51 courses with the subject ENG, 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.
ENG 101Composition I3
An introduction to college-level writing, this course focuses on the conventions of standard written English and writing with a thesis. Students will produce multiple drafts of expository and argument essays, resulting in approximately 3750 words. Course content will emphasize research, analytical skills, and appropriate use of MLA. Students must successfully pass ENG 101 with a grade of “C-” or better in order to advance to ENG 102 English Composition II. All full-time students must have completed or be currently enrolled in English Composition.
An introduction to college-level writing, this course focuses on the conventions of standard written English and writing with a thesis. Students will produce multiple drafts of expository and argument essays, resulting in approximately 3750 words. Course content will emphasize research, analytical skills, and appropriate use of MLA. To enroll in this course, students must have been placed into this course by test scores. Course work in the skills lab– ENG 101L English Composition I Lab–will comprise 20 percent of the grade for the course. Students must successfully pass ENG 101E with a grade of “C-” or better in order to advance to ENG 102 . All full-time students must have completed or be currently enrolled in English Composition.
This course advances concepts introduced in ENG 101 . With intensive writing instruction focused on inquiry and research, students will study strategies for formulating and investigating questions, locating and evaluating information, using varied sources, and research methods, developing positions on interdisciplinary issues from diverse texts (print, digital, and multimedia), and presenting research using appropriate rhetorical conventions in MLA and/or APA.
ENG 101 or ENG 101E Offered: Fall, Spring, Fall online, Summer online
ENG 103Honors Composition3
An introduction to writing about literature, this course focuses on the conventions of standard written English and analysis of prose fiction, poetry, and drama. Students will produce multiple drafts of analytical and research-based essays, resulting in approximately 5,000 words. Course content will include discussion of research, analytical skills, and the appropriate use of MLA documentation. Additionally, students will participate in a major research or service project, employing critical thinking and analysis in regard to an issue relative to the past or present. This project will culminate in a public presentation and/or a written response. Project topics will vary each time the course is taught. Enrollment is limited to students who have been admitted to the W. Garie Taylor Honors Program. Students who complete this course with a grade of C or better will receive three credit hours for ENG 103 and an additional three credit hours in ENG 101 for prior learning in composition, and they will have satisfied the General Education Core Writing requirement. Students who complete this course with a grade of “C-“, “D”, or “D” will receive three credit hours for ENG 103 and will need to successfully complete ENG 101 Composition I in order to satisfy the General Education Core Writing requirement.
An introduction to the history of theatre, drama, and the principal phases of theatrical production, this course will allow students to study theatre both analytically and practically. Course work will include study of theatre concepts, theatre history, production methods, and plays. Students will be expected to complete written and oral projects and to participate in theatre production. This course can be used to meet the fine arts requirement in the core curriculum.
This course is a study of world literature from its beginnings through the 17th century, including literary masterpieces and lesser-known texts from across the globe.
ENG 101 and ENG 102 / ENG 103 Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Online
ENG 202World Literature II3
This course is a study of world literature from the 17th century to the present, including literary masterpieces and lesser-known texts from across the globe.
A survey of North American literature from beginnings to about 1865, this course exposes students to a wide selection of American material from pre-colonial beginnings to early U.S., Romantic, antebellum, and Civil War periods.
This course offers a survey of American literature from 1865 to the present. Students will examine a wide range of texts representing realism, naturalism, and modernism through postmodern and contemporary literary movements.
This course serves as a theme- or genre-based introduction to literature. The course will focus on a topic that expresses elements of the human condition through literature. Topics will vary. Possible topics may include introduction to film, heroes and monsters, and folk and fairy tales. This is a general education course.
This course introduces students to the key components of reading and writing in the field, with an emphasis on close reading techniques and academic research. The course is open to any student interested in English studies and is required for the English major.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature
Corequisite
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ENG 221Speech Communication3
Designed as an introduction to the basic principles of extemporaneous speaking, this course will familiarize students with workable methods for planning, preparing, and delivering speeches. Course work will consist of reading, projects, tests, and a minimum of 3-4 speeches.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: Fall, every third year
ENG 302Romantic & Victorian Poetry3
This course will focus on the English Romantic movement from about 1785 through the Victorian Period. Students will read the “Pre-Romantics,” proceed to the high Romantics, and on to the Victorians.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: On demand
ENG 303Twentieth Century Novel3
This overview of British and American writers of experimental fictional prose who wrote in the modern or contemporary periods will trace the impact and development of Modernist technique in long fiction.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: Fall, every third year
ENG 304Twentieth Century Poetry3
This course will focus on the poetry of the Modern period. Students will read works of the early Moderns such as Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens, as well as selections from more recent poets.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: Fall, every fourth year
ENG 305Modern Drama3
This course surveys British, American, and European plays from Ibsen to the present, focusing on the movement from the realistic drama of the early modern period to the multi-dimensional theatre of the present. Study will also include dramatic theory and staging techniques related to modern drama, as well as critical material related to the works of individual authors. Reading in the course may include earlier dramatic works as reference for the study of modern and contemporary plays.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature
ENG 306Ghost Story3
This course will assess the ghost story as both a cultural and literary product. Course content will include oral tradition, the history of the ghost story, and extensive readings in literary ghost stories from the English ghost story tradition.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: Summer, odd-numbered years
ENG 307Topics in Speculative Fiction3
This course examines the rich and evolving landscape of speculative fiction, a broad category that imagines realities beyond the limits of the everyday world. Each iteration of the course focuses on a single genre - such as science fiction, fantasy, horror, or climate fiction - allowing students to explore that area in depth. Through a close study of a wide range of texts and digital medias students analyze how imagined worlds reflect and challenge contemporary concerns about technology, identity, belief, power, and the unknown. Possible texts might include Frankenstein, Game of Thrones, Jurassic Park, Star Wars (1977), Lord of the Rings, Vicious, and It (2017). Yes, one time and with a different topic
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of a literature course Offered: Fall Even-Numbered Years
ENG 308Literature for Youth3
This course will focus primarily on literature for children, teenagers, and young adults. Course content will include an introduction to folk tales and fairy tales, as well as a survey of the various genres of literature published for young audiences. The course will emphasize insightful analysis of literature for young people, and an assessment of the value of this literature.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: Summer, even-numbered years
ENG 310Business Writing and Communications3
This course provides an in-depth study of professional, techincal, and business communication with an emphasis on both written and oral forms. Students will learn to compose effective workplace documents - including correspondence, reports, proposals, manuals, protfolios, and employment materials - while also practicing oral presntations and developing design and multimedia elements for professional contexts. Attention will be given to persuasive, positive, and negative messaging; the integration of traditional and electronic media; and the study of verbal, nonverbal, and listening skills. By blending theory with practice, the course prepares students to communicate effectively, ethically, and strategically in professional and global environments.
A development of the principles of prose writing, this course will emphasize exposition, argument, and research as a means of learning and of communicating knowledge and ideas.
ENG 101 , and ENG 102 / ENG 103 Offered: Spring, even-numbered years
ENG 315Advanced Grammar3
This course is dedicated to developing students’ knowledge of English grammar. This course will focus on approaches to grammar instruction, the basics of grammar from parts of speech to the sentence, grammatical form and function, terminology for grammatical and syntactical structures, causes of usage errors, application of grammatical and mechanical rules, and strategies for editing and proofreading.
ENG 101 , and ENG 102 / ENG 103 Offered: Fall, evening
ENG 316Technical Writing3
Technical Writing provides students with resourceful and creative “reader-centered” strategies to develop documents often found in a wide range of professional fields. Students will learn to recognize the rhetorical situation, analyze the target audience, determine appropriate composing strategies, and develop documents that effectively achieve their intended purposes, such as instructions, manuals, reports, and more. In this course, students will not only learn the general conventions of technical writing but will also be given opportunities to study and practice creating documents specific to their field of study.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 Offered: Every other spring
ENG 321Women’s Literature3
This course will explore the impact of women writers from the Middle Ages to the modern era, focusing on sociocultural influences on women throughout these eras and the contributions made by women writers to an evolving world.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: On demand
ENG 330Second Language Acquisition3
This course offers the student a theoretical and research-based perspective on second language acquisition (SLA) and prepares those who wish to teach in K-12, adult education, or overseas ESL settings to use SLA research and theory to inform teaching practice.
This course offers future ESL instructors the opportunity to consider current ESL issues, approaches, and materials as they relate to actual classroom practice. Students will develop and critique curricula, lessons, and materials for specific student populations prior to observing and participating in the classroom and/or other educational setting.
This course serves as an introduction to the teaching and assessment methods in English as a Second Language (ESL). Students will become familiar with ESL research in the theoretical underpinnings of historical and contemporary instructional methods; analysis and critique of these methodologies; hands-on experience in pedagogically sound lesson planning; models of language assessment; and the evaluation of language sub-skills and communication skills with regard to standardized, alternative, and authentic forms of assessment.
This course will survey recent world literature, including writings from a variety of cultures and countries. Students will study a variety of genres-prose, poetry, and drama-and will write a paper on a selected work/author. A basic intent is to focus on literature that is not generally covered in survey courses, or that is not covered in depth.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , at least one semester of Literature, and participation in the Taylor Honors Program Offered: On demand
ENG 401Old & Middle English Literature3
Focusing on “English” literature from approximately 450 to about 1450, this course will introduce the basics of Anglo-Saxon language through to the Middle English language of Chaucer.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: Spring, every third year
ENG 402Shakespeare3
This course will comprise a study of 7-to-10 of Shakespeare’s major plays, including tragedies, comedies, and histories. Consideration will also be given to critical material related to the study of Shakespeare, as well as to the history of the period and the staging of Renaissance drama.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature
ENG 403Myth & Ancient Literature3
This course considers the influence of myth on the literature of the Western tradition through a broad study of ancient literatures that includes Greek and Roman drama and epic.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: Spring, every third year
ENG 404Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Literature3
This course will focus on the prose, poetry, and drama composed by English writers after 1660 and before 1780. Emphasis will be given to Dryden, Pope, and Swift. Restoration comedy and the emergence and development of the novel will also be stressed by studying three representative works of each genre.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: Spring, every third year
ENG 405Major Authors3
This course provides an in-depth study of the works of major authors whose writings have influenced the course of literary and cultural history. Course content will be narrowly focused and the specific authors studied will vary each time the course is offered. Possible topics include Hemingway and Fitzgerald; Whitman; Conrad and Lawrence; Chaucer; and the Brontes, Austen, and Woolf.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: On demand
ENG 408Playwriting3
This course introduces students to the craft of writing for the stage, from the inception of an idea to the printed page. Emphases include format, character, and story development. The course includes an examination of the work of successful playwrights, a practical introduction to getting work produced, and a look at the current climate for producing new work in the American theatre. Students will write a play.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature
ENG 411Linguistics3
An exploration of language from a societal and a personal perspective, this course is designed to make students aware of the nature and importance of language in life and in learning. In order to make the student aware of language as a field of study, to show the basic assumptions and methods of linguistics, and to introduce the terminology and scholarship in the field, course material will focus on the theory and the pragmatics of language study and analysis. Course work will include written and oral projects as well as field study.
ENG 101 , and ENG 102 / ENG 103 Offered: Fall, even-numbered years
ENG 412Creative Writing: Prose3
This course is structured as a workshop in the writing of fiction and other prose forms, encouraging the free exchange of ideas and the market strategies necessary to a successful career as a writer. Students will produce prose writings in a variety of forms for peer and faculty evaluation and will be encouraged to work toward publication.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: Fall, every third year
ENG 413Creative Writing: Poetry3
This course will focus on the reading, study, and creation of poetry. Students will be asked to read and imitate poems, and to create wholly original poems and share them with the class. Students will also do research into the methods of successful poets. There will be a workshop element to this class so that all efforts are shared and discussed.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: On demand
ENG 414Writing for Publication3
An advanced course in workplace writing, this class will focus on the superstructures of professional writing. Students will compose reader-centered documents, which include prose and visual elements, for traditional and electronic media. For the final project, students will conduct research, develop a portfolio, and prepare writing for publication.
Grant writing is an extremely marketable skill in today’s climate. The ability to acquire external funding is critical in not only the life of an organization but also for individual success. In this class, students learn the art of grantsmanship. Grantsmanship, however, is a process unique to the grant, the proposal, and person or organization. This course will NOT teach you how to write the perfect grant, because that simply does not exist. Instead, this course will teach you how to approach each proposal as a new opportunity to sell yourself, your organization, or a need that could benefit from the opportunities provided by a given grant. This is an active learning environment. In this class, students will learn by doing.
Crisis Response is a topic of both academic and professional study. Major corporations, politicians, and individuals often seek out the most effective ways to respond to a crisis, not just in handling the issue but also in how the crisis/response is presented to the public. Largely there are two different sides to this issue: the handling of the crisis and how the information is presented to the public. From product recalls to Covid-19, crisis response teams have been combining business practices, communication theories, and rhetorical analysis to deliver a crisis response message to the public. In this course, we will focus on the latter-rhetorical analysis. While we will discuss business and communication practices, this class will focus our studies on rhetoric, audience awareness, and genre studies of crisis communication. Our goal is to broaden our understanding of how to respond to a crisis across different mediums, to different audiences, and for different outcomes.
This course surveys primarily North American writing about human interaction with the natural world. Participants will focus on individual writers and the paradigms they constructed or adopted in trying to understand and foster this interaction. These paradigms will be contrasted with the dominant modes of human interaction with nature in the author’s period. Henry Thoreau, John Muir, Mary Austin, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Barry Lopez, Gary Snyder, and other writers will be the focus.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: Spring, every third year
ENG 423Film Studies3
This course will look at a variety of landmark films and the critical debates they have spawned. The films presented represent an historical overview of the evolution of this art form. Students will watch films in class and read theoretical works about the films for discussion.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: Fall, odd-numbered years
ENG 424Special Topics3
Special topics in the field will be taught as interest among the students and availability of faculty allow. Possible topics include Native American literature, mystery and detective fiction, science fiction, Gothic literature, the short story, and horror fiction. These courses may be substituted for comparable courses in the English program with the permission of the instructor and the student’s mentor.
ENG 101 , ENG 102 / ENG 103 , and at least one semester of Literature Offered: On demand
ENG 425English Capstone3
This course is designed to provide insight into career options in English and to assess student techniques in English research, editing, and writing strategies from topic selection to the final product of a written text. In addition to discussions of the English field, the course content will focus on the creation of a portfolio of past work and a long research project. The research project will be completed in a series of drafts that will be subject to peer review in a workshop setting. The project will be supervised by the instructor of the course, with a second reader chosen from among the English faculty, and will be defended in an oral presentation at the end of the final semester of study in the program.
An interdisciplinary study of the history and the literary culture of the comic book in America, with an emphasis on the medium’s evolving impact upon mass culture perceptions of the major issues of key periods in history.
This course involves productive, contributing learning experiences in one or more off-campus settings. The student will complete a portfolio of activities and learning experiences approved by the supervisor in the setting. Application for internships will be made at least six weeks before the end of the semester prior to the semester of internship.
Junior standing, a minimum grade point average of 25, and the approval of the program coordinator Offered: On demand Fees: Internship/Practicum fee applies
Source: The University of Tennessee Southern's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
