Fall 2012 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.

Undergraduate Courses

English 1105 English Forum

English 2003 Creative Writing: Poetry (2 sections)

English 2007 Creative Writing: Fiction (2 sections)

English 2009G Literature and Human Values (4 sections)

English 2011G Literature, the Self, and the World (2 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 (7 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 Animating Literature:  Moving from Fiction to Animated Film

English 3601 Studies in Major Writers:  Inventing the Brontes

English 3606 Modern Drama

English 3700 American Literature:  1450 to 1800

English 3702 American Literature:  1870-1910

English 3704 American Literature:  1950 to present

English 3705 American Multicultural Literatures

English 3800 Medieval British Literature

English 3805 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature

English 3806 British Romantic Literature

English 3808 Modern British Literature

English 3903 Women, Literature, and Language:  Renaissance Women Writers in Context

English 4060 Professional Writing Career Development

English 4275 Internship in Professional Writing

English 4300/4390 English Senior Seminar (3 sections)

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

 

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 Studies in Literary and Cultural Criticism and Theory:  Imagination & Inquiry

English 4801 Integrating the English Language Arts

English 4850 Writing a Nation:  From Apartheid to Democracy in South African Literature

English 4901 History of English Language

English 4903 Young Adult Literature

English 4950 Literary History

 

Graduate Courses

English 5000 Introduction to Methods & Issues in English Studies

English 5001 Studies in Old and Middle English Literature:  Chaucer

English 5002 Studies in English Renaissance Literature:  Shaping the English Renaissance

English 5005 Home and Abroad:  Victorian Literary Geographies

English 5006 The Drama of Bernard Shaw and the Avant-Garde

English 5007 Composition Theory and Pedagogy

English 5010 Remediating 9/11:  Analyzing Contemporary Narratives of Fear and Tragedy Across Genre

English 5025 Creative Writing Professional Development

English 5960 Professional Writing Internship