2025-26 Variable Topics Course Offerings
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courses For Minor, Certificate Programs |
FALL 2025 topic (INSTRUCTOR) |
WINTER 2026 TOPIC (INSTRUCTOR) |
SPRING 2026 TOPIC (INSTRUCTOR) |
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300-level variable topics courses |
FALL 2025 topic (INSTRUCTOR) |
WINTER 2026 TOPIC (INSTRUCTOR) |
SPRING 2026 TOPIC (INSTRUCTOR) |
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| 361: Reading Instruction for the Teaching of Young Adult Literature | (Guise) | ||
| 370: World Cinema | |||
| 371: Film Styles and Genres |
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| 372: Film Directors |
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| 373: Topics on Gender Representation in Film |
Gender and Horror (Helmbrecht) |
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380: Literary Themes |
Horror Fiction (B. Bates)
American Short Stories (Pierce) |
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381: Diversity in Twentieth-Century American Literature |
Diversity in U.S. Drama (Hatch)
Diverse Voices in Contemporary Poetry (Rosenthal) |
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| 382: LGBT Literature and Media |
(Ruszczycky) |
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400-level courses & variable topics courses |
FALL 2025 TOPIC (iNSTRUCTOR) |
WINTER 2026 TOPIC (INSTRUCTOR) |
sPRING 2026 tOPIC (iNSRUCTOR) |
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411: New Media Arts I |
(Martinez) | ||
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412: New Media Arts II |
(Martinez) | ||
| 421: Advanced Topics in Technical & Professional Communication |
(Sarraf) |
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| 424: Teaching English in Secondary Schools | (Guise) | ||
| 425: English Clinical Experience Seminar | (Elvin) | (Elvin) | |
| 439: Significant British Writers |
Non-Shakespearean Drama (Fitzhenry)
History in the Contemporary British Novel (Kauffmann)
Love in Medieval Literature (Schwartz) |
Jane Austen Fiction and Film (Allen) |
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| 449: Significant American Writers |
Madness in American Literature (Campbell)
The LGBT Romance Novel (Ruszczycky) |
Reconstruction Stories (Forster) |
American Modernism in Black and White (Campbell) |
| 459: Significant World Writers |
Dystopia and Apocalypse in Western Literature (Marchbanks) |
Love and Death: The Tristan Tradition (Schwartz) |
The Greeks (Hampsey)
The Brechtian Revolution (Hatch)
Black Women Write Abolition (Hislop)
Speculative Fiction (Marchbanks)
Literary Mesmerism (Waitinas) |
| 467: Topics in Rhetoric and Writing |
Spatial Rhetorics (Helmbrecht) |
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| 470: Selected Advanced Topics |
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| 487: Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction | (Pierce) | (Pierce) | |
| 488: Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry | (Rosenthal) | (Rosenthal) | |
| 495: Topics in Applied Language Study |
Applied Phonetics and Phonology (Yip) |
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| 497: Theories of Language Learning and Teaching | (Yip) | ||
| 498:Approaches to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages | (Yip) | ||
| 499: Practicum in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages | (Yip) |
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500-level & variable topics courses |
fall 2025 topic (instructor) |
winter 2026 topic (instructor) |
spring 2026 topic (instructor) |
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| 501: Introduction to English Studies | (Hislop) | ||
| 502: Seminar in Critical Analysis |
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Literary Criticism: Contemporary (Hatch) |
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| 503: Graduate Intro to Linguistics | |||
| 505: Composition Theory | (Peters) | ||
| 506: Pedagogical Approaches to Composition | (Peters) | ||
| 510: Seminar in Authors |
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| 511: Seminar in American Literary Periods |
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Black Writers on Policing, Prison, and Mass Incarceration in the United States (Clemons) |
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| 512: Seminar in British Literary Periods |
Race, Gender, and Empire in the Long 18th Century (Allen) |
Romantics (Hampsey) |
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| 513: Seminar in Special Topics |
Love in Medieval Literature (Schwartz) |
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Politics of Aesthetics: Brecht (Hatch) |
| 515: Apprenticeship: Teaching Lit, Comp, or Linguistics at the College Level | |||
| 518: Graduate Technical Communication | |||
| 519: Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing |
Rhetoric and Memory (Helmbrecht) |
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| 570: Selected Advanced Topics | |||
| 590: Directed Study | |||
| 598: Graduate Project | (Hatch) | (Hatch) |
(Hatch) |