Semester of offerings may change due to factors such as enrollment levels or faculty leaves. For the entire list of courses offered through the English Department, see

Engl 521. Teaching of Literature and the Literature Curriculum
(3-0) Cr. 3. Alt. F. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Examination of the roles of the literary work, reader, and teacher in literary study. Responses to literature. Place of literature in language arts. Study and development of curriculum materials for middle school, high school, and college levels of instruction.

Engl 522. Literary Theory and Criticism
(3-0) Cr. 3. Alt. S. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Examination of the history, logic, and rhetoric of contemporary literary criticism and analysis.

Engl 523. Introduction to Old English Language and Literature (Dual-listed with 423.)
(3-0) Cr. 3. Alt. F. Prereq: Graduate classification, course in medieval literature or history or history of the English language recommended. Introductory study of Old English language and literature in prose and poetry, including extracts from Beowulf. Some attention to Anglo-Saxon culture.

Engl 531. Topics in the Study of Literature
(3-0) Cr. 3 each time taken, maximum of 6. Alt. S. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Intensive study of literary genres, periods, movements, or themes; e.g., Literature and Historicism, Narrating the Feminine, Allegory.

Engl 532. American Literature to 1865
(3-0) Cr. 3 each time taken, maximum of 6. Alt. F. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Selected texts in American literature from Discovery to the Civil War. Study may include Colonial and Revolutionary periods, Early Republic, and Jacksonian Era, in critical and cultural contexts.

Engl 533. British Literature to 1830
(3-0) Cr. 3 each time taken, maximum of 6. Alt. S. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Selected texts from the Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration, Eighteenth-Century, and/or Romantic periods, in critical and cultural contexts.

Engl 534. American Literature 1865 to the Present
(3-0) Cr. 3 each time taken, maximum of 6. Alt. F. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Selected texts in American literature from the Civil War to the present. Study may include Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism, with significant attention to race/ethnicity, gender, and identity, and to contemporary critical views. Range of authors and genres.

Engl 535. British Literature 1830 to the Present
(3-0) Cr. 3 each time taken, maximum of 6. Alt. S. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Selected texts from the Victorian, Edwardian, Modernist, and/or Contemporary periods, in critical and cultural contexts.

Engl 536. Postcolonial Literatures
(3-0) Cr. 3 each time taken, maximum of 6. Alt. F. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Colonial and postcolonial Anglophone literatures from various locations, such as Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the British Isles, in critical and cultural contexts.

Engl 538. Fiction
(3-0) Cr. 3 each time taken, maximum of 6. Alt. S. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Selected fiction writers in English; range of authors and genres. Emphasis on both male and female writers; attention to the relationships between fiction and cultural change.

Engl 539. Poetry
(3-0) Cr. 3 each time taken, maximum of 6. Alt. S. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Selected poets writing in English, considered in representative groups. Some emphasis on twentieth-century poets and poetics.

Engl 540. Drama
(3-0) Cr. 3 each time taken, maximum of 6. F. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Primary texts in dramatic genres from various literary periods, in critical and cultural contexts. Frequently concentrates on the English Renaissance and the Shakespearean stage.

Engl 541. Autobiography, Biography, Memoir
(3-0) Cr. 3 each time taken, maximum of 6. Alt. S. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Study of lifewriting, e.g., autobiography, biography, memoir, cross-genre writing, autobiographical criticism. Readings may be arranged by period, nationality, or subgenre (e.g., autobiography of childhood experience, celebrity auto/biography).

Engl 543. Environmental Literature
(3-0) Cr. 3. F. Prereq: Graduate classification. An exploration of the major genres that derive from literary encounters with the environment. Readings may come from various cultures and time periods, but about half of the texts will represent canonical American envionmental literature from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Engl 544. Multicultural U.S. Literatures
(3-0) Cr. 3 each time taken, maximum of 6. Alt. S. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Primary texts by U.S. multicultural writers. Development of U.S. literary traditions, discourses of race and gender, counter-storytelling, myths of origin, phases and movements within the national literary canon. Readings in several genres.

Engl 545. Women's Literature (Same as W S 545.)
(3-0) Cr. 3 each time taken, maximum of 6. Alt. F. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Primary texts by women writers; historical, thematic, formal, or theoretical approaches; secondary readings; e.g., Nineteenth-Century Women Writers; American Women's Personal Narratives; Southern Women Writers of the U.S.

Engl 546. Issues in the Study of Literature(3-0) Cr. 3 each time taken, maximum of 6. Alt. S. Prereq: 6 credits in literature. Intensive study of current and emerging topics and problems concerning literature and its relationship to theory and to language study; e.g., Theory of Metaphor; Renegotiating the Canon; Feminist Theory.

Engl 590. Special Topics
Cr. var. Prereq: Permission of the Graduate Studies Committee according to guidelines available in the department office.

A. Literature

B. Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)/Linguistics. same as Ling 590B)

C. Composition and Rhetoric

E. Rhetoric and Professional Communication

F. Creative Writing