English

Minor in Linguistics

Requirements: A total of 15 credit hours at the 200-400 level to include G205 is required and 12 credit hours selected from the following courses:

English G206, G301, G302, G310, W310

Anthropology L300, L401

In consultation with an advisor, advanced students may request permission to take a graduate course in linguistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the minor.

Minor in Film Studies

The minor in film studies requires 15 credit hours in the following courses:

Comparative Literature C190 Introduction to Film (3 cr.) is required.

A minimum of 12 credit hours of course work must be selected from the following courses:

Comparative Literature and Film

C290, C390, C391, C393-C394, C491, C493, C494

English

W260

German

G370, G371

Internship in English

Interested students must meet eligibility requirements of junior or senior standing, maintain a grade point average of at least 2.5, and furnish writing samples or have successfully completed advanced writing courses. They must register with the Professional Practices Program (PPP) in Business/SPEA Building 2010, (317) 274-3211, and meet with Department of English Associate Chair Stephen Fox, (317) 278-2054 or sfox@iupui.edu.

Other Activities

genesis A semiannual literary journal, genesis publishes the work of student authors and artists.

The Film Studies Club The Film Studies Club is a group of students interested in film screenings during the fall and spring semesters. Interested students should contact the faculty advisor, Professor Dennis Bingham, (317) 274-9825 or dbingham@iupui.edu.

The Rufus Reiberg Creative Reading Series Named for a former chair of the English department, the Reiberg Series brings to campus each year an array of well-known and emerging fiction writers and poets for readings. Past writers have included Maxine Hong Kingston, Edward Hirsch, Catherine Bowman, David Citino, and Calvin Forbes.

Undergraduate Courses

The 100-level courses meet general degree requirements, but do not satisfy those of the major. The 200-level courses introduce basic areas of study and provide cultural and intellectual development for the nonmajor; these courses also provide a firm foundation for students who wish to continue advanced studies in English. The 300-level courses specialize in subjects of particular interest to English and education majors; they are open to juniors and seniors (or others with consent of the instructor). Usually conducted as seminars, the 400-level courses are intensive studies of special subjects.

Although the English department does not have prerequisites indicated for most courses, it is highly recommended that students complete W131 before taking any other English courses. In general, 100-level courses are designed for freshmen, 200-level courses for sophomores, etc.

Gateway Course

Capstone Course

Linguistics

G204 Rhetorical Issues in Grammar and Usage (3 cr.) An introduction to English grammar and usage which studies the rhetorical impact of grammatical structures (such as noun phrases, prepositional phrases, different sentence patterns). This course considers language trends and issues, the role of correctness in discourse communities, and the relations between writing in context and descriptive and prescriptive grammars and usage guides.

G205 Introduction to the English Language (3 cr.)
An introduction to the English language and to the principles and methods of linguistics, this course is designed to be the first course in English linguistics. The course examines the phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of English and discusses a range of applications of these basic concepts in areas such as first and second language acquisition and language education.

G206 Introduction to Grammar (3 cr.)
This course examines topics such as the systematic way in which information is encoded in discourse, the various functions of speech, the structure of conversation, and the comparison of spoken and written language. Emphasis is also placed on varieties of English and how they are used and perceived in our society. Background provided in G205 would be useful in this course.

G301 History of the English Language (3 cr.) P: G205, G206, or consent of instructor. The historical and structural analysis of the English language is surveyed through the stages of its development. Background provided in G205 would be useful in this course.

G302 Structure of Modern English (3 cr.)
P: G205, G206, or consent of instructor. This course examines in some depth the syntax (i.e., the principles and rules that govern the structure of sentences) and semantics (i.e., meaning encoded in language) of the English language. Background provided in G205 would be useful in this course.

G310 Social Speech Patterns (3 cr.)
P: G205, G206, or consent of instructor. This course explores the relationships among language, society, and culture. The influence of such social factors as age, sex, status, class, and education on language use are discussed within the framework of various theoretical and methodological approaches. Reasons for positive and negative evaluations of several high and low prestige varieties of English are investigated. Background provided in G205 would be useful in this course.

Literary Study

L115 Literature for Today (3 cr.) P: W131. Poems, dramas, and narratives pertinent to concerns of our times: e.g., works concerning values of the individual and society, problems of humanism in the modern world, conflicts of freedom and order.

L200 Popular Culture (3 cr.) Critical and historical study of trends in popular culture, especially American, and its significance in the formation of national character.

L202 Literary Interpretation (3 cr.)
Close analysis of representative texts (poetry, drama, fiction) designed to develop art of lively, responsible reading through class discussion and writing of papers. Attention to literary design and critical method. May be repeated once for credit by special arrangement with Department of English.

L203 Introduction to Drama (3 cr.) Representative significant plays to acquaint students with characteristics of drama as a type of literature. Readings may include plays from several ages and countries.

L204 Introduction to Fiction (3 cr.) Representative works of fiction; structural technique in the novel, theories and kinds of fiction, and thematic scope of the novel. Readings may include novels and short stories from several ages and countries.

L205 Introduction to Poetry (3 cr.)
Kinds, conventions, and elements of poetry
in a selection of poems from several historical periods.

L206 Introduction to Nonfictional Prose (3 cr.) Genre, structure, or other literary aspects of selected works of nonfictional prose.

L207 Women and Literature (3 cr.) Issues and approaches to critical study of women writers in British and American literature.

L208 Topics in English and American Literature and Culture (3 cr.) Selected works of English and/or American literature in relation to a single cultural problem or theme. Topics vary from semester to semester. May be repeated once for credit.

L210 Studies in Popular Literature and Mass Media (3 cr.) Popular literary modes in England and America, such as detective, western, fantasy, history; theories of ''mass'' or ''popular'' culture; uses of literacy. Literary analysis of particular mass media forms, including television drama. Topic varies.

L213-L214 Literary Masterpieces I-II (3-3 cr.) Literary masterpieces from Homer to the present. Aims at thoughtful, intensive analysis, appreciation of aesthetic values, and enjoyment of reading.

L220 Introduction to Shakespeare (3 cr.) Rapid reading of at least a dozen of Shakespeare's major plays and poems. May not be taken concurrently with L315.

L301 Critical and Historical Survey of English Literature I (3 cr.) Representative selections with emphasis on major writers from the beginnings to Swift and Pope.

L302 Critical and Historical Survey of English Literature II (3 cr.) Representative selections with emphasis on major writers from the rise of romanticism to the present.

L305 Chaucer (3 cr.) Chaucer's works with special emphasis on The Canterbury Tales.

L315 Major Plays of Shakespeare (3 cr.)
A close reading of a representative selection of Shakespeare's major plays.

L332 Major Romantic Writers (3 cr.)
Major romantic writers with emphasis on two or more of the following: Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats.

L335 Victorian Literature (3 cr.) Major poetry and prose, 1830-1900, studied against the social and intellectual background of the Victorian period.

L345 Twentieth-Century British Poetry (3 cr.) Modern poets, particularly Yeats, Eliot, Auden; some later poets may be included.

L346 Twentieth-Century British Fiction (3 cr.) Modern fiction, its techniques and experiments, particularly Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf; some later novelists may be included.

L348 Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (3 cr.)
Forms, techniques, and theories of fiction as exemplified by such writers as Scott, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy.

L351 Critical and Historical Study of American Literature I (3 cr.) American writers to 1865: Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and two or three additional major writers.

L352 Critical and Historical Study of American Literature II (3 cr.) American writers, 1865-1914: Twain, Dickinson, James, and two or three additional major writers.

L354 Critical and Historical Study of American Literature III (3 cr.) Study of modernist and contemporary American writers in various genres, 1914 to the present, including Frost, Stein, Faulkner, O'Connor, Baldwin, Morrison, and others.

L355 American Novel: Cooper to Dreiser (3 cr.)
Representative nineteenth-century American novels.

L358 Twentieth-Century American Fiction (3 cr.)
Study of major trends in American fiction since 1900, including such topics as experimentalism and the development of minority literatures.

CMLT C358 Literature and Music: Opera (3 cr.)
Selected opera libretti from various periods. Comparison of libretti with the literary sources; emphasis on specific problems connected with the adaptation of a literary work to the operatic medium. Evaluation of representative libretti as independent literary works.

L363 American Drama (3 cr.) Main currents
in American drama to the present.

L365 Modern Drama: Continental (3 cr.) Special attention to Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Hauptmann, Pirandello, Brecht, and Sartre and to the theatre of the absurd.

L366 Modern Drama: English, Irish, and American (3 cr.) Twentieth-century drama, from Bernard Shaw and Eugene O'Neill to Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Marsha Norman, and August Wilson.

L370 Black American Writing (3 cr.) A study of the major black American writers, with special emphasis on recent writing.

L371 History of Criticism (3 cr.) Literary criticism from ancient to modern times.

L372 Contemporary American Fiction (3 cr.) Examination of representative American fiction since 1955 in its social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics include such issues as the representation of truth in fiction, intertextuality, and the transgressions of genre boundaries.

L373-L374 Interdisciplinary Approaches to English and American Literature I-II (3-3 cr.) Social, political, and psychological studies in English and American literature. Topics may vary and include, for example, Freud and literature, responses to revolution, the literature of technology, and literature and colonialism.

L376 Literature for Adolescents (3 cr.)
An examination of the nature and scope of adolescent literature. Wide reading of contemporary literature, with emphasis on the value of selections for secondary school students and appropriate modes of study.

L378 Studies in Women and Literature (3 cr.) British and American authors such as George Eliot or Gertrude Stein; groups of authors such as the Brontë sisters or recent women poets; or genres and modes such as autobiography, film, or criticism. Topics will vary from semester to semester.

L379 American Ethnic and Minority Literature (3 cr.) Analysis of literature by and about immigrants from diverse cultures as well as ethnic literature about groups such as African Americans, Appalachians, Hispanics, and Native Americans, from an historical and thematic perspective.

L381 Recent Writing (3 cr.) Selected writers of contemporary significance. May include groups and movements (such as black writers, poets of projective verse, new regionalists, parajournalists and other experimenters in pop literature, folk writers, and distinctly ethnic writers); several recent novelists, poets, or critics; or any combination of groups. May be repeated once for credit by special arrangement with the Department of English.

L382 Fiction of the Non-Western World (3 cr.) An in-depth study of selected narratives from the fiction of the non-Western world. Focus and selections vary from year to year. May be repeated once for credit.

L385 Science Fiction (3 cr.) A survey of British and American science fiction from the nineteenth to the twentieth century with an emphasis on the latter.

L390 Children's Literature (3 cr.) Historical and modern children's books and selections from books; designed to assist future teachers, parents, librarians, or others in selecting the best in children's literature for each period of the child's life.

L406 Topics in African American Literature (3 cr.) Focuses on a particular genre, time period, or theme in African American literature. Topics may include 20th century African American women's novels, black male identity in African American literature, or African American autobiography. May be repeated once for credit with different focus.

L411 Literature and Society (3 cr.) Influence of political, social, and technological trends on works of British and American literature. Topics will vary from semester to semester.

L431 Topics in Literary Study (3 cr.) Study of characteristics and development of literary forms or modes (e.g., studies in narrative, studies in romanticism). Topics vary from year to year. May be repeated once for credit.

L440 Senior Seminar in English and American Literature (3 cr.) P: one 200-level literature course, four 300- or 400-level literature courses, and senior standing or junior standing with instructor's permission. Detailed study of one or more major British and American writer or of one significant theme or form. Subject varies each semester. May be taken as the capstone course. May be repeated once for credit.

L490 Professional Practices in English (6 cr.) P: permission, seniors only. Internship in business-industry management, analysis, or liaison work under auspices of a qualified cooperating organization. Periodic meetings with faculty advisor, and paper detailing professional activities and reaction. Apply during semester before desired internship.

L495 Individual Readings in English (1-3 cr.) P: consent of instructor and departmental director of undergraduate studies. May be repeated once for credit.

Writing

W001 Fundamentals of English (3 cr.) Develops fluency and amplitude in writing through in-class instruction in invention, focus, development, and revision. Grammar instruction is individualized, and evaluation is based upon a portfolio of the student's work.

W131 Elementary Composition I (3 cr.)
P: W131 placement, or W001 (with a grade of C or better). Fulfills the communications core requirement for all undergraduate students and provides instruction in exposition (the communication of ideas and information with clarity and brevity). The course emphasizes audience and purpose, revision, organization, development, advanced sentence structure, diction, development within a collaborative classroom. Evaluation is based upon a portfolio of the student's work.

W132 Elementary Composition II (3 cr.)
P: W131 (with a grade of C or better). Stresses argumentation and research concurrently, with a secondary emphasis on critical evaluation in both reading and writing. Evaluation is based upon a portfolio of the student's work.

W140 Elementary Composition/Honors (3 cr.) P: W140 placement or permission of the instructor. Offers an introductory writing course for advanced freshman writers. Requirements, including number and type of assignments, are parallel to W131. W140 offers greater intensity of discussion and response to writing. Evaluation is based upon a portfolio of the student's work. Students' eligibility for W140 is determined by the IUPUI English Placement Exam scores.

W150 Elementary Composition II/Honors (3 cr.)
P: W140 (with a grade of C or better), or W131 and permission of the instructor. Allows an honors student to explore the investigative methods used within a chosen discipline as an introduction to academic writing. Individual projects using these various methods combine primary and secondary skills. Evaluation is based upon a portfolio of the student's work. Replacing W132 or W231 for honors students, this course follows W140.

W202 English Grammar Review (1 cr.) Provides a review of traditional grammar with emphasis on the sentence, parts of speech, and punctuation. Generally students enrolling in this course should have successfully completed W131.

W231 Professional Writing Skills (3 cr.)
P: W131 (with a grade of C or better). Focuses on expository writing for the student whose career requires preparation of reports, proposals, and analytical papers. Emphasis on clear and direct objective writing and on investigation of an original topic written in report form, including a primary research project. Evaluation is based on a portfolio of student's work.

W233 Intermediate Expository Writing (3 cr.) Expands upon the rhetorical and stylistic principles introduced in W131. Emphasis is on the writing process, modes of discourse reflective of professional writing, and language conventions.

W250 Writing in Context (1-3 cr.) Offers instruction in intermediate-level expository writing. Students study a contemporary issue and write papers on that issue. Topics will vary from year to year. May be repeated once for credit.

W260 Film Criticism (3 cr.) Viewing and critiquing currently playing films, with emphasis on the quality of production and direction. Contemporary films viewed; papers serve as a basis for discussion during class. Students will be expected to pay for their movie admissions.

W290 Writing in the Arts and Sciences (3 cr.) Studies academic writing as a means of discovery and record. Study of and practice in the procedures, conventions, and terminology of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

W310 Language and the Study of Writing (3 cr.)
Designed as an introduction to the logical foundation and rhetorical framework of effective writing.

W315 Composing Computer-Delivered Text (3 cr.) Introduces students to new forms of writing (beyond word processing and desktop publishing) made possible by computers-hypertext, electronic mail, and computer conferencing-and explores what impact these new forms have on literacy skills for writers and readers of such computer-delivered texts.

W331 Business and Administrative Writing (3 cr.)
Instruction and practice in writing for business, government, the professions, and the nonprofit sector. The course emphasizes principles that can be applied in a wide variety of documents.

W350 Advanced Expository Writing (3 cr.) Close examination of assumptions, choices, and techniques that go into a student's own writing and the writing of others.

W355 Business Correspondence (3 cr.) Instruction and practice in the writing of letters and memos for business, government, the professions, and the nonprofit sector.

W365 Theories and Practices of Editing (3 cr.) Instruction and practice in the mechanical, stylistic, and substantive editing of English nonfiction prose, from a wide variety of genres and on a wide variety of subjects.

W396 Writing Fellows Training Seminar (3 cr.)
P: W131 and permission of instructor. Internship in University Writing Center. Focuses on the writing of IUPUI students. Emphasis on questioning, strategies, problem solving, and self-analysis. Apply in spring for fall enrollment.

W398 Internship in Writing (3 cr.)
P: permission of instructor. Internship in the University Writing Center, designated IUPUI offices, or other arranged settings. Focus on writing, the teaching of writing, and writing-related tasks. Apply during semester before desired internship.

W411 Directed Writing (1-3 cr.) Individualized project assigned by instructor consenting to direct it. Individual critical projects worked out with director. Credit varies with scope of project.

W490 Writing Seminar (3 cr.) Emphasizes a single aspect or a selected topic of composition and the writing of nonfictional prose.

Creative Writing

W207 Introduction to Fiction Writing (3 cr.) An introduction to the techniques and principles of fiction writing. Written assignments, workshop discussions of student work in progress, seminar study of classic and contemporary examples of the genre. This course may be used as a prerequisite for W301.

W208 Introduction to Poetry Writing (3 cr.) W208 offers students an introduction to the craft and practice of poetry writing: how to find subjects for writing; to create images, similes, and metaphors; to make rhyme sound natural; to produce both metered and free-verse poetry. Part of the class will be a workshop in which students will learn to revise their poems and those of fellow students. This course can serve as a prerequisite for W303.

W301 Writing Fiction (3 cr.) P: W206 or submission of acceptable manuscript to instructor in advance of registration. An intermediate course in the theory and practice of fiction writing with seminar study of relevant materials and criticism of student work in class and conference. May be repeated once for credit.

W303 Writing Poetry (3 cr.) P: W206 or submission of acceptable manuscripts to instructor in advance of registration. An intermediate course in the theory and practice of poetry writing with seminar study of relevant materials and criticism of student work in class and conference. May be repeated once for credit.

W305 Writing Creative Nonfiction (3 cr.) P: W206 or submission of acceptable manuscript to instructor in advance of registration. An intermediate course in the theory and practice of creative nonfiction prose, with seminar study of relevant materials and workshop discussion of student work in progress. May be repeated once for credit.

W401 Writing Fiction (3 cr.) P: W301. Study and practice in the writing of fiction. Analysis of examples from contemporary literature accompanies class criticism and discussion. May be repeated once for credit.

W403 Advanced Poetry Writing (3 cr.)
P: W303. Study and practice in the writing of poetry. Analysis of examples from contemporary poets accompanies class criticism and discussion. May be repeated once for credit.

The English as a Second Language sequence-G010, G011, and G012-focuses on fundamental language skills. It is designed to correct pronunciation problems, to improve listening comprehension, and to improve the student's ability to participate actively and effectively in a range of communication situations, from simple conversation to seminar discussion. Although emphasis is on speaking proficiency in English, basic reading, writing, and study skills are essential components of these courses.

Students must complete all other required ESL courses before enrolling in G013 or ESL W131, with the exception of G012, which may be taken simultaneously with those two courses.

G009 Intermediate Aural/Oral Skills for ESL Students (4 cr.) Intensive practice of basic speaking and pronunciation skills, as well as listening comprehension skills, to develop language proficiency required for study at the university level. Students will make extensive use of the Multimedia Language Resource Center.

G010 English as a Second Language I (4 cr.) This course introduces and reviews basic English grammatical structures; presents basic reading strategies and vocabulary development; provides practice in pronunciation of English consonant and vowel sounds, stress, rhythm, and intonation; and focuses on functional language use and study skills.

G011 English as a Second Language II (4 cr.) This course provides practice in and clarification of difficult grammatical structures; improves spoken language skills, emphasizing group discussion; focuses on pronunciation skills: word stress, intonation, and difficult sounds; encourages development of reading strategy skills: skimming, scanning, and summarizing; augments the student's understanding of American culture and functional language use.

G012 English as a Second Language III (3 cr.) This course focuses on developing speaking and listening skills that are essential to academic life, encouraging participation in group discussion, improvement in presentation strategies, and development of questioning and answering skills. It provides community involvement to help students better understand American culture and language use. Reading skills and vocabulary development for the academic context are emphasized.

G013 Reading and Writing for Academic Purposes (3 cr.) This course is designed primarily for graduate ESL students. Its purpose is to develop reading comprehension skills through the use of academic subject area materials and to teach the writing skills necessary to complete academic work. Assignments are completed using materials from the students' academic desciplines.

G015 Pronunciation Skills (1 cr.) This course focuses on American English pronunciation and stresses active learner involvement in small groups and self-tutorials. Practice in a contextualized format includes drills and multimedia listening and speaking activities. Classwork emphasizes stress and intonation patterns and vowel and consonant production. Individualized instruction focusing on specific needs is a component of the course.

G020 Communication Skills for ITAs (3 cr.) This course for graduate International Teaching Assistants provides instruction on basic teaching strategies and helps students develop the oral language skills necessary to present academic materials in English to a student audience. Pronunciation, listening comprehension, and classroom interaction skills are practiced. Regular conferences focus on individual pronunciation needs.

ESL W001 Fundamentals of English (3 cr.) This course develops fluency and amplitude in writing through in-class instruction in invention, focus, development, and revision. Grammar instruction is individualized, and students have practice in English sentence patterns, word choice, and idiomatic expressions. Evaluation is based upon a portfolio of the student's work.

ESL W131 Elementary Composition I (3 cr.) This course, which fulfills part of the communication core requirement for all undergraduate students, is designed to help students improve their English writing skills.

Film Studies

W260 Film Criticism (3 cr.) Viewing and critiquing currently playing films, with emphasis on the quality of production and direction. Contemporary films are viewed; papers serve as a basis for discussion during class. Students will be expected to pay for their movie admissions.

CMLT C290 Survey of Film History (3 cr.)
An overview of film from its beginnings to the present, emphasizing major developments in narrative cinema.

CMLT C390 The Film and Society: Topics (3 cr.) P: C190 or consent of instructor. Film and politics; race and gender; social influences of the cinema; rise of the film industry. May be repeated once with different topic.

CMLT C391 The Film: Theory and Aesthetics (3 cr.) P: C190 or consent of instructor. Film form and techniques; aesthetic and critical theories of the cinema; relationships between film movements and literary and artistic movements; relationships of word and image; analysis of significant motion pictures.

CMLT C392 Genre Study in Film (3 cr.)
P: C190 or consent of instructor. Problems of definition; the evolution of film genres such as criminal or social drama, comedy, the western, science fiction, horror, or documentary film; themes, subject matter, conventions, and iconography peculiar to given genres; relationship of film genres to literary genres. Focus on one specific genre each time the course is offered. May be repeated once with different topic.

CMLT C393-C394 History of European and American Films I-II (3-3 cr.) P: C190 or consent of instructor. C393 is a survey of the development of cinema during the period 1895-1926 (the silent film era); C394 is a survey of European and American cinema since 1927. Particular attention paid to representative work of leading filmmakers, emergence of film movements and development of national trends, growth of film industry, and impact of television.

CMLT C491 Authorship and Cinema (3 cr.)
P: C190 or consent of instructor. Study of the work of one or more film artists. Attention paid to the style, themes, and methods that make the filmmaker's work unique. Filmmakers studied in the contexts of film traditions, ideologies, and industries which informed their work. May be repeated one time with a different topic.

CMLT C493 Film Adaptations of Literature (3 cr.)
P: C190 or consent of instructor. Analysis of the processes and problems involved in turning a literary work (novel, play, or poem) into a screenplay and then into a film. Close study of literary and film techniques and short exercises in adaptation.

Admission Requirements (1) Applicants should have a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, with a minimum grade point average of 3.0 (on a 4.0 grading scale) in the student's undergraduate major, documented by an official transcript. Applicants are expected to have been English majors, but admission also is considered for those who otherwise demonstrate the competency necessary for successful graduate work in English. (2) The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test with a minimum score of 600 in at least one of the three areas. Applicants are encouraged to take the examination by December of the year before admission. (3) Three letters of recommendation. (4) Two years of foreign language as an undergraduate with appropriate level of achievement.

Grades M.A. and M.A.T. students must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.0 (B).

Course Requirements The M.A. in English and the M.A. in Teaching English have identical requirements. Both degrees require 36 credit hours, including 12 credit hours of ''core'' courses, 12-16 credit hours of ''area'' courses, 4-8 credit hours of internship, and 4 credit hours of thesis work. The three core courses provide an introduction to three major areas in the discipline of English: Language: G500 Introduction to the English Language; Writing: W500 Teaching Composition: Theories and Applications; Literature: L506 Issues and Motives of Literary Studies. These courses, which carry 4 credit hours each, should be taken at the beginning of the graduate program.

Foreign Language Requirements There is no foreign language requirement, but M.A. students going on for the Ph.D. are encouraged to validate their reading proficiency in a foreign language according to University Graduate School standards.

Graduate Courses

Graduate Linguistics Courses

G525 ESL Practicum (3 cr.) Students will be able to put into practice methods and principles of linguistics, second language acquisition, and language teaching. Under supervision, they will teach ESL classes either at IUPUI or in a local school system.

L532 Second Language Acquisition (3 cr.)
An introduction to a broad range of issues in the field of second language acquisition, providing the student with an overview of the most important approaches to the fundamental question of how people learn a second language. Provides students with basic knowledge of theories of second language acquisition, and an understanding of how theoretical perspectives inform practical application.

L534 Linguistic Resources for TESOL (3 cr.) The course examines recent theories of teaching English as a second or foreign language. Students will get a chance to examine theories and methods and develop knowledge of linguistic resources available to new and/or practicing teachers.

G541 Materials Preparation for ESL Instruction (4 cr.) Students learn about materials preparation, syllabus design, and test preparation by applying a variety of theories to books and other ESL (English as a Second Language) teaching devices (e.g. tapes, videotapes, computer and software programs) in order to evaluate their usefulness and will learn to evaluate ESL materials for adequacy.

G625 Introduction to Text Linguistics/ Discourse Analysis (4 cr.) This course introduces students to current approaches to text and discourse coherence, including recent theories of cognitive and interactional text modeling.

G652 English Language Sociolinguistics (4 cr.)
This course investigates sociocultural aspects of language use and explores the relationships between language and society. The course provides background in various theoretical and methodological approaches to sociolinguistics. Other topics to be covered include gender and language, ethnicity and language, social factors in language acquisition, and bilingualism. Familiarity with basic issues and concepts in linguistics would be useful.

Graduate Internship L590 Internship in English (4-8 cr.) A supervised internship in the uses of language in the workplace. (For prospective teachers, the workplace may be a classroom.) Each intern will be assigned a problem or new task and will develop the methods for solving the problem or completing the task. Interns will complete a portfolio of workplace writing and self-evaluation; they will also be visited by a faculty coordinator and evaluated in writing by their on-site supervisors.

Graduate Thesis L699 M.A. Thesis (4 cr.)

Graduate Literature Courses

L506 Issues and Motives of Literary Studies (4 cr.) An examination of the importance of the notion of the text for contemporary literary theory.

L553 Studies in Literature (4 cr.) Primarily for secondary school and college teachers of English. Emphasis on thematic, analytic, and generic study. With consent of instructor, may be repeated once for credit.

L560 Literary Studies in England and Scotland (4 cr.) Provides on-site opportunities in England and Scotland to explore the literary landscapes of British authors in relation to the English and Scottish school systems. Designed primarily for education majors and continuing certification credits.

L573 Interdisciplinary Approaches to English and American Literature (3 cr.) Social, political, and psychological studies in English and American literature. Topics may vary and include, for example, literature and colonialism, literature and psychoanalysis, or literature and gender. May also include other world literatures.

L590 Internship in English (4 cr.)
A supervised internship in the uses of language in the workplace. Each intern will be assigned a problem or task and will develop the methods for solving or completing it. Each intern will complete a portfolio of workplace writing and self-evaluation.

L606 Topics in African American Literature (4 cr.)
Focuses on a particular genre, time period, or theme of African American literature. Examples: twentieth-century African American women's novels, black male identity in literature, kinship in African American literature, African American autobiography. May be repeated twice for credit with different focuses.

L625 Shakespeare (4 cr.) Critical analysis of selected tragedies, comedies, history plays, and poetry.

L645 English Fiction, 1800-1900 (4 cr.) Intensive historical and critical study of nineteenth-century prose fiction, especially the novel.

L655 American Literature since 1900 (4 cr.) Intensive historical and critical study of all genres from the time of Theodore Dreiser to the present.

L680 Special Topics in Literary Study and Theory (4 cr.) Reading in sociological, political, psychological, and other approaches to literature.

L681 Genre Studies (4 cr.) A variable title course, Genre Studies examines the specific characteristics of individual genres. May be repeated once for credit.

L695 Individual Readings in English (1-4 cr.)

Graduate Writing Courses

W510 Computer in Composition (3 cr.) Proceeds from current theories about writing processes, and surveys the use of computer programs (such as word processing) as writing tools, computer-assisted instruction as a teaching aid, and computer programs as research aids to study writing.

W511 Graduate Fiction Writing (4 cr.) A graduate-level fiction writing workshop. Seminar study of advanced techniques in the writing of fiction, both short stories and the novel. Workshop discussion of advanced student work in progress.

W513 Graduate Poetry Writing (4 cr.) W513 offers graduate students an intensive experience in reading and writing poetry. Part workshop and part seminar in poetic practice and technique, W513 provides an opportunity for graduate students to expand their poetic range and hone their craft.

W553 Theory and Practice of Exposition (4 cr.)
Explores the writing and analysis of exposition, especially for high school or college teachers.

W590 Teaching Composition: Theories and Applications (4 cr.) Explores current theories of composition inherent in current classroom practices and considers their pedagogical implications.