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

ENG 420 TEACHING ENGLISH IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS 3 Prereq.: Acceptance into the professional program in English.  Methods and materials for teaching English language and literature. (Not applicable to M.A. in English program.) F

LING 430          STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE                              3
Selected topics in linguistics.  Students may not take this course under the same topic more than once.  IR

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

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

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.  IR

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

ENG 451 MILTON                                                                                                                                  3
Readings in Milton's prose and poetry with emphasis on Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes.  IR

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

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

ENG 463 ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA                                                                         3
Study of major dramatists from Kyd to Ford, excluding Shakespeare. IR

ENG 464 RESTORATION AND 18th CENTURY DRAMA                                                                   3
English drama from 1660-1800, primarily comedy. Readings from works of such dramatists as Wycherley, Etherege, Dryden, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar, Gay and Sheridan.  IR

ENG 470          THE VICTORIAN NOVEL                                                                                             3
Representative Victorian novelists with special emphasis on Trollope, Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray, and Hardy.  IR

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.  IR

ENG 475 THE BRITISH NOVEL TO 1832                                                                                             3
Form and content of the novel with readings selected from DeFoe, Richardson, Fielding, Steme, Smollett, Austen, Scott and Gothic novels.  IR

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.  IR

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

ENG 478           MODERN AMERICAN POETRY                                                                                  3
Study of important American poets from Dickinson to the present.  IR

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.  IR

ENG 486           WORLD LITERATURE AND FILM                                                                                               3
Study of films adapted from novels and plays.  The course investigates the nature of the relationship of these forms.  Attention will be paid to the theory of film with comparison to the aesthetics of the printed word and the live performance.  Attendance at screenings required.  S

ENG 487           TWENTIETH-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, Osbome, Pinter, Shaffer, Ayckboum, Churchill, Gray, Hare, Stoppard and others.  IR

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.

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. program.)

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 teaching.  The theoretical bases of second language instruction.  S

ENG 500 SEMINAR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE                                                                                        3
Prereq.: Acceptance to degree program in English or permission of instructor.
Designed to give student seminar experience in selected area of English studies. F

ENG 501 SEMINAR IN BRITISH LITERATURE                                                                                              3
Prereq.: Acceptance to degree program in English or permission of instructor.
Designed to give student seminar experience in selected area of English studies.  S

LING 512 MODERN SYNTAX                                                                                                                           3
Concepts and formalisms in grammar. Problem solving in English syntax.
Contemporary developments in syntactic theory. S

LING 513 MODERN PHONOLOGY                                                                                                                 3
Characteristics and organization of sound systems of languages.  Special
attention to the sound system of English and how it fits into universal patterns.
Generative and post-generative phonologies.  S

LING 515 AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS                                                                             3
Examination of the interlocking nature of language and society, with particular emphasis on sociolinguistic theory and field work. 

ENG 530 SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE                                                                                                   3
Detailed study of a literary figure, genre, period, or theme.  Subject matter will vary from semester to semester.  Students may not take this course under the same topic more than once.  IR

LING 533          SECOND LANGUAGE COMPOSITION                                                                                  3
Psycholinguistics of writing in a second language.  Principles, methods, and materials for teaching writing to students of English as a second or foreign language.  The second language writing curriculum.  IR/F

LING 535          SECOND LANGUAGE TESTING                                                                                                3
Linguistic and academic assessment of non-native speakers of English.  Determination of language dominance and proficiency of bilinguals.  Preparation of language tests.  F

ENG 548           ADVANCED STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE                                                                    3
Selected topics in American literature.  Students may take this course under different topics for a maximum of 6 credits. This is a link course with ENG 448. No credit given to students who have taken the same topic in ENG 448.

ENG 558           ADVANCED STUDIES IN BRITISH LITERATURE                                                                    3
Selected topics in British literature.  Students may take this course under different topics for a maximum of 6 credits. This is a link course with ENG 458. No credit given to students who have taken the same topic in ENG 458.

LING 596           TESOL PRACTICUM                                                                                                              3
Students will teach ESOL under supervision.  Pre-requisite: LING 496.  S

ENG/LING 598          RESEARCH IN ENGLISH                                                                                                            3
Research skills in a discipline offered by the English Department.  The literature section is a course designed to introduce the techniques and resources of literary research through an examination of the theory, history and practice of literary criticism.  The TESOL section covers research topics and methods in TESOL and Applied Linguistics.  F

ENG 590  GRADUATE TUTORIAL: INDIVIDUAL GUIDED READING                                                                    3
Prereq.: Permission of the department chair.  A graduate tutorial set up as an independent study for students who wish to pursue intensive, guided research on a particular author or literary period. May be repeated with different topics for up to 6 credits.

ENG/LING 599          THESIS                                                                                                                                           3
Prereq.: Acceptance to M.S. or M.A. program in English or M.S. program in T'ESOL, a minimum of 15 credits of graduate course work in English, and permission of the department chair.  Preparation of the thesis under the supervision of the thesis adviser.