Fall 2014 Undergraduate Course Descriptions
ENG 100: English Composition: Writing Center
TBA – University Union Room 254
One-to-one, individualized teaching to improve your writing. Pass-fail only. May be repeated for up to 3 credits.
ENG 105: Critical Reading and Writing in the University Community
English 105 is a four-credit-hour survey course that introduces you to critical reading and writing in the academic community. Throughout the
semester we practice the reading process: generating questions or deriving answers from texts; summarizing texts; identifying examples, drawing
inferences, and making logical or comparative connections; organizing information in a variety of ways; seeing and learning rhetorical skills used by
effective writers; and evaluating the merits of what we read. At the same time, we practice the writing process: identifying audience and purpose;
gathering or finding ideas; organizing and interrelating those ideas for readers; drafting in order to develop, support, and illustrate ideas; revising
from trial-and-error and in light of peer input; editing for clarity and accuracy. Course fee required
ENG 107: Intensive Writing Lab
TBA – Liberal Arts 302
One-to-one, individualized teaching to improve your writing. Pass-fail only. May be repeated for up to 3 credits.
ENG 110: Rhetoric in the Media
(#12194) TTH 9:35-10:50 am
(#12195) TTH11:10-12:25 pm
Stephanie Capaldo
This introductory course examines the texts of American popular culture (advertising, television, film, sports, spaces, cultural rituals, radio, and
videogames) to teach critical thinking, reading, and writing; rhetorical analysis; and argumentation. Students write close analyses of cultural criticism
texts as well as produce their own innovative criticisms of pop culture texts—both through creating ad spoofs and composing final projects about
American pop culture.
Area: Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing
ENG 121: The Story of English
(#12162) MW 12:40-1:30 pm; F 12:40-1:30 pm
(#12185) MW 12:40-1:30 pm; F 10:20-11:10 am
(#12186) MW 12:40-1:30 pm; F 9:10-10:00 am
Joan Jamieson
ENG 121 examines the social and historical factors that have influenced the history of the English language. An examination of the multi-cultural
influences on the English language—not just from its present day state but from its historical development—will enhance your understanding of
English and address some puzzling and remarkable facts concerning English. Students will have multiple opportunities to explore many aspects of
English and English speakers to understand better how modern day English has evolved in the way it has.
Area: Linguistics
Fulfills: LS requirements for Cultural Understanding
ENG 130: The World of Literature
(#12088) TTH 12:45-2:00 pm
STAFF
What does it mean to be a hero? What does it mean to be human? Where do the two intersect? In English 130 we will study a variety of literature
from the three basic genres: poetry, fiction, and drama. We will examine works from a wide range of time periods and cultures in an attempt to better
understand the creative expression, through written means, of the human condition. Our aim will be to draw connections between the diverse
selections, specifically studying what it means to be human, what it means to be a hero, and whether the two have anything to do with each other.
This course will pay attention, through assessment, to the four essential skills of critical reading, critical thinking, effective writing, and effective oral
communication.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: Freshman or Sophomore status or Honors Student Group.
ENG 205: The Academic Writer's WorkshopThe Advanced Writer’s Workshop is a course for students who wish to improve and increase their
writing abilities in response to the academic tasks they encounter. Students will review principles of rhetoric, and they will evaluate, research, and
practice writing techniques. This will help them develop their skills as a writer as they learn to adapt forms and techniques that will enable them to
write clearly and coherently. In addition, students use technological tools to enhance their writing and presentation style. Class time will consist of
individual and group activities, in-class writing assignments, and short lectures. Students are responsible for being prepared for class discussion,
participation, group work, and writing tasks. Course fee required.
ENG 210: Principles In Rhetoric
(# 12084) TTH 9:35-10:50 am
Amber Nicole Pfannenstiel
Readings and instruction in the art of effective written communication, directed toward enabling you to meet the demands of any rhetorical situation.
Letter grade only.
Area: Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing
Fulfills: Aesthetic and Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group
ENG 223: Language in the US
(#12163) MW 1:50 – 2:40 pm; F 9:10-10:00 am
(#12187) MW 1:50 – 2:40 pm; F 10:20-11:10 pm
(#12188) MW 1:50 – 2:40 pm; F 12:40-1:30 pm
Randi Reppen
English 223 is an introduction to English dialects and registers, which provides a general overview of regional, social, and situational varieties of
English in the United States. Methods for collecting and analyzing spoken and written samples of dialects and registers are introduced. In addition to
class participation and attendance, coursework will include, analytic tasks, tests and a final project.
Area: Linguistics
ENG 231: British Literature to 1750: Heroes, Villains, and Moral Ambiguity
(#12089) MWF 9:10-10:00 am
Patricia Marchesi
What makes a hero? What constitutes a villain? Is it always easy to tell between the two? Why do some authors present us with morally ambiguous
characters, narrators, and/or viewpoints? These are some of the questions we will explore as we read genres such as epic, drama, personal
narrative, and poetry. Through an analysis of the concepts of heroism, virtue, agency, courage, villainy, and moral ambiguity, the course aims to
define the Anglo-Saxon, medieval, early modern/Renaissance, and Restoration periods.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: Liberal Studies requirements for Aesthetic and Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group
ENG 231: British Literature to 1750
(#12090) TTH 11:10 AM – 12:25 PM
Jay Farness
“Major authors and movements in the literature of England from its beginnings to 1750,” says the NAU Catalog, but there’s more.
This class samples almost a thousand years of writing in Great Britain, giving us practice with most of the kinds of literature there are. We study
influential or eye-opening examples of narrative, of lyric, and of drama, and we try to evaluate the celebrity of these works and their claims on our
respect. Writers include Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, Milton, and Pope, but you will meet or re-greet others as well. Class format emphasizes
close reading of texts and discussion of contexts. Assignments include two short essays, three tests, and regular reading quizzes.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: Liberal Studies requirements for Aesthetic and Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group
ENG 232: British Literature after 1750
(#12091) MW 2:20 – 3:35 pm
Donelle Ruwe
Course Description: ENG 232 is a survey of British writers from 1750 to the present day. We discuss not only important literature but also cultural,
artistic, and historical events. Students will gain a passing familiarity with the Neoclassical, Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Postmodern literary
periods. Students will learn key concepts and literary terms associated with different movements, and recognize important texts and historical
events. This course covers 260 extraordinary years in the history of literature, and I hope that, by the end this this survey, you will discover authors
and literary movements that you may choose to study at greater depth in the future. Grades will be determined through daily work, quizzes, midterm,
final, and a casebook project. Required Texts: Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol 2 (9th edition, Feb. 2012, vols. D, E. F) and Norton Critical
Edition of Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: Aesthetic and Humanistic inquiry
Prerequisites: Eng. 105, or Hon. 191 or Hon. 192.
ENG 242: American Literature from Colonial to 1865
(#12098) TTH 2:20 – 3:35 pm
Karen Renner
This course is designed to familiarize you with the themes, stylistic features, and historical/cultural contexts of major works of American literature
before 1865. Readings will include works by Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Hannah Webster Foster, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, and Emily Dickinson. Instruction is discussion based, and evaluation will be based on a
quizzes, small writing assignments, formal essays, and energetic class participation.
Area: Literature
Fulfills LS Requirements for: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 243: American Literature from 1865 to the Present
(#12099) TTH 4:00 – 5:15 pm
Karen Renner
This course is designed to familiarize you with the themes, stylistic features, and historical/cultural contexts of major works of American literature
from 1865 to the present as well as the common terms used to discuss this period of literature. Readings will include Cormac McCarthy’s The Road,
short stories by Edith Wharton, Jack London, Sui Sin Far, and William Faulkner; plays by Tennessee Williams and David Ives; and poetry by E. E.
Cummings, Anne Sexton, and Billy Collins. Instruction is discussion based, and evaluation will be based on a variety of essays, quizzes, and exams
as well as spirited class participation.
Area: Literature
Fulfills LS Requirements for: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry. **Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 245: US Multi-ethnic Lit Survey
(#12100) MWF 9:10-10:00 am
STAFF
This introductory course surveys multi-ethnic literature written in the United States from the formation of “America” to the present. In order to capture
the diversity and complexity of these traditions in writing, we will read poetry, autobiography, fiction, and drama by Asian American, African
American, Chicano/a and Native American writers. Discussions will explore various ways that race, class, gender and ethnic identity are expressed
in these texts, and consider each text, not in isolation, but in its proper aesthetic, historical and political context. We will survey the social conditions
that have, at times, suppressed writing by racial and ethnic minorities and excluded these writers from the traditional literary canon. We will also
challenge traditional conceptions of the category of “American Literature,” exploring the distinct contributions by multi-ethnic writers.
Area: Literature
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 253: World Literature
(#14397) MWF 9:10-10:00 am
(#15220) MWF 10:20-11:10 am
STAFF
Selected texts in world literature with an emphasis on problems of comparative literary and cultural study. Letter grade only
Area: Literature
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 261: Introduction to Women Writers
(#12101) TTH 12:45-2:00
Nancy Paxton
This introductory course surveys poetry, drama, and fiction written in the19th and 20th century by British, American, and Anglo-phone women
writers. Nearly half the readings in this course will focus on texts written by African-American, Native American, and other minority women. In order
to better understand how gender, sexual identity, and the female body have been “constructed” in the past and continue to shape American women’s
sense of “self,” we will read a variety of classic, “lost,” and contemporary texts. Through short lectures, class discussions, and other activities, we will
explore how gender intersects with class, race, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc. in these texts. Letter grade only.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 266: World Cinema: An Introduction
(#12102) W 4:00 – 6:30 pm
(#12103) W 4:00 – 6:30 pm
STAFF
An introductory survey of the first 100 years of cinema, including histories and texts from traditionally underrepresented areas such as Africa, the
Middle East, Australia, Asia, and Latin America. Letter grade only.
Area: Literature
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 270: Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction
(#12408) M 4:00 - 6:30 pm –Erin Stalcup
(#12136) TH 4:00 – 6:30 pm – Erin Stalcup
Beginning course in short-story writing that emphasizes the composition and revision of student stories. Letter grade only.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 270: Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction
(#12137) TH 3:00 - 5:30 pm
(#13219) F 12:45 – 3:15 pm
Allen J. Woodman
ENG 270 offers beginning writers the chance to get their feet wet in the fundamentals of fiction writing, introducing them to the basic elements of
narrative form, character, conflict, scene, point of view, and dialogue. The first part of the course will be devoted to covering the nuts and bolts of the
creative writer's craft. The second part of the course will be devoted to workshop-style discussions of student writing projects (short stories).
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 271: Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry
(#12138) TH 4:00 – 6:30 pm
(#12139) M 4:00 – 6:30 pm
(#15194) F 12:45 – 3:15 pm
Justin Bigos
Description: This course will introduce students to form, voice, and poetic technique. We’ll read a wide variety of contemporary poets and respond to
their work both in class and in reading responses. Students will have the opportunity to workshop their poems and will comment, in writing and in the
course discussion, on each other’s poems.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 272: Creative Nonfiction
(#12140) T 3:00 – 5:30 pm – Nicole Walker
(#15219) F 12:45 – 3:15 pm – Jane Armstrong
A beginning course in creative nonfiction writing that emphasizes the composition and revision of student essays. Letter grade only.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190
ENG 300: Current Trends/Theories Teaching English
(#12141) MW 12:45 – 2:00 pm
Sandra Raymond
This course introduces the underlying theories of reading and writing instruction and how those theories translate into practice in the secondary
classroom, as well as the current professional trends and issues facing public school English teachers. We will pay particular attention to trends and
theories in media literacy, curriculum development, standards and standardized testing, policy issues, and public perception of teachers, with a
special focus on the use of technology in the classroom and the use of electronic portfolios.
Area: English Education
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or equivalent
ENG 301W: Language and Literacy
(#12142) MW 4:00 – 5:15 pm
Renee Rude
In this course, we will explore the relationships among language, literacy, and learning as they impact practices of English teaching at the secondary
level for native English speakers and English Language Learners (ELL). Central questions of the course include: What are the goals of language and
literacy education in middle and secondary contexts? What insights are current research studies about language and literacy suggesting and
debating? As we immerse ourselves in theoretical issues and debates both current and historical in language, literacy, and learning, we will also
develop classroom practices, strategies, and lessons that follow from and hopefully complicate these theories.
Area: English Education
Fulfills: Junior Level Writing Requirement for BSED English Education students
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 and 9 hours of ENG
ENG 302W: Technical Writing
(#13358) Online Asynchronous
(#13359) Online Asynchronous
(#12121) TTH 9:35-10:50 am
Alana Kuhlman
This course provides instruction in the characteristics of technical communication, and the qualities that comprise excellence in technical
communication. Students will receive instruction and experience in writing different types of technical communications, including proposals, technical
descriptions and instructions, analyses, evaluation and recommendation reports, abstracts, progress reports, business letters, technical articles,
resumes, and correspondence.
Area: Professional Writing
Fulfills: NAU's junior-level writing requirement
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 302W: Technical Writing
(#13360) Online Asynchronous
(#13361) Online Asynchronous
Michael Collins
This course provides instruction in the characteristics of technical communication, and the qualities that comprise excellence in technical
communication. Students will receive instruction and experience in writing different types of technical communications, including proposals, technical
descriptions and instructions, analyses, evaluation and recommendation reports, abstracts, progress reports, business letters, technical articles,
resumes, and correspondence.
Area: Professional Writing
Fulfills: NAU's junior-level writing requirement
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 302W: Technical Writing
(#12123) MWF 8:00 – 8:50 am
(#12124) MWF 9:10 – 10:00 am
(#12125) MWF 10:20 – 11:10 am
(#12126) MWF 11:30 – 12:20 am
Mark Gula
This course provides instruction in the characteristics of technical communication, and the qualities that comprise excellence in technical
communication. Students will receive instruction and experience in writing different types of technical communications, including proposals, technical
descriptions and instructions, analyses, evaluation and recommendation reports, abstracts, progress reports, business letters, technical articles,
resumes, and correspondence.
Area: Professional Writing
Fulfills: NAU's junior-level writing requirement
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 302W: Technical Writing
(#13516) TTH 9:35 – 10:50 am
(#13517) TTH 9:35 – 10:50 am
(#12122) TTH 8:00 – 9:15 am
(#12127) TTH 11:10 – 12:25 am
Sharon Crawford
This course provides instruction in the characteristics of technical communication, and the qualities that comprise excellence in technical
communication. Students will receive instruction and experience in writing different types of technical communications, including proposals, technical
descriptions and instructions, analyses, evaluation and recommendation reports, abstracts, progress reports, business letters, technical articles,
resumes, and correspondence.
Area: Professional Writing
Fulfills: NAU's junior-level writing requirement
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 305W: WRITING IN DISCIPLINARY COMMUNITIES
(#13310) Online Asynchronous
(#13311) Online Asynchronous
(#15229) F 10:20 – 11:35 am
(#15230) F 10:20 – 11:35 am
Amanda Gilbert
English 305W: Writing in Disciplinary Communities is a survey course in writing and the professions. The course’s emphases are five writing
principles found in all disciplines: purpose, audience, document design, sentence control, and workplace writing. Along with these writing
principles, the following skills are developed: critical reading, analytical writing, research, presentation, and rhetorical strategies.
As students become more familiar with various styles of writing, the five principles of writing reveal themselves, giving the writer an opportunity to
take control of the document’s development. Students are encouraged to explore and to engage with material inside and outside of their prospective
areas of study.
Area: Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing
Fulfills: NAU's Junior-level writing requirement
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190n or HON 191
ENG 305W: WRITING IN DISCIPLINARY COMMUNITIES
(#15227) Online Asynchronous
(#2086) TH 101:10 – 112:25 pm
Amber Nicole Pfannenstiel
English 305W: Writing in Disciplinary Communities is a survey course in writing and the professions. The course’s emphases are five writing
principles found in all disciplines: purpose, audience, document design, sentence control, and workplace writing. Along with these writing
principles, the following skills are developed: critical reading, analytical writing, research, presentation, and rhetorical strategies.
As students become more familiar with various styles of writing, the five principles of writing reveal themselves, giving the writer an opportunity to
take control of the document’s development. Students are encouraged to explore and to engage with material inside and outside of their prospective
areas of study.
Area: Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing
Fulfills: NAU's Junior-level writing requirement
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190n or HON 191
ENG 308: Introduction to Linguistics
(#12168): MW 3:00-3:50 pm F 9:10-10:00 am
(#12190): MW 3:00-3:50 pm F10:20-11:10 am
(#12191): MW 3:00-3:50 pm F 12:40-1:30
Julieta Fernandez
Basic concepts of descriptive linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and language
processing. ENG 308 is a prerequisite for all 400-level linguistics courses; concurrent enrollment acceptable. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: ENG
105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test
Area: Linguistics
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 335: Shakespeare
(#12111) MWF 10:20-11:10 am
(#12112) MWF 12:40 - 1:30 pm
Patricia Marchesi
This course will examine a variety of Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies, focusing on language, imagery, themes, and the relationship of
literature to theater. The course will also address the different ways in which we, in the early 21 st century, respond to Shakespeare in text, theatrical
productions, and film adaptations.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: Liberal Studies requirements for Aesthetic and Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group
ENG 335: Shakespeare
(#12113) TTH 12:45 – 2:00 pm
Jay Farness
“Reading and discussion of selected works of Shakespeare,” says the NAU Catalog, but there’s more. This class studies the best examples of
Shakespeare's comic and tragic playwriting and explores those persistent themes and insights that have won Shakespeare a reputation as the
master pessimist of English literature. Probable readings include Much Ado about Nothing, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, one
more tragedy, and one more comedy. Study of Shakespeare's backgrounds will focus on remarkable developments in Elizabethan attitudes about
theater, about the family, and about the human person in society--developments that helped make possible the dazzling power and success of
Shakespeare's plays. Class format emphasizes close reading and discussion. Assignments include two essays, three essay-tests, and a short
objective test.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: Liberal Studies requirements for Aesthetic and Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group
ENG 341: The American Novel
(#12114) TTH 11:10-12:25 pm
Steven Rosendale
This course provides an introduction to novels written in the United States, and to some of the critical issues involved in reading them and
understanding their place in American literary history. Course readings will include novels by W.D. Howells, Theodore Dreiser, Kate Chopin, Willa
Cather, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison, Kurt Vonnegut, and TC Boyle. Course
requirements include short critical papers and two essay exams.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 351: Post-Colonial Literary Traditions
(#14399) TTH 8:00-9:15 AM
(#14401) TTH 9:35-10:50 am
STAFF
Readings in the literature and culture of the Third World. Letter grade only.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: Aesthetic and Humanistic Inquiry and Ethnic
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group
ENG 360W: Literary Criticism
(#13421) MW 12:45-2:00 pm
Jay Farness
Think of ENG 360W as an "introduction to literature, criticism, and theory" since that's the title of a textbook we'll depend on. In this book are twodozen-plus chapters, each an essay on a topic in literature, criticism, or theory, each providing a distinctive cross-section of the state of literary study
early in the twenty-first century. These essays are introductory, contemporary, sophisticated, stylishly written, and relatively short. They focus on
concepts both familiar—"the author," "character," "the tragic"—and less familiar—"the uncanny," "queer," "the performative." They employ many
examples and illustrations, and they deliberately drop lots of names to encourage further reading and study, both yours and mine. I will match
chapters and topics to selected poems and stories so that we can experiment with the insights and perspectives we’re reading about. No matter what
level of literary literacy you bring to this course, by the end of the term you will know more about what writers do and, especially, about what
professional readers do—readers who are teachers, professors, critics, or theorists.
Because this course satisfies NAU’s junior-level writing requirement, plan to write and to revise. I will assign several page-and-a-half informal
response papers (500 words or so each), at least two short formal papers (1500 words each), and one longer paper (2000 words) that includes
revision of earlier work. And there’s one test.
Area: Literature
Prerequisites: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange
group AHI
ENG 364: Popular Literature
(#13420) T 4:00-6:30 pm
Karen Renner
This class will focus on one or more popular genres of literature. In Fall 2014, the genre upon which we will focus will be science fiction. We will seek
to understand science fiction's literary history, its primary themes and features, and its relationship to the academy. Authors studied will be mainly
British and American and may include Fitz-James O'Brien, Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, H. P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and Ursula
Le Guin.
Area: Literature
Prerequisites: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange
group AHI
ENG 366: Film As Literature
(#12118) T 4:00-6:30 pm
STAFF
Literary and rhetorical devices such as theme, symbolism, characterization and structure in films from world film literature. Letter grade only.
Area: Literature
Prerequisites: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange
group AHI
ENG 370W: Intermediate Fiction Writing
(#12143) F 12:45- 3:15 pm
Erin Stalcup
Fiction writing in a workshop setting that focuses on the composition and revision of student stories. This course fulfills NAU's junior-level writing
requirement. Letter grade only.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement
ENG 370W: Intermediate Fiction Writing
(#12400) Online Asynchronous
Ann Cummins
Fiction writing in a workshop setting that focuses on the composition and revision of student stories. This course fulfills NAU's junior-level writing
requirement. Letter grade only.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement
ENG 371: Intermediate Poetry Writing
(#12144) M 7:00 – 9:30 pm
Barbara Anderson
Poetry writing in a workshop setting that focuses on the composition and revision of student poetry. Letter grade only.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement
ENG 400 & 580: Methods of Teaching Literacy in the Secondary Classroom – Co-convened
(#12157 & 12156) TTH 11:10-12:25 pm
Angela Hansen
This course will focus on a balance between the theoretical and practical approaches necessary to teaching literature at the secondary level. In
addition, much of the course will focus on the professional and pedagogical approaches to teaching all aspects of the English language arts at the
secondary level. Students are required to write an extensive unit plan upon which successful completion is part of the evaluation process for
admittance into student teaching. In order to maximize success in the class, students should not enroll in ENG 400 until they have fulfilled the
majority of their English education requirements (such as ENG 300, ENG 301W, and ENG 403 and appropriate English content courses).
Area: English Education
ENG 401 & 689: English Education Practicum – Co-convened
(#12157 & 14860) T 4:00-4:50 pm
Angela Hansen
This practicum will allow students to experience a middle school and high school English language arts classroom. Through the 45 hours students
spend in the classroom, approximately 22-23 hours at each level, they will observe teacher practices as well as student reactions to lessons
facilitated by a practicum model teacher. Students will also be responsible for working with adolescents at the individual, small group, and whole
group levels. This course should be taken in conjunction with ENG 400: Methods of Teaching Literature and should not be taken until they have
fulfilled the majority of their English education requirements (such as ENG 300, 301W, ENG 403 and appropriate content courses).
Area: English Education
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 and 9 hours of ENG; or consent of instructor
ENG 403 & 583: Approach Teaching of Writing – Co-convened
(#12154 & 12155) M 4:00-6:30 pm
Sandra Raymond
This course is designed to prepare secondary and elementary education majors to teach writing in their future classrooms. Current teachers and
those planning to teach at a university or community college may also find this course useful. This course requires and expects participants to look at
writing from a pedagogical viewpoint. Students will examine and discuss theories, methods, trends and practices in the areas of composition,
rhetoric, and creative writing, as well as issues and concerns facing writing teachers today. This is a very intensive course which attempts to cover a
large amount of information in a short period of time. Expect to do a great deal of reading and writing.
Area: English Education
Prerequisite: ENG 301W
ENG 404: Seminar in the Teaching of English
(#12153) TTH 12:45 – 2:00 pm
Jean Boreen
This course focuses on Young Adult Literature and how you, as a future teacher, can conceptualize how to use YA lit in the classroom by itself and
with classic texts. We will also explore how YA Lit can be used as a bridge to help students understand a variety of issues and literary concepts in
both literature written for them as well as in the classic texts most school curricula expect students to master. To accomplish this, we will consider
the thought-processes behind the development of the classroom teacher’s philosophy for teaching literature and how this, in turn, determines the
choices s/he makes for facilitating students’ learning. Another feature of the course is to conduct a survey of young adult literature. The class will
make critical evaluations of the literature as well as investigate strategies for encouraging student reading. Finally, we will explore the use of Nancie
Atwell’s reading workshops in secondary classrooms.
Area: English Education
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191, ENG 300, and 9 hours of ENG; or consent of instructor
ENG 406: ESL Methods/Materials for Secondary Ed Teachers
(#12178) TTH 2:20-3:35
Mary McGroarty
English 406 provides an overview of current methods and materials for teaching learners for whom English is a second language at the middle- and
secondary grade levels. The course will be run through a combination of lectures, large and small group discussions, critiques of videotapes of ESL
teaching techniques, and development of final projects that may eventually be used in actual secondary classrooms. (Fulfills 3 hours of the 6-hour
SEI requirement for Arizona teachers.)
Area: Linguistics Course for English Education students
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191, & ENG 301W
(Permission number from instructor required for enrollment.)
ENG 408: Fieldwork
(#12795) TTH 8:00-9:15 am
Nancy Barron
*Contact your advisor for details
ENG 410C: Seminar in Rhetoric
(#13315) TTH 12:45 – 2:00 pm
Amber Nicole Pfannenstiel
This course will explore meaning making in contemporary blogs and vlogs to better understand what it means to read, write and participate. We will
grapple with the rhetorical strategies employed to create and consume information through blogs and vlogs, and we will discuss participation in these
situated contexts. This class will require students to use blogs and vlogs to be apprenticed into a community of fans, producers and meaningmakers. We will not cover how to produce and share social media materials, we will focus on the reading, writing and participating of members of
media-making communities to understand the practices involved.
Area: Linguistics
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test
ENG 411C: Diversity and Culture
(#12152) TTH 11:10 – 12:25 pm
Laura Gray-Rosendale
In this class we will read a series of contemporary memoirs and analyze them from various rhetorical, critical, and cultural perspectives. In addition,
we will write short analytic responses to the texts. Finally, we will produce final projects that weave together creative nonfiction and analysis of the
genre. The major class texts will include contemporary memoirs (specific ones yet to be determined.)
Area: Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing
Prerequisites: ENG 210, 211, or ENG 105, HON 190, or HON 191 & 9 hrs of other English classes
ENG 420C: Seminar in Language: Corpus Linguistics
(#12169) TTH 5:00-6:15 pm
William Crawford
Intensive study of selected topics in language and linguistics. Letter grade only. May be repeated for up to 9 units of credit with different content.
Area: Linguistics
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test
ENG 431C: Seminar in British Literature: Voyages
(#12129) TTH 2:20-3:35 pm
Nancy Paxton
This seminar will focus on censorship and how it has shaped the writing, publication, and reception of modern literature and ideas about citizenship
over the last 100 years. We will read famous examples of banned books in twentieth century literature, including D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow
(1915); Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928), and excerpts from James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922). It will include Geraldine Brooks, The
People of the Book, which offers an historical perspective on censorship from 1490-1990; political censorship in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s
Tale; censorship of the marketplace in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World; and in postmodern/postcolonial culture in Arundhati Roy’s The God of
Small Things. Using novels film clips, and on-line readings, we will consider positive and negative forms and effects of censorship in contemporary
literature, the visual arts/film, in the U.S. secondary schools, and on the internet, and related subjects. Short lectures, and oral reports will
supplement class discussions. Letter grade only.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: Capstone requirement for English Majors and Minors. May be repeated for up to 9 units of credit with different content.
Prerequisites: Eng. 105 or Hon. 190 or Hon. 191 and 12 hours of English.
ENG 431C: Seminar in British Literature: The “Other” in English Renaissance
(#13819) MW 2:20-3:35 pm
Patti Marchesi
How do we relate to those of a different gender, religion, sexual preference, and culture? Do we embrace the differences or do we designate them as
Other? How did the writers of the English Renaissance, in particular dramatists, relate to people considered “different”? How was difference staged?
In this class, we will look at the concept of “the Other" and examine how such “otherness” is written and staged in English Renaissance drama. We
will read plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: Capstone requirement for English Majors and Minors. May be repeated for up to 9 units of credit with different content.
Prerequisites: Eng. 105 or Hon. 190 or Hon. 191 and 12 hours of English.
ENG 431C: Seminar in British Literature: Romanticism
(#14888) MW 12:45 – 2:00 pm
Donelle Ruwe
Area: Literature
The British Romantic era, which is sometimes called the Age of Revolutions (1780-1835), was a time of extraordinary national crisis. After the
Bastille was stormed and the French monarchy toppled, England and France entered the longest war in modern history, resulting in 22 years of
bloodshed and economic devastation. The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora—the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history—killed over 70,000
people and covered the skies of Europe with ash. It caused international crop failures and animal deaths and was followed by the worst famine of the
nineteenth century. 1816 became known as the "Year without a Summer." In August 1819, British cavalry charged into a crowd of 75,000 peaceful
demonstrators who were demanding government reform, and in an event that soon become known as the Peterloo Massacre, 15 people were killed
and 500 injured. A third of the casualties were women. As Charles Dickens would later describe this era, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Our class will focus on British literature written during this period, and we will read texts against the backdrop of cultural and political events that rocked the
stability of the British Empire. We’ll read texts that excoriate governmental and religious hypocrisy. We’ll read arguments for women’s rights, animal rights,
and the freedom of British slaves, and we’ll read works celebrating the emotional peace granted by the beauties of nature and the joys of mountain climbing,
sailing, and plant gathering. We’ll also match up Romantic texts with 20th-century responses, comparing Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to contemporary
pulp fiction romance novels, Byron’s Don Juan to Tom Stoppard’s comic play Arcadia, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to contemporary sci-fi. Students will
prepare short reading responses and a final essay. Letter grade only.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 and 12 hours of English coursework.
ENG 441C: Seminar in American Literature: American Modernism
(#12131) T 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Steven Rosendale
The course will focus on literary culture in the United States during the modern period (roughly, the period between WWI and WWII). We’ll examine
the historical, critical, and ideological tensions between canonical modernist texts in various genres and the considerable body of noncanonical
“radical” literatures produced during this period. Course requirements include informal papers, participation in class discussion, and 3 formal papers.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 441C: Seminar in American Literature: Origin of American Culture
(#12132) T 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Karen Renner
This class will examine the narrative patterns established in early American literature that still "echo" throughout our contemporary culture. Narrative
types studied may include the captivity narrative, the conversion narrative, the story of the self-made man/woman, and narratives of addiction and
reform. Assignments will include weekly response papers as well as a final research paper of 12-15 pages on a text of your choice that incorporates
and adapts one of the narrative patterns we discuss during the semester.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 470C: Seminar in Creative Writing: Fiction
(#12151) W 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Erin Stalcup
This course is a reading and writing intensive course in the art of the short story. Students will study the craft of several contemporary short story
writers including George Saunders, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and others. Through several writing exercises, students will build on techniques
they learned in beginning and intermediate fiction, experimenting with character and plot development, mood, setting, and all techniques we draw on
in creating fiction. From the exercises, students will draft, workshop and revise a minimum of two short stories that reflect something of the stylistic
range and craft of the stories in the anthology. Students will also practice the art of responding to work in progress, both in workshop and through
written critique.
Area: Creative Writing
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisite: (ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (PLACE 60+)) and ENG 370W
ENG 472C: Seminar in Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
(#12150) T 3:00 – 5:30 pm
Jane Armstrong
Intensive study of the craft of creative nonfiction, emphasizing the writing of personal essays, memoirs, or subjective criticism. Letter grade only. May
be repeated for up to 9 units of credit with different content.
Area: Creative Writing
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisite: (ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (PLACE 60+)) and ENG 370W
ENG 485: Undergraduate Research
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ENG 494C: Supervised Teaching: Secondary
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ENG 497: Independent Study
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