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• ENG 206: Black Critical Theory

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course explores the political, social, cultural, and historical factors that influenced the development of twentieth century Black Critical Theory. Students will develop an awareness of critical, theoretical, and rhetorical approaches to textual analysis that are central to the field of English Studies as they learn about crucial moments in African American and Diasporic history and culture such as The Harlem Renaissance, The Realist/Protest Movement, The Civil Rights Era/Black Arts Movement, and The Feminist/Womanist Movement.
  ShareENG 206 - Black Critical Theory

• ENG 215: Views on Literacy

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  The historical and social contexts of English literacy. Emphasis on writing.
  ShareENG 215 - Views on Literacy

• ENG 230: Introduction to Linguistics

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Basic concepts of language description, classification, change, reconstruction, dialectology, and sociolinguistics.
  ShareENG 230 - Introduction to Linguistics

• ENG 240: Language, Gender, and Sexuality

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course introduces students to the study of language as a resource for the production of gender and sexuality. Discussion of popular beliefs and scholarly theories about language and communication.
  ShareENG 240 - Language, Gender, and Sexuality

• ENG 250: Stylistics: The Language of Literature

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course introduces students to linguistic methodologies of investigating the language of literary texts, as well as media and political discourse, and addresses two key questions: "What is style " and "How do texts mean ".
  ShareENG 250 - Stylistics: The Language of Literature

• ENG 270: Book History: Introduction

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course studies the history of the creation, production, distribution, circulation, and reception of the written word. As it traces how authorship, reading, publishing, and the physical properties of texts have altered over time, the course examines, both historically and analytically, the intellectual, social and cultural impact of changing communications technologies against the backdrop of our current digital age.
  ShareENG 270 - Book History: Introduction

• ENG 280: Introduction to Digital Humanities

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  An introduction to new media, digital humanities, and computational approaches to literature and writing, with a survey of theories, methodologies, and current critical practices. Prerequisite:    ENG 280 requires a prerequisite of WRT 120 or WRT 123.
  ShareENG 280 - Introduction to Digital Humanities

• ENG 295: Histories and Texts

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course focuses on history and its influences on the reception and production of texts. Students will be asked to engage critical historical and literary materials in order to develop insight into how cultural historical circumstances enable the production of texts and influence how readers respond to them. Second of three majors' core courses.
  ShareENG 295 - Histories and Texts

• ENG 296: Theory & Criticism in English Studies

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Students will examine major theoretical approaches to working with texts with an emphasis on how the relationship between meaning and text is conceived by different critical theories. This course also provides students with an overview of the intellectual lineage that subtends modern and postmodern theory in the humanities, highlighting the ways in which postmodern theory came to challenge earlier aesthetic and philosophical movements, such as pre-sophist, Greco-Roman, Medieval, Modern, Romantic, and Enlightenment traditions in Western European cultures. The course helps students to both understand and challenge the dominance of Western Culture in English Studies altogether by exploring comparative non-western aesthetic and philosophical movements.
  ShareENG 296 - Theory & Criticism in English Studies

• ENG 304: Essay Workshop

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Experience in reading and writing essays, with focus on revision, on the use of the public 'I', and on appropriate voice. Attention to invention.
  ShareENG 304 - Essay Workshop