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ENGL 600- Language Variations in American English 
This course is a survey of regional and social dialects in the United States and a study of their interrelationship; examples of some of the motivations for dialectical divergences, especially in the instance of non-standard dialects; and a consideration of functional varieties and social dialect shifting. Prerequisite: English 310 or graduate standing. 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 602- Advanced Methods for Teaching English in Secondary School
This course prepares students to become effective teachers of secondary English/Language Arts. Students will explore the materials and methods of teaching English, especially as related to the successful implementation of instruction based on the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts. Prerequisite: EDPR 520. (F;S) 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 603 - Introduction to Folklore
This course is a basic introduction to the study and appreciation of folklore. (Cross-listed as Anthropology 603 (summer/alternate years) 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 627 - High School Literature
This course acquaints prospective and in-service teachers with a wide variety of literature taught in the high schools of 杏吧原创. Students will survey texts in a variety of genres, select texts appropriate for high school programs, examine themes found in the literature, and investigate strategies for encouraging student reading. Prerequisite: None. (F;S;SS) 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 653 - Teaching English as a Second Language
This course introduces prospective secondary and college teachers of students learning English as a second and/or a foreign language to various pedagogical approaches. The course will explore theories and practices aimed at second language acquisition involving reading and writing. (F;S;SS) 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 654 - African American Novel I
This course is an intensive bibliographical, critical, and interpretative study of novels by major African American writers through 1040, Novelists emphasized include Dunbar, Chestnutt, Toomer, McKay, Larsen, Hurston, Griggs, Fauset, and Wright. 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 656 - African American Novel II
This course is an intensive bibliographical, critical, and interpretative study of novels by major Africa American writers after 1040. Novelists emphasized include Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Himes, Demby, Williams, Walker, Brooks, Petry, Gaines, and Mayfield. 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 658 - African American Poetry I
This course is an intensive study of African American poetry from its beginning to 1940, with special attention given to poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Poets to be studied include Terry, Hammon, Wheatley, A. A.Whitman, Horton, Braithwaite, J.W. Johnson, Horne, Fenton Johnson, George Douglas Johnson, McKay, Cullen, Cuney, and Hughes. 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 660 - African American Poetry II
This course is an intensive story of African American poetry from 1940 to the present with considerable attention given to the revolutionary poets of the sixties and seventies. Poets to be studied include Hughes, Walker, F.M. Davis, Brooks, Brown, Hayden, Tolson, Lee, Reed, Giovanni, Angelou, Jeffers, Sanchez, Redmand, Fabio, Fields, and Baraka. 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 672 - Directed Study in English 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 700 - Introduction to Critical Theory
This course outlines and critiques major movements in contemporary literary theory, including, for example, Marxism, feminism, and various poststructuralisms. Prerequisites: Graduate. (S) 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 712 - Teaching of Freshman Writing
This course is required of all English graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), and is designed solely to provide an academic setting for the theoretical and practical components of teaching English 100. GTAs will discuss and implement writing assignments, exercises in literature and grammar, and the methods of leading class discussion. 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 721 - Major American Writers I
This course is an intensive bibliographical, critical, and interpretive study of works by major American writers through 1900. Writers to be discussed will vary, and will include Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau, Melville, Dickinson, and James, among several others. 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 722 - Major American Writers II
This course is an intensive bibliographical, critical, and interpretive study of works by major American writers from 1900 to the present. Writers to be discussed will vary, and will include Stein, Eliot, Hemingway, Faulkner, Toomer, Hurston, Frost, Oates, and Morrison, among several others. 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 724 - American Multi-Cultural Literature
This course will examine the critical and historical perspectives of selected works by Native American, Asian American, and Hispanic (including American Chicano, Latino, and Puerto Rican) authors. Writers to be studied include Black Elk, Paula Gunn Allen, Joy Harjo, Louise Erdirich, N. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welch, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, Amy Tan, Jose Garcia Villa, Rudolfo Anaya, Pat Victor Cruz Hernandez, and Sandra Cisneros. 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 744 - Postcolonial Novel and Theory
This course examines postcolonial theory and its application to both postcolonial (including the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans, the former republics of the Soviet Union, India, Asia, and Oceania) novels and contemporary society, whether local, national, or global. Prerequisites NONE. (F;S;SS) 3.000 Credit hours ENGL 753 - Bibliography & Research

ENGL 755 - Contemporary Practices in Grammar & Rhetoric
This course is designed to provide secondary teachers of English with experience in linguistics applied to modern grammar and composition. 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 762 - Short Fiction African-American Writers
This course is an intensive examination of short fiction by African American writers. Among those included are Chesnutt, Dunbar, Toomer, Hurston, McKay, Hughes, Bontemps, Wright, Clarke, Ellison, Fair, Allice Walker, Ron Milner, Julia Fields, Jean W. Smith, Petry, Baldwin, Kelley, and Baraka. 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 764 - African-American Aesthetics
This course defines those qualities of African American literature that distinguish it from traditional American literature through an analysis of theme, form and technique as they appear in a representative sample of works by African-American writers. 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 789 - Seminar in African-American Literature Language
This is a topics course that will vary; focus will be on prominent themes and/or subjects treated by African American writers from the beginning to the present. An attempt will be made to characterize systematically the idiom (modes of expression, style) of African American writers. Prerequisites: Graduate. Demand. 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 790 - Independent Study
This course provides an opportunity for students to pursue in-depth study in literary criticism, literature, liguistics, or writing. Also, work done in this course may serve as groundwork for students pursuing the thesis option, developing a portfolio, or acquiring practicum experience. Repeatable once upon approval of departmental chair and/or coordinator of graduate studies in English. Prerequisite: approval of and prior consultation with instructor. (F;S;SS) 3.000 Credit hours

ENGL 797 - Thesis Research
Note: May be repeated for credit. 6.000 Credit hours

ENGL 799 - Continuation of Thesis
Note: May be repeated for credit. 1.000 Credit hours

Certificate Requirements (15 total Credit Hours)TPC Curriculum Guide

Required Courses (6 Credit Hours):

• ENGL 713 - Introduction to Technical and Professional Communication Theory (3 Credits)
  This required course introduces students to the history and theory of technical and professional communication as well as a variety of problem-solving strategies for technical scientific communication. The course also introduces students to principles of effective writing and includes practice in writing short reports, proposals, and other documents in technical and scientific fields. This course is designed to introduce students of technical and professional communication to some central works in the field, familiarize them with some of the prominent theorists, and present some of the notable theoretical approaches. Our inquiries will be grounded in application, with frequent references to the practice of technical and professional communication, and to the artifacts (manuals, online help, Web pages, Social medial, and so forth) that technical and professional communicators produce on the job.
• ENGL 716 - Managing Technical & Scientific Communication Departments (3 Credits)
  This course addresses the responsibilities of people who manage technical and scientific communication systems, including in-house communication departments, independent companies, organization-wide information policies, professional journals, and other publications. By reading, speaking with practicing managers, and analyzing case studies, students will learn about the strategies used by managers of such systems.

Select Three Courses (9 Credit Hours) of Electives from:

• ENGL 707 - Issues in Digital Composition: Race, Rhetoric, and Technology (3 Credits)
  Race is a multi-faceted concept and reality that can function as a representation or a mediating cultural and political technology. Indeed, Chun and many critical race scholars argue that race is a significant organizing force in our everyday lives. In effect, race is similar affect the way we mediate our beliefs and actions in the world. Conversely, both rhetoric and digital technologies have central roles in developing race and racism in the 21st century. This seminar will explore how race, rhetoric, and technology are interconnected in fundamental ways of writing. This course will draw on work from a variety of fields such as Communications, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, and artistic/critical productions from popular culture. Students will be encouraged to create intersections between readings and their own scholarly interests.
• ENGL 714 - English Advanced Discourse Analysis (3 Credits)
  The terms discourse and discourse analysis carry a rage of meanings, often depending on the disciplinary and/or theoretical perspective of the individual using them. There is a cluster of meanings for these terms as they are used within cultural studies and a different (though sometimes overlapping) set of meanings as they are used with linguistics. This course is taught from a social linguistic perspective, so a linguistic approach will predominate, but students will also survey variety of theoretical and methodical approaches to discourse analysis. It is assumed that students will have some familiarity with the structure of English grammar, but it is not expected for students to have previous studies in linguistics or in discourse analysis.
• ENGL 715 - Technical and Scientific Editing (3 Credits)
  This course addresses the roles, responsibilities, and practices of an editor. Students learn how to establish effective relationships with authors, edit manuscripts to make them clear to readers or consistent with the policies of an organization, mark copy for typesetters, edit online, and create and use style guides. In addition to editing the printed document, students will also learn to edit online documents and design evaluation strategies.
• ENGL 717 - Technical Communication, Rhetoric, & Social Justice (3 Credits)
  This course examines the discursive practices of activism and focuses on the rhetorical practices through which people organize. It also looks at the role technical communication plays in the world of advocacy for underrepresented groups. Students will identify and study the rhetorical practices of social movement groups that work on behalf of underrepresented groups in society.
• ENGL 718 - Writing/Researching & Writing Public Policy (3 Credits)
  This course introduces the principles of rhetoric/s of public writing and public policy. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarship, we will query notion(s) of public(s), the relationship of private and public spheres, and how counter publics emerge in response to dominant publics and cultural hegemony. We will examine the intersection of democracy, agency, and public rhetoric as well as consider various methodologies for analyzing and critiquing the circulating and networked discourses of the public sphere. Students will gain a broader understanding of how discursive controversies arise when communal ideals and policies are challenged in response to emerging rhetorical situations as well as how citizens in local communities become active participants in the formulation of policies that affect their lives. This course introduces theories and strategies of civic engagement, how texts engage and encourage participation in communities, and how texts circulate to shape and influence publics. Ultimately, we consider how to engage publics to actively participate in deliberations and the power relations, ethics, politics, economics, and history that influence these deliberations.
• ENGL 719 - Rhetorics of Health & Medicine (3 Credits)
  This class will focus on formulating arguments, presenting data and conveying medical information and is designed to help clinicians, clinical investigators, researchers and allied health professionals achieve their personal writing and career objectives. We will study the intersectionality of race, class, and gender and explore how it affects the rhetoric of health and medicine. This class also investigates persuasion in contemporary medicine/health care from clinical settings through mass media. Case studies explore contagion, health policy, the body, death, and biopower. The course requires extensive discussion of readings and an original research project.