620 English Language and Literature

620:002. College Writing Basics -- 3 hrs.
Prepares students with limited writing experience for 620:005; recommended for students who have ACT English scores of 17 or less. Emphasis on reading and writing a variety of increasingly-complex expository texts. Attention to developing and organizing ideas, revising, editing, and adapting written discourse for readers. Does not meet the Liberal Arts Core writing requirement; does not count toward minimum hours required for baccalaureate degree. No credit if prior credit in another college writing course. May be used to help satisfy UNI’s high school English admissions requirement. (Variable)

620:005. College Reading and Writing -- 3 hrs.
Recommended for students who have ACT English and Reading scores of 18-26; students who have ACT English scores of 17 or less are advised to take 620:002 first. Emphasis on critical reading and the writing of a variety of texts with attention to audience, purpose, and rhetorical strategies. Attention to integrating research materials with students' critical and personal insights. Satisfies the Liberal Arts Core writing and reading requirement. No credit if prior credit in 620:015 or 620:034. Prerequisite: UNI's high school English admissions requirement. (Offered Fall, Spring, and Summer)

620:015. Exposition and Report Writing -- 3 hrs.
Conducting source-based research in the academic disciplines; writing and editing research reports; and using writer’s handbook and style manual to prepare scholarly manuscripts. Satisfies the Liberal Arts Core writing and reading requirement. Prerequisite: combined ACT English and Reading scores of 54 or above or 620:005 or consent of department. (Offered Fall and Spring)

620:020. Science Fiction -- 3 hrs.
Development of modern science fiction. Current trends; and parallels and contrasts between science fiction and "literary" fiction. Prerequisite: 620:005. (Variable)

620:031. Introduction to Literature -- 3 hrs.
Understanding and appreciation of the basic forms of literature through close reading of literary texts, including works originally written in English. An option in the Liberal Arts Core; does not count for credit on any English Department major or minor unless otherwise noted. No credit if prior credit in 620:034. (Offered Fall and Spring)

620:034. Critical Writing About Literature -- 3 hrs.
Study of techniques of various literary forms including poetry, drama, and fiction. Attention to processes and purposes of critical and scholarly writing and to documentation. Introductory course for English Department majors and minors. Prerequisite: combined ACT English and Reading scores of 54 or above, or 620:005. (Offered Fall and Spring)

620:035. Introduction to Film -- 3 hrs.
Examination at introductory level of four film genres: narrative, documentary, animated, and experimental; preparation for further work, either individually or academically. Prerequisite: 620:005. (Variable)

620:040. Multicultural Literature -- 3 hrs.
Selected texts from multicultural literatures of the United States (e.g., African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, Jewish American, Native American); may also include texts from postcolonial literatures. Prerequisites: 620:005 or 620:015 or 620:034. (Offered Fall and Spring)

620:048. Major British Writers -- 3 hrs.
Selected works -- including poetry, drama, prose fiction, and non-fiction -- in the literary tradition of England and the British Isles from the Medieval Period to the 20th Century. Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:034. (Offered Fall and Spring)

620:053. Major American Writers -- 3 hrs.
Selected works -- including poetry, drama, prose fiction, and non-fiction -- in the literary tradition of United States from colonial times to the present. Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:034. (Offered Fall and Spring)

620:055. Native American and Chicano Literature -- 3 hrs.
Introductory study of selected American Indian and Chicano literature in a variety of forms: fiction, poetry, drama, myth, and legend. Prerequisite: 620:005. (Variable)

620:060. Tradition of European Literature to 1650 -- 3 hrs.
Masterpieces of Western literature from the beginnings to 1650. Prerequisite: 620:005. (Variable)

620:070. Beginning Poetry Writing -- 3 hrs.
Attention to fundamental elements of poetry -- image, metaphor, rhythm, meter, and word-music -- through reading and writing. Prerequisite: 620:005. (Offered Fall and Spring)

620:071. Beginning Fiction Writing -- 3 hrs.
Attention to fundamental elements in the writing of fiction including setting, narration, plot, characterization, and dialogue. Prerequisite: 620:005. (Offered Fall and Spring)

620:077. Introduction to Professional Writing — 3 hrs.
Emphasis on careers in professional writing; includes history of the profession, career options, professional responsibilities, key theoretical perspectives, lab experiences with industry-standard communication technologies. Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:005. (Offered Fall)

620:102(g). Designing Reports — 3 hrs.
Examining and designing research reports; using designer’s resources to prepare professional manuscripts; conducting research using published sources. Prerequisite or corequisite: 150:080 or 620:077 and junior standing, or consent of instructor. (Variable)

620:103. The Personal Essay -- 3 hrs.
Writing various types of essays (e.g., narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive); attention to stylistic questions and possibilities. Prerequisites: 620:005 or 620:015 or 620:034; junior standing or consent of instructor. (Offered Fall and Spring)

620:104(g). Designing Proposals -- 3 hrs.
Examining, writing, and designing persuasive documents for professional settings: analyses, reviews, and evaluation; problem-analysis-recommendation reports; and proposals. Prerequisites: 150:080 or 620:077 and junior standing, or consent of instructor. (Variable)

620:105(g). Designing Manuals and Handbooks -- 3 hrs.
Examining, writing, and designing manuals, handbooks, and similar professional documents with emphasis on definitions, instructions, and document testing. Prerequisites: 150:080 or 620:077 and junior standing, or consent of instructor. (Variable)

620:106(g). Scientific and Technical Writing — 3 hrs.
Designing scientific and technical documents. Emphasizes audience and purpose, team work, layout/design, and professionalism. Topics include correspondence, specifications, proposals, reports, data and graphics, and web documents. Prerequisites: 620:005 and junior standing, or consent of instructor. (Variable)

620:107(g). Professional Editing -- 3 hrs.
Examination of editing strategies and responsibilities in scholarly and professional settings. Emphasis on understanding of editing resources, editor roles in document development, and the politics of grammar and style. Prerequisites: 620:077 and junior standing, or consent of instructor. (Variable)

620:108(g). Craft of Poetry -- 3 hrs.
Written exercises in forms, patterns, and techniques of poetry. Readings in poetry, including contemporary poetry, with particular attention to poetic structures and strategies. Prerequisites: 620:070 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:109(g). Craft of Fiction -- 3 hrs.
Written exercises in forms, patterns, and techniques of fiction. Readings in fiction with particular attention to narrative structures and strategies. Prerequisites: 620:071 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:113(g). Early Modern Drama -- 3 hrs.
Emphasis on contemporaries of Shakespeare such as Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster; includes selected premodern, Restoration, and 18th- and 19th-century dramas. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:115(g). Modern Drama -- 3 hrs.
Twentieth-Century American, British, and European drama to 1945; may include drama from other cultures. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:116(g). English Renaissance -- 3 hrs.
Non-dramatic literature of the English Renaissance, 1485-1660. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:117(g). 18th-Century British Literature -- 3 hrs.
Major writers of satire, verse, and prose including Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Johnson. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:118(g). British Romantic Writers -- 3 hrs.
Focus on the poetry and prose of the Lake Poets (Wordsworth and Coleridge) members of the Joseph Johnson circle (Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and Blake), and the Leigh Hunt circle (Byron, Keats, and the Shelleys). Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:119(g). British Victorian Writers -- 3 hrs.
Focus on the poetry and prose of major writers (e.g., Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, and Ruskin), as well as on members of "The Fleshly School of Poetry" (the Pre-Raphaelites and Swinburne) and the Aesthetics (Wilde and his circle). Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:120(g). 20th-Century British Novel -- 3 hrs.
Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:121(g). The American Renaissance -- 3 hrs.
U.S. writers of the mid-1800s such as Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Stowe, Douglass, and Thoreau; attention to literary engagements with controversial reforms including the anti-slavery, labor, and women’s movements. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:123(g). American Realism and Naturalism to WWI -- 3 hrs.
Literary selections 1870 to World War I; emphasis on fiction. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:124(g). 20th-Century American Novel -- 3 hrs.
Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:126(g). Short Fiction -- 3 hrs.
Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:128(g). Images of Women in Literature -- 3 hrs.
Images, symbols, and myths of women in literature; feminist criticism. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:134(g). Modern British and American Poetry -- 3 hrs.
Since 1914. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:139(g). Film and Literature -- 3 hrs.
Attention to cinematic adaptations of various literary prose works; aesthetic, cultural, genre, and other factors that influence adapting print to film media. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:142(g). Film History -- 3 hrs.
Survey of artists, historical movements, and styles from silent and sound eras; focus on Classical Hollywood and its alternatives (Soviet, Italian Neorealism, French New Wave, and New German Cinema). Prerequisites: 620:034 or 620:035 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:144(g). Chaucer -- 3 hrs.
Poetry of Chaucer; may include other medieval writers. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:147(g). Milton -- 3 hrs.
Milton's major English poetry and prose. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:148(g). Shakespeare -- 3 hrs.
Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:151(g). Early American Literature — 3 hrs.
Diverse literary and cultural expressions of the American experience from early European contact through the 1820s. Genres include autobiography, religious writing, captivity narrative, poetry, and the novel. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:153(g). American Poetry to 1914 -- 3 hrs.
Examination of selected elite and popular traditions in American poetry from the colonial period to the stirrings of modernism. Includes extended discussion of Whitman and Dickinson in their literary, cultural, and theoretical contexts. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:155(g). European Novel -- 3 hrs.
Major works of prose fiction (in English translation) by writers such as Cervantes, Stendhal, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Mann. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:156(g). British Novel to 1900 -- 3 hrs.
Major fiction writers such as Fielding, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, George Eliot, and Hardy. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:157(g). African American Literature -- 3 hrs.
Study of African American literature in a variety of forms and genres: Black Vernacular (spirituals, blues, jazz, and folktales), slave narratives, poetry, fiction, drama, film, and autobiography. Prerequisites: 620:034 or 620:040 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Formerly 620:057.) (Variable)

620:158(g). Asian American Literature -- 3 hrs.
Texts by North American writers of Asian descent, selected from fiction, drama, poetry, memoirs, oral history, and film. Attention to significant themes, literary innovations, and cultural sensitivity in reading and interpreting ethnic literature. Prerequisites: 620:034 or 620:040 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:161(g). Literary Criticism -- 3 hrs.
Important modern and traditional critical positions and their application to imaginative literature. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:163(g). Theory and Practice of Writing -- 3 hrs.
Detailed examination and application of major theories of writing: formal, cognitive, social, expressive, rhetorical, and contextual. Prerequisites: 620:005 or 620:015 or 620:034; junior standing. (Variable)

620:165(g). Literature for Young Adults -- 3 hrs.
Reading and evaluation of literature suitable for adolescents. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Offered Fall, Spring, and Summer)

620:168(g). Teaching Media Literacy -- 3 hrs.
Theory and practice of teaching media literacy skills; attention to integrating the study of media into existing language arts curricula. Prerequisite: junior standing. (Variable)

620:172(g). Literary Nonfiction -- 3 hrs.
Study of artful texts about actual people, places, and events: selected from memoirs and autobiographies, biographies, histories, journalism, nature, travel, science, and essay writing. Attention to techniques used in creative nonfiction and to issues of accuracy, privacy, and "truth." Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:174(g). Poetry Workshop -- 1-6 hrs.
Advanced peer workshop focusing on relevant genres, techniques, and poets, with emphasis on the contemporary poetic situation. May be repeated for maximum of 9 hours. Prerequisites: 620:108 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:175(g). Fiction Workshop -- 1-6 hrs.
Advanced peer workshop focusing on refining techniques of fiction writing and on contemporary fiction. May be repeated for maximum of 9 hours. Prerequisites: 620:109 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:177(g). Project Management -- 3 hrs.
Individuals and teams develop, design, and produce professional documents for clients. Topics include project planning, resource management, and budget development. Prerequisites: 620:102; 620:104; 620:105; 620:107; junior standing; or consent of instructor. (Variable)

620:182(g). Film Theory and Criticism -- 3 hrs.
Survey of major approaches to cinema including both the early schools (Realist, Genre Studies, and Auteurist) and the post-structural explosion (Marxist, Psychoanalytic, and Contextual Studies). Prerequisites: 620:034 or 620:035 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:184(g). Sexed/Gendered Literature -- 3 hrs.
Exploring cultural constructions of gender and sexuality in literature; may include other media. Special topic may be listed in Schedule of Classes; may be repeated for credit by taking different topics. Prerequisite: junior standing. (Variable)

620:188(g). Seminar in Literature -- 3 hrs.
Topic indicated in Schedule of Classes. Prerequisites: 620:034 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Variable)

620:190(g). The Teaching of English -- 3 hrs.
Preparation for teaching secondary English (7-12); teaching of literature and media, reading and writing, and speaking and listening; attention to curriculum design, language development and use, and evaluation. Prerequisites: 200:128; 200:148; 250:150; junior standing. (Offered Fall and Spring)

620:191(g). Seminar for the Student Teacher -- 1 hr.
Intensive course to integrate 620:190 with the student teaching experience. Offered on credit/no credit basis only. Prerequisite: junior standing. Corequisite: 280:138. (Offered Fall and Spring)

620:193(g). The Teaching of Writing -- 3 hrs.
Theory, research, and practice in teaching the composing, revising, and editing of written discourse for various audiences and purposes; attention to development of writing and language abilities, course design, and implementation and evaluation strategies. Prerequisites: 620:005 or consent of instructor; junior standing. (Offered Fall and Spring)

620:194. Practicum: Tutoring Writing -- 3 hrs.
Training in processes of writing and techniques of tutoring writing; application of training to tutoring students in writing skills and writing projects. Prerequisites: 620:005; sophomore standing; consent of instructor. (Variable)

620:195(g). Seminar in Teaching College Writing -- 3 hrs.
Preparation to teach introductory college writing; focus on designing syllabi, planning classes, and creating writing assignments. Attention to theoretical issues that inform classroom practice. Prerequisites: senior standing; consent of instructor. (Offered Fall)

620:197(g). Professional Writing Practicum -- 3 hrs.
Students undertake individual, supervised writing, editing, and document preparation assignments outside the classroom environment. Assignments vary; may be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: 620:177; junior standing. (Variable)

620:198. Independent Study.
(Offered Fall and Spring)

620:201. Introduction to Graduate Study in English -- 3 hrs.
Introduction to problems, techniques, and tools of graduate-level study and research in English. (Offered Fall)

620:206. Feminist Literary Theories and Practice -- 3 hrs.
Examination of how writers transform society's beliefs about the nature and function of women into literary plots, images, and themes, and how, in turn, these influence society's attitudes toward women. Emphasis on socio-historical approaches prevalent in the United States; attention to British political and French psychoanalytic critics. Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201 or 680:289 or consent of instructor. (Variable)

620:207. The English Curriculum -- 3 hrs.
Theories behind teaching of English and trends in curriculum methods and materials, particularly in secondary English. Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201. (Variable)

620:208. Contemporary Literary Theory -- 3 hrs.
Attention to major developments such as semiotics, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, post-modernism, reception theory, multi-cultural and postcolonial studies, feminism, and gender studies. Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201. (Variable)

620:220. Medieval English Literature -- 3 hrs.
Examination of how medieval English writers transform the cultural, social, theological, philosophical, and ideological experiences of medieval society into literary language, structures, themes, and genres. Literary texts read in the original Old English or Middle English or in modern English translation. Topic indicated in Schedule of Classes. Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201. (Variable)

620:221. English Renaissance Literature -- 3 hrs.
(1485-1660). Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201. (Variable)

620:223. Restoration and 18th Century English Literature -- 3 hrs.
(1660-1798). (Variable)

620:225. 19th Century English Literature -- 3 hrs.
(1798-1900) Romantic or Victorian. (Variable)

620:226. Modern English Literature -- 3 hrs.
(1900-1945). Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201. (Variable)

620:231. American Romantic Literature -- 3 hrs.
(1800-1870). Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201. (Variable)

620:232. American Realism and Naturalism -- 3 hrs.
(1870-1912). Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201. (Variable)

620:234. Modern American Literature -- 3 hrs.
(1912-1945). Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201. (Variable)

620:260. Contemporary Literature -- 3 hrs.
Literature from 1945 to present; may include poetry, drama, and/or fiction. Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201. (Variable)

620:264. European Literature -- 3 hrs.
Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201. (Variable)

620:284. Seminar in Literature -- 3 hrs.
Selected generic, thematic, or critical topic or specific writer; topic indicated in Schedule of Classes. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201. (Variable)

620:291. Seminar in the Teaching of English -- 3 hrs.
Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201. (Variable)

620:297. Practicum.
Graduate-level student teaching. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201. (Variable)

620:299. Research.
Prerequisite or corequisite: 620:201. (Offered Fall, Spring, and Summer)