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English |
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English at the University of Great Falls |
TOPThe English program emphasizes, principally through literature, the distinctly humanizing influences of the past and present. Students majoring in English also enhance their abilities in written expression in courses designed to meet their personal as well as career-oriented writing needs.
English graduates develop valuable skills and abilities for careers in business, communications, education, and other areas. A degree in English, especially when combined with studies in other areas, prepares the student for a wide variety of careers and for advanced studies in numerous fields.
Competency Objectives
Students who earn a major in English will
- Develop criteria and evaluate from a personal perspective, in written or oral form, any work of literature in English for various audiences, including scholars, the public, and children.
- Creatively express original ideas in writing and speech through presentation of at least two of the following products: oral interpretation; writing poetry, fiction, or memoir; designing hypermedia.
- Analyze and evaluate any work of literature by applying a variety of literary critical approaches, including but not limited to historicism, formalism, reader-response, feminism, Marxism, and deconstruction.
- Explicate in written and oral forms passages from traditional and non-traditional works of poetry, drama, fiction, film, and non-fiction prose.
- Objectively analyze language by examining the grammatical, phonetic, semantic, and historical characteristics of the language.
- Develop and complete effective written products, alone and collaboratively, by using various strategies of invention, organization, revision, editing, and publication for at least two of the following audiences: classmates, the university community, professionals, and the public.
- Explain the different religious and spiritual foundations of human actions as represented in literary works, recognizing and discussing diverse perspectives, both majority and minority.
| Course-name and number | CR |
| ENG 320 - British Literature I (through 1800) | 3 |
| ENG 321 - British Literature II (1800-Present) | 3 |
| ENG 322 - American Literature I (1620-1861) | 3 |
| ENG 323 - American Literature II (1861-Present) | 3 |
| ENG 247 - Grammar | 3 |
| ENG 346 - Intro to Linguistics | 3 |
| ENG 360 - Shakespeare's Tragedies | |
| or | 3 |
| ENG 361 - Shakespeare's Comedy & History Plays | |
| Two upper level writing courses (ENG 300-319) | 6 |
| Two English 300/400 literature electives | 6 |
| ENG 499 - Senior English Paper | 1 |
Total credits for major |
34 |
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Competency Objectives
Students who earn a minor in English will
- Evaluate from given criteria, in written or oral form, any work of literature in English for various audiences, including scholars, the public, and children.
- Creatively express original ideas in writing and speech.
- Analyze any work of literature by applying at least two literary critical approaches.
- Identify and explain in written and oral forms allusions in passages from traditional and non-traditional works of poetry, drama, fiction, film, and non-fiction prose.
- Analyze the grammatical elements of a written passage.
- Develop and complete effective written products, alone and collaboratively, by using various strategies of invention, organization, revision, editing, and publishing for at least two of the following audiences: classmates, the university community, professionals, and the public.
- Explain the different religious and spiritual foundations of human actions as represented in literary works, recognizing and discussing diverse, perspectives, both majority and minority.
| Course-name and number | CR |
| ENG 320 - British Literature I (through 1800) | 3 |
| ENG 321 - British Literature II (1800 to present) | 3 |
| ENG 322 - American Literature I (1620-1861) | 3 |
| ENG 323 - American Literature II (1861 to the present) | 3 |
| ENG 247 - Grammar | |
| or | 3 |
| ENG 346 - Intro to Linguistics | |
| ENG 360 - Shakespeare's Tragedies | |
| or | 3 |
| ENG 361 - Shakespeare's Comedy & History Plays | |
| One 300/400 literature course | 3 |
Total credits for minor |
21 |
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ENG |
111 |
Writing Sentences and Paragraphs. Designed to develop skill in writing the sentence and the paragraph and to prepare the student for success in English 117. Students practice writing description, narration, and illustration, with emphasis on clarity of purpose, use of pertinent details, organization, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling, use of correct pronoun and verb forms, and acceptable manuscript forms. Expected to be offered: Fall and Spring semesters; Distance Learning: Fall semesters 3 credits |
ENG |
117 |
Writing Essays. Experience in the formulation of ideas and their effective expression in writing. Emphasis on the short theme. Review of grammar, discussion of writing strategies, and introduction to techniques of college level research. Prerequisite: ENG 111 or acceptable test scores Expected to be offered: Fall and Spring semesters; Distance Learning: Spring semesters 3 credits |
ENG |
191 |
Lumen Press. Directed work producing issues of the University’s student newspaper. The work may include one or more of the following: writing feature stories, reporting on campus events, writing editorials, laying out issues, taking photographs, editing the work of other staff members. Expected to be offered: Fall and Spring semesters 1 credit |
ENG |
200 |
Literary Appreciation. Students will develop analytic and critical skills of reading and responding to literature from at least four genres (selected from poetry, drama, fiction, artistic nonfiction, and film). Written and oral projects will include discussion of many components of literary meaning, including but not limited to personal reaction, historical influences, traditional form, and artistic language. Students will also study and practice a variety of critical and theoretical approaches. Expected to be offered: Fall semesters, Spring semesters, odd years; Distance Learning: Spring and Summer semesters 3 credits |
ENG |
247 |
Grammar General outline of English structure and its components, with intensive study of the levels of systematic rules and relationships called syntax. Course provides a paralanguage for describing language, essentially from a structural linguistics perspective. Prerequisite: ENG 117 Expected to be offered: Fall semesters, even years 3 credits |
ENG |
308 |
Artistic Writing. Each section of this course covers a different type of artistic writing, rotating among the following: poetry, short fiction, memoir, and autobiography. Each section has a workshop structure, requiring participants to share their work with classmates and instructor. Participants also critique their classmates’ work. The instructor will encourage all students to develop at least one work for publication. Prerequisite: ENG 117 3 credits |
ENG |
311 |
Writing Strategies. Study and practice of the most widely demanded form of writing at college level: the expository essay. The course objective is the student’s mastery of a variety of skills for a mature expository writing style. Prerequisite: ENG 117 Expected to be offered: Fall and Spring semesters 3 credits |
ENG |
312 |
Writing for Business and Professions. Emphasis on the value of articulate communication in management affairs; technique and form of business letters; preparation of reports and resumes; and application of communication theory to planning, transmitting, and evaluating messages. Review of grammar, mechanics, and style essential to effective writing in all fields. Prerequisite: ENG 117 Expected to be offered: Fall and Spring semesters 3 credits |
ENG |
317 |
Writing for Mass Media. Practice in writing news stories, features, and interviews; evaluation of current mass media writing. Emphasizes style flexibility according to journalistic conventions. Prerequisite: ENG 117 Expected to be offered: Fall semesters 3 credits |
ENG |
318 |
Writing for Newspapers. Course designed to teach mass communications skills through a combination of lectures and classwork. Students will cover the campus and community and will write news, feature, and in-depth stories, which may be published in the Lumen Press. Prerequisite: ENG 117 Expected to be offered: Spring semesters 3 credits |
ENG |
319 |
Topics in Advanced Writing. Prerequisite: ENG 117 3 credits |
ENG |
320 |
British Literature I (through 1800). Chronological and critical study of British literature with focus on medieval, Renaissance, 17 th and 18 th-century literature. Includes Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. Prerequisite: ENG 117, ENG 200 Expected to be offered: Fall semesters, odd years 3 credits |
ENG |
321 |
British Literature II (1800 to the Present). Chronological and critical study of British literature with focus on Romantic, Victorian, and modern writers. Prerequisite: ENG 117, ENG 200 Expected to be offered: Spring semesters, even years 3 credits |
ENG |
322 |
American Literature I (1620‑1861). A study of major literary figures from colonial times, through the struggle for independence, and up to the Civil War. Includes colonial writers, Franklin, Freneau, Bryant, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. Prerequisite: ENG 117, ENG 200 Expected to be offered: Spring semesters, even years 3 credits |
ENG |
323 |
American Literature II (1861 to the Present). A study of major writers from the time of the Civil War to the present. Includes Melville, Dickinson, Clemens, Robinson, Frost, Dreiser, Anderson, O'Neill, T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wharton, Crane, Steinbeck, Sinclair Lewis, and Faulkner. Prerequisite: ENG 117, ENG 200 Expected to be offered: Spring semesters, odd years 3 credits |
ENG |
329 |
Topics in Minority or Regional Literature. Each section of this course assigns a selection of literature by a particular group often marginalized by booksellers and critics, such as Native American writers, African-American writers, Canadian writers, southern writers, or female writers. The selection for each section will include works from at least three of the major literary genres: poetry, drama, fiction, essay, and film. Prerequisites: ENG 117, ENG 200 Expected to be offered: Spring semesters, even years 3 credits |
ENG |
339 |
Literary Themes. Each section of this course assigns a selection of literature covering a particular theme or focus such as classical myth, romanticism, Arthurian legends, mysteries, science fiction, etc. The selection for each section will include works from at least three of the major literary genres: poetry, drama, fiction, essay, and film. Prerequisites: ENG 117, ENG 200 Expected to be offered: Fall semesters 3 credits |
ENG |
346 |
Introduction to Linguistics. Scientific investigation into the human language. Emphases: origin and acquisition of human language; structure and distinctive features of language; linguistic schools and theories. Includes phonology, morphology, morphophonemics, syntax, semantics, and a brief history of the English language. Prerequisite: ENG 117 Expected to be offered: Spring semesters, odd years 3 credits |
ENG |
349 |
Major Literary Figures. Each section of this course assigns a selection of literature by one writer, such as Chaucer, Milton, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, etc. Class activities will include reading individual works, orally discussing them, orally interpreting some, and writing about some. Students will also study the many contexts and influences of the writer and works: historical, religious, social, economic, and linguistic. Prerequisites: ENG 117, ENG 200 3 credits |
ENG |
360 |
Shakespeare's Tragedies. A study of the tragedies of William Shakespeare; emphasis is placed on the plays as members of the genre of drama, and as illustrative of the ancient Tragic Ritual in the Elizabethan View of the universe. Prerequisite: ENG 117, ENG 200 Expected to be offered: Alternating Fall and Spring semesters 3 credits |
ENG |
361 |
Shakespeare's Comedies and History Plays. A study of the major comedies and the major history plays as members of the genre of drama, and as illustrative of the ancient Comic Ritual, and of tragicomic elements of human history in the Elizabethan View of the universe. Prerequisite: ENG 117, ENG 200 Expected to be offered: Alternating Fall and Spring semesters 3 credits |
ENG |
392 |
Special Topics in English. 3 credits |
ENG |
495 |
Internship. 1-15 credits |
ENG |
499 |
Senior English Paper. Each student majoring in English must produce a substantive paper on a literary figure or theme connected with one of the literature courses. Students select one English faculty member to direct this paper. Prerequisite: Two upper level writing courses (ENG 300-319) Expected to be offered: Fall and Spring semesters 1 credit |
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