1996-98 UNK UG Catalog/ENG Courses

University of Nebraska at Kearney

1996-98 UNK Undergraduate Catalog

ENG Courses

Offered by Department of English
College of Fine Arts and Humanities

ENG 101GS - Expository Writing I - 3 hours: Prereq: none
A study of the art of composition with special emphasis on the writing process and on essay form. Students study methods of invention and arrangement and hone their stylistic, grammatical, and punctuation skills.
ENG 101HGS - Expository Writing - 3 hours: Prereq: none
In this course the student will concentrate on the effective use of language through a rhetorical analysis of reading and writing.
ENG 101T - Expository Writing - 3 hours: Prereq: none
A telecourse in composition.
ENG 102GS - Expository Writing II - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 101GS
A continuing study of composition with emphasis on intertextuality. Students learn to read texts in a variety of ways, to respond to those texts, to integrate voices from multiple sources into a single paper using standard citation conventions, and to find pertinent information through library research or interviews and to use it to create coherent and well-developed papers.
ENG 102HGS - Expository Writing - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 101GS or ENG 101HGS
A continuing study of composition with emphasis on intertextuality. Students learn to read texts in a variety of ways, to respond to those texts, to integrate voices from multiple sources into a single paper using standard citation conventions, and to find pertinent information through library research or interviews and t
ENG 110 - Writing Tutorial - 1 hour: Prereq: none
Offered by the Writing Center, this course is an individually structured sequence of assignments designed to improve students' writing. The assignments may be focused on particular skills, e.g. writing from sources or writing essay tests. Students may register through the ninth week of the semester.
ENG 212 - Writing in the Disciplines (a, b, c, d options) - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 102GS and a declared major
Aims at developing students' writing skills within their discipline of study. The course will cover research strategies, interpretation and application of research results, and formats and conventions used by writers within that discipline. Students should enroll in one of the following to correspond with their major: ENG 212A: Writing in the Fine Arts ENG 212B: Writing in the Humanities ENG 212C: Writing in the Natural Sciences ENG 212D: Writing in the Social Sciences
ENG 234 - Reading and Writing about Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 101 and ENG 102 strongly recommended
Prerequisite for all 300 and 400 level courses intended to count toward the BA in English or the BAE teaching endorsement. Required of all undergraduate English majors. An introduction to the principles of close reading, the interpretation, and the criticism of literary texts.
ENG 235HGS - American Studies - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 101 and ENG 102
General Studies course for Honors students. Students will employ the techniques of interdisciplinary studies to arrive at an understanding of American culture. They will focus on problem(s) in American life which may range from local to international and may deal with any or all time periods. Subject matter from a variety of disciplines will help illuminate the problem being studied.
ENG 235HGS - American Studies - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 101 and ENG 102
This interdisciplinary course focuses on literary and historical themes inherent in the American experience. The content of the course will vary in response to student interest.
ENG 240HGS - Literary Classics of the Western World-Honors - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 101 and ENG 102
A General Studies course for Honors students. The study of the "mountain tops" of world literature before 1700 and works representative of modern modes and shifts of attitudes after that date.
ENG 240HGS - Literary Classics - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 101 and ENG 102
This course investigates the creative expression of the human condition through the study of literary works from a variety of time periods.
ENG 250GS - Introduction to Literature: British Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 101 and ENG 102
An introduction to literature focusing on works written in English in those nations which belonged to the Union of Great Britain and identifying major elements of this literature through the reading of specific texts. Each offering will vary in texts read and issues covered.
ENG 251GS - Introduction to Literature: American Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 101 and ENG 102
American literary texts and backgrounds and perspectives helpful in reading them. Students acquire the skills to interpret these texts and to express their interpretation in forms of discourse suitable to an academic setting.
ENG 252GS - Introduction to Literature: Western Civilization - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 101 and ENG 102
Examines representative literary works from the ancient to the modern world.
ENG 253GS - Introduction to Literature: Non-western Civilization - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 101 and ENG 102
Examines representative literary works from the ancient to the modern world which have either shaped or reflected contemporary thought and are thus important to what are generally identified as non-western cultures.
ENG 254GS - Introduction to Literature: Special Topics: _____ - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 101 and ENG 102
Introduces types of literature and techniques used in writing and reading texts; texts are chosen to represent some aspect of how form, language, culture, or history affect literature, so works will differ in genre, style, source, and context from section to section.
ENG 260 - Images of Women in Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 101 and ENG 102
An introduction to the study of images of women in various genres of literature. Works of fiction, poetry, and drama written by women will be studied and discussed.
ENG 280HGS - Special Topics - 3 hours: Prereq: none
A General Studies course for Honors students . Interdiscplinary course that examines the connections between disciplines.
ENG 303 - Introduction to Linguistics - 3 hours: Prereq: none
A course designed to study language in the manner of the structuralists. It includes introductory phonology, morphology, and syntax. Also included is a study of geographical and social dialect.
ENG 304 - Grammar I - 3 hours: Prereq: none
A study of ways of looking at the structure of the English Language. One of these is the tradition of grammarians like Otto Jespersen; another is a recent development based on the work of Noam Chomsky and others.
ENG 311 - Advanced Writing I: Writing Processes - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 102GS and ENG 234 or department permission
A study of writing processes as they have been described by professional writers and rhetoricians. The purposes of this course are to familiarize students with various conceptions of the writing process, to introduce them to composition research methods, and to give them ample opportunity to investigate and experiment with various writing strategies.
ENG 312 - Writing in the Professions - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 102GS, ENG 234, junior standing and at least 12 hours completed in major or permission of instructor.
Applies writing skills to professional situations, with special emphasis given to audience analysis, collaborative writing, and technical document formats. Students study selected professional documents such as letters, memos, resumes, proposals, reports, and professional articles.
ENG 314 - Beginning Fiction Writing - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Study of the techniques and materials of prose fiction. Primarily, the course examines fiction written by the class members. Some published contemporary stories are included in the reading. Reading fiction well is as important an objective as writing well.
ENG 317 - Beginning Poetry Writing - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
A close reading of poems written by students to discover what poems mean. This means a study of how versification contributes to or detracts from the paraphrasable content of a poem.
ENG 320 - Creative Play/Script Writing - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Formal differences of the drama and screenplay are studied extensively while writers also concentrate on the methods and principles of dramatic adaptation of literary narratives.
ENG 334 - Studies in the Novel - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Historical or critical study of those novels which shaped the literary form.
ENG 335 - Studies in the Short Story - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
A study of the genre. A variety of short stories will be read and evaluated.
ENG 336 - Bible as Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Critical study of the uses of literary genres in the Bible with attention to both unity and diversity of voice, style, and structure.
ENG 337 - Popular Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
A study of popular literary taste as reflected in such genres as the detective story, science fiction, adult fantasy, and others.
ENG 352A - Survey of U.S. Literature I - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
An historical and critical study of major American writers to the mid-nineteenth century.
ENG 352B - Survey of U.S. Literature II - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
An historical and critical study of major American writers from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
ENG 353 - Colonial/Early American Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Surveys the emergence and development of Colonial and early U.S. national literature, from approximately 1620-1820, by examining the evolution of ideas about U.S. culture, society, and national identity as expressed in early American writers' fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, essays, and journals.
ENG 354 - Literature of the American Renaissance - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
A close study of major writers of the mid-nineteenth century.
ENG 355 - American Literary Realism - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Close study of major writers of 1870-1920.
ENG 356 - Early 20th Century American Literature: 1900-1945 - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Close study of the era's major writers.
ENG 357 - Post-World War II American Literature: 1945-present - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
A close study of significant trends in American literature since World War II as seen in the works of both established and emergent writers.
ENG 358 - Literature of the American West - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
An introduction to the study of Western writers selected from a time period extending from the Native American oral tradition to contemporary poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. Several Nebraska authors will be studied as well as works by women, Chicano, and Native American writers.
ENG 360 - American Women Writers - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Surveys American women's writings from early captivity narratives to contemporary avant-garde poetry.
ENG 362A - Survey of British and Commonwealth Literature I - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
An historical and critical study of major British and Commonwealth writers through the seventeenth century.
ENG 362B - Survey of British and Commonwealth Literature II - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
An historical and critical study of major British and Commonwealth writers beginning with the Restoration and eighteenth century.
ENG 363 - Early/Middle English Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
A study of English literature from Anglo-Saxon through the Middle Ages.
ENG 364 - Shakespeare - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
A study of Shakespeare's plays within their major classifications: Tragedies, Comedies, and Chronicles.
ENG 365 - Literature of the English Renaissance - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
This course examines the variability of literature written in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries across several genres: sonnet, narrative poem, dialogue, epic, historiography, meditation, and drama.
ENG 366 - Literature of the English Restoration and Eighteenth Century - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
A study of the rise and decline of neoclassicism in non-dramatic literature from Dryden to Burns.
ENG 367 - Literature of the English Romantic Period - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Readings in the poetry and prose of English writers in the Romantic period from 1789-1830.
ENG 368 - British and Commonwealth Victorian Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Readings in the poetry and prose of British and Commonwealth writers in the Victorian Age from 1830 to the "fin de siecle."
ENG 369 - Modern British and Commonwealth Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
A selective study of major turn of the century and twentieth century endeavors by British and Commonwealth writers.
ENG 370 - Post-modern British and Commonwealth Literature: 1950-present - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
A study of the major, international post-modernist texts written in English (exclusive of the U.S.). The course takes aim at the transnational and cross-genre post-modern elements of the texts. At each offering, a specific genre will be emphasized.
ENG 404/804P - History of the English Language - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
A survey of the origins and development of the English language, with special emphasis on modern methods of linguistic study.
ENG 406 - Principles of Literary Criticism - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
The methods and principles of literary criticism with special attention to critical vocabulary and the various strategies of reading literary texts.
ENG 411 - Advanced Writing II: Writing as a Social Act - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 102GS and ENG 234 or department permission
A study of writing as a social act. Students study theoretical descriptions of rhetorical genre, audience, and situation. Besides writing papers that discuss these theories, students also practice writing in a situated rhetorical context and may be asked to work collaboratively.
ENG 415/823P - Advanced Fiction Writing - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 314, ENG 234 or department permission
Further study of the techniques of prose fiction, concentrating on stylistics. Student manuscripts, written for the course, will provide most of the examples for study. The course is open by invitation only. Contact listed instructor.
ENG 419/822P - Advanced Poetry Writing - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 317, ENG 234 or department permission
An advanced course in writing lyric poetry. Students concentrate upon their own style and subject matter. The course is open by invitation only. Contact listed instructor.
ENG 422/841P - Language for the Elementary Teacher - 3 hours: Prereq: none
This course is a practical survey of the current findings in language as they pertain to the Language Arts teacher. The topics it examines have been under discussion for some time and form a solid part of the developing body about the English language, particularly as related to the traditional responsibilities of the Language Arts teacher.
ENG 423/843P - Reading Problems of Secondary Schools - 3 hours: Prereq: none
This course proposes to enable teachers of English and other content areas to deal with those students who have reading problems as well as to increase reading ability in all students.
ENG 424/842P - Teaching Secondary School English - 3 hours: Prereq: 15 hours of English beyond the freshman level
Content and the teaching of language, literature, and composition in the secondary school.
ENG 425/847P - Children's Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: none
Setting up criteria for choosing and evaluating a wide range of literature for children.
ENG 426/848P - Literature for Adolescents - 3 hours: Prereq: none
An exposure to and evaluation of the literature genres appropriate for study in secondary schools.
ENG 427 - Multimedia Communication - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Study of communication via public electronic and print media and the analysis of the impact of such media on the individual and society.
ENG 443 - Seminar in the American Renaissance - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
This seminar will examine selected literary issues from the early Nineteenth Century to the rise of realism.
ENG 444 - Seminar in Realism - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
A study of works of literary realism. The seminar focuses on literary responses to contemporary issues and explores the intersection of art and social conscience.
ENG 445 - Seminar in Early 20th Century American Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Each student will develop an in-depth project applying particular critical methodologies to a body of works representative of the American literary culture of the first half of the twentieth century. This seminar focuses primarily on American literary texts representative of late realism and early modernism, focusing on the growing awareness of indeterminacy and the role imaginative works might play in ordering reality. Students will produce a major paper, demonstrating their progress through the major.
ENG 447 - Seminar in Post-World War II American Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
This seminar focuses primarily on American literary texts representative of late modernism and post-modernism and focusing on the growing awareness of America as a multivalent, multiracial, multiethnic society. Each student will develop an in-depth project applying particular critical methodologies to the selected works. Students will produce a major paper, demonstrating their progress through the major.
ENG 450 - Seminar in World Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
A study of selected works in translation. Works will vary from semester to semester.
ENG 460 - Topics: Women's Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Investigates in-depth topics and issues related to literature by and about women.
ENG 462 - Seminar in Chaucer - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
This seminar concentrates exclusively on Chaucer's literary production and its critical history. The objective is to familiarize students with Chaucer's literary production and the variety of critical approaches relevant to it--including post-structuralism, language theory, new historicism, feminist theory and psychoanalysis. Any selection of Chaucer's works--a survey of his development, a concentration on The Canterbury Tales, a study of his long poems--may comprise this course.
ENG 463 - Seminar in Shakespeare - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
This seminar will target a particular critical problem in Shakespeare studies. The class will read select poems and plays carefully alongside appropriate criticism.
ENG 464 - Seminar in the Renaissance - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
This seminar will inquire into the complexity of renaissance intertextual (and perhaps international) literature. The objective is to explore the interrelation and critical histories of select texts of more than one author and, perhaps, more than one country.
ENG 467 - Seminar in Romanticism - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Readings in special topics drawn from the Romantic literature of Western cultures. Emphasis can be on particular writers, genres, or critical issues.
ENG 468 - Seminar in Victorian Literature - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
A study of selected British prose and poetry from approximately 1830 to 1900.
ENG 469 - Seminar in Modernism - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Specific topics will vary at each offering: topics will be based on specific author(s), themes/motifs, etc. The scope of the seminar is literature of international modernism (c. 1891-1950) written in English.
ENG 471 - Seminar in Rhetoric - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 102GS, ENG 234 and an upper division writing course; or department permission
A capstone seminar in rhetoric designed to introduce students to rhetorical criticism, to familiarize students with recent developments in the field of composition and rhetoric, and to give them opportunities (1) to do research in the field by writing either a theoretical paper or a rhetorical criticism, or (2) to produce a professional-level document.
ENG 480/890P - Ft. Kearny Writers' Workshop - 1-3 hours: Prereq: none
A workshop in creative writing for those who would like to improve their abilities in writing poetry, fiction, and drama.
ENG 481/892P - Plains Literature Institute - 1-3 hours: Prereq: none
This course proposes to study major Western and Plains writers either individually, by theme, or by genre. Writers might include Nebraskan or regional writers.
ENG 483/897P - Film Institute - 1-3 hours: Prereq: none
A study of the film in both its aesthetic as well as historical dimensions. Students will examine the development of film as both art and mass entertainment in addition to studying the various critical methods of interpreting the film.
ENG 499 - Individual Research - 3 hours: Prereq: ENG 234 or department permission
Independent study under the supervision of a major professor of language or literature.

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