The Special Topics: English Composition 103 course is designed to ensure that students develop skills commensurate with the academic level of writing they will encounter throughout their educational and professional careers. In this course, students will improve their sentence building skills and focus on paragraph development. In particular, students will learn to write clear, grammatically correct sentences that lead to writing coherent, well-developed paragraphs that are directed by distinct topic sentences. To enhance and support student learning, the English Department has adopted MindTap, an online platform that provides in-class instructions with self-paced out-of-class reinforcement of that instruction.

A one-semester course emphasizing development of college-level writing skills. In CENG 105, students write multi-paragraph essays, learning the importance of thesis, topic sentence and paragraph development, along with how purpose and audience control the focus of the idea. During CENG 106, students continue to work on multi-paragraph themes, including the persuasive essay and the research paper. A minimum grade of "C" is required.

Both courses examine ideas and systems of traditional and contemporary writers. CENG 105 includes basic research techniques. CENG 106 focuses on the development of a critical research project. Includes class discussion, debate, and individual and group projects designed to develop critical faculties. Satisfies General Education core requirement for College Composition.

A one-year course emphasizing development of college-level writing skills. In CENG 105, students write multiparagraph essays, learning the importance of thesis, topic sentence and paragraph development, along with how purpose and audience control the focus of the idea. During CENG 106, students continue to work on multiparagraph themes, including the persuasive essay and the research paper. A minimum grade of “C” is required for each course. CENG 105 is prerequisite to CENG 106. These courses may not be taken simultaneously. A writing proficiency examination is administered as a requirement for exiting CENG 106.

A one- semester course emphasizing development of college-level writing skills. In CENG 105, students write multi-paragraph essays, learning the importance of thesis, topic sentence and paragraph development, along with how purpose and audience control the focus of the idea. During CENG 106, students continue to work on multi-paragraph themes, including the persuasive essay and the research paper. A minimum grade of "C" is required for each course. Prerequisite: CENG 105 with a minimum final grade of "C". A writing proficiency examination is administered as a requirement for exiting CENG 106.

Both courses examine ideas and systems of traditional and contemporary writers. CENG 105 includes basic research techniques. CENG 106 focuses on the development of a critical research project. Includes class discussion, debate, and individual and group projects designed to develop critical faculties. Satisfies General Education core requirement for College Composition.

A one-year course emphasizing development of college-level writing skills. In CENG 105, students write multiparagraph essays, learning the importance of thesis, topic sentence and paragraph development, along with how purpose and audience control the focus of the idea. During CENG 106, students continue to work on multiparagraph themes, including the persuasive essay and the research paper. A minimum grade of “C” is required for each course. CENG 105 is prerequisite to CENG 106. These courses may not be taken simultaneously. A writing proficiency examination is administered as a requirement for exiting CENG 106.

Offered each semester for English Majors. Selected world masterpieces, with emphasis on Western civilization and historical, literary, and philosophical antecedents of twentieth-century United States culture. Introduces concepts and vocabulary required for reading, analyzing, and interpreting literature. CENG 201 explores literature from the beginnings to the Renaissance. Prerequisite: CENG 106 with a minimum final grade of ¿C¿.

Readings are drawn from the ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and modern worlds. Works from several cultures and periods suggest ways in which cultures and periods shape the self. Satisfies General Education core requirement for literature.

Offered each semester for English Majors. Selected world masterpieces, with emphasis on Western civilization and historical, literary, and philosophical antecedents of twentieth-century United States culture. Introduces concepts and vocabulary required for reading, analyzing, and interpreting literature. CENG 202 explores literature from the Renaissance to the present. Prerequisite: CENG 106 with a minimum final grade of ¿C¿.

Readings are drawn from the ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and modern worlds. Works from several cultures and periods suggest ways in which cultures and periods shape the self. Satisfies General Education core requirement for literature.

Introduction to the techniques of reading literature and writing about literature and includes the study of genre, rhetorical and literary devices, literary research and documentation. Prerequisite to other major courses in English.

Opportunities for majors to acquire career preparation and additional academic enrichment.

An advanced course in expository, descriptive, persuasive, and narrative writing, with emphasis on grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.

A study of authors whose lives, writings, and philosophies represent major stages in the literature of Great Britain. CENG 313 covers early British literature through the Renaissance and includes writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton; CENG 314 includes writers from Dryden to Eliot.

A study of authors whose lives, writings, and philosophies represent major stages in the literature of Great Britain. CENG 314 covers the Restoration to the present and includes writers from Dryden to Eliot.

A chronological study of major writers in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. CENG 315 explores early American writers, including Wheatley, Emerson, Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne.

A chronological study of major writers in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. CENG 316 covers the literature from 1865 to the present; Whitman, Frost, Wright, Faulkner, Brooks and Morrison are included.

An exploration of selected authors and literary works depending on the interests of faculty and students in the department.

A survey of major genres, authors, and social and philosophical changes in sixteenth-century England. Included are writers such as Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, Kyd, Bacon, Donne, and Johnson.

A study of general characteristics of the period and its intellectual and cultural focus. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats are some of the authors included.

A study of major essayists, novelists, playwrights, and poets from 1832 to 1901.

Opportunities for majors to acquire career preparation and additional academic enrichment.

This class introduces students to the writer's craft, with emphasis on the analytical study of fiction, narrative strategies, diction, tone, character and conflict.

This course introduces poetry through reading, writing, analysis, and peer critiques. Students study different forms of poetry and the different poetic movements. Students produce a number of original poems in the class.

This course is an introduction to the process of playwriting. The emphasis is on the exploration of a range of techniques and tools available to the playwright. Through the completion and discussion of a series of writing exercises the class will examine the various elements of playwriting. Students completing this course will craft at least one ten-minute and one one-act play.

This course focuses on the study of the personal essay. Students will study and analyze the essays of professional writers as well as create a personal essay of their own.

An emphasis on oral and written skills for technical communication. English 350 covers the basic forms of technical writing, including reports, abstracts, letters, and illustrations. Prerequisite: grade of "C" or better in CENG 105 and CENG 106.

An introduction to folklore, emphasizing folk literature and the comparison of various ethnic groups. Both oral and written literature are studied, including riddles, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, superstitions, legends, and popular sayings.

A study of representative works of southern writers, with concentration on nineteenth- and twentieth-century works by and about southerners. Emphasis is on creative works published after the Civil War.

An examination of the major essays, selected novels, and short stories of James Baldwin. The course explores significant influences and Baldwin’s own understanding of himself as artist, black man, and United States citizen

An opportunity for all majors to conduct guided research on an author, era, or issue in literary studies. Depending on faculty availability, students may combine these aspects to reflect their particular interests.

A study of representative plays, including histories, tragedies, romances and comedies.

An opportunity for the novice and the experienced creative writer to develop imaginative expression in poetry, fiction, and drama. The course introduces students to the means of publication and competition.

Students produce five poems for classmates to analyze in this advanced course. Emphasis in this class will be on producing at least one publishable poem.

An advanced study of the process of playwriting in which students will produce at least two plays and participate in the analyzing of student plays.

This is an advanced study of the personal essay. Students in this class produce at least three personal essays and participate in analyzing classmates’ personal non-fiction. Emphasis in this class will be on producing at least one publishable essay.

Students will learn the skills of editing and publishing as well as working with writers. Students will solicit, select, edit, and publish creative works from students in the Atlanta University Center (AUC) in Clark Atlanta University’s literary magazine The CAU Review.

A study of recent trends in methodology and materials used in the teaching of composition and literature. CENG 417 is designed especially for prospective English teachers.

An introduction to the study of language; the nature and function of language; and the historical changes in English phonology, morphology, grammar, and vocabulary from the beginnings of the language to the modern period.

Students produce five poems for classmates to analyze in this advanced course. Emphasis in this class will be on producing at least one publishable poem.

Opportunities for majors to acquire career preparation and additional academic enrichment.

A survey of African and African-American literature, with emphasis on the historical evolution and treatment of representative poetry, tales, short stories, and novels. CENG 459 covers colonial African-American literature to the Harlem Renaissance; CENG 460 covers the period from the Harlem Renaissance to the present.

A survey of African and African-American literature, with emphasis on the historical evolution and treatment of representative poetry, tales, short stories, and novels. CENG 459 covers colonial African-American literature to the Harlem Renaissance; CENG 460 covers the period from the Harlem Renaissance to the present.

An examination of selected twentieth-century writers. CENG 461 emphasizes readings and discussions of significant works from Africa, Britain, Canada, India, Russia, the United States, and the Caribbean.

An opportunity for junior and senior English majors to do supervised career-related internships on or off campus. Students must discuss plans for internships with the chair of the Department of English prior to enrollment.

Lectures and exercises in research in literature and language with emphasis on thesis problems; required of all students in English (first semester).

Studies in rotation of the formal parameters and evaluative criteria which define a given genre: the novel, biography and autobiography, drama and poetry (open only to students in the Doctor of Arts in Humanities Program).

This course covers mainly English language texts of British North American from the mid-seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. It includes literature of exploration and conquest, Puritan sermons, colonial historical narrative and literature of settlement, Puritan poetry, Native American voices, slave narrative, poetry of the early national period, and drama and fiction of the Early Republic.

This course will trace the history of American poetry through the twentieth century emphasizing three different ways of looking at the poetry of the period—through the poetics of the vernacular, the orchestral, and the experimental.

Studies late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century American literature categorized as realism and naturalism, works that reflect the “camera-eye” vision and the “under side” look at life. It includes authors such as Rebecca Harding Davis, Henry James, Chesnutt, Dreiser, Crane, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, and Pauline Hopkins. Historical context will be important in the course.

Explores the development of the novel in America from the late-eighteenth century to 1965. It includes the study of different types of novels, with a special emphasis on the modernist works, and explores how they shaped, and were shaped by, the social, cultural, and historical forces characterizing the literary periods associated with them.

Studies 19th- and 20th-century (including contemporary) plays written by American playwrights. Representative dramatists from each literary-historical period and a range of dramatic styles will be covered—with an emphasis on modern drama.

This course surveys African American literature from both conceptual and historical perspectives in an effort to determine the extent to which the literature is uniquely African American.

This course explores the African American novel within each novel’s social, cultural, and literary milieu, from the early Clotel, or the President’s Daughter, to the contemporary, such as Morrison’s Paradise.

Includes studies in major--and some minor--black poets, poetry and poetics, and critics from the period 1919-1934; the course also considers relevant white poets and critics of the era. Poets under study will vary somewhat depending on the semester taught.

A study of modern African novels written in English with attention to their social contexts. Authors/novels will vary.

The course studies and analyzes the concepts of the black worldview and culture; it includes readings of African American, African, and other Eastern aesthetics.

This course explores both commonalities and differences identified in short and long fiction by Anglophone, francophone, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean writers, features that underscore the Pan-Caribbean scope of the writers' defining experiences.

This course focuses on the more important works by major poets, critics, and autobiographers. Historical context and recent criticism will be a part of the study. Among the authors included: Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Arnold, Tennyson, Barrett-Browning, Browning, Gabriel Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Swinburne, and Hopkins.

Critical reading of the dramatic works of Shakespeare to about 1600. This course locates the dramatic achievement of the first half of Shakespeare’s works in the context of the theatrical, literary, social, and political world in which he lived.

This course focuses on post-World War II major British and Irish playwrights and their works, including such authors as Samuel Beckett, Simon Bent, David Kane, and Tom Stoppard.

The course focuses on major writers and their works, including poetry, essays, and drama. Among the authors included in the course are Wyatt, Howard, Sidney, Spenser, Marlow, Shakespeare, Campion, Donne, Jonson, Bacon, Herrick, Marvell, and Milton along with lesser known authors, especially females.

(Replaces CENG 685, Literary Criticism). 3 Credits Survey of the principles governing the creation, appreciation, and valuation of literatures as they have developed over the centuries, especially as defined and redefined during the contemporary period.

Study in speical topics in literature, including multiethnic/cultural, film, technology and literature, or more particularized studies of authors/literature in the four areas of doctoral studies: African American, American, British, Arican/Caribbean.

Introduction to modern descriptive linguistics and the principles of generative grammar.

Study of the nature and function of language; the development of English sounds, forms and syntax; modern English grammar, vocabulary, and American speech.

Examination of the fiction by women throughout the African diaspora with attention given to the roles and status of women in these societies.

Study of a particular genre of literature by African-American women writers. Genre, i.e., fiction, poetry and drama, will vary each term the course is taught.

Studies the works of women writers of the United States South with a focus on themes of culture, race, gender, class, and heritage.

Examination of the texts and the tensions emerging from the literary experience of women writing in the southern United States. Attention will be given to prevailing southern themes of race, class, gender, and heritage.

Studies of works in areas not offered in scheduled classes or seminars (offered on demand and supervised by selected faculty).

Lectures and exercises in research in literature and language with an emphasis on the preliminary steps that lead to writing successful theses and dissertation: proposals, abstracts, outlines, bibliographic essays/reviews, and theses/dissertation problems. This course is required of all graduate students in English (first semester).

This course covers mainly English language texts of British North American from the mid-seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. It includes literature of exploration and conquest, Puritan sermons, colonial historical narrative and literature of settlement, Puritan poetry, Native American voices, slave narrative, poetry of the early national period, and drama and fiction of the Early Republic.

This course will trace the history of American poetry through the twentieth century emphasizing three different ways of looking at the poetry of the period—through the poetics of the vernacular, the orchestral, and the experimental.

Studies late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century American literature categorized as realism and naturalism, works that reflect the “camera-eye” vision and the “under side” look at life. It includes authors such as Rebecca Harding Davis, Henry James, Chesnutt, Dreiser, Crane, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, and Pauline Hopkins. Historical context will be important in the course.

Examines a selection of contemporary American fiction from 1965 to the present in historic, aesthetic, social, and cultural contexts. Authors include Kurt Vonnegut, Don DeLillo, Ishmael Reed, Tom Wolf, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, Maxine Hong Kingston, and others.

This course surveys African American literature from both conceptual and historical perspectives in an effort to determine the extent to which the literature is uniquely African American.

This course explores the African American novel within each novel’s social, cultural, and literary milieu, from the early Clotel, or the President’s Daughter, to the contemporary, such as Morrison’s Paradise.

Includes studies in major--and some minor--black poets, poetry and poetics, and critics from the period 1919-1934; the course also considers relevant white poets and critics of the era. Poets under study will vary somewhat depending on the semester taught.

A study of modern African novels written in English with attention to their social contexts. Authors/novels will vary.

The course studies and analyzes the concepts of the black worldview and culture; it includes readings of African American, African, and other Eastern aesthetics.

The study of selected literatures written in English by writers from British Commonwealth countries, such as South Africa, Nigeria, Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, and the West Indies.

This course focuses on the more important works by major poets, critics, and autobiographers. Historical context and recent criticism will be a part of the study. Among the authors included: Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Arnold, Tennyson, Barrett-Browning, Browning, Gabriel Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Swinburne, and Hopkins.

Critical reading of the dramatic works of Shakespeare to about 1600. This course locates the dramatic achievement of the first half of Shakespeare’s works in the context of the theatrical, literary, social, and political world in which he lived.

The course focuses on major writers and their works, including poetry, essays, and drama. Among the authors included in the course are Wyatt, Howard, Sidney, Spenser, Marlow, Shakespeare, Campion, Donne, Jonson, Bacon, Herrick, Marvell, and Milton along with lesser known authors, especially females.

This advance level course emphasizes audience awareness, effective design and organization, clarity and correctness, and mastery of writing forms frequently encountered in the workplace.  Creative Writing: This course will vary, focusing on fiction, poetry, drama, and creative non-fiction alternately.  Technical Writing: This is a course in analysis and writing of business and technical documents. Course content varies and may be repeated for credit.

Study in speical topics in literature, including multiethnic/cultural, film, technology and literature, or more particularized studies of authors/literature in the four areas of doctoral studies: African American, American, British, Arican/Caribbean.

Study of the nature and function of language; the development of English sounds, forms, and syntax; modern English grammar, vocabulary, and American speech.

Advance level course studies the works of women writers of the United States South with a focus on themes of culture, race, gender, class, and heritage.

Study of modern descriptive linguistics and the principles of generative grammar.

A focused study on (a) preeminent author/s writing in English that emphasizes the uniqueness and impact of the writer/s on the literary environment and traditions of the milieu.