2018-2019 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

CWRT-3040 Poetry –Sp 3 hours Provides guided practice, instruction in craft, constructive criticism, and a supportive atmosphere. Students should leave the course with more confidence about how to read and write poetry, as well as knowledge of the tradition, issues, and forms of poetry. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition; CWRT-2220 Introduction to Creative Writing. CWRT-3050 Creative Nonfiction –Sp 3 hours Intensive study in writing literary nonfiction. Course focuses on sub-genres in contemporary nonfiction: the personal essay, autobiography/the memoir, the short, reportage. Workshop and conference approach. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition; CWRT-2220 Introduction to Creative Writing. CWRT-4030 Advanced Fiction –Fa 2 hours Course provides an opportunity to do high-level work in fiction writing. Workshop environment will be rigorous and diagnostic, but also supportive. Prerequisite: CWRT-3030 Fiction (odd years) CWRT-4040 Advanced Poetry –Sp 2 hours Course provides an opportunity to do high-level work in poetry. Workshop environment will be rigorous and diagnostic, but also supportive. Prerequisite: CWRT-3040 Poetry (odd years) CWRT-4050 Advanced Nonfiction –Sp 2 hours Course provides an opportunity to do high-level work in creative nonfiction. Workshop environment will be rigorous and diagnostic, but also supportive. Prerequisite: CWRT-3050 Creative Writing: Nonfiction. (even years) CWRT-4345 1 hour Creative Writing: Portfolio and Performance –Fa, Sp Course provides an opportunity to prepare a final collection of creative writing in close consultation with the advising professor. Students will also organize and present a public reading of their work. Prerequisite: any two 4000-level creative writing workshops. English (ENG) ENG-0900 Writing Studio –Fa, Sp 1 hour This course prepares students for university-level, academic writing by focusing on the rhetorical situation and exposing students to a wide variety of writing situations for which appropriate audiences, purposes, genres, stances, and mediums must be ascertained. The course aids students with various writing assignments by workshopping drafts in process for composition and other courses across the curriculum. While the rhetorical situation and writing process are emphasized, grammar will be a major focus as well. Co-requisite: ENG-1400 Composition; or permission of instructor. ENG-1400 Composition –Fa, Sp 3 hours Designed to assist the student in developing the skills necessary to meet the demands of typical writing situations, both academic and professional. The course will introduce the student to the common expository writing methods of description, narration, analysis, persuasion, and research presentation. (Fee: $25) ENG-2070 Fundamentals of English Grammar –Fa, Sp 3 hours This course is a foundational course for preservice language arts educators and is a prerequisite for Advanced Grammar. It covers forms and functions of words, pronoun/antecedent agreement, subject/verb agreement, and pedagogy. ENG-2210 Principles of Journalism –Fa, Sp 3 hours An introductory study of the fundamental skills needed for collecting, organizing, writing, editing, and evaluating material for the common types of news stories, along with a consideration of ethical and legal issues for the print journalist. Strong emphasis on developing journalistic writing skills. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. ENG-2230 Advanced Composition –Fa, Sp 3 hours An advanced treatment of the composing process, particularly related to the planning, drafting, revision, and final composition of essays. Writing workshops and peer evaluations are included. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. ENG-3010 Style and Mechanics for Writers –Fa, Sp, Su 3 hours Students will learn to apply reliable principles to make writing clear, concise, coherent, and cohesive. (Crosslisted with PWID- 3010 Style and Mechanics for Writers) Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. ENG-3020 Creative Writing: Short Forms –Su 3 hours Intensive summer study in the writing of specific and various short forms in creative writing (selected by instructor); utilizing a “workshop” approach, with a focus on the completion of a final portfolio. Topics may include, but are not limited to, flash-fiction, the prose poem, and the creative nonfiction short. Prerequisite: ENG-2230 Advanced Composition. ENG-3060 The English Language –Fa 3 hours Historic treatment of the growth and change in the English language with some attention to the ideologies implicit in the development of variant conventions. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. ENG-3070 English Grammar –Fa, Sp 3 hours In this course, students will study the conventions of the English language, which include the grammar and syntax of standard English. Students will use Reed and Kellogg traditional sentence diagrams to analyze and to represent the syntax of English sentences. The course also includes discussions about contemporary usage. Required of all majors with English as a teaching field. Prerequisite for adolescent and young adult language arts majors only: ENG-2070 Fundamentals of English Grammar. ENG-3180 Visual Rhetoric –Fa 2 hours Students will be given an overview of visual design principles and practices related to the technical communication field. During the course, students will build their design acumen by reading widely and by participating and leading coherent, comprehensive discussions. Students will also practice their growing design expertise by critiquing various visual tratments, writing a treatise on the Christian approach to visual communication, and by analyzing visual communication through the lens of a Christian worldview. ENG-3200 Practicum in Writing Instruction –Sp 2 hours This course is designed to explore and practice the various methods and theories essential to the teaching of written expression. Course content includes discussion of and practice with the CCSS (Common Core) writing standards, the writing process, and assessment of student writing. Prerequisite: EDUC- 2300 Assessment and Differentiation. ENG-3220 Advanced Journalism –Sp 2 hours Designed for the student who anticipates writing as a vocation or avocation. The emphasis is on reporting and writing for newspapers and magazines. Topics of study include: beat reporting, developing the in-depth features and series, investigative practices, standards and ethics, community and publisher relations, and manuscript production. Prerequisite: ENG- 2210 Principles of Journalism. ENG-3300 Developmental Reading –Sp 3 hours Includes basic philosophies, testing, evaluation, clinical methods, and materials utilized in the prescriptive teaching of basic reading skills in the language arts content area for adolescent/young adult teachers. Field and clinical experiences included. Prerequisite: admission to the Teacher Education Program. (Fee: $25) Page 260 2018–19 Undergraduate Academic Catalog Course Descriptions CWRT-3040 – ENG-3300 ENGLISH, LITERATURE, AND MODERN LANGUAGES