ENGL 005: Developmental English Composition 3 cr.
An introductory writing course that stresses the development of multi-paragraph expository essays. Teaches how to create a thesis and develop it in unified paragraphs; includes a review of grammar and spelling as well as practice in the techniques of critical reading. Does not satisfy general education requirement for freshman composition. Three hours of lecture. Grading is on a pass-no credit basis.

ENGL 100: English Grammar Review 3 cr.
A review of the fundamentals of grammar and punctuation. Emphasizes techniques for avoiding the most common problems in sentence structure and most common errors in mechanics. Does not satisfy general education requirement for freshman composition. Three hours of lecture. Grading is on a pass-no credit basis.

ENGL 105: English Composition I* 3 cr.
A writing course that stresses exposition and argumentation and introduces students to library research. Employs selected readings to illustrate a variety of rhetorical strategies and to enhance critical reading skills. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 115: English Composition II* 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENGL 105. A writing course that further develops the writing, research, and critical reading skills acquired in ENGL 105. Emphasizes the analysis and interpretation of literature. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 115H: Honors English Composition II* 3 cr.
Prerequisite: English 105 and consent of the department. A section of ENGL 115 open to students who have tested out of or performed exceptionally well in ENGL 105. Offers reading and writing assignments enriched for accelerated learning. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 205: Survey of English Literature I* 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENGL 115. A survey of the literature from the beginnings of the language through the eighteenth century. Emphasizes such writers as Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Swift, and Pope. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 206: Survey of English Literature II* 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENGL 115. A survey of the literature from the end of the eighteenth century to the present. Emphasizes such writers as Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Joyce, and Woolf. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 207: Survey of American Literature* 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENGL 115. A survey of the literature from the colonial period to the present. Emphasizes such writers as Edwards, Franklin, Whitman, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Twain, Eliot, and Faulkner. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 215: Introduction to Fiction* 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENGL 115. An introduction to the short story, the novella, and the novel. Emphasizes works by American and British writers, with some attention to works in translation from other cultures. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 216: Introduction to Poetry and Drama* 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENGL 115. An introduction to the lyric, the ballad, and other poetic forms and to tragedy, comedy, and other dramatic forms. Emphasizes works by American and British writers, with some attention to works in translation from other cultures. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 225: Tutoring Writing 1 cr.
Prerequisite: ENGL 105 and 115 with a GPA in those courses of 3.5 and consent of the Coordinator of the Writing Center. A writing course that offers practical experience in tutoring other students in the Writing Center. Emphasizes the writing process and strategies for helping others improve their writing. May be repeated for up to three hours credit. One hour of lecture, three hours of laboratory.

ENGL 226: Advanced Composition 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENGL 115. A generalized writing course for those wishing to improve their ability to communicate to a non-technical audience. Gives some attention to argumentation but focuses on exposition, description, and narration. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 301: Introduction to Linguistics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of syntax, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics. Emphasizes sociolinguistic topics such as dialectal variation, attitudes about language change, and differing conceptions of correctness and propriety. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 308: Survey of African-American Literature  3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A survey of literature written by African-Americans from the colonial period to the present. Emphasizes such writers as Douglas, Hughes, Wright, Ellison, Brooks, Baldwin, and Morrison. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 315: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. The origin, development, and common themes of fantasy and science fiction as literary and cinematic subgenres, with attention to the distinguishing traits of these subgenres, their social and literary functions, and their variations from mainstream fiction. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 321: Literature of the Bible 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of selections from the Old and New Testaments that represent such literary forms as the epic, lyric poetry, and tragedy. Emphasizes selections' literary value and their influence on British and American literature. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 325: Technical Writing 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A specialized writing course for students in the sciences, computer science, engineering, and agriculture. Emphasizes proposals, reports, technical papers, and correspondence. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 326: Writing in the Humanities  3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A specialized writing course for students in the humanities, including the arts and social sciences. Emphasizes analysis, explication, and evaluation. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 328: Writing Fiction and Poetry I 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. An introductory creative writing course that offers workshop criticism of student work. For fiction, emphasizes techniques of point of view, dialogue, setting, and characterization; for poetry, techniques of open and closed forms, with special attention to contemporary methods. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 390: Special Topics  3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement or consent of the department. May be repeated for credit for a maximum of six semester hours. Various topics selected from the areas of literature, writing, linguistics, film, or pedagogy and intended for the nonspecialist. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 400: History of the English Language 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of the development of the language from Old English to Modern English. Emphasizes changes in grammar, phonology, and vocabulary. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 405: Early Classics in Translation 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A survey of epic, lyric, and dramatic literature, in translation, from the Greek and Roman period to late medieval times. Emphasizes such writers as Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, Ovid, Horace, Virgil, and Dante. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 406: Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A close study of The Canterbury Tales with some attention to Chaucer's other works and his language. Places Chaucer in historical context; considers his use of such medieval genres as the fabliau, the beast fable, and the romance; and explores the issue of the collection's artistic unity. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 407: Studies in Medieval Literature 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of a related body of works from the middle ages. Emphasizes a genre such as drama or a theme such as Arthurian legend. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 408: Shakespeare: Early Works  3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of Shakespeare's developing artistry to about 1600. Emphasizes the drama, with some attention to the poetry and the intellectual and cultural milieu. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 409: Shakespeare: Later Works  3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of Shakespeare's maturing artistry after about 1600. Emphasizes achievements in drama, with some attention to the poetry and the intellectual and cultural milieu. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 410: Renaissance Poetry and Drama 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A survey of the poetry from about 1500 to about 1600 and of the non-Shakespearean drama from about 1500 to the closing of the theaters in 1642. Emphasizes such authors as Wyatt, Sydney, Spenser, Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 420: Milton and Early Seventeenth-Century British Poetry 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of Milton's major poetry and that of other poets writing between 1600 and the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Focuses on Paradise Lost and on works of such poets as Donne, Herbert, and Marvell. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 428: Writing Fiction and Poetry II 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENGL 328 or consent of the department. An advanced creative writing course that offers workshop criticism of student work. For fiction, emphasizes techniques of point of view, dialogue, setting, and characterization; for poetry, techniques of open and closed forms, with special attention to contemporary methods. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 430: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of the literature from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to about 1798, with attention to the emergence of neoclassicism and other aspects of the intellectual and artistic milieu. Emphasizes such writers as Dryden, Wycherly, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and Goldsmith. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 435: The British Novel to 1900  3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of the development of the British novel from its beginnings through the nineteenth century. Emphasizes such writers as Fielding, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontes, Eliot, and Hardy. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 440: The British Romantic Period 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of British literature from about 1780 to the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837. Emphasizes such writers as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hazlitt, and de Quincey. Three hours lecture.

ENGL 450: The British Victorian Period 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of British literature from the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her death in 1901. Emphasizes such writers as the Brownings, Tennyson, Arnold, the Rossettis, Carlyle, Ruskin, and Pater. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 455: Modern Drama 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of developments in British and American drama from about 1870 to the present, with some attention to European influences and contemporaries. Emphasizes such writers as Ibsen, Shaw, Beckett, Pinter, O'Neill, Williams, Brecht, and Albee. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 460: Modern Fiction 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of developments in British and American fiction from about 1900 to the present. Emphasizes such writers as Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Forster, Faulkner, Hemingway, and Bellow. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 465: Modern Poetry 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of developments in British and American poetry from about 1870 to the present. Emphasizes such poets as Hopkins, Eliot, Yeats, Pound, Frost, Stevens, Roethke, and Rich. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 470: American Literature to 1860 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A survey of colonial and pre-Civil War American Literature. Emphasizes such authors as Edwards, Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, and Melville. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 471: American Literature Since 1860 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A survey of American literature from the Civil War to the present. Emphasizes such authors as Dickinson, Twain, Crane, Eliot, Frost, Faulkner, Hemingway, O'Neill, and Hughes. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 475: American Novel to 1900 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of developments in the novel from the beginnings to 1900. Emphasizes such writers as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Howells, and Crane. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 478: Literature of the South 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A study of developments in the literature written by Southerners, with some attention to the historical and cultural backgrounds. Emphasizes such writers as Cable, Chopin, Faulkner, O'Connor, Welty, Williams, and Warren. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 480: Theory and Practice of Literary Criticism 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of nine hours of literature and consent of the department. A capstone course for English majors that surveys critical theory from the ancient Greeks to the present and requires students to apply recent theories to selected works. Emphasizes such twentieth-century movements as New Criticism, psychoanalysis, feminism, deconstruction, New Historicism, and reader-response criticism. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 485: World Literature  3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement. A survey of literature representing Latin American, European, African, Asian, and Middle Eastern cultures. Covers mythology, folklore, and such ancient works as the epic Gilgamesh, as well as works by more modern writers such as Flaubert, Chekov, Ibsen, Marquez, Achebe, and Kawabata. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 490: Studies in English 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of sophomore English requirement and consent of the department. A variable-topics course for advanced students interested in studying a topic more deeply than regular offerings permit. May focus on a major author, a literary period, a genre, literary criticism, creative writing, linguistics, or pedagogy. May be repeated once for credit. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 495: Independent Studies in English 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Completion of six hours of English at the 300 level or above and consent of the department. A special-topics course that permits students who have demonstrated exceptional competence to pursue a special interest under the direction of a faculty member. Involves extensive readings, original research, and a series of reports or critical analyses. May be repeated once for credit. Three hours of research.

ENGL 499: Writing Internship 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENGL 325 or 326, senior standing, at least a 3.0 grade point average, and consent of the department. A writing course offering professional writing experience for English majors or students in the Writing Specialization. Usually involves writing and editing for a local business or governmental agency. Ten to fifteen hours of laboratory per week. Grading is on a pass-no credit basis.

ENGL 600: History of the English Language 3 cr.
A study of the development of the language from Old English to Modern English. Emphasizes changes in grammar, phonology, and vocabulary. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 605: Early Classics in Translation 3 cr.
A survey of epic, lyric, and dramatic literature, in translation, from the Greek and Roman period to late medieval times. Emphasizes such writers as Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, Ovid, Horace, Virgil, and Dante. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 606: Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales  3 cr.
A close study of The Canterbury Tales with some attention to Chaucer's other works and his language. Places Chaucer in historical context; considers his use of such medieval genres as the fabliau, the beast fable, and the romance; and explores the issue of the collection's artistic unity. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 607: Studies in Medieval Literature 3 cr.
A study of a related body of works from the middle ages. Emphasizes a genre such as drama or a theme such as Arthurian legend. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 608: Shakespeare: Early Works 3 cr.
A study of Shakespeare's developing artistry to about 1600. Emphasizes the drama, with some attention to the poetry and the intellectual and cultural milieu. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 609: Shakespeare: Later Works 3 cr.
A study of Shakespeare's maturing artistry after about 1600. Emphasizes achievements in drama, with some attention to the poetry and the intellectual and cultural milieu. Three hours of lecture. 

ENGL 610: Renaissance Poetry and Drama 3 cr.
A survey of the poetry from about 1500 to about 1600 and of the non-Shakespearean drama from about 1500 to the closing of the theaters in 1642. Emphasizes such authors as Wyatt, Sydney, Spenser, Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 620: Milton and Early Seventeenth-Century British Poetry 3 cr.
A study of Milton's major poetry and that of other poets writing between 1600 and the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Focuses on Paradise Lost and on works of such poets as Donne, Herbert, and Marvell. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 628: Writing Fiction and Poetry II 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of the department. An advanced creative writing course that offers workshop criticism of student work. For fiction, emphasizes techniques of point of view, dialogue, setting, and characterization; for poetry, techniques of open and closed forms, with special attention to contemporary methods. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 630: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature 3 cr.
A study of the literature from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to about 1798, with attention to the emergence of neoclassicism and other aspects of the intellectual and artistic milieu. Emphasizes such writers as Dryden, Wycherly, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and Goldsmith. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 635: The British Novel to 1900 3 cr.
A study of the development of the British novel from its beginnings through the nineteenth century. Emphasizes such writers as Fielding, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontes, Eliot, and Hardy. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 640: The British Romantic Period 3 cr.
A study of British literature from about 1780 to the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837. Emphasizes such writers as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hazlitt, and de Quincey. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 650: The British Victorian Period 3 cr.
A study of British literature from the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her death in 1901. Emphasizes such writers as the Brownings, Tennyson, Arnold, the Rossettis, Carlyle, Ruskin, and Pater. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 655: Modern Drama 3 cr.
A study of developments in British and American drama from about 1870 to the present, with some attention to European influences and contemporaries. Emphasizes such writers as Ibsen, Shaw, Beckett, Pinter, O'Neill, Williams, Brecht, and Albee. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 660: Modern Fiction 3 cr.
A study of developments in British and American fiction from about 1900 to the present. Emphasizes such writers as Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Forster, Faulkner, Hemingway, and Bellow. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 665: Modern Poetry 3 cr.
A study of developments in British and American poetry from about 1870 to the present. Emphasizes such poets as Hopkins, Eliot, Yeats, Pound, Frost, Stevens, Roethke, and Rich. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 670: American Literature to 1860 3 cr.
A survey of colonial and pre-Civil War American literature. Emphasizes such authors as Edwards, Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 671: American Literature Since 1860 3 cr.
A survey of American literature from the Civil War to the present. Emphasizes such authors as Dickinson, Twain, Crane, Eliot, Frost, Faulkner, Hemingway, O'Neil, and Hughes. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 675: American Novel to 1900 3 cr.
A study of developments in the novel from the beginnings to 1900. Emphasizes such writers as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Howells, and Crane. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 678: Literature of the South 3 cr.
A study of developments in the literature written by Southerners, with some attention to the historical and cultural backgrounds. Emphasizes such writers as Cable, Chopin, Faulkner, O'Connor, Welty, Williams, and Warren. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 680: Theory and Practice of Literary Criticism 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of the department. A historical survey of critical theory from the ancient Greeks to the present. Requires students to apply recent theories to selected works. Emphasizes such twentieth-century movements as New Criticism, psychoanalysis, feminism, deconstruction, New Historicism, and reader-response criticism. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 685: World Literature 3 cr.
A survey of literature representing Latin American, European, African, Asian, and Middle Eastern cultures. Covers mythology, folklore, and such ancient works as the epic Gilgamesh, as well as works by more modern writers such as Flaubert, Chekov, Ibsen, Marquez, Achebe, and Kawabata. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 690: Studies in English 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of the department. A variable-topics course for advanced students interested in studying a topic more deeply than regular offerings permit. May focus on a major author, a literary period, a genre, literary criticism, creative writing, linguistics, or pedagogy. May be repeated once for credit. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 695: Independent Studies in English 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of the department. A special-topics course that permits students who have demonstrated exceptional competence to pursue a special interest under the direction of a faculty member. Involves extensive readings, original research, and a series of reports or critical analyses. May be repeated once for credit. Three hours of research.

ENGL 699: Writing Internship 3 cr.
Prerequisites: Consent of the department. A writing course offering professional writing experience. Usually involves writing and editing for a local business or governmental agency. Ten to fifteen hours of laboratory per week. Grading is on a pass/no credit basis.

ENGL 711: Shakespeare and Renaissance Ideas 3 cr.
This course explores Shakespeare's treatment of six concepts of human learning and perfectibility basic to the humanities: concepts of education, art, ambition, honor, love and immortality. Seminar discussions draw upon the classical and Renaissance humanistic traditions which informed Shakespeare's artistic and intellectual milieu; the discussions focus upon the concepts as they appear in Shakespeare's sonnets and in a variety of his plays including Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. Three hours of seminar.

ENGL 721: National Writing Project 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of the Director of the LSUS National Writing Project. This course is the theoretical component of the Summer Institute of the LSUS National Writing Project. It provides an overview of theories of writing pertinent throughout the curriculum and across all grade levels with particular concern for the theoretical issues in the use of writing to help teach content areas. Three hours of lecture.

ENGL 790: Special Topics in Language and Literature 3 cr.
May be repeated for credit for a maximum of six semester hours. Special topics are selected from areas such as major authors, studies of periods, of genres, and of sources and influences; theory of literature and literary criticism; the history of the English language; and modern theories of language and grammar. Topics vary from semester to semester. Three hours of seminar.

ENGL 791: Theory and Practice of Composition 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of department. Investigation into the nature of composition, with attention to practical techniques and immediate implementation in the composing process; heuristics, amplification, ordering: identification of audience, purpose, and strategies. Three hours of seminar.