English Courses | 2023-2024 Academic Catalog | SIU

This course prepares students for the writing demands of English 101 and of the University. It teaches students processes for developing ideas, developing and organizing sentences and paragraphs, drafting, revising and editing. Placement in this course is determined by a combination of ACT score and a writing placement exam, or by a diagnostic essay exam given the first week of class in English 101.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Core Curriculum) [IAI Course: C1 900] Rhetorical foundations for demands of academic and professional writing, including recognition and deployment of strategies and processes for effective written products in various contexts and for various purposes. Class discussion and readings focus on the function and scope of professional literacy. To receive credit in the University Core Curriculum, a student must earn a C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Core Curriculum) [IAI Course: C1 901R] The second course in the two-course sequence of composition courses required of all students in the University. Using culturally diverse reading materials, the course focuses on the kinds of writing students will do in the University and in the world outside the University. The emphasis is on helping students understand the purpose of research, develop methods of research (using both primary and secondary sources), and report their findings in the appropriate form. Prerequisite: English 101 or equivalent with a minimum grade of C. To receive credit in the University Core Curriculum, a student must earn a C or better in English 102.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Core Curriculum) This course offers an introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry and short fiction. Requirements will include writing exercises, reading and analyzing published poetry and fiction, conferences, and the creation of a portfolio of original poetry and fiction. There may be examinations, journal writing, and/or compilation of an anthology of published or original works.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Honors Program) (University Core Curriculum) This course offers an introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry and short fiction. Requirements will include writing exercises, reading and analyzing published poetry and fiction, conferences, and the creation of a portfolio of original poetry and fiction. There may be examinations, journal writing, and/or compilation of an anthology of published or original works.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Honors Program) (University Core Curriculum course) [IAI Course: C1 901R] Fulfills Foundation Skills requirement for composition. Writing critical essays on important books in the following categories: autobiography; politics; fiction; eyewitness reporting; and an intellectual discipline. To receive credit in the University Core Curriculum, a student must earn a C or better. Prerequisite: ACT score of 29 or higher or CLEP test qualifying score of 57-60 or admission to the University Honors Program.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Core Curriculum) [IAI Course: H3 900] The course offers a critical introduction to some of the most influential and representative work in the Western literary tradition. Emphasis is on the interconnections between literature and the philosophical and social thought that has helped to shape Western culture.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Honors Program) (University Core Curriculum) [IAI Course: H3 900] The course offers a critical introduction to some of the most influential and representative work in the Western literary tradition. Emphasis is on the interconnections between literature and the philosophical and social thought that has helped to shape Western culture.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Core Curriculum) [IAI Course: H3 900] This course introduces the literature of the twentieth century using representative works from the beginning through the close of the century. Course material may be drawn from fiction, verse, and drama, as well as including examples from supporting media (film, performance). Course may be taken as a sequence to English 121, "The Western Literary Tradition", but 121 is not a prerequisite for this course.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Core Curriculum) [IAI Course: H3 910D] This course explores the cultural diversity within American literature. By studying the historical, philosophical, political and narrative contexts attributed to each culture, we will understand a particular culture's interpretation of what it means to be an American, and, in turn, appreciate our racial and multicultural diversity. Topics include the initial encounters between Native Americans and European colonists; Slavery; immigration; African Americans, Eastern and Western European Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and others who represent the American experience as reflected in literature, both in fiction and non-fiction.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Core Curriculum) A theoretical and historical examination of American graphic novellas, comic books and "comix" from their origins in the 1930s to the present, emphasizing the opportunities that a new and developing medium makes available for redefining narration, for social critique, and for examining the historical.

Credit Hours: 3

This course is the foundational introduction to the Digital Narrative Specialization in Creative Writing. It will provide an overview of the rapidly changing landscape of the humanities both in academia and in the world at large. Students will engage with a number of forms of discourse that were unavailable before the 21st century--podcasting, sophisticated narrative games, virtual reality, artificial-intelligence-derived fiction, and others--and will learn why a knowledge of these new media is essential to the contemporary humanist. Students will draft ideas for their possible contribution to "born digital" literature and will acquire the skills, both artistic and technological, necessary to begin to instantiate those ideas. They will also engage in rigorous workshopping of their ideas as well as extensive peer-review and play-through sessions.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Core Curriculum Course) [IAI Course: H3 900] This course introduces students to critical readings of multiple literary genres and requires students to apply a variety of analyses, including approaches adapted from other disciplines, to texts in these genres.

Credit Hours: 3

(Same as HIST 212) (University Core Curriculum) Offers interdisciplinary approach to the study of America and American selfhood, and thus to the central question, "What is an American?". Texts range from novels and films to museums and shopping malls. Issues range from multiculturalism to abstract notions such as citizenship and authenticity. Fulfills central requirement for American Studies Minor.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Core Curriculum course) (Same as WGSS 225) [IAI Course: H3 911D] Examines the ways in which women are portrayed in literature, especially in twentieth-century novels, drama, short fiction, and poetry written by women. Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 120. Satisfies the University Core Curriculum Multicultural requirement in lieu of English 205.

Credit Hours: 3

Offers students practice and reflection in analytical, argumentative and expository writing. Emphasis is placed on understanding the writing and analytical processes necessary for effective integration of findings and arguments into reasoned written statements. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and 102; or 120; or equivalent.

Credit Hours: 3

An intermediate course in technical and professional writing for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Intended for students preparing for careers in applied technology, science, agriculture, business, and other fields where practical writing is a part of the daily routine. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and 102; or 120; or equivalent.

Credit Hours: 3

Topics vary and are announced in advance. Both students and faculty suggest ideas. May be repeated as the topic varies. Special approval needed from the department.

Credit Hours: 3-9

Nature of language and linguistic inquiry. Dialectology, usage, and chief grammatical descriptions of present day American English. Required of teacher training candidates. Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 120 or equivalent.

Credit Hours: 3

Intensive reading and writing, designed to acquaint students with basic terms, concepts and discourse of literary analysis. Satisfies CoLA Writing-Across-the-Curriculum requirement for English majors. Restricted to English majors, English minors and Elementary Education majors.

Credit Hours: 3

A survey of British literature to 1785 (Beowulf to the Romantics). Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 120H or equivalent with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

A survey of British literature from 1785 to the present day. Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 120H or equivalent with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

A survey of American literature to the present day. Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 120H or equivalent with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Core Curriculum) [IAI Course: F2 908] This course proposes to examine the influential role literature has on the cinematic tradition both in the past and present. It intends to emphasize the artistic and visual debt cinema owes to literature by concentrating on major achievements and analyzing them accordingly.

Credit Hours: 3

This course builds on the digital literacy and narrative skills gained in ENGL 208. Students are asked to consider, through a variety of formats, from virtual reality and podcasting to more traditional written genres, what it means to create a narrative for the contemporary world. This course will help to enable students to harness the power of the many new and innovative storytelling platforms now giving rise to previously impossible bodies of work and previously unimaginable creative careers. Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 120H and ENGL 208 with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

This course will provide students with an introduction to the Irish language. Students will be able to communicate, at a basic level, through the medium of Irish on a range of topics. Emphasis will be placed on the spoken language. The course will also include some aspects relating to Irish culture. No prerequisites.

Credit Hours: 3

This course will provide students with continuing work in the Irish language. Students will be able to communicate, at a basic level, through the medium of Irish on a range of topics. Emphasis will be placed on the spoken language and some written work will be required. The course will also include some aspects relating to Irish culture. Prerequisite: ENGL 313A, or permission of the instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

(University Core Curriculum course) (Same as AFR 325) [IAI Course: H3 910D] Poetry, drama, and fiction by Black American writers. Satisfies the University Core Curriculum Multicultural requirements in lieu of English 205. Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or ENGL 120 or equivalent.

Credit Hours: 3

A survey of non-classical mythology and folktales, emphasizing its medieval and modern aspects as well as the use of folklore in major literary works. Readings will cover Norse, Celtic, and Middle Eastern mythology, their use by English and American writers, such as Tennyson, Irving, and Hawthorne and the popular folk-ballad. Students are encouraged to explore other aspects of world folklore in their independent research papers. Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 120 or equivalent.

Credit Hours: 3

To introduce students to types of literature in the Bible while familiarizing them with Biblical texts. Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 120 or equivalent.

Credit Hours: 3

Reading and discussion of short stories by American and European authors. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and 102; or 120; or equivalent.

Credit Hours: 3

Students will read and discuss poems from various genres and across multiple historical periods. Fulfills genre requirement for the English major. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and ENGL 102; or ENGL 120H with a C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

Students will read and discuss various narrative forms across multiple historical periods, from the novel to autobiography, memoir, and the essay. Fulfills Genre requirement for the English major. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 or ENGL 120H with a C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

Students will read and discuss various plays across multiple historical periods. Fulfills genre requirement for the English major. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 or ENGL 120H with a C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

A study of fictional forms and form in fiction through selected readings and exercises. This course is taught by a publishing fiction writer and designed for student fiction writers. Prerequisite: ENGL 381A or consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

A study of poetic forms and form in poetry through selected readings and exercises. This course is taught by a publishing poet and designed for student poets. Prerequisite: ENGL 382A or consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

(Same as AFR 355A) Course traces evolution African American Literature from roots in such Afri-based secular and sacred oral texts as folk tales, work songs, the Spirituals, Blues and other verbal forms, through the emergence of written texts, the eighteenth century up to the end of the Harlem Renaissance in 1940. Among these concerns are the continuing quest for freedom, identity, protest against oppression, and writers interpretations of enduring African American spiritual and cultural values.

Credit Hours: 3

(Same as AFR 355B) Examination of literary texts, voices and movements in the USA from 1940 to Present. Among these concerns are the continuing quest for freedom, identity, protest against oppression, and writers interpretations of the enduring African American spiritual and cultural values. Focus on the major developments in African American literature after the Harlem Renaissance and its impact on the contemporary literature of African Americans.

Credit Hours: 3

Reading and discussion of the major plays. Satisfies CoLA Writing-Across-the Curriculum requirement for English majors.

Credit Hours: 3

Students will engage in work that enhances specific professional skills, such as editing, tutoring, or work with various forms of new media. Topics vary and are announced in advance. May be repeated as the topic changes. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 or ENGL 120H with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

Students will read and discuss literature that reflects the racial and ethnic complexity of the culture in which it is produced. The genre and historical period of this course will vary. Fulfills Multi-Ethnic Literature requirement for the English major. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and 102 or 120H with a C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

Studies will read and discuss critical perspectives on various forms of aesthetic and cultural production and reception. Fulfills Cultural Studies requirement for the English major. Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 or ENGL 120H with a C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to basic intentions and techniques of writing creative prose, through readings, exercises, story writing, and workshopping. Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 120; or consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

Focus upon the writing of fiction, through readings, considerations of form and technique, writing of stories or other narratives, and workshopping. Prerequisite: ENGL 381A, or consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to basic intentions and techniques of writing poetry, through readings, exercises, writing poems, and workshopping. Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 120; or consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

Focus on the writing of poetry, through readings, considerations of form and technique, writing poems, and workshopping. Prerequisite: ENGL 382A or consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to basic intentions and techniques of writing literary nonfiction, through readings, exercises, writing nonfiction, and workshopping. Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 120; or consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

Expository writing. Prerequisite: C average in ENGL 120; or C average in ENGL 101 and 102; or equivalent. Open to English majors and minors or with consent of department.

Credit Hours: 3

To improve the student's ability to read and write with precision and clarity, depending on reading complex material (requiring no particular background for comprehension) and on writing precis of it. Prerequisite: grade of B in ENGL 102; or C in ENGL 120; or C in ENGL 290.

Credit Hours: 3

A course in technical and professional writing intended to provide practical experience with writing and advanced writing technologies. Intended for students preparing for careers where writing with technology is a part of the daily routine. Prerequisite: ENGL 290 or 291; or equivalent.

Credit Hours: 3

Topical undergraduate seminar. Topics vary and will be announced in advance. Required for majors; non-majors may enroll with consent of instructor. Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 120H or equivalent with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

Survey of the structure of English, with emphasis on phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, grammar instruction, stylistics and language variation. Specifically designed to meet the needs of prospective teachers of composition and language arts at the secondary and college levels.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to the language, literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England, with emphasis on Old English heroic and elegiac poetry, exclusive of Beowulf.

Credit Hours: 3

(Same as CLAS 403) The development of the language from its Indo-European roots through Early Modern English and selected American dialects. Emphasis on the geographical, historical and cultural causes of linguistic change.

Credit Hours: 3

Three popular Medieval genres as represented by major texts of the early through the late Middle Ages, exclusive of Chaucer, including works such as Dream of the Rood, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, The Book of Margery Kempe and selections from Lawman's Brut and Malory's Le Morte Darthur.

Credit Hours: 3

Lyric, ballad and drama from the early through the late Middle Ages, including translations of the Old English Wife's Lament, Husband's Message, Wanderer, and Seafarer, as well as Middle English religious and love lyrics and the Robin Hood ballads, with special emphasis on the great plays of the fifteenth century and the rebirth of drama in the Western World.

Credit Hours: 3

Major works including Troilus and Criseyde and selections from The Canterbury Tales.

Credit Hours: 3

This is an advanced course in Digital Narrative. It will provide students with the opportunity to create demos and minimum viable product (MVP) versions of the digital narratives that they envisioned in ENGL 208 and created in ENGL 308, as well as pitches for those projects. Students will apply the skills they've acquired to create working prototypes of sophisticated digital applications (narratives, games, simulations, virtual reality experiences, etc.). They will also engage in rigorous workshopping of their creations and extensive peer-review and play-through sessions. All successfully completed projects will be published to digital repositories and online stores such as itch.io and Steam. The best MVP will be chosen as the subject of ENGL 498, the capstone internship which will lead to publication of the product by SIU Press. This is the final classroom course for the Digital Narrative concentration. Prerequisite: ENGL 308 with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

Topics vary, but usually lyric poets, especially 17th-century metaphysical poets such as Donne, Herbert and Marvell.

Credit Hours: 3

Major works of Dryden, Pope, and Swift, and the non-dramatic specialties of Behn, Addison and Steele.

Credit Hours: 3

Major poets from Thomson to Blake, and major prose writers, with emphasis on Johnson, Boswell and their circle.

Credit Hours: 3

Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and other writers of the era.

Credit Hours: 3

Tennyson, Browning, Arnold and other poets in England.

Credit Hours: 3

Major modernists (Yeats, Eliot, Pound), with selected works of Auden, Owen, Thomas, Heaney and others.

Credit Hours: 3

Representative poems by major 20th century poets of France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Russia, and Greece.

Credit Hours: 3

Trends and techniques in American poetry to 1900.

Credit Hours: 3

The more important poets since 1900.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduce students to the study of religious meaning as it is found in literature.

Credit Hours: 3

Significant writers from the Puritans to the present. May be repeated only if topic varies, and with consent of the department.

Credit Hours: 3

Representative works and authors from the period of exploration and settlement to the Federal period.

Credit Hours: 3

(Same as CLAS 445) A study of ancient Greek and Roman literature, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Goethe's Faust, as to literary type and historical influence on later Western writers.

Credit Hours: 3

Representative texts from drama, poetry, and fiction that have shaped black diaspora aesthetics in the Caribbean, with special reference to black literature of the North American continent.

Credit Hours: 3

Selected works of poetry, drama, and fiction by modern African authors.

Credit Hours: 3

(Same as CLAS 448A) An introductory survey in historical context of the literature of Ireland, including Gaelic literature in translation from the early Christian era (400 AD) to the late 18th century; the first two centuries of Irish literature in English (18th and 19th century); the Celtic Twilight; and the Irish Literary Renaissance.

Credit Hours: 3

Major works, authors, genres, periods, or movements within Irish Literature. Topics will vary (i.e., Irish Women Writers, Joyce and Yeats, The King Tales, 19th Century Irish Writers, the Celtic Twilight, Contemporary Irish Poets, etc.), providing in-depth study in particular areas within the 16 centuries of Irish Literature.

Credit Hours: 3

The novel from Defoe to Austen, including works by Fielding, Richardson and others.

Credit Hours: 3

The Victorian novel from 1830, including works by the Bront? Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray and others.

Credit Hours: 3

Major writers (including Conrad, Joyce, Woolf and Lawrence), with selected fiction from mid-century and later.

Credit Hours: 3

Selected major works of Europe and authors such as Mann, Silone, Camus, Kafka, Malraux, Hesse.

Credit Hours: 3

Trends and techniques in the American novel and short story.

Credit Hours: 3

Representative narratives from the turn of the century to the post-World War II period.

Credit Hours: 3

Representative narratives from the post-World War II period to the present.

Credit Hours: 3

Elizabethan drama excluding Shakespeare: such Elizabethan playwrights as Greene, Peele, Marlowe, Dekker; and Jacobean drama: such Jacobean and Caroline playwrights as Jonson, Webster, Marston, Middleton, Beaumont and Fletcher, Massinger, Ford, Shirley.

Credit Hours: 3

After 1660, representative types of plays from Dryden to Sheridan.

Credit Hours: 3

Major writers (including Shaw and Synge), with selected works of later dramatists such as Churchill and Bond.

Credit Hours: 3

The continental drama of Europe since 1870; representative plays of Scandinavia, Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.

Credit Hours: 3

The rise of drama, with emphasis on the 20th century.

Credit Hours: 3

Varying topics on cross-national and cross-cultural 20th-century drama with focus on theoretical issues.

Credit Hours: 3

Such plays as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV Part I, Henry V and Much Ado about Nothing. Satisfies CoLA Writing-Across-the-Curriculum requirement for English majors.

Credit Hours: 3

Such plays as Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.

Credit Hours: 3

A reading of a selection of the minor poems, of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the major treatises.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to the evaluation of literary materials for junior and senior high school, with emphasis on critical approaches and the multicultural features of schools and society. Restricted to enrollment in English degree program or consent of department.

Credit Hours: 3

Approaches to Teaching Literature introduces students to practical methods for teaching literary texts in junior high and high school. The course may range from practical skills-such as the creation of syllabi, assignments, evaluative criteria, course outcomes-to broader theoretical, philosophical, and cultural issues. Prerequisites: ENGL 102, ENGL 120H, or equivalent with grade C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to strategies for teaching English in the secondary school with emphasis on writing and language. Introduction to assessment of writing perception and skills. Assessment and tutoring of child from the community in writing. Ideally, course should be taken two semesters prior to student teaching. Restricted to: Admittance to Teacher Education Program through CoEHS.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to strategies for teaching English in the secondary school with emphasis on critical reading skills and various genres of literature, including contemporary adolescent literature. Introduction to assessment of reading perception and skills. Assessment and tutoring of child from the community in reading. Ideally, course should be taken the semester prior to student teaching. Restricted to: Admittance to Teacher Education Program through CoEHS.

Credit Hours: 3

Perspectives on one-to-one teaching practices and collaborative theory in hands-on Writing Center experience. Prerequisites: Minimum grade of "B" in both ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 (or their equivalent). Special approval needed from the instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

Advanced composition with emphasis on a variety of rhetorical strategies. Prerequisite: ENGL 290, 390 or equivalent.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to technical communication across the curriculum; open to entire university community. Prerequisite: At least one of the following: ENGL 290, 291, 391, or equivalent.

Credit Hours: 3

Advanced work in the writing and study of fiction including readings, revisions, and workshopping. Prerequisite: ENGL 381A or consent of instructor. May be repeated once for credit.

Credit Hours: 3

Advanced work in the writing and study of poetry including readings, revisions, and workshopping. Prerequisite: ENGL 382A, or consent of instructor. May be repeated once for credit.

Credit Hours: 3

Advanced work in the writing and study of literary nonfiction, including readings, revisions, and workshopping. Prerequisite: ENGL 384, or consent of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3

Topics vary and are announced in advance; both students and faculty suggest ideas. May be repeated as the topic varies.

Credit Hours: 3-9

(Same as ENGL 493) Topics vary and are announced in advance; both students and faculty suggest ideas. May be repeated as the topic varies. Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or ENGL 120H (undergraduates) with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

Cultural Studies exploring various and selected topics in European and American Cinema. A $10 screening fee is required.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to the history of criticism and major recent schools of literary criticism and theory.

Credit Hours: 3

Southern Illinois University Press seeks a motivated, detail-oriented intern interested in gaining hands-on experience at a university press. The intern will primarily support the acquisitions department, which is the entry point for all potential manuscripts. The intern will assist in the publication of the following fields: American history; Criminology; Illinois politics; Poetry; Regional; Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy; and Theater History and Stagecraft. The intern will gain essential, detailed experience in the day-to-day management of these lists while also getting a bird's eye view of the entire publishing process-from initial proposal to published book. Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 120H with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

This internship is the second semester of the year-long capstone experience of the Digital Narrative Specialization and will allow students to participate in the creation of a "shipped" product: a digital narrative creation that is peer-reviewed, published, and curated by the digital imprint of SIU Press. This shipped product will form the basis of a career as a digital design and story professional. Students enrolled in this internship will work with instructors, publishing professionals, and one another to create a single project/product for publication by SIU Press. Students will undertake the roles of, for instance, level designer, sound designer, story designer, and project manager, while simultaneously gaining an overview of the world of professional digital publication. This internship is the final requirement for the Digital Narrative specialization. Prerequisite: ENGL 408 with a grade of C or better.

Credit Hours: 3

For English majors only. Student may take up to nine semester hours to receive credit for internships that may be available at SIU Press, Special Collections, University Museum, Coal Center, Writing Center, Computer Lab and other faculty or unit-sponsored projects. Prerequisite: Written approval from department & academic unit and enrollment in English degree program or consent of department.

Credit Hours: 3-9

For English majors only. Prior written departmental approval required. May be repeated as the topic varies, up to the maximum of six semester hours. Restricted to enrollment in English degree program or consent of department.

Credit Hours: 1-3