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  • ENG 413: Creative Writing: Poetry
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This course will focus on the reading, study, and creation of poetry. Students will be asked to read and imitate poems, and to create wholly original poems and share them with the class. Students will also do research into the methods of successful poets. There will be a workshop element to this class so that all efforts are shared and discussed.
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  • ENG 414: Writing for Publication
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    An advanced course in workplace writing, this class will focus on the superstructures of professional writing. Students will compose reader-centered documents, which include prose and visual elements, for traditional and electronic media. For the final project, students will conduct research, develop a portfolio, and prepare writing for publication.
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  • ENG 421: North American Nonfiction Nature Writing
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This course surveys primarily North American writing about human interaction with the natural world. Participants will focus on individual writers and the paradigms they constructed or adopted in trying to understand and foster this interaction. These paradigms will be contrasted with the dominant modes of human interaction with nature in the author�s period. Henry Thoreau, John Muir, Mary Austin, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Barry Lopez, Gary Snyder, and other writers will be the focus. Students will take two tests, write a research paper, and report on one related secondary monograph of the instructor�s choice.
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  • ENG 422: Southern Literature
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This course explores the nature of Southern literature. Students will read novels, short stories, plays, and essays by Southern writers. Students will do research and share their findings with the class.
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  • ENG 423: Film Studies
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    Introduction to Film will look at a variety of landmark films and the critical debates they have spawned. The films presented represent an historical overview of the evolution of this art form. Students will watch films in class and read theoretical works about the films for discussion. Students will also take two exams and write one theoretical research paper about a film.
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  • ENG 424: Special Topics
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    Special topics in the field will be taught as interest among the students and availability of faculty allow. Possible topics include Native American literature, mystery and detective fiction, science fiction, Gothic literature, the short story, and horror fiction. These courses may be substituted for comparable courses in the English program with the permission of the instructor and the student�s mentor.
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  • ENG 425: English Capstone
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This course is designed to provide insight into career options in English and to assess student techniques in English research, editing, and writing strategies from topic selection to the final product of a written text. In addition to discussions of the English field, the course content will focus on the creation of a portfolio of past work and a long research project. The research project will be completed in a series of drafts that will be subject to peer review in a workshop setting. The project will be supervised by the instructor of the course, with a second reader chosen from among the English faculty, and will be defended in an oral presentation at the end of the final semester of study in the program.
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  • ENG 498: English Internship
    3.00 - 6.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This course involves productive, contributing learning experiences in one or more off-campus settings. The student will complete a portfolio of activities and learning experiences approved by the supervisor in the setting. Application for internships will be made at least six weeks before the end of the semester prior to the semester of internship. Internship/Practicum fee applies.
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  • ESL 091: English as a Second Language I
    6.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This course is designed to help non-native speakers of English to become proficient in the use of the English language. Instruction is provided in all the basic skills: listening, comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. English as a second language courses are required for all non-native speakers of English unless exempted by a proficiency test which will be administered by the TESOL faculty. Students will be placed in the appropriate level of ESL courses through testing administered by the TESOL faculty, and will be assigned work in the classes based on levels of competency in all basic skills. Progress will be monitored throughout the course through course work and progress exams. Students placed in 091 may progress to credit English classes by demonstrating proficiency in all areas through an exit exam administered by the TESOL faculty or by successfully remediating any areas of weakness as required by the TESOL faculty. Students who cannot successfully complete the exit exam or the remediation must successfully complete 092 before progressing to credit English classes. This course does not count toward graduation requirements and the grades earned are not included in the grade point average. Fall, Spring
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  • ESL 092: English as a Second Language II
    6.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This course is designed to help non-native speakers of English to become proficient in the use of the English language. Instruction is provided in all the basic skills: listening, comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. English as a second language courses are required for all non-native speakers of English unless exempted by a proficiency test which will be administered by the TESOL faculty. Students will be placed in the appropriate level of ESL courses through tasting administered by the TESOL faculty, and will be assigned work in the classes based on levels of competency in all basic skills. Progress will be monitored throughout the course through course work and progress exams. Students placed in 092 may progress to credit English classes by demonstrating proficiency in all areas through an exit exam administered by the TESOL faculty or by successfully remediating any areas of weakness as required by the TESOL faculty. This course does not count toward graduation requirements and the grades earned are not included in the grade point average . Fall, Spring.
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