Spring 2013 Course Offerings
Each course links to a description from the instructor. Where more than one section is available, descriptions are provided by each instructor. You can view courses for graduate students here. You can view prerequisites here.
Undergraduate Courses
English 2001 Creative Writing: Nonfiction
English 2003 Creative Writing: Poetry
English 2005 Creative Writing: Drama
English 2007 Creative Writing: Fiction
English 2009 Literature and Human Values (3 sections)
English 2011 Literature, the Self, and the World: Fiction
English 2091 Literature, the Self, and the World: Fiction, Honors
English 2205 Introduction to Literary Studies
English 2601 Backgrounds of Western Literature
English 2760 Introduction to Professional Writing
English 2901 Structure of English (3 sections)
English 3001 Advanced Composition (7 sections)
English 3005 Technical Communication
English 3009 Myth and Culture (3 sections)
English 3099 Myth and Culture, Honors
English 3110 Cultural Foundations, II
English 3401 Methods of Teaching Composition in the Secondary School
English 3402 Methods of Teaching Literature in the Secondary School
English 3405 Children's Literature (2 sections)
English 3600 The Bible as Literature
English 3604E Special Topics in Literature: Rhetorical Grammar
English 3701 American Literature: 1800 to Mid-19th Century
English 3703 American Literature: 1900-1950
English 3705 American Multicultural Literatures
English 3802 Shakespeare (2 sections)
English 3803 Renaissance and 17th-Century British Literature
English 3807 Victorian Literature
English 3809 Contemporary British Literatures
English 3892 Shakespeare, Honors
English 3901 Language and Linguistics
English 3903 Women, Literature, and Language: Love/Death in Non-Western Women's Literature
English 3907 Contemporary Asian Literature
English 4275 Internship in Professional Writing
English 4300/4390 English Senior Seminar (3 sections)
"My Mind's Not Right": Exploring Madness and Evil in Literature and Film
Being Emily Dickinson
The Literature of Memory
EIU 4192G Film and Contemporary Society [Honors EIU Senior Seminar]
Classes numbered 4750 through 4999 are open to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Graduate students are limited to nine hours of course work in this category.
English 4750 Studies in African-American Literature: The Blues & Its Literary Legacy
English 4760 Studies in Professional Writing: Document Design
English 4775 Feminist Criticism & Theory
English 4801 Integrating the English Language Arts
English 4903 Young Adult Literature
English 4904 Studies in Film: Vision & Revision
English 4905 African American Youth Literature
Graduate Courses
English 5000 Introduction to Methods & Issues in English Studies
English 5004 Literature and Visual Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
English 5008 Madness and Early American Literature
English 5011 Basic Writing Pedagogy
English 5020 Graduate Workshop in Creative Writing - Fiction
English 5502 Mentored Composition Teaching
1. ENG 1002G is a prerequisite for 2000-level courses and above.
2. All courses designated with a G (for example, ENG 2009G) fulfill requirements in the EIU General Education Program.
3. ENG 3010G and 3090G, courses in the General Education Program, do not fulfill requirements in the English major or minors.
Most Recent Catalog
Group 1—Foundation Courses: 1105, 2205§, 2601, 2901* or 3901 or 4901, 2760 or 3001 or 3002 or 3005 or 4761** or 4762** or 4763** or 4764**, 3401*, 3402*, 4801*, 4903*
Group 2—Focused Study in Multicultural Literatures: 2705, 2850, 3705*, 3907, 4750, 4850
Group 3—Breadth in Historical Literary Studies
3A. Literature before 1800: 3800, 3803, 3805, 3700, 3604A, and courses in Group 5 when so designated in this course description booklet
3B. 19th Century: 3806, 3807, 3701, 3702, 3604B, and courses in Group 5 when so designated in this course description booklet
3C. 20th Century and After: 3808, 3809, 3703, 3704, 3604D, and courses in Group 5 when so designated in this course description booklet
3D. Major Author Study: 3601, 3801, 3802 or 3892‡, 3804, and courses in Group 5 when so designated in this course description booklet
Group 4—Capstone Courses: 4300 or 4390‡, 4775 or 4950
Group 5—English Electives: 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009G, 2011G, 2091G‡, 2099G‡, 2602, 2603, 2692‡, 2760, 3005, 3009G, 3099G‡, 3405, 3504, 3600, 3604E, 3606, 3706, 3903, 3970, 4275, 4400, 4444‡, 4644‡, 4752, 4760, 4761, 4762, 4763, 4764, 4903, 4905, 4906
*Required for Teacher Certification only
‡Honors students only
§Prerequisite: ENG 1105, or concurrent enrollment in ENG 1105. Concurrent or prior registration in ENG 2205 is strongly recommended for majors in all courses at the 2000-level and above.
**Prerequisites
