This introductory course focuses on different definitions, aspects, and characteristics of fiction and creative nonfiction, also known as the “elusive fourth genre.” Students will gain exposure to a variety of fictional and nonfictional works to understand their forms.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 1202
Course Name:
Introduction to Literature II: Fiction and Nonfiction
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 1203
Course Name:
Pronunciation: Phonetics and Phonology
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course explores speech sounds as physical entities (phonetics) and as linguistic units (phonology). The course intends to develop students’ skills in perceiving, articulating, and transcribing speech sounds.
Course Code: ENG 1301
Course Name:
Introduction to Linguistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course teaches primary concepts of Linguistics that include morphology and syntax, phonetics and phonology, psycholinguistics, theories of Second Language Acquisition, Research Methodology; Syntax and Morphology; semantics and pragmatics; sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis.
Course Code: ENG 1303
Course Name:
Old and Middle English Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course focuses on texts from Old and Middle English literature, from the first Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf to the works of Chaucer. Students will examine the economic, the social, and the political conditions of the period in England as reflected in the prescribed texts to understand the growth of the English literary tradition.
Course Code: ENG 189
Course Name:
Individual Writing Practicum
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will look at the myriad of writing situations a student must deal with. While each student will be dealt with individually by the instructor in removing his/her deficiencies, the instructor will also arrange a peer reading device in order to develop strategies for dealing with specific writing-related issues.
Course Code: ENG 202
Course Name:
Critical Appreciation of Poetry
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course is designed to familiarize students with critical approaches at an elementary level to understanding poetry. The approaches may include 1. The historical-biographical approach; 2. The formalistic approach; 3. The genre approach; 4. The moral philosophical approach, 5. The empirical approach, 6. The psychological approach, 7. The mythological approach, 8. The feministic approach, 9. The cultural studies approach, 10. Cross-cultural and Christian approaches.
Course Code: ENG 203
Course Name:
Advanced Composition and Stylistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The primary goal of this course is to exercise the students’ ability in writing. “Writing maketh a man perfect” said Francis Bacon. The course, by making the students negotiate a world of words, will sharpen their skills in effectively presenting their ideas in unambiguous terms. It will also study the use of dialogue, the use of grammar and the distribution of sentence lengths.
Course Code: ENG 204
Course Name:
Introduction to Literary Theory
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will introduce students to major trends in literary theory, both classical and contemporary. It will not attempt to be exhaustive, but to sensitize students to the long route with continuities and disruptions that literary theory and criticism have taken to become an autonomous activity.
Course Code: ENG 205
Course Name:
Survey of American Literature – I
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will teach the first segment of American literature, from 1620 to 1820. Major themes: the Puritan Experiment; the Plymouth Plantation; the Great Awakening; the American Crisis, the Pursuit of Happiness.
Course Code: ENG 206
Course Name:
Shakespeare’s Comedies
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is an in-depth study of Shakespeare’s comedies. The plays will be analyzed in terms of their structure, characterization, action, language, and the like and with special attention to the issues of romance and reality, gender roles for females and males. Another stream of the course will embrace the master dramatist’s quality of melding pure comic delight with ironic tragic impulses.