ENGL-220 Advanced Composition: Expository Writing
ENGL-220 is a critical reading and writing course that aims to make students aware of the stylistic devices and linguistic structures that can be orchestrated to produce first-rate expository writing. They learn to identify different kinds of strategies and objectives employed in a variety of sources and hence to read more critically as well as using what they read to develop the depth and range of their own writing. In the first half of the course, students examine how annotations, journals, paraphrasing, and summaries can be employed to fully comprehend all levels of textual meaning. Then, students combine such analysis with examination of wider textual structures and write an analytical essay exploring these elements within a text of their choice. The second half of the course builds upon these skills as students employ critical reading and writing in the production of a first-rate research paper.

ENGL-230 Issues of Literacy & Language Teaching in the Classroom
ENGL-230 aims to combine critical and analytical approaches to literature with an introduction to teaching methodologies and teaching practice. Ways of reading, analyzing, and interpreting texts are studied in detail and their implications for he teaching of literature and language are explored. Theoretical and analytical insights are thus applied to the teaching context. Students participate in class discussion and complete homework projects pertaining to approaches to literature. They then utilize these studies in material design, lesson planning and teaching practice. In addition, students compile a class journal in which they are required to write a number of response papers and to reflect upon their teaching experiences.

ENGL-250 Mass Communication
This is an introductory course in media literacy, focusing on media in contemporary society and our ability to evaluate media influences on our personal and professional lives. The text, Media in Your Life: An Introduction to Mass Communication, incorporates a historical perspective and stresses the effects of evolving technology on the media's social, economic, and cultural roles. Students will eventually gain an understanding of the elements of communication, individual media, issues (ethics, regulation), and related industries (advertising).

ENGL-260 Introduction to Linguistics
This is an introductory course for those planning to teach English, and as such it focuses on topics of special interest to instructors: grammar, phonology, morphology, syntax, second language acquisition, and applied linguistics. Students will be introduced to different teaching methodologies and will be expected to produce effective and theoretically-sound lesson plans in all skill areas and for students of varying abilities in English. Furthermore, students will be given the opportunity to student teach in actual language classrooms. In addition, students will be required to give a number of class presentations.

ENGL-303 British Literature II
This second survey course in British Literature concentrates on the period from the 19th century to the present, beginning with Romanticism and Victorianism and then moving to the first and second halves of the twentieth century. Authors discussed include Byron, Keats, Shelley, Austen, Eliot, Brooke, Owen, and Woolf.

ENGL-306 American Literature I
The objectives of this course include (1) familiarizing the students with major authors, literary movements, and minority voices of American literature from the pre-colonial period to the Age of Romanticism; (2) identifying how the political, social, and economic conditions of the time influenced American literature; (3) exploring the modern relevance of early American literature; and (4) encouraging students to share and explore the meaning of texts through a variety of academic approaches, including discussion, research, and writing. Authors discussed include Bradstreet, Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman, and Melville, and works discussed include Native American tales (orature).

ENGL-307 American Literature II
This survey course covers the period from the Age of Reason up to the present day. The authors covered, including Mark Twain, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Saul Bellow, are examined in their historical, philosophical, and social contexts. Works discussed include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Turn of the Screw, The Great Gatsby, and Seize the Day. Students will be required to give classroom presentations and view a number of films.

ENGL-310 Non-Fictional Prose
The objective of this course is to provide the student with a theoretical, conceptual, and analytical framework for understanding the development of major non-fictional forms of prose. To achieve such an objective, students will study the historical background of the origins of different ideas (how they were forged, interpreted, implemented, opposed, violated, and defended) in a variety of genres of non-fictional prose. Non-fiction is the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions on facts and reality; these works include biographies, histories, philosophical treatises, and essays. The course format includes lectures, discussions of the reading assignments, and individual work, with attention given to critical thinking and research skills as they apply to methods, materials, and processes. Writers covered include Vidal, Tan, Lu Xun, Orwell, Sartre, Woolf, Soyinka, and Calvino.

ENGL-311 The Short Story
This course increases student awareness of the technical options available to the story teller, exploring the spectrum of contemporary techniques and showing students how textual variations contribute to meaning in the fiction of earlier times and the works of authors from different parts of the world. This course also provides students with a theoretical, conceptual, and analytical framework for understanding the development of short fiction as well as improving their competence in critical writing. Writers discussed include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jorge Louis Borges, Leo Tolstoy, William Faulkner, John Updike, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Ann Porter, and Ernest Hemingway.

ENGL-324 British and American Poetry, 1890-1945
This course develops students' understanding of British and American poetry of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century (1890-1945). The study of a range of poetry produced within this period is combined with the exploration of significant background in terms of literary, philosophical and social history. In addition to homework assignments, students produce three research papers, allowing them to extend their knowledge and understanding through independent research on relevant, selected topics. Poets discussed include Christina Rosetti, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot.

ENGL 325 Poetry II: Contemporary American Poetry
Appreciation and study of the movements in American poetry since World War II-from the Beats to the poems, of the Deep Image. Emphasis on the works of women and Mrican-Americans. Ginsberg, Clifton, Kumin, Levertov, Roethke, Berryman, Lowell, Plath, Sexton, Rich, Brooks, Baraka, Oliver, and others are studied.
Prerequisites: ENGL-101 and 102.

ENGL-330 Drama I: A Historical Survey
In this survey course, which covers the period from antiquity (Greece) to the 19th century, students study the principle developments and transformations in Western Drama, as well as the ways in which those developments both reflected and affected broader social issues. In drama, mankind has found ways to create unique events which delight, dismay, and cause reflection, making the experience outlast the actor as well as that particular audience. Course objectives include the improvement of students' ability to analyze and respond to a work of drama in a well-written, critical essay. Works covered include Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" and "Antigone"; Euripides' "Medea"; "Everyman" ; Moliere's "The Misanthrope"; Richard Sheridan's "The School for Scandal"; Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus"; and Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan."

ENGL-331 Drama II: Contemporary Drama
This course concentrates on the study of principle developments of Drama genre in the 20th century and the way these developments both reflect and affect broader social issues. The precise meaning of the term "modern", "contemporary" varies according to its context, usuaually used to describe any play written since 1877. In this particular year the great Norvegian dramatist H. Ibsen turned from writing plays in verse to create a series of plays in everyday language dealing with important social and moral issues. Works covered include Iben's "Doll's House", Chekhov's Tree Sisters" and etc.

ENGL-341 The Novel II: The Novel in the 20th Century
The novel has been on the scene for two and a half centuries, and although its demise has often been mourned or celebrated, we continue to recognize it without difficulty, as well as assuming that of all the literary forms it is the one with which we remain on the easiest terms. The novel had a marvelously free run in the nineteenth century, but at the beginning of the twentieth century, perhaps in step with extraordinary new developments in technology, there appeared new ways of telling stories, structuring plots, and examining characters. These developments, commonly termed "Modernism," tended to divide the audience by establishing new kinds of highbrow interest and putting certain kinds of novels outside the grasp of the ordinary reader. Writers discussed include Joseph Conrad, Nikos Kazantzakis, Anita Desai, Boris Paternak, William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, Isabel Allende, Herman Hesse, and Thomas Mann.

ENGL-350 The History of the English Language
This course covers the main events in the historical development of the English language: the history of its phonetic structure and spelling, the evolution of its grammatical system, the growth of its vocabulary, and also the changing historical conditions of English-speaking communities in relation to language history. Through lectures, class discussions, and reading and writing assignments, students identify primary theories of the development of the English language and become literate in linguistic terminology and theoretical approaches. In addition, they gain an appreciation of the complexity of the English language as well as extending the range of their English usage and revising their understanding of English phonetics, vocabulary and grammar.

ENGL-410 Literary Criticism
The objective of this course is for students to acquire the factual, conceptual, and analytical frameworks necessary to understand major theories and methods of literary criticism. Students study the history of criticism, from its foundations in classical and medieval precepts to the theorizing of the present day. They explore the texts that have been milestones in the history of critical thought, including Aristotle's Poetics and Ars Poetica. This encourages students to think analytically and critically and to make comparisons between different literary movements. It also aids in their understanding of the purposes of individual authors as well as increasing the depth of their insights into world literature.

Literary theory always bears the imprint of larger political and cultural debates but also aspires, from Aristotle to Hans-Georg Gadamer to Jacques Derrida, to a systematic statement of the principles and methods governing interpretation and evaluation. Additional theorists discussed include Fry, Bodkin, Barthes, Nietzsche, Marx, Goethe, and Pope.

ENGL-420-3 Advanced Grammar
Students acquire a thorough knowledge of advanced grammar, working through all the fundamentals with a review of tenses and verb forms, sentence structure and synthesis. Also, students prepare four group projects, and can choose texts from a variety of sources, such as descriptive, narrative, business, newspaper articles, and technical writing, which they will analyze in terms of syntax and grammar points of special interest.
 

ENGL-420-17 Music and the Romantic Era, 1770-1830
The course has three principle objectives: (1) to provide students with a historical, literary, and philosophical understanding of the Romantic and Victorian movements in England and America; (2) to help students achieve an understanding and appreciation of the complexities and difficulties inherent in literary criticism and assessment; and (3) to help students develop their critical reading of literature within the context of its relationship to philosophy and music.

ENGL-420-19 Introduction to ELT I
ENGL-420-20 Introduction to ELT II
This two-part course serves as an introduction to English language teaching (to non-native speakers of English). Students are introduced to classroom methodology and the course comprises the following core areas: Grammar; The Four Skills - Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking (including discussions of vocabulary acquisition and the teaching of pronunciation); Lesson Planning; Integration of Different Elements and Objectives in One Lesson; Materials Evaluation and Adaptation; Learner Errors (including their nature and teacher treatment of them); Class Management (establishing an environment conducive to learning); and Feedback and Guidance. Course requirements include doing short papers, developing lesson plans, and completing a project based on materials' adaptation.

ENGL-430 Shakespeare
Studying the principle developments of Shakespearean drama and the ways the plays both reflect and affect broader social issues helps students achieve the goals of this course: (1) to complete a critical and literary examination of Shakespeare's works; (2) to be able to respond to any of Shakespeare's plays; and (3) to gain competence in critical writing. The course analyzes the central body of work of a writer who not only shaped the English language as we know it today, but also shaped human nature. Before Shakespeare there was "characterization;" after Shakespeare there were "characters," men and women with highly individual personalities who were capable of change. The course leads students through a comprehensive reading of Shakespeare's plays, starting with the "Comedy of Errors" and culminating in the unrivaled tragedies of "Hamlet," "Macbeth," and "King Lear." As students become aware of the distinctive features of Shakespeare's most fully realized characters - Hamlet's extraordinary intellect, Macbeth's prophetic imagination, Lear's capacity for love - they come to sense Shakespeare's own obsessions, and an insightful and deeply moving portrait of the enigmatic playwright thus emerges.

ENGL-445 Medieval English Literature
The objective of this course is to produce the student with theoretical, conceptual and analytical framework for understanding the development of major social, cultural and philosophical ideas and literary developments in medieval England. Students study the historical background for the origin of different literary works, how they were forged, interpreted, implemented, opposed, violated and defended. The intellectual history of Middle Ages contains an overlapping theme that provides unity and sense of direction to the Modern Western Thought and literature.