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Graduate Courses in English
Fall 2011 Humanities Graduate Course Offerings [PDF]
MPC = Miami Plan Capstone course
MPT = Miami Plan Thematic Sequence course
- ENG 600 - Special Topics in Literature
(2-4; maximum 4) - Study of individual works and types of literature which may fall outside traditional areas of study, but are important to the secondary teacher.
- ENG 601 - Introduction to Language and Linguistics
(2-4) - Basic concepts of language and its use from both historical and contemporary perspectives, with special attention to occasions of use.
- ENG 602 - Introduction to Rhetoric
(2) - Principles of expository and persuasive prose.
- ENG 603 - Literary Theories and Their Histories
(4) - Study of the fundamental perspectives in literary criticism and their application to literary texts.
- ENG 605 - Issues in the Profession
(2) - Colloquium designed to introduce beginning graduate students to the profession, and especially to contemporary debates about the status and variety of literary history.
Prerequisite: admission to the graduate program. - ENG 610 - Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies
(4; maximum 8) - Examination of aesthetic, historical, theoretical issues in literary/cultural studies. Detailed description of topics available from the Director of Graduate Studies.
- ENG 614 - Medieval English Literature
(4) - Literary and linguistic study of Middle English prose and poetry.
Offered infrequently. - ENG 617 - Chaucer, The Major Poems
(4) - Intensive study of The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde with emphasis on recent major critical studies, intellectual milieu, contemporaneous aesthetic, principal sources, and modern critical approaches.
Offered infrequently. - ENG 620 - Studies in Renaissance Literature
(4; maximum 12 toward any degree) - Intensive study of selected Renaissance writers such as More, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Bacon, Donne, Milton, and Shakespeare; or of a particular theme such as the courtesy tradition; or of a poetic type such as the Renaissance sonnet or the Renaissance pastoral.
- ENG 630 - Studies in the Restoration and the 18th Century, 1660-1789
(4; maximum 12 toward any degree) - Intensive study of selected authors such as Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Fielding, Goldsmith, and Sheridan, or of a literary group, genre, or style.
- ENG 640 - Studies in 19th-Century English Literature
(4; maximum 12 toward any degree) - Intensive study of selected 19th century authors such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, Conrad, Arnold, Browning, and Tennyson, or of a literary group, a genre, or theme.
- ENG 650 - Graduate Fiction Workshop
(4; maximum 16) - Study and practice in writing fiction, with attention to subtle aspects of character development, structure, story, point of view, figuration, tone, style, etc. Emphasis on group critiquing student work and on revising manuscripts, with the goal of producing a portfolio of professional quality contemporary fiction.
Prerequisite: admission to the graduate creative writing program. - ENG 651 - Graduate Poetry Workshop
(4; maximum 16) - Study and practice in writing poetry with attention to the advanced, preprofessional poet's aesthetic, formal and conceptual concerns. Emphasis on group critiquing student work and on revising manuscripts, with the goal of producing a portfolio of professional quality contemporary poetry.
Prerequisite: admission to the graduate creative writing program. - ENG 652 - Issues in Creative Writing
(4) - Analytical and practical approach to selected topics in creative writing. Focus changes each term. Criticism as well as creative compositions are produced.
Prerequisite: admission to the graduate creative writing program. - ENG 660 - Studies in 20th-Century Literature
(4; maximum 12 toward any degree) - Intensive study of selected 20th century writers such as Auden, Eliot, Huxley, Joyce, Lawrence, O'Casey, Shaw, Spender, Synge, Woolf, Yeats, or of a literary group, a genre, or a tradition.
- ENG 670 - Studies in American Literature, 1800-1865
(4; maximum 12 toward any degree) - Intensive study of selected pre-Civil War American writers such as Dickinson, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Thoreau, and Whitman.
- ENG 680 - Studies in American Literature, 1865-1919
(4; maximum 12 toward any degree) - Intensive study of selected post-Civil War major American writers such as Stephen Crane, Dreiser, Howells, James, Robinson, and Twain.
Offered infrequently. - ENG 690 - Studies in Modern American Literature, 1919 to Present
(4; maximum 12 toward any one degree) - Intensive study of selected modern major American writers such as Anderson, Hart, Crane, Dos Passos, Eliot, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Frost, Hemingway, O'Neill, Pound, Steinbeck, and Stevens.
- ENG 700 - Research for Master's Thesis
(1-12; minimum 6, maximum 12) - ENG 701 - Internship in Technical and Scientific Communication
(1-12; minimum 6, maximum 12) - While working full-time as a technical and scientific communicator, student applies knowledge gained in course work to practical experience in professional situations. Student works for a business, government, or nonprofit organization under guidance of an appropriate mentor.
Prerequisites: COM 619; ENG 602, ENG 692, ENG 693, ENG 694, and ENG 697. - ENG 710 - Seminar
(4; maximum 24) - Advanced study of limited subjects, to be announced in the class schedule.
- ENG 730 - Studies in Composition Research and Pedagogy
(4; maximum 12 toward any one degree) - Intensive study of one or more areas of composition research, theory, or pedagogy such as design, testing and evaluation, discourse theory, history of composition, invention, syntax, style, and composing process.
- ENG 731 - The Theory and Practice of Teaching Composition
(4) - Examination and evaluation of current methods and strategies for teaching college writing with emphasis on classroom application of composition theory and research. Major topics include composing process, invention, argumentation, the sentence and the paragraph, testing and evaluation, recent research in composition, reading and writing, and composition and literature.
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Summer only. - ENG 732 - Studies in Composition Theory
(4) - Intensive study of one or more areas of composition theory, such as discourse analysis, composing process, and computers and composition.
- ENG 733 - Studies in Rhetoric
(4) - Historical, theoretical, and analytical approaches to uses of spoken and written discourse (political, legal, literary, scientific, philosophic, etc.).
- ENG 734 - Issues in Composition Pedagogy
(4) - Intensive study of one or more areas of composition teaching, such as collaborative learning, writing assessment, revision, or invention.
Prerequisite: ENG 731 or equivalent. - ENG 735 - Research Methods in Composition
(4) - Introduction to methods of qualitative and quantitative research in the study of writing.
Prerequisite: ENG 731 or equivalent. - ENG 736 - Linguistics and Writing
(4) - Study of language in relation to developmental learning skills and to literary style.
Prerequisite: ENG 601 or equivalent.
Offered infrequently. - ENG 740 - Literary Criticism and Theory
(4; maximum 12) - Intensive study of recent developments in literary theory and criticism.
Prerequisite: ENG 603 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. - ENG 750 - Histories and Methodologies in Literary and Cultural Studies
(4; maximum 8) - Practicum centering on an area of contemporary theory/critical practice that students integrate with their interests. Required for literature doctoral students, who may take the course again when topic changes; suggested for Masters' students intending to pursue doctoral work. Detailed description of scheduled topics available from the Director for Graduate Studies.
Prerequisite: ENG 603 or equivalent.
- ENG 751 - Special Problems
(1-6; maximum 6 toward any degree) - Special research study in a topic not covered in a regular course, usually culminating in an essay of the kind found in literary journals. Application for this course must be made by the 14th week of the previous semester or by the end of the first week of new semester, and approved by departmental committee.