ENG - English

Develops fundamental skills of writing. Students practice techniques in the various stages of the writing process: pre-writing, drafting, revising, rewriting, and editing. Also focuses on grammar, usage, and punctuation. Students must complete this course with a grade of "C" or above in order to advance to ENG-120. Credits cannot be counted toward an English major or any General Education requirements.

Provides a foundation of reading strategies and skill practice enabling students to develop comprehension and vocabulary skills for use within and after the university setting. Includes a thorough investigation of study skills and materials. Students must score at the 13.0 grade level or higher on a university-approved standardized reading comprehension and vocabulary test, and must complete the course with a grade of "C" or higher. Credits cannot be counted toward any major or General Education Requirement.

Pilot course that develops fundamental skills in reading and writing. Students must earn a grade of "C" or above in order to advance to ENG 120.

This course develops students' writing and reading skills. Students will use various methods of interrogating and exploring multiple types of discourse, enhancing their reading comprehension, which will work in tandem with their writing as they create essays in various genres using the writing process: pre-writing, drafting, revising, and editing. Students will also strengthen skills in grammar, usage, and punctuation. Students must complete this course with a grade of "C" or above in order to advance to ENG 120 and ENG 180 (World Literature). Credits cannot be counted toward an English major or any General Education requirements.

Develops skills in various methods of writing. Students will write expressive and expository essays using processes of pre-writing, drafting, revising, and editing. Students will evaluate and synthesize data, sources, and ideas to develop a research essay. Completion of ENG-120 with a grade of "C" or better will fulfill the writing competency requirement. Credits cannot be applied to an English or Writing major or minor. Prerequisite: Adequate SAT/ACT verbal scores or completion of ENG-119 or ENG-100 with a grade of "C" or higher.

Prompts students to develop writing skills by using pre-writing, drafting, revising, and editing. In this process-oriented class students will complete several essays analyzing literature read in the course. Students will employ both expository and persuasive aims of discourse, as well as participate in workshops with peer editing. Includes impromptu writing and documented research essay.

This course helps students develop an ability to express their ideas effectively in writing. Students will learn to use the writing process of pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and reflecting to create personal and expository essays. This will include evaluation and synthesis of sources and ideas. Students will also learn to give and receive criteria-based feedback within a small writing community of peers.

In this course, students will further develop effective written communication and research writing skills. Students will write a persuasive research paper using the writing process of pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and reflecting. By evaluating and synthesizing a variety of sources, students will sharpen their ability to communicate and think critically in an academic setting. Prerequisite: ENG-140 or equivalent

Introduces the major areas and theories in the study of human language: its sound patterns, the structure of words and sentences, the nature of meaning, language use in society, and the ways languages vary and change over time and space. Provides a foundation for intercultural understanding, for the study and teaching of English and other languages, and for a deeper understanding of the function of language in human communication.

Designed to acquaint students with major authors in world literature in the context of world history and culture--strengthening students' reading skills while deepening their intellectual, cultural, and spiritual experience. Prerequisite or corequisite: ENG-120.

Computer-assisted course for students who want to increase reading speed while enhancing reading comprehension and vocabulary. Also useful to increase fluency in understanding text books for undergraduate and anticipated graduate work. Includes an online reading program as well as classroom instruction. Not available to students who have taken ENG-101, Critical Reading and Study Skills.

Studies in global literatures within the context of culture or geographic region or by focusing across cultures on a distinct literary theme or period. The course emphasizes how modern global issues - such as ethnicity, religion, gender, economics, history, politics, colonialism, nationalism, race, class, or social justice - participate in the formation of world literature. This course may draw its texts from various genres: novels, short stories, poetry, film, drama, oral tradition, etc. Topics may investigate literatures from the Caribbean, China, or West Africa; themes such as migration, missiology, apartheid, or Westernization; or transnational movements such as The Arab Spring, global terrorism, post-colonialism, or Anglophone literature. Texts are studied in English translation. Prerequisites: Must have completed writing competency (ENG-120) or have advanced standing in English; or permission of the division.

A foundation for the critical analysis of literature, with emphasis on informed reading and written response to selections from poetry, fiction, and drama, while incorporating basic literary terms and basic theories of criticism. Prerequisite: Major in English, English Education, Writing, or permission of the Division.

A chronological study of the development of American literature, including literature of authors of color, from Thomas Hariot and other Colonial and Revolutionary authors through the American Renaissance to the present day. Provides an extensive factual overview with in-depth study of selected works to develop both wide and critical reading.

Focused study of one American literary period or one American literary region covered only briefly by other courses offered. Possibilities include New England Transcendentalism, American Realism, The Harlem Renaissance, Ex-patriot Literature, The Beat Movement, Literature of the South or Midwest, Literature of Borders (Canadian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, etc.). May be repeated once under a different topic.

Focus on the novels/novellas of the British Gothic/Romantic Period: 1764 to 1850. Study will center on how themes and questions of power, terror, gender, ethics, and religion are combined into the artistry of the works. Might include selections from Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Bronte, or Walter Scott.

Intensive study of one British literary period or one British literary region covered only briefly by other courses offered: The Eighteenth Century British Novel, World War I British Literature, British Lake District Literature, Scottish Literature, and Irish Literature, for examples. May be repeated once under a different topic.

A careful reading of one Twentieth Century British writer who inspirationally presents the Christian message through works in several genres: fantasy, autobiography, satire, argument, fiction, letters, exposition, and literary criticism.

Careful reading and study of selected nineteenth-century British novelists and poets, perhaps including Walter Scott, the Brontes, Robert Burns, and William Wordsworth. Considerable attention is given to the following: a chronological survey of British history; the imagery, figurative language, philosophy, and artistry of the poetry and prose; and contrasts between British and American cultures.

A chronological study of the development of British literature. Beginning with Chaucer and working toward the present, this course focuses on selected authors as well as on the historical/philosophical milieu from which their literatures grow.

Analysis of the forms, functions, and arrangements of words that signal meaning in our system of language. Topics include (but are not limited to) sentence patterns and types, modification principles and applications, concord, complementation, logic of structure, mechanical accuracy, and punctuation precision. Course objective is operational command of the syntax of English.

Traces the impact of a particular literary focus or theme that recurs through British and /or American literature. Examples would include war literature, literature of protest, men and women in conflict, cinema and the novel, family dynamics, etc. May not be repeated.

This course introduces students to the basic skills needed to interpret the meaning of literary texts by understanding how literary forms and devices are used to communicate major themes. Not open to students with credit in ENG-242.

A chronological study of the development of the British novel. Selections begin with Daniel Defoe and move toward the present. Selections will show emphasis on major authors and on forms of the novel, including epistolary, autobiographical, picaresque, historical, and psychological. A variety of modes will be included, including romanticism, realism, and naturalism.

A chronological study of the American novel from its beginnings in the Nineteenth Century to the present. Emphasis will be on works representative of major authors (i.e., Twain), important types (i.e. , novel of manners), and significant American themes (i.e., slavery, racism).

A study focused on the Nineteenth Century novel in continental Europe, from its romantic origins to its realistic and naturalistic development. Authors will include Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola, as well as supplementary readings to place novels in their historical, social, and philosophical milieus.

This course utilizes the elements involved in the writing process to develop skills in research and writing. Students will evaluate and synthesize various sources and ideas including Biblical texts to develop a research presentation.

This course enhances the student's ability to utilize the elements involved in the writing process to further develop skills in research and writing. Students will evaluate and synthesize various sources and ideas including Biblical texts to develop a research presentation.

A chronological study of the development of British literature from the Middle Ages to the Long Eighteenth Century, this course focuses on selected authors as well as on the historical/philosophical milieu from which their literatures grow. This course provides an extensive factual overview with in-depth study of selected works to develop both wide and critical reading. Before enrolling, students are strongly encouraged to have completed a 200-level English or writing course with at least a "C." Prerequisite: Must have completed writing competency (ENG 120) or have advanced standing in English; or permission of the division.

A chronological study of the development of British literature from 1800 to the present, this course focuses on selected authors as well as on the historical/philosophical milieu from which their literatures grow. This course provides an extensive factual overview with in-depth study of selected works to develop both wide and critical reading. Before enrolling, students are strongly encouraged to have completed a 200-level English or writing course with at least a "C." Prerequisite: Must have completed writing competency (ENG 120) or have advanced standing in English; or permission of the division.

A chronological study of the development of American literature, including Pre-Columbian literature, literature of European discoveries, Colonial and Revolutionary authors through the early republic, the American Renaissance, and the Antebellum. This course provides an extensive factual overview with in-depth study of selected works to develop both wide and critical reading. The course will intentionally integrate a variety of perspectives, for instance Native Americans, women, and African Americans. Before enrolling, students are strongly encouraged to have completed a 200-level English or writing course with at least a "C." Prerequisite: Must have completed writing competency (ENG 120) or have advanced standing in English; or permission of the division.

A chronological study of the development of American literature, including that of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Realism and Naturalism, major twentieth-century movements such as Modernism and Postmodernism. Course provides an extensive factual overview with in-depth study of selected works to develop both wide and critical reading. The course will intentionally integrate into these movements the literature of cultural and gender diversity, which may include literature of the immigrant experience, the Harlem Renaissance, or Civil Rights. Before enrolling, students are strongly encouraged to have completed a 200-level English or writing course with at least a "C." Prerequisite: Must have completed writing competency (ENG 120) or have advanced standing in English; or permission of the division.

A study of historical and contemporary theories of criticism, from Plato and Aristotle through New Criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, New Historicism, and other modern approaches. Theory is applied to selected works to test contribution and validity and to aid students in developing an eclectic and valid theory of their own. Prerequisite: ENG-220

An introduction to the history of English by the application of varied linguistic techniques to Old, Middle, and Modern English. Includes major units on the English sound system, the origins and evolutions of English, the sources and formation of vocabulary, English grammar and syntax, and English usage and dialect.

Intensive reading of selected American, British, and European plays from 1879 to the present. Analysis and critical literature will focus on significant twentieth-century and contemporary theatrical trends such as realism, expressionism, and the absurd.

Focus on Shakespeare's drama, including comedies and tragedies. Methods of study feature analysis of text, integration of selected critical literature, dramatic interpretation teams, informal writing, and a significant critical essay.

Careful reading of major poetry and prose (Lord Tennyson through Dante Rossetti and John Carlyle through John Stuart Mill) with attention to the historical and philosophical milieu (Pre-Raphaelite painters, for example). Selected critical literature integrated with text analysis.

Careful reading of major poetry and prose (William Blake through Keats, Lamb, Hazlitt, and DeQuincey) with attention to the historical and philosophical milieu. Prerequisite: ENG-220 or permission of the division.

Careful study of major poetry and prose (Thomas Hardy to the present) with attention to the historical and philosophical milieu. Selected critical literature integrated with text analysis.

Close reading and critical study of selected works of major American poetry and prose of the twentieth century. Special attention to the characteristics and implications of realism, modernism, and postmodernism.

Study of major writers in the period 1830 to 1870 with attention to Emersonian transcendentalism as evidenced in his own work and as it influenced in varied ways the aesthetics and practices of Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman.

Study of Hawthorne--the man, his times, his aesthetics, and his works--centered on his American Notebooks, his short stories and essays, and a selection of his novels, including The Scarlet Letter and The Marble Faun.

Study of the development of the American short story from Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe through local color writers, experimentalists, James, realists, and naturalists to the great variety of current practices.

A chronological study of a selection of classic American poets from Bradstreet and Taylor through Eliot and Frost, concluding with study of a large number of recent and current poets.

Prepares students to perform basic research using Off Campus Library Services (OCLS), electronic periodical indexes, and information resources. Students will identify and select appropriate material for inclusion in a college level research project which will be submitted at the conclusion of the course. (1 or 2 credit hours)

Students will work under a faculty mentor in their major and in cooperation with an Honors College advisor, producing a research thesis or creative project.

Observation and participation in a public/private school classroom. Under the direction of an identified supervising teacher, with university-provided supervision in the endorsement or minor area and at the level appropriate to the area, and in an accredited school within the state of Indiana. (Should be taken in the semester immediately preceding student teaching.) Prerequisites: EDU-382 and Admission to the Teacher Education Program.

A careful study of selected literature by contemporary American and/or British authors. Selections may include short stories, poetry, drama, and the novel. Focus is on both artistry of language and on the impact of the author's thinking on contemporary culture. Literature includes major selections from minority authors.

A study of historical and contemporary theories of criticism, from Plato and Aristotle through New Criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, New Historicism, and other modern approaches. Theory is applied to selected works to test contribution and validity and to aid students in developing an eclectic and valid theory of their own.

Intensive linguistical study of the grammars of modern English.

Close reading of complete text of Paradise Lost and other works. Analysis will give attention both to the religio-political environment of the English Civil War and Commonwealth and to Milton's special place as a Renaissance and Reformation man who belongs to the small circle of great epic writers.

A literary and linguistical study of Chaucer's work, including The Canterbury Tales (read in Middle English). Focuses on Chaucer's themes, era, and style, and on the semantics, phonology, morphology, and syntax of Middle English.

Designed to provide an occasional course emphasizing a specific author or group of authors for advanced students. Examples: a study in Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, or Charles Dickens. Selected critical literature integrated with text analysis. May be repeated under different authors.

Designed to provide an occasional course emphasizing a specific author or group of authors for advanced students. Examples: T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, or World War I poets.

Independent study (directed by faculty) in a focused area of British or American literature. Prerequisite: Permission of Division.

A study of "firsts"--reading in Colonial writings, including voyage and travel logs, polemical works, sermons, histories, biographies, diaries, journals, almanacs, and poetry, followed by study of the independence documents and the beginnings of belles letters: Romantic poetry, essay, short story, drama, and novel.

Intensive study of Melville's work from Typee to Mardi to Moby Dick to Billy Budd. His milieu, his friendship with Hawthorne, his aesthetics, his life revealed in The Melville Log, are considered in relation to his work, but the emphasis is on critical reading of five novels.

Designed to provide an occasional course emphasizing a specific author or group of authors for advanced students. Offered as a study in Mark Twain, a study in Henry James, a study in Longfellow/Lowell/Holmes. May be repeated under different topics.

Designed to provide an occasional course emphasizing a specific author or group of authors for advanced students. Offered as a study in Robert Frost, modern novelists, and postmodern retellings. May be repeated under different topics.

Leads English majors in a culminating experience of literary analysis. Through class discussion, reading, research, writing, and portfolio development, students will review explorations and connections made in their IWU coursework and then cast a vision for how they might implement what they have learned into constructive life skills.

A careful study of selected literature focused on culture and diversity issues that deal with such topics as "ethnic Literature," "Racial Identity and Literature", "Social Construction of Race," "Religion and Culture," and "Age, Identity, and Coming of Age Literature." Focus is on both artistry of language and on the impact of the authors' portrayal of racial and cultural issues.

A careful study of selected literature focused on gender issues dealing with such topics as "Women and Literature," "Sexual Identity and Literature", and "Social Construction of Gender." Focus is on both artistry of language and on the impact of the authors' portrayal of gender issues.

An intensive, individually-designed independent study in language, literature, or writing. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing with a 3.0 grade-point average. Permission of Division.

This course is designed to give students working knowledge of the skills needed to successfully write in the workplace. Students will explore research processes, analyze types of research, and gain valuable knowledge of various writing techniques. Students will also learn various documentation techniques and develop templates for standardized communication.

Academic Composition is a hands-on, how-to, writing course that enables students to exercise composition skills within the context of traditional rhetorical study as well as contemporary, graduate-level tasks such as creating a book review, an annotated bibliography, and a research essay. Initially, students will grapple with the premise that the key to composition is to properly understand the relationship of words within sentences. Since no single style, tone, or writing strategy applies to every situation, students will begin by imitating a variety of forms of writing, then move toward applying those forms to several academic circumstances, including publication.

ENG 530 examines the theme of "life as a journey of discovery," as revealed by various authors from a variety of periods in literary works reflecting a Christian perspective. The course also emphasizes writing skills and the ability to construct well-reasoned, well-supported interpretive essays. Students are expected to develop their own written interpretation in journal responses to some of the literary works. Moreover, students should be able to apply what they discover in reading and discussing literature to their personal lives, in light of their ongoing "journey of discovery," as they progress through life.

Creative Writing is a discussion-based course, employing a writing workshop format, designed for students interested in enhancing their skills as writers, readers, and critics. The course provides students with the opportunity to express their ideas and to learn from and assist fellow writers in the class, thus demonstrating an understanding of the writing process. This course will focus on writing poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction in writing workshop settings. Students will discuss and analyze published literature along with work of fellow students, allowing them to provide and receive constructive criticism, while improving their creative writing skills.

Writers, poets, and artists have explored the powers of the imagination for thousands of years. Even in our technologically advanced age, with its philosophical cynicism and spiritual skepticism, the imagination still fills us with awe and wonder. Nothing reveals this more than the ever-popular genre of fantasy literature. This course explores the literary features of fantasy literature, examining its spiritual significance and social function. The course examines the mythopoeic fantasy works of such figures as George MacDonald, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis and explores other notable writers who have built upon this foundation.

This course examines how adults learn (andragogy) and strategies for teaching English to adult learners. Students will identify who adult learners are, explore theories on teaching adult learners, and research best practices for teaching English to adult learners in various settings.