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ENG — EnglishIntroduces different modes of expository writing with an extensive review of mechanics. Emphasis on full and logical development of thesis, use of both personal and academic styles and clear organization. (LAC, gtP)Prerequisite: ENG 122. Instruction in diction, style, logical analysis, research techniques and organization of college-level research papers. (LAC, gtP)The study of selected poetry, plays and works of fiction with an emphasis on developing skills in analysis, interpretation and critical thinking. (LAC, gtP)Study of a specific topic designed to train students in the writing and research skills integral to the discipline of English. Repeatable for up to 6 credits under different subtitles.The concept of childhood and adolescence in the writing of British and American authors, with emphasis on the ideas of innocence and initiation.Prerequisite: ENG 122. Study of American Literature from its beginning to the present. Emphasizes the cultural, historical appreciation of selected representative works and contribution of the literature to contemporary life and thought. (LAC, gtP)Prerequisite: ENG 122. Chronological survey of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 18th century. This literature will be considered from various perspectives, but with constant attention to its historical context. (LAC, gtP)Prerequisite: ENG 122. Survey of British literature from the Romantic Period to the present. Emphasizes close reading of selected major works in historical context. (LAC, gtP)Prerequisite: ENG 122. Topics for writing chosen from ideas of historical influence and/or contemporary problems. Repeatable, may be taken two times, under different subtitles. (LAC, gtP)Prerequisite: ENG 122. Analysis of sentence structure, order of presentation and use of illustration in writing essential for the technician, engineer, scientist, with emphasis on arranging and stating information clearly.Prerequisite: ENG 122. Introduce themes and ideas in ethnic American literature by studying representative authors of one or more U.S. ethnicities. Repeatable, under different subtitles. (LAC, gtP)The study of tales, legends and other lore passed on orally or by customary example in groups bound by common background or experience. Subtitle may indicate specific group or groups. Repeatable, maximum of six credits, under different subtitles.Investigation, from a feminist perspective, of writing by or about women. Figures, nationalities, genres and periods will vary with subtitles. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles.Introduction to techniques in writing fiction, poetry, or in theatre, film and television. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles.Study of the riches of world literature in translation. Course content will be designated by one of the following subtitles: Continental Masterpieces, Masterpieces of Russian Literature, Masterpieces of the Orient. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles. (LAC, gtP)Prerequisite: ENG 122, ENG 123 or equivalent. An in-depth study of essay modes, structures, and themes in which theory and observation are supplemented with practice as students read and write essays on topics of their choice.A series of specialized English topics. Subject matter may deal with any area of English or English Education. Subtitle will indicate course content. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles.Prerequisite: ENG 122. An in-depth study of Shakespeare’s histories and comedies, as well as relevant plays, poetry and prose by contemporary authors. Includes background on literary and theatrical history, and recent criticism.Prerequisite: ENG 122. An in-depth study of Shakespeare’s tragedies and romances, as well as related plays by his contemporaries. Includes background on literary and theatrical history, and recent criticism.Prerequisite: ENG 122. An in-depth study of Shakespeare’s non-dramatic works, as well as related poetry by his contemporaries. Includes background on literary history and recent criticism.Describes English as treated by traditional grammarians, structuralists and transformationalists. Topics range from word classes, tense and voice, to operations and processes underlying modern grammar.Prerequisites: ENG 122 and ENG 123 or equivalent. This advanced writing course is designed to help students study and employ rhetorical concepts that will enable them to write persuasively in a variety of contexts.Students will study the history of English from its origins as a Germanic and Indo-European language to the present, with special focus on historical development of modern English varieties.Different approaches to the literature of wonder, including concentration on a particular writer, a theme such as women in science fiction, or a historical study of the genre.Prerequisite: ENG 122. Study of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature by and about European immigrants to the U.S. Also an introduction to theories of ethnicity and literature in the U.S.Prerequisite: MAS 100 and MAS 110 or ENG 236. In-depth study of contemporary Chicana/o literature and theory. Course will be thematic and will focus on the disciplinary and cultural connections between the literary, the aesthetic, and the theoretical.Prerequisites: Intermediate Writing and ENG 131. Study and interpretation of biblical texts, including sections from Hebrew, Christian, and Apocryphal scriptures, using cultural, historical, and literary hermeneutics.Prerequisite: ENG 240 in the appropriate subtitle or equivalent. Subtitles: Poetry, Fiction, Drama. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles.Study of literary works through a variety of approaches such as sociological, psychological, deconstructionist and other contemporary theories.Prerequisites: MAS 100 or ENG 345. An in-depth study of issues and topics in Chicana/o theory and related fields. May focus on specific periods, specific issues, and/or specific authors. Repeatable, may be taken two times, under different subtitles.A historical survey of the development of cultural studies. The investigation of “culture” as a symbolic practice, and the various critical methodologies used to interpret cultural “texts.”Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course is designed to introduce students to the literature and language of the Anglo-Saxon period. Some works will be read in translation and some in Old English.Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course is designed to introduce students to the literature and language of the Middle English period. Some works will be read in translation and some in Middle English.Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. Selected works from 1485 to 1603, including More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. Course will focus on humanism, the Protestant Reformation, and the development of English theater.Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. Selected works from 1603 to 1714, including Donne, Shakespeare, Jonson, Hobbes, Milton, Dryden, and Behn. Course will focus on English colonialism, the Civil War, and emerging women's voices.Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. Selected works from 1714 to 1789, including Pope, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Gay, Haywood, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Collier, Gray, Cowper, Mary Leapor, Burke, Anna Barbauld, Equiano, Charlotte Smith, Boswell, Johnson. Focus on satire, early novel, and emerging women's voices.Prerequisite: ENG 195 or its equivalent. A study of the major Victorian writers and their themes. Special emphasis upon intellectual currents of the nineteenth century as reflected in poetry and prose.Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. Selected reading from authors such as Shaw, Joyce, Woolf, Yeats, Thomas, Lessing and Fowles to bring out themes and intellectual currents of the twentieth century.Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course provides a survey of early American literature from the age of exploration through the American Revolution.Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course examines major movements in literature and culture in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Major authors will include Irving, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Douglass, Whitman, & Dickinson.Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course examines major movements in literature and culture in the decades between 1865 and 1900 focusing on American realism and the making of America.Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. A study of Modernism and Postmodernism in twentieth-century American literature, with particular emphasis on innovations in literary form.Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course provides a survey of late nineteenth through early twenty-first century American literature focusing on the themes of globalization and diaspora.Prerequisites: ENG 195 and ENG 345. A study of seven or eight important English and American novels to show different techniques used to reveal the novelists' artistic insight.Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course is designed to tie together the various strands of English and American literature through an extended survey of key works of literature, historical periods, and literary themes from the beginnings to 1800.Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course is designed to tie together the various strands of British and American literature through an extended survey of key works of literature, historical periods, and literary themes from 1800 to the present.A survey of general linguistics as applied to the history of the English language. Includes vocabulary and dictionary study, regional and social dialects, semantics and pragmatics, childhood acquisition of language.Prerequisites: ENG 195 and ENG 319. Study of language choices in a wide variety of texts that meet specific rhetorical situations. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles.Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.) Repeatable, maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.Prerequisites: ENG 195 and ENG 345. This course asks students to engage critically with primary and secondary texts in World Literature, Folklore, or Mythology. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles.Prerequisites: ENG 240 and ENG 340. Advanced creative writing workshop with readings in contemporary literary/arts magazines, and a practicum in editing and producing UNC’s literary/arts magazine online, which publishes undergraduate creative writing and art.Prerequisites: ENG 195 and ENG 345. Intensive focus on a critical and/or literary problem, discourse, or theme. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles.Prerequisites: ENG 122 and consent of writing minor program director. One semester of full-time work in professional writing in public or private agencies, such as state government offices, publishing companies, newspapers, magazines, advertising agencies or related organizations. Repeatable up to a maximum of three credits.Prerequisites: ENG 345 or ENG 347. An intensive study of one particular cultural phenomenon from a variety of critical perspectives. Repeatable, maximum of six credits, under different subtitles.Juniors or above. Detailed investigation of a specific author, period, text, or topic in literary studies, composition and rhetoric, or linguistics. Substantial research and at least one oral presentation required. Repeatable, under different subtitles.A variety of workshops on special topics within the discipline. Goals and objectives will emphasize the acquisition of general knowledge and skills in the discipline. Repeatable, under different subtitles.Consent of Instructor. A course designed to provide content and pedagogical information related to the teaching of writing and literature in the secondary school English advanced placement program. S/U graded. Repeatable, no limitations.Update skills and knowledge of professionals in the discipline. Goals and objectives will be specifically directed at individual professional enhancement rather than the acquisition of general discipline knowledge or methodologies. S/U or letter graded. Repeatable, under different subtitles.Consent of instructor. Teachers teaching teachers about writing to extend their knowledge in theory and practice and to prepare them as writing consultants. Open to K-12 teachers in all disciplines.
S/U graded. Repeatable, maximum of 12 credits.An orientation to graduate study in general and the nature and methods of research in particular. Should be taken during the first semester of graduate work.Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.) Repeatable, maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.Students will study the language and literature of Anglo-Saxon England, translating important historical and literary documents in prose and poetry, including works by Alfred, AElfirc, and others.An introduction to Middle English literature. Authors considered may include Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and the Pearl poet. Readings may include drama, narrative poetry, lyric poetry, narrative prose and devotional literature.A survey of selected Renaissance texts, including works by Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton. Emphasis on historical contexts and recent criticism, including new historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic, and queer approaches.Representative poetry, prose, and/or drama in England from 1660-1789, including such writers as Dryden, Behn, Astel, Finch, Pope, Swift, Defoe, Fielding, Boswell, Johnson, Gray, Equiano, Barbauld, Wycherley, and Congreve.British Literature, 1780-1835, with emphasis on poetry, the novel, and non-fiction prose. Central issues include the Romantic poetic, the French Revolution, and the growth of the English nation.British literature from 1832-1900, with primary focus on prose fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. emphasis on the intellectual currents of the period as reflected in the literature of the age.Studies in British literature of the twentieth century, with primary focus on diction, poetry, and non-fiction prose. Emphasis on cultural and intellectual influences on the literature of the era.American literature from 1590-1865, with primary focus on prose fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Emphasis on New-and Old-World cultures and the contribution of writing in the creation of cultures.Seminar in ideas and representative authors during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An examination of both the intrinsic literary quality of selected texts and their sociopolitical, historical, and cultural contexts.Studies in American literature 1914 to the present, with primary focus on fiction, poetry, and non-fiction prose. Emphasis on cultural and intellectual influences on the literature of the era.Seminars in various topics ranging from the evolution of English from its beginnings to dialectology, semantics, stylistics and psycholinguistics. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles.Seminars in writers or works in translation to illustrate generic, thematic, national, or cultural approaches to world literature. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles.Prerequisite: ENG 600. Historical survey of different theoretical approaches to literary and cultural criticism and pedagogy, including classical, renaissance, and eighteenth-century movements. Emphasis on twentieth-century schools.Seminars in various topics (e.g., the tragic hero, alienation, the experimental novel) related in form and/or idea and drawn from American, British or World literature in translation. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles.Readings in selected rhetoricians, including Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Erasmus, Ramus, Bacon, Montaigne, Campbell, Blair, Bakhtin, Richards, Gates, Cixous, Kristeva.Reading in composition theory and pedagogy, including expressivist, cognitive, historical, rhetorical, social espistemic, discourse, and cultural studies.This seminar explores major debates and developments in film theory from the 1920s to recent decades. Theories are illustrated with the technical and aesthetic analysis of specific films.Consent of Instructor. Select MA project, a journal-appropriate research paper of 30-50 pages., or creative project (collection of poems, short stories, or novel chapters). Proposal approval by advisor and public presentation (faculty/students) required.