Fall 2013 Course Offerings

Each course links to a description from the instructor.  Where more than one section is available, descriptions are provided by each instructor.  You can view graduate courses here.  You can view prerequisites here.

Undergraduate Courses

English 1105 English Forum

English 2003 Creative Writing: Poetry

English 2007 Creative Writing: Fiction (2 sections)

English 2009G Literature and Human Values (3 sections)

English 2011G Literature, the Self, and the World (3 sections)

English 2091G Literature, the Self, and the World, Honors

English 2205 Introduction to Literary Studies (3 sections)

English 2601 Backgrounds of Western Literature (2 sections)

English 2705 African American Literature

English 2760 Introduction to Professional Writing

English 2901 Structure of English (3 sections)

English 3001 Advanced Composition (6 sections)

English 3005 Technical Communication

English 3009 Myth and Culture (2 sections)

English 3099 Myth and Culture, Honors

English 3100 Cultural Foundations, I

English 3401 Methods of Teaching Composition in the Secondary School

English 3402 Methods of Teaching Literature in the Secondary School

English 3405 Children's Literature (2 sections)

English 3406 Literature for Pre-Adolescents

English 3504 Conspiracy, Paranoia, & Trauma in Literature and Film

English 3606 Modern Drama

English 3700 History of Reading in America before 1800

English 3702 American Literature: 1870-1910

English 3704 American Literature: 1950 to present

English 3705 American Multicultural Literatures: Complicating Social Justice

English 3800 Medieval British Literature

English 3804 John Milton and the Radical Defense of Individual Liberty: Poet, Prophet, Polemicist

English 3805 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature

English 3806 British Romantic Literature

English 3808 Modern British Literature

English 3903 Renaissance Women Writers: Culture, Genres, & Legacies

English 4060 Professional Writing Career Development

English 4275 Internship in Professional Writing

English 4300/4390 Senior Seminar (2 sections)

EIU 4192G Film and Contemporary Society [Honors EIU Senior Seminar] 

Film 3759G History of Cinema

 

Classes numbered 4750 through 4999 are open to juniors, seniors, and graduate students.  Graduate students are limited to nine hours of course work in this category.

English 4761 Creative Nonfiction Writing

English 4764 Play Writing

English 4765 Professional Editing

English 4775 Gender & Queer Literature and Criticism: Technology & Identity

English 4801 Integrating the English Language Arts

English 4850 Third World Literature: Gender & Geography

English 4901 History of English Language

English 4903 Young Adult Literature

English 4950 Literary History

 

Graduate Courses

English 5000 Introduction to Methods and Issues in English Studies

English 5003 "Unreproved Pleasures Free"?: The Ethics of Pleasure in Early Modern England

English 5005 Objects of Translation

English 5007 Composition Theory and Pedagogy

English 5010 Contemporary Native American Literature

English 5025 Creative Writing Professional Development

English 5091 The Call of Stories: Narrative Theory in the Writing Classroom & Beyond

English 5260 Science and Technical Communication

English 5960 Internship in Professional Writing

 

 

 

Prerequisites & Notes

1.  ENG 1002G is a prerequisite for 2000-level courses and above.

2.  All courses designated with a G (for example, ENG 2009G) fulfill requirements in the EIU General Education Program.

3.  ENG 3010G and 3090G, courses in the General Education Program, do not fulfill requirements in the English major or minors.

Most Recent Catalog

Group 1—Foundation Courses: 1105, 2205§, 2601, 2901* or 3901 or 4901, 2760 or 3001 or 3002 or 3005 or 4761** or 4762** or     4763** or 4764**, 3401*, 3402*, 4801*, 4903*

Group 2—Focused Study in Multicultural Literatures: 2705, 2850, 3705*, 3907, 4750, 4850

Group 3—Breadth in Historical Literary Studies

3A. Literature before 1800: 3800, 3803, 3805, 3700, 3604A, and courses in Group 5 when so designated in this course description booklet

3B. 19th Century: 3806, 3807, 3701, 3702, 3604B, and courses in Group 5 when so designated in this course description booklet

3C. 20th Century and After: 3808, 3809, 3703, 3704, 3604D, and courses in Group 5 when so designated in this course description booklet

3D. Major Author Study: 3601, 3801, 3802 or 3892‡, 3804, and courses in Group 5 when so designated in this course description booklet

Group 4—Capstone Courses: 4300 or 4390‡, 4775 or 4950

Group 5—English Electives: 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009G, 2011G, 2091G‡, 2099G‡, 2602, 2603, 2692‡, 2760, 3005, 3009G, 3099G‡, 3405, 3504, 3600, 3604E, 3606, 3706, 3903, 3970, 4275, 4400, 4444‡, 4644‡, 4752, 4760, 4761, 4762, 4763, 4764, 4903, 4905, 4906

*Required for Teacher Certification only

‡Honors students only

§Prerequisite: ENG 1105, or concurrent enrollment in ENG 1105. Concurrent or prior registration in ENG 2205 is strongly recommended for majors in all courses at the 2000-level and above.

**Prerequisites