The course will give students an insight into the process of becoming a writer for cinema, television, radio. The ethical implications of becoming a writer of true stories, dilemmas in contemporary communications policy and practice: such as protection of privacy and personal information, information ownership, and free speech will also be focused on. Students will also learn how to read published nonfiction writers as models for work, with authority, compassion, and insight. Critical, theoretical, ideological, and historical approaches to film studies will also be considered. Attention will be given to the adaptation of literary works as well as to the influence of film on literature.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 518
Course Name:
Writing for the Media
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 519
Course Name:
Studies in Popular Culture
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will explore definitions of popular culture and survey a variety of critical approaches used in the study of popular culture from a scholarly perspective. The overall objective is to explore the social and cultural context of popular culture products and practices. The course will also examine a wide range of subjects (such as film, television, music, advertising, the internet) using a wide range of critical approaches (such as genre theory, gender studies).
Course Code: ENG 520
Course Name:
Introduction to Creative Writing
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will assimilate the elements of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction working at an advanced level. The students will acquire an advanced knowledge of the generic distinctiveness of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Students will develop their own voices through additional writing assignments, focused readings, and workshop participation, and prepare a public presentation of their work by preparing stories for submission and publication.
Course Code: ENG 523
Course Name:
Modern Poetry and Theory
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course is a critical reading of selected modern poems, both artistic and rhetorical, to explore differences between modern and postmodern styles, methods, and attitudes in the Twentieth century. The course will analyze the often fractious but nourishing dynamics of formation and counter-formation in literature which govern the development of distinct schools and trends in poetry. In the process, it will look at poetics and different literary movements such as imagism, vorticism, open, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, performance poetry.
Course Code: ENG 524
Course Name:
Contemporary Literatures in English
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Contemporary Literature in English will be an examination of literary texts in the wider context of social, historical and political circumstances from which they emerge. Topics will include modern and contemporary fiction, drama and poetry and examination of classic and contemporary critical texts on literature. The texts will be selected in relation to ideas in larger contexts, such as history, the visual image, gender, psychoanalysis and post-colonialism.
Course Code: ENG 525
Course Name:
Representing Gender: Women Writers
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course looks at women’s lives and reflects on what it means to be a woman and a feminist from various sexual, racial, class, and national perspectives. It also gives students an understanding of a variety of feminist theory, use of feminist theory in literary texts, and on the changing aspects of women’s writings over time, circumstances, and social/cultural contexts. The students will examine a variety of different genres; e.g. criticism, novel, poetry, short story, autobiography and attempt to understand the context and complexity a woman writer faces while writing. In this course, we seek to examine how inequalities of class/caste, race/ethnicity, community/religion, nation and sexuality intersect with gender to produce particular politics of visibility and invisibility.
Course Code: ENG 526
Course Name:
Old and Middle English Studies
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will study the original Beowulf and other selections from Anglo-Saxon literature as well as Chaucer and other selections from Middle English literature. Students will learn to read critically, write analytically about what they read, and gain insight on how to write original pieces effectively through class discussions and assigned papers/essays.
Course Code: ENG 527
Course Name:
American Renaissance
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will examine the literary and cultural history of "America" with particular reference to a range of texts ranging from colonial times to the emergence of the new republic. Based on the foundational American assumption that the future can be better than the past through imagination and effort, the Transcendentalists could foresee a culture that would shape a mindset and a community in which the individual would be liberated and a way of thinking would in effect become a way of doing.
Some of the questions that this course will attempt to answer include the connections between writing and culture and the cultural-historical claims and interpretations of the prescribed texts.
Course Code: ENG 528
Course Name:
Readings in 17th Century Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will allow students to work with major genres of seventeenth-century English literature including lyrics, elegies, epics, essays, masques, and pamphlets. Works by Ben Jonson, John Milton, the Metaphysical Poets, and others will be considered.
Course Code: ENG 529A
Course Name:
Literature and Ideas (Religion)
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course addresses questions such as how religion has influenced the creativity of writers differently in different times and cultures and how writers have responded to religion both in its institutional and spiritual forms. The discussion will pivot on different types of literature from the English Renaissance period through the American Puritanical-Calvinistic era to the present time in both the East and the West. The focus will be on how literature expresses major religious themes such as identity and purpose of humanity, death and immortality, divine will and justice.