English

Course Code	ENGL 374  Credits 3
Title	Theory & Methods: Writing Grades 5-12
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Principles of clear and effective writing, elements of the writing process, research and methods in teaching, responding to, and evaluating writing.

Course Code	ENGL 380  Credits 3
Title	World Literature
Prerequisite	ENGL 101
Lasc Area	Goal 8
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Study of selected world masterpieces grouped by theme or genre. MnTC Goal 8.

Course Code	ENGL 387  Credits 3
Title	Technical Report Writing
Prerequisite	ENGL 101 Limited to junior and senior status
Course Outline	Course Outline
Writing Intensive	Yes
Description	Expository writing dealing with subjects in student's major and planned for a specialized audience: documenting, writing abstracts, preparing reports of original investigations. Recommended for students who have taken classes in their major.

Course Code	ENGL 388  Credits 3
Title	Creative Writing
Prerequisite	ENGL 288 OR ENGL 285
Course Outline	Course Outline
Writing Intensive	Yes
Description	The writing of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, plays, or film. Partly a dialogue on contemporary writing, but mainly workshop. May be repeated up to three times for credit if the genre changes.

Course Code	ENGL 390  Credits 1-4
Title	Topics in English
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Study of a particular literary genre, topic, or theme.

Course Code	ENGL 402  Credits 3
Title	Introduction to Publishing
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	This course familiarizes students with small press publishing and with the various facets of the writing, publication and marketing processes. It also includes an orientation to New Rivers Press, a working non-profit press located at MSUM, and a daylong field trip to various publishing facilities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

Course Code	ENGL 407  Credits 3
Title	Big City, Big Impact
Lasc Area	Goal 6 Goal 10
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	This course uses a variety of texts for an exploration of the environmental and social impacts of big city life, as shown by various writers. MnTC Goal 6 and 10.

Course Code	ENGL 410  Credits 3
Title	Studies in British Literature
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Study of selected topics, movements, or genres.

Course Code	ENGL 425  Credits 3
Title	Grant Proposal Writing
Prerequisite	ENGL 101
Course Outline	Course Outline
Writing Intensive	Yes
Description	Students research significant problems or opportunities in their major fields and research applicable sources of private and/or public funding. In response to the problems or opportunities they select, students will research, design, and write grant proposals for cost-effective programs, including program-evaluation plans. ENGL 387 - Technical Report Writing is strongly recommended before you take this class.

Course Code	ENGL 435  Credits 3
Title	Nature Writing/Ecocriticism
Lasc Area	Goal 10
Course Outline	Course Outline
Writing Intensive	Yes
Description	Ecocriticism is a fairly recent cultural and literary development, the term coined in the late 1970s. This course introduces students to representative ecocritical texts that study the relationship between humans and the environment. Significant attention will be devoted to issues of sustainability, eco-literacy, and the efficacy of literary expressions of environmental value. MnTC Goal 10.

Course Code	ENGL 457  Credits 3
Title	Literary Editing: Red Weather
Prerequisite	ENGL 288 OR ENGL 388
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	This is a production-centered, hands-on class. Students will be responsible for producing a complete issue of Red Weather, MSUM's literary magazine, from screening and selecting manuscripts, interacting with the authors whose work is chosen, to designing and promoting the finished magazine.

Course Code	ENGL 462  Credits 3
Title	Practicum in Publishing
Prerequisite	ENGL 402 OR COMM 402
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	This course is designed to familiarize students to the working functions of a small press literary publishing house through lectures, demonstrations, and supervised group activities such as participating on editorial book teams, writing teacher guides for the website for New Rivers Press books, developing marketing plans, reading tours, distributor marketing packets etc. All projects are presented in class to foster a broader class understanding of the overall activities of a small press.

Course Code	ENGL 463  Credits 3
Title	History of the English Language
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	A survey of the early history of the English language, its sounds and its grammar, emphasizing Old English and its literature or Middle English and its literature.

Course Code	ENGL 469  Credits 1-12
Title	Internship
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Supervised employment requiring substantial writing practice in government or private agency. Repeatable up to a total of 12 credits. All credits apply toward graduation, but only three may count toward a major or writing minor in English. Six credits accepted toward the B.A., Writing Emphasis.

Course Code	ENGL 484  Credits 3
Title	Theory & Methods: CA/L Grades 5-8
Prerequisite	Admitted to teacher ed (SARTE) or instructor permission
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Review of current trends in communication arts/literature education in middle school and junior high (grades 5-8). The course teaches approaches and techniques for teaching and assessing literacy and examining adolescent/young adult literature and media.

Course Code	ENGL 487  Credits 3
Title	Advanced Technical Report Writing
Prerequisite	ENGL 387
Course Outline	Course Outline
Writing Intensive	Yes
Description	Process-oriented writing class that emphasizes theoretical aspects of audience analysis, principles of document organization and design, and technical editing. Students will also learn how to design effective document supplements and visuals. Students will also learn about and use various research techniques. Course is conducted through lectures, group and individual discussions, collaborative writing, and hands-on work in the library and computer labs. ENGL 487 culminates in a professional website and an online portfolio.

Course Code	ENGL 488  Credits 3
Title	Advanced Creative Writing
Prerequisite	ENGL 388 Limited to English majors Students must be seniors
Course Outline	Course Outline
Writing Intensive	Yes
Description	Advanced work in writing of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, plays or film offered once a year in Spring as a Capstone course choice for Writing Majors. Students may repeat course once when genre changes.

Course Code	ENGL 490  Credits 1-4
Title	Topics in English
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	This is an upper division topical course and may be repeated when the topic changes.

Course Code	ENGL 491  Credits 3
Title	Theory & Methods: CA/L Grades 9-12
Prerequisite	SARTE or by permission
Course Outline	Course Outline
Writing Intensive	Yes
Description	Current practices and trends in teaching and assessing communication arts/literature in grades 9-12.

Course Code	ENGL 493  Credits 3
Title	Grammars of English
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	A survey of the history of language study, of the history of the English language, and of the various kinds of grammars: traditional, structural, and transformational.