Department of English
http://www.ncat.edu/~english
Chimalum Nwankwo, Chairperson

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of the English Department are as follows:

1. to provide instruction in reading and writing skills, the humanities, linguistics, and literature;
2. to prepare English majors and minors to teach and to pursue graduate training in English and other professions;
3. to train students in professional writing.

DEGREES OFFERED

English– Bachelor of Arts

English (Technical Writing) – Bachelor of Arts

English, Secondary Education – Bachelor of Science

English Education – Master of Science*

English and African-American Literature – Master of Arts*

Leadership Studies – Doctor of Philosophy*

*See the Graduate School Bulletin

GENERAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

The admission of students to the undergraduate programs in the Department of English is based upon the general admission requirements of the University.

DEPARTMENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Professional English major—The English major must complete 124-125 semester hours of University courses. (Whether the total is 124 or 125 semester hours depends on whether the student satisfies the Physical Science requirement with a three-credit or a four-credit course.) Included in the 124-125 semester hours are 45 hours of English at the 200 level or above for the professional major. A minimum grade of “C” must be achieved in these courses.

Teaching Major in English—The teaching major in English must complete a minimum of 125-126 semester hours of University courses. (Whether the total is 125 or 126 semester hours depends on whether the student satisfies the Physical Science requirement with a three-credit or a four-credit course.) Included in these 125-126 hours are 42 semester hours of English courses at the 200 level or above with grades of “C” or better.

English Technical Writing—The technical writing in English major must complete a minimum of 124-125 semester hours of University courses.  (Whether the total is 124 or 125 semester hours depends on whether the student satisfies the Physical Science requirement with a three-credit or a four-credit course.)  Included in these 124-125 hours are 36 semester hours of English courses at the 200 level or above with grades of “C” or better.

The Minor in English (teaching and non-teaching)—Students desiring a minor in English must complete 24 semester hours in English at the 200 level or above. TThe required courses are ENGL 210, (220, 221 or 222), 230 or 231, 333 or 334, 406, 410, 430 or 431 and one of the following: 335, 336, 401, 404, 435, or 436.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

A degree in English prepares students to teach, to conduct research, to pursue graduate and professional degrees (such as law and library science), and to work in government, business, editing, and numerous other jobs requiring mastery of the language.

REQUIRED MAJOR COURSES FOR ENGLISH

ENGL 210 ENGL 220 ENGL 221 ENGL 222 ENGL 230 ENGL 231 ENGL 240 ENGL 243

ENGL 331 ENGL 333 ENGL 334 ENGL 336 ENGL 401 ENGL 404 ENGL 405

ENGL 406 ENGL 410 ENGL 430 ENGL 431 ENGL 435 ENGL 436 ENGL 502

CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR ENGLISH

FRESHMAN YEAR
First Semester	Credit	Second Semester	Credit
ENGL 100	3	ENGL 101	3
MATH 1011	3	MATH 1021	3
HIST 100	3	HIST 101	3
BIOL 100	4	CHEM 100 and 110 (4) or
PHED (Activity Course)	1	PHYS 110 and 111 (3) or
ENGL 102	2	EASC 201 (3)	3-4
	16	PHED (Activity Course)	1
		ENGL 210	3
			16-17
SOPHOMORE YEAR
First Semester	Credit	Second Semester	Credit
Elective	3	FOLA2	3
FOLA2	3	Social Science Elective	3
ENGL 200	3	ENGL 201	3
SPCH 250	3	ENGL 221	3
ENGL 220	3	Elective	3
PSYC 320	3		15
	18
JUNIOR YEAR
First Semester	Credit	Second Semester	Credit
ENGL 333	3	ENGL 334	3
ENGL 405	3	ENGL 406	3
ENGL 335	3	ENGL 336	3
ENGL 430	3	ENGL 431	3
ENGL 404	3	ENGL 222	3
	15		15
SENIOR YEAR
First Semester	Credit	Second Semester	Credit
ENGL 435	3	ENGL 410	3
ENGL 502	3	ENGL 436	3
African Amer. Elective	3	ENGL 243	3
ENGL 401	3	Electives	6
Electives	3		15
	15

Total Credit Hours: 124-125

REQUIRED MAJOR COURSES FOR ENGLISH, SECONDARY EDUCATION

CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR ENGLISH, SECONDARY EDUCATION

REQUIRED MAJOR COURSES FOR ENGLISH, TECHNICAL WRITING

CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR ENGLISH, TECHNICAL WRITING

	FRESHMAN YEAR
	First Semester	Credit	Second Semester	Credit
	ENGL 100	3	ENGL 101	3
	HIST 100	3	MATH 102	3
	BIOL 100	4	ENGL 210	3
	PHED (Activity Course)	1	CHEM 100 & 110 (4) or
	MATH 101	3	PHYS 110 & 111 (3) or
	ENGL 102	2	EASC 201 (3)	3-4
		16	African Amer. Lit, Elect.	3
				15-16
	SOPHOMORE YEAR
	First Semester	Credit	Second Semester	Credit
	Free Elective	3	GCS Elective1	3
	GCS 110	3	ENGL 221	3
	ENGL 200	3	ENGL 331	3
	FOLA2	3	ENGL 333	3
	SPCH 250	3	FOLA2	3
	ENGL 220	3	ENGL 201	3
		18		15
	JUNIOR YEAR
	First Semester	Credit	Second Semester	Credit
	ENGL 411	3	ENGL 413	3
	ENGL 412	3	ENGL 414	3
	ENGL 222	3	ENGL 431	3
	ENGL 430	3	ENGL 435	3
	African Amer. Elective	3	GCS Elective	3
	Elective	3		15
		18
	SENIOR YEAR
	First Semester	Credit	Second Semester	Credit
	PSYC 320	3	BUED 400	3
	ENGL 415	3	ENGL Elective	3
	Electives	7	Electives	4
		13		10

Total Credit Hours: 124-125
¹Recommended GCS electives: GCS 130 and GCS 418

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS IN ENGLISH
Undergraduate

This course is an introduction to college-level expository writing; it provides students with experience in writing and revising compositions. Students will also learn to write résumés, letters of application, short reports, and responses to literature. (F;S;SS)

This is a continuation of English 100 which provides students with additional experience in various modes of writing, emphasizing expository writing; it introduces students to the techniques of writing the research paper and analyzing literary selections. Prerequisite: ENGL 100. (F;S;SS)

This course includes instruction and practice in methods of increasing rate of reading and techniques of comprehending written material; emphasis is upon vocabulary study skills. Limited registration. (F;S)

HUMANITIES

This course is a study of interrelationships of literature, music, and the fine arts; it is a study of master works, philosophical ideas, and artistic movements of Western Civilization, with attention given also to non-Western culture. It will survey cultures from ancient times to the end of the Renaissance. Prerequisite: ENGL 101. (F;S;SS)

This course is a continuation of ENGL 200. It will begin with the Baroque period and will include Neo-Classicism. Romanticism, and modern modes of artistic expression. Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 200. (F;S;SS)

This course is a survey of the interrelationship of American and African-American literature, music, and art from colonial times to the present. The course will also include a study of the American historical, social, and philosophical experience. Prerequisite: ENGL 101. (DEMAND)

This course examines the South from the perspectives of its history, beliefs, literature, music, and art. Prerequisite: ENGL 101. (F;S)

This course is a study of selected topics in literature, art, music, philosophy, and other branches of the humanities. It is an elective course primarily for non-English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 101. (DEMAND)

This course examines film as a legitimate form of artistic expression worthy of serious critical analysis. Consequently, film will be studied as history (including its relationship to other print and non-print media), aesthetic theory, ideology, and cultural artifact. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which film not only reflects, but also shapes, contemporary culture. (F;S)

This is a seminar devoted to the identification, analysis, and appreciation of some of the basic ideas or concepts which have underlain world culture in the arts, religion, philosophy, and social attitudes from ancient times to the present. (DEMAND)

LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION

This course covers the techniques of argumentation and the logic of grammar essential to both higher level writing and teaching in middle and high schools.

This is a course for non-English majors in which techniques of narrative, descriptive, expository and argumentative composition are studied. Prerequisite: ENGL 101. (F;S;SS)

This course refines the skills in grammar, literature, and composition that are particularly needed by pre-professional students. Recommended for students preparing for the GRE, LSAT, and NTE. Prerequisite: ENGL 101. (S)

This course offers practice in critical, scholarly, and expository writing that emphasizes writing within the discipline of English. Prerequisite: ENGL 101. (DEMAND)

This course covers the nature of language, levels of linguistic analysis, dialectology, comparative linguistics, and the development of the English language.  Prerequisite:  ENGL 101. (DEMAND)

This course is designed to teach the general techniques of editing. Integrity, clarification, style, recognition of the need for substantial changes, and methods of checking completeness are included. Prerequisite: ENGL 305. (DEMAND)

This course includes on-the-job training with an appropriate agency; and compilation of a portfolio of high caliber. Prerequisites: ENGL 261 and 480. (DEMAND)

This course provides an opportunity  for students to pursue independently an in-depth study in literature, linguistics, or professional writing.  Prerequisites:  Second semester junior or senior standing, and prior consultation with department faculty. (F;S;SS)

CREATIVE WRITING

This course introduces students to invention techniques and to components of fiction, poetry, and literary non-fiction.  It will also teach workshop procedures.  Prerequisite:  ENGL 101. (F;S;SS)

This course involves the development of fiction-writing skills, using short stories and novels as models. Students will produce a portfolio of their work. Prerequisites: ENGL 101, 210, and a survey course in British, American, or World Literature. (F)

This course involves the development of poetry-writing skills, using traditional and modern poetic forms as models. Students will produce a portfolio of their work. Prerequisites: ENGL 101, 210, and a survey course in British, American, or World Literature. (F)

This course involves the development of drama-writing skills, using a broad selection of plays, ancient to modern, as models. Each student will write at least one play. Prerequisites: ENGL 101, 210, and a survey course in British, American, or World Literature. (F)

LITERATURE

This course is the study of selected topics in literature. It is an elective course primarily for non-English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 101. (DEMAND)

This course is required of English majors and minors, and open to others only with approval of instructor; the critical analysis, literary criticism, investigative and bibliographical techniques necessary to advanced study in English will be studied. This course is a prerequisite for all advanced courses in literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 100. (F;S)

This course is a survey of the literary movements and major authors of English literature in relation to the cultural history of England from Beowulf to 1798. Prerequisites: ENGL 101, HIST 100, and 101. (F)

This course is a continuation of ENGL 220 from 1798 to the Present. Prerequisites: ENGL 100 and 101. (S)

This course surveys major authors and literary periods of English Literature from the beginning of the Victorian Period, about 1830, to the present.  Prerequisite:  ENGL 101. (S)

This course is designed as an introduction to world literature focusing on the 20^th century. Texts selected for this course will reflect a view of world cultures from a decidedly feminist vantage point. Prerequisite: ENGL 101. (DEMAND)

This course is a survey of selected major world writers from ancient times to about 1600.   Prerequisite:  ENGL 101. (F)

This course surveys selected major world writers from about 1600 to the present, excluding English and American. Prerequisite:  ENGL 101. (S)

This survey course will look at Science Fiction written by women, and examine their work, their themes, and their values.  (F;S;SS)

This course uses period literature by both male and female authors to examine the changing roles and attitudes toward women in Europe and American societies. (F;S;SS)

This survey course focuses on poetry written by African American women from the 18^th century to the end of Reconstruction.  Students will gain an understanding and knowledge of the African American experience from the perspective of African American women. (DEMAND)

This is a survey course focusing on the poetry written by African American women during the period of the Harlem Renaissance.  Prerequisite:  ENGL 101. (DEMAND)

This course focuses on the short stories written by African American women during the 20^th century.  It examines the diversity, history, and literary techniques of Black women short story writers and shows how their work has evolved along with formal practices of the genre to the present time.  Prerequisite:  ENGL 101. (DEMAND)

This course offers a study of literature and feminist theories by women from the 19^th and 20^th centuries.  Prerequisite:  ENGL 101. (DEMAND)

This course offers a study of literature and feminist theories by postcolonial women from the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, India, Oceania, Asia, and the Balkans.  Prerequisite:  ENGL 101.    (F;S;SS)

This course offers a study of literature and feminist/womanist theories by Anglo-African, African American, Caribbean, Latin-American, and African women.  Prerequisite:  ENGL 101. (DEMAND)

This course is the study of prose, poetry, and drama by American authors of African ancestry from the 18th century to Reconstruction. Their works are studied in relation to the cultural and literary traditions of their times. Terry, Wheatley, Horton, Harper, Dunbar, and other writers will be included. Prerequisite:  ENGL 101. (F;S;SS)

This course is the study of prose, poetry, and drama by American authors of African ancestry from the Reconstruction to the present. Their works will be studied in relation to the cultural and literary traditions of their times.  Chesnutt, Johnson, Cullen, Bontemps, Hughes, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Yerby, A. Walker, M. Walker, and other writers will be included.  Prerequisite:  ENGL 101. (S)

This course surveys the literary genres and major authors of African Literature, including the oral tradition.  Prerequisite:  ENGL 101. (S)

This course introduces novels and theory post-1960 from areas including the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, India, Asia, and Oceania.  Prerequisite:  ENGL 101. (S)

This course surveys  the history, literature, criticism, and arts of the theatre.  Prerequisite: ENGL 210. (S)

This course examines interpretive strategies and theoretical assumptions of contemporary approaches to literary criticism.  Prerequisite: ENGL 101.  (S)

This course is an introduction to a study of the works of William Shakespeare through a detailed examination of representative works selected from the major periods of his development as a dramatist. Prerequisite: ENGL 210. (S)

A survey of selected major world writers from ancient times to the present will be studied in this course. (F)

This course is a study of the literary movements and major authors of American literature in relation to the cultural history of America from the Colonial Period to 1865. Prerequisites: ENGL 210, ENGL 200, and 201. (F)

This is a continuation of English 430, from 1865 to the present. Prerequisites: ENGL 210, ENGL 200, and 201. (S)

This course is a study of the novel as an art form, with attention to significant English novelists from 1750 to the present. Prerequisite: ENGL 210. (F)

This course is a study of poetry as an art form, with attention to significant English and American poets of the twentieth century. Prerequisite: ENGL 210. (S)

This course provides an opportunity for students to pursue independently in-depth study in literature, linguistics, or professional writing. Prerequisites: Second semester junior or senior standing, and prior consultation with department faculty. (F;S;SS)

This course provides knowledge of how technology, especially the computer and non-print media, can be utilized effectively in the teaching of English and in classroom management. Students will acquire knowledge of various instructional strategies appropriate for diverse backgrounds and learning styles. Development of appropriate professional attitudes and incorporation of research findings in the instructional program will also be included. For English education majors only. (S).

This course is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to develop a sense of the continuity of British and American literary history, supported by a reading of major works. Prerequisite: Senior standing. (DEMAND)

This course intensively explores major figures, periods, or ideas in African American, American, British, World or Comparative Literature while emphasizing independent study and refines the techniques of literary research and critical analysis.  Prerequisites:  ENGL 404, 406. (F;S)

This course allows students with a GPA in English of 3.2 or above to complete an in-depth research project in their area of interest. Prerequisite: ENGL 101. (F;S)

TECHNICAL WRITING

This course includes the study and practice of the basic techniques of writing and editing scientific and technical materials for both the general audience and the specialist.  Prerequisite:  ENGL 101. (F;S;SS)

This course provides an introduction to the theory and techniques used by scientific and technical communicators. It covers elements of layout, design, and typography, giving students practice with short and long print texts and non-print texts and non-print media. (F;S;SS)

This course is an intensive study of the principles and processes involved in preparing technical and scientific reports and proposals. (F;S;SS)

This course provides theory and practice in writing and marketing articles for scientific publications with students submitting articles to commercial and scientific publications. This course also examines principles and practice of editors of scientific and technical publications. Students edit other students’ works and that of outside clients. (F;S;SS)

This course is an advanced study of theories and practices associated with the production of user documents, instructional manuals and other media. (F;S;SS)

This course is designed to give students practical writing experience related to scientific and technical fields. Offered as an on-campus and off-campus-directed internship, the experience teaches students the importance of client relationships, problem-solving skills, and professionalism in conduct and product. (F;S;SS)

DIRECTORY OF FACULTY

B.A., Agnes Scott College; M. A., New York University; Ph.D. University of Missouri-Columbia

B.S., M.S., North Carolina A&T State University; Ed.D., Auburn University at Auburn

B.A., University of Alabama; M.A., Atlanta University; Ph.D., University of South Florida

B.A., Converse College, M.A. Vanderbilt University; Ph.D., University of Dallas

B.S., M.S., North Carolina A&T State University

B.A., Davidson College; M.A., Ph.D., Louisiana State University

B.A., Duke University; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University

B.A., M.A., North Carolina A&T State University; Ed.D., Temple University

B.A., Winston-Salem State University; M.S., North Carolina A&T State University; Ph.D., Indiana University

B.A.S.I.S., Bennett College; M.A., North Carolina A&T State University; Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania

B.A., Queens College of the City University of New York; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

B.A., George Washington University; M.A. and Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

B.A., M.A., North Carolina A&T State University

B. A., Miami University of Ohio; M.A., Northwestern University; Ph.D., Northwestern University

B.S., West Virginia University; M.F.A., Queens University of Charlotte

B.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro; M.A., North Carolina A&T State University; Ph.D., University of South Carolina

Department in the College of Arts & Sciences

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