1976-1977 Academic Catalog

Language and Literature 61 225 Creative Writing - W, S 3 hours An emphasis on writing the short story and poetry to help the student perfect his own style. 302 Creative Writing - W, S 3 hours An emphasis on writing the short story and poetry to help the· student perfect his own style. 305 The English Language - W 5 hours Emphasis on the historical development of the English language and its structure as described by the structural and generative grammars. Required of all English majors. 306 Principles of Linguistics - S 3 hours An introduction to the basic linguistic concepts and an introduction to synchronic and diachronic approaches to the study of language. 307 Advanced Grammar for Secondary English Teachers -A 5 hours A review of traditional grammar with emphasis on current methods of grammatical analysis. Required of all majors with English as a teaching field. Field experience in teaching language is included. Prerequisite: 305 or 306 352 Developmental Reading - S 5 hours Includes basic philosophies, current practices, testing and evaluation for reading disabilities and correction, and methods and material utilized in the prescriptive teaching of basic reading skills in the English content area in secondary schools. Field and laboratory experiences in– cluded. Prerequisite: Admission to the Education Department 322 Advanced Journalism - W 3 hours Advanced study of the fundamentals of journalism with emphasis on gaining experience in writing the news and producing a newspaper. Prerequisite: LL 221 or permission of the instructor. B. WORLD, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE 231 World Literature - A, Su 5 hours Survey of great works of the Western world which reflect the developing continental literary and intellectual thought. 232 Mythology - W 5 hours A study of mythologies, the theories of myth and mythmaking, and the development of myth to modern times. · 233 Early American Literature 5 hours American literature to 1830, emphasis on Bradford, Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Bryant, Cooper, and Irving. 234 American Romanticism 5 hours A study of American writers from 1830-1865, emphasis on Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emer– son, Thoreau, and Whitman. 236 American Realism and Naturalism 5 hours American Literature from 1865-1900 with emphasis on the local color movement, Twain, James, Howells, Crance, Dreiser, and Norris. 241 Early English Literature 5 hours A study of Old English and Middle English writings through Chaucer. 242 English Renaissance Literature 5 hours A survey of English literature and its background with emphasis on Malory, the English Bible, More, Sidney, Spenser, and Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. 331 The English Novel 3 hours A reading and critical analysis of representative novels of the period from Richardson to Hardy. (alternate, odd )'ears! 332 Eighteenth Century English Literature 5 hours A study of the neo-classical poetry and prose with emphasis on Dryden, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Fielding, and Goldsmith.