English X13: Writing Skills Workshop
The skills emphasized in this course lend themselves to business or technical writing, as well as journalism or college-level essay writing.
English X429: The Craft of Reading
Class readings include novel excerpts, short stories and memoirs, from classics to contemporary treasures. Weekly writing assignments emphasize analytical responses to the works, while providing the chance to practice writing strategies revealed through close reading.
English X481: Introduction to Public Relations Writing
Learn how to make your message newsworthy based on media conventions so you can pitch effectively and ensure optimum coverage. Learn how to write press releases and email pitches and how to package and sell them. Explore techniques to spread your news through strategic use of new media.
English X468: Writing for Social Media
Learn to write effectively for social media, specifically blogs, Twitter and Facebook. Establish a coherent writing process; learn editing techniques; and examine the interplay among context, content and style.
Teachers earn the certificate by completing a set of tutorials on a range of topics including "What is the Flipped Classroom?", "Differentiation Via the Flipped Class", and "Technology and Resources." Following the tutorial series and webinars, students must design an tutorial for a course of their choosing.
ENG 891: Integrative Seminar in TESOL
Major issues in teaching English to speakers of other languages.
ENG 733: Seminar: Student Teaching for TESOL
Teaching experience with a faculty supervisor who meets with the student teachers both individually and in groups, observes them, and reads and responds to four written papers.
ENG 732: Seminar: TESOL Reading and Writing Skills
The teaching of reading and writing skills to adult non-native speakers of English. Theory and research in ESL and EFL reading and composition, curriculum and lesson planning, teaching techniques and activities, materials selection and development, responding to student work, and assessment.
ENG 731: Seminar: TESOL Listening and Speaking Skills
Theories, research, objectives, problems, and techniques in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. Topics include listening and speaking skills, systematic study of materials and methods of instruction, and preparation of teaching materials.
ENG 730: Introduction to Graduate Study of TESOL
Contemporary theories, approaches, and practical procedures in teaching English as a second or foreign language. Principles and current practices in curriculum development, lesson design, skill development, classroom management, and assessment.
ENG 729: Seminar in Psycholinguistics
First language studies and issues in second language acquisition including theory, methodology, educational implications, age differences, affective and social factors, error, contrastive, and discourse analysis.
ENG 726: Practicum in TESOL
Through assignment as an apprentice and tutor, TESOL students gain experience with methods, materials, and procedures for teaching non-native speakers of English.
ENG 723: Seminar in the Structure of English
Advanced study in the semantic and discourse-pragmatic structure of English from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. Research projects required.
ENG 709: Seminar in Teaching Integrated Reading and Writing
Exploration of the integration of reading and writing from both a theoretical and pedagogical perspective.
ENG 653: TESOL Pedagogical Grammar
English grammar for prospective or practicing teachers of English to speakers of other languages.
ENG 426: Second Language Acquisition
Survey of research and issues in second language acquisition. Required for entrance into M.A. TESOL program. Recommended for ESL/EFL and foreign language teachers and credential candidates.
ENG 425: Language in Context
Introduction to language variation relating to age, ethnicity, gender, region, class, and occupation. Language, culture, and multilingualism.
ENGL 424: Phonology + Morphology
Theories and techniques of phonological and morphological analysis using data from English and other languages.
ENG 421: The Structure of English
Introduction to contemporary syntactic theory and fundamentals of linguistic data analysis.
RHETORIC 179: Rhetoric of Sexuality
This course examines the centrality of sexual difference and sexual exchange to the structuring of societies, cultures, and political life. Possible topics include theories of desire and corporeality; the figure of woman as object of exchange in historical and contemporary contexts such as Sati, prostitution, surrogacy and IVF, and the global traffic in female labor; and an examination of how sexual difference functions as a blind-spot in theories of culture, society, and economy.
RHETORIC 168: Rhetoric of Political Theory
Study of the textual strategies of important works of modern European and American political theory from the 17th through the 19th centuries.
RHETORIC 131C: Rhetoric of Religious Discourse
Consideration of the rhetoric of hermeneutics or biblical interpretation with special emphasis on the mythical, symbolic, and allegorical language as the bearer of persuasive intention.
RHETORIC 122: Rhetoric of Drama
Examination of the way character is created in drama by repetitive rhetorical patterns and the ways themes are defined by manipulation of such patterns.
RHETORIC 110: Advanced Argumentative Writing
Study and practice of advanced techniques of argumentation for students with well-developed writing skills. Ethical, logical and pathetic appeals; control of register and tone; assessment of a wide variety of real audiences; genre studies.
RHETORIC 103B II: Approaches and Paradigms in the History of Rhetorical Theory II
A broad consideration of the historical relationship between philosophy, literature, and rhetoric, with special emphasis on selected themes within the early modern and modern periods.
RHETORIC 103A I: Approaches and Paradigms in the History of Rhetorical Theory I
A broad consideration of the historical relationships between philosophy, literature, and rhetoric, with special emphasis on selected themes of the classical and medieval periods.
RHETORIC 20: Rhetorical Interpretation
Introduction to the study of rhetorical interpretation, treating how the action of tropes, figures, and performance generates meaning in communication: from fiction and other forms of literature, to politics, to film, to visual and material culture generally.
RHETORIC 10: Introduction to Practical Reasoning and Critical Analysis of Argument
An introduction to practical reasoning and the critical analysis of argument. Topics treated will include: definition, the syllogism, the enthymeme, fallacies, as well as various non-logical appeals. Also, the course will treat in introductory fashion some ancient and modern attempts to relate rhetoric and logic.
ENGLISH 31AC: Literature of American Cultures
An introduction to the ethnic diversity of American literature. The course will take substantial account of the literature of three or more of the following groups: African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and European Americans. Topics vary from semester to semester.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1B: English Composition in Connection with the Reading of World Literature
Expository writing based on analysis of selected masterpieces of ancient and modern literature.