Examines a recurrent theme, symbol, or image in American literature to consider how texts reveal, respond to, and influence change in American culture or society over time. Topics will vary in their specificity and may explore more than one genre, literary-historical period, or non-Western culture. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need upper division credit.

Examines a recurrent theme, symbol, or image in British literature to consider how texts reveal, respond to, and influence change in British culture or society over time. Topics will vary in their specificity and may explore more than one genre, literary-historical period, or non-Western culture. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need UD credit. Concurrent enrollment in Advanced Writing Tutorial required.

Examines a theme, symbol, or image in Western and/or non-Western literature to consider how texts reveal, respond to, and influence culture or cultural change over time. Topics will vary in specificity and may explore more than one genre, literary-historical period, or culture. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need UD credit. Concurrent enrollment in the Advanced Writing Tutorial required.

This course introduces students to digital rhetoric, critical AI literacy, and what it means to compose and read digital texts through human-computer interaction and the way that affects both writers and readers. Based on a critical-ethical stance for generative AI engagement, students are also introduced to AI ethics as they relate to reading and writing, and they gain experience with practical applications for using AI in the writing process.

Course will be flexible to allow focus on a survey of women poets, on regional writers, on North and South American poets, or on a single theme or topic. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need UD credit. Concurrent enrollment in the Advanced Writing Tutorial required. Consent of department required. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195.

The workshop-based writing tutorial runs concurrently with all English 300-level literature courses. In this course, students will advance the knowledge they receive in their literature classes and receive attentive faculty support to develop the writing and literary-analytical skills necessary to succeed as an English major. Department consent required. Concurrent enrollment in at least one 300-level literature class. Required of all students enrolled in 300-level literature classes.

This course focuses on a single literary genre, its conventions, and challenges to those conventions. Course may emphasize fiction, non-fiction, drama, adaptations, specific forms of poetry, or other literary genres. Concurrent enrollment in the Advanced Writing Tutorial required. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195. May be repeated once for credit. LA

This course offers a descriptive study of English grammar along with the historical development of the English language. Students identify grammatical features and diagram sentences in Present Day English and learn about cultural changes that influenced Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Present Day English. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195.

Students will engage with theories of rhetoric and social justice to explore what it means to do socially responsible journalism in the digital age. Building on their engagement with these theories and their understanding of journalistic practices, students will work with La Crosse area community members to produce a variety articles that address issues of social justice and the common good. Students must complete 10 hours of service for one community organization. Prior journalism courses such as ENGL 213 or 218 recommended. Prerequisite: ENGL 104 or 105 or 195. SJE

Major comedies, histories, and tragedies studied as poetry and as drama; selections from the sonnets. Concurrent enrollment in Advanced Writing Tutorial required. Consent of department required. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195. LA