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English 97Undergraduate CoursesENG 102 Composition Skills (3) ENG 102 providesinstruction and practice in a variety of writing, reading,and critical thinking skills, with emphasis on formingexperiences, ideas and opinions into a coherent essay. Thetypes of writing assignments vary among instructors, butstudents can expect to write expressive, analytical, andpersuasive essays, some of which may involve the useof secondary sources. This course will hone students’grammatical and punctuation skills, as needed. Gradebelow “C” receives no credit.ENG 105 English for Nonnative Speakers (3) This course isdesigned for students whose first language is not English.The course will help students expand vocabulary and improvereading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Thiscourse does not count for General Education credit.ENG 200 Expository Writing (3) Prerequisite: ENG 102 or anequivalent course. ENG 200 is intended to refine writingskills learned in earlier composition classes. The coursewill deal exclusively with expository writing (that is, nonfictionprose essays that explain, analyze, and evaluateideas) and topics will vary considerably. Class time will bedivided between discussing examples of expository writingand working to improve individual writing.ENG 202 Poetry Workshop (3) Study of and practice in thetechniques of poetry writing for the beginning student.ENG 203 Fiction Workshop (3) Study of and practice in thetechniques of writing short fiction.ENG 250 Topics in Literature (3) Students will read andanalyze selected literary works. The course focuses onthe relation of literature to place, biography, culture,gender, class, and race. Students will be introduced to theprinciples of close reading, interpretation, and criticism ofliterary texts.ENG 260 Studies in Genre (3) Studies in techniques and formsof one of the major genres of literature, poetry, drama,fiction, and film. Film sections may require a lab. Title willvary with offering.ENG 270 Critical Approaches to Literature (3) Study of avariety of analytical and interpretive approaches to thestudy of literature in print and non-print media. This courseprovides and introduction to the English major in which theEnglish program goals are communicated. These programgoals will be reinforced in the literature courses requiredfor the major culminating in ENG 480 Senior Seminar.Prerequisite for ENG 333, 361, 362, 365, 371, 372, 378,380, 381, 382, 383, 386, and 480 - one of three prerequisitechoices for ENG 384.ENG 280 Themes and Movements in Literature (3) Readingsin world literature organized around a specific literarytheme or movement. Topic and title vary from offering tooffering.ENG 321 Literary Editing (3) Editing in a variety of forms,including “little” magazines, chapbooks, reviews andbooks, with attention to the special and widely diversedemands of literary projects.ENG 325 Structure of English (3) Descriptive approachto English Grammar, including pronunciation, wordformation,sentence structure, and semantics/pragmatics.Some attention to dialect differences, social factors inusage, written and spoken style, orthography, and thehistory of the language.ENG 326 Linguistic Theory and Applications (3)Introduction to generative grammar and its applicationto English and other languages. In addition to basicconcepts of phonology and morpho-syntax, thecourse covers language acquisition, psycholinguistics,neurolinguistics, and other applied linguistic fields.ENG 333 American Theatre (3) Prerequisite: ENG 270 orpermission of the instructor. Theatre, plays and playersfrom 17th century beginnings to the present. Crosslistedas CNA 333.ENG 361 American Literature I (3) Prerequisite: ENG 270or permission of the instructor. A survey, beginning withpre-contact indigenous literature and concluding with theNaturalist/Symbolist Period.ENG 362 American Literature II (3) Prerequisite: ENG270 or permission of the instructor. A survey, beginningwith the Harlem Renaissance and Modernist Periodin American Literature and concluding with study ofsignificant contemporary writers.ENG 365 Modern American Fiction (3) Prerequisite: ENG270 or permission of the instructor. Short stories andnovels by significant 20th century American writers.ENG 371 British Literature I (3) Prerequisite: ENG 270or permission of the instructor. A survey of Britishliterature, beginning with Beowulf and concluding withworks by 18th century writers.ENG 372 British Literature II (3) Prerequisite: ENG 270or permission of the instructor. A survey of Britishliterature, beginning with the Romantic writers andconcluding with contemporary writers.ENG 378 Topics in Modern British Fiction (3) Prerequisite:ENG 270 or permission of the instructor. Short storiesand novels by significant 20th century British writers.ENG 380 Shakespeare (3) Prerequisite: ENG 270 orpermission of the instructor. Directed reading ofShakespeare’s plays and poetry against the backgroundof Renaissance culture. Cross-listed as CNA 380.