Courses offered Spring 2016:
Graduate Level
ENG 500 INTRO TO LITERARY RESEARCH (3 credits)
(#7668) Online Asynchronous
Walter Keithley III
English 500 represents an introduction to current textual practices, research methods, and recent trends in literary analysis and theory.
Recommended for incoming literature students, English 500 will prepare you to conduct research appropriate to the production of graduate-level
scholarship and encourage you to consider your work as a graduate student within personal and professional contexts.
Area: Literature
Prerequisite: Graduate status
ENG 502 ADVANCED TECHNICAL WRITING (3 credits)
(#6469) Online Asynchronous
Erika Konrad
Development of advanced skills in workplace writing style for professionals in any field. Letter grade only.
Area: Professional Writing
Prerequisites: Admission into MA in Professional Writing or the Certificate in Professional Writing programs. This course also counts toward the
Master of Administration.
ENG 504 INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (3 credits)
(#4057) MW 2:20-3:35pm
William Crawford
Surveys the field of linguistics including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and related fields of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, historical
linguistics, and applied linguistics. Letter grade only. Course fee required.
Area: Applied Linguistics
Prerequisites: Admission to TESL Certificate or PhD in Applied Linguistics
ENG 516 WOMEN WRITERS AND FEMINIST THEORY (3 credits)
(#7636) Online Asynchronous
Lisa Hager
This course seeks to understand women's writing through the lenses of feminist theory. We will read a diverse selection of fiction, poetry, and texts
that defy genre classifications by women and investigate how various approaches to feminist theory can provide productive modes of analysis. The
class is organized into thematic groups, including topics such as citizenship and labor, Black feminism, and trans feminism, in order to put these
approaches in conversation with one another.
Area: Literature
ENG 517 PROFESSIONAL EDITING (3 credits)
(#8151) Online Asynchronous
Damian Koshnick
In this course, you will learn about theories and take up contemporary practices for editing business and professional documents in print and digital
formats.
Area: Professional Writing
Prerequisites: Admission into MA in Professional Writing or the Certificate in Professional Writing programs. This course also counts toward the
Master of Administration.
ENG 518 SOCIOLINGUISTICS (3 credits)
(#1378) TTh 11:10-12:25pm
Mary McGroarty
This course, required for all MA/TESL students and often recommended for PhD students, provides an overview of sociolinguistics, the study of
language in society. The course is designed to raise students’ awareness of and knowledge about the many ways linguistic choices are associated
with social and situational factors. We will survey some of the key research issues in sociolinguistics including regional/social/situational variation,
language attitudes, cross-cultural communication, language and gender, and register variation in speech and writing.
Area: Applied Linguistics
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Completion/concurrent enrollment in Eng. 528 and 504 will be helpful.
ENG 522 RHETORIC AND WRITING IN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES (3 credits)
(#6475) Online Asynchronous
Damian Koshnick
In this course, you will be given a set of contemporary theories, concepts, and tools to investigate the properties and nature of communication,
rhetoric, and writing in professional discourse communities. These theories, concepts, and tools will help you to define the rules, habits, and
behaviors of given communities in order to become a more informed and effective writer, speaker, and participant in current, or future professional
settings.
Area: Professional Writing
Prerequisites: Admission into MA in Professional Writing or the Certificate in Professional Writing programs. This course also counts toward the
Master of Administration.
ENG 526 ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL WRITING (3 credits)
(#6478) Online Asynchronous
Erika Konrad
Research and writing processes as practiced in business, industry, government, and academic settings. This course refines students' skills to pursue
knowledge to solve problems. It also familiarizes students with the formal requirements of research reports. By the end of this class, students will be
able to identify useful problems to study, identify strategic sources of information, and prepare a plan to gather and analyze data for the construction
of clear, concise, and publishable reports.
These skills are useful for authoring or helping colleagues to edit and submit research to professional journals and to workplace authorities. MA
Professional Writing students complete this course toward the end of their MA program careers in preparation for the capstone course.
Area: Professional Writing
Prerequisites: Admission into MA in Professional Writing or the Certificate in Professional Writing programs. This course also counts toward the
Master of Administration.
ENG 526 ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL WRITING (3 credits)
(#6476) Online Asynchronous
Michael Collins
Research and writing processes as practiced in business, industry, government, and academic settings. This course refines students' skills to pursue
knowledge to solve problems. It also familiarizes students with the formal requirements of research reports. By the end of this class, students will be
able to identify useful problems to study, identify strategic sources of information, and prepare a plan to gather and analyze data for the construction
of clear, concise, and publishable reports.
These skills are useful for authoring or helping colleagues to edit and submit research to professional journals and to workplace authorities. MA
Professional Writing students complete this course toward the end of their MA program careers in preparation for the capstone course.
Area: Professional Writing
Prerequisites: Admission into MA in Professional Writing or the Certificate in Professional Writing programs. This course also counts toward the
Master of Administration.
ENG 526 ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL WRITING (3 credits)
(#6479) Online Asynchronous
Damian Koshnick
Research and writing processes as practiced in business, industry, government, and academic settings. This course refines students' skills to pursue
knowledge to solve problems. It also familiarizes students with the formal requirements of research reports. By the end of this class, students will be
able to identify useful problems to study, identify strategic sources of information, and prepare a plan to gather and analyze data for the construction
of clear, concise, and publishable reports.
These skills are useful for authoring or helping colleagues to edit and submit research to professional journals and to workplace authorities. MA
Professional Writing students complete this course toward the end of their MA program careers in preparation for the capstone course.
Area: Professional Writing
Prerequisite: Admission into MA in Professional Writing, or the Certificate in Professional Writing programs. This course also counts toward the
Master of Administration.
ENG 530 PROFESSIONAL ENVIORNMENTAL WRITING (3 credits)
(#8773) Online Asynchronous
Michael Collins
This course will examine environmental communication, specifically green / cultural tourism promotion, journalism, public participation, health and
safety, non-profit communication and multimedia production. Students will incorporate field experience and produce a workable business / problem
solving proposal, multimedia marketing or informational materials for an instructor approved non-profit organization.
Area: Professional Writing
Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate College
ENG 545 CHICANO/CHICANA LITERATURE (3 credits)
(#7364) Online Asynchronous
Monica Brown
An examination of Chicano and Chicana literary traditions. Letter grade only.
Area: Literature
Prerequisites: Graduate status
ENG 549 INFORMATION DESIGN AND USABILITY TESTING (3 credits)
(#6481) Online Asynchronous
Damian Koshnick
In this course, you will learn contemporary theories and methods for designing effective, user-centered (print and digital) documents.
Area: Professional Writing
Prerequisites: Admission into MA in Professional Writing or the Certificate in Professional Writing programs. This course also counts toward the
Master of Administration.
ENG 553 SHAKESPEARE (3 credits)
(#7644) W 5:30-8:00
Jay Farness
This course studies selected plays in light of current critical practices for interpreting Shakespeare's text, drama, and settings. Expect something that
is both elementary and advanced. The course will introduce you to or remind you about the celebrated features of Shakespeare as we know him from
stage and, especially, from page. But the course should also make you mindful of disconcerting conflicts between stage and page and so challenge
and stretch your sense of close interpretation and its contexts. I hope you'll need to read and think hard and, because it's Shakespeare, have fun doing
it.
Chances are that most of you, if you haven't already done so, will one day be teaching Shakespeare. It matters to me that you feel good enough about
Shakespeare to embrace this teaching challenge when it's offered. This will probably involve—another course objective—your confidence that you
generally know both what you're doing and what Shakespeare is doing and that you know how to continue enriching, revising, and refining your
Shakespeare skills. It's a big, insufficiently recognized advantage that Shakespeare's active sociological imagination comes very close to business
that teachers regularly confront and constantly ruminate. Seeing Shakespeare precisely as "popular art" or as "young adult literature," for instance,
should help invigorate your thinking about general approaches or methods for teaching Shakespeare as well as about specific curricular topics,
activities, or objectives.
Here are two additional motives of our study worth mentioning. First, Shakespeare is by far the most popular author of what we term English Literature.
What might this be telling us about Shakespeare, about popular authorship, or about English Literature? And is this Shakespeare a who or a what? If
Shakespeare is a what, is this Shakespeare a live performance, a book, a text, a hypertext, a video, a movie, or some combination of these? And why
has Shakespeare, whoever or whatever, become so important as a school subject? Does this importance stem from something really in Shakespeare?
Or from something in us or in our institutions?
Second, Shakespeare is also our most strenuously challenged author, a kind of embattled subject of new thinking in the humanities. Shakespeare's
plays have tended to figure prominently in some of the most interesting, innovative, and esoteric work in interdisciplinary analysis—in institutional
history, for example, or in gender studies, in psychoanalytic theory, in literary and cultural criticism, in theories of textuality, and in the sociology of art
and knowledge. Why do we do all this with texts, with the past, with Shakespeare in particular? (And who are "we"?).
Area: Literature
ENG 558 ESL LISTENING & SPEAKING (3 credits)
(#1170) MW 12:45-2:00pm
Okim Kang
This course, a core requirement for the MA/TESL degree, provides an overview of ESL/EFL methodology focusing on aural/oral skills (that is,
listening comprehension and speaking). It gives students some knowledge of current methods and materials used for listening and speaking
instruction in ESL/EFL teaching, introduces new technologies and computer software that support oral language development, and also covers
related topics such as pronunciation and group formation for language practice. English 558 builds on the material in Eng. 548 and complements
English 559, which addresses reading and writing instruction. It is assumed that all students know the material presented in ENG 548, the required
prerequisite for Eng. 558, and can draw on it as needed.
Area: Applied Linguistics
Prerequisite: ENG 548
ENG 560 LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY (3 credits)
(#7000) Online Asynchronous
Donelle Ruwe
This course will familiarize new graduate students in English with the history of literary theory and criticism and provide the tools necessary for
situating our own work in relation to key movements in twentieth-and early twenty-first century literary studies. To this end, we explore changes in
methodology and key issues in the discipline of literary studies over the last 100+ years. Students practice research and writing skills necessary to
producing original critical work and reflect actively on their own reading practices.
Area: General English
ENG 560 LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY (3 credits)
(#7651) Th 6:00 – 8:30pm
Rebecca Gordon
This course will familiarize new graduate students in English with the history of literary theory and criticism and provide the tools necessary for
situating our own work in relation to key movements in twentieth-and early twenty-first century literary studies. To this end, we explore changes in
methodology and key issues in the discipline of literary studies over the last 100+ years. Students practice research and writing skills necessary to
producing original critical work and reflect actively on their own reading practices.
Area: General English
ENG 561 INTRO RHETORIC WRITING DIGITAL MEDIA (3 credits)
(#7653) Online Asynchronous
Sibylle Gruber
Introduction to Rhetoric, Writing, and Digital Media Studies provides a survey of key texts, current trends, and critical questions in rhetorical and
composition theory, research methodologies in rhetoric and composition, public and disciplinary writing, historical and contemporary rhetoric,
narrative studies and creative rhetorics, and social and digital media studies. Students are introduced to pedagogical and workplace techniques
derived from the main theories of the discipline.
Area: Rhetoric, Writing, and Digital Media Studies
ENG 562 INTRO RHETORIC COMP THEORY (3 credits)
(#7654) Online Asynchronous
Nicole Pfannenstiel
This course introduces students to ancient and present-day theories of rhetoric, writing, and digital media and their significance for contemporary
composition instruction and professional writing practices. Throughout the course, you will explore the connections between rhetorical theories,
writing processes, and pedagogical practices.
We will study several concepts at the core of rhetorical studies and composition studies, with specific attention to drawing connections between how
rhetorical principles, worldview, cultural views, and politics influence how we approach contemporary written communication. We will sample thoughprovoking work in rhetoric and composition studies, with the intent of equipping you for further in-depth study in specific sub-disciplines such as
histories of argumentation, basic writing theory, professional writing theory and practice, digital media literacy, writing in the disciplines, and feminist
rhetoric.
Area: Rhetoric, Writing, and Digital Media Studies
ENG 569 PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND DOCUMENTATION DESIGN (3 credits)
(#8147) Online Asynchronous
John Rothfork
Eng569: Project & Document Management (Online, Extended Campus)
This course is designed to give you a sense of what is involved in the job descriptions of a technical document manager, or information development
writer or manager. Because a document or information development manager is likely to be your boss as a professional or technical writer, the
course also describes industry expectations and experiences for both management & production positions.
This course teaches essential project management skills. Academic writers typically have a private and idiosyncratic work schedule. When they
receive a job, they disappear to finally reappear days later with a draft. Professional writers cannot be this unattached to the business of a company.
They must learn to quantify what they do so that when a job is proposed, they can meaningfully estimate how long it should take to produce a draft.
This also changes attitudes about asking for casual editing help when the response is to first work through an estimated cost sheet for proposed
changes.
For more, including texts, see: https://oak.ucc.nau.edu/jgr6/569syllabus.htm
Area: Professional Writing
Prerequisites: Admission into MA in Professional Writing or the Certificate in Professional Writing programs. This course also counts toward the
Master of Administration.
ENG 576 LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS (3 credits)
(#3501) Th 4:00-6:30pm
Jean Boreen
This course focuses on Young Adult Literature and how you, as a future teacher, conceptualize how to use YA lit in the classroom by itself and with
classic texts, 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, and you will all take part in an Atwell-modeled workshop that I will facilitate with you during the months of February and
March. NOTE: This course also contains one of the signature assignments you must complete to graduate from the English Education program at
NAU.
Area: English Education
Note to undergraduates: You must have permission from Dr. Boreen to take this course
Prerequisite: (if applicable) ENG 105 and ENG 301W.
ENG 577 READINGS IN CREATIVE WRITING (3 credits)
(#5212) Th 12:45-3:15pm
Jane Armstrong
Our study of ancient and classical storytelling will begin with the Epic of Gilgamesh, take a trip with Homer, spend a few nights with the One
Thousand and One Nights, jump forward to Dickens, Poe, Chekov, Mann, and Cather to end up...somewhere yet to be determined. Christopher
Vogler's The Writer's Journey and Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist will inform our exploration of narrative technique. For students in the MFA
program.
Letter grade only. May be repeated for up to 9 units of credit.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisites: Admission to MFA in Creative Writing/Fiction, Instructor Consent
ENG 578 ESL CURRICULUM AND ADMINISTRATION (3 credits)
(#1438) TTh 9:35-10:50am
Fredricka Stoller
ENG 578 (ESL Curriculum and Program Administration) provides a survey and analysis of L2 curriculum and syllabus models as well as an
examination of language program administration issues. More specifically, the course will cover theoretical and practical issues related to the
selection of ESL/EFL course content and the development of corresponding instructional materials. Students will have the opportunity to design an
L2 course with corresponding syllabi and materials for a target student population. Students will also explore real-life case studies highlighting
language program administration issues that they are likely to encounter in the professional world of TESL/TEFL.
Area: Applied Linguistics
Prerequisite: ENG 548 and ENG 558
ENG 580 METHODS OF TEACHING LITERATURE IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM (3 credits)
(#3500) W 4:00-6:30pm
Angela Hansen
This course will focus on a balance between the theoretical and practical approaches necessary to teach literature at the secondary level.
Area: English Education; required last course before student teaching
Prerequisite: Graduate status
ENG 581 LANGUAGE, LEARNING, & LITERACY (3 credits)
(#7652) Online Asynchronous
Sandra Raymond
This course focuses on relationships among writing, reading, talking, and grammar as they may appear in language arts and English
classrooms. This course contains an assessment that must be successfully completed in order to register for student teaching or internship. Letter
grade only. Course fee required.
Area: English Education
Prerequisite: Graduate status
ENG 587 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR (3 credits)
(#7655) F 9:10-10:00am
Nancy Barron
Designed to assist in preparing you for entry into your professional arena. Credit does not apply to degree requirements. Letter grade or pass-fail. No
repeat limit.
ENG 599 CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS: (3 credits)
(#7650) Online Asynchronous
Erika Konrad
This is an introductory graduate-level course in writing and accompanying writing-related skills for digital audiences and workplace (professional)
purposes. In this course you will
 Build your understanding of digital (on-line) audiences using personas and scenarios
 Design, implement and test a web-based professional portfolio
 Deepen an understanding of grammar and usage choices
 Discover conceptual information about web design
 Write scripts and record audio or video pod casts
 Practice some of the writing-related elements of digital media work including basic search engine optimization, HTML coding and using text
editors and cascading style sheets
 Become familiar with best practices for writing for Facebook, Twitter and other social media
 Explore some of the styles of writing commonly found on the web: journalistic, science, informational and commercial.
Area: Professional Writing
Prerequisites: Admission into MA in Professional Writing or the Certificate in Professional Writing programs. This course also counts toward the
Master of Administration.
ENG 605 PROPOSAL WRITING (3 credits)
(#7656) Online Asynchronous
Michael Collins
As the title indicates, this course focuses on the ethics of professional & technical writing. In one sense, the ethical obligation of the profession
seems crystal clear: to provide honest, accurate, & usable information to end users. There is also an obvious concern to protect & warn readers
about dangerous processes. On the other hand, if you were employed by the tobacco industry in the last few decades you would undoubtedly have
been involved in producing documents that were evasive at best & often outright lies. Star Wars related promises & proposals also produced
questions about honesty. The Challenger space shuttle disaster illustrated still other rhetorical & ethical problems. This is a course in the
Professional & Technical Writing MA & certificate programs. Consequently, the focus of the course will be less concerned with ethical theory (as in a
philosophy course) & more concerned with industry practices & the concerns of industry writers.
Area: Professional Writing
Prerequisites: Admission into MA in Professional Writing or the Certificate in Professional Writing programs. This course also counts toward the
Master of Administration.
ENG 607 FORMS OF POETRY (3 credits)
(#4643) T 12:45-3:15pm
Nicole Walker
Workshop course in writing poetry in established forms or other special topics. Letter grade only. May be repeated for up to 9 units of credit with
different content.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisites: Admission to MFA in Creative Writing/Fiction, Instructor Consent
ENG 608 FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE (1-12 credits)
Contact your advisor for details.
ENG 609 THE ART OF FICTION (3 credits)
(#1484) W 4:00-6:30pm
Ann Cummins
This is a graduate fiction forms class and writing workshop. In this course, students will do close readings and analyze craft of assorted
autobiographic novels. Texts include Teju Cole’s Open City, Marguerite Duras’ The Lover, Bessie Head’s A Question of Power, Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale
for the Time Being, and Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose, vol. 1—Never Mind. Students will learn how varied writers use a range of techniques,
such as omniscience & alternating points of view, journaling, and fabulation to dramatize personal engagement with a broad spectrum of issues,
including psycho-socio trauma, displacement, and political conflict. While we’ll be studying the autobiographic novel, students may submit varied
fictions (short stories, novel chapters from work in progress) for workshop. In keeping with our goal to use graduate workshops as opportunities for
MFA candidates to submit early drafts of their theses for review, materials for workshops may diverge from our readings. This course will include
blended learning formats with roughly one-third of the classes meeting on-line via BBLearn.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: Admission to MFA in Creative Writing/Fiction, Instructor Consent
ENG 622 TOPICS HISTORY CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC (3 credits)
(#7658) Online Asynchronous
Laura Gray-Rosendale
In this course we will study the major debates in the history of Basic Writing Studies/Developmental Writing. We will examine the early skirmishes
between Shaughnessy, Lawrence, and Rouse. We will study the academic discourse debates between Hayes, Kogen, and Martinez. We will look at
a variety of poststructuralist approaches to Basic Writing including those by Gay, Lu, and Horner. And we will examine the latest studies in Basic
Writing with pieces by Gilyard, Villanueva, and others. As we study the history of Basic Writing, we will also focus on the pedagogical implications of
each set of theories and decide how we might apply them in our own classrooms and workplaces. The book for the course is Otte and Mlynarczyk's
Basic Writing. The rest of the course texts will be found in the course shell. Students will participate in discussions and produce blog entries about
the course texts. They will produce a final course project relevant to Basic Writing Studies and their own teaching or workplaces.
Area: Rhetoric, Teaching and Digital Media Studies & the Teaching of Writing
ENG 623 TOPICS NARRATIVE CREATICE RHETORICS (3 credits)
(#7659) Online Asynchronous
Laura Gray-Rosendale
In this course we will study the history of autobiography and life writing. Our key course text will be Smith and Watson's Reading Autobiography. We
will also study how the memoir genre fits into this history, reading Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market (Rak), Memoir: An
Introduction (Couser), The Art of Time in Memoir (Birkerts), and The Art of Memoir (Karr). Finally, we will engage in creative writing and rhetoric
exercises taken from Now Write! Nonfiction (Ellis). Students will participate in discussions and produce blog entries about the course texts and
respond to creative rhetorical prompts. They will produce a final course project that offers a close rhetorical analysis of an autobiographical text.
Area: Rhetoric, Teaching and Digital Media Studies & the Teaching of Writing
ENG 624 TOPICS PUBLIC DISCIPLINARY WRITING (3 credits)
(#7660) Online Asynchronous
Sibylle Gruber
Public and Disciplinary Writing requires rhetorical awareness and a reader-centered approach. Such writing, whether a letter, resumé, report, email,
website material, or blog entry, needs to be persuasive and needs to take into account purpose, audience, stakeholders, and context. Public and
disciplinary writing focuses on the goals and situations that require the need to write, and it focuses on the expectations, goals, situations, and needs
of the reader. As a result, student writers pay close attention to research, design of the document, medium in which the document is presented, and
media used to distribute information.
This specific class addresses the theories and practices of written communication in educational and non-profit organizations. As practicing
members of professional communities, we will explore various approaches to how specific professional communities--especially educational and
non-profit organizations--use traditional and new media communication, and we will explore our roles and responsibilities for successful
communication in different organizations. We will also analyze professional cultures, social contexts, genres, new media, and audiences to
determine how they shape the various purposes and forms of writing for educational, non-profit, and volunteer organizations.
Area: Rhetoric, Writing, and Digital Media Studies
ENG 641 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE (3 credits)
(#7001) Online Asynchronous
Walter Henry Keithley III
The Restoration era (ca. 1660-1700) has been characterized as a period of transition- an intermediary between the Civil Wars and Interregnum on
one end and the political stability of the early Hanoverian monarchs on the other. Recent scholarship, however, has acknowledged the importance
that the Restoration played not only in interpreting the traumatic events of preceding decades but in negotiating and articulating the foundations of
the intellectual, social, and cultural institutions of Modern Britain. In this class, we will study six Restoration and early eighteenth century plays and a
selection of contemporary and recent criticism. In doing so, we will come to understand how the Restoration Theater represented evolving ideas
about issues such as gender, religion, politics, sexuality, and science. Beyond representation, however, we will closely examine how Restoration
Theater and the criticism that it generated served as sites of knowledge production- spaces where new cultural forms were not only invented but
were subsequently subjected to public interrogation and re-negotiation.
Area: General English
ENG 642 NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE (3 credits)
(#7661) M 4:00-6:30pm
Karen Renner
Representative nineteenth-century American texts studied in the context of relevant backgrounds and critical theories. Letter grade only. May be
repeated for up to 6 units of credit.
Area: Literature
ENG 644 AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT (3 credits)
(#4644) T 3:00-5:30pm
Steven Rosendale
This course provides an introduction to the burgeoning field of “ecocriticism” in the United States. The course will 1) introduce major currents in
environmental literary theory and criticism, along with relevant philosophical background, 2) survey the tradition of American nature writing, including
a wide selection of contemporary texts in several genres, and 3) consider the application of ecocritical perspectives to canonical works of American
literature.
Area: Literature
ENG 668 RESEARCH METHODS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS (3 credits)
(#1172) T 4:00-5:15pm
Joan Jamieson
This course is designed as an introduction to research in second language learning for students who are interested in developing their ability to
interpret research and/or in becoming future researchers. The focus of the course is on quantitative research and fundamental statistical techniques
including mean, standard deviation, T-tests, ANOVA, correlation, and chi-square.
Area: Applied Linguistics
Prerequisite: ENG 504
ENG 676 WORKSHOP IN CREATIVE NONFICTION (3 credits)
(#3382) F 12:45-3:15pm
Jane Armstrong
In this intensive writing workshop we will study and practice the rich and diverse narrative form generally known as creative nonfiction. Textbooks
will include Phillip Lopate's The Art of the Personal Essay and Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres,
forthcoming from Rose Metal Press.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: Regular graduate status and instructor’s consent
ENG 678 TOPICS IN ESL (3 credits)
(#4833) TTh 2:20-3:35pm
Joan Jamieson
This course is designed to provide students practice in survey research in applied linguistics’ contexts. The course will focus on two techniques of
data elicitation: questionnaires and interviews. Topics will include epistemological and ethical issues, planning and designing questions,
administering questionnaires and conducting interviews, transcribing and analyzing data, and reporting results.
Area: Applied Linguistics
Prerequisites: ENG 548 and (ENG 558 or ENG 559)
ENG 685 GRADUATE RESEARCH (3 credits)
Individually scheduled meetings with student peers and professor. Instructor Consent only.
ENG 686 RESEARCH PROJECTS (3 credits)
(#7662) Online Asynchronous
Sibylle Gruber
Students will create a project that engages them in learning essential knowledge and life-enhancing skills through an extended, student-influenced
inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions and carefully designed products and tasks that demonstrate mastery of learning
outcomes in Rhetoric, Writing, and Digital Media Studies. Letter grade only.
Area: Rhetoric, Writing, and Digital Media Studies
Prerequisites: ENG 563 and 6 additional units of RWDM coursework
ENG 688 TESL PRACTICUM (1-3 credits)
(#1244) MWF 8:00-8:50am
Fredricka Stoller
ENG 688 provides students with a variety of practical, hands-on second language teaching/tutoring experiences on campus or in the community.
These experiences are meant to broaden students’ understanding of different second language learning and teaching environments. ENG 688 can
be taken for variable credit hours (1-3), though MA TESL students, under ideal circumstances, should plan to take only one credit hour per semester.
Area: Applied Linguistics
Prerequisites: For MA TESL students in the teaching track: 4 credit hours of ENG 688 OR 3 credit hours of ENG 601 and one credit hour of ENG
688. For MA TESL students in the applied linguistics track, 1 credit hour of ENG 688 Practicum.
ENG 689 PRACTICUM IN ENGLISH EDUCATION (1 credit)
(#1486) M 6:00-6:50 pm
Lisa Ashley
This practicum provides English Education students with field experience in middle and high school English language arts classrooms. Students
spend 45 contact hours in ELA classrooms, approximately 22-23 hours at each level, observing teacher practices, classroom routines, management
styles, and working with students under the direction of the “host” teacher. In order to participate in the practicum, students must have a Fingerprint
Clearance Card and be accepted to the Teacher Education Program (TEP). This course is a one (1) credit, pass/fail course.
Area: English Education
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 and 9 hours of ENG; Instructor Consent
ENG 697 INDEPENDENT STUDY (3 credits)
Instructor consent required. Letter grade or pass-fail. No repeat limit.
ENG 699 THESIS (1-9 credits)
Individualized directed research, writing, and oral defense of selected thesis topic. May be repeated as needed. Instructor consent required. Passfail only. No repeat limit.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: Admission to master's program.
ENG 702 SEMINAR IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (3 credits)
(#5265) W 4:00-6:30pm
Soo Jung Youn
This course will explore advanced issues in second language testing research focusing on Item Response Theory (IRT). IRT has been popularly
used in investigating the following research questions: (a) Do test items measure the target construct as intended?; (b) Do raters display certain
biases toward L2 accents or L2 backgrounds?; (c) Are test items fair to students? In this course, students will learn various theoretical concepts
immediately applicable to language testing problems and how to examine various properties of test items using IRT software.
Area: Applied Linguistics
Prerequisites: ENG 638
ENG 705 Seminar In Research Issues In English Language Teaching (3 credits)
(#3163) TTh 2:20-3:35pm
Joan Jamieson
Examines latest research and practice in ESL methodology and materials construction, administration, testing, computer-aided instruction, and
curricula. May be repeated for credit.
Area: Applied Linguistics
Prerequisite: ENG 668 and 678
ENG 799 DISSERTATION (1-9 credits)
Individualized directed research, writing, and oral defense of selected dissertation topic. Instructor consent required. Pass-fail only. No repeat limit.
Area: Applied Linguistics
Prerequisites: Admission to the doctoral program