Courses
Courses primarily for undergraduates:
Credits: 0. Contact Hours: Lecture 21.
Intensive English. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 0. Contact Hours: Lecture 15.
Intensive English. Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 0. Contact Hours: Lecture 10.
Intensive English. Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 0. Contact Hours: Lecture 5.
Intensive English. Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 0. Contact Hours: Lecture 2.5.
Intensive English. Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 0.
Open to all interested international students. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
For undergraduates: Completion of ENGL 1010 requirement prepares students for ENGL 1500. For graduates: Completion of ENGL 1010 satisfies the English requirement of the Graduate College. ENGL 1010 courses are limited to students who are nonnative speakers of English. See English Requirement for International Students in Index for additional information about placement exam. Graduation Restriction: Credit from ENGL 1010 does not count toward graduation. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
For undergraduates: Completion of ENGL 1010 requirement prepares students for ENGL 1500. For graduates: Completion of ENGL 1010 satisfies the English requirement of the Graduate College. ENGL 1010 courses are limited to students who are nonnative speakers of English. See English Requirement for International Students in Index for additional information about placement exam. Graduation Restriction: Credit from ENGL 1010 does not count toward graduation. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Available P/NP to graduate students at their department's option. For undergraduates: Completion of ENGL 1010 requirement prepares students for ENGL 1500. For graduates: Completion of ENGL 1010 satisfies the English requirement of the Graduate College. ENGL 1010 courses are limited to students who are nonnative speakers of English. See English Requirement for International Students in Index for additional information about placement exam. Graduation Restriction: Credit from ENGL 1010 does not count toward graduation. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 1200).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Introduction to the use of linguistic knowledge in computer applications today and the basic computational techniques used in such applications. The development of these techniques throughout the history of computational linguistics. How the study of language has contributed to the advancement of technology and how certain computational problems have influenced the way linguists study language.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Application of critical reading and thinking abilities to topics of civic and cultural importance. Introduction of basic oral, visual, and electronic communication principles to support writing development. Initiation of communication portfolio. Concurrent enrollment in LIB 1600 is recommended. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Credit or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 1500
Introduction to the diversity of literary texts. Students will explore work across different genres (drama, poetry, short fiction, the novel) and traditions (Indigenous, postcolonial, global, British, American). Recommended for nonmajors.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Credit or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 1500
Course introduces students to the fundamentals of writing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Extensive readings in all three genres. Students learn creative processes through writing exercises, workshops, and conferences.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 1500.
A broad introduction to the culture of professional work as a technical communicator, with particular emphasis on principles and best practices for developing and managing technical information and digital media. Examination of user-centered design, the history of the discipline, cross-cultural communication, and the ethics of communicating complex information to lay audiences. Study and practice of team-based collaboration, project management, and technical editing.
(Typically Offered: Fall)
(Cross-listed with LING 2190).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Introduction to linguistic concepts and principles of linguistic analysis with English as the primary source of data. Sound and writing systems, sentence structure, vocabulary, and meaning. Issues in the study of usage, regional and social dialects, language acquisition, and language change. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 2200).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Overview of grammatical structures and functions. Parts of speech; phrase, clause, and sentence structure; sentence types and sentence analysis; rhetorical grammar and sentence style; terminology. Not a remedial, English composition, or ESL course. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 1500
Introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) and writing. Students will learn how to find and use AI technologies such as ChatGPT to write for specific purposes, genres, and media; create effective AI prompts and search for accurate information; and navigate the ethical issues of integrating AI-generated and processed content into authored works.
(Typically Offered: Fall)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Survey of British Literature from its beginnings to 1800. Representative works studied in their historical, cultural, and literary contexts that span nearly 900 years of shifts in religious, political, ethnic, and philosophical cultures.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Representative works studied in their historical, cultural, and literary contexts, including attention to the impact and legacy of the British empire on its former colonies, i.e., postcolonial literature.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Survey of American literature from its beginnings (including Indigenous and conquest literatures) through the end of the Civil War. Representative works studied in their historical, cultural, and literary contexts, including attending to the diversity (ethnic, cultural, religious, philosophical, etc.) of American literature and culture.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Survey of American literature from the Civil War to the present. Representative works studied in their historical, cultural, and literary contexts, including attention to the diversity (ethnic, cultural, religious, philosophical, etc.) of American literature and culture.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Credit in or enrollment in ENGL 1500 or 2500
Survey of U.S. and international film history from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present.
(Typically Offered: Fall)
(Cross-listed with AMIN 2400).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Credit in or enrollment in ENGL 1500 or 2500
Survey of American Indian Literature of varying genres, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, film, drama, and media. Focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to American Indian cultural, social, and environmental issues. Meets U.S. Diversity Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Fall)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable.
Narratives of climate change through Literature, Film, and Popular Culture; how narratives shape understanding, behavior, and culture. Literary texts contextualized with readings from other disciplines. How narratives explain climate change, and how we might reimagine narratives to create healthier and more resilient futures.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: (Credit for or exemption from ENGL 1500) AND (credit or concurrent enrollment in LIB 1600)
Analyzing, composing, and reflecting on written, oral, visual, and electronic (WOVE) discourse within academic, civic, and cultural contexts. Emphasis on supporting a claim and using primary and secondary sources. Continued development of communication portfolio. Graduation Restriction: The University requires a minimum grade of C in ENGL 2500 to meet the Communication Proficiency graduation requirement; some majors/degree programs may set higher standards.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
In-depth analysis, composition, and reflection on written, oral, visual, and electronic (WOVE) discourse within academic, civic, and cultural contexts. Emphasis on argumentation: developing claims, generating reasons, providing evidence. Individual sections organized by special topics. Development of communication portfolio. Graduation Restriction: The University requires a minimum grade of C in ENGL 2500 to meet the Communication Proficiency graduation requirement; some majors/degree programs may set higher standards. (Typically Offered: Fall)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Credit or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 1500.
Introduction to the basic principles of literary study, including strategies for analyzing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, film, drama, and media. Emphasis on writing critical essays and conducting research. Designed for English majors.
(Cross-listed with SPCM 2750).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Credit or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 2500
Analysis of how information and entertainment forms persuade and manipulate audiences. Study of several forms that may include newspapers, speeches, television, film, advertising, fiction, and magazines. Special attention to verbal and visual devices.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500 and Junior classification
Rhetorical concepts and processes to successfully communicate individually and collaboratively via written, oral, visual, and electronic modes across a range of business disciplines. Covers strategies for analyzing audiences internal and external to an organization in order to communicate positive, neutral, and negative messages clearly, completely, correctly, and ethically; save an audience's time; and create goodwill.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500 and Junior classification
Theory, principles and processes of effective written, oral, visual, and electronic communication typically encountered in business and the professions. Extensive practice in many areas of workplace communication, including letter, memo, and email correspondence; short proposals and reports; policies and procedures; job packet including letters of application and resumes; website analysis; brochures; and individual and team presentations.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; Sophomore classification
Practical workshop in writing nonfiction articles for popular magazines. Emphasis on writing, market research, preparation of manuscripts, methods of submission. Major goal of the course is production of marketable material.
(Typically Offered: Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; Sophomore classification
Progresses from practice in basic techniques of fiction writing to fully developed short stories. Emphasis on writing, analytical reading, workshop criticism, and individual conferences.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; Sophomore classification
Workshop in writing imaginative essays, both critical and personal. Analytical reading, development of literary techniques. Individual and small group conferences.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; Sophomore classification
Progresses from traditional to contemporary forms. Emphasis on writing, analytical reading, workshop criticism, and individual conferences.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
(Cross-listed with WGS 3080).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Writing and reading interpretive fiction written by women. Emphasis on stories that embody a female literary life, gender-specific ways of creating characters and conflicts, analytical reading and writing, workshop criticism and shared commentaries. Includes multi-modal projects.
(Typically Offered: Fall)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500 and Junior classification
Rhetorical concepts and processes to individually and collaboratively develop proposals for business, governmental, nonprofit, or other organizations and to report on the work completed both orally and in writing. Emphasizes the structure and classification of proposal and report types, qualitative and quantitative research methods, audience analysis, document design, and data visualization.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
(Cross-listed with SPCM 3100).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Fundamental principles of rhetorical criticism. Focus on selected theories for analyzing cultural texts, including essays, speeches, film, technical and scientific documents, and websites. Emphasis on identifying artifacts, formulating research questions, applying methodologies, and understanding and practicing critical analysis through discussion and in writing.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500 and Junior classification
Rhetorical concepts, processes, and strategies to successfully communicate individually and collaboratively via written, oral, visual, and electronic modes in disciplines in and related to science. Emphasizes the strategies for analyzing and adapting to audiences about scientific topics and disciplines. Covers developing and designing documentation, presenting scientific data visually, and communicating results orally.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Rhetorical principles of multimodal composing in hypertextual environments. Focus on writing according to web style guidelines, employing cascading stylesheets for layout and design, and using principles of information architecture to determine optimal site structure. Final project involves constructing interactive client site using latest web standards.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500 and Junior classification
Rhetorical concepts and processes to successfully communicate technical information individually and collaboratively via written, oral, visual, and electronic modes. Emphasizes the major strategies for analyzing expert and lay audiences and adapting information to those audiences. Covers developing and designing usable technical documentation, visualizing data, and presenting technical information orally.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Theories, principles, and processes of effective written, oral, visual, and electronic communication of technical information. Attention to major strategies for analyzing and adapting to audiences in various communication situations and composing technical discourse including organizing visual and verbal information. Extensive practice in many areas of technical communication, including instructions and procedures, proposals and reports, website analysis and design, and individual and team presentations. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; Sophomore classification
Stresses master scene technique of writing fully developed screenplays. Emphasis on movie techniques, writing, workshop criticism, analytical reading and viewing, and individual conferences.
(Typically Offered: Fall)
(Cross-listed with THTRE 3160).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; Sophomore classification
Progresses from production of scenes to fully developed one-act plays. Emphasis on action, staging, writing, analytical reading, workshop criticism, and individual conferences.
(Typically Offered: Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 3180).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2190 or LING 2190
Introduction to methods and materials for teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) for elementary and secondary students. Strategies and resources for teaching reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Elementary Education students must take this course in the same semester as either EDUC 2800S or EDUC 4800S.
(Typically Offered: Fall)
(Cross-listed with LING 3190).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 9 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Special topics related to the role of language and linguistics in US diversity, such as Dialects and American literature, American English Accents, Legal and Social Aspects of English-only Laws in the US. Connections between language use and social diversity.
(Typically Offered: Fall)
(Cross-listed with LING 3200).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 9 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 2190/LING 2190 or ENGL 2200/LING 2200
Special topics related to the study of linguistic structure. Focus on language structure in areas not covered in detail by existing courses. Topics include field linguistics, morphology, forensic linguistics, neurolinguistics, semantics, non-English phonology, acoustic phonetics, linguistic universals, and historical linguistics.
(Typically Offered: Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 3220).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2190 or LING 2190
Introduction to variation in language use in society. Survey of factors affecting language use, including background characteristics of language users, location, and purpose of interaction in addition to institutional, state, and national language policies.
(Typically Offered: Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 3240).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2190 or LING 2190
Introduction to the issues and methods involved in teaching literacy skills to English as a second language (ESL) learners. The nature of literacy and materials and methods for developing ESL literacy at the middle school, high school, and adult ages across multiple levels of competency.
(Typically Offered: Fall)
(Cross-listed with LING 3250).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2190 or LING 2190
Issues and methods in teaching oral communication skills (listening, speaking, pronunciation) to English as a second language (ESL) learners. The nature of oral language ability. Materials and Methods for developing oral communication skills at middle school, high school, and adult contexts.
(Typically Offered: Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Focused study of science fiction from its origins to the present. Highlights the genre's connections to issues related to gender, sexuality, race, empire, and environmentalism. May include study of cyberpunk, Afrofuturism, cli-fi, etc.
(Cross-listed with STAT 3320).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; (STAT 1010 or STAT 1040 or STAT 1050 or STAT 2010 or STAT 2310 or STAT 3050 or STAT 3220 or STAT 3300)
Communicating quantitative information using visual displays; visualizing data; interactive and dynamic data displays; evaluating current examples in the media; color, perception, and representation in graphs; interpreting data displays.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Focused study of film that explores a specific cinematic genre, style, period, or theme.
(Typically Offered: Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2600; 3 additional credits from (ENGL 2250-2270, ENGL 2400, ENGL 3100, ENGL 3400, ENGL 3440-3470, ENGL 3490, ENGL 4400-4410, ENGL 4450, ENGL 3520-3550, ENGL 3600, ENGL 3620, ENGL 3640, ENGL 3730, ENGL 3750, ENGL 3760, ENGL 3760A, ENGL 3760B, ENGL 3890, ENGL 4900A, ENGL 3950A)
Focused examination of the history and recent trends in literary theory and criticism (e.g., postcolonialism, queer theory, disability studies, ecocriticism).
(Cross-listed with AMIN 3460).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Focused study of American Indian literature of varying genres, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, film, drama, and media. Examines interdisciplinary approaches to American Indian cultural, social, and environmental issues. Meets U.S. Diversity Requirement.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Focused study of literature by writers from U.S. multicultural groups. May include literature of several groups or focus upon one (such as Asian Americans, African Americans, Latinx Americans, American Indians). May also include focus on a particular genre (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, film, drama, media), event, movement, or theme.
(Cross-listed with CLST 3500/ SPCM 3500).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Ideas about the relationship between rhetoric and society in contemporary and historical contexts. An exploration of classical and contemporary rhetorical theories in relation to selected topics that may include politics, gender, race, ethics, education, science, or technology.
(Typically Offered: Spring)
(Cross-listed with CLST 3530).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Representative works of drama, poetry, and prose from ancient times through the mid-seventeenth century. Consideration of Western traditions within global contexts. Attention to religious and ethnic diversity; oral, manuscript, and print cultures; political authority; and the impact of translation on form, meaning, and reception of texts. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Global literatures in their various cultural and aesthetic contexts. Representative works, oral and written literature, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Spring)
(Cross-listed with ENVS 3550).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Focused study of texts that address a wide range of environmental issues, including the relationship between humans and natural/urban environments, views of other-than-human beings, food, climate change, extinction, and social and racial justice. Assignments for the course may include research, exams, writing, and/or individual/group projects.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; Sophomore classification
Selected readings in American literature from its beginnings through the colonial period; may reflect themes, genres, or social and cultural contexts.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; Sophomore classification
Selected readings in American literature of the 19th century; may reflect themes, genres, or social and cultural contexts.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; Sophomore classification
Selected readings in American literature since 1900; may reflect themes, genres, or social and cultural contexts.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Focused study of Shakespeare's plays and how they participate in cultural and political contexts -- both in Shakespeare's time and our own. Includes staging activities, film presentations, and attention to pedagogy. Assignments for the course may include analytical essays (no research required), film presentations, marginalia, and individual/group projects. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; Sophomore classification
Selected readings in medieval literature from its beginnings through the fifteenth century; may reflect themes, genres, or social and cultural contexts.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; Sophomore classification
Selected readings in British literature from 1660 to 1800; may reflect themes, genres, or social and cultural contexts. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; Sophomore classification
Selected readings from British literature from the late eighteenth century to about 1900; may reflect themes, genres, or social and cultural contexts. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; Sophomore classification
Selected readings from British literature from the late eighteenth century to about 1900; may reflect themes, genres, or social and cultural contexts. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Cross-listed with US LS 3770/ SPAN 3770).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable.
Prereq: USLS 2110 or ENGL 2500
Study and archive Latinx life stories through traditional coursework, digital humanities and community outreach with local schools. Analysis of the extensive realities of Latinx communities in Iowa through the study, writing, tutorial work, and production of memoirs and oral histories.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500; Sophomore classification
Focused study of literatures from previously (or continuously) colonized nations. May be broadly focused, or specific to the literature of one of the following areas: Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Irish and immigrant British writers may also be included. Assignments for the course may include exams, written reflections and/or discussion boards, short essays, posters, and/or individual/group projects. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Focused study of the development of English and American children's literature through the present day. Includes readings in animal stories, fantasy, and realism, including contemporary social issues.
(Typically Offered: Fall)
Credits: 1-30.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Supervised study of an appropriate area of the discipline while traveling in a foreign country or in the U.S. Special fees apply. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Summer)
Credits: 1-30.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Supervised study of an appropriate area of the discipline while traveling in a foreign country or in the U.S. Special fees apply. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Summer)
Credits: 1-30.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Supervised study of an appropriate area of the discipline while traveling in a foreign country or in the U.S. Special fees apply. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Summer)
Credits: 1-30.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Supervised study of an appropriate area of the discipline while traveling in a foreign country or in the U.S. Special fees apply. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Summer)
Credits: 1-30.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Supervised study of an appropriate area of the discipline while traveling in a foreign country or in the U.S. Special fees apply. Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Typically Offered: Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2500
Critical study and evaluation of themes, genres, and cultures found in young adult literature. Strategies of effective reading; instructional strategies including discussion techniques and use of technology; matching texts to reader needs and proficiencies. Evaluation of fiction, nonfiction, and media-based materials for use in school programs. Lesson planning.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 3800
Introduction to teaching secondary language arts. Current theories and practices in the teaching of writing to secondary school students. Theories of rhetoric, approaches to teaching, lesson design and planning. Evaluating writing. Students must have initiated the application process for the teacher education program and initiated a background check with the state of Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 3040
Individual projects in short fiction on a workshop and conference basis. Readings in short fiction. Discussion of elements of narrative such as plot, point of view, characterization, theme, setting.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 3050
Individual projects in memoir, immersion journalism, character studies, and/or the personal essay on a workshop and conference basis. Readings in creative nonfiction.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 3060
Individual projects in poetry on a workshop and conference basis. Readings in poetry. Discussion of poetic elements such as image, sound, internal structure, rhythm, tone, figurative language.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 4100).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Junior standing
Methods of discovering language patterns in text documents solve practical text analysis problems in the disciplines. Fundamentals of linguistics and its role in text analysis. Practice writing R scripts to perform text analysis and visualize textual data.
(Typically Offered: Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 3100; (ENGL 3020, ENGL 3090, ENGL 3130, or ENGL 3140); Junior classification
Seminar course on the implication of technologies, especially computer technology, for the writing and reading of business, technical, and academic texts. Extensive reading, discussion, and writing on selected technology-related topics.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 3020, ENGL 3090, or ENGL 3140; Junior Classification
Editing concepts and processes for choosing the appropriate level of editing for the particular rhetorical situation. Covers using editorial tools such as copy-marking symbols, developing style sheets and guides, and managing document production. Emphasizes developing an editorial eye for verbal and visual details in order to achieve accuracy, consistency, correctness, and completeness.
(Typically Offered: Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 3020, ENGL 3090, or ENGL 3140; Junior Classification
Rhetorical strategies and perceptual principles for designing print and digital visual elements such as diagrams and graphs and integrating those visual elements into business and technical communications. Covers strategies for employing visual elements such as typeface, page and screen layout, and illustrations in order to make communications more usable.
(Typically Offered: Fall)
(Cross-listed with EDUC 4170E).
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.
Prereq: ENGL 4940, admission to the Educator Preparation Program, approval of coordinator the semester prior to student teaching
Full-time teaching in secondary English: long term and unit planning, lesson planning, classroom teaching practice in English language arts.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 4200).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2190/LING 2190 or ENGL 2200/LING 2200
Comparison of English to other languages by family background and by type. Analysis of representative Old, Middle, Early Modern and present-day English texts, including both literary works and non-literary documents.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 4250).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 2190/LING 2190 and Junior classification
The process of second language learning and principles and techniques of teaching second languages. Learning and teaching in specific situations and for particular purposes. Current applications of technology in teaching and assessment.
(Typically Offered: Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: Junior standing
Selected authors, movements, eras, or genres in British literature. Readings in criticism; required research paper.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: Junior standing
Selected authors, movements, eras, or genres in American literature. Readings in criticism; required research paper.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: Junior standing
Intensive study of selected literature that bridges traditional genre, period, national, or disciplinary boundaries. Readings in criticism; required research paper.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: Junior standing
Intensive study of drama, film, fiction, poetry, or prose. Selected movements, eras, or national traditions. Readings in criticism; required research paper.
(Cross-listed with WGS 4600).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: Junior standing
Selected readings of various authors, movements, eras, or genres. Readings in criticism; required research paper.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 3020, ENGL 3090, or ENGL 3140
Intensive study of a selected topic that bridges theory and practice in technical communication. Required project that contributes to the understanding of an emerging issue in the profession.
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: 9 credits in (ENGL 3020, ENGL 3090, ENGL 3130, ENGL 3140, ENGL 4150, ENGL 4160, or ENGL 4770); Junior classification; Department permission
An opportunity to write, edit, and design business and technical documents in a professional setting. Projects might include reports, proposals, manuals, brochures, newsletters.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable, maximum of 9 credits.
Prereq: 9 credits in English beyond ENGL 2500; Junior classification; Department Permission
Designed to meet the needs of students who wish to study in areas other than those in which courses are offered. Graduation Restriction: No more than 9 credits of ENGL 4900 may be used toward graduation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Cross-listed with LING 4900B).
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable, maximum of 9 credits.
Prereq: 9 credits in English beyond ENGL 2500; Junior classification; Department Permission
Designed to meet the needs of students who wish to study in areas other than those in which courses are offered. Graduation Restriction: No more than 9 credits of ENGL 4900 may be used toward graduation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable, maximum of 9 credits.
Prereq: 9 credits in English beyond ENGL 2500; Junior classification; Department Permission
Designed to meet the needs of students who wish to study in areas other than those in which courses are offered. Graduation Restriction: No more than 9 credits of ENGL 4900 may be used toward graduation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable, maximum of 9 credits.
Prereq: 9 credits in English beyond ENGL 2500; Junior classification; Department Permission
Designed to meet the needs of students who wish to study in areas other than those in which courses are offered. Graduation Restriction: No more than 9 credits of ENGL 4900 may be used toward graduation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable, maximum of 9 credits.
Prereq: 9 credits in English beyond ENGL 2500; Junior classification; Department Permission
Designed to meet the needs of students who wish to study in areas other than those in which courses are offered. Graduation Restriction: No more than 9 credits of ENGL 4900 may be used toward graduation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable, maximum of 9 credits.
Prereq: 9 credits in English beyond ENGL 2500; Junior classification; Department Permission
Designed to meet the needs of students who wish to study in areas other than those in which courses are offered. Graduation Restriction: No more than 9 credits of ENGL 4900 may be used toward graduation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable, maximum of 9 credits.
Prereq: 9 credits in English beyond ENGL 2500; Junior classification; Department Permission
Designed to meet the needs of students who wish to study in areas other than those in which courses are offered. Graduation Restriction: No more than 9 credits of ENGL 4900 may be used toward graduation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable, maximum of 9 credits.
Prereq: 9 credits in English beyond ENGL 2500; Junior classification; Department Permission
Designed to meet the needs of students who wish to study in areas other than those in which courses are offered or who desire to integrate a study of literature or language with special problems in major fields. Graduation Restriction: No more than 9 credits of ENGL 4900 may be used toward graduation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable, maximum of 9 credits.
Prereq: 9 credits in English beyond ENGL 2500; Junior classification; Department Permission
Teaching assistant experience.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 3040, ENGL 3050 or ENGL 3060 and Junior classification
Advanced workshop of individual creative writing projects in short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Readings and discussion of published examples of short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by authors of national and international note. Extensive discussion and written analysis of elements of craft across genres.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
(Dual-listed with ENGL 5940X).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 3100; ENGL 3970; 9 additional credits in ENGL beyond ENGL 2500; PSYCH 3330
Current theories and practices in the teaching of literature to secondary school students. Integrating literary study and writing. Preparation and selection of materials. Classroom presentation. Unit planning. 4940 students must have initiated the application process for the teacher education program and initiated a background check with the state of Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation. 5940 students must have initiated a background check with the State of Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation. 4940: Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 4800 and SPED 4010 required. 5940: concurrent enrollment in EDUC 5910E.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: Required. Contact Hours: Lecture 1.
Prereq: Junior or Senior classification; Department Permission
Must be taken in conjunction with a 4000-level English course.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Courses primarily for graduate students, open to qualified undergraduates:
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Introduction to the teaching of ISUComm Foundation Courses. Foundational and relevant newer composition theory and pedagogical methods related to ISUComm Foundation Courses objectives and their classroom enactment, including development of assignments and supporting activities, and evaluation of student projects. Required of all new teaching assistants teaching ISUComm Foundation Courses. (Typically Offered: Fall)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Survey of the major rhetorical, qualitative, and quantitative methods used in research on communication and language in academic and nonacademic settings.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
In-depth consideration of the theory and practice of composition pedagogy. Opportunities for actual classroom application.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Theory of teaching technical, business, and science communication courses combined with practical matters related to such courses, including curriculum planning, assignment design, assessment of student work, and online teaching. (Typically Offered: Fall)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Seminar course examining user experience (UX) interface design and development in technical communication. Focus is on the UX project cycle: creating user interfaces, conducting user research, system testing, and implementing data-driven results.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Introduction to professional communication as a discipline, with emphasis on theories of communication and discourse that inform professional communication research and on trends and developments in that research and the field.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Hands-on practice in writing academic discourse for publication; rhetorical analyses of student-selected academic journals; discussion of current trends in academic writing; professional perspectives on the referee process and on journal editorial decision making. Focus on the writing of selected short pieces (opinion essays, standard reviews, conference-length papers) and of article-length manuscripts.
(Cross-listed with LING 5100).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Use of software and web applications for language teaching, linguistic analysis, and statistical analysis. Issues and problems in applied linguistics related to computer methods. (Typically Offered: Fall)
(Cross-listed with LING 5110).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Principles and methods of linguistic analysis with emphasis on phonology, morphology, and syntax. Description of linguistic variation and current theoretical approaches to linguistics. (Typically Offered: Fall)
(Cross-listed with LING 5120).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Theory, methods, and results of second language acquisition research with emphasis on approaches relevant to second language teaching.
(Cross-listed with LING 5130).
Credits: 3.
Advanced practicum in language assessment. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Cross-listed with LING 5140).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Theories and methods of examining language in its social setting. Analysis of individual characteristics (e.g., age, gender, ethnicity, social class, region), interactional factors (e.g., situation, topic, purpose) and national policies affecting language use.
(Cross-listed with HCI 5150/ LING 5150).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Introduction to computational techniques involving human language and speech in applications such as information retrieval and extraction, automatic text categorization, word prediction, intelligent Web searching, spelling and grammar checking, speech recognition and synthesis, statistical machine translation, n-grams, POS-tagging, word-sense disambiguation, on-line lexicons and thesauri, markup languages, corpus analysis, and Python programming language.
(Cross-listed with LING 5160).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Data and knowledge structures for formal representation of natural language and speech data. Designing and implementing algorithms for automating linguistic analysis tasks. Conceptual issues for natural language and speech processing programming. Offered even-numbered years. (Typically Offered: Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 5170).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Corpus linguistics methods of language analysis, including corpus design, construction and annotation; data in corpus studies; tools and methods of analysis Corpus methods applied in vocabulary, grammar, register and dialect variation, language change, pragmatics, semantics, stylistics, language learning and teaching, and language testing. Offered even-numbered years. (Typically Offered: Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 5190).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Principles of second language assessment including reliability, validity, authenticity and practicality. Constructing, scoring, interpreting, and evaluating second language tests for a variety of situations. (Typically Offered: Spring)
(Cross-listed with HCI 5200/ LING 5200).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Concepts and practices for analysis of English by computer with emphasis on the applications of computational analysis to problems in applied linguistics such as corpus analysis and recognition of learner language in computer-assisted learning and language assessment.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Examination of the roles of the literary work, reader, and teacher in literary study. Responses to literature. Place of literature in language arts. Study and development of curriculum materials for middle school, high school, and college levels of instruction.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Examination of the history of and/or recent trends in literary theory and criticism (e.g., postcolonialism, queer theory, disability studies).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Introductory study of Old English language and literature in prose and poetry, including extracts from Beowulf. Some attention to Anglo-Saxon culture.
(Cross-listed with LING 5240).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Theoretical and practical issues and techniques in the teaching of literacy in a variety of contexts, involving children and adults at basic skill levels and teens and adults in academic and vocational programs. Offered even-numbered years. (Typically Offered: Fall)
(Cross-listed with LING 5250).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Theoretical and practical issues and techniques in the teaching of second language pronunciation as it relates to other areas of language, especially listening and speaking skills. Topics will include segmental and suprasegmental features; intelligibility; pronunciation in language assessment; classroom, technology and individual instruction; and research issues. Topics will be relevant to those intending to teach or research in various contexts. Offered odd-numbered years. (Typically Offered: Fall)
(Cross-listed with LING 5260).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Theory, research, and practice in computer use for teaching nonnative speakers of English. Methods for planning and evaluating computer-based learning activities. Offered odd-numbered years. (Typically Offered: Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 5270).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Methods and theoretical foundations for linguistic approaches to discourse analysis. Applications of discourse analysis to the study of texts in a variety of settings, including academic and research contexts. Offered odd-numbered years. (Typically Offered: Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 5280).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Issues and techniques in analyzing, teaching, and assessing English for specific purposes. Topics include theories of specific purpose language use, analysis of learner needs in target language contexts, and corpus-informed syllabus and materials development for teaching and assessment.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Strategies for developing and delivering multimodal content via online digital media. Focus on the principles of database design, interface development, usability testing, and collaborative content management within professional communication settings.
(Cross-listed with LING 5300).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Structure and description of oral language and discourse. How spoken language is linguistically described, analyzed, and taught for research and for education. Using technology to record, transcribe, and analyze spoken language at all levels of linguistic structure. Offered even-numbered years. (Typically Offered: Fall)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Intensive study of literary genres, periods, movements, or themes (e.g., The African American Novel, Allegory, Science Fiction).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Selected texts in American literature from Beginnings to the Civil War. Study may include Native American literature, the literature of European conquest, Colonial and Revolutionary periods, Early Republic, and Jacksonian Era, in critical and cultural contexts.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Selected texts from the Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration, Eighteenth-Century, and/or Romantic periods, in critical and cultural contexts.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Selected texts in American literature from the Civil War to the present. Study may include Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism, with significant attention to race/ethnicity, gender, and identity, and to contemporary critical views. Range of authors and genres.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Selected texts from the Victorian, Edwardian, Modernist, and/or Contemporary periods, in critical and cultural contexts.
(Cross-listed with GRST 5360).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Reporting original research results within the norms for writing of a student's discipline. Emphasis on preparing thesis/dissertation chapters that will be both acceptable to the Graduate College and ready for submission to a refereed journal in the student's discipline. Focus on reporting results from student-generated original research, norms for discourse within disciplines, and how thesis chapters differ from journal manuscripts.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 5370).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Corpus-informed analysis of syntax in authentic writing and speech, with emphasis on approaches used in applied linguistics.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Selected fiction writers in English; range of authors and genres. Emphasis on both male and female writers; attention to the relationships between fiction and cultural change.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Selected poets writing in English, considered in representative groups.
(Cross-listed with SPCM 5400).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Primary texts in dramatic genres from various literary periods, in critical and cultural contexts. Frequently concentrates on the English Renaissance and the Shakespearean stage.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Overview of theory and research in technical editing and publication management with substantial practice in applying theory and research findings. Focus on document production process, levels of edit, development of accessible, translatable, and inclusive documents, and sustainable publication practices.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Intensive study of environmental literary genres, periods, figures, movements, or themes: e.g., Ecofeminism, Imagining Natural Disaster, Material Ecocriticism, Environmental Justice, Posthumanism.
(Cross-listed with WGS 5450).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Primary texts by women writers; historical, thematic, formal, or theoretical approaches; secondary readings; e.g., Nineteenth-Century Women Writers; American Women's Personal Narratives; Southern Women Writers of the U.S.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Intensive study of current and emerging topics and problems concerning literature and its relationship to theory and to language study; e.g., Theory of Metaphor; Renegotiating the Canon; Feminist Theory.
(Cross-listed with SPCM 5470).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Rhetorical theory from the classical period of ancient Greece through to the 20th century; attention to rhetoric's relation to the nature of knowledge, communication, practice, and pedagogy.
(Cross-listed with SPCM 5480).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Contemporary theories that address the production, reception, and critical evaluation of cultural artifacts and communicative events; these theories address power, ideology, and the norms of public discourse. Theories covered may include Postmodernism, Feminist Theory, Public Sphere Theory, as well as Critical Race Theory, Social Justice Theory, Disability Theory, Queer Theory, and/or Intercultural Theories of Communication and Rhetoric.
(Cross-listed with SPCM 5490).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Rhetorical principles of interactive multimedia design, such as those in streaming multimedia as part of workplace documents. Practical understanding of the computer applications used in interactive multimedia development. Focus on theoretical and practical elements of producing multimedia for training in both education and industry. Work with interactive hypertext, digital audio, and nonlinear video editing.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Graduate students in Creative Writing and Environment MFA Program OR Instructor Permission
Students develop an understanding of craft and environmental writing across genres (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama), as well as learn about editing and publication practice through the lens of a working literary magazine, Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment. Other course activities may include an environmental field trip, presentations on the production practices of leading literary journals, individual editing projects, and pragmatic guidance for finding publication outlets for polished creative work.
(Typically Offered: Fall)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
An advanced multigenre creative writing workshop. Students work intensively on book-length manuscripts of fiction, creative nonfiction, scriptwriting, or poetry.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 12 credits.
Prereq: Graduate students in Creative Writing and Environment MFA Program OR Instructor Permission
Individual projects in dramatic writing. Focus on writing for stage, screen, and/or new media. Readings in dramatic literature. Discussion of elements such as plot, character, dialogue, structure, theme, and visual storytelling.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 12 credits.
Individual projects in fiction on a workshop and conference basis. Readings in short fiction. Discussion of elements of narrative such as plot, point of view, characterization, theme, setting.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 12 credits.
Individual projects in memoir, immersion journalism, character studies, and/or the personal essay on a workshop and conference basis. Readings in creative nonfiction.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 12 credits.
Individual projects in poetry on a workshop and conference basis. Readings in poetry. Discussion of poetic elements such as image, sound, internal structure, rhythm, tone, figurative language.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 12 credits.
Special topics course on ideas, issues, and techniques in creative writing. Subject matter may include specific genres, aspects of the creative writing process, or themes of particular interest. Significant readings and written work required; previous workshop experience helpful.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Graduate students in Creative Writing and Environment MFA Program OR Instructor Permission
Pedagogical approaches that are effective for grade-school through adult-education creative writing teaching. Writing exercises, workshops, text evaluation, and visits from creative writers.
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable.
Students assist in an introductory creative writing course, primarily evaluating manuscripts and facilitating workshops. Some students may facilitate community-based creative writing workshops.
Credits: 3. Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: Graduate students in Creative Writing and Environment MFA Program OR Instructor Permission
Students spend a term on a project that requires fieldwork. Projects might include working for a federal, state, or private non-profit environmental organization or farm, or living and working in a specified natural area.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Intensive study of research methods and perspectives concerning the study of literature and the humanities at the master's level. Introduction to resources and techniques of research, the structure of academic articles, and strategies for argument in academic communication.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Intensive study of cinematic genres, periods, movements, or themes; e.g., The Musical, Classical Hollywood Cinema, Structural Film, Art and Cinema. General emphasis will be on American, British, and other Anglophone cinemas. (Typically Offered: Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Senior or graduate classification
Theory and application of qualitative communication research, including research design, data collection, ethical issues, data analysis, and reporting results. Offered even-numbered years.
(Typically Offered: Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Application of quantitative research designs, such as surveys and experiments; data collection techniques; essential statistical analysis; and write-up of results. Develop ethical research practices for human subjects in research. Alyze quantitative research design principles in professional communication studies. Offered odd-numbered years. (Typically Offered: Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Extended practice in close textual analysis of various kinds of rhetorical artifacts. Attention to important theoretical concepts used in rhetorical analysis and to historical controversies over the scope and function of rhetorical analysis. (Typically Offered: Spring)
(Cross-listed with GRST 5690).
Credits: 1. Contact Hours: Lecture 1.
Writing a winning proposal. (Typically Offered: Spring)
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Rhetorical theory and research in graphics, document design, and related principles of visual communication. Methods of designing texts, data displays, illustrations, and other visual elements in business and technical communication.
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
An opportunity to write, edit, and design documents in a professional setting. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Cross-listed with LING 5880).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 1, Laboratory 5.
Intensive observation of ESL instruction and supervised practice in teaching learners of English in a context appropriate to the student teacher's goals. Graduation Restriction: ENGL 5880 cannot be used for teacher licensure. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 1-3. Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
An opportunity to edit literary texts and gain experience in a literary publishing setting.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Cross-listed with LING 5900B).
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Cross-listed with LING 5900G).
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Cross-listed with LING 5910B).
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Cross-listed with LING 5910G).
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Cross-listed with SPCM 5920A).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 9 credits.
Seminar on topics central to the fields of rhetoric and professional communication or composition. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Cross-listed with SPCM 5920B).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 9 credits.
Seminar on topics central to the fields of rhetoric and professional communication or composition. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Cross-listed with SPCM 5920C).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable, maximum of 9 credits.
Seminar on topics central to the fields of rhetoric and professional communication or composition. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
(Dual-listed with ENGL 4940).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 4940: ENGL 3100; ENGL 3970; 9 additional credits in ENGL beyond ENGL 2500; PSYCH 3330; Admission to the MAT Program
Portfolio review. Current theories and practices in the teaching of literature to secondary school students. Integrating literary study and writing. Preparation and selection of materials. Classroom presentation. Unit planning. (ENGL 4940: Taken concurrently with EDUC 4800, Cr. 2, and SPED 4010; 5940X: taken concurrently with EDUC 5910E.) ENGL 4940 students must have initiated the application process for the teacher education program and initiated a background check with the State of Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation. ENGL 5940X students must have initiated a background check with the State of Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring)
Credits: 1-30. Contact Hours: Lecture 30.
Supervised study of an appropriate area of the discipline while traveling in a foreign country or in the U.S. Special fees apply. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Contact Hours: Lecture 30.
Supervised study of an appropriate area of the discipline while traveling in a foreign country or in the U.S. Special fees apply. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Contact Hours: Lecture 30.
Supervised study of an appropriate area of the discipline while traveling in a foreign country or in the U.S. Special fees apply. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Contact Hours: Lecture 30.
Supervised study of an appropriate area of the discipline while traveling in a foreign country or in the U.S. Special fees apply. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 1-30. Contact Hours: Lecture 30.
Supervised study of an appropriate area of the discipline while traveling in a foreign country or in the U.S. Special fees apply. (Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Credits: 3. Repeatable.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Creative Component.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)
Courses for graduate students:
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Exploration of relationships between theory and practice in current pedagogy. Intensive examination of contemporary theories of poststructuralism, new media, feminism, postcolonialism, or cultural studies and their impact on current pedagogical practice. Participation in pedagogical research and theory building.
(Cross-listed with SPCM 6110).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable.
Rhetorical theory, criticism, and/or practice in relation to a historical period or a particular theoretical issue.
(Cross-listed with LING 6230A).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Survey of quantitative research methods used in applied linguistics. Offered odd-numbered years. (Typically Offered: Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 6230B).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Survey of qualitative research methods used in applied linguistics. Offered even-numbered years. (Typically Offered: Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 6260).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: ENGL 5190 or LING 5190
Principles and practices for the use and study of computers and the Internet in second language assessment. Offered even-numbered years.
(Typically Offered: Spring)
(Cross-listed with LING 6300).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable.
Topic changes each semester. Topics include advanced methods in natural language processing, technology and literacy in a global context, feedback in CALL programs, technology and pronunciation, and advances in language assessment.
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Survey of the major components of writing instruction in academic and nonacademic settings. History, theory, organization, and evaluation of writing programs. Guided observation of writing program functions at various institutions and businesses.
Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.
Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Research.
(Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer)