Courses Offered

Fall 2006 courses

ENGL 8050 Graduate Study and Research in English   

Chola Chisunka

Mon. 5:00 PM-7:30 PM  

3 graduate credits

Designed for students who are new to the English Graduate Program. This course promotes the student�s ability to do independent and creative scholarly research and to become more competent in critical approaches to literature, research techniques, new methodologies, and technologies, as well as library and archival examination. Students in the MAT in English Certification program develop the research proposal for the classroom research project that they are required to carry out during their 400 hour Internship/Clinical experience.

ENGL 9020 Shakespeare�s Major Plays                            

Lisa Gim

Tues. 5:00 PM-7:30 PM

3 graduate credits

This course examines Shakespeare's major plays in relation to the culture and interpretive concerns of both Shakespeare's world and our contemporary one. Special emphasis is placed on his works as read, taught, performed, and constructed in regard to power, gender, class, and literary aesthetics.

ENGL 8052 Composition Theory  

Patrice Gray

Tues. 5:00 PM-7:30 PM 

3 graduate credits 

 This course is intended to help students create a framework for generating their own philosophy of writing.  It is intended to help students develop a deeper understanding of their own writing processes, to recognize the complexities of literacy and writing, and to become more conscious of the rhetorical choices writers make in different writing situations.

ENGL 9075  Jewish American Literature and Culture 

Michael Hoberman 

Wednesday, 6:00 PM-8:30 PM 

3 graduate credits

 Jews have been Americans for over 350 years, and throughout the course of their extended sojourn in this country, they have been vocal participants in its literary life.  This course will investigate the canon of Jewish American literature, beginning with writings by Jews who settled here in the colonial and Revolutionary era, through the 19^th century and into the 20^th century, when Jewish writers attained their most visible stature.  We will look closely at how Jewish writers in America have explored their dual�and occasionally conflicted�identities as both Jews and Americans.  We will pursue Jewish authors� participation in America�s political, cultural and literary movements, from the founding of the Republic through the post-modern age.  Writers include Emma Lazarus, Abraham Cahan, Henry Roth, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Phillip Roth, Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick, Allegra Goodman, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander.

ENGL 7012 The Modern Secondary School 

Ron Schofield

Thursday, 5:00 PM-7:30 PM 

Prerequisite for Initial License

Required of all MAT candidates who have no certification to teach.  Covers a broad range of issues faced by teachers in today�s secondary schools.  Students become familiar with the complexities and demands of secondary school teaching.  Includes 75 hours of prepracticum experience.

ENGL 8260 Curriculum Design and Development   

Melanie Gallo  

Thursday, 5:00 PM-7:30 PM 

Required for Professional License                                                          

Designed to provide students with knowledge and skills of the curriculum development-revision process.  In collaborative groups students review, revise and expand the curriculum and assessment procedures in order to integrate current research findings and education reform initiatives.  Students articulate a general Curriculum map contextually appropriate for grade-level content as they plan for integrating content with social, behavioral, processing, thinking skills and Curriculum Frameworks.  Students design an integrated 9-12^th grade curriculum that aligns content standards across disciplines.  Finally, interdisciplinary groups design an integrated curriculum unit.