Course Description
ENG 099 - Basic English
Credit Hours: 3
Intensive approach to the basics of academic reading and writing with emphasis on grammar, editing, and the coherent and effective short essay. Intended for students who need extra preparation before being admitted to ENG 111. Placement according to ACT or SAT scores and advisement. (Although credit is given for this course, it does not fulfill a general education requirement in writing and is not counted as part of the minimum degree requirements for a Quincy University degree.)
ENG 101-102 - English as a Second Language, I and II
Credit Hours: 1-6
Essentials of English grammar, sentence structure, oral and written composition and reading for the student whose native language is not English. On demand only. These courses do not apply toward a degree. A/F scale.
ENG 111 - Composition and Texts I
Credit Hours: 3
Introduction to interdisciplinary academic writing, with emphasis on critical thinking and reading, inquiry, primary research, and writing as a process. [C1 900]
ENG 112 - Composition and Texts II
Credit Hours: 3
A continuation of the inquiry-based interdisciplinary approach of ENG 111 with emphasis on textual analysis, secondary research, and writing as a process. [C1 91R]
ENG 210 - British Masters I
Credit Hours: 3
Major writers from Old and Middle English periods through the 18th century. [H3 912]
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112.
ENG 211 - British Masters II
Credit Hours: 3
Major writers of the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods.
[H3 913]
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112.
ENG 220 - Major American Writers
Credit Hours: 3
Major American writers from colonial times to the present.
[H3 914]
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112.
ENG 230 - World Literature I
Credit Hours: 3
Poetry, drama, and fiction from ancient times to the 17th century.
[H3 906]
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112.
ENG 231 - World Literature II
Credit Hours: 3
Poetry, drama, and fiction from the 17th century to the present.
[H3 907]
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112.
ENG 250 - Introduction to Language
Credit Hours: 3
This course is for learning about language as it is conceived and described in contemporary linguistics. New research and thinking in this field enter into the various discussions of language and learning in the national media and elsewhere in our culture, and are especially interesting and important to those who plan
to teach in any discipline where language – its acquisition, its structure, its psychology, its philosophy, its social context – is a core concern. This is a required course for those seeking 6-
12 certification in English. Students seeking this certification will learn basic linguistic concepts and their applications to teaching. This course does not fulfill the general education requirement in literature.
ENG 260 - Fiction
ENG 261 - Poetry
ENG 262 - Drama
Credit Hours: 3 (per class)
Three separate courses, each an introduction to reading and understanding a particular genre of literature. (Drama is not an acting course.) [H3 901], [H3 903], [H3 902]
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112.
ENG 263 - Comedy In Literature
Credit Hours: 3
Comic drama from Aristophanes to Pinter and classic comic films; comic satire from Juvenal to Barthelme, including the American humorist tradition. [H3 902]
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112.
ENG 270-9 - Special Topics In Literature
Credit Hours: 1-3
Concentrated courses on various topics depending upon demand and staff.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112.
ENG 276 - Women's Literature
Credit Hours: 3
A study of how women writers from different historical periods address
gender issues in the private and public world. The course will consider how literature both presents and critiques culture and its construction of gender, as well as how it offers new visions and choices for both women and men.
Prerequisite(s): ENG112
ENG 300 - Advanced Writing
Credit Hours: 3
Extensive practice in writing strategies, including argument, with emphasis on stylistic improvement. This course does not satisfy the general education requirement in literature.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature and Junior standing
ENG 305 - Creative Writing
Credit Hours: 3
Study and exploration of the art of writing fiction or poetry or both.
Final emphasis will be determined by the instructor, this course does not satisfy a literature requirement.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature and Junior standing
ENG 315 - Literature of Greece, Rome, and Israelo
Credit Hours: 3
Readings in three major literatures that have shaped the world. Students will read Homer and the Greek dramatists, a selection of major Roman authors, and several books of the Hebrew Bible.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature
ENG 326 - The American Character
Credit Hours: 3
This class surveys American writers who have contributed to an understanding of how the "American Character" has been defined and perhaps altered through the years. Readings will include fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry by writers whose works examine qualities in leadership and defining moments in character through the lens of history, cultures, and gender.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature
ENG 327 - The American Culture
Credit Hours: 3
Students in this class will investigate what has defined "American culture" through different eras of history and from a variety of social perspectives. The readings include poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction and film.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature
ENG 328 - The American Landscape
Credit Hours: 3
Students in this class will read a variety of American writers who allow a study of the land and the landscape as it has contributed to our national and cultural definition being "American."
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature
.ENG 330 - Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales in Middle English
Credit Hours: 3
Intensive study of Chaucer’s language and his most famous and popular work.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature
ENG 340 - The Renaissance
Credit Hours: 3
Major writers, exclusive of Shakespeare.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature
ENG 345 - Shakespeare
Credit Hours: 3
Shakespeare's plays are not just to be read, they're also to be performed. In addition to reading the plays, the class will enjoy Shakespeare on stage if possible and on film whenever interesting film is available. In this class students will see how Shakespeare manages to straddle high culture and popular culture, somehow pleasing both literary sophisticates and mass audiences. Students should expect to learn about Shakespeare and about what happens when Shakespeare encounters film.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature
ENG 350 - The Restoration and the 18th Century
Credit Hours: 3
British writers from the period 1660-1798.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature
ENG 355 - Romantic Literature
Credit Hours: 3
A study of the early 19th century writers called romantic – those writers concerned with nature, the imagination, the local, the exotic,
and the Gothic. Some attention to the debates about Romanticism and rationalism, revolution and tradition. Readings in such poets as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Shelley,
and selected women poets, and to such novelists and essayists as Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and Austen.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature
ENG 360 - Victorian Literature
Credit Hours: 3
British writers from the late 19th century. A survey of the literature and the social context of a period of revolutionary changes in science, economics, religion, and culture in England between 1830 and 1900. The course will involve readings in the poetry, novels, and prose of such writers as Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, George Eliot, Arnold, Hardy, Ruskin, and Emily Bronte.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature
ENG 365 - Modern British Writers
Credit Hours: 3
Writers of the 20th century.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature
ENG 370-9 - Special Topics
Credit Hours: 1-3
Concentrated courses on various topics depending upon demand and staff.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature
ENG 371 - GW: Creative Writing: The Memoire
Credit Hours: 3
This course will be a reading and writing course. Students will read, analyze, and critique excerpts from published memoirs as well as write and workshop their own memoirs. We will consider what is “real” and “true” to the memoirist and to the public for which she/he writes. Students will also be asked to read, discuss, and write with an awareness of the regional, racial, cultural, economic, social, and historical aspects of their own and other’s lives. Active discussion and participation is required. Prereq: Completion of general education
requirements in composition and literature.
ENG 380 - Literary Criticism
Credit Hours: 3
Readings in the theory and evolution of literature and other arts.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature and Junior standing
ENG 382 - Business Communications
Credit Hours: 3
This course will provide the opportunity for students to learn the skills and strategies necessary to become effective business communicators. (Same as COM 382)
Prerequisite(s): ENG 111, ENG 112
ENG 385 - Literature by Women
Credit Hours: 3
A study of how women writers from different historical periods use poems, stories, essays, and plays to address gender issues in the
private and public world. The course looks at how literature both presents and critiques culture and its construction of gender, as well
as how it offers new visions and choices for women and men. Readings include such writers as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature
ENG 400 - Methods of Teaching English and Language Arts
Credit Hours: 3
Designed to prepare the prospective secondary teacher of English and language arts. This course does not count toward the English
major or minor or fulfill the general education requirement in literature.
Prerequisite(s): acceptance into the Teacher Education Program
ENG 470-9 - Special Topics
Credit Hours: 1-3
Concentrated courses on various topics depending upon demand and staff.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirements
in composition and literature
ENG 480 - Practicum
Credit Hours: 1-6
Assignments involving practical applications of knowledge and skills the English curriculum develops. Students will be placed in appropriate settings. Approximately 50 hours of practicum is required per credit hour. This course counts toward a minor in writing and a minor in English but does not count toward an English major. English majors who take a practicum will graduate with more than 124 credits.
ENG 485 - Internship
Credit Hours: 3-12
An assignment in a setting appropriate to the student's career goals. Approximately 50 hours of involvement is required per credit hour. This course counts toward a minor in writing and a minor in English but does not count toward an English major. English majors who take an internship will graduate with more than 124 credits.
ENG 495 - Senior English Assessment
Credit Hours: 0
This course records the student’s participation in the English faculty’s assessment program. English majors must enroll in this course in their senior year and complete all parts of the
assessment program for the department to certify that they are eligible to graduate as English majors. Graded P/F.
ENG 497 - Seminar in English
Credit Hours: 3
Concentration upon a particular author, a particular literary movement, or a particular topic in the field of English. Required of senior English majors.
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