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ENG-220   Approaches to Literary Analysis3 Hours
A foundation for the critical analysis of literature, with emphasis on informed reading and written response to selections from poetry, fiction, and drama, while incorporating basic literary terms and basic theories of criticism. Prerequisite: Major in English, English Education, Writing, or permission of the Division.
ENG-352   History of English Language3 Hours
An introduction to the history of English by the application of varied linguistic techniques to Old, Middle, and Modern English. Includes major units on the English sound system, the origins and evolutions of English, the sources and formation of vocabulary, English grammar and syntax, and English usage and dialect.
ENG-481   English Capstone3 Hours
Leads English majors in a culminating experience of literary analysis. Through class discussion, reading, research, writing, and portfolio development, students will review explorations and connections made in their IWU coursework and then cast a vision for how they might implement what they have learned into constructive life skills.
WRI-481   Writing Capstone3 Hours
A capstone course for writing majors, completing their coursework and complementing their Indiana Wesleyan University experience. Through class discussion, reading, research, writing, and portfolio development, students will be led to reflect upon the character and meaning of their academic and personal experiences and will be challenged to explore how these experiences may be integrated into their future work, both personal and professional.
* Students take either ENG-481 or WRI-481.

Advanced Writing*
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WRI-234   Advanced Writing3 Hours
Develops skills of advanced expressive, expository, and research writing--employing current aims of discourse and emphasizing peer critiquing. Students are exposed to working collaboratively on such projects as group presentations, group research, and essays. Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENG-120 or Advanced Standing in English.
WRI-281   Rhetorical Strategies3 Hours
An advanced study of expository writing patterns and strategies, including research writing. Emphasizes the influence of classical rhetoric on modern forms. Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENG-120 or Advanced Standing in English.
WRI-282   Writing for Results3 Hours
The study and practices of persuasive writing. Includes analysis of pulpit rhetoric, political rhetoric, advertising techniques, and propaganda. Based on classical rhetoric, the course considers the psychological impact of language on behavior. Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENG-120 or Advanced Standing in English.
* Students choose one course from this category.

Upper-Level Literature

Category I (American Lit) Colonial - 19th Century*
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ENG-371   American Renaissance3 Hours
Study of major writers in the period 1830 to 1870 with attention to Emersonian transcendentalism as evidenced in his own work and as it influenced in varied ways the aesthetics and practices of Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman.
ENG-372   Hawthorne3 Hours
Study of Hawthorne--the man, his times, his aesthetics, and his works--centered on his American Notebooks, his short stories and essays, and a selection of his novels, including The Scarlet Letter and The Marble Faun.
ENG-373   American Short Fiction3 Hours
Study of the development of the American short story from Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe through local color writers, experimentalists, James, realists, and naturalists to the great variety of current practices.
ENG-374   American Poetry3 Hours
A chronological study of a selection of classic American poets from Bradstreet and Taylor through Eliot and Frost, concluding with study of a large number of recent and current poets.
ENG-476   American Literature to 18303 Hours
A study of "firsts"--reading in Colonial writings, including voyage and travel logs, polemical works, sermons, histories, biographies, diaries, journals, almanacs, and poetry, followed by study of the independence documents and the beginnings of belles letters: Romantic poetry, essay, short story, drama, and novel.
ENG-477   Melville3 Hours
Intensive study of Melville's work from Typee to Mardi to Moby Dick to Billy Budd. His milieu, his friendship with Hawthorne, his aesthetics, his life revealed in The Melville Log, are considered in relation to his work, but the emphasis is on critical reading of five novels.
ENG-478   Pre-Twentieth Century American Literature - Advanced Study3 Hours
Designed to provide an occasional course emphasizing a specific author or group of authors for advanced students. Offered as a study in Mark Twain, a study in Henry James, a study in Longfellow/Lowell/Holmes. May be repeated under different topics.
Category II (British Lit) Pre-20th Century*
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ENG-361   Shakespeare3 Hours
Focus on Shakespeare's drama, including comedies and tragedies. Methods of study feature analysis of text, integration of selected critical literature, dramatic interpretation teams, informal writing, and a significant critical essay.
ENG-362   Victorian Literature3 Hours
Careful reading of major poetry and prose (Lord Tennyson through Dante Rossetti and John Carlyle through John Stuart Mill) with attention to the historical and philosophical milieu (Pre-Raphaelite painters, for example). Selected critical literature integrated with text analysis.
ENG-364   Romantic Literature3 Hours
Careful reading of major poetry and prose (William Blake through Keats, Lamb, Hazlitt, and DeQuincey) with attention to the historical and philosophical milieu.
ENG-462   Milton3 Hours
Close reading of complete text of Paradise Lost and other works. Analysis will give attention both to the religio-political environment of the English Civil War and Commonwealth and to Milton's special place as a Renaissance and Reformation man who belongs to the small circle of great epic writers.
ENG-466   Chaucer3 Hours
A literary and linguistical study of Chaucer's work, including The Canterbury Tales (read in Middle English). Focuses on Chaucer's themes, era, and style, and on the semantics, phonology, morphology, and syntax of Middle English.
ENG-468   Pre-Twentieth Century British Literature - Advanced Study3 Hours
Designed to provide an occasional course emphasizing a specific author or group of authors for advanced students. Examples: a study in Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, or Charles Dickens. Selected critical literature integrated with text analysis. May be repeated under different authors.
Category III (American/British Lit) Post 1900*
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ENG-360   Modern Drama3 Hours
Intensive reading of selected American, British, and European plays from 1879 to the present. Analysis and critical literature will focus on significant twentieth-century and contemporary theatrical trends such as realism, expressionism, and the absurd.
ENG-365   British Literature of the Twentieth Century3 Hours
Careful study of major poetry and prose (Thomas Hardy to the present) with attention to the historical and philosophical milieu. Selected critical literature integrated with text analysis.
ENG-370   Twentieth-Century American Literature3 Hours
Close reading and critical study of selected works of major American poetry and prose of the twentieth century. Special attention to the characteristics and implications of realism, modernism, and postmodernism.
ENG-430   Contemporary Literature3 Hours
A careful study of selected literature by contemporary American and/or British authors. Selections may include short stories, poetry, drama, and the novel. Focus is on both artistry of language and on the impact of the author's thinking on contemporary culture. Literature includes major selections from minority authors.
ENG-469   Post-1900 British Literature - Advanced Study3 Hours
Designed to provide an occasional course emphasizing a specific author or group of authors for advanced students. Examples: T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, or World War I poets.
ENG-479   Post-1900 American Literature - Advanced Study3 Hours
Designed to provide an occasional course emphasizing a specific author or group of authors for advanced students. Offered as a study in Robert Frost, modern novelists, and postmodern retellings. May be repeated under different topics.
*Students must choose at least one course from Category I, II, and III.

Additional Courses

The following courses are also required:

Literature Electives (not ENG-180) - 6 credit hours

Electives in English/Writing (except ENG-180) - 6 credit hours

Supporting hours in English, Writing, or Education (above 120 except ENG-180) - 7 credit hours

Foreign Language - Intermediate competency in modern or ancient foreign language - 0-12 credit hours

40-52 credit hours

English Minor
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ENG-220 Approaches to Literary Analysis3 Hours
A foundation for the critical analysis of literature, with emphasis on informed reading and written response to selections from poetry, fiction, and drama, while incorporating basic literary terms and basic theories of criticism. Prerequisite: Major in English, English Education, Writing, or permission of the Division.
Students must also take 21 credit hours of Electives in ENG or WRI (except ENG-180), including at least 9 credit hours in upper-level courses.

24 credit hours

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