English (ENGL)
This course assists the student in developing, through reading and discussion of salient critical texts, a distinctly Christian poetics: a set of principles by which the reader analyzes, interprets, and evaluates literature in a manner consistent with a Biblical worldview.
Offered: Resident
This course provides students with an introduction to graduate-level research and bibliography methods in the field of English.
Offered: Resident
This course inquires into the nature and function of literary criticism and theory, including a review of ancient and modern figures significant to the study of literature.
Offered: Resident
This course examines the literature of the ancient world.
Offered: Resident
This course examines the works of authors that demonstrate a reliance upon, or a demonstration of, Christian belief, analyzing the relationship of Christian culture and the broader literary world.
Offered: Resident
This course explores the works and contexts of major British authors.
Offered: Resident
This course lays a foundation for studying and understanding not only English, but any language, primarily from the functional/typological approach, but also from the generative one. Principles will be learned via text analysis, breaking down a language into its basic constituents relative to its phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse.
Offered: Resident
This course offers a focused study of a specific time period, genre, or major figure in British literature.
Offered: Resident and Online
This course examines Old English language, literature, and culture, focusing on an introduction to the language and the nature of translation.
Offered: Resident
This course examines the work of Shakespeare.
Offered: Resident and Online
This course offers a focused study of a specific time period, genre, or major figure in American literature.
Offered: Resident
This course explores the works and contexts of major American authors.
Offered: Resident
Critical and cultural analysis of the American novel, with a focus on representative works from the American Renaissance to the present.
Offered: Resident and Online
This course focuses on the writing of nonfiction.
Offered: Resident
This course focuses on the writing of poetry.
Offered: Resident
This course focuses on the writing of fiction.
Offered: Resident
This course is an in-depth examination and application of principles and practices of text analysis, both oral and written. Focus will be upon the full range of genres: narrative, procedural, hortatory, and expository discourse.
Offered: Resident
A study of classical skills of argumentation and persuasion, focusing on theory and application.
Offered: Online
This course will allow a student to work individually with a professor or to take an approved course outside of the English program for credit.
Offered: Resident
This course focuses on a special topic in the field of English.
Offered: Resident
This course provides students with a practical working knowledge of the fundamentals of editing and publishing for multiple contexts, modalities, and audiences.
Offered: Online
Instruction, practice, and evaluation of writing for publication in various mediums with an emphasis on diverse audiences, rhetorical strategies, and cultural contexts.
Offered: Online
This course provides students with an introduction to graduate-level research and bibliography methods. In addition, students will practice the primary forms of writing expected of graduate students.
Offered: Online
A study of the relationship between contemporary literary theory and critical practice, with emphasis on using a variety of critical approaches to analyze literary texts.
Offered: Online
This course introduces composition studies—its theory, research, scholarship and pedagogy—and the teaching of academic composition classes. Students will engage in both theoretical and practical approaches to teaching writing.
Offered: Resident and Online
A study of contemporary rhetorical approaches, focusing on theory and application.
Offered: Online
An examination of literary works from around the world beginning with the earliest civilizations through the Renaissance, exploring the diversity of global literary traditions and universal themes.
Offered: Online
A reading-to-write course focused on the literary craft and style of contemporary writers.
Offered: Online
A study of contemporary (post-World War II) fiction, poetry, and/or drama and of postmodern world literature.
Offered: Resident
Offered: Resident
This course is an advanced study of the full-range of English grammar, from phonology, morphology and syntax to discourse.
Offered: Online
This course is an advanced study of the etymology of the English language, analyzing changes in vocabulary, syntax, and development into a world language.
Offered: Online
This course is a study of the periods and major genres of African-American Literature—poetry, prose, drama, vernacular tradition, essays, and non-fiction. Selected major works and authors are taken from all the periods of African-American literature to show the breadth and variety of African-American literary tradition.
Offered: Resident and Online
This course is a study of the theories, practices, and different scenarios of writing to learn, including pedagogy of using writing as a means of learning in the English classroom and within the disciplines.
Offered: Online
This course is a study of some of the world's literary masterpieces from antiquity to the present with particular emphasis on religious texts, diverse literary traditions, and universal themes.
Offered: Resident and Online
This course analyzes the reasons for the rise of English language to a position of global dominance over other major world languages.
Offered: Online
Online Prerequisite: ENGL 602
A course for advanced academic research in English literature focusing on either a substantive research project or the first steps of a literary thesis.
Offered: Online
This course assists students in the creation of their thesis project, including the development of their topic, bibliography, and a formal proposal.
Offered: Resident and Online
This course assists students in the creation of their thesis project, including the development of successive drafts and a culminating thesis defense.
Offered: Resident and Online
Offered: Resident
Offered: Online
Offered: Resident