Courses
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- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Enrollment in an English graduate program or instructor approval.
This course provides a survey of key texts, trends, and research methodologies in rhetorical studies. Students are introduced to rhetorical perspectives and practices that can inform the study and teaching of writing, civic engagement, professional writing, textual analysis, and literary criticism.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Enrollment in an English graduate program or instructor approval.
Learners will develop skills related to qualitative and mixed-methods research techniques including formulating research questions, choosing a research design, applying relevant coding processes, displaying qualitative and quantitative data, running statistical analyses, and drawing and verifying conclusions. Learners will examine, practice, and reflect on various qualitative and mixed-methods research methodologies and consider the challenges they may have when engaging in qualitative and mixed-methods research in education environments. Gaining access to the field, underscoring ethics of research, and/or implementing a critical social justice framework in literacy studies research will be emphasized.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Enrollment in an English graduate program or instructor approval.
This variable topics course offers students an in-depth introduction to a specific area of literary or critical theory. Students will apply the theoretical or critical approach in their own research or writing projects.
- Graded: A/F
This variable topics course offers students an in-depth introduction to a specific area of study within the field of Literature and the Environment. May focus on a specific theme, period, literary movement, author, and/or national literature. Emphasis on the study of literature and culture from an ecological or environmental perspective.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Enrollment in an English graduate program or instructor approval.
This variable topic seminar offers in-depth examination of a range of topics pertaining to film history and theory, genres, and major filmmakers.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Enrollment in an English graduate program or instructor approval.
Major trends in world literature as a field of investigation distinct from recent and contemporary English and American literature, explored in a sustained way through texts translated from non-Western languages and/or composed outside Europe and North America. Concentration on literature(s) frequently subordinated to dominant First-World concerns. Works from one of the following marginalized spaces provide the exclusive focus of this introduction to global perspectives: Africa, Caribbean, Asia, Latin America, Middle East.
- Prerequisites: Application and acceptance as a fellow of the Upper Peninsula Writing Project
A five-week institute for educators designed to improve writing instruction through the application of the writing process, publication of texts in varied genres, study of research on writing and writing instruction, and demonstrations of high-quality writing instruction.
- Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department head
Student research is supervised by a member of the department. The supervisor and research project must be selected prior to enrollment in this course and appropriate forms must be completed.
- Prerequisites: Approval of the department’s graduate or thesis committee
Supervised practical work at a newspaper, public relations agency or in a related field. Work is assigned and directly supervised by participating agency, with the student reporting regularly to a faculty member, who also grades the student’s performance.
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Enrollment in an English graduate program, successful completion of 24 program credits, approval of advisor and Director of English Graduate Studies.
The student will prepare, under the direction of their advisor, a portfolio of at least two exemplary works of scholarly or professional writing within their chosen concentration. The portfolio should be a minimum of 30 pages. Papers may be new works or revisions of previously written papers.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Enrollment in an English graduate program, successful completion of 24 program credits, and approval of faculty director.
The student will write an essay suitable for publication under the guidance of a faculty director. The essay topic and scope must be approved by the capstone director and the English Graduate Studies Committee. Appropriate capstone forms must be approved at least one semester prior to final submission. The student should consult with the department and the College of Graduate Studies for specific requirements.
- Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department head
Independent study under the supervision of a member of the department. Supervisor and study must be selected prior to enrollment in the course and appropriate directed study forms must be completed.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department head
Independent study under the supervision of a member of the department. Supervisor and study must be selected prior to enrollment in the course and appropriate directed study forms must be completed.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Enrollment in an English graduate program or instructor approval.
The student develops a thesis with the help of a thesis committee. Appropriate thesis forms must be completed prior to enrollment. The thesis must be approved by the thesis committee and the College of Graduate Studies. The student should consult the department and the College of Graduate Studies for specific requirements.
- Prerequisites: EN 500 or consent of instructor
- Prerequisites: EN 501 or consent of instructor
- Prerequisites: EN 502 or consent of instructor
- Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
- Prerequisites: Consent of instructor