Jun 16, 2024  
Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2019-2020 
    
Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

English (ENGL)

  
  • ENGL 1999 Independent Studies


    1 TO 4 semester hours

  
  • ENGL 2200 Genres: Drama


    4 semester hours

    An intensive study of drama through critical and/or creative engagement with the genre.

    Open to English majors and minors, Journalism majors, and Screenwriting majors.

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 2201 Genres: Poetry


    4 semester hours

    An intensive study of poetry through critical and/or creative engagement with the genre.

    Open to English majors and minors, Journalism majors, and Screenwriting majors.

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 2202 Genres: Fiction


    4 semester hours

    An intensive study of fiction through critical and/or creative engagement with the genre.

    Open to English majors and minors, Journalism majors, and Screenwriting majors.

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 2203 Histories: British Literature I


    4 semester hours

    Critical analysis of British literature from the Anglo Saxons to the end of the eighteenth century using literary historical methods, terms, and concepts.

    Open to English majors and minors, Journalism majors, and Screenwriting majors.


  
  • ENGL 2204 Histories: British Literature II


    4 semester hours

    Critical analysis of British literature from Romanticism through the Moderns using literary historical methods, terms, and concepts.

    Open to English majors and minors, Journalism majors, and Screenwriting majors.


  
  • ENGL 2205 Creative Writing for Non-Majors


    4 semester hours

    A genre-based writing workshop (fiction, poetry, and drama).

    Not open to English majors and minors.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Creative Experience; Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 2206 Language of Journalism


    4 semester hours

    A course in journalistic fundamentals and an introduction to reading, analyzing, and writing news across platforms.

    Required of all English minors in Journalism.

    University Core fulfilled: Flags: Engaged Learning, Writing.


  
  • ENGL 2207 Introduction to Poetry


    4 semester hours

    A course designed to develop an appreciation of poetry through critical analysis and creative writing.

    Not open to English majors and minors.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Creative Experience; Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 2208 Introduction to Fiction


    4 semester hours

    A course designed to develop an appreciation of fiction through critical analysis and creative writing.

    Not open to English majors and minors.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Creative Experience; Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 2209 Introduction to Drama


    4 semester hours

    A course designed to develop an appreciation of drama through critical analysis and creative writing.

    Not open to English majors and minors.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Creative Experience; Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 2210 Writing for Journalism: Workshop


    4 semester hours

    An intermediate level writing class and an introduction to journalism. Covers the basic components of both features and news stories, interview strategies, and legal and ethical concerns.

    Required for Major/Required or Elective for Minor.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 2222 Creativity through Constraints


    4 semester hours

    A study of creative and critical texts on constraint-based writing and workshop in writing texts under constraints.

    Not open to English majors and minors.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Creative Experience; Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 2296 Special Studies in Genres


    4 semester hours

  
  • ENGL 2297 Special Studies in Histories


    4 semester hours

  
  • ENGL 2998 Special Studies


    1 TO 4 semester hours

  
  • ENGL 2999 Independent Studies


    1 TO 4 semester hours

  
  • ENGL 3300 Critical and Ethical Issues in Journalism


    4 semester hours

    This interdisciplinary course offers a critical, cultural studies analysis of ethical and representational issues in digital, broadcast, print, and all modes of media. In addition to extensive reading, students create journalistic stories exploring and incorporating critical and ethical discussions.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .


  
  • ENGL 3303 Reviewing the Arts


    4 semester hours

    A course in writing reviews. Topics may include art, books, film, music, theatre, TV, or video games. Class may involve field trips to theatre, film, or other performances or exhibits.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .


  
  • ENGL 3304 Writing for Advertising


    4 semester hours

    Writing strategies for advertising.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.


  
  • ENGL 3310 The Human Condition: A Long-form Journalism Practicum


    4 semester hours

    This course explores the meaning of the literary term the “human condition” and how this applies to a journalistic practice. In this course students will learn the long-form journalistic practice of immersive, in-depth research that is essentially ethnographic. Students will discuss and formulate their own ideas of human nature through site visits to detention centers, hospice, the county morgue, immigration detention centers, and through interviews with people nearing the end of their lives.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Creative Experience; Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 3316 Modern Drama


    4 semester hours

    International and American drama from 1870-1963.

    Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3320 Shakespeare’s World, the World’s Shakespeare


    4 semester hours

    A seminar exploring Shakespearean poetry and drama in historical and cultural contexts, and cultural productions writing back to the Shakespearean canon from marginalized and/or globalized perspectives.

    Fulfills Author(s) and Comparative requirements.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2203  or ENGL 2297 .


  
  • ENGL 3321 Shakespeare: The Major Plays


    4 semester hours

    A survey course of Shakespeare’s “major plays.” It is a course that intends to cover all the dramatic genres Shakespeare wrote in and at the same time highlight those works which are considered Shakespeare’s most important.

    Fulfills Author(s) or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3322 Studies in Shakespeare


    4 semester hours

    An in-depth study of Shakespeare’s writings.

    This course is repeatable for degree credit up to two times provided new course material (literature) is covered and a new subtitle has been designated.

    Fulfills Author(s) or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing or permission of the Chairperson required.


  
  • ENGL 3323 Shakespeare and Politics


    4 semester hours

    An exploration of the politics of drama and the workings of power and authority in Shakespeare’s plays.

    Fulfills Author(s) or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing or permission of the Chairperson required.


  
  • ENGL 3324 Jack Kerouac and the Beats


    4 semester hours

    An examination of the major Beat writers with a concentration on Jack Kerouac and his novels about his peers.

    Fulfills Author(s) or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3325 Contemporary Poetry


    4 semester hours

    British and American poetry from Wallace Stevens to the present.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3326 Contemporary Drama


    4 semester hours

    International and American drama from 1964 to the present.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3327 Experiments in Genre in 17th Century English Drama


    4 semester hours

    A study of dramatic forms in 17th c. England, including tragicomedy and closet drama, and their political implications during a period of social, religious, and political change.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3328 Oscar Wilde


    4 semester hours

    Considers the literary career of Oscar Wilde in its various contexts in order to discern the importance of Wilde’s work in the literary canon.

    Fulfills Author(s) or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Information Literacy.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3332 The Short Story


    4 semester hours

    A study of the short story as a literary form; close reading of representative short stories by American, British, and continental writers.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3333 Early American Short Story


    4 semester hours

    A survey of short stories from the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century; close reading of representative short stories and study of the short story as a genre.

    Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3338 Detecting the Divine


    4 semester hours

    A study of how the mystery genre in literature provides a paradigm for investigating the mystery of the divine more generally.

    Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3339 Rhetoric, Literature, and Religion


    4 semester hours

    A course exploring the rhetoric of literary and religious texts.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3341 Studies in World Literature


    4 semester hours

    A study of literature(s) written outside the United States and Britain.

    Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3342 Images of Women in Nineteenth-Century England


    4 semester hours

    Study of how the women’s rights movement influenced images of women in 19th-century English literature.

    Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Information Literacy.


  
  • ENGL 3343 Twentieth-Century Women’s Writing


    4 semester hours

    A study of literary and critical texts written by women in the 20th century.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3344 African American Literature


    4 semester hours

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    Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3345 Studies in Multi-Ethnic Literature


    4 semester hours

    The comparative study of literatures within the American experience.

    This course is repeatable for degree credit up to two times provided new course material (literature) is covered and a new subtitle has been designated.

    Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3346 Children’s Literature


    4 semester hours

    A study of children’s literature and the critical discussions it raises across literary and educational studies.

    Open to Liberal Studies majors who are juniors or seniors.


  
  • ENGL 3347 Fairy Tales


    4 semester hours

    A comparative survey of the literary fairy tale tradition through diverse critical and theoretical approaches: folkloricist, structuralist, psychoanalytical, sociological, new historicist, feminist, and gender studies.

    Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Open to English majors only.


  
  • ENGL 3348 Caribbean Literature


    4 semester hours

    A study of Anglophone Caribbean literature that examines, from a postcolonial perspective, a number of aesthetic matters (e.g., West Indian coming of age novels vs. the European Bildungsroman) and social issues (e.g., the use of patois vs. “standard” English in Caribbean poetry).

    Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3349 Longing and Belonging: The Literatures of Israel


    4 semester hours

    This course investigates modern representations in literature and film of longing for and belonging in the land of Israel.

    Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3350 Chicana/o-Latina/o Literature


    4 semester hours

    Examines Chicana/o-Latina/o literature, its criticism as well as its various artistic genres, introducing students to its aesthetic and social value/s (see CLST 3332 ).

    Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections.


  
  • ENGL 3351 Classical Mythology


    4 semester hours

    Study of the basic myths and myth patterns of the Greeks and Romans, and the mythological heritage in Western Literature (see CLAR 3210 ).

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing requirement.


  
  • ENGL 3352 Portraits of the Artist


    4 semester hours

    Fictional, poetic, and dramatic portraits of the developing artist.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3353 Chicana/o Consciousness


    4 semester hours

    Surveys through literary analysis and critical theory a Chicana/o form of awareness, with particular attention to the intersection in Latina/o intellectual history of the aesthetic, the ethical, and the political (see CLST 4406 ).

    Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3354 Prison Literature


    4 semester hours

    Surveys literature written by political prisoners to examine its artistry as well as its attempt to intervene in a culture of incarceration.

    Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3361 Reading Methods


    4 semester hours

    A survey of various methods of reading literary texts.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3362 Reading Cultural Studies


    4 semester hours

    Examines the concept of culture in literary analysis, introducing students to different methods of reading and the analysis of power in various social categories such as race and gender, religion, and nationalism.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 3371 American Literature I


    4 semester hours

    A survey of American literature from colonial times to 1865.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing or permission of the Chairperson required.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections.


  
  • ENGL 3372 American Literature II


    4 semester hours

    A survey of American literature from 1865 to the present.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing or permission of the Chairperson required.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections.


  
  • ENGL 3373 RoadRead


    4 semester hours

    This multi-genre course explores the literature of Los Angeles and California. Involves field trips. Lab fee.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Open to English majors and minors who are juniors or seniors.

    Prerequisites: ENGL 2201  and either ENGL 2200  or ENGL 2202 .


  
  • ENGL 3374 RoadWrite


    4 semester hours

    This multi-genre writing course explores the literature of Los Angeles and California. Involves field trips. Lab fee.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Open to English majors and minors who are juniors or seniors.

    Prerequisites: ENGL 2201  and either ENGL 2200  or ENGL 2202 .


  
  • ENGL 3375 StreetRead


    4 semester hours

    Students will respond critically to literature in the classroom and run reading groups in the community.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    University Core fulfilled: Flags: Engaged Learning, Writing.

    Open to English majors and minors who are juniors or seniors.

    Prerequisites: ENGL 2201  and either ENGL 2200  or ENGL 2202 .


  
  • ENGL 3376 StreetWrite


    4 semester hours

    Student writers will workshop their own writing and run field workshops in the community.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Open to English majors and minors who are juniors or seniors.

    Prerequisites: ENGL 2201  and either ENGL 2200  or ENGL 2202 .


  
  • ENGL 3381 Journalism and New Media


    4 semester hours

    This course will look at the emergent forms of new media by examining websites, blogs, and podcasts and reading the works of media thinkers. Students will use various digital tools, such as podcasts, Flip cameras, slideshows, etc., in their weekly blog postings and papers/presentations.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .


  
  • ENGL 3998 Special Studies


    1 TO 4 semester hours

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .


  
  • ENGL 3999 Independent Studies


    1 TO 4 semester hours

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 4400 Photojournalism


    4 semester hours

    Photography and digital journalism students will learn the best practices of photojournalism and engaging visual storytelling through the use of portraiture, feature and spot news, and photo essay.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .


  
  • ENGL 4401 Telling Stories with Sound


    4 semester hours

    From reporting and recording to editing and producing a finished project, this course teaches how to create journalistic radio stories and podcasts.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .


  
  • ENGL 4402 Writing Internship in Media


    4 semester hours

    Students enrolled in this course work 10-12 hours per week with an off-campus media firm.

    Permission of the instructor required. Students must submit a portfolio of their writing to the instructor four weeks prior to registration for the course.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .


  
  • ENGL 4403 Non-Fiction Workshop


    4 semester hours

    A writer’s workshop with practice in analyzing and creating non-fiction prose.

    This course is repeatable for degree credit up to two times provided new course material is covered and a new subtitle has been designated.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 4405 Literary Non-Fiction Workshop


    4 semester hours

    An advanced course in non-fiction prose, with practice in both creating and analyzing non-fiction.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 4406 Journalism: Interview: Workshop


    4 semester hours

    A course in interview strategies for journalists.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 4407 Investigative Reporting


    4 semester hours

    A course that examines and teaches the deep-dive reporting and writing techniques of investigative journalism.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 4408 Journalism: Editing Workshop


    4 semester hours

    A course in editing techniques for journalists.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 4409 Reporter in the Story


    4 semester hours

    Students bridge memoir and reportage to produce works of first-person long-form journalism, examining the ethical implications and creative possibilities of the writer as a character in a reported story.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 4411 Fiction Writing Workshop: Narrative and Style


    4 semester hours

    Exercises, experiments, and creative construction in classic narrative fiction styles.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2202 .


  
  • ENGL 4412 Poetry Writing Workshop: Imagination


    4 semester hours

    Writing poetry with an emphasis on image and the lyric imagination.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2201 .


  
  • ENGL 4413 Play Writing Workshop: One-Acts


    4 semester hours

    Writing monologues, ten-minute, and one-act scripts for the stage.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2200 .


  
  • ENGL 4421 Fiction Writing Workshop: Dialogue and Scene


    4 semester hours

    Exercises in literary dialogue, scene setting, and scene execution.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2202 .


  
  • ENGL 4422 Poetry Writing Workshop: Forms


    4 semester hours

    Writing poetry in traditional and non-traditional forms.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2201 .


  
  • ENGL 4424 Play Writing Workshop: Full-Lengths


    4 semester hours

    Writing full-length scripts for the stage.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2200 .


  
  • ENGL 4431 Fiction Writing Workshop: The Components of the Short Story


    4 semester hours

    Exercises and experiments in putting together the parts of a short story.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2202 .


  
  • ENGL 4432 Poetry Writing Workshop: Voice


    4 semester hours

    Writing poetry persona poems and/or dramatic monologues.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2201 .


  
  • ENGL 4433 Play Writing Workshop: Adaptation


    4 semester hours

    Adapting fiction, non-fiction, and other genres for the stage.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2200 .


  
  • ENGL 4460 Hard News to Blogs: Post-1800 Journalism


    4 semester hours

    A study of diverse journalists from 1800 to the present, emphasizing how their work reflects the concerns of their age and their contributions to the tradition of journalism that continues today. Students will develop their own journalistic writing in response to this tradition.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 4463 The Art of the Essay


    4 semester hours

    A study of the form of the essay, with emphasis on the historical tradition of essay writing. Students will develop their own essays in response to this tradition.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 4464 Publishing a Journal


    4 semester hours

    This is an advanced journalism course designed to train the student in the practical elements involved in publishing an international journal of literary nonfiction.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 4465 Arts and Culture Journalism


    4 semester hours

    An introduction to arts and culture journalism, involving writing various forms of arts and culture criticism and reported features, including theater, film, art, and food reviews, reported features, and others.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 4466 Journalism: The Age of Content


    4 semester hours

    This journalism course will take an in-depth, critical look at the emergent forms of new media by examining websites, blogs, videos, fan fiction, and podcasts and reading the works of media scholars. This is an upper-level writing course that requires familiarity with basic digital tools.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 4467 Journalism and Law


    4 semester hours

    Students will learn about the legal rights and responsibilities of journalists. The course will also focus on reporting on legal issues, including using legal sources, identifying newsworthy cases, and conducting courtroom reporting.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 4468 Journalism: Capstone


    4 semester hours

    Students will complete their Journalism major or minor by producing a multi-platform journalism project.

    Open to senior Journalism majors or minors by permission of instructor.

    Required of all Journalism majors or minors.


  
  • ENGL 4469 Practicum in Journalism I


    4 semester hours

    This course gives students practical journalism experience working on the staff of the Los Angeles Loyolan, the Tower, ROAR, or Marymount Institute Press. Particularly appropriate for editors.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 4470 Practicum in Journalism II


    4 semester hours

    This course is for advanced journalism students who have served as editors at the Loyolan, the Tower, ROAR, or Marymount Institute Press for at least one semester. Students will mentor a junior staffer.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.


  
  • ENGL 4471 Sports Journalism


    4 semester hours

    A course covering all aspects of sports reporting, writing, and editing.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 4472 Broadcast Journalism


    4 semester hours

    A course focused on the craft of researching and writing a feature story for radio and multimedia broadcast.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 4473 Mobile Media Journalism


    4 semester hours

    Students will study digital storytelling theory before collaborating to produce their own magazine for mobile devices.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 4481 Time in 20th/21st Century Fiction and Film


    4 semester hours

    A writing and theory course that explores the shift from modernist to postmodernist ideas of time.

    Fulfills Creative/Artistry or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections.


  
  • ENGL 4998 Special Studies


    1 TO 4 semester hours

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 4999 Independent Studies


    1 TO 4 semester hours

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 5501 Journalism: Telling LA’s Story


    4 semester hours

    This is an advanced essay workshop examining the artistry of journalism as it relates to Los Angeles. We will explore LA writing by reading the most compelling practitioners and incorporating, when applicable, their craft and style techniques to our own writing, as we engage in the tradition of the public intellectual.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .


  
  • ENGL 5502 The Arthurian Romance


    4 semester hours

    A study of Arthurian legend from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Sir Thomas Malory.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 5503 English Literature of the Middle Ages


    4 semester hours

    English literature, from the Normans to the Tudors.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 5504 Chaucer


    4 semester hours

    The works of Chaucer, particularly The Canterbury Tales.

    Fulfills Author(s) or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 5507 The Idea of the Vernacular


    4 semester hours

    Using a variety of modern and medieval theoretical models the course interrogates the rise of English as a literary medium in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when writing in English was edgy and sometimes dangerous, by examining manuscripts and early printed books as the physical manifestations of this radicalizing literary culture.

    Fulfills Critical/Theoretical and Author(s) requirements.

    Junior or senior standing required.


  
  • ENGL 5511 Political Journalism


    4 semester hours

    Political Journalism examines the function of the news media in American politics, campaigns and elections. Students study how journalists and news outlets shape narratives in political discourse and public opinion of politics and political candidates. Students study journalism being produced about current campaigns and produce some of their own coverage of local races in California and Los Angeles.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 2206  or JOUR 2100 .


  
  • ENGL 5513 Milton


    4 semester hours

    The poetry and selected prose of John Milton.

    Fulfills Author(s) or Critical/Theoretical requirement.

    Junior or senior standing required.


 

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