The Department of English
203 Carlisle Hall • Box 19035 • 817-272-2692 • www.uta.edu/english

By studying literature, rhetoric, and composition, English majors acquire experience in assimilating large amounts of material representative of many cultures and periods. They learn critical approaches to texts that enable them to interpret and compare interpretations, to read closely, critically, and with empathy, to conduct research, to weigh evidence, and to write with insight and expertise.

These skills are widely applicable. They enable English majors to seek out and create careers in education, business, research and development, government, media, foundations, and publishing.

By majoring in English, students are simultaneously involved with two activities that are essentially and uniquely human: language and art. They make contact with the literary classics of America, England, and the world. They learn what men and women have thought about themselves and their worlds over the course of history, and they experience what others have experienced in their own words. They learn to understand the power of language and to use it well.

Admission to Department of English Degree Programs
There are no special requirements that prospective majors in the Department of English must fulfill beyond the minimum 2.0 GPA and the completion of (a) 30 hours in residence and 30 hours of the core curriculum or (b) 12 hours in residence and 40 hours of the core curriculum.

Requirements for a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English
Modern Language
1441, 1442, 2313, and 2314 or equivalent.
Political Science
2311, 2312.
History
1311, 1312, and six hours of English history.
Mathematics
Six hours at the level of college algebra or higher.
Science
Eight hours in a single natural laboratory science (biology, chemistry, geology or physics).
Fine Arts
Three hours from architecture, art, dance, music, or theatre arts.
Social/Cultural Studies
Three hours of social and cultural studies selected from designated courses which have been approved by the Undergraduate Assembly. For a list of approved courses, contact the University Advising Center or the English Department.
Electives
Sufficient to complete the total number of hours required for the degree.
Major
A total of 42 hours to include ENGL 1301 and 1302 (or waivers for advanced standing).
Any two of the following four 2000-level literature courses: ENGL 2303, 2309, 2319, 2329.
30 hours of 3000-4000 level courses. At the 3000-level, the following are required: ENGL 3340, 3351 or 3352, and 3361 or 3362, plus 3371 and 3384. In addition to these required courses, majors are required to take 15 hours of 3000/4000-level literature, literary criticism, rhetoric or theory courses. Before taking advanced work in English, students must apply to the Department of English for an officially designated advisor who will help them prepare their programs.
Minor
18 hours, at least six of which must be 3000/4000 level.
Total
128 hours, of which at least 36 must be 3000/4000 level, plus exercise and sport activities (EXSA/DNCA) or ROTC or marching band as required.

Teacher Certification
Students wishing to take a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English with Elementary or Secondary Teacher Certification must complete 36 hours in English as follows:

• ENGL 1301 and 1302 (or waivers for advanced standing).
• Any two of the following four 2000-level literature courses: ENGL 2303, 2309, 2319, 2329.
• 24 hours of advanced courses. At the 3000 level, all of the following are required: ENGL 3340, 3351 or 3352, and 3361 or 3362, plus 3371 and 3384.
• Certification majors are required to take ENGL 4365 (for Elementary Certification) or ENGL 4370 (for Secondary Certification) and six additional hours of 3000/4000-level English courses.
• The requirement of six hours of English history (see B.A. degree) does not pertain to students obtaining teacher certification.

Students interested in Texas Teacher Certification should consult the School of Education section of this catalog for other requirements and for the most recent changes in requirements regarding admission to Teacher Education, completion of University programs in preparation for certification, and eligibility for certification after graduation.

Option for Minor in Writing
The Writing Option is offered for students who wish to concentrate in writing as a part of their undergraduate curriculum. With the permission of their departmental Undergraduate Advisor, students may enroll in a series of courses and obtain a minor in writing.

Students selecting the Writing Option should consult first with the Undergraduate Advisor in their department or program for approval of the minor, then with the undergraduate English advisor.

Working with advisors, students will select a sequence of advanced courses to fulfill their minor requirements.

Required Courses for Students Selecting the Writing Option:

English 3371.
Nine hours advanced writing electives.

Competence in Oral Presentations
Students obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in English can demonstrate oral proficiency by passing SPCH 1301, SPCH 1302, SPCH 2305, or SPCH 3315 (or equivalent).Competence in Computer Use
Students obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in English can demonstrate computer proficiency by: (a) passing ENGL 3372, 3374 or 4374; or (b) passing CSE 1301 (or equivalent); or (c) passing the University computer literacy examination.

Department of English Faculty
Chair
Associate Professor Morris
Professors
Danahay, Estes, Faris, Kellner,
T. Porter, Roemer, Vitanza, Wood
Associate Professors
Alaimo, Barros, Cohen, Frank,
Lacy, L. Porter, Reddick, Smith
Assistant Professors
Gustafson, Ryan, Sudan

English (ENGL)
Course fee information is published in the online student Schedule of Classes at www.uta.edu/schedule. Please refer to this Web site for a detailed listing of specific course fees.
Prefix and number in parentheses following the U.T. Arlington course number and title is the Common Course Number designation.

0300. READING COMPREHENSION AND WRITING INSTRUCTION (3-1) 3 hours credit. Offers assistance to students who require remediation for either the reading or writing section of TASP. Instruction in comprehending college-level reading material and principles of writing short academic essays in standard written English. This course may not be substituted for any other English course. Credit in this course does not fulfill any degree requirement. TASP Test Preparation Lab required. Includes sample TASP tests, test taking strategies, and computerized instructions in reading and writing.

0301. ESL READING INSTRUCTION AND WRITING COMPREHENSION (3-1) 3 hours credit. Offers assistance to students who require developmental education for either the reading or writing section of TASP. Instruction in comprehending college-level reading material and principles of writing short academic essays in standard written English. For ESL (English as a Second Language) students. This course may not be substituted for any other English course. Credit in this course does not fulfill any degree requirement. TASP Test Preparation Lab required. Includes sample TASP tests, test taking strategies, and computerized instructions in reading and writing.

1301. CRITICAL THINKING, READING, AND WRITING I (3-0) 3 hours credit (ENGL 1301). The critical thinking about, and reading and writing of, referential/expository discourse. Introduction to inventional procedures. Writing assignments focusing on identification and development of a subject, on organization, audience analysis, style, and the revision process.

1302. CRITICAL THINKING, READING, AND WRITING II (3-0) 3 hours credit (ENGL 1302). Continues ENGL 1301, but with an emphasis on critical thinking about, and reading and writing of, argumentative discourse. Introduction to inventional procedures such as types of proofs and claims and the Toulmin model. Writing assignments focusing on the identification, development, and support of propositions of fact, cause, value, and policy. Prerequisite: ENGL 1301.

Information on Sophomore Courses
When registering for the second year of college English, students should consult their course outlines printed elsewhere in this catalog. In general, students may register for any two 2000 English subjects in any order. Transfer students who already have sophomore English credit should not register for additional sophomore English courses before seeing a department counselor. Unless otherwise indicated, six hours of freshman English credit is prerequisite to all 2000-level courses, and six hours of sophomore English credit is prerequisite to all 3000- or 4000-level courses. However, students who complete three hours of sophomore literature with a grade of A may choose to substitute a 3000-level course in place of the other three-hour sophomore requirement.

2303. TOPICS IN LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. May include topics in film and literature, women in literature, short story, and autobiography. May be repeated for credit when content changes.

2305. INTERMEDIATE HONORS EXPOSITION (3-0) 3 hours credit. An intermediate writing course that includes generating ideas, collecting data, determining audience, and organizing material into clear, coherent compositions. May be repeated for credit with permission of the Honors College director. Prerequisite: membership in the Honors College.

2309. WORLD LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit (ENGL 2332). Significant works of world literature with emphasis on ideas and the ways in which they reflect cultural and aesthetic values; emphasis on critical methods of reading, writing, and thinking. Examines at least three genres and six authors. Prerequisites: ENGL 1301, 1302.

2319. BRITISH LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit (ENGL 2322). Significant British works with emphasis on ideas and the ways in which they reflect cultural and aesthetic values; emphasis on critical methods of reading, writing, and thinking; at least three genres and six authors considered. Prerequisites: ENGL 1301, 1302.

2329. AMERICAN LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit (ENGL 2327). Consideration of significant American works with a focus on ideas and the ways in which they reflect cultural and aesthetic values; emphasis on critical methods of reading, writing, and thinking; at least three genres and six authors considered. Prerequisites: ENGL 1301, 1302.

2371. HONORS AMERICAN LITERATURE I (3-0) 3 hours credit. Consideration of significant American works with a focus on ideas and the ways in which they reflect cultural and aesthetic values from America’s beginnings to 1850. Prerequisites: ENGL 1302 or equivalent exam credit; membership in the Honors College.

2372. HONORS AMERICAN LITERATURE II (3-0) 3 hours credit. Consideration of significant American works with a focus on ideas and the ways in which they reflect cultural and aesthetic values from 1850 to the present. Prerequisites: ENGL 1302 or equivalent exam credit; membership in the Honors College.
Information on Advanced Courses

The prerequisite for all the following courses is six credit hours of sophomore (2000) English.

3300. SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. May include topics on Utopian literature, the American short story, Southwestern American literature, and modern British fiction. May be repeated for credit when content changes.

3301. NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION (3-0) 3 hours credit. Study of representative works of the major Russian writers from Pushkin through Chekhov. Also listed as RUSS 3301; credit will be granted in only one department.

3306. TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION (3-0) 3 hours credit. Study of representative works of Russian writers immediately preceding the 1917 Revolution; of writing by Soviet authors acceptable to the Communist regime as well as by dissident voices; of the works from the period of glasnost; and of works written after the dissolution of the USSR. Also listed as RUSS 3306; credit will be granted in only one department.

3339. CLASSICAL BACKGROUNDS (3-0) 3 hours credit. Literature of the Greco-Roman world including, but not limited to, the Odyssey, selected Greek tragedies, the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, and selected lyrics, epigrams, and satires.

3340. HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. American literature from its beginnings as related to the development of American culture; may include the study of canon formation.

3341. AMERICAN DRAMA (3-0) 3 hours credit. Dramatic structure and techniques, as well as the study of drama in its cultural contexts.

3342. AMERICAN POETRY (3-0) 3 hours credit. Examines the forms, traditions, and cultural contexts of the poetry of the United States. May include the relationship between American poetry and poetry written in English elsewhere. May include the relationship between American poetry and poetry written in other languages.

3344. NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Offers an introduction to American Indian literatures or focuses on a particular genre, period or topic.

3345. AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Offers an introduction to African-American literature or focuses on a particular genre, period or topic.

3346. MEXICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Offers an introduction to Mexican-American literature or focuses on a particular genre, period or topic.

3351. HISTORY OF BRITISH LITERATURE I (3-0) 3 hours credit. British literature and language from their origins through the 18th century, as they relate to the development of British culture.

3352. HISTORY OF BRITISH LITERATURE II (3-0) 3 hours credit. British literature from the Romantic period to the present, as it relates to the development of British culture.

3361. HISTORY OF WORLD LITERATURE I (3-0) 3 hours credit. Examines the literature of the world, from antiquity to 1700.

3362. HISTORY OF WORLD LITERATURE II (3-0) 3 hours credit. Examines the literature of the world, from 1700 to the present.

3370. WOMEN IN LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Works by women writers and/or images of women in literature. May be repeated for credit as subject matter changes. Also listed as WOMS 3370; credit will be granted in only one department.

3371. ADVANCED EXPOSITION (3-0) 3 hours credit. An advanced writing course emphasizing writing that explains, demonstrates, or explores a subject. Attention given to audience, invention, style (coherence, unity, and clarity), and to the revision process.

3372. COMPUTERS AND WRITING (3-0) 3 hours credit. An advanced writing course, conducted in a computerized classroom. An emphasis on rhetorical analyses of electronic discourse and writing in electronic environments.

3374. WRITING, RHETORIC, AND MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING I (3-0) 3 hours credit. Introduction to the rhetorical structure of multimedia. An emphasis on composing writing-intensive and research-oriented projects for academic, business, and/or creative audiences. Prerequisites: ENGL 1301 and 1302 or equivalent.

3375. LITERARY WRITING (3-0) 3 hours credit. Focuses on the conventions of narrative, poetic and dramatic works for print and electronic discourses. Attention to figurative language, characterization, dialogue, point of view, and poetic structure as well as hypertext and multimedia. Assignments may include the writing, design, and development of character sketches, short stories, poetry, one-act plays, advertisements, and World-Wide-Web audios and videos.

3384. STRUCTURE OF MODERN ENGLISH (3-0) 3 hours credit. Introduction to the grammatical structure of modern English at the level of the word, clause, and discourse, with applications for effective writing.

3385. SPECIAL TOPICS IN RHETORIC (3-0) 3 hours credit. Various topics including legal rhetorics, American Civil Rights rhetorics, the rhetorics of Cybercultures, and the rhetorics of print and electronic essays, fiction, poetry, advertisements, or video and film. May be repeated for credit when content changes.

3390. HONORS COLLOQUIUM (3-0) 3 hours credit. An interdisciplinary course designed to meet the needs of advanced undergraduates in the Honors College. Prerequisite: participation in the Honors College and/or permission of instructor.

4301. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (3-0) 3 hours credit. The sounds and structure of the English language from pre-history to the present.

4307. TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE 1800 (3-0) 3 hours credit. May concentrate on a topic, on a particular historical era, or on one to three significant authors. May be repeated for credit when content changes.

4308. SELECTED AMERICAN AUTHORS AFTER 1910 (3-0) 3 hours credit. An intensive study of one to three authors. May be repeated for credit as course content changes.

4311. AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1800-1860 (3-0) 3 hours credit. Literary movements, such as Romanticism, in their cultural contexts; may include essays, journals, and poetry by transcendentalists such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller, as well as the fiction, poetry, autobiography, and/or criticism of such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, and Melville.

4312. AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1860-1910 (3-0) 3 hours credit. Literary movements such as Realism and Naturalism in their cultural contexts; may draw upon such writers as Dickinson, Whitman, Twain, Howells, Crane, Chopin, Gilman, and James.

4313. AMERICAN LITERATURE 1900-PRESENT (3-0) 3 hours credit. Examines modern and contemporary literary movements in their cultural contexts. Genres studied may include fiction, poetry, drama, and literary criticism.

4321. MEDIEVAL BRITISH LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Literature of England from its beginnings to the end of the 15th century. Formerly listed as 3303. Credit cannot be received for both 3303 and 4321.

4322. SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Poetry, prose, and drama of the 16th century. The works of Spenser, Sidney, or the sonneteers may be emphasized.

4323. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Seventeenth century prose, poetry, drama. May include a study of Milton.

4324. RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Literature of England from 1660 to 1798, centering on various representative works with attention to literary forms and historical contexts.

4325. CHAUCER (3-0) 3 hours credit. Works of the 14th-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Examination of his works, intellectual milieu, and literary influence.

4326. SHAKESPEARE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Selected plays by Shakespeare in their historical and literary context. May include his nondramatic works.

4330. ADVANCED LITERARY WRITING (3-0) 3 hours credit. Workshop focusing on the art of narrative, poetic, and dramatic works for print and electronic discourses. Attention to the conception, design, and execution of the whole work, rather than to its components. Possible assignments include the writing, design and development of character sketches, short stories, poetry, one-act plays, advertisements and World-Wide-Web audios and videos. Prerequisite: ENGL 3375.

4331. THE BRITISH ROMANTICS (3-0) 3 hours credit. Works of authors from the last decades of the 18th century to well into the 19th century. The works of one or more of the major Romantic poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats) may be emphasized.

4332. THE VICTORIANS (3-0) 3 hours credit. Literature of England, 1830-1900. May focus on major figures, major themes, or issues in social, ethical, and aesthetic thought.

4333. LITERARY GENRES (3-0) 3 hours credit. May include such topics as modern British drama, the continental novel, patterns of narrative. May be repeated for credit as course content changes.

4334. SPECIAL TOPICS: THEMES IN BRITISH LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. May include such topics as the Arthurian theme in literature, innocence and experience, love as a theme in literature. May be repeated for credit as course content changes.

4336. SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Important themes, movements, regions, genres, or cross-cultural relationships. May be repeated for credit when course content changes.

4337. SPECIAL TOPICS: THEMES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. May include such topics as literature and psychoanalysis or literature and revolution. May be repeated for credit as course content changes.

4338. TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Literature of England from the turn of the century to the present focusing on major figures, major themes, or literary movements. May include major Irish works.

4339. RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION (3-0) 3 hours credit. Focuses on the historical development of rhetorical practices from the classical to the contemporary period. Emphasis is on the study of style and the methods of discovering and developing topics, determining audiences, and organizing discourses. Assignments include the writing of both informative and argumentative discourse.

4340. LITERATURE BY WOMEN (3-0) 3 hours credit. Focus on women’s writing in a particular genre or historical period or on a concept or issue of importance to women writers. May be repeated for credit as subject matter changes. Also listed as WOMS 4340; credit will be granted in only one department.

4355. LITERARY CRITICISM I (3-0) 3 hours credit. Readings and discussion of classics of literary criticism from Plato through Pater. Primary focus on traditional answers to the question of the nature and function of the literary critic. Formerly taught as 3327. Credit cannot be received for both 3327 and 4355.

4356. LITERARY CRITICISM II (3-0) 3 hours credit. Readings, discussion, and practical application of outstanding 20th-century methodologies, such as New Criticism, Formalism, and Structuralism. Formerly listed as 3327. Credit cannot be received for both 3327 and 4356.

4365. CHILDREN’S LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. A survey of literature for children; analysis of outstanding authors and illustrators of that literature. Designed for prospective elementary teachers. Prerequisites: EDUC 4301, 4340. Formerly listed as 3365. Credit cannot be received for both 3365 and 4365.

4370. THEORY AND PRACTICE: READING/COMPOSITION (3-0) 3 hours credit. A series of workshops in the theory and practice of reading and composition.

4371. ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING (3-0) 3 hours credit. Emphasis on writing that aims to persuade and convince. Attention to invention (including names and brands), audience (demographics), logic (deductive, inductive, dialectic, the Toulmin model and non-discursive), to case construction and story boarding, and to ethical and audience appeal. Assignments focus on various forms of persuasive and argumentative discourses, including advertising, political oratory, and editorials, and may be prepared in appropriate electronic formats such as hypertext and multimedia for the World Wide Web.

4374. WRITING, RHETORIC, AND MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING II (3-0) 3 hours credit. Advanced study of the rhetorical structure of multimedia. An emphasis on composing writing-intensive and research-oriented projects for academic, business, and/or creative audiences. Prerequisite: ENGL 3374 or permission of the instructor.

4380. CLASSICAL LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Greek and Roman masterpieces of prose and poetry, especially those which most deeply affected the development of Western literature.

4381. MEDIEVAL LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Various aspects of Western literature from the Fifth to the end of the 15th century. May focus on major figures and their milieu and heritage or on particular genres, themes, or topics.

4382. RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Aspects of Western literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries. May focus on Petrarchan, anti-Petrarchan, Platonic, and anti-Platonic poetry; meditative poetry; drama or the relationship of literature and the arts, with special attention to Mannerism and Baroque and Rococo styles. Course may be repeated when content changes.

4383. NEOCLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM (3-0) 3 hours credit. Tenets and dicta of Neoclassicism with examples from the drama, satire, and epic works from the period of Corneille through the 18th century; the growth of Romanticism from its emergence in Enlightenment thought through its displacement of Realism, with emphasis on English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish poetry, fiction, drama, and essay.

4384. REALISM AND NATURALISM (3-0) 3 hours credit. Realistic and Naturalistic fiction and drama from their beginnings in Romanticism through their displacement by Impressionism. Examples drawn from the literature of France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, England, and the Americas.

4385. MODERNISM (3-0) 3 hours credit. Major works of the early and mid-twentieth century in Europe that belong to the movement known as “modernism.” May include study of Freud and literature, Impressionism, Surrealism, and Existentialism.

4386. DANTE (3-0) 3 hours credit. In depth study of the Commedia and of La Vita Nuova as the culminating works of the Middle Ages.

4387. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Contemporary literary forms and movements.

4388. MAJOR FIGURES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Works by writers who have contributed significantly to world literature. May be repeated for credit with departmental permission.

4390. INTERNSHIP IN ENGLISH (0-9) 3 hours credit. Provides the student with an opportunity to apply academic skills learned in English classes to practical situations by working in a business related to the discipline. Prerequisite: academic good standing, junior or senior status, and permission of Internship Director and department.

4391. LITERATURE CONFERENCE COURSE (3-0) 3 hours credit. Requires permission of the department chair and the instructor.

4394. HONORS THESIS/SENIOR PROJECT (3-0) 3 hours credit. Required of all students in the University Honors College. During the senior year, the student must complete a thesis or project of equivalent difficulty under the direction of a faculty member in the major department.

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