This course will enable students who enjoy analyzing sentence structures to explore this area in greater depth. The course will study the structural properties of language and the patterns of generative transformational syntax.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 213
Course Name:
Syntax
Prerequisite:
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 2201
Course Name:
Sociolinguistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is an introduction to theoretical frameworks and analytic methods in sociolinguistics. The course will discuss the possible relationships between language and society. Students will learn about linguistic variation and change, examining how this variation can reflect social structures (how social factors like age, sex, and social class influence language) and construct different social identities.
Course Code: ENG 2202
Course Name:
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course aims at presenting the cross-currents of English Literature during the Restoration and the 18th Century and will introduce students to poets’ /dramatists’ startling innovations with words, and ideas of personal, the period's volatile intellectual and political currents.
Course Code: ENG 2203
Course Name:
Literary Criticism (Sydney to Leavis)
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will introduce students to the basics of literary theory and trace the way it has evolved in the last century or so. It will—to borrow the title of one of the books recommended for this course— be a course in “beginning theory” for students.
Course Code: ENG 2204
Course Name:
Romantic Poetry
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will offer a detailed study of Romanticism to understand its significance in English poetic tradition. By exploring the works of the six major Romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats, and investigating some characteristics that they share, we will try to outline what Hazlitt called the “spirit of the age.”
Course Code: ENG 2205
Course Name:
Semantics & Pragmatics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course offers an introduction to the basic concepts and methods in the analysis of language meaning. It also offers the study of how meaning is encoded in words, phrases, sentences, and utterances; discussion of modern theories of meaning; and an exploration of relationships among language, thought and action.
Course Code: ENG 2206
Course Name:
American Literature I
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course gives an overview of the American literature in the nineteenth century. This is a time of major social upheavals. It is also an era notable for its literary achievements. Students enrolled in this course will look at a wide range of nineteenth-century American authors and examine their work in the light of historical context.
Course Code: ENG 222
Course Name:
English in Media
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course objective is for students to develop an informal and critical understanding of media English. The course will teach not only the basics of English, but also those aspects of writing, such as reporting speeches, house styles and jargons which are specific to the language of journalism. They will study a wide assortment of newspapers, magazines, books, photography, radio, film, television, and the internet. Viewing of documentaries and features will be a part of the course.
Course Code: ENG 2301
Course Name:
Language Development and Acquisition
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is designed to provide an initial study of language acquisition by focusing on the sequence and process of typical communication development in children. It covers the development of all four components of language such as Phonology, Syntax, Semantics and Discourse.
Course Code: ENG 279
Course Name:
Introduction to English Literary Theory
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course introduces English critical thinking from the Elizabethan time to the early 20th Century. Emphasize various concepts about drama and poetry as evolved from Aristotle and then the Englishness they achieve.