ENGLISH 1130 3 credits Freshman Composition
Rhetorical principles of writing – the sentence, the paragraph and the essay – with practice in reading and writing prose.
Components: Lecture
GE: English
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 0010 or a score above the 10th percentile, according to state norms, on the UW-System English Placement Test
ENGLISH 1230 3 credits Freshman Composition
A continuation of English 1130 with particular emphasis on argumentation, research and documentation, and writing essays based on inductive analysis.
Components: Lecture
GE: English
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 or test-out
ENGLISH 1330 3 credits Introduction to Literature
A course designed to introduce the student to the understanding and enjoyment of literature through different literary genres-fiction, poetry and drama-and to acquaint the students with such literary terms as plot, theme, character, setting, form and interpretation. Does not count towards English major.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 1430 3 credits Thematic Studies in Literature
A specific social, cultural and intellectual theme as expressed in selected literary works. The themes vary (e.g. The West in American Literature, The Image of Woman in Literature, Science Fiction, The Theme of Crime and Justice, The Supernatural and Occult); therefore, this course may be taken more than once for credit, provided the content is different each time.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 2050 3 credits Science Fiction
An introduction to the science fiction genre; texts studied will include short stories, novels and films.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 2120 3 credits Creative Writing
An introduction to the craft of fiction, poetry and drama, with the opportunity to create each. Students need a basic foundation in writing before taking the course.
Components: Lecture
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 2130 3 credits English Literature: Beginnings Through the Commonwealth
British literature through the Puritan Age, including such writers as Chaucer, More, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne and Milton.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 2230 3 credits English Literature: Restoration Through the Romantic Age
English literature from the Restoration through the Romantic age, including such writers as Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Keats.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities 2nd course only
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 2250 3 credits Introduction to Film
Introduction to Film develops students' abilities to view films critically and deepen their understanding of the principal film genres through careful study of their historical contexts and cinematic techniques. The course focuses on the study of different genres and aesthetic schools of film, such as the French New Wave, German Expressionism, westerns, war films, musicals and film noir, in terms of how they present aesthetic detail, ideological points of view (such as issues of gender and race), as well as fulfill certain expectations of the spectator. After a thorough grounding in the conventions of traditional genre in cinema, the class will also focus on the ways in which it has been revised by filmmakers in more recent periods of cinematic history.
Components: Discussion, Lecture
GE: Humanities-2nd course only
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 2330 3 credits English Literature: Victorian Age to the Present
English literature from the Victorian Age to the present, including such writers as Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Hardy, Joyce, Woolf and Murdoch.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 2430 3 credits American Literature Through the Civil War
American literature through the Civil War, including such writers as Bradstreet, Edwards, Franklin, Irving, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville and Douglass.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 2530 3 credits American Literature Since the Civil War
American literature from the Civil War to the present, including such writers as Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Crane, James, Chopin, Cather, Hughes, Frost, Eliot and Faulkner.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 2640 3 credits World Literature I
Selected international literary works beginning with ancient mythologies and ending around 1700. May include authors such as Homer, Virgil, Sappho, Valmiki, Ch'ien, Shang-Yin, Rumi and Dante.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities, International Education
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 2650 3 credits World Literature II
Selected international literary works beginning from around 1700 and ending with the present. May include authors such as Shang-Jen, Racine, Akinara, Baudelaire, Kafka, Gordimer, Paz and Kincaid.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities, International Education
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 2730 3 credits Contemporary Literature
Short stories, plays, novels and poems selected from the works of modern and contemporary authors, including such writers as Kafka, Camus, Silone, Lawrence, Greene, Koestler, Oates, Mason, Updike, Allende and Marquez.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 2830 3 credits Survey of Women Writers
Survey of women writers in the English language with a focus on the themes, issues and concerns that tie women's writing together and create a "women's literary tradition." British, American and international writers are included.
Components: Lecture
Cross Offering: WOMSTD 2830
GE: Gender Studies, Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 2930 3 credits Minority Women Writers of the United States
Literature written by Native-American women, African-American women, Latina-American women and Asian-American women. Includes investigation of historical and cultural backgrounds as well as literary traditions of minority women of the United States. Students will read authors such as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko and others.
Components: Lecture
Cross Offering: ETHNSTDY 2930, WOMSTD 2930
GE: Ethnic and Gender, Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3000 3 credits Technical Writing
Technical description and explanation, job applications and business correspondence and reports suited to one's major (e.g. a criminal or safety investigation, feasibility study or grant proposal); oral presentations; technical editing. Emphasis on clarity, conciseness, precision and effective communication with lay audiences and management.
Components: Lecture
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3030 3 credits Teaching of Composition
The rhetorical principles and approaches to composition; includes practice in writing and evaluating composition with emphasis on practical ways to teach writing in the elementary, middle and high school. One hour of classroom participation is required.
Components: Lecture
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3120 3 credits Seminar in Creative Writing
Continuation of English 2120 with an emphasis on creating a unified work of fiction, poetry, drama or screenwriting. This course can be repeated for credit.
Components: Seminar
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3130 3 credits The English Novel Through the Romantic Movement
The development of the British novel through the Romantic movement, including such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, Austen and the Brontes.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3140 3 credits Poetry Writing
Poetry writing is an exploration of the various elements and techniques involved in the craft and art of writing poems. The course will focus primarily on writing workshops in which students and faculty learn to critique one another's work, but will also include in-class writing activities and class discussions of assigned readings. Students will read, discuss and analyze a range of poetry from traditional to contemporary poets.
Components: Lecture
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3230 3 credits The English Novel and Short Story since the Romantic Movement
The novel and the short story in Britain from Dickens to the present, including such writers as Thackeray, Meredith, Eliot, Hardy, Trollope, Conrad, Galsworthy, Joyce, Mansfield, Woolf, Lawrence, Huxley, Maugham, Forster and Greene.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3240 3 credits Advanced Writing
An advanced writing course concentrating on rhetorical and research stategies, prose styles and their practical application to understanding and evaluating current and traditional essays as well as contemporary media such as film, television and advertising.
Components: Lecture
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3250 3 credits Sociolinguistics
Introduction to problems of language, pedagogy and cultural political relevant for English education. Discusses linguistic theories informing language pedagogy, language acquisition, different models of language learning, American dialects, language and gender, language disorders and systems of literacy.
Components: Lecture
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3260 3 credits Language and Culture
Examines the theoretical and practical relationship between language and selected social and cultural aspects of human life. Discusses contiguities of linguistic and cultural practices; examines how particular language practices create and maintain social structures, and how discourse reflects social structures and cultural values.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3330 3 credits English Drama
Drama in Great Britain (exclusive of Shakespeare) from its beginning to the present, including such figures as Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher, Webster, Dryden, Congreve, Sheridan, Shaw, O'Casey, Eliot, Osborne and Pinter.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3360 3 - 6 credits Magazine Writing and Editing
An advanced writing and editing course concentrating on planning, creating and evaluating written copy for print and online magazines. Emphasizes both preparing the student's work for trade publications, and studying and practicing the processes of those publications.
Components: Lecture
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3410 3 credits Chicano Literature
An examination of representative texts from various Chicana/Chicano writers, covering a range of genres and generations. There will be an emphasis on the relationship between literary production and historical context, in particular, the involvement of the writers in the social and political conflicts affecting the Chicano community.
Components: Lecture
Cross Offering: ETHNSTDY 3410
GE: Ethnic Studies, Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3430 3 credits Development of the American Novel
The evolution of the American novel from its beginnings to the present, including such authors as Hawthorne, Melville, James, Hemingway, Chopin, Faulkner and Morrison.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3530 3 credits Modern American Drama
American plays from World War I to the present, including such playwrights as O'Neill, Rice, Wilder, Hellman, Williams, Miller, Albee, Wilson, Hansberry, and Henley.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3630 3 credits Mark Twain and American Humor
The structure and literary art of American humor as exemplified by Mark Twain and other writers, including Artemus Ward, Finley Peter Dunne, Ring Lardner, James Thurber, Kurt Vonnegut and Woody Allen.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3730 3 credits Black Literature in America
A survey of African American literature beginning in the ante bellum period and continuing to the present, including oral forms (folk tales and spirituals), novels, poetry, drama, autobiography, and other selected non-fiction.
Components: Lecture
Cross Offering: ETHNSTDY 3730
GE: Ethnic Studies, Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3740 3 credits Asian American Literature
A survey of Asian-American literature beginning in the early 1900s and continuing to present times. Includes works of fiction, autobiography, poetry, and drama. Focuses on writers from different literary and oral traditions including (but not limited to) Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Hmong, Vietnamese, and Indian, and examines the impact of family, culture, and gender both within these traditions and between a particular tradition and U.S. popular culture.
Components: Lecture
Cross Offering: ETHNSTDY 3740
GE: Ethnic Studies, Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3750 3 credits American Literature of Ethnicity and Immigration
An examination of literature from a variety of U.S. "racial" and "ethnic" groups, including African-, Italian-, Mexican-, Jewish-, Asian-, and Native-American. Emphasis will be placed on the meanings of "race" and "ethnicity," the effects of immigration and the impact of gender in this literature.
Components: Lecture
Cross Offering: ETHNSTDY 3750
GE: Ethnic Studies, Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3760 3 credits Wisconsin Indian Literature
An exploration of Wisconsin Indian literatures from the oral tradition to the present; texts studied will include epics, legends, poetry, novels and selected non-fiction, including such writers as Mountain Wolf Woman and Denise Sweet.
Components: Lecture
Cross Offering: ETHNSTDY 3760
GE: Ethnic Studies, Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3810 3 credits The Modern Short Story
The development of the short story as a modern literary genre.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3820 3 credits Modern Poetry
A study of poetry written since World War I, including such poets as Pound, Eliot, Lorca, Yeats, Rilke, Williams, Frost and Thomas.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3830 3 credits The World Novel
A careful study of selected novels exclusive of English and American. Content and focus may vary in different semesters and may include such writers as Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Mann, Kafka, Cortazar, Achebe, Lagerkvist, Kawabata and Dinesen.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities, International Education
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3890 3 credits Film and Literature
Film adaptations of representative fictional texts, such as historical romances, gothic novels, short stories and plays, will be viewed, as students read the original texts on which they are based. A study will be made of the connection between literature and film, or the translation of words into sound, pictures and dialogue. Some theory of film will also be introduced. The ultimate goal of the course will be to arrive at a method of critically viewing films and of critically reading literature, through an examination of the same story as it is told through different media.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3930 3 credits Literature for Young Adults
An analysis of selected novels, plays and poetry especially suitable for young adults of middle or high school age with an emphasis on approaches and methods for teaching literature.
Components: Lecture
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3940 3 credits Grammar in Context
Attention given to both traditional and modern (functional) grammar, including the parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentence patterns and their combinations into a variety of sentence types and paragraph patterns. Practical application of grammatical concepts in a writing- and reading-intensive environment, with attention to the logic of punctuation and conventional mechanics.
Components: Lecture
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 3990 3 credits Topics in Language, Literature, or Writing
A critical examination of one area of language, literature or writing. The themes vary; therefore this course may be taken more than once for credit, provided the content is different each time.
Components: Lecture
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 4020 3 credits History and Theory of Rhetoric
This course is designed for students who will use and/or teach rhetoric strategies and structures in the professional world. From speech and communication theory to the teaching of critical and interpretational writing and reading, the study of rhetoric's place in the history of ideas will help students to understand the place and power of language in the university and the professional workplace.
Components: Lecture
Cross Offering: SPEECH 4020
GE: Humanities-2nd course only
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 4030 3 credits Major English Writers
An intensive study of selected major English writers including Chaucer and Milton.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 4080 3 credits Medieval Lyric Poetry
The course emphasizes reading the original language, analyzing the contents and writing interpretations of Middle English lyrics. Topics include nature, love and sex, humor, festivals, religion and death. Latin, troubadour, Celtic and Anglo-Norman poetry (in translation) will provide a context for the Middle English works. Some attention will be given to published criticism of selected poems.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230 and sophomore standing
ENGLISH 4300 3 credits English Renaissance Poetry and Prose
An intensive look at the poetry and prose of this period providing students with a greater appreciation of and methods for studying this literature. This course will introduce students to a number of important literary genres, including the pastoral, the elegy, the sonnet, Ovidian poetry, travel literature and the epic; the intellectual thought underlying much of this work (e.g. issues of the Reformation, Neo-Platonism, Humanism, Machiavellianism); and the influence of classical and continental literature.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 4330 3 credits Shakespeare
A study of Shakespeare's plays, with representative selections from the histories, the tragedies and both the early and the late comedies.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 4430 3 credits Major American Writers
An intensive study of selected major American writers.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 4500 3 credits Women and Mythology: Goddess, Witch, Sibyl
This course takes a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to numinous images of the feminine as they appear internationally. By exploring pre-historical, historical and contemporary manifestations of goddess-centered mythology and religious practices around the world, students will broaden their understanding of women's contributions to the literary and spiritual traditions of many cultures.
Components: Lecture
Cross Offering: WOMSTD 4500
GE: Gender Studies, Humanities, International Education
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 4530 3 credits Literature and the Critic
An examination and evaluation of theories of literature and the role of the artist in society from Plato to the present, including such writers as Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Sidney, Lessing, Schlegel, Arnold, Sainte-Beuve, Eliot, Richards, Frye and Bush.
Components: Lecture
GE: Humanities
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 4620 3 credits History of the English Language
Beginning with the relationship between the Indo-European languages, this course traces the origins of writing and the historical development of English grammar, vocabulary and sound systems from Old to Modern English, including American and Colonial. It surveys language change within its historical, political, cultural and technological contexts, including how these forces may shape our language's future.
Components: Lecture
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 4670 3 credits Methods of Teaching English As a Second Language
Examines the characteristics of second or other language acquisition and how they influence the effectiveness of different methods of teaching English as a Second Language. Includes teacher/learner characteristics and strategies, teaching varieties of language, review of methodologies, communicative competence and syllabus design.
Components: Lecture
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 4680 1 - 8 credits Writing/Editing Internship
Enhancement of the educational experience through placement of a student with a cooperating agency, business, industry or institution. The nature of the writing or editing assignment, type of experience, number of credits and evaluation procedure are to be stipulated in a statement of agreement between student and department.
Components: Field Studies
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230
ENGLISH 4730 3 credits Teaching of English in Middle and Secondary Schools
The objectives, methods and materials dealing with the teaching of middle or high school English. Does not count toward the English major or minor.
Components: Lecture
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230 and junior standing
ENGLISH 4740 3 credits Practicum in Teaching English As a Second Language
Observing teachers and students in TESOL settings, participating in TESOL teaching and tutoring activities including lesson preparation and evaluating the teaching/learning experiences.
Components: Lecture
Prereqs/Coreqs: P or C: ENGLISH 4670
ENGLISH 4920 1 - 4 credits Independent Study in English
Independent study culminating in a written report or research paper. Each student selects the topic in consultation with the instructor.
Components: Independent Study
Prereqs/Coreqs: P: ENGLISH 1130 and ENGLISH 1230 and senior standing; for English majors and minors only; may not be taken in lieu of regularly scheduled classes