Graduate Courses

Graduate courses listed as "repeatable" ordinarily count toward nine hours of English degree credit unless otherwise indicated. Exceptions require written justification and departmental approval. Specific emphases of repeatable courses vary by semester and instructor, but they may focus on literary and rhetorical forms and genres; authors, periods, or literary moviements; perspectives from social, intellectual and cultural studies; or literary themes. The Department provides descriptions of spacific courses prior to each semester's enrollment period.

5182 Practicum in Composition
Approaches to the teaching of college composition. Required as a condition of employment for graduate teaching assistants in the Department of English. This course does not count toward degree credit.

5300 Language Problems in a Multicultural Environment
An introduction to the study of multicultural language and linguistics with descriptive, psychological, social and semantic emphases.

5301 Literary Scholarship
An introduction to scholarly resources, methods, theories and responsibilites that guide the study and interpretation of literature in English. Literary texts chosen for detailed examination vary with the expertise of the instructor. Required in first year of M.A.

5310 Studies in English Language and Linguistics
A study of the English language with special attention to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dilectology, sociolinguistics, normal language acquisition, and/or writing and spelling systems. Repeatable with different emphases for up to nine hours of English credit.

5311 Foundations in Technical Communication
A theoretical and practical introduction to the study of writing for science, technology, and the professions. May be repeated with different emphases for up to nine hours of graduate credit.

5312 Editing the Professional Publication
The editing, design, layout, and proofreading of a professional publication. This course is an internship.

5315 Graduate Writing Workshop
A studio course in which the primary texts are student manuscripts. Concentrations in fiction or poetry examine principles and techniques of creating, evaluating, and revising writing in these genres. The course requires class members to review writing produced by other workshop members. 12 hours of MFA credit required.

5318 Effective Communication
An interdisciplinary ctudy of communication in which the studen learns to interrelate reading, listening and writing. Emphasis on writing. Credit applies on to degrees in Interdisciplinary Studies; no credit for English graduate degrees.

5319 Effective Communication
An interdisciplinary ctudy of communication in which the studen learns to interrelate reading, listening and writing. Emphasis on reading. Credit applies on to degrees in Interdisciplinary Studies; no credit for English graduate degrees.

5320 Form and Theory of Fiction
An examination of traditional and current theory and practice in ficction. Major emphasis will be placed on the British/American tradition, but some attention will be given to the practice and theory of fiction in other literatures. For MFA credit only.

5321 Contemporary Fiction
Readings selected from cononical and/or experimental fiction. Recent emphases include experimental novels, novels into film, James Joyce, and Saul Bellow. Repeatable with different emphases for up to nine hours of English Credit.

5322 Form and Theory of Poetry
An examination of traditional and current theory and practice in poetry. Major emphasis will be placed on the British/American tradition, but some attention will be given to the practice and theory of poetry in other literatures. For MFA credit only.

5323 Studies in Autobiography and Biography
A study of selected works in autobiography and biography with special attention to the art forms used in theses works. Repeatable with different emphases for up to nine hours of English credit.

5324 Studies in Literary Genre
A study of one or more literary genres over several historical periods or from a variety of cultural perspectives. The course focuses on genres such as the following: the epic, the novel, the story, the lyric, the pastoral, and the romance. Repeatable with different emphases for up to nine hours of English credit.

5325 Studies in Literature of the Southwest.
Selected Texas and Southwestern writers with emphasis on fiction. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5331 Studies in American Poetry
Selected poets with a survey of their works. Recent courses have investigated one or more of the following: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Southern poetry, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robinson Jeffers, E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot, Denise Levertov, Robert Bly, J. Wright, and C. Wright. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5332 Studies in American Prose
Selected authors with special attention to novels. Recent courses have investigated one or more of the following: Mark Twain, W.D. Howells, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5345 Southwestern Studies I: Defining the Region
An interdisciplinary course that surveys the physical, cultural, and social history of the Southwest, emphasizing architecture, art, literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, and technology. Historical focus is from the Civil War to the Present.

5346 Southwestern Studies II: Consequences of Region
Second course in a survey of physical, cultureal, and social history of the Southwest, emphacizing regional and ethnic expressions of culture. This course moves from the broad overview of the first semester to more specific problems in the region and to the artistic products of regional culture. Historical focus is from the Civil War to the present.

5353 Studies in Medieval Literature
Masterpieces of the medieval period with emphasis on their authors and contexts. Recent emphases include Anglo-Saxon culture, language, and literature; Chaucer; non-Chaucerian medieval literature, pilgrimage literature. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5354 Studies in Renaissance Literature
Emphasis on the great authors of the Renaissance and their variety of genres. Recent emphases include Shakespeare, Tudor-Stuart drama, Renaissance epic, Tudor humanism and literature, Edmund Spenser, seventeenth-century literature and new historicism, and John Milton. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5359 Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Major writers of the period with emphasis on scholarship and aesthetics as well as cultural and historical background. Recent emphases include Samuel Johnson and his circle, Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, and the eighteenth-century novel. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5364 Studies in the Romantic Movement
The works of the Early Romantics or Late Romantics in context with attention to nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship. Recent emphases include Coleridge, the Wordsworths, Shelley and Keats, and Blake. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5366 Studies in Victorian Poetry
Major Victorian poets with emphasis on scholarship and aesthetics as well as cultural and historical background. Recent courses have investigated one or more of the following: Tennyson, the Brownings, the Pre-Raphaelites and Hopkins. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5368 Studies in Victorian Prose
Major Victorian prose writers with emphasis on scholarship and aesthetics as well as cultural and historical background. Recent emphases include George Eliot, non-fiction Victorian prose, and Charles Dickens. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5371 Studies in Modern British Literature
Selected authors with a survey of their works. Recent courses have investigated one or more of the following: Yeats, Wilde, Synge, Auden, and Post-World-War II British Poetry. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5381 Studies in Modern British and American Drama
A survey of major British and American dramatists and their European context. Recent emphasis includes the world context of modern British and American drama. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5383 Rhetorical Theory for Teachers
A study of rhetorical theory as it bears on current approaches to the teaching of literature. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5384 Critical Theory for Teachers
A study of critical theory as it bears on current approaches to the teaching of composition. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5388 Studies in Literature for Children or Adolescents
Alternating between an emphasis on literature for children and an emphasis on literature for adolescents, this course will focus primarily on contemporary works, with an eye to extending the student's knowledge of the literature and criticism in the field. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5389 History of Children's Literature
The history of children's literature from the Middle Ages through 1940. May be repeated with different emphases for up to 6 hours of graduate credit.

5395 Problems in Language and Literature
Recent emphases include literary theory and literary technique. Repeatable with different emphases for up to 9 hours of English credit.

5399A Thesis
This course represents a student's initial thesis enrollment. No thesis credit is awarded until student has completed the thesis in English 5399B. Departmental approval required.

5399B Thesis
This course represents a student's continuing thesis enrollments. The student continues to enroll in this course until the thesis is submitted for binding. Departmental approval required.