Undergraduate Catalog 2007-2008
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ENL 130 College Writing
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Emphasizes critical thinking and argumentation: understanding and representing multiple analytical perspectives fairly; applying analytical reasoning; engaging with college-level texts from multiple disciplines, genres, and media; and adapting writing to contexts and conventions of varied discourse communities. Completion of this course with a grade of "C" or better is required in order to enroll in ENL 131. Prerequisite: Placement through SOAR or successful completion of UAS 099 (Basic Writing).
30000

ENL 131 Academic Writing
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Engages students in academic inquiry, research, and argumentation: designing research questions; locating, evaluating, and synthesizing secondary research; performing primary research to construct new knowledge; employing critical thinking strategies to develop arguments with purpose, meaning, and significance. In addition to exploring the influence of traditional print-based genres and rhetorical contexts, students will develop an awareness of how these contexts are likewise affected by emerging media. Prerequisite: Placement through SOAR, successful completion of ENL 130 (College Writing), or approved transfer of 3 credits of college composition.
30000

ENL 201 The Journal
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Orientation to the study of English, focusing on the use of the journal as a tool to integrate reading and writing while creative, logical, and critical thinking are applied to literature.
30000

ENL 202 Writing Across the Curriculum
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Gives students the opportunity to combine interdisciplinary writing and subject matter in order to work with specific community/cultural issues. Students may be asked to write for audiences relevant to their own areas of study. Students may also be asked to write for specific audiences in the Detroit-metro area.
30000

ENL 204 Introduction to Business Writing
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Introduction to the writing of informational and persuasive forms used in the daily activity of business. Special attention is paid to professional standards of writing, the situations business writers face, and expectations of audiences.
30000

ENL 205 Introduction to Creative Writing
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Emphasis on the valuable tension between individual vision and the demands that various genres (poetry, short story, dialogues, drama, etc.) place on the individual's creativity. Emphasizing both practical tools for creative writing and their relationship to nurturing the imagination, the course serves students seeking to discover their own creative voice, as well as those going into teaching and/or upper-level creative writing courses.
30000

ENL 235 The Study of Fiction
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Discussion and close analysis of several forms of fiction, designed to improve critical skills and increase understanding of the genre of fiction and its role as a cultural artifact. By the end of the semester, students should be conversant with the basic elements and terminology used in the study of fiction. In addition, upon completion of the course, students should have an awareness of a variety of critical perspectives.
30000

ENL 236 Diverse Voices in Fiction
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Introduces students to careful literary analysis by focusing on texts drawn from diverse voices in U.S. literatures. Students explore how these authors negotiate the relationships of the aesthetic, cultural, and political in their works, and how interchanges between established and new literatures change each. By the end of the semester, students should be conversant with the basic elements and terminology used in the study of fiction. In addition, upon completion of the course, students should have an awareness of a variety of critical perspectives.
30000

ENL 245 The Study of Poetry
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Discussion and close analysis of poems, designed to improve critical skills, increase understanding of the genre of poetry, and show how poets voice the human concerns of their time. Discussion and close analysis of several forms of poetry, designed to improve critical skills and increase understanding of the genre of poetry and its role as a cultural artifact. By the end of the semester, students should be conversant with the basic elements and terminology used in the study of poetry. In addition, upon completion of the course, students should have an awareness of a variety of critical perspectives.
30000

ENL 255 Studies in the Film
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


A study of the development of film and important films from principal film-producing countries, along with the artistry of the directors who produced them.
30000

ENL 265 The Study of Drama
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Discussion and close analysis of drama, designed to improve critical skills and increase understanding of plays. By the end of the semester, students should be conversant with the basic elements and terminology used in the study of drama. In addition, upon completion of the course, students should have an awareness of a variety of critical perspectives.
30000

ENL 280 Introduction to Media Studies
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Introduces students to a growing field of research rooted in critical analysis of film, television, radio, and digital media. Students combine the study of media theory with the completion of real-world projects that examine the process involved in media production and reception.
30000

ENL 285 African American Literature
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Critically examines the work of African-American authors, and analyzes these works within a context of issues essential to the African-American experience, including: the construction of "blackness," notions of black masculinity and femininity, and representations of the black body. Students are exposed to a wide variety of texts that comprise the African-American literary tradition, including those by authors such as Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Amiri Baraka.
30000

ENL 295 The Study of Folklore
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


An exploration of folktales, urban legends, and folkways of local folk groups, those in the U.S., and groups in other countries. The dynamic and various nature of the folk process is examined in terms of theories of the function and resilience of folk performances. Students may document folklore of their own groups.
30000

ENL 301 Writing of Fiction
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours

Prerequisites:

ENL 205 or permission of the Creative Writing Director


Students explore the craft of creating fiction by reading, writing, and revising short stories. Working in small groups is a key component in the revision of student work.
30000

ENL 302 Writing of Poetry
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours

Prerequisites:

ENL 205 or permission of the Creative Writing Director


Exploration of the craft of writing poetry, with emphasis on tapping creative sources of observation and memory, study of poetic uses of language, and the writing and revising of a variety of poems. Peer critiquing forms a key component in the course.
30000

ENL 303 Technical Writing
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Practical application of basic technical writing principles and acceptable guidelines in scientific and industrial reporting. Students use an audience-centered approach on lab and field studies, memoranda, progress reports, detailed instructions, and typical formal documents.
30000

ENL 305 Freelance Writing for Print and Web
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


An introduction to the interdisciplinary forms and content of creative non-fiction. Particular attention is paid to the strategies and styles of writing short pieces of arts criticism and magazine-length personal profiles. Students identify markets, audiences, and a personal writing voice that enable them to sell non-fiction to commercial markets. In addition to traditional tree-press markets, students write for the burgeoning Internet market and other e-press venues.
30000

ENL 306 Research and Research Writing
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Study of the reasons and rationale for engaging in research. Through various topics, issues, or community/cultural problems, students will use research to discover and produce new ideas or responses. Students will learn advanced techniques in gathering research through field work, interviews, and computer retrieval.
30000

ENL 311 American Literature to 1865
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Survey of the major trends and figures in American literature from the beginnings through the Civil War. Alongside classic figures such as Rowlandson, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Douglass, Stowe, and Dickinson, the class explores previously marginalized writers. Students also learn about contemporary theoretical approaches to early American literature as well as the cultural contexts of antebellum writing.
30000

ENL 312 American Literature, 1865 to 1920
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Survey of the literature of the U.S. and the social forces that shaped it from the Civil War through the 1920s. Issues and subjects likely to be addressed include: the expanding notion of American identity, changing gender relations, the struggles of African Americans and immigrant groups, Psychological Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and revisions of the literary canon.
30000

ENL 320 Medieval Literature
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Survey of the major trends and representative figures of the Middle Ages, including Beowulf, Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain Poet, Middle English lyrics, the cycle plays, Everyman, and Malory.
30000

ENL 321 Renaissance Literature
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Survey of the major trends and representative figures of the Renaissance (excluding Shakespeare, who is taken up in ENL 463). Students study the work of Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Donne, Jonson, Webster, Bacon, and the Cavalier poets.
30000

ENL 322 English Literature of the 18th Century
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Survey of the major trends and representative figures of the "long" Eighteenth Century. Authors studied include Milton, Congreve, Behn, Swift, Dryden, Pope, and others.
30000

ENL 323 English Literature of the 19th Century
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Survey of the major trends in English poetry and prose from the Romantic Period through the Victorian Age. In addition to stalwarts Wordsworth, Keats, Carlyle, Arnold, Browning, Ruskin, Tennyson and Pater, students study the Pre-Raphaelites and other less known but influential authors. A novel by Austen, Dickens, Eliot, or Hardy may be assigned.
30000

ENL 326 History of the English Language
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


The study of the English language in various contextual and historical forms. Consideration may be given to economic, political, historical, technological, literary, linguistic, gendered, or racial usages of and influences on English.
30000

ENL 334 Transatlantic Modernisms
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Provides both an introduction to and a critical examination of U.S. and British literatures between WWI and WWII. Topics include but are not limited to the following: modernist aesthetics and formal experimentations, the intersections of literature and the visual arts, war and technology, literature and politics, the cultural construction of gender, race and sexual orientation, and metropolitan life.
30000

ENL 335 Post-1945 Literature
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Survey of the major trends and representative figures in U.S. and British literatures and cultures after World War II. Subjects likely to be covered include: the Beats; magical realism; feminism; postmodern, postcolonial, and identity-based literatures; and experimental modes such as docu-drama and hypertext.
30000

ENL 370 Study of the Novel
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours

Prerequisites:




Study of the history, development, and generic conventions of the novel.
30000

ENL 375 Film Genres
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Study and critique of popular and alternative film genres, such as Science Fiction, Horror, Film Noir, Road Movies, Historical, etc. The focus is on the history, development, technique, and larger social and political functions of film genres.
30000

ENL 376 The Art of the Film
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Study of the twentieth century's unique art form, the film, with emphasis on the collected work of a director or on a theme.
30000

ENL 390 Children's Literature
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Exploration of values inherent in the major genres of children's books. Emphasis is on developing critical skills for evaluating literature used in pre-school, elementary, and middle school grades.
30000

ENL 391 Young Adult Literature
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


An interdisciplinary, transnational exploration of young adult/adolescent literatures. Genres studied include poetry, short story, novel, and film. Emphasis is placed on issues of race, class, and gender, and on the young adult reader.
30000

ENL 395 Folklore Archiving
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Students work with a computer on one or more topics in the University's Folklore Archive.
1-30000

ENL 398 Independent Study
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Intensive study in an area chosen by the student for independent work under the direction of a specialist.
1-30000

ENL 401 Advanced Writing of Fiction
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours

Prerequisites:

ENL 301, and admission by Enrollment Portfolio or formal acceptance into the Creative Writing Track


An intensive course, limited to 12 students, helping accomplished fiction writers to hone and direct their talent. Small-group critiquing, mentoring by faculty and invited writers, and participation in campus and public readings help serious students deepen and expand their work.
30000

ENL 402 Advanced Writing of Poetry
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours

Prerequisites:

ENL 302, and admission by Enrollment Portfolio or formal acceptance in the Creative Writing Track


An intensive course, limited to 12 students, helping accomplished student poets to develop their talents through challenging writing assignments and the study of selected poets. Students participate in small-group critiques, give a formal reading toward the end of the semester, and submit work for publication inside and outside the university.
30000

ENL 404 Advanced Screen Writing
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


An advanced course in scriptwriting, building on skills mastered in ENL 304. Offered in an intense and supportive workshop setting, students will critique, edit and revise their own work as well as the work of peers. A final product will consist of a 90-120 page script prepared to meet market/publication standards.
30000

ENL 405 Editorial Processes and Products
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours

Prerequisites:
ENL 305



Based in the established and emerging publications of the University, the course teaches students to identify and evaluate a publication's critical focus and target audience. Students then master skills that bring a publication to press: introductory design and layout, document flow, peer review processes, correspondence standards, electronic pre-press, cost-effective printing, marketing / distribution issues, and online versions of print texts. Prepares students for work in the fields of popular and academic publishing.
30000

ENL 409 Modern American English
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


An introduction to writing instruction in education and English studies. Concentration may be on practical teaching matters, linguistics, educational reform, usage of technology in writing instruction, history of writing in American English studies, and other related issues.
30000

ENL 460 Topics in Literary History
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Topics courses examine texts brought together under a particular interpretive approach, as well as the cultural contexts and factors that influence the creation, consumption, and evaluation of literary works. Emphasis also is given to the ways in which literature can shape those contexts. The specific emphasis of any "topics" section will be announced in the schedule book, but the titles below indicate the focus of each course.
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ENL 461 Topics in Literature and Science
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Topics courses examine texts brought together under a particular interpretive approach, as well as the cultural contexts and factors that influence the creation, consumption, and evaluation of literary works. Emphasis also is given to the ways in which literature can shape those contexts. The specific emphasis of any "topics" section will be announced in the schedule book, but the titles below indicate the focus of each course.
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ENL 462 Topics in Genre
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Topics courses examine texts brought together under a particular interpretive approach, as well as the cultural contexts and factors that influence the creation, consumption, and evaluation of literary works. Emphasis also is given to the ways in which literature can shape those contexts. The specific emphasis of any "topics" section will be announced in the schedule book, but the titles below indicate the focus of each course.
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ENL 463 Topics Authorial Studies
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Topics courses examine texts brought together under a particular interpretive approach, as well as the cultural contexts and factors that influence the creation, consumption, and evaluation of literary works. Emphasis also is given to the ways in which literature can shape those contexts. The specific emphasis of any "topics" section will be announced in the schedule book, but the titles below indicate the focus of each course.
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ENL 464 Topics in Race
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Topics courses examine texts brought together under a particular interpretive approach, as well as the cultural contexts and factors that influence the creation, consumption, and evaluation of literary works. Emphasis also is given to the ways in which literature can shape those contexts. The specific emphasis of any "topics" section will be announced in the schedule book, but the titles below indicate the focus of each course.
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ENL 465 Topics in Gender
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Topics courses examine texts brought together under a particular interpretive approach, as well as the cultural contexts and factors that influence the creation, consumption, and evaluation of literary works. Emphasis also is given to the ways in which literature can shape those contexts. The specific emphasis of any "topics" section will be announced in the schedule book, but the titles below indicate the focus of each course.
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ENL 466 Topics in Class
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Topics courses examine texts brought together under a particular interpretive approach, as well as the cultural contexts and factors that influence the creation, consumption, and evaluation of literary works. Emphasis also is given to the ways in which literature can shape those contexts. The specific emphasis of any "topics" section will be announced in the schedule book, but the titles below indicate the focus of each course.
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ENL 467 Topics in Cultural Studies
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Topics courses examine texts brought together under a particular interpretive approach, as well as the cultural contexts and factors that influence the creation, consumption, and evaluation of literary works. Emphasis also is given to the ways in which literature can shape those contexts. The specific emphasis of any "topics" section will be announced in the schedule book, but the titles below indicate the focus of each course.
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ENL 468 Topics in World Literature
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Topics courses examine texts brought together under a particular interpretive approach, as well as the cultural contexts and factors that influence the creation, consumption, and evaluation of literary works. Emphasis also is given to the ways in which literature can shape those contexts. The specific emphasis of any "topics" section will be announced in the schedule book, but the titles below indicate the focus of each course.
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ENL 469 Topics in Religion
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours


Topics courses examine texts brought together under a particular interpretive approach, as well as the cultural contexts and factors that influence the creation, consumption, and evaluation of literary works. Emphasis also is given to the ways in which literature can shape those contexts. The specific emphasis of any "topics" section will be announced in the schedule book, but the titles below indicate the focus of each course.
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ENL 480 Literary Criticism
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours

Prerequisites:

ENL 235, 245, 265, or 280 (or permission of the instructor)


Study of major critical theories and their practical application to determine the strength and limitations of each approach.
30000

ENL 490 Senior Seminar
Credit HoursRecitation/Lecture HoursStudio HoursClinical HoursLab Hours

Prerequisites:

Senior standing.


Content will vary based on the expertise of the professor.
30000

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