Majors and Minors: Departmental Offerings

Departmental Offerings

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Introductory Writing
100: Enhanced Written Rhetoric I
101: Written Rhetoric
102: Enhanced Written Rhetoric II
Global Literature
200: Literature in a Global Context	300: Advanced Global Literature
202: Russian Literature
British Literature
212: Survey of British Literature I	310: British Literature of the Middle Ages
213: Survey of British Literature II	311: British Literature of the Sixteenth Century
214: Survey of British Literature III	312: British Literature of the Seventeenth Century
	313: British Literature of the Eighteenth Century
	314: British Literature of the Early Nineteenth Century
	315: British Literature of the Middle and Later 19th Century
	316: British Modernism
	317: Contemporary British and Commonwealth Literature
American Literature
220: Survey of American Literature I	320: Literature of the United States I: Settlement to Civil War
221: Survey of American Literature II	321: Literature of the United States II: Civil War to the Great Depression
225: African-American Literature	322: Literature of the United States III: World War II to the Present
226: Ethnicity and American Literature
Genre, Major Authors, and Critical Approaches to Literature
230: Understanding Literature	330: Hermeneutics and the Study of Literature
234: Gender and Literature	332: The Novel
238: Film as Narrative Art (cross-listed CAS 296)	333: Poetry
	334: Drama
	335: Other Genres
	337: Major Authors (Chaucer/Milton)
	338: Shakespeare
Children's and Adolescent Literature
	340: Children's Literaure
	341: Adolescent Literature
Pedagogy
	350: Teaching of Writing
	351: Language, Grammar, and Writing for the Elementary Classroom
	352: Teaching of Literature
	359: Seminar in Principles of and Practices in Secondary Education
Intermediate and Advanced Writing
260: The Craft of Writing	360: Creative Non-fiction
261: Academic and Professional Writing	362: Creative Writing (Fiction/Poetry)
262: Business Writing
264: Basic Journalism
265: Writing for the Media (cross-listed CAS 238)
266: Feature Journalism
Linguistics
	370: Linguistics
	371: History of the English Language
	372: Sociolinguistics
	373: Stylisitcs and Discourse Analysis
	374: English Grammar
	375: Grammar for Teachers of ESL
Internship
	380: Internship
Integrative Studies, Independent and Special Topics
	390: Independent Study
295: Introduction to Studies in English	395: Senior Seminar
299: Special Topics	399: Honors Thesis

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