79 courses with the subject EN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
3c-0l-3sh Designed to develop the basic English skills necessary for clear and effective communication. Reserved for selected students. This course does not meet General Education English or Liberal Studies writing requirements
3c-var-4sh Normally to be taken the first semester at IUP. Courses use readings in the nature and history of language, semantic and linguistic analysis, and problems in rhetoric and other approaches to composition. Seven theme-length expository papers (or the equivalent) are written, in addition to shorter exercises and a written final examination.
3c-0l-3sh Introduces students to literature of various genres through a careful analysis of poetry, fiction, and drama. Includes literature of various time periods, nationalities, and minorities.
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3c-0l-3sh Provides international students with an opportunity to improve their ability to speak and write English before they take
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3c-0l-3sh Concentrates on the film as an artistic medium. Eight to twelve motion pictures are shown during semester and are analyzed in class discussions.
3c-0l-3sh Surveys British literature from its beginnings to about 1660, acquainting students with the experience of reading many of the primary materials (whole works whenever possible or full, free-standing parts) and provides them with background information concerning the development and flowering of the various genres, the dominant ideas of each period, and the social and cultural context of the separate works. (Offered as EN211 prior to Spring, 1998)
3c-0l-3sh Surveys British literature from about 1660 to the beginning of the twentieth century, acquainting students with the experience of reading many of the primary materials (whole works whenever possible or full, free-standing parts) and providing them with background information concerning the development and flowering of the various genres, the dominant ideas of each period, and the social and cultural context of the separate work. (Offered as EN212: English Literature prior to Spring, 1998)
3c-0l-3sh Provides an understanding of American literature from its beginning to about 1900. The course will concentrate primarily upon a relatively small number of major works, each of which will help to illustrate the “spirit of the age” it represents. (Offered as EN213: American Literature: Beginnings to the Present prior to Spring, 1998)
Controlled electives: (2) (3) 24sh One course from Category A (Period): EN301, EN302, EN303, EN304, EN305, EN306, EN307, EN315, EN316, EN317, EN319 One course from Category B (Form and Theory of Genre): EN208, EN214, EN215, EN216, EN217, EN332, EN335, EN337, EN338 One course from Category C (Alternative Literatures): EN225, EN344, EN348, EN385, EN386, EN396 One course from Category D (The European Tradition): EN349, EN354, EN387, EN391, EN393, EN394, EN395 One course from Category E (Major Authors): EN430, EN432, EN434, EN436 One course from Category F (Writing, Speech, Linguistics): EN220, EN221,EN310, EN311, EN312, EN313, EN320, EN322, EN325, EN326, EN329, EN330, EN333, EN334, EN336, EN420, EN422 Two courses from Category G: Any combination of six
3c-0l-3sh This course surveys the development of the novel from Cervantes’ Don Quixote to the present with emphasis on major writers and forms in English. Includes consideration of teaching the novel.
3c-0l-3sh A study in appreciation of poetry, with special attention to the technique of the poet and structure of poetry. Includes consideration of teaching poetry.
3c-0l-3sh A study of the development of the short story from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present with attention to form, structure, and types of the story. Includes consideration of teaching short fiction.
3c-0l-3sh A study of selected plays from various periods in an attempt to understand the function of drama. Includes consideration of teaching drama.
3c-0l-3sh Primarily seeks to improve writing style, particularly in the more utilitarian forms, such as magazine article and personal essay.
3c-0l-3sh This is a seminar course in which students are expected to produce a substantial body of written work in one or more of the creative genres, the particular kind of writing chosen with regard to the special interests and abilities of each student.
3c-0l-3sh Major trends and motifs across genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, autobiography) which reflect themes and subjects of continuing interest to women writers. The intersection of genre with race, ethnicity, and social class will be of particular significance. (Offered as EN384 prior to Spring, 1998)
var-1-3sh Special topics are offered on an experimental or temporary basis to explore topics that are not included in the established curriculum. A given topic may be offered under any special topic identity no more than three times. Special topics numbered 281 are offered primarily for lower-level undergraduate students.
3c-0l-3sh This course examines particular literary traditions in England from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, excluding
3c-0l-3sh Examines major works and genres in Elizabethan literature such as pastoral and tragedy and key fiction writers, dramatists, and poets during 1558-1603. Rather than survey the period comprehensively, the purpose here is to focus closely on a specific literary period and on the writers of this period as selected by the instructor. (Offered as EN361: The Renaissance prior to Spring, 1998)
3c-0l-3sh British Enlightenment Literature refers to the imitation of the Greek and Roman authors of antiquity. The course begins with the assumptions and goals of neoclassical literature and integrates the intellectual debates and contemporary politics (patriarchy, nascent capitalism, empire, slavery, class divisions) that flourished alongside of (and that shaped the emergence of) new genres (the slave narrative, the novel, gothic tales, the periodical essay). Rather than survey the period comprehensively, the purpose here is to focus closely on particular aspects or writers as selected by the instructor.
3c-0l-3sh Emphasizes the relationship between literature and its milieu. Focuses primarily on English Romantic Poets but considers development in Germany, France, and America and examines its continuing manifestations in literature, culture, and politics. Rather than survey the period comprehensively, the purpose here is to focus closely on a specific literary period and on the writers of this period as selected by the instructor. (Offered as EN360: Romanticism prior to Spring, 1998)
3c-0l-3sh Examines literary works against a background of rapidly changing social, economic, religious, and political forces. Counterculture movements, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, will be examined against “high Victorianism” to develop a sense of the tremendous intellectual and political energy of the period. Roots of recent concerns such as feminism, political literalism, and capitalism will be explored to help us better understand our own as well as the Victorian age. Rather than survey the period comprehensively, the purpose here is to focus closely on particular aspects or writers as selected by the instructor.
3c-0l-3sh Examines major works and trends in modern British literature, such as modernism or key fiction writers, dramatists, or poets during the first half of the twentieth century. Rather than survey the period comprehensively, the purpose here is to focus closely on particular aspects or writers as selected by the instructor.
3c-0l-3sh Examines major works and trends in contemporary British literature, such as late modernism, postmodernism, the age of diminishment, or key novelists, dramatists, and/or poets from the period 1945 to the present. Rather than survey the
Free Electives: 17-20 At least two of the selected courses must be Writing Intensive. Total Degree Requirements: 124 (1) These courses are offered at the University of Findlay/Nuclear Medicine Institute, Findlay, Ohio. These areas of study are consistent with requirements of the Committee for Allied Health Education Accreditation. All eight of these areas of study are completed during the final twelve months of the degree program. Table of Contents | Index of Courses This information is maintained by the Office of the Registrar, with approval from the University Senate. Last Modified at 7:30 PM on 7/23/98.
3c-0l-3sh Emphasizes understanding and appreciation of literature through developing skill in reading aloud.
3c-0l-3sh Advanced study of problems involved in influencing an audience.
3c-0l-3sh Survey of rhetorical theory from Greek and Roman through modern times.
Secondary English Classroom 3sh
3c-0l-3sh The beginnings of American literary cultures from sixteenth-century pre-Columbian indigenous contacts with European explorations, through diverse colonializations (Hispanic, French, and British) including the importation of African slaves, up to the American Revolution and emergent U.S. literary nationalism in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Rather than survey the period comprehensively, the purpose here is to focus closely on particular aspects or writers as selected by the instructor.
3c-0l-3sh Examines major works and trends in U.S. literature, from the Federalist, Romantic, and/or Realistic periods. Rather than survey the period comprehensively, the purpose here is to focus closely on particular aspects or writers as selected by the instructor.
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3c-0l-3sh Surveys poetry, drama, and fiction with which the adolescent is familiar through school work and personal reading. (Offered as EN218 prior to 1993-94)
3c-0l-3sh Additional prerequisites for B.A. English majors: 210, 211, 212, 213 Focuses on various movements, themes, genres, and authors writing in the United States since 1940. Not a survey course; each section will develop an extended treatment of a particular topic selected by the instructor. Emphasizes writing by living writers to develop an understanding of the diversity, formally and thematically, of current U.S. literary production across genders and ethnicities.
3c-0l-3sh Workshop and tutorial atmosphere for students who intend to write or teach writing.
Foreign Language Intermediate Level 0-6sh (4) Additional Mathematics: 3-13sh (5)
the Secondary School 3sh
3c-0l-3sh A study of modern approaches to the teaching of writing, including current theories on the composing process, as well as instruction in evaluating, including holistic scoring. Includes practice in writing.
3c-0l-3sh This is a writing workshop for students who wish to focus intensively on the writing and revision of poetry and on developing an audience for one’s works.
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1c-0l-1sh Studies historical development of the English language, as a basis for a better understanding of modern American English.
3c-0l-3sh An introduction to the fundamentals of language study with equal emphasis on the sound, word, sentence, meaning, and discourse patterns of English. Educationally relevant topics, such as applications of linguistics to the teaching of English language and literature, varieties of grammar, and linguistic descriptions of styles and registers are an integral part of the course. Course is a prerequisite for ED452: Teaching of English in the Secondary School.
3c-0l-3sh Offers a close examination of classic and contemporary films and film theory from a variety of critical perspectives: spectatorship, cinematic authorship, feminism, historiography, genre, and cultural studies. Pays special attention to the treatment of women and African-Americans in film.
3c-0l-3sh Psycholinguistics concerns the interrelation between language system and behavior and various factors of human psychology. Surveys developments since the 1940s, including relationships between language and perception, biology, memory, meaning, and cognition, as well as oral and written behavior. Students of language and literature may improve their assumptions about how human beings use language.
3c-0l-3sh and practice. Aims: (1) general understanding of current theory and methods of teaching ESL; (2) ability to select appropriate, and adapt existing, materials for elementary and high school ESL students. Recommended for all English teachers who expect to have ESL students in their classes.
3c-0l-3sh Focuses on the creation and development of the essay in English, its form and content, from its beginnings to the present. Students will begin by studying Francis Bacon, the first English essayist, and follow the evolution of the form to the present day.
3c-0l-3sh Investigates the various ways that language and gender interact and intersect in society. Examines such questions as:
3c-0l-3sh Additional prerequisites for B.A. English majors: 210, 211, 212, 213 Examines the nature and function of the mythic experience and explores the archetypal patterns of myths from various cultures. (Offered as EN370 Myth and Literature prior to Spring, 1998)
3c-0l-3sh Acquaints students with the nature of oral composition, the habits of thought that orality fosters, and the particular mode of awareness the oral dimension of literature demands of an audience (and awakens in a reader). At the conclusion of the course students should have an understanding of the formulaic nature of such purely oral forms as the ballad and the epic and an awareness of the manner in which orality patterns thought differently from writing, and they should be able to detect oral features and patterns in works of literature from cultures not primarily oral but containing a high “oral residue.” (Offered as EN353: The Oral Dimension prior to Spring, 1998)
3c-0l-3sh Additional prerequisites for B.A. English majors: 210, 211, 212, 213 Course is concerned with ethnic U.S. experiences as expressed in poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography. The topic will vary and be announced in advance. Examples include Asian-American, Hispanic, Irish-American, Jewish- American, and Native-American literatures.
3c-0l-3sh Primarily nineteenth- and twentieth-century African-American literature (poetry, fiction, nonfiction): includes works by Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, spirituals and folk poetry, Harriet B. Wilson, Jean Toomer, Richard Wright, Audrey Lorde, and Toni Morrison. Emphasis on historical context and an Afrocentric approach.
3c-0l-3sh Considers literary aspects of the English Bible by relating earlier translations to the Authorized Version of 1611 and by tracing some of the major influences of the King James Bible upon writers and speakers of modern English. Offers a close reading of the major narrative and poetic portions of the Old Testament.
3c-0l-3sh Masterpieces studied range from those of ancient Greece to Middle Ages. English literature and American literature excluded. (Offered as EN345 prior to Spring, 1998)
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3c-0l-3sh Studies major artists and their contributions to the development of film as an art form from its beginnings to the present. Close analyses of directors, cinematographers, editors, screenwriters, or actors–as individuals or as representatives of a movement in film. The topics will vary from semester to semester; thus, one semester may concentrate on a specific director such as Alfred Hitchcock; another semester might study women (as directors, actresses, and editors); and yet another semester might study a collective movement such as film noir.
3c-0l-3sh Considers issues of genre and canon revision and why particular genres may have particular appeal for women writers. While many of our readings will be by “literary women,” we will also consider works by women who were professionals in nonliterary disciplines.
3c-0l-3sh Additional prerequisites for B.A. English majors: 210, 211, 212, 213 Examines the contributions of a particular region to national literature. The focus of the course might be any of the following: Appalachian writers, local color writers, New England writers, Southern writers, writers of the American West, or Canadian writers.
3c-0l-3sh An introduction to Irish literature since 1800, with particular emphasis on the Literary Revival in the early twentieth century. Key authors include Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O’Casey, Edgeworth, Somerville and Ross, Gregory, Beckett, and Heaney. The development of Irish writing will be examined within the contexts of Irish history, language, culture, and politics.
3c-0l-3sh Offered selected summers, for five weeks during the first or second summer session. Visits London, Stratford, and Cambridge or Oxford, as well as other places important in English literature.
3c-0l-3sh Comparative study of selected works of major importance per se and as representative of major themes of medieval European literature. Also listed as FL391.
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3c-0l-3sh A survey of major nineteenth-century European novels in translation (excluding English), emphasizing the rise of realism and naturalism and the cultural, historical, social, and artistic relationships between the various national literatures. Also listed as FL394.
3c-0l-3sh Comparative study of selected works of major importance per se or as representatives of major trends in twentieth- century literature. Also listed as FL395.
3c-0l-3sh A comparative study of a selection of literature written in major European languages but originating in the nations of the developing world. Works will be mainly prose fiction (although essay, theater, and poetry may be included) and reflect a diversity of geographical, cultural, and prior colonial circumstances. Also listed as FL396.
3c-0l-3sh Acquaints students with major issues and problems in literary theory. Rather than survey the history of criticism and theory, this course focuses on modern and contemporary critical schools and methods. The purpose is to introduce students to a select group of influential theories and theorists and how such theories impact the way we read, study, and teach literature and cultural studies.
3c-0l-3sh Offers students who are well into their disciplines “forums” for advanced reading and writing about the cultural, professional, and personal uses of textual knowledge. Students will read, analyze, and compose essays that build meaning around disciplinary knowledge, independent reading, and personal or preprofessional experience. They will be encouraged to make connections between disciplinary knowledge and emerging knowledge or experience.
3c-0l-3sh This is an advanced workshop/tutorial that provides intensive instruction in technical writing. Technical Writing II builds on the basics of audience, readability, proposals and reports, letters, memos, and resumes which are covered in Technical Writing I. The course describes the writer’s role in such areas as legal and ethical aspects of technical communication; planning, testing, reviewing, and evaluating documents; and proofreading and editing.
3c-0l-3sh Examines major works of a single major author, including biographical, literary, and cultural contexts. Places the author within both intellectual/cultural history and literary developments. Major author studied in a particular semester to be announced in advance.
3c-0l-3sh Studies Chaucer, his life, his language, the development of his literary style, and his art, with and through his major poetical works. (Offered as EN340 prior to Spring, 1998)
Controlled electives: Choose one Genre course: EN214, EN215, EN216, EN217 3sh Choose one British Literature Survey: EN210, EN211 3sh Choose one Theme course: EN344, EN348, EN386 3sh Choose two additional courses from list: 6sh EN208, EN210, EN211, EN213, EN214, EN215, EN216, EN217, EN221, EN319, EN320, EN322, EN333, EN336, EN337, EN344, EN348, EN386 Other Requirements: 0 Free Electives: 2-4 Total Degree Requirements: 124 (*) See requirements leading to teacher certification in the catalog section on Academic Policies, Admission to
3c-0l-3sh Studies in the literary output of a major American author or authors against the background of the social and literary milieus in which the works were created. Specific subject or subjects to be announced by the instructor. (Offered as EN343 prior to Spring, 1998)
3c-0l-3sh Selected films dealing with a specific, advanced topic will be viewed and assessed to explore the different roles that film plays. Topic to be announced in advance.
3c-0l-3sh Examines major works of a particular topic in British literature by focusing on its cultural and literary contexts. Topic to be announced in advance.
3c-0l-3sh Examines major works of a particular topic in American literature by focusing on its cultural and literary contexts. Topic to be announced in advance.
var-1-3sh Vary from semester to semester covering such diverse topics as autobiography, science fiction, folklore, the political novel, black theater, etc.
var-1-6sh Students with interest in independent study of a topic not offered in the curriculum may propose a plan of study in conjunction with a faculty member. Approval is based on academic appropriateness and availability of resources.
var-3-12sh On-the-job training opportunities in related areas. Application and acceptance to internship program required. Table of Contents | Index of Courses This information is maintained by the Office of the Registrar, with approval from the University Senate. Last modified at 11:13 PM on 7/31/98.
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