May 16, 2024

Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2015-2016

Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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English (ENGL)
	ENGL 5522 Eighteenth-Century English Novel 4 semester hours The development of the English novel in its first century. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5530 Studies in Romanticism 4 semester hours Explore the key works, concepts, genres, and writers associated with Romanticism. 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 Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5532 The Nineteenth-Century English Novel 4 semester hours The development of the English novel from Austen to Hardy. 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 Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5533 Victorian Literature 4 semester hours Explores the key works, concepts, genres, and writers associated with Victorianism. 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 Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5534 Literature of the Holocaust 4 semester hours A study of the literature of the Holocaust including fiction, poetry, drama, and film. Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5541 British Fiction: 1900-1950 4 semester hours A study of British novels and short fiction from 1900 to 1950. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5542 British Literature: 1950 to the Present 4 semester hours A study of British novels, short fiction, and poems from 1950 to the present. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5543 British Poetry: 1900-1950 4 semester hours A study of the poetry of Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Thomas, and other modernists. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5544 Modern Irish Literature 4 semester hours A survey of Irish literature from 1900 to World War II. Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5545 Contemporary Irish Literature 4 semester hours A study of Irish literature from the end of World War II to the present. Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5546 Irish Renaissance 4 semester hours A study of the period from the 1890s through the 1920s in Ireland focusing on the effort of Irish writers (and others) to preserve the rich legacy of Irish culture and carry it forward into the modern age. Fulfills Comparative requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5547 Irish Short Story 4 semester hours A study of the short story in Ireland during the twentieth century. Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required. University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.
	ENGL 5548 Irish Women Writers 4 semester hours This course will examine women’s issues in Ireland from 1800 to the present, from the perspective of Irish women novelists, playwrights, and poets. Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5549 The Dark Stuff: Horror in Irish Literature 4 semester hours The Dark Stuff will explore the rich traditions of the Gothic and the literary ghost story in Irish literature. Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5552 American Renaissance 4 semester hours The study of American Transcendentalists and other writers from the American Renaissance period of the 19th century. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5553 American Realism and Naturalism 4 semester hours The study of such representative American fiction writers as Twain, James, and Crane. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5554 Modern American Fiction 4 semester hours The study of such representative novelists as Hemingway, Faulkner, Anderson, and Fitzgerald. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5555 American Fiction Since 1950 4 semester hours A study of American novels and short fiction from 1950 to the present. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5556 Modern American Poetry 4 semester hours The study of representative American poets from Whitman to the mid-twentieth century. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5557 Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers 4 semester hours A study of American women writers; close reading of representative texts from different genres by a range of diverse writers. Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5558 Caribbean Literature 4 semester hours The study of representative writers from the English-speaking Caribbean, such as George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Sam Salvon, and Jamaica Kincaid. Fulfills Comparative or Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5559 Survey of Literary Criticism 4 semester hours The principles and practice of literary criticism from the Ancient Greeks to World War II. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5560 Power: American Literature, Theory, Society 4 semester hours Examines language, literature, and power in American culture and society through postcolonial, feminist, and cultural studies. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5562 Contemporary Rhetorical Theory 4 semester hours Textual analysis and production based on contemporary rhetorical theory. Fulfills Creative/Artistry or Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5563 Creative Writing Seminar 4 semester hours An intensive writing class in fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction, or some combination of these genres. 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. Prerequisite: One 4400-level creative writing course in the appropriate genre.
	ENGL 5565 Theory of Teaching Writing and Literature 4 semester hours A course for current and future teachers of composition designed to facilitate the application of theory to pedagogy. Fulfills Creative/Artistry or Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5566 Metaphor: Theory and Practice 4 semester hours A course investigating metaphor theoretically and in the students’ own writing. Fulfills Creative/Artistry or Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5567 Style in Writing 4 semester hours A course investigating metaphor theoretically and in the students’ own writing. Fulfills Creative/Artistry or Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5568 A Course About Nothing 4 semester hours Examines the paradoxical signifier “nothing” across disciplines including cosmology, theology, philosophy, art, and literature. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5569 Linguistics 4 semester hours An introduction to issues in linguistics, such as phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5571 Writing the Novella: Workshop 4 semester hours Practice in writing extended narrative forms. Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement. Junior or senior standing required. Prerequisite: ENGL 4411 , ENGL 4421 , or ENGL 4431 .
	ENGL 5573 Writing Literary Dialogue 4 semester hours A series of exercises and scenarios accentuating the rhythm, lyricism, and implicit movement of character-driven dialogue. Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5574 Rhetoric and Media 4 semester hours A study of persuasion and rhetorical strategies used by the media. Fulfills Creative/Artistry or Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5575 The Art of Rhetoric 4 semester hours A survey of rhetoric from the classical to the modern period. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5582 Poetry of Witness 4 semester hours A writing workshop in poetry involving the study of international political poems, or poems of witness. Fulfills Comparative and Creative/Artistry requirements. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5583 Poetry of Night 4 semester hours The poetry of silence, night, and dream: a sampling of deeply interior and surreal works feeds the generation of a body of related poems, via intensive reading, writing, and workshop. Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5584 The Black Aesthetic 4 semester hours Study of theories of African American aesthetics. Fulfills Critical/Theoretical requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5590 The Feminist Critique: Journalism, the Arts, and Gender 4 semester hours A study of arts criticism by women writers. Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5591 Literary Journalism 4 semester hours Examines the tradition of literary journalism, the telling of true stories through fictional techniques, with emphasis on helping students produce a publishable body of work in this genre. Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5592 Pazz and Jop: Music Criticism 4 semester hours By studying the works of critics throughout pop music history, students will learn to think critically about musical terms and genres and express their observations and opinions in various forms. Fulfills Creative/Artistry requirement. Junior or senior standing required.
	ENGL 5595 Capstone Seminar 4 semester hours A seminar in which students are supervised in developing a portfolio of work in their area of specialization. Fulfills Specialization course requirement. Senior standing required.
	ENGL 5602 The Arthurian Romance 3 semester hours A study of Arthurian legend from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Sir Thomas Malory. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5603 English Literature of the Middle Ages 3 semester hours English literature, from the Normans to the Tudors. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5604 Chaucer 3 semester hours The works of Chaucer, particularly The Canterbury Tales. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5607 The Idea of the Vernacular 3 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. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5613 Milton 3 semester hours The poetry and selected prose of John Milton. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5621 British Literature: 1660-1800 3 semester hours Studies in British literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, exclusive of the novel. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5622 Eighteenth-Century English Novel 3 semester hours The development of the English novel in its first century. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5630 Studies in Romanticism 3 semester hours Explore the key works, concepts, genres, and writers associated with Romanticism. This course is repeatable for degree credit up to two times provided new course material is covered and a new subtitle has been designated. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5632 The Nineteenth-Century English Novel 3 semester hours The development of the English novel from Austen to Hardy. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5633 Victorian Literature 3 semester hours Explores the key works, concepts, genres, and writers associated with Victorianism. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5634 Literature of the Holocaust 3 semester hours A study of the literature of the Holocaust including fiction, poetry, drama, and film. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5641 British Fiction: 1900-1950 3 semester hours A study of British novels and short fiction from 1900 to 1950. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5642 British Literature: 1950 to the Present 3 semester hours A study of British novels, short fiction, and poems from 1950 to the present. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5643 British Poetry: 1900-1950 3 semester hours A study of the poetry of Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Thomas, and other modernists. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5644 Modern Irish Literature 3 semester hours A survey of Irish literature from 1900 to World War II. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5645 Contemporary Irish Literature 3 semester hours A study of Irish literature from the end of World War II to the present. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5646 Irish Renaissance 3 semester hours A study of the period from the 1890s through the 1920s in Ireland focusing on the effort of Irish writers (and others) to preserve the rich legacy of Irish culture and carry it forward into the modern age. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5647 Irish Short Story 3 semester hours A study of the short story in Ireland during the twentieth century. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5648 Irish Women Writers 3 semester hours This course will examine women’s issues in Ireland from 1800 to the present, from the perspective of Irish women novelists, playwrights, and poets. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5649 The Dark Stuff: Horror in Irish Literature 3 semester hours The Dark Stuff will explore the rich traditions of the Gothic and the literary ghost story in Irish literature. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5652 American Renaissance 3 semester hours The study of American Transcendentalists and other writers from the American Renaissance period of the 19th century. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5653 American Realism and Naturalism 3 semester hours The study of such representative American fiction writers as Twain, James, and Crane. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5654 Modern American Fiction 3 semester hours The study of such representative novelists as Hemingway, Faulkner, Anderson, and Fitzgerald. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5655 American Fiction Since 1950 3 semester hours A study of American novels and short fiction from 1950 to the present. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5656 Modern American Poetry 3 semester hours The study of representative American poets from Whitman to the mid-twentieth century. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5657 Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers 3 semester hours A study of American women writers; close reading of representative texts from different genres by a range of diverse writers. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5658 Caribbean Literature 3 semester hours The study of representative writers from the English-speaking Caribbean, such as George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Sam Salvon, and Jamaica Kincaid. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5659 Survey of Literary Criticism 3 semester hours The principles and practice of literary criticism from the Ancient Greeks to World War II. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5660 Power: American Literature, Theory, Society 3 semester hours Examines language, literature, and power in American culture and society through postcolonial, feminist, and cultural studies. M.A. candidate standing.
	ENGL 5662 Contemporary Rhetorical Theory 3 semester hours Textual analysis and production based on contemporary rhetorical theory. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5663 Creative Writing Seminar 3 semester hours An intensive writing class in fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction, or some combination of these genres. This course is repeatable for degree credit up to two times, provided new course material is covered and a new subtitle has been designated. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5665 Theory of Teaching Writing and Literature 3 semester hours A course for current and future teachers of composition designed to facilitate the application of theory to pedagogy. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5666 Metaphor: Theory and Practice 3 semester hours A course investigating metaphor theoretically and in the students’ own writing. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5667 Style in Writing 3 semester hours An examination of prose styles and theories of style to help students develop their own writing styles. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5669 Linguistics 3 semester hours An introduction to issues in linguistics, such as phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5671 Writing the Novella: Workshop 3 semester hours Practice in writing extended narrative forms. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5673 Writing Literary Dialogue 3 semester hours A series of exercises and scenarios accentuating the rhythm, lyricism, and implicit movement of character-driven dialogue. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5674 Rhetoric and Media 3 semester hours A study of persuasion and rhetorical strategies used by the media. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5675 The Art of Rhetoric 3 semester hours A survey of rhetoric from the classical to the modern period. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5682 Poetry of Witness 3 semester hours A writing workshop in poetry involving the study of international political poems, or poems of witness. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5683 Poetry of Night 3 semester hours The poetry of silence, night, and dream: a sampling of deeply interior and surreal works feeds the generation of a body of related poems, via intensive reading, writing, and workshop. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5684 The Black Aesthetic 3 semester hours Study of theories of African American aesthetics. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5690 The Feminist Critique: Journalism, the Arts, and Gender 3 semester hours A study of arts criticism by women writers. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5691 Literary Journalism 3 semester hours Examines the tradition of literary journalism, the telling of true stories through fictional techniques, with emphasis on helping students produce a publishable body of work in this genre. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5692 Pazz and Jop: Music Criticism 3 semester hours By studying the works of critics throughout pop music history, students will learn to think critically about musical terms and genres and express their observations and opinions in various forms. M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5998 Special Studies 1 TO 4 semester hours Junior, senior, or M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 5999 Independent Studies 1 TO 4 semester hours Junior, senior, or M.A. candidate standing required.
	ENGL 6600 Critical Methodology 3 semester hours Prolegomena to Graduate Studies in English (must be completed in the first semester).
	ENGL 6601 Seminar in a Literary Period 3 semester hours Intensive study of a formative era in the history of English Literatures.
	ENGL 6602 Seminar in a Genre 3 semester hours Exploration of one of the types or categories into which literary works are conventionally grouped.
	ENGL 6603 Seminar in a Major Writer 3 semester hours Intensive study of an influential writer.
	ENGL 6604 Seminar Literary Theory 3 semester hours Exploration of theoretical approaches to literature and its production.
	ENGL 6605 Contemporary Critical Theory 3 semester hours Exploration of theoretical approaches to art, thought, and culture (must be completed in the first year).
	ENGL 6606 Seminar in Rhetoric 3 semester hours Intensive study of the arts of persuasion.
	ENGL 6607 Seminar in Composition Theory 3 semester hours Exploration of theoretical approaches to the disciplines of Rhetoric and Composition.
	ENGL 6608 Reading and Writing the Other 3 semester hours A hybrid reading and writing seminar that explores otherness and difference as an aesthetic, political, theoretical, and subjective experience.
	ENGL 6610 Seminar in Creative Writing 3 semester hours Intensive practicum in Creative Writing.
	ENGL 6691 Comprehensive Examination (M.A.) 0 semester hours The exam is restricted to students who entered the M.A. program by Fall 2013. Credit/No Credit grading.
	ENGL 6694 Capstone Portfolio 0 semester hours The capstone portfolio is a culminating project that requires students to work under the supervision of an advisor to create a critical or creative portfolio that highlights his/her research or creative interests. Students should register in their final semester of coursework. CR/NC grading.

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Course Descriptions

ENGL 5522 Eighteenth-Century English Novel

ENGL 5530 Studies in Romanticism

ENGL 5532 The Nineteenth-Century English Novel

ENGL 5533 Victorian Literature

ENGL 5534 Literature of the Holocaust

ENGL 5541 British Fiction: 1900-1950

ENGL 5542 British Literature: 1950 to the Present

ENGL 5543 British Poetry: 1900-1950

ENGL 5544 Modern Irish Literature

ENGL 5545 Contemporary Irish Literature

ENGL 5546 Irish Renaissance

ENGL 5547 Irish Short Story

ENGL 5548 Irish Women Writers

ENGL 5549 The Dark Stuff: Horror in Irish Literature

ENGL 5552 American Renaissance

ENGL 5553 American Realism and Naturalism

ENGL 5554 Modern American Fiction

ENGL 5555 American Fiction Since 1950

ENGL 5556 Modern American Poetry

ENGL 5557 Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers

ENGL 5558 Caribbean Literature

ENGL 5559 Survey of Literary Criticism

ENGL 5560 Power: American Literature, Theory, Society

ENGL 5562 Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

ENGL 5563 Creative Writing Seminar

ENGL 5565 Theory of Teaching Writing and Literature

ENGL 5566 Metaphor: Theory and Practice

ENGL 5567 Style in Writing

ENGL 5568 A Course About Nothing

ENGL 5569 Linguistics

ENGL 5571 Writing the Novella: Workshop

ENGL 5573 Writing Literary Dialogue

ENGL 5574 Rhetoric and Media

ENGL 5575 The Art of Rhetoric

ENGL 5582 Poetry of Witness

ENGL 5583 Poetry of Night

ENGL 5584 The Black Aesthetic

ENGL 5590 The Feminist Critique: Journalism, the Arts, and Gender

ENGL 5591 Literary Journalism

ENGL 5592 Pazz and Jop: Music Criticism

ENGL 5595 Capstone Seminar

ENGL 5602 The Arthurian Romance

ENGL 5603 English Literature of the Middle Ages

ENGL 5604 Chaucer

ENGL 5607 The Idea of the Vernacular

ENGL 5613 Milton

ENGL 5621 British Literature: 1660-1800

ENGL 5622 Eighteenth-Century English Novel

ENGL 5630 Studies in Romanticism

ENGL 5632 The Nineteenth-Century English Novel

ENGL 5633 Victorian Literature

ENGL 5634 Literature of the Holocaust

ENGL 5641 British Fiction: 1900-1950

ENGL 5642 British Literature: 1950 to the Present

ENGL 5643 British Poetry: 1900-1950

ENGL 5644 Modern Irish Literature

ENGL 5645 Contemporary Irish Literature

ENGL 5646 Irish Renaissance

ENGL 5647 Irish Short Story

ENGL 5648 Irish Women Writers

ENGL 5649 The Dark Stuff: Horror in Irish Literature

ENGL 5652 American Renaissance

ENGL 5653 American Realism and Naturalism

ENGL 5654 Modern American Fiction

ENGL 5655 American Fiction Since 1950

ENGL 5656 Modern American Poetry

ENGL 5657 Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers

ENGL 5658 Caribbean Literature

ENGL 5659 Survey of Literary Criticism

ENGL 5660 Power: American Literature, Theory, Society

ENGL 5662 Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

ENGL 5663 Creative Writing Seminar

ENGL 5665 Theory of Teaching Writing and Literature

ENGL 5666 Metaphor: Theory and Practice

ENGL 5667 Style in Writing

ENGL 5669 Linguistics

ENGL 5671 Writing the Novella: Workshop

ENGL 5673 Writing Literary Dialogue

ENGL 5674 Rhetoric and Media