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Course Descriptions

Course Description Notes

Northern Kentucky University has established abbreviations for its various disciplines. These abbreviations, which are printed next to the name of each discipline in the following course descriptions, should be used in preparing course schedules and at other times when referring to specific courses.

Following course titles in parenthesis is the number of semester hours of credit in the course. Listed below the course title are the number of classroom and lab/studio hours in the course, course prerequisites and co-requisites, and the semesters in which the course is taught.

Many courses satisfy NKU general education requirements under guidelines of the Kentucky Transfer Policy. If a particular course is approved for general education credit, a two-letter general education category designation follows the course title. The category for which the course is approved is listed in full beneath the course description. The general education category designations are:

OC – Oral Communication
WC – Written Communication
AH – Arts and Humanities
QR – Quantitative Reasoning
NS – Natural Sciences
SB – Social and Behavioral Sciences

Please refer to the General Education section of this catalog for complete information.

The university reserves the right to withdraw or modify courses of instruction at any time.
 

English
  

  • ENG 214 Literature Across History - AH (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Major works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama in American, British, or World history.
    Repeatable: No
    General education credit: Culture and Creativity
  

  • ENG 215 Greek and Roman Mythology (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101  or ENG 151 or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Survey of classical pantheon of gods and heroes and their development from early Greek civilization to imperial Rome; influence of classical mythology on later national literatures
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 217 African-American Literature to 1940 (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 , ENG 151 or equivalent.
    Taught: Fall only-odd years
    Works by African American authors 1746-1940. Cultural, historical, and social issues with focus on development of field as a distinct tradition.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 218 African-American Literature 1940-Present (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 , ENG 151 or equivalent.
    Taught: Spring only-even yrs
    Works by African American authors 1940-present. Cultural, historical, and social issues with focus on development of field as a distinct tradition.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 231 Introduction to Creative Writing (3credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101  or ENG 151 or equivalent.
    Taught: Fall and spring
    Creative writing, emphasis on composing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 250 Introduction to English Studies (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101  or ENG 151.
    Taught: Fall and spring
    Explore the different fields of English Studies, and practice the skills for engaging texts as English Studies practitioners - including reading, interpretation, argumentation, research, and writing.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 291 Advanced College Writing - WC (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101  or equivalent.
    Taught: Fall, spring, and summer
    Study and practice of writing in a variety of expository forms, with attention to audience, purpose, and conventions appropriate to writing situation; emphasis on research-based writing and persuasive strategies.
    Repeatable: No
    General education credit: Written Communication II
    ♦
  

  • ENG 300 American Women Poets (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Lives and works of selected poets, including African-Americans. IDENTITIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 301 American Novel (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Novels from various periods; techniques, ideas, and social implications. GENRES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 302 Literature and Film - AH (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101  or ENG 151H  or equivalent.
    Taught: Fall and spring
    The art of film and its relationship to literature; films shown are cinematic versions of literary texts or have special relationships to literature.
    Repeatable: No
    General education credit: Culture and Creativity
    ♦
  

  • ENG 304 Introduction to Post-Colonial Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Fundamental concepts of Post-Colonial literature. A variety of literary forms and works by major postcolonial and diasporic writers. Issues of literary representation and canon formation during the latter half of the twentieth century. IDENTITIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 305 American Women Writers (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Works representing a variety of literary forms by American women writers, from the 17th through the 20th century. IDENTITIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 306 Multicultural American Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 , ENG 151, or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Study of writers in two or more ethnic American literatures e.g., American Indian, African American, Asian American, and Latino. IDENTITIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 308 Shakespeare I (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Spring only
    The early period, the English histories, the comedies, and Hamlet. TRADITIONS (PRE-1800, PRE-1900).
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 309 Shakespeare II (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Fall only
    Plays not studied in ENG 308 , including the romances, satires, and tragedies. TRADITIONS (PRE-1800, PRE-1900).
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 315 The Bible as Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Nonsectarian presentation of biblical history, ideas and literary forms and techniques. GENRES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 316 Social Issues in Literature - AH (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101  or ENG 151H  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable-chck w/dept
    Allows students to develop skills in critical thinking and in understanding multiple perspectives and identities through the study of how literature represents social issues related to culture, politics, identity, technology, etc.
    Repeatable: No
    General education credit: Culture and Creativity
    ♦
  

  • ENG 318 The Short Story (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    An historical, critical, and evaluative study of the short story as a distinct literary genre. GENRES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 322 Literature and Sexuality (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 , ENG 151H  or equivalent.
    Taught: Fall only-odd years
    Literature and theory by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or trans-gendered or who represent these identities in literature. IDENTITIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 324 Holocaust Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 , ENG 151H  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable-chck w/dept
    Historical and critical study of literature of and about the Holocaust, including Yiddish wartime writing, as well as thematic analyses of archetypes history, memory, and imagination Jewish responses to catastrophe and second-generation literature. IDENTITIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 326 Literature and the Environment (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Environmentally-focused works representing a variety of literary forms and genres issues include culture, identity, gender, ecology, and sense of place. IDENTITIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 331 Persuasive Writing (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Theory and practice of contemporary and classical persuasion analysis of professional writing and student themes. WRITING STUDIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 332 Fiction Writing (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 231 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Techniques of short story, novelette, novel, and drama in-class analysis of student work and the subsequent revision, reevaluation, and marketing of student writing. CREATIVE WRITING.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 334 Poetry Writing (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 231 .
    Taught: Spring only
    Practice in techniques of writing poetry in-class analysis of student poems and the subsequent revision, reevaluation, and marketing of student work. CREATIVE WRITING.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 336 Creative Nonfiction Writing (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 231 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Students hone craft and voice while writing and workshopping creative nonfiction. CREATIVE WRITING.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 338 Writing for Social Change (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 291 , ENG 151, or equivalent.
    Taught: Fall only
    Study and practice in activist writings, with particular attention paid to the writings of social justice movements. May involve direct contact work in a local community outside the university. WRITING STUDIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 340 Business Writing (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Fall and spring
    Practical experience in business writing proposals, resumes, letters, reports, and memoranda. For students majoring in business as well as other students who anticipate professional careers involving on-the-job writing tasks. WRITING STUDIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 345 Legal Writing (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    The writing of legal arguments; logical reasoning, clarity, conciseness, grammar, punctuation. For those considering or pursuing careers in law or other professions involving the writing of contracts and legal documents. Counts toward literature and writing option for the English major. WRITING STUDIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 347 Technical Writing (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Fall and spring
    Principles and techniques of technical writing, including proposals, lab reports, job applications, graphics, and feasibility studies. Recommended for students in sciences, public administration, social services, industry, and health and computer fields. Prepares students for cooperative writing internships in industries or agencies. WRITING STUDIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 348 Professional Editing in the Workplace (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 291  or equivalent with C or better.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Theoretical and practical grounding in professional workplace editing as an evolving profession. Design, edit, and manage complex workplace documents using both manual means and industry-standard software. WRITING STUDIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 349 Web Writing for the Professions (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Fall only
    Theoretical and practical grounding in analyzing, planning, and implementing web-based publications, including integration of textualvisual materials and use of industry standard Internet publishing tools. Students will learn to assess client needs and test site usability by creating several web pages, including a multi-layer website for a real-world client. WRITING STUDIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 350 Critical Theory (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 250  or permission of instructor.
    Taught: Spring only
    Introduction to theories of critical interpretation in literary studies. Various approaches to be introduced and applied to literary texts.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 351 Rhetorical Theories & Writing Practices (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 204  and ENG 250 .
    Taught: Fall only
    Introduction to rhetorical theory and the ways that rhetorical theory informs the practice of writing.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: 6

    ♦
  

  • ENG 355 Contemporary Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Selected works and topics in contemporary literature from the late twentieth century to the present. May repeat once for credit when topics vary. POST-1900 TRADITIONS.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 357 Biographical Writing (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 semester hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Reading, writing about, and writing biography theory, practice, and analysis of biography as literary genre. CREATIVE WRITING.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 358 Writing in Creative Genres (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 231 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Principles and techniques of creative writing in a specialized genre such as children’s creative non-fiction, fantasy, dramatic, etc. in-class analysis of student work with subsequent revisions. May be repeated for credit when genre changes. CREATIVE WRITING.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: 6

    ♦
  

  • ENG 359 Writing in Workplace Genres (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Principles and techniques of workplace writing in a specialized genre, such as business report writing, manual writing, grant writing, proposal writing, etc. In-class analysis of student work with subsequent revisions. Repeatable for 3 credit hours when genre changes. WRITING STUDIES.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: 6

    ♦
  

  • ENG 362 Studies in Dramatic Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Study of various periods and kinds of dramatic literature. May be repeated when topics vary.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: No Limit

    ♦
  

  • ENG 365 American Folklore (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable-chck w/dept
    Study of oral, customary, and material genres of folklore in different American folk groups.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 366 Studies in Literary Genres (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Study of one or more genres from various periods and cultures; techniques, structures, sub-genres, and themes. May be repeated as topics vary. GENRES.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: No Limit

    ♦
  

  • ENG 368 The Graphic Novel (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 semester hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    This course critically examines the genre of the graphic novel, paying special attention to narrative techniques. GENRES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 371 Traditional Grammar (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101  or ENG 151H  with a grade of C or better.
    Taught: Fall and spring
    This course provides an understanding of sentence parts and patterns, punctuation, usage, and sensitivity to style. Such instruction in traditional grammar can help students (a) write correctly and effectively, (b) apply logical thinking, (c) become wise analysts of texts, and (d) teach others conventional uses of language. WRITING STUDIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 380 Studies in Literature and Other Arts (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Spring only-odd yrs
    Literary works compared with musical compositions, with paintings, or with both music and painting. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. GENRES.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: No Limit

    ♦
  

  • ENG 381 Introduction to Linguistics (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 semester hours of English; junior standing.
    Taught: Fall only-odd years
    Methods of analyzing language. Satisfies the linguistics requirement for English majors seeking secondary certification.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 382 History of the English Language (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 semester hours of English; junior standing.
    Taught: Fall only-even years
    Development of English from Indo-European to the present; internal and external influences resulting in change. Satisfies the linguistics requirement for those seeking secondary certification in English. GENRES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 384 Modern Poetry (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 151H , ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Prosodic theory practice in interpretation of poetic texts. GENRES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 386 Children’s Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 semester hours of literature.
    Taught: Fall and spring
    For students seeking provisional certification in elementary education.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 394 Topics (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Explores topic not included in regular English curriculum. May repeat for credit if topics vary.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: 9

    ♦
  

  • ENG 399 Independent Study (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 291  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Directed study.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: 9

    ♦
  

  • ENG 401 Chaucer (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Study of Goeffrey Chaucer’s poetry, including the Canterbury Tales and possibly Troilus and Criseyde, the shorter poems, and/or postmedieval transmissions of Chaucer’s works. TRADITIONS (PRE-1800, PRE-1900).
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 402 Middle English Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 semester hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Comparative study of the rhetoric, contexts, and uses of pre1800, pre-1900 exploration and travel narratives, particularly those depicting cross-cultural encounters and non-western landscapes. TRADITIONS.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 403 Old English (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Language and literature of Anglo Saxon England. TRADITIONS (PRE-1800, PRE-1900).
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 404 Arthurian Legend (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Advanced study of medieval origins of the legend of King Arthur. May also consider post-medieval transmission of the Arthurian tradition in literary texts, film, etc. TRADITIONS (PRE-1800, PRE-1900).
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 411 Elizabethan Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    The period of Marlowe, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare. TRADITIONS (PRE-1800, PRE-1900).
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 412 Seventeenth Century Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Dramatic works written in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. TRADITIONS (PRE-1800, PRE-1900).
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 414 English Renaissance Drama (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Shakespeare’s predecessors and contemporaries. Pre-1800 British Literature credit. GENRES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 418 Gender and Early Modern Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Explores constructions of femininity and masculinity in literature of the early modern period (Renaissance and/or 17th and 18th centuries). IDENTITIES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 420 Pre 1800 Exploration/Travel Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 semester hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Comparative study of the rhetoric, contexts, and uses of pre-1800, pre-1900 exploration and travel narratives, particularly those depicting cross-cultural encounters and non-western landscapes. TRADITIONS.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 421 Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Significant works of literature written between 1660 and 1798; satire, comedy of manners, novel, and poetry in the context of social backgrounds. TRADITIONS (PRE-1800, PRE-1900).
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 422 Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Ideas and themes in several works, or in a single major writer, or in a circle of writers; content varies. May be repeated for credit when content varies. TRADITIONS (PRE-1800, PRE-1900).
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: No Limit

    ♦
  

  • ENG 425 Eighteenth Century British Novel (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Critical approaches to selected novels by British authors ranging from Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson to Frances Burney and Jane Austen; novelistic modes such as picaresque, epistolary, gothic, and novel of manners. TRADITIONS (PRE-1800, PRE-1900).
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 430 Advanced Poetry Writing (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 231 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Intensive advanced practice in poetry writing, concentrating on form and poetics. CREATIVE WRITING.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 431 Screenwriting (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 231  or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Analysis of professional and student screenplays completion of a script for feature length film, episode of a contemporary TV show, adaptation of a novel or short story, docudrama, or documentary film. CREATIVE WRITING.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 432 Novel Writing (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 231 .
    Taught: Fall only
    Explores the particular requirements of the novel form. Examines the creation of effective characterization, setting, themes and plots. Demands substantial reading, writing, and outside research. CREATIVE WRITING.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 433 Novel Writing II (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 432 .
    Taught: Spring only-odd yrs
    Continuation of Novel Writing I focusing on issues specific to writing the middle and ending of a novel. CREATIVE WRITING.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 442 Studies in British Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Works reflecting a common theme, genre, or literary movement. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Post-1800 British Literature credit. TRADITIONS.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: No Limit

    ♦
  

  • ENG 450 Capstone in English Studies (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 250  and senior standing.
    Taught: Fall and spring Spring
    Explores major questions, ideas, and practices in English Studies, culminating in a project that applies skills and knowledge acquired in training as English majors.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 451 British Romanticism (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 semester hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    A study of the major works and theories from the age of Blake, Wordsworth, and Byron. TRADITIONS (PRE-1900).
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 452 Victorian Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Poetry, fiction, prose, and myth in the age of Tennyson, Hardy, Carlyle, and Eliot. TRADITIONS (PRE-1900).
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 453 Victorian Poetry (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 semester hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    An exploration of the major works of poetry in the British Victorian period. GENRES
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 455 British Narrative Fantasy (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Survey of British narrative fantasy from the Middle Ages though the 21st century. GENRES.
    Repeatable: No
    ♦
  

  • ENG 456 The Gothic in Literature and the Arts (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Study of the Gothic mode in literature and other arts, such as architecture, film, and the visual arts. GENRES.
    Repeatable: No
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  • ENG 461 Nineteenth Century American Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Major authors of 19th century American fiction, essays, and poetry. May be repeated once for credit when topics vary. TRADITIONS (PRE-1900).
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: 6

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  • ENG 462 Modern American Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Trends in form and content in 20th century American writing. May be repeated once for credit when topics vary. TRADITIONS (POST-1900).
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: 6

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  • ENG 463 Studies in Regional American Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Various regional literatures, e.g., those of Kentucky and southern Appalachia. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. IDENTITIES.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: No Limit

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  • ENG 464 Studies in American Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Works reflecting a common theme, genre, era, or literary movement. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. TRADITIONS.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: No Limit

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  • ENG 467 Studies in African-American Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 semester hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Various periods and kinds of African American literature: issues of ethnicity/race and sex/gender; cultural, political, economic, and social issues. May be repeated when topics vary. IDENTITIES.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: No Limit

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  • ENG 468 Gender in 19th-Century American Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Investigates ways in which gender informs literature in 19th century American society and how literature reflects gender. IDENTITIES.
    Repeatable: No
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  • ENG 470 Twentieth Century British Novel (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Aesthetic and analytical approach to major British novels of the 20th century. GENRES.
    Repeatable: No
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  • ENG 472 Studies in British Modernism (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Literature by such major authors as Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and Joyce and their circles, and selected movements defining British Modernism, 1910 to 1950; disillusionment with Victorian values; impact of World War I; innovation in aesthetic form. TRADITIONS (POST-1900).
    Repeatable: No
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  • ENG 473 Studies in Contemporary British Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Post-1950 British Literature by selected authors, reflecting aesthetic, social, political, intellectual, and economic trends. TRADITIONS (POST- 1900).
    Repeatable: No
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  • ENG 474 Studies in Postmodern Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Twentieth-century literature written primarily after WWII and representing a conscious attempt to move beyond the modes and thematics of the High Modernists. May be repeated once for credit when topics vary. TRADITIONS (POST-1900).
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: 6

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  • ENG 475 Post-Colonial Literature and Theory (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 semester hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Development of major themes, techniques, and theories of post-colonial writing, including issues of appropriation, literary hybridity, cultural hegemony, and Otherness. IDENTITIES.
    Repeatable: No
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  • ENG 477 Irish Literary Renaissance (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Works associated with the Irish Literary Renaissance (1880-1939), a movement dedicated to creating a literature based on Irish history, legend, and folklore. Writers may include Yeats, Joyce, Synge, Gregory, O’Casey. IDENTITIES.
    Repeatable: No
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  • ENG 494 Senior Seminar (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 semester hours of literature.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Intensive study of a specific topic or problem.
    Repeatable: No
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  • ENG 496 Internship: Various (1-3 credits)

    Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 291 , ENG 151, or equivalent, with department approval.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Duties associated with on- or off-campus, paid or unpaid, employment in business, government, education, or the nonprofit sector, which involve substantial work in writing and/or editing projects, under the supervision of a faculty member in the English Department. May be repeated to a total of 6 semester hours.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: 6

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  • ENG 497 Projects: Writing (1-3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): written consent of a full- time member of the Faculty of English.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Independent study for advanced students undertaking projects in creative, expository, or journalistic writing.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: 6

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  • ENG 499 Independent Study of British Literature (1-3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 semester hours of literature and consent of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Open to outstanding students.
    Repeatable: No
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  • ENG 500 Poetry (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 semesters of literature at the undergraduate level or graduate standing.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Advanced study of poetry. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. GENRES.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: No Limit

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  • ENG 501 Drama (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 semesters of literature at the undergraduate level or graduate standing.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Advanced study of dramatic literature. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. GENRES.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: No Limit

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  • ENG 505 Medieval Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 semesters of literature at the undergraduate level or graduate standing.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Advanced study of literature from the Medieval period. May be repeated once for credit when topics vary. TRADITIONS (PRE-1800, PRE- 1900)
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: 6

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  • ENG 515 Readings in Western Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 semesters of literature at the undergraduate level or graduate standing.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Advanced study of literature from the Renaissance. May be repeated once for credit when topics vary. TRADITIONS (PRE-1800, PRE-1900)
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: 6

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  • ENG 525 Restoration and 18th-Century Literature (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 semesters of literature at the undergraduate level or graduate standing.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Advanced study of Restoration and 18th-century literature. May be repeated once for credit when topics vary. TRADITIONS (PRE-1800, PRE- 1900)
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: 6

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  • ENG 530 Readings in the English Language (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 semester hours of literature at the undergraduate level.
    Taught: Spring only
    Topics about the language and its use: specialized readerships, applications, and theories. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
    Repeatable: Yes
    If Repeatable, Max. Credits: No Limit

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  • ENG 531 English Grammar for Teachers of ESOL (2 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 semester units of literature and consent of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Review of English grammar from pedagogical point of view. Does not count toward English major.
    Repeatable: No
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  • ENG 535 Teaching High School Writing (3 Credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to Teacher Education Program and EDU 311 (Admission to Secondary Field Experience); or Admission to MAT Program or MA English program; or possession of valid secondary teaching certificate.
    Taught: Fall only
    Methods and theories in the teaching of high school writing. Required of all students majoring in English who seek secondary certification.
    Repeatable: No
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  • ENG 537 Teaching High School Literature (3 Credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to Teacher Education Program and EDU 311 (Admission to Secondary Field Experience); or Admission to MAT Program or MA English program; or possession of valid secondary teaching certificate.
    Taught: Fall Only
    Methods and theories in the teaching of high school literature. Required of all students majoring in English who seek secondary certification.
    Repeatable: No
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  • ENG 541 Linguistics for Teachers of ESOL (2 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 semester units of literature and consent of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Overview of linguistics for teachers of ESOL. Does not count toward English major.
    Repeatable: No
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  • ENG 542 Teaching and Practice/Creative Writing (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Activities, materials, objectives, theory, practice, and curricula for teaching writing at the middle and secondary school levels. Does not satisfy methods course requirements for any Kentucky teaching certificate program.
    Repeatable: No
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  • ENG 544 Research/Methods in Professional Writing (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Introduction to key theories and research methods in professional writing. WRITING STUDIES.
    Repeatable: No
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