Note: ENG 110 or an equivalent is a prerequisite for all other English courses.

Note: Sophomore standing is recommended for 200-level courses; junior standing is recommended for 300-level courses; junior or senior standing is required for 400-level courses.  In addition, permission of the instructor is recommended for non-English majors.

ENG 099           REMEDIAL ENGLISH                                                                                             3

Focus on improvement of basic writing skills, in order to meet entrance requirements for ENG 110. After review of grammar and punctuation, the course emphasizes sentence and paragraph formation and the development of the coherent essay. Students who are required to take ENG 099 must pass the course with a C- or better before successful completion of 30 hours of coursework. NOTE: Letter grade will affect GPA as if ENG 099 were a three-credit course, but these credits will not count toward the number of credits required for graduation. Fall, Spring, Summer.

ESL 108           ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE: WRITING I                                                                                                             3
Formerly ENG 108. Intermediate to advanced writing in English for students whose native language is not English.  Transition to academic writing.  Grammar review.  Skill Area I

ESL 109           ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE: WRITING II                                                                                                            3
Formerly ENG 109. Advanced writing in English for students whose native language is not English.  Academic writing. Skill Area I

ENG 110           FRESHMAN COMPOSITION                                                                                      3
Introductory course in expository writing designed to develop the student's ability to write clearly, logically and effectively.  Emphasis on the composing process, organization, coherence, sentence and paragraph structure and usage.  An acceptable Central Connecticut equivalent is required for ENG 110.  See skills testing and remediation policy (page 36 of the catalog).  Open only to freshman and sophomores.  Students who have not completed their ENG 110 requirement prior to achieving 61 credits are required to take both ENG 110 and 202.  Skill Area I

LING 200      INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS                                                                            3
Formerly ENG 200. The structure and system of language with English as the subject of analysis: history, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, usage.  Study Area III

ESL 201      ADVANCED STUDY IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE                                                                                     3
Formerly ENG 201. Prereq.: ENG 110 or permission of instructor. Selected aspects of advanced English for learners of English as a second language. May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of six credits. Irregular. Skill area I.

ENG 202      INTERMEDIATE COMPOSITION                                                                                     3
Prereq.: ENG 110 or permission of the department chair.  Intermediate course in expository writing designed to expand the student's writing skills.  Emphasis on academic and career-oriented writing in the student's major field or area of interest, including research skills and papers, professional reports and resumes.  Skill Area I

ENG 203      WORLD LITERATURE I
Survey of great works of world literature from its origins to 1650, with emphasis on literatures other than British and American. Study Area I [I] [L]

ENG 204      WORLD LITERATURE II
Survey of great works of world literature from 1650 to the present, with emphasis on literatures other than British and American. Study Area I [I] [L]

ENG 205      BRITISH LITERATURE I                                                                                                     3
Major British writers from the beginnings through the 18th century. Not a prerequisite for ENG 206. Study Area I [I] [L]

ENG 206      BRITISH LITERATURE                                                                                                        3
Major British writers from the late 18th century to the present.  ENG 205 is not a prerequisite.  Study Area I [I] [L]

ENG 210      AMERICAN LITERATURE I                                                                                           3
American literature from the Colonial Period to the Civil War.  Not a prerequisite for ENG 211. Study Area I [L] AMS

ENG 211      AMERICAN LITERATURE II                                                                                               3
American Literature from the Civil War to the present. ENG 210 is not a prerequisite. Study Area I [L] AMS

ENG 212      AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE                                                                                   3
Survey of African-American writers from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Study Area I [L] AMS

ENG 215       INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN WRITERS                                                                      3
Introduction to women writers of the world, primarily in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  Study Area I [I] [L]

ENG 220      SHAKESPEARE                                                                                                                         3
Selected tragedies, comedies and history plays.  Study Area I [I] [L]

LING 230       THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE                                                                                              3
Formerly ENG 230. General concepts of language as it evolved in thought, society, literature and scientific analysis, with emphasis on universal characteristics and relevance to contemporary English.  Study Area III.

ENG 235      JOURNALISM I                                                                                                                    3
The fundamentals of reporting and writing news and feature stories. Covers the basics of news-gathering, newsroom practices,  and ethics and responsibilities of the journalist.  Skill Area I

ENG 236      JOURNALISM II                                                                                                                       3
Prereq.: ENG 235 or permission of instructor.  This course builds on ENG 235, emphasizing news-gathering  procedures and the challenges of writing on government, the law, and other areas of journalistic specialization.  Study Area I

ENG 250 CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE                                                                                         3
Modern fiction, plays and poetry in relation to modern life. Skill Area I [L]

ENG 260 INTRODUCTION TO POETRY                                                                                                 3
A close analysis of poetry: prosody, diction, figurative language, structure, tone, and theme. Selections read from entire range of English and American poetry.  Study Area I [L]

ENG 261          INTRODUCTION TO FICTION                                                                                       3
A close analysis of the elements, structure and technique of short stories and novels.  Study Area I [L]

ENG 262          INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA                                                                                        3
A close analysis of plays, representing major and minor genres of drama (tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, melodrama, farce, etc.), relationship of genre, structure and statement.  Study Area I [L]

ENG 270          DRAMATIC ENACTMENT                                                                                              3
Introduction to the theory and applications of creative drama as an interpretive tool and a response to literature.  (E)

ENG 274          STORYTELLING                                                                                                                3
Study of the history, art and technique of storytelling.  Discussion of the skills involved in order to develop the student's competency in this oral tradition.  Designed to enable the student to build a personal repertoire of stories for performance.  (O)

ENG 288          STUDIES IN LITERATURE                                                                                             3
Selected topics to be announced each semester.  Students may not take this course under the same topic more than once.  Study Area I [L]

LING 300          LANGUAGE ACQUISITION                                                                                              3
Formerly ENG 300. Prereq.: ENG 110, LING 200. Study of how we acquire our first language, child language, regional and social dialect, register, style and idiolect.

LING 312        INTRODUCTION TO SYNTAX                                                                                              3
Formerly ENG 312. Prereq.: LING 200. Introduction to basic principles of syntactic theory within contemporary grammatical frameworks and how they generate grammatical sentences. Construction of sound syntactic arguments in linguistic theory. Emphasis on English syntax.  Irregular, on demand.

LING 313          INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY                                               3
Formerly ENG 313. Prereq.: LING 200. Articulation, acoustics, and perception of speech sounds in human language. Patterning and representation of sounds in phonological systems. Phonological processes. Use of computerized Speech Laboratory. Irregular.

ENG 332          MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE                                                                             3
Old English and Middle English literature, exclusive of Chaucer, from the eighth through the 14th centuries.  Most materials read in translation. 

ENG 333          THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE                                                                                       3
Emphasis on British poetry and prose of the 16th and early 17th centuries, including such writers as More, Erasmus, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson. 

ENG 334          SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY AND PROSE                                                               3
British poetry and prose of the earlier 17th century, including Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Bacon, Burton and Browne. 

ENG 335          RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE                                                                                                                            3
British poetry, prose, and drama from 1660 to 1798, including such writers as Dryden, Congreve, Addison, Swift, Pope, Fielding, Gay, Johnson, Goldsmith and Sheridan. 

ENG 336          THE ROMANTIC AGE                                                                                                        3
British Literature from Blake to 1832, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. 

ENG 337          THE VICTORIAN AGE                                                                                                        3
Poetry and non-fiction prose from 1832 to 1900, including poetry of Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold and prose of Carlyle, Mill, Newman, and Ruskin.

ENG 339          MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE                                                                                  3
Prose and poetry from 1900 to the present, including such writers as Hopkins, Sitwell, Eliot, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Auden, MacNiece, Spender, Graves, Thomas, and Orwell. 

ENG 340          EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE                                                                                  3
Early writers of the country through approximately the first third of the 19th century, with emphasis on the ideological and social influences which shaped their art. 

ENG 341          THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE                                                                                     3
Prose and poetry of American romantic authors in the 19th century.  Special emphasis on Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman; contemporary ideologies. 

ENG 342          AMERICAN REALISM AND NATURALISM                                                                  3
Study of the period after the Civil War to about 1915, including such writers as Dickinson, Twain, James, Wharton, Crane and Dreiser. 

 ENG 343          MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE                                                                                     3
 Major American writers in the period between World War I and World War II;  the ideological and social influences which shaped their art. AMS

ENG 344          CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE                                                        3

 ENG 345          MODERN AFRICAN-AMERICAN  LITERATURE                                                                 3
Study of selected writers, beginning with the Harlem Renaissance.  AMS

ENG 360          THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE: OLD TESTAMENT                                                                3
Major books of Old Testament important to literature, their literary qualities and their historical and cultural backgrounds.  (E)

ENG 361          THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE: NEW TESTAMENT                                                                3
Major books of New Testament important to literature, their literary qualities and their historical and cultural backgrounds.  Part of Apocrypha.  (E)

ENG 362          GREEK AND ROMAN LITERATURE                                                                               3
Such major Greek and Roman writers as Homer, the Greek dramatists, Plato, Thucydides, Lucretius and Virgil. 

ENG 365          THE MODERN EUROPEAN NOVEL                                                                                 3
Representative works by such writers as Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Proust, Kafka and Camus. 

ENG 370          CREATIVE WRITING: CREATIVE NONFICTION                                                                                 3
Prose works that combine the authority of literature and fact. Subject matter may be drawn from popular culture, science, technology, nature, or personal experience. Students will research or investigate potential topics, participate in workshops, and study various authors.

ENG 371          CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION I                                                                                              3
Introduction to the art and craft of literary fiction with emphasis on developing fiction-writing ability and critical reading skills. Students will actively participate in workshop sessions.

ENG 372          CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION II                                                                                             3
Prereq.:ENG 371 or permission of instructor. Presupposes proficiency in vocabulary, basic techniques, and workshop method of short fiction writing. Students are expected to have already written a considerable body of work and to be ready to submit stories at the semester's start.

ENG 373          CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY I                                                                                               3
Introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry, emphasizing both poetry-writing ability and critical reading. Students are expected to fully participate in the workshop method of critique and revision in class.

ENG 374          CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY II                                                                                             3
Prereq.: ENG 373 or permission of the instructor. Presupposes proficiency in vocabulary, poetry-writing techniques, workshop methods. Students must already have a considerable body of work, and generate new work. Irregular.

ENG 375          CREATIVE WRITING: AUTOBIOGRAPHY                                                                                                     3
Workshop-style course in writing about the transformation of one's life experience into literary art. Includes study of autobiography, discussion of readings, topic and development strategy sessions, and critiques of work-in-progress. Irregular.

ENG 376          CREATIVE WRITING: ESSAY                                                                                                     3
Writing the familiar essay. Primarily a writing course, but also an introduction to the familiar essay as a form in the tradition of Montaigne: Hazlitt, Lamb, E.V. Lucas, E.B. White and Thoreau.

ENG 377          CREATIVE WRITING: PLAYWRITING                                                                            3
Introduction to art and craft of playwriting, emphasizing writing ability and critical reading skills. Students are expected to actively participate in workshop sessions. Irregular.

ENG 378          CREATIVE WRITING: SPECIAL TOPICS                                                                        3
Prereq.: One 300-level creative writing course or permission of instructor.  Specific creative writing genres taught on a rotating basis.  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credits. 

ENG 380          FEATURE WRITING                                                                                                            3
Prereq.: ENG 235 or 236 or permission of instructor.  Writing and analysis of human interest articles; exploration of the newspaper and magazine markets. (E)

ENG 381          EDITORIAL WRITING                                                                                                        3
Prereq.: ENG 235 or 236 or permission of instructor.  The study, evaluation and writing of newspaper opinion pieces.  (O)

ENG 382          TRAVEL WRITING                                                                                                                            3
Prereq.: ENG 235 or 236 or permission of the instructor.  Introduction to the art and craft of travel writing beginning with an overview of the genre and exploration of contemporary works.  Students will write essays and articles. 

ENG 386          THE LANGUAGE OF FILM                                                                                                 3
Development of visual terminology analogous to literary terminology in order to understand better the intentions of the author of the film.  The qualities of picture, movement and editing are discussed in an effort to develop critical interpretation and judgment.  Attendance at film screenings required.  Of ENG 386 and 486, only one may be used to satisfy major or minor requirements.

LING 400          ANALYTICAL SKILLS IN LANGUAGE                                                                            3
Intensive analysis (syntactic, morphological, phonological) of selected data from English and other languages.  Particular emphasis on developing analytical skills.

ENG 401          ADVANCED COMPOSITION                                                                                             3
Advanced course in expository writing designed for competent writers who wish to refine their skills.  Emphasis on vividness, precision and impact, with attention to audience and style.  Not applicable to M.A. in English programs.

ENG 402          Advanced Composition and Technology in the English Classroom                                                                                                       3
Prereq.: ENG 110 and acceptance in the Professional Program of Teacher Education; or permission of the instructor. Advanced writing for the refinement of writing skills. Explores ways to teach writing. Addresses the use of technology in secondary English classrooms in regard to instruction, data management, and classroom management. [c]

ENG 403          TECHNICAL WRITING                                                                                                       3
A course designed to assist students in planning, researching, structuring, writing, revising, and editing technical materials.  Emphasis on various types of writing drawn from an industrial/professional context: reports, correspondence, directories, manuals, technical articles.  Not applicable to M.A. in English programs.

ENG 412          EDITING                                                                                                                                 3
Prereq.: ENG 235 or 236 or permission of instructor.  Emphasis on copy editing, headline writing, news judgment, photo handling, newspaper layout, and electronic desktop publishing. Irregular.

ENG 416 MAGAZINE WRITING                                                                                                                  3
Prereq.: ENG 235 or 236 or permission of instructor.  The process of researching, interviewing for, and writing magazine articles; preparation for selling freelance articles.  Irregular.

ENG 418          STUDIES IN JOURNALISM                                                                                                3
Prereq.: ENG 235 or 236 or permission of instructor.  Selected topics in journalism.  Students may take this course under different topics for a maximum of 6 credits.  Irregular. 

 ENG 420           TEACHING ENGLISH IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS                                                               3
 Prereq.: ENG 402, and acceptance into the Professional Program of Teacher Education. Methods and materials for teaching English language and literature.  Includes 30 hours of guided observations in middle and high school classrooms. Not applicable to M.A. in English programs.

LING 430        STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS AND  THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE                                 3
Selected topics in linguistics. Students may take this course under different topics for a maximum of 6 credits. Mode 6 (May be usedfor Mode 7 credit by those with a complementary subject matter program in linguistics)

LING 431        THE HISTORY OF THE  ENGLISH LANGUAGE                                                           3
History, growth and structure of the English language. Spring.

LING 433        INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS                                     3
Prereq.: LING 312 and 313.  Investigation of computational models of natural language processing for both parsing and production of lexical, phonological, and syntactic units, including text to speech.  The relationship between linguistic theories and the algorithms that can implement them.  Irregular.

LING 434        SPEECH AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING                                           3
Prereq.: LING 312 and 313.  Exploration of techniques and methods of human-computer dialogues with primary focus on how computers recognize, parse, and produce syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and other discourse-theoretic aspects of human languages such as English.  Irregular.  

ENG 445        AMERICAN DRAMA                                                                                                          3
Development of American drama and its contribution to literature. Irregular.

ENG 448        STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE                                                                         3
Selected topics in American literature. Students may take this course under different topics for a maximum of 6 credits. AMS

ENG 449        MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHOR                                                                                         3
Intensive study of the writings, life, influence and historical milieu of a major American author. Authors will vary each year. May be repeated under different author subjects for a maximum of six credits.

ENG 450        CHAUCER                                                                                                                              3
Readings in Chaucer, with special emphasis on The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Irregular.

ENG 451        MILTON                                                                                                                                 3
Readings in Milton's prose and poetry, with emphasis upon Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes.  Irregular.

ENG 458       STUDIES IN BRITISH LITERATURE                                                                                3
Selected topics in British literature.  Students may take this course under different topics for a maximum of 6 credits. 

ENG 461       SHAKESPEARE: MAJOR COMEDIES                                                                                     3
Close analysis of major comedies and pertinent critical problems. Irregular.

ENG 462       SHAKESPEARE: MAJOR TRAGEDIES                                                                                     3
Close analysis of major tragedies and pertinent critical problems. Irregular.

ENG 463       ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA                                                                               3
Major dramatists from Kyd to Ford, excluding Shakespeare. Irregular.

ENG 464       RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA                                                     3
English drama from 1660 to 1800, primarily comedy.  Readings from the works of such dramatists as Wycherly, Etherege, Dryden, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar, Steele, Gay and Sheridan.  Irregular. 

ENG 470        THE VICTORIAN NOVEL                                                                                                       4
Representative Victorian novelists with special emphasis on Trollope, Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray and Hardy.  Irregular.  [I]

ENG 474        THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVEL                                                                    3
American novels which have come to prominence since World War II and the changing cultural environment which they reflect.  Irregular. 

ENG 475        THE BRITISH NOVEL TO 1832                                                                                              3
Form and content of the novel with readings selected from Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, Johnson, Burney, Walpole, Austen, and Scott.  Irregular. 

ENG 476          THE MODERN BRITISH NOVEL                                                                                        3
Form and content of the novel with readings selected from Joyce, Woolf, Ford, Conrad, Lawrence, Huxley, Forster, Greene, Waugh and others.  Irregular. [I]

ENG 477          MODERN BRITISH POETRY                                                                                               3
Major works of Hardy, Hopkins, Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, Owen, Sassoon, Auden, Dylan Thomas, Larkin, Hughes and others.  Irregular.  [I]

ENG 478          MODERN AMERICAN POETRY                                                                                                   3
The study of important American poets from Dickinson to the present. Irregular.

ENG 480          MODERN IRISH LITERATURE                                                                                                     3
Study of the major themes and traditions in Irish writers of the 20th century. Included will be works by Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O'Casey, O'Connor and others.  Irregular.  [I]

ENG 484          ADVANCED FICTION WORKSHOP                                                                                                     3
Prereq.: ENG 372 or permission of instructor. Presupposes mastery of the vocabulary and basic techniques of writing literary fiction and the workshop method. Students are expected to have a considerable body of work, and generate new work. Addresses creative process, preparation of manuscripts, publishing, and academic and career options. Irregular.

ENG 485          ADVANCED POETRY WORKSHOP                                                                                                     3
Prereq.: ENG 374 or permission of instructor. Presupposes mastery of the vocabulary and basic techniques of writing poetry, and the workshop method. Students are expected to have a considerable body of work, and generate new work. Addresses creative process, preparing poetry manuscripts, publishing, and academic and career options in creative writing. Irregular.

ENG 486          WORLD LITERATURE AND FILM                                                                                                       3
Examines the historical, political, and aesthetic relationships of literature and film produced outside the US and Great Britain.  Discussion of texts will be frequently structured around arguments from cosmopolitan theory and film theory. The course is not applicable to the MA in English, but may count as an elective in other grad programs.  3 credits.

ENG 487          20th-CENTURY BRITISH DRAMA                                                                      3
Study of major British playwrights of the twentieth century.  Selections may be from the works of Shaw, Coward, Maugham, O'Casey, Eliot, Beckett, Osborne, Pinter, Shaffer, Ayckbourn, Churchill, Gray, Hare, Stoppard and others.  Irregular. 

ENG 488          STUDIES IN WORLD LITERATURE                                                                                   3
Selected topics in world literature.  Students may take this course under different topics for a maximum of 6 credits.  Not applicable to M.A. in English programs.

ENG 490          INDIVIDUAL GUIDED READING                                                                                     1-3
Prereq.: Permission of chair.  A conference course for English majors in their senior year who have a GPA of at least 3.00 or better and who wish to follow a planned program of guided reading.

ENG 491          CHILDREN'S LITERATURE                                                                                               3
Balanced selection of the best literature available to children.  Traditional forms of fables, legends, myths, epics, fairy tales and folk tales of the world; examination of how these represent the universal needs and aspirations of all cultures.  Major authors and illustrators included.  Not applicable to M.A. in English programs.

ENG 492          LITERATURE FOR YOUNG ADULTS                                                                               3
Through extensive reading this course examines trends and issues, forms and content, and authors and topics of contemporary books read by and written expressly for adolescents.  Recommended for secondary teachers and reading specialists. Not applicable to M.A. in English programs.

ENG 494           Creative Writing: Independent Study                                                                                                                 3
Prereq.: Permission of department chair. A senior conference course for students wishing to follow a planned program of writing/study. Typically, this course is for students wishing to prepare a publishing manuscript or a portfolio of their work for application to graduate programs in creative writing. Irregular.

ENG 495          INTERNSHIP                                                                                                                                 1-6
Prereq.: Permission of faculty advisor and department chair. Intern projects under the guidance of an English faculty adviser or the department chair.  This course can help fulfill requirements for minors in writing, journalism, TESOL and descriptive linguistics.  It cannot be used to help fulfill requirements for an English major or minor.

LING 496          TESOL METHODS                                                                                                                 3
Principles, methods and materials for teaching English to non-English speaking students at all levels.  Acquisition and practice of basic language teaching skills.  Intercultural communication in the ESOL classroom.

LING 497          SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION                                                                                3
Major theories of language acquisition and their potential application to language learning.  The theoretical bases of second language instruction.  Spring.

LING 498          TESOL PRACTICUM                                                                                                             3
Prereq.: ENG 496.  Students will teach ESOL under appropriate supervision in the Intensive English Language Program.  Spring.