Emphasis on the history and development of the early modern British novel. Contemporary British Literature. Emphasis on the history and development of the late modern-to-contemporary British novel.
How literary works express such themes as the American dream, futurism, industrialism, minority experiences, women's roles, and nature writing. Course Information: May be repeated if topic varies. Novels or longer works in other genres e. This course provides an overview of and hands-on analytic approaches to using computers in English Studies.
Course Information: This course fulfills an elective requirement for B. Authors and stories of the ancient world, primarily Greece and Rome, but topics may vary and extend comparatively to other cultures and regions e.
Asian, African, Middle Eastern, Old Norse, Native American or analyze effects of ancient mythologies on writers working in later periods. Digital Technologies in English Studies. Computing in English Studies explores the writing, reading, production, and design of text s across emergent digital contexts. This course acts as an introduction to the theories and practices of digital humanities broadly writ, and will give students a low-stakes arena to begin exploring the production of digital materials.
This course will provide broad theoretical background information for digital humanities, digital publishing, and document design. Topics in Creative Writing II.
Instruction in writing original poetry, novels, plays, and short stories. Prerequisites: a level creative writing course or equivalent with a C or better. Creative writing grounded in the empirical world: interviews, memoirs, and other primary sources.
Focus on locating a structural pattern in previously uncontextualized material and writing that information with a clear and consistent voice. Course Information: Prerequisites: a level creative writing course or equivalent with a C or better. Scrutiny of such genres as science fiction, mystery, the Gothic novel, literary biography, film, drama, lyric poetry, and the long poem. This is a course about reading, analyzing, writing, and redefining memoirs. The autobiographical writings on the reading list look at the inner life of the authors as well as the outer events.
We will examine how historical context, socio-political climate, cultural memories, and identities are represented in these personal narratives, and in the process redefine the genre of memoirs. This capstone focuses on culminating projects in English studies and moving students towards professional work. Students will research specific professional contexts aligning with their interests, including but not limited to publication venues, and demonstrate advanced critical knowledge of the field.
They will also reflect on the significance of their future contributions to the field and the society. Course Information: Prerequisites: seniors only.
This course provides structure for students to complete a significate honors thesis or project related to the discipline of English.
Course Information: Open to both online and on-campus students who meet the admission criteria for the English Honors Program. It can be counted toward the B. Restricted to English Honors. Intended to supplement, not supplant, regular course offerings. Students interested in a tutorial must secure the consent of the faculty member concerned before registration and submit any required documentation to him or her. Course Information: May be repeated. This course explains how digital media has transformed English studies.
Students will learn how databases and digitized collections are created, gain hands-on experience with the basic digital tools used to develop these projects, evaluate and critique how these digital projects affect the study of the humanities.
Course Information: This course fulfills a requirement for the digital publishing concentration of the English MA. This is an introduction to major textual and critical theories of analytical reading and literary production and their history. The course will address the editorial, archival, and analytic tools and methods for English Studies that pertain to digital and online modes of publication in an interdisciplinary context.
Seminar: Major Figures in British Literature One or two major authors, including significant scholarly research. Seminar: Topics in Composition and Rhetoric. Course will provide an extensive and in-depth examination of historic and cultural movements, or personalities that have influenced the field of composition and rhetoric.
Seminar: Topics in Literary Study. Course will provide structure for the examination of themes and topics relevant to and integral with literary study. Seminar: Topics in Teaching Writing.
Advanced study of composition theories and application to the classroom. This course requires students to apply pedagogical and literary theories and methodologies to the literature they read as scholars. Students will create undergraduate literature courses, including syllabi, teaching units, and assignments, as well as a teaching philosophy.
Students must observe the methods of a literature class and complete teaching demonstrations. Course Information: Restricted to graduate students. Sociolinguistics and English Studies. This course is intended to prepare teachers of English at the secondary and post-secondary level to teach students with variable sociolinguistic backgrounds. Students will write a policy statement regarding language, develop a teaching unit, lead discussion in class, and complete an analysis of discourse in education or other academic community.
Students will shadow a faculty mentor teaching a lower-division ENG course. Students attend all classes, complete an observation journal, teach occasionally, and mark essays for one major assignment.
Students meet at least twice midterm and end of course with the instructor assigned to the practicum. Teaching Technologies in English Studies. This course prepares future university English teachers to make technology a fundamental component of their pedagogy. It will cover the use of all current technologies in teaching and their application in English Studies. It addresses how to apply these technologies in different kinds of classes across the curriculum, on-ground and online.
Course Information: Fulfills a requirement for the digital pedagogy concentration of the English M. Intensive study of contemporary movements such as New Criticism, Psychoanalysis, Structuralism. Graduate Seminar: Literary Period.
Coverage of such periods in British literature as Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration and 18th Century, Romantic, Victorian, Edwardian, Modern, Postmodern, or Contemporary, and such periods in American literature as the American Renaissance and other literary periods in modern and contemporary American literature.
Advanced instruction in writing original poetry, novels, and short stories. This course focuses on issues in American publishing, authorship and creative writing pedagogy from to the present, including such topics as: the history of the small literary magazine, the rise of poetry chapbooks, and creative writing within the academy. Course Information: Fulfills a requirement for the digital publishing concentration of the English M.
Writing the Long Essay and the Nonfiction Chapter. Workshop in writing expository and critical prose for graduate students seeking nuts-and-bolts instruction in writing long essays or chapters in projected nonfiction books or theses. Genres such as creative nonfiction, mystery, comedy, science fiction, the Gothic novel, literary biography, film, drama, lyric poetry, and the long poem, with special emphasis on significant scholarly research.
Preparation for comprehensive examination. NOTE: Students who do not successfully complete the comprehensive examination while registered for ENG must enroll in ENG for zero credit hours one billable hour in all subsequent fall and spring semesters until they pass the exam.
Comprehensive Examination Continuing Enrollment. Thesis or Creative Writing Project. Graduate closure activity involving writing a master's thesis or a creative writing project. NOTE: If the thesis or creative writing project is not completed by the time four hours of ENG are accrued in continuing enrollment, students must register for ENG for zero credit hours one billable hour in all subsequent fall and spring semesters until the thesis or creative writing project is complete. May be repeated to a maximum of 4 hours.
Thesis or Project Continuing Enrollment. University of Illinois Nondiscrimination Statement. Toggle Navigation Toggle Navigation. Search Catalog. The Bachelor's Degree The B. Advising All English majors or minors are assigned academic advisors.
Transfer Policy The department will assess the records of incoming transfer students to determine an appropriate degree plan. Grading Policy Faculty members assign course grades according to campus policy and the grading criteria of each individual course. Honors in English In order to be eligible for admission to the English Honors Program, students must have: Completed 72 credit hours towards their B. Degree Requirements for On-Campus and Online Majors All majors require foundational knowledge in literature, writing and linguistics.
COM Online Degree The Online English Program allows students to participate actively in dynamic, diverse, and interactive online learning communities and to complete their course work in their own time and at their own pace within the same semester time frame as on-ground courses.
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