Course Descriptions

English

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

 Advanced placement in English is granted on the basis of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Advanced Placement Test scores. See section entitled “Advanced Placement” of this catalog for details. Students with enhanced ACT scores of 34 or better should notify the Director of Writing who will then arrange for credit in ENG 101-102 to be assigned to the students’ records. Students with ACT Verbal scores of 16-17 should enroll in ENG 101B. Students with enhanced ACT Verbal scores of 18-27 should enroll in ENG 101. Students with ACT Verbal scores of 28-33 should enroll in ENG 201H.

101 English Composition I. 3 hrs.
Introduction to academic writing with emphasis on writing as a multi-stage process, critical thinking, and fundamental research strategies and skills. (PR: ACT Verbal 18-27; students with scores 14-17 should first take COM 095; those with scores 0-13 should first take COM 094)
101B Intensive English Composition. 4 hrs.
An intensive workshop course designed to help students develop basic writing skills and prepare for success in ENG 102. (PR: ACT Verbal 16-17; permission of University College)

102 English Composition II. 3 hrs.
Academic writing with an emphasis on research related writing and higher levels of critical thinking and reading. (Not open to juniors and seniors. PR: English 101 or equivalent)

201H English Composition Honors. 3 hrs. I, II.
An accelerated course in English composition. Completion of 201H with a C or better satisfies the university requirement in freshman composition. Students completing the course are awarded three additional hours of credit toward graduation. (PR: Enhanced ACT English score of 28-33)

202 Writing About Literature. 3 hrs.
Introduction to literary genres, terms, and methods required for writig about literature, and basic research skills. (PR: ENG 101)

280-283 Special Topics. 1-4 hrs.

302 Research-Based Composition. 3 hrs.
An upper-division research intensive writing course emphasizing research strategies, critical reading and thinking, and multi-stage writing processes in a variety of academic disciplines. (PR: English 101 or equivalent, and junior or above status.)

303 Appalachian Fiction and Poetry. 3 hrs.
The study of short fiction, novels, and poetry of literary merit, reflecting the intellectual, emotional and aesthetic experience of Appalachia, including works by Dickey, Arnow, Berry, Smith, Mason and others. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

306 Introduction to Drama. 3 hrs.
Study of drama as a literary type from the earliest periods to 1870, with emphasis on the development and analysis of form, structure, and language. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

307 Modern Drama. 3 hrs.
British and American plays since 1870, with their backgrounds in foreign literatures. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

308 Contemporary Drama. 3 hrs.
British and American plays since 1945. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

309 Literature of Fantasy. 3 hrs.
Study of different forms, conventions, and styles in fantastic literature, such as in legend, fairy tale, horror story, heroic fantasy, nonsense, and romance. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

310 Biography. 3 hrs.
British, American, and world literature as seen through selected major biographies. The study of biography as a literary type. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

311 Science Fiction. 3 hrs. I, II.
Study of science fiction in its background, themes, types, analyses, and appreciation. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

313 Introduction to Poetry. 3 hrs.
Theory, prosody, analysis, and principal types, forms, and themes; selected examples through literary periods and cultures. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

315 Introduction to Novel. 3 hrs.
An introduction to the basic elements of the novel, such as forms and techniques, through careful reading of selected novels and criticism concerning them. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

317 English Literature to the Romantic Period. 3 hrs.
English Literature from Beowulf through Pope. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

319 English Literature from the Romantics to the Present. 3 hrs.
English Literature from the Romantics to the present. (PR: 102 or 302 or 201H)

320 The Political Novel. 3 hrs.
Studies in English and American novels relating significantly to political themes. (PR: ENG 102 or
302 or 201H)

321 American Literature to 1860. 3 hrs.
American Literature from the Colonial, Eighteenth Century, Federal and Romantic Periods. (PR: English 102 or 302 or 201H)

323 American Literature, 1860 to the Present. 3 hrs.
American Literature from the late Nineteenth Century to the present. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

329 Twentieth Century Novel. 3 hrs.
Criticism and analysis of principal British and American novels since 1900. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

331 Introduction to Short Story. 3 hrs. I, II, S.
Criticism and analysis of representative short stories, primarily British and American. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

335 Crime and Sensation Literature. 3 hrs.
Examines the literary responses to crime and sensational literature and discusses the artistic, cultural, and historical contexts of those responses. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

336 Forbidden Literature. 3 hrs.
Examines the literary responses to “banned literature” and discusses the artistic, cultural and historical contexts of those responses.

340 Introduction to African-American Literature. 3 hrs.
A survey of major writers and types of literature. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

341 Introduction to Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 3 hrs.
An examination of selected groups, writers, and types of literature from a cultural theory perspective. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

342 Women Writers. 3 hrs.
A study of women writers in cultural contexts. Surveys attitudes to women, women writers, and their work. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

344 Film and Fiction. 3 hrs.
The relationship between literature and cinema: analysis of literary masterpieces and the films derived from them. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

350 Literary Studies for English Majors. 3 hrs.
First of two capstone courses for majors. Take within first 12 hours of major coursework. Develops knowledge and abilities needed by English majors through study of literature and literary critical theory, independent research, and portfolio. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

354 Scientific and Technical Writing. 3 hrs.
Types and styles of written reports required in science, government, industry, and medicine. Practical applications adapted to the needs of the individual student. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

360 Introduction to Creative Writing. 3 hrs.
An introduction to writing of fiction and poetry. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

377 Creative Writing: Poetry. 3 hrs.
Practice in writing poetry. (PR: ENG 360 or permission of instructor)

378 Creative Writing: Fiction. 3 hrs.
Practice in writing fiction. (PR: ENG 360 or permission of instructor)

402 Pre-Professional Composition and Rhetoric. 3 hrs.
Study of rhetorical invention and models of the composing process, with intensive practice in writing. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

404 The Writing Way: Tutoring and Conference-Teaching. 3 hrs. CR/NC.
Training and practical workshops on writing, reading, and teaching writing in conference or one-on-one formats. For tutors and teachers. (PR: ENG 102, 201H or 302 and instructor approval of writing sample)

405 History of the English Language. 3 hrs.
The phonology, spelling, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary of previous language periods as background to Modern English. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

408 Advanced Expository Writing. 3 hrs.
Reports, theses, briefs, abstracts and other expository types. Adapted to the needs of the individual student. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

409 Milton. 3 hrs.
Biographical and critical study, including Milton’s English poetry and prose, and his literary and
intellectual milieu. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

410 Shakespeare’s Comedies, Tragicomedies, and Romances. 3 hrs.
Intensive study of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragicomedies, and late romances. Also includes the Sonnets and Venus and Adonis. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

411 Chaucer. 3 hrs.
The poetry of Chaucer, chiefly the Canterbury Tales, in the light of medieval tradition and critical analysis. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

412 Shakespeare’s Histories and Tragedies. 3 hrs.
Intensive study of Shakespeare’s histories and tragedies. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

413 English Novel to 1800. 3 hrs.
Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Radcliffe, Edgeworth, Smollett, and Sterne, with supporting study of their most important predecessors and contemporaries. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

414 Nineteenth Century English Novel. 3 hrs.
Austen, Scott, the Brontes, Gaskell, Dickens, Hardy, Schreiner, and others. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

415 Victorian Poetry. 3 hrs.
Tennyson, Browning, Arnold and others. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

417 English Drama to 1642. 3 hrs.
Non-Shakespearean English drama from its beginning to the closing of the theatres. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

419 Approaches to Teaching Literature. 3 hrs.
The intensive study of the pedagogy of literature and literary critical theory and its classroom applications.

420 Senior Seminar in Literature. 3 hrs. II.
Advanced study of forms and movements. Individual research required. Limited to English majors with senior class standing. Capstone experience. (PR: ENG 350)

421 American Literature to 1830. 3 hrs.
Study of American literature of the Puritan, Colonial, and Federal periods, including such authors as Jonathan Edwards, Edward Taylor, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Anne Bradstreet, Washington
Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

422 American Literature, 1830-1865. 3 hrs.
American literature of the Romantic period, including such authors as Emerson, Douglass, Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman, Dickinson, and lesser figures of the period. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

423 American Literature, 1865-1914. 3 hrs.
American literature of the Realistic and Naturalistic periods, including such authors as Howells, Crane, Twain, James, Chopin, Dreiser, Chesnutt, and Wharton. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

424 American Literature After 1914. 3 hrs.
American literature after 1914, including such authors as Faulkner, Hemingway, Cather, Carver, Vonnegut, Morrison, and others. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

425 Southern Writers. 3 hrs.
The study of selected writers of the American South from the beginnings to the present with special attention on writers after 1920. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

428 International Literature. 3 hrs.
Readings in contemporary literature from the non-Anglo-European world. Texts will be taken from Asian, African, South American, Australian, and other authors. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

433 Contemporary English Poetry. 3 hrs.
Principal poetry since the Victorian period. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

434 Contemporary American Poetry. 3 hrs.
Principal poetry since 1900. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

435 Modernism. 3 hrs.
Examines literary modernism and the artistic, cultural, and historical contexts of that movement. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

436 Medieval English Literature. 3 hrs.
Old English elegiac and heroic poetry; Middle English lyrics and romances; the Ricardian and Malory. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

437 Tudor Literature: Poetry and Prose of the 16th Century. 3 hrs.
Survey includes works by Wyatt, Philip and Mary Sidney, Spenser, Elizabeth I, Nashe, Marlowe, Ralegh, Anne Cecil, Lyly, Isabella Whitney, and Shakespeare, excluding drama. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

438 17th Century Literature: Poetry and Prose. 3 hrs.
Survey includes Donne and the Metaphysical poets, the Cavalier lyricists, Bacon, Browne, Lady Mary Wroth, Herbert, Jonson, Amelia Lanyer, Burton, Walton, Hobbes, and Bunyan. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

444 Rendering the Landscape. 3 hrs.
Representing landscape in words. Emphasis on student writing—any genre—supplemented by selected readings. Second week spent in field at state park. Lodging fee. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

446 Drama of the Restoration and 18th Century. 3 hrs.
Trends, movements, and dramatic types in the English theatre of this period. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

447 English Romantic Poets. 3 hrs.
Emphasis on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

450 Western World Literature to the Renaissance. 3 hrs. I.
Major works (excluding English), with emphasis on Homer, the Greek Drama, Virgil, Dante, and Cervantes. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

451 Western World Literature Since the Renaissance. 3 hrs. II.
Major works (excluding English and American), with emphasis on Racine, Moliere, Goethe and principal continental fiction. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

455 Literary Criticism. 3 hrs.
Historical study, with application of principles. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

458 Contemporary Fiction: Form and Theory. 3 hrs.
Readings in contemporary fiction addressing the work in terms of formal and theoretical concerns.  Cutting-edge texts that challenge our notions of genre, form, theory, and practice. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

462 Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Poetry and Prose. 3 hrs.
Includes works by Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, and Wollstonecraft. Emphasis on satire, biography, and literary criticism. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

465 Literature of War. 3 hrs.
Examines the literary responses to an individual war and discusses the artistic, cultural, and historical contexts of those responses. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

475 Introduction to Linguistics. 3 hrs. I, II.
The structural and descriptive approach to study of the English language. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

476 Modern Grammar. 3 hrs.
A descriptive analysis of the structure of present day American English, utilizing the basic theory of generative transformational grammar. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

478 Language, Society, and Self: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. 3 hrs.
Sociolinguistics is the study of the effects of language in society, relevant to discourse practices, language attitudes, variations, shifts, and changes. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H)

480-483 Special Topics. 1-3 hrs. each.
(PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

485-488 Independent Study. 1-4 hrs. each.
(PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

490 Internship in English. 3 hrs.
A supervised internship. The student works for a local firm/agency to gain practical experience in the major. Arranged by student and department. Supervised by firm. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

491 Creative Writing: Poetry Workshop. 3 hrs.
A practical and intensive class in exploring the varieties of creative expression; exercises on the creating of verse in different forms and styles. (PR: ENG 377 or permission of the instructor)

492 Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop. 3 hrs.
Offers students a forum for presentation, discussion, and refinement of their work, either short stories or novels. (PR: ENG 378 or permission of the instructor)

493 Creative Writing: Nonfiction Workshop. 3 hrs.
A writing workshop where students develop and refine their original creative nonfiction (memoir, biography, essays, travel/leisure writing, etc.), employing techniques typically reserved for fiction (dialogue, narrative, poetic language, etc.). (PR: ENG 360 or permission of the instructor)

495H-496H Readings for Honors in English. 2-4; 2-4 hrs. I, II.
Open only to English majors of outstanding ability. Possible study areas include world literature, works of individual authors, etc. See Honors Courses. (PR: Any 300-level ENG except 302)

GRADUATE COURSES

502 Composition and Rhetoric for Teachers. 3 hrs. S.
Study of rhetorical invention and models of composing process, with intensive practice in writing.

508 Advanced Expository Writing. 3 hrs.
An advanced general composition course. Practice in the rhetorical types and styles used by professionals in all fields. Assignments adapted to the student’s major.

509 Milton. 3 hrs.
Biographical and critical study, including Milton’s English poetry and prose, and his literary and intellectual milieu.

510 Shakespeare’s Comedies, Tragicomedies, and Romances. 3 hrs.
Intensive study of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragicomedies, and late romances. Also includes the Sonnets and Venus and Adonis.

511 Chaucer. 3 hrs.
The poetry of Chaucer, including the Canterbury Tales, in the light of medieval tradition and critical analysis.

512 Shakespeare’s Histories and Tragedies. 3 hrs.
Intensive study of Shakespeare’s Histories and Tragedies.

513 English Novel to 1800. 3 hrs.
Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne, with supporting study of their most important predecessors and contemporaries.

514 Nineteenth Century English Novel. 3 hrs.
Austen, Scott, the Brontes, Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Meredith, Hardy, Butler, Wilde, and their contemporaries.

515 Victorian Poetry. 3 hrs.
Emphasis on Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Hopkins, Christina Rossetti, Hardy and the pre-Raphaelites.

517 English Drama to 1642. 3 hrs.
Non-Shakespearean English drama from its beginnings to the closing of the theatres.

519 Approaches to Teaching Literature. 3 hrs.
The intensive study of the pedagogy of literature and literary critical theory and its classroom applications.

521 American Literature to 1830. 3 hrs.
Study of American literature of the Puritan, Colonial, and Federal periods, including such authors as Jonathan Edwards, Edward Taylor, Anne Bradsheet, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Washington Irving, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick.

522 American Literature, 1830-1865. 3 hrs.
American literature of the Romantic Period, including such authors as Emerson, Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Whitman, Fuller, Douglass, Stowe, and other figures of the period.

523 American Literature, 1865-1914. 3 hrs.
American literature of the Realistic and Naturalistic periods, including such authors as Howells, Twain, James, Dreiser, Chesnutt, Wharton, Crane, and Chopin.

524 American Literature, 1914-1945. 3 hrs.
A survey of American writers of the Modern period to World War II.

525 Southern Writers. 3 hrs.
A survey of the poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama indigenous to the American South, including Old South, post-Civil War, and Modern periods, and emphasizing the Southern Literary Renascence.

528 International Literature. 3 hrs.
Readings in contemporary literature from the non Anglo-European world. Texts by Asian, African, South American, Australian, and other authors.

533 Contemporary British Poetry. 3 hrs.
British poetry since the Victorian period.

534 Contemporary American Poetry. 3 hrs.
American poetry since 1900.

535 Modernism. 3 hrs.
A study of trans-Atlantic Modernist writers, including both poetry and prose.

536 Medieval Literature. 3 hrs.
Old English elegiac and heroic poetry; Middle English lyrics and romances; the Ricardian poets and Malory.

537 Tudor Literature: Poetry and Prose of the Sixteenth Century. 3 hrs.
Survey may include works by More, Skelton, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Nashe, Marlowe, Ralegh, Lyly, Sidney, Mary Sidney, and Shakespeare, excluding drama.

538 Seventeenth Century Literature: Poetry and Prose. 3 hrs.
Survey may include Donne and the Metaphysical poets, the Cavalier lyricists, Bacon, Browne, Wroth, Cary, Lanyer, Herbert, Jonson, Burton, Walton, Hobbes, and Bunyan.

544 Rendering the Landscape. 3 hrs.
Historical and contemporary approaches to the representation of landscape in art and writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, etc.). Joins with course in Art and Design department for a one-week trip to a West Virginia state park for field work (lodging fee required).

546 Drama of the Restoration and 18th Century. 3 hrs.
Trends, movements, and dramatic types in the British theatre of this period.

547 British Romantic Poets. 3 hrs.
Emphasis on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.

555 Literary Criticism. 3 hrs.
Historical study, with application of principles.

558 Contemporary Fiction: Form & Theory. 3 hrs.
Readings in contemporary fiction addressing the work in terms of the formal and theoretical concerns that drive it. Texts that challenge our notions of genre, form, theory, and practice.

562 Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Poetry and Prose. 3 hrs.
British poetry and prose of the Restoration and eighteenth century (1660-1800), exclusive of the novel.  Authors studied include Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, Wollstonecraft. Emphasis on satire, biography, essay.

565 Literature of War: (specific war). 3 hrs.
Examines the literary responses to an individual war and discusses the artistic, cultural, and historical contexts of those responses.

575 Introduction to Linguistics. 3 hrs.
The structural and descriptive approach to the study of the English language.

576 Modern Grammar. 3 hrs.
A descriptive analysis of the structure of present-day American English, utilizing the basic theory of generative transformational grammar.

578 Introduction to Sociolinguistics. 3 hrs.
Sociolinguistics is the study of the effects of language in society, relevant to discourse practices, language attitudes, variations, shifts, and changes.

580-583 Special Topics. 1-4 hrs. each.
(PR: Permission of the chair)

585-588 Independent Study. 1-4 hrs.
(PR: Permission of the chair)

591 Creative Writing: Poetry Workshop. 3 hrs.
A practical and intensive class in exploring the varieties of creative expression; exercises on the creating of verse in different forms and styles.

592 Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop. 3 hrs.
A forum for presentation, discussion, and refinement of the student’s work, either short stories or novels.

593 Creative Writing: Nonfiction Workshop. 3 hrs.
A writing workshop where students develop and refine their original creative nonfiction (memoir, biography, essays, travel/leisure writing, etc.), employing techniques typically reserved for fiction (dialogue, narrative, poetic language, etc.).

601 Folk and Popular Literature. 3 hrs.
A study of types, variants, backgrounds, and influences. (PR: ENG 630 or permission of the chair)

610 Readings in British and American Literature. 2-3 hrs.
Independent reading in a field not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Limited to English majors who have been admitted to candidacy. (PR: Permission of the chair)

611 Independent Readings. 3 hrs.
Independent readings and research. Open only to students with an M.A. degree with a major in English or English Education.

620 Twentieth Century Drama. 3 hrs.
Major British and American dramatists since 1870. (PR: ENG 630 or permission of the chair)

624 Twentieth Century British Novel. 3 hrs.
Major British novelists of the twentieth century. (PR: ENG 630 or permission of the chair)

625 Twentieth Century American Novel. 3 hrs.
Major American novelists of the twentieth century. (PR: ENG 630 or permission of the chair)

628 Twentieth Century African-American Literature. 3 hrs.
An intensive study of selected novels, plays and poems of the period. (PR: ENG 630 or permission of the chair)

630 Materials and Methods of Research. 4 hrs.
Instruction and practice in scholarly literary research. Required among first 12 hours of coursework and prior to admission to candidacy for the Master of Arts degree with a major in English.

631 Major American Authors. 3 hrs.
An intensive study of selected American authors. (PR: ENG 630 or permission of the chair)

632 Topics in American Literature. 3 hrs.
Concentrated study of continuing themes or influences in American literature; for example, narrative perspectives, regional influences, or conflicting agrarian and industrial values. (PR: ENG 630 or permission of the chair)

635 Major Texts. 3 hrs.
An intensive study of a single major text from any period of British, American, or anglophone literature, leading to mastery of the text, its critical responses, and its influences. (PR: ENG 630 or permission of the chair)

636 Selected British Writers. 3 hrs.
An intensive study of selected British writers such as the Metaphysical Poets, the Cavalier Poets, or the Bloomsbury Group. (PR: ENG 630 or permission of the chair)
 

637 Topics in British Literature. 3 hrs.
A concentrated study of themes or influences in British literature; for example, narrative strategies, medievalism, the pastoral mode, or conflicting moral, social or literary values. (PR: ENG 630 or permission of the chair)

640 Teaching College English. 3 hrs.
Required for graduate assistants in English.

660 Literary Theory. 3 hrs.
Intensive introduction to one or more literary or cultural theories, familiarizing students with the major developments, terms, premises, and debates of the theory or theories in question.
 

The following four courses are for in-service teachers and require permission of the chair
and the Director of Writing.

641 Advanced Composition Institute I. 3 hrs.
The study of characteristics of effective writing instruction; strategies of effective writers; an introduction to teaching writing with technology; an introduction to field research in writing. (PR: Graduate School Acceptance and Permission)

642 Advanced Composition Institute II. 3 hrs.
Advanced Composition Institute II is a seminar course, a follow-up to the intensive summer Advanced Composition Institute I. (PR: ENG 641)

643 Electronic Writing Project. 3 hrs.
Study in the application of teaching writing with technology. Teachers create online syllawebs, databases, peer responses, and conferencing environments, and use technology for research, for teaching research, and for publication. (PR: Graduate School Acceptance and Permission)

644 Teacher Inquiry. 3 hrs.
An intensive study of composition research methodologies (ethnographic study, classroom based inquiry, reflective practice, qualitative research) with a proposal for an inquiry project. Upon completion, Fellow becomes part of Teacher Inquiry Community (TIC). (PR: ENG 641, 642, and permission)

650-653 Special Topics.
(PR: ENG 630 or permission of the chair)

681 Thesis. 1-6 hrs.