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English

  • ENGL 3326 - The Development of Dramatic Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2303 , ENGL 2304 , or ENGL 2307 , three semester credit hours in sophomore-level English or equivalent.
    Description
    European dramatic literature from its classical origins to the modern period.
  • ENGL 3327 - Masterpieces of British Literature to the Eighteenth Century

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 2303  and 3327. Works by major British authors representative of medieval, Renaissance, and neoclassical periods.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  • ENGL 3328 - Masterpieces of British Literature from the Eighteenth Century

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Works by major British authors representative of the romantic, Victorian, and modern periods.
    Note: Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 2304  and 3328.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  • ENGL 3329 - Beginning Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent and 3 hours in 2000- or 3000-level literature.
    Description
    Analysis and writing of fiction and poetry. Basic techniques and vocabulary in craft.
  • ENGL 3330 - Beginning Creative Writing: Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 3329  and 3 hours in 2000- or 3000-level literature.
    Description
    Analysis and writing of fiction. Techniques and craft vocabulary essential to construction of narratives. Exploration of both traditional and contemporary fiction; practice in fictional techniques.
  • ENGL 3331 - Beginning Creative Writing: Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 3329  and 3 hours in 2000- or 3000-level literature.
    Description
    Analysis and writing of poetry. Techniques and craft vocabulary essential to construction of poems. Exploration of both traditional and contemporary poetry; practice in poetic techniques.
  • ENGL 3332 - Introduction to Creative Writing: Nonfiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 3329  and 3 hours in 2000- or 3000- level literature.
    Description
    Analysis and writing of nonfiction. Techniques and craft vocabulary essential to nonfiction. Exploration of both traditional and contemporary nonfiction: practice in nonfictional techniques.
  • ENGL 3339 - Student Literary Journal Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    A practicum course focused on publication of a literary magazine, activities related to running a literary magazine, and practical/theoretical issues related to those activities.
  • ENGL 3340 - Advanced Composition

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Undergraduate credit only. Practice in prose rhetoric, especially in formal and informal essays, popular and professional articles, and critical reviews.
  • ENGL 3341 - Business and Professional Writing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Writing business letters, various types of business reports, proposals, and résumés.
  • ENGL 3343 - Advanced Composition: Style

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    Expository rhetoric and writing course that examines the study of style in writing today.
  • ENGL 3345 - Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Examination of selected works by winners of the Nobel Prize in literature in prose, poetry, and drama, focusing on literary techniques and the cultural background and significance of the work.
  • ENGL 3346 - Classics of Children’s Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in 2000-level English.
    Description
    Selected literary classics, including tales by the Grimm brothers, children’s poetry, animal stories, fantasy, and fiction, with emphasis on literary and cultural significance.
  • ENGL 3347 - Classics of Adolescent Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in 2000-level English.
    Description
    Selected literary classics by representative writers from Louisa May Alcott and Robert Louis Stevenson to Anne Frank and Harper Lee, with emphasis on literary and cultural significance.
  • ENGL 3348 - Thoreau

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    The study of American philosopher, naturalist, essayist, and journal writer, Henry David Thoreau.
  • ENGL 3349 - Native American Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Literary study of myths, legends, stories, and novels of Native Americans in relevant historical and cultural contexts.
  • ENGL 3350 - American Literature to 1865

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    First semester: critical examination of major and selected minor writers from the colonial period through Hawthorne and Melville; second semester: from Whitman and Twain to the present.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  • ENGL 3351 - American Literature Since 1865

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    First semester: critical examination of major and selected minor writers from the colonial period through Hawthorne and Melville; second semester: from Whitman and Twain to the present.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  • ENGL 3352 - Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Development of theme, symbolic patterns, and form in the nineteenth-century American novel from a historical, sociocultural, and/or generic perspective.
  • ENGL 3353 - Modern American Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Development of theme, symbolic patterns, and form in the modern American novel from a historical, sociocultural, and/or generic perspective.
  • ENGL 3354 - Contemporary American Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Trends and ideas in major writers since 1940.
  • ENGL 3355 - Literature of the American West

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Literature of the American West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
  • ENGL 3357 - Modern American Drama

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    An examination of themes and dramatic techniques of major modern and contemporary American plays, with special emphasis upon the work of O’Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee.
  • ENGL 3358 - Hong Kong Cinema

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Study of generic, historical, and stylistic characteristics of non-western, postcolonial Hong Kong Cinema.
  • ENGL 3360 - Survey of African American Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Literary-historical survey of African American literature from mid-eighteenth century to present.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  • ENGL 3361 - Mexican American Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Formerly ENGL 2397
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Works of Mexican- American writers, including fiction, poetry, drama, the essay, and autobiography.
  • ENGL 3362 - Women in Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Formerly ENGL 4363
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Literature by and about women. Offered either as a general survey or specific study of the literary period or genre. Approach is historical or critical.
  • ENGL 3363 - Masterpieces of African American Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Major works of African American fiction.
  • ENGL 3364 - African American Poetry and Drama

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Major works of African American poetry and drama.
  • ENGL 3365 - Postcolonial Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Literary works from and about cultures that have recently emerged from a colonial past.
  • ENGL 3366 - Jewish-American Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Works of Jewish-American writers. May include fiction, drama, poetry, or non-fiction prose.
  • ENGL 3367 - Gay and Lesbian Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Literature by and about gays and lesbians. May include fiction, drama, poetry, or nonfiction prose.
  • ENGL 3368 - Caribbean Novels

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    The range of literary expression including novels, short stories and poetry by peoples of Caribbean origin in the diaspora.
  • ENGL 3369 - Caribbean Literatures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    Development and thematic concerns of novel writing from the Anglophone, Hispanophone, and Francophone Caribbean in English.
  • ENGL 3370 - Modern Irish Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in core communications courses.
    Description
    Literature from the Celtic Renaissance to 1950 with emphasis on Lady Gregory, Yeats, Joyce, and Synge.
  • ENGL 3371 - Contemporary Irish Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in core communications courses.
    Description
    Irish novels, drama, poetry, film and music from 1950 to the present.
  • ENGL 3379 - African Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    The study of the literature and culture of the African continent mostly focusing on the African novel.
  • ENGL 3380 - Modern Indian Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    A selection of the most prominent authors from India, both in recent times and earlier moments of the 20th century.
  • ENGL 3396 - Selected Topics in English

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent and approval of department chair.
    Description
    Topics vary depending on field of interest of instructor.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  • ENGL 3399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.
  • ENGL 4198 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
       
  • ENGL 4300 - Introduction to the Study of Language

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Overview of linguistics, introducing basic concepts with particular attention to English: sounds, word formation, approaches to grammatical description, history, acquisition, and social and regional variation.
  • ENGL 4303 - Teaching English as a Second Language

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3.0    Lab Contact Hours: 0.0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 4300  or ENGL 4308.
    Description
    Theory and techniques of teaching English as a second language to adolescents and adults.
  • ENGL 4304 - Varieties of English

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3.0    Lab Contact Hours: 0.0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    An exploration of language diversity, variations of American English, and the factors of language change. Issues and consequences of language diversity will be discussed as they relate to cultural diversity, attitudes, education, and policy.
  • ENGL 4305 - Introduction to Syntax

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 4300  or equivalent.
    Description
    English grammatical structures from the perspective of contemporary linguistics.
  • ENGL 4310 - History of the English Language

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Linguistic and cultural approach to the history of the English language through its various periods.
  • ENGL 4311 - Language Socialization

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3.0    Lab Contact Hours: 0.0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    The study of human socialization and language use through ethnographic data collection. Students will examine how language practices compare across cultures and contexts as well as how this knowledge fits into broader social theoretical frameworks.
  • ENGL 4315 - Sociolinguistics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Social implications of language; linguistic insight into social stratification.
  • ENGL 4319 - English in the Secondary Schools

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: 18 semester hours in English.
    Description
    Content areas taught in secondary schools with emphasis on language and composition.
  • ENGL 4322 - Grammar and Usage

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Parts of speech, sentence elements, and doctrines of correctness.
  • ENGL 4330 - European Renaissance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    The European Renaissance from the historical and cultural perspectives of literature, history, philosophy, art, architecture, music, drama, and technology.
  • ENGL 4332 - Modern and Contemporary Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    A survey of American, British, and Irish modern, postmodern, and contemporary poetry.
  • ENGL 4340 - Feminist Criticism and Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    An introduction to the theories and methods of feminist criticism as practiced in literary studies.
  • ENGL 4341 - Queer Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    An introduction to the field of queer theory as practiced in literary studies.
  • ENGL 4342 - Gender and Writing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    A rhetoric course that explores connections between writing and the social construction of gender.
  • ENGL 4343 - Writing Houston: Reading and Researching Our City

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    Expository writing and rhetoric course focusing on the local writings, histories, and current events of the city of Houston.
  • ENGL 4350 - Short Story Writing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: admission to the Creative Writing Concentration and 3 hours in 3000-/or 4000-level literature courses in fiction. ENGL 4355  recommended prior to this course.
    Description
    Analysis and writing of short stories, including crafting the story; traditional and contemporary examples; and short story as particular narrative genre.
    May be repeated once for credit.

  • ENGL 4351 - Poetry Writing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: admission to the Creative Writing Concentration and 3 hours in 3000-/or 4000-level literature courses in poetry. ENGL 4356  recommended prior to this course.
    Description
    Analysis and writing of lyric poetry, including crafting of complete poems; traditional and contemporary lyrics; and lyric as a genre.
    May be repeated once for credit.

  • ENGL 4352 - Nonfiction Writing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: admission to the Creative Writing Concentration and at least 3 hours in 3000-/or 4000-level literature.
    Description
    Analysis and writing of creative nonfiction. Focus of course may vary: possible genres include memoir, travel writing, lyric essay, and narrated event. Exploration of both traditional and contemporary nonfiction.
    May be repeated once for credit.

  • ENGL 4353 - Senior Writing Projects in Creative Writing: Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ENGL 4353 - Writing Projections: Fiction
    Prerequisite: ENGL 4355 .
    Description
    Craft-based analysis of published fiction and workshop critique culminating in a substantial work of fiction (a collection stories, a novella, or substantial portions of a novel) with a reflective introduction.
  • ENGL 4354 - Senior Writing Projects in Creative Writing: Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ENGL 4354 - Writing Projects: Poetry
    Prerequisite: ENGL 4356 .
    Description
    Craft-based analysis of published poetry and workshop critique culminating in a portfolio of original poetry with a reflective introduction.
    Typically Offered: Fall

  • ENGL 4355 - Fiction Forms

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: admission to the Creative Writing Concentration and 3 hours in 3000-/or 4000-level literature courses in fiction.
    Description
    Analysis and writing of fictional narrative with focus on craft (characters, dialogue, plot, setting, and point of view). Traditional and contemporary examples.
    May be repeated once for credit.

  • ENGL 4356 - Poetic Forms

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: admission to the Creative Writing Concentration and 3 hours in 3000-/or 4000-level literature courses in poetry.
    Description
    Analysis and writing of poetry with focus on craft (metaphors, images, lines, stanzas, diction, enjambment). Practice in a variety of poetic genres. Traditional and contemporary examples.
    May be repeated once for credit.

  • ENGL 4357 - Writing Projects:Nonfiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Creative Writing concentration and 3 hours in 3000- or 4000- level literature courses.
    Description
    Advanced analysis and writing of memoir, collections of lyric essays, cultural essays, or historical essays. Focus on larger units of nonfiction: either a memoir or a collection of essays.
  • ENGL 4358 - Nonfiction Forms

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Creative Writing concentration and 3 hours in 3000- or 4000- level literature courses.
    Description
    Analysis and writing of nonfictional prose with focus on craft (eg. memoir, lyric, essay, historical essay). Traditional and contemporary examples.
  • ENGL 4360 - Bible as Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    Literary study and composition history of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament.
  • ENGL 4364 - Minorities in Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    The minority as subject and symbol in selected literature, concentrating on one or more of the following groups: the Black, the Chicano, the Jew, the woman, and the American Indian. May be repeated once with the approval of the chair if the particular topic changes.
    May be repeated once with the approval of the chair if the particular topic changes.

  • ENGL 4366 - Introduction to Folklore

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Introduction to the theories and methods of folkloristics; collection and analysis of folklore.
  • ENGL 4367 - Documenting Community Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    Term-long fieldwork and research project emphasizing the methods and principles of studying communities and recording folklore.
  • ENGL 4370 - Folktale

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    Social and artistic properties of major forms of oral narrative.
  • ENGL 4371 - Literature and Medicine

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Literature by and about physicians and patients: experiences of illness, aging, death, reconciliation, recovery, healing, pregnancy. Emphasis on ethical questions.
  • ENGL 4372 - Literature and the Environment

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Literature about nature, the environment, wilderness preservation, environmental justice, and urban nature in the context of current developments in ecocritical theory and criticism.
  • ENGL 4373 - Film, Text, and Politics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Analysis and interpretation of film in terms of genre, narrative, aesthetics, cultural context, and political content.
  • ENGL 4375 - Literature and Popular Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Analysis and interpretation of the relationships between literature and popular culture.
  • ENGL 4376 - Robin Hood in Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    Adaptations of the Robin Hood narrative in medieval through contemporary texts and various media, including film. Emphasizes how the developing legend reflects changing cultural issues.
  • ENGL 4378 - Women Writers

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Prose, poetry, and drama by women writers.
  • ENGL 4380 - Greek Classics in Translation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  • ENGL 4381 - Latin Classics in Translation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Formerly (also CLAS 4381)
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Latin classics.
  • ENGL 4390 - Professional Internship

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: major in English, junior standing, and approval of the Director of Upper-Division Studies of the Department of English.
    Description
    Supervised work experience in professions related to the English major.
    May be repeated once for credit.

  • ENGL 4391 - Senior Seminar: Advanced Community Engagement

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 3301 .
    Description
    Advanced community engagement and/or service learning and reflection. Classroom and fieldwork focus on community literacy and the development of reflective research. Course fulfills senior experience requirement.
  • ENGL 4394 - Topics in the Historical Novel

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    How the historical novel explicitly engages factual events, places, and personages to dramatize the history of a particular period and place.
  • ENGL 4395 - Topics in Autobiography

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    Study of various works and forms of literature’s fourth genre, autobiography or memoir.
  • ENGL 4396 - Senior Experience Seminar Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 3301 .
    Description
    Topics for the seminar will vary. The course is self-reflective and integrative learning focused on advanced independent research writing that engages critical thinking.
  • ENGL 4397 - Topics in Film, Literature, and Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.
    Description
    Study of film and literature from a selected culture.
  • ENGL 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent and approval of chair.
  • ENGL 4399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

Ethnic Studies

  • ETHN 2300 - Introduction to Ethnic Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
    Description
    This course serves as an introduction to the study of race and ethnicity in the U.S. Through a combination of historical narratives, autobiography, fiction, and analytical essays, students will gain a glimpse into the spectrum of identities and issues inherent in American culture. Current issues and events will also be analyzed through the prism of race and ethnicity.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
    Additional Fee N

French

  • FREN 1501 - Elementary French I

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Description
    Students with two or more years of high school French are urged to take a placement examination to determine at which level to begin French. Credit for FREN 1501  may not be applied toward a degree by students who have credit for FREN 1301   . Understanding, speaking, reading, and writing French, including practice sessions and electronic drill.
    TCCNS Equivalent: FREN 1511
  • FREN 1502 - Elementary French II

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: FREN 1301  or FREN 1501  or equivalent.
    Description
    Students with two or more years of high school French are urged to take a placement examination to determine at which level to begin French. Credit for FREN 1502  may not be applied toward a degree by students who have credit for FREN 1301    and FREN 1302    . Understanding, speaking, reading, and writing French, including practice sessions and electronic drill.
    TCCNS Equivalent: FREN 1512
  • FREN 2301 - Intermediate French

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: FREN 1502  or equivalent.
    Corequisite: FREN 2302 
    Description
    Credit for FREN 2301 ;FREN 2302  may not be applied toward a degree by students who have credit for FREN 2603. Credit for FREN 2302  may not be applied toward a degree by students who have credit for FREN 2397 . Grammar review, reading of literary materials, conversation, and composition.
    TCCNS Equivalent: FREN 2311
  • FREN 2302 - Intermediate French

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: FREN 2301  and FREN 1502  or equivalent.
    Description
    Credit for FREN 2301 ;2302 may not be applied toward a degree by students who have credit for FREN 2603. Credit for FREN 2302  may not be applied toward a degree by students who have credit for FREN 2397 . Grammar review, reading of literary materials, conversation, and composition.
    TCCNS Equivalent: FREN 2312
  • FREN 2397 - Selected Topics in Intermediate French

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: FREN 2301  or equivalent.
    Description
    May be taken as an alternative to FREN 2302 . Readings, composition, conversation in specialized areas, and grammar review.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  • FREN 2398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: FREN 1502  or equivalent and approval of chair.
  • FREN 3198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  • FREN 3311 - French Phonetics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: FREN 2302  or equivalent.
    Description
    Introduction to basic principles of pronunciation, intonation, rhythm; transcription based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Practical application through readings in poetry and prose.
  • FREN 3312 - Oral Communication

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: FREN 2302  or equivalent.
    Description
    Limited to nonnative speakers. Students not majoring or minoring in French require prior consent of instructor. Development of conversational skills in French through a systematic study of grammar, usage, and vocabulary. Readings related to contemporary issues in France and the U.S.
  • FREN 3313 - Advanced Grammar and Composition

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: FREN 2301  and FREN 2302  or equivalent.
    Description
    Advanced grammatical structures and their direct application to different forms of written expression.
  • FREN 3314 - Advanced Grammar and Composition II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: FREN 3313 .
    Description
    Further development of advanced grammatical and writing skills.
  • FREN 3315 - Practical Translation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: FREN 2302  or equivalent.
    Description
    Translation primarily from French to English of recent materials from the areas of science, business, politics, communications.
  • FREN 3316 - Survey of French Culture and Civilization

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: FREN 2302 .
    Description
    The cultural and intellectual development of France, including contemporary cultural trends.
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