Courses

ENG 4090: Rhetorics of Resistance

ENG 4090: Rhetorics of Resistance
Oct 24, 2025

Our contemporary global landscape is defined in many ways by the rhetoric of atrocity and the spectacle of human suffering. This course will explore, ...

ENG 3689: Advanced Screenwriting

ENG 3689: Advanced Screenwriting
Oct 24, 2025

The focus of this course is the completion of a narrative screenplay. The semester will be divided into lecture and workshop/table read sessions, focu...

ENG 3679: Screenwriting

ENG 3679: Screenwriting
Oct 24, 2025

This course explores the art and craft of screenwriting for film and television. Through interactive workshops, and screenings, students will learn to...

ENG 5810: Medieval Literature: Manuscript to Screen

ENG 5810: Medieval Literature: Manuscript to Screen
Oct 24, 2025

This course has two goals. First, we will acquaint ourselves with some of the major works of literature from the English Middle Ages, with texts datin...

ENG 4660: History of the English Language

ENG 4660: History of the English Language
Oct 24, 2025

We use language to communicate, build relationships, and create a sense of community. In turn language shapes and reflects a given culture, making it ...

ENG 3662: Advanced Fiction (Prof. Caleb Johnson)

ENG 3662: Advanced Fiction (Dr. Caleb Johnson)
Oct 24, 2025

This course is an intensive creative writing workshop designed to build upon the requisite craft elements of writing short fiction—observation, plot...

ENG 4795: Contemporary American Literature: 1960 - Present (Dr. Michael Docherty)

ENG 4795: Contemporary American Literature: 1960 - Present (Dr. Michael Docherty)
Oct 24, 2025

CATASTROPHE! CRISIS! COLLAPSE! THE NOVEL AND THE ENDS OF HISTORYThe political paranoia and nuclear anxieties of the Cold War met a “crisis of repres...

ENG 3652: Prose (Fiction) (Prof. Caleb Johnson)
Oct 24, 2025

This course is designed to introduce students to the elements that make a compelling, artful short story. To do that, we'll look at our own writing pr...

ENG 4785:  American Literature 1865-1914 (Dr. Carl Eby)

ENG 4785: American Literature 1865-1914 (Dr. Carl Eby)
Oct 24, 2025

American Realism, Regionalism, and NaturalismExplore American literature during the Gilded Age — the age dominated by literary realism, regionalism,...

English 2080: Writing for Change (Dr. Bethany Mannon)

English 2080: Writing for Change (Dr. Bethany Mannon)
Oct 24, 2025

This course asks how we can use writing to advocate for the safety, equality, & flourishing of other humans. By studying the rhetoric of past and ...