designations.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
May be repeated once for a total of six credit hours.
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ENGL 3352 - Studies in World Literary Genres Credits: (3)
Variable Title
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This variable topics course introduces students to familiar and unfamiliar world literary genres, exploring their distinctive features and their interactions with the cultures and histories they represent. Genres might include poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, satire and fable, tragedy and ballad, biography and autobiography, and many others.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations.
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ENGL 3353 - Genres in Cultural and Media Studies Credits: (3)
Variable Title
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with department for course availability.
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This variable topics course introduces students to genres in cultural and media studies, their distinguishing features, and the dynamics of their development. Genres may include the novel, digital novel, film, television, social media, advertising, music, and the internet.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations.
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ENGL 3354 - Genres in Writing and Interdisciplinary Studies Credits: (3)
Variable Title
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with department for course availability.
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This variable topics course introduces students to interdisciplinary genres, new directions in transcending disciplinary boundaries, or issues in writing and rhetoric. Genres may include various forms of narrative as they intersect with the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, health professions, business and economics, applied science and technology, and others.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations.
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ENGL 3355 - CW: Creative Nonfiction Forms and Craft Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem
Description: This class asks students to write a number of forms within the genre of creative nonfiction writing, experimenting with narrative shape and the effects of structural choices.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2250 or ENGL 2260 or ENGL 2270 or ENGL 2280 or ENGL 2295 .
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ENGL 3360 - CW: Short Story Forms and Craft Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem - Online
Description: This class asks students to experiment with form and story structure within the genre of fiction writing, to understand how narrative shape affects the reader’s experience.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2250 , ENGL 2260 , ENGL 2270 , ENGL 2280 , or ENGL 2295 .
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ENGL 3365 - CW: Novel Forms and Craft Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem - Online
Description: This class asks students to experiment with form and structure within the genre of novel writing to understand how narrative shape affects the reader’s experience.
Pre-requisite(s): Any one of the following: ENGL 2250 , ENGL 2260 , or ENGL 2270 .
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ENGL 3370 - CW: Poetic Forms and Craft Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This class asks students to experiment with form and structure within the genre of poetry writing to understand how line, repetition, rhyme patterns, and shape affect the reader’s experience.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2250 or ENGL 2260 or ENGL 2270 or ENGL 2280 or ENGL 2295 .
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ENGL 3375 - CW: Notebooks and Journals Forms and Crafts Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Description: This class examines the writer’s notebook, reading examples and studying possibilities. Students will keep a writer’s notebook inspired by those examples.
Pre-requisite(s): Any one of the following: ENGL 2250 , ENGL 2260 , ENGL 2270
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ENGL 3380 - CW: Screenwriting Form and Craft Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This class examines screenwriting form. Students will write their own original screenplay(s) in this form.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2250 or ENGL 2260 or ENGL 2270 or ENGL 2280 or ENGL 2295 .
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ENGL 3410 INT - The Teaching of Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course is designed for English Teaching majors and minors. Students in the course will study pedagogical practices that support the effective and equitable teaching of writing in diverse and inclusive classrooms. Students will develop curriculum that is aligned with the Utah State Core Standards and that is rationalized in current research.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent, and admitted to Secondary Education program.
Co-Requisite(s): ENGL 3020 .
Pre-requisite/Co-requisite: ENGL 2420
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ENGL 3500 HU - Introduction to Shakespeare Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem - Even Years, Full Sem - Online Odd Years
Description: This class is an introduction designed to foster a critical appreciation of the plays of Shakespeare. The class is intended for all who wish to gain a greater appreciation for Shakespeare and his work. Students can expect to study a varied selection of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, as well as historical, cultural, critical, and performance contexts.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3510 HU/DV - World Literature Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online
Description: This is a selection of masterworks from a variety of authors, regions, and eras - expressly to introduce diverse literatures other than British and American. The required readings may vary considerably from semester to semester, according to the instructors’ expertise.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3520 HU - Literature of the Natural World Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Check with department for course availability.
Description: This course engages literary texts that focus on humans in relation to their natural environment. Conceived as a survey course, it attempts to delineate the various traditions of environmental concern, from the ancient past to the present, and to draw attention to the ongoing relevance of such texts. Students will learn how to read closely and carefully, and how to make such literature meaningful for their own daily lives.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3530 - The Literature of Business and Economics Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Check with Department
Description: This course examines historical and contemporary issues in the world of business and economics through literature, film, and essays. The course will explore concepts such as private property, commodities and natural resources, wage labor, capital, public lands, and globalization. Students will investigate pertinent moral and ethical questions connected with these concepts from both historical and contemporary perspectives, such as the distribution of wealth and poverty, consumption and resource management, competition and conflict, and social (in)stability. The course is designed to improve writing skills, specifically the ability to express complex ideas from a variety of perspectives and to improve critical and creative thinking skills while stressing the importance of learning through writing.
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ENGL 3540 - Adaptation Studies Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course focuses on the process by which literary works and other texts are adapted into other forms and media, and on the product of that adaptive process. Works may include traditional text-to-film adaptations, as well as more non-traditional forms such as graphic novels, music, television, the Internet, and more.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 3610 - American Literature I Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with department for course availability.
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course will introduce students to the study of American Literature from its earliest known works to those produced prior to the American Civil War. We will examine its history, major works, and literary concepts.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 3620 - American Literature II Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course will introduce students to the study of American Literature from the American Civil War to the contemporary period. We will examine its history, major works, and literary concepts.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 3650 - British Literature I Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem, Full Sem - Online Even Years
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course will introduce students to the study of British Literature from its earliest known works to those produced in the eighteenth century. We will examine its history, major works, and literary concepts.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 3660 - British Literature II Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course will introduce students to the study of British Literature from the eighteenth century to the contemporary period. We will examine its history, major works, and literary concepts.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
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ENGL 3730 - Literatures of Cultures and Places Credits: (3)
Variable Title
Description: This variable topics course examines literatures, cultures, and nations beyond England and America. Students will be introduced to the ways in which texts are closely tied to geographical place and cultural space as well as the historical movement from which they emerge. The course may focus on a single national culture or, alternately, offer representative works from various cultures.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
It may be repeated 3 times with different designations.
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ENGL 3750 HU - Topics and Ideas in Literature Credits: (3)
Variable Title
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This variable topics course focuses on the various social, philosophical, and political themes emerging in literary texts. Students will learn the critical skills necessary to identify the intellectual currents in the texts under consideration, to engage in focused discussion, and to probe the various intentions of any act of writing.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
It may be repeated 3 times with different designations.
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ENGL 3752 - Topics and Ideas in World Literature and Language Credits: (3)
Variable Title
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Check with Department
Description: This variable topics course focuses on the various social, philosophical, and political themes emerging in literary texts from around the world. Students will learn the critical skills necessary to identify the intellectual currents in the texts under consideration, to engage in focused discussion, and to probe the various intentions of any act of writing.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations.
Note: Check with Department for course availability.
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ENGL 3753 - Topics and Ideas in Cultural and Media Studies Credits: (3)
Variable Title
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Check with Department
Description: This variable topics course focuses on various themes in cultural and media studies. Students will learn the critical skills necessary to identify the intellectual currents in the texts under consideration, to engage in focused discussion, and to probe the various intentions of any text. It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3754 - Topics and Ideas in Writing and Interdisciplinary Studies Credits: (3)
Variable Title
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with department for course availability.
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Check with department for course availability.
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This variable topics course focuses on themes manifest in the field of writing and in interdisciplinary studies. This course may focus on issues in writing, rhetoric, and other disciplines as they intersect with English. Students will learn the critical skills necessary to identify the intellectual currents in the texts under consideration, to engage in focused discussion, and to probe the various intentions of any text.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations.
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ENGL 3755 - Topics in English Teaching Credits: (3)
Variable Title
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: This variable topics course focuses on critical ideas in the teaching of English. The course may consider social, political, artistic, environmental, or philosophical themes. Students in the class will learn to translate intellectual movements to pedagogical practices and approaches. May be taken twice for a total of 6 credits.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent and admitted to Secondary Education program.
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ENGL 3810 - Experimental Course Credits: (1-6)
Experimental
Description: Consult the semester class schedule for the current offering under this number. The specific title and credit authorized will appear on the student transcript.
May be repeated for a total maximum of 6 credit hours.
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ENGL 3840 - Methods and Practice in Tutoring Writers Credits: (1-3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: Controlled experience in tutoring student writers in all disciplines. This course is only for people who are actually employed as a tutor.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3850 INT - Methods and Practice in Tutoring and Mentoring ESL Students Credits: (1-3)
Description: This course trains students who are native speakers of English or who are second language learners of English at native or near native levels of proficiency to work or volunteer in the ESL Program as tutors, classroom aides, mentors, and as language informants leading conversation groups.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
Note: Check with Department for course availability.
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ENGL 3880 - Philosophy and Literature Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Check with Department
Description: A study of the interrelationships between ideas that shape the course of history and the poetry, prose, and/or drama of the periods that produce these ideas.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
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ENGL 4010 - Topics in Language Study Credits: (3)
Variable Title
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Check with Department
Description: This variable topics course explores areas of study such as advanced grammar, sociolinguistics, language and the law, linguistics and composition, linguistics and language acquisition, or linguistics and literature, among others, as determined by the instructor. A previous language course or consultation with the instructor is recommended before enrolling.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
It may be taken more than once with different designations.
Note: Check with Department for course availability.
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ENGL 4100 - Issues in Professional and Technical Writing Credits: (3)
Variable Title
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem - Online
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $20.00
Course Fee Purpose: The course fees will be used to upgrade and replace computer equipment such as monitors, keyboards, computers, WSU’s software packages, and new course content-specific software.
Description: This variable topics course focuses on specific issues in the ever-evolving field of professional and technical writing. Recent issues include indexing, professionalization, theoretical approaches, and discipline-specific emphases such as writing in the sciences and writing for the Web.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
Suggested Requisite(s): ENGL 3100 .
It may be taken up to four times (for a total of 12 credit hours) with different designations to fulfill electives and must be pre-approved by an advisor.
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ENGL 4110 - Content Management Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem - Even Years; Full Sem - Online Odd Years
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Check with Department
Course Fee: $20.00
Course Fee Purpose: The course fees will be used to upgrade and replace computer equipment such as monitors, keyboards, computers, WSU’s software packages, and new course content-specific software.
Description: This class teaches the theory and application of content management. Students will learn how to evaluate content, divide content into reusable elements, label these elements, and then re-configure them into usable structures. Using the principles of single sourcing, modular writing, and structured authoring, students will map content for reuse, evaluate available authoring tools, implement state-of-the-art technologies, and develop project strategies.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
Suggested Requisite(s): ENGL 3100 .
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ENGL 4120 CEL - Seminar and Practicum in Professional and Technical Writing Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: NA
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem - Odd Years
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem - Online, Even Years
Description: This course serves as a capstone for the minor and emphasis, preparing students for immediate job placement. In the seminar, students review issues and strategies of professional and technical writing and prepare portfolios for job interviews. The practicum is based on an internship or cooperative work experience in the community, with industry, or with an on-campus organization. The internship is the most time-intensive aspect of the course.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 .
Suggested Requisite(s): ENGL 3100 .
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ENGL 4410 - Strategies and Methodology of Teaching ESL/Bilingual Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem odd years
Course Fee: $0.00
Description: This course emphasizes practical strategies and methods of teaching ESL/Bilingual in the public school systems of this country.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
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ENGL 4420 - English Phonology and Syntax for ESL/Bilingual Teachers Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Odd-numbered years
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course provides the essential foundation for ESL/Bilingual teachers in the workings of the English language: pronunciation and spelling systems, word-forming strategies and sentence structure patterns.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
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ENGL 4450 - ESL/Bilingual Assessment: Theory, Methods, and Practices Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Full Sem - even-numbered years
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course explores how to effectively evaluate and implement assessment processes for ESL/Bilingual pupils in public schools. Students will gain experience with both standardized tests and authentic assessment.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2015 or equivalent.
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ENGL 4520 - American Literature: Early and Romantic Credits: (3)
Description: This historical survey follows waves of European immigration and chronicles the effects of those on the American natives. The class then moves through the Revolutionary War and finishes with the relatively short but intense age of American Romanticism, which occurred in the decades just before the Civil War. The diverse writers in this period include such figures as Columbus, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 3080 .
Note: Check with Department for course availability.
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ENGL 4530 - American Literature: Realism and Naturalism Credits: (3)
Description: This historical survey typically runs from the Civil War to WWI - emphasizing reconstruction, laissez-faire economics, growing imperialism, and universal suffrage. The diverse writers in this survey include such figures as Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Mary Austin, and Henry Adams.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 3080 .
Note: Check with Department for course availability.
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ENGL 4540 - American Literature: Modern Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: This historical survey focuses on the first half of the 20th century, when the United States went through a series of profound political and social changes, such as its entry into World War I and II, Prohibition, The Red Scare, Suffrage, the advent of the mass media, and Progressivism. Drawing on a variety of genres and media (including painting and film), the course will study developments in the New Negro Renaissance, Greenwich Village bohemianism, the Provincetown Players, “high” modernism, and the Lost Generation. Representative writers of the period include: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mina Loy, Eugene O’Neill, Susan Glaspell, Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and e.e. cummings.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 3080 .
Note: Check with Department for course availability.
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ENGL 4545 - American Literature - World War II to 2001 Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course focuses on American literature from World War II to 2001 within the context of the dramatic political and cultural changes that have shaped contemporary American culture, such as the Cold War, Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement, feminism, and multiculturalism. Like its modernist predecessor, it ranges across genres and media to survey various emergent traditions and tendencies in contemporary and postmodern US letters.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 3080 .
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