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  • ENGL 296: Independent Study in English

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

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  • ENGL 300: Topics 1

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An intensive study of selected literary works organized by a single critical or theoretical method practiced within the field of literary studies. Topics may vary by semester. Prerequisite: ENGL 250+. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Read representative literary works from a specific avenue of inquiry. (2) Identify and analyze common formal, thematic, and generic features across a set of literary works. (3) Identify and apply critical and/or theoretical approaches such as Marxism, Feminism, Gender and Sexuality Studies, New Historicism, Critical Race Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Psychoanalysis, and/or other approaches to a set of literary works. (4) Write literary analyses that incorporate critical and theoretical approaches. (5) Respond to and integrate secondary research.
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  • ENGL 301: Topics 2

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An intensive study of selected literary works that utilizes a topic or approach organized on a contextual basis (such as a particular genre, movement, or region, or thematic principle). Topics may vary by semester. Prerequisite: ENGL 250+. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Read representative literary works from a specific avenue of inquiry. (2) Identify and analyze common formal, thematic, and generic features across a set of literary works. (3) Identify and apply contextual analysis of genres, movements, and/or regions to a set of literary works. (4) Write literary analyses that incorporate contextual approaches. (5) Respond to and integrate secondary research.
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  • ENGL 302: Introduction to Linguistics

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    Provides students with an introduction to broad areas of linguistic theory and inquiry, including an introduction to the study of morphology, semantics, syntax, phonetics, phonology, and historical linguistics. It also includes an introduction to areas included within the disciplines of psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. Dual-listed as MLNG 302. Prerequisite: ENGL 250+. Course Objectives (1) Identify and define linguistic terms related to morphology, phonology, phonetics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and language change (2) Discuss dialectal variation and development (3) Compare and contrast linguistic theories (4) Analyze problem sets and propose solutions
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  • ENGL 305: Authors 1

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An intensive study of the works of a single major author. Prerequisite: ENGL 250+. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Analyze themes of a major author across various works and texts. (2) Analyze the evolution, transformation, and elaboration of an author's work both chronologically and critically. (3) Recognize and interpret the significance of literary, historical, biographical, geographical, and/or aesthetic contexts in an author's works. (4) Write literary analyses of an author's work(s). (5) Respond to and integrate secondary research on an author's work(s) and/or literary, biographical, historical, and/or aesthetic contexts.
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  • ENGL 306: Authors 2

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An intensive study of the works of two or three major authors examined in the context of one another's work. Prerequisite: ENGL 250+. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Analyze themes and shared concerns of a selection of major authors across various works and texts. (2) Analyze the evolution, transformation, and elaboration of authors' works both chronologically and critically. (3) Recognize and interpret the significance of literary, historical, biographical, geographical, and/or aesthetic contexts on authors' works. (4) Identify and interpret intertextual relationships among authors' works. (5) Write literary analyses of authors' works. (6) Respond to and integrate secondary research on authors' works, and/or literary, biographical, historical, and/or aesthetic contexts.
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  • ENGL 315: Language & Theory 1

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An intensive study focusing on a specific approach to understanding language as a subject in itself, including its nature, structure, function, and development. Prerequisite: ENGL 250+ or permission. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Define relevant linguistic terms. (2) Identify relevant linguistic features such as morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics or pragmatics. (3) Compare and contrast linguistic theories. (4) Apply linguistic or theoretical concepts to the analysis of language. (5) Analyze linguistic data sets and propose solutions, using secondary research as appropriate.
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  • ENGL 316: Language & Theory 2

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An intensive study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the interaction of language and meaning, especially across cultural contexts. Some courses may be cross-listed. Prerequisite: ENGL 250+ or permission. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Utilize the language of theory to define an avenue of inquiry. (2) Analyze literary and / or cultural texts through interdisciplinary theoretical approaches. (3) Trace the development of relevant theoretical constructs. (4) Identify major contributors to the development of a specific theory or movement. (5) Respond to and integrate secondary research.
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  • ENGL 335: History of the English Language

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    English from its Teutonic beginnings to the present day. Changes in vocabulary, syntax, pronunciation and style.Prerequisite: ENGL 250+. Course Objectives (1) Discuss major features of Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Present-Day English (2) Discuss major linguistic changes from ancient Indo-European to modern times (3) Discuss major forces creating change over time in the history of English (4) Discuss dialectal variations at different stages in the history of English (5) Solve workbook problems related to the history of English
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  • ENGL 338: Literary Criticism

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    A study of the basic and recurrent issues of literary theory and practice from Aristotle to the present. Writing-in-discipline class. Course Objectives (1) Identify the periods of literary development, and the genres and motif's of literary style and expression (2) Enhance the students' fluency, critical skills, literacy, and familiarity with the great critical traditions of literature in address to scope of human experience (3) More fully comprehend the spectrum of global cultural traditions as understood by literary criticism. (4) Apply critical thought to the enhancement and understanding of the arts in general, and literature in particular (5) Enhance the students' ability to express critical thought both in writing and orally (6) Understand how critical tradition, as much as art and literature itself, define, form and assert paradigms of values and interpretation that demonstrate the sensibilities of various eras (7) Use critical thought as a catalyst for creative expression
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