Department: ENG English

Code Name Description
ENG100 College Writing Improvement This courses focuses on fundamentals of grammatical form and compositional structure in order to improve writing skills required for college-level papers. Students are placed in the course by ACT/SAT scores and high school records. The course is grad...
ENG101 English Composition I This course stresses the development of effective grammatical and rhetorical form through the assignment of expository and argumentative writing projects. Students will learn to reflect on ideas and observations, to use writing as a tool to sharpen t...
ENG102 English Composition II English 102 is the second course in Ashland University's two-semester writing sequence and involves continued emphasis on the writing process, critical thinking, close reading, the rhetorical nature of language, and research skills. The course requir...
ENG110 Writing Laboratory This course offers individualized instruction and practice in writing skills or all academic writing assignments, including grammar, punctuation, sentences, paragraphs, and the short essay. Graded S/U. May be repeated once for additional credit. Does...
ENG201 Introduction to Creative Writing This course introduces basic techniques and forms of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Regular writing and reading assignments illustrate specific aspects of poetic and prose narrative form.
ENG202 Introduction to Literary Studies This course is an introduction to literary studies and the skills needed to read, understand, and write about literature. Using a selection of material from different periods and genres, students will develop a sense of how literary texts work, how t...
ENG203 American Literature This course focuses on a specific problem or question in American society from the colonial period to the present. Possible areas of focus might include race and slavery; nature and the environment; freedom, democracy, and the individual; immigration...
ENG217 British Literature This course involves a sustained study of selected texts of British literature and emphasizes literary content as statement of moral and philosophic attitudes in British writers. Meets Core credit for humanities.
ENG301 Writer's Workshop: Poetry This is a seminar in the writing of poetry. Professors with extensive publication experience conduct the workshop. May be repeated once for credit.
ENG303 Writer's Workshop: Screenwriting This is a seminar in screenwriting. Professors with extensive film studies experience conduct the workshop. May be repeated once for credit.
ENG309 African American Literature This course closely examines representative works by African American writers, ranging from early slave narratives to contemporary prose, poetry, and drama. Meets Core credit for humanities.
ENG311 Writers' Workshop: Fiction This is a seminar in the writing of short and long fiction. Professors with extensive publication experience conduct the workshop. May be repeated once for credit.
ENG312 Writers' Workshop: Creative Nonfiction This is a seminar in the writing of creative nonfiction, defined as essay, memoir, or narrative. Professors with extensive publication experience conduct the workshop. May be repeated once for credit.
ENG314 Literature and Gender This course focuses on literature that centrally engages issues of gender, including but not limited to masculinity, femininity, patriarchy, biological vs. socially constructed notions of sex and gender, and intersections between gender and other fac...
ENG315 German Literature in Translation This course involves reading and discussion of a number of major writings in German literature. Students will read short stories, novels, poetry, and non-fiction. Some of the themes include the conflict between artistic and bourgeois values, class an...
ENG316 Postcolonial Literature This course focuses on literatures shaped by colonialism and imperialism. The course emphasizes in-depth study of colonial and postcolonial literature supported by an understanding of the historical, social, cultural, and political contexts of that l...
ENG325 Major Writers Seminar This course provides a comprehensive understanding of one or more major writers. Class assignments will include extensive reading of the works of the particular writers, supplemented by critical, biographical, and historical materials. This course ma...
ENG330 African Literature This course emphasizes the study of literature produced on the African continent during the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods. Primary texts will be supplemented by critical, cultural, and historical materials related to Africa. The cou...
ENG332 Global Film This course will emphasize the historical or contemporary practice of non-U.S. cinemas, focusing on one national cinema per course. Students explore the cinema of a county, region, or linguistically related group of countries focusing on intersection...
ENG338 Themes and Topics in Literature This course explores a major idea or theme through a wide range of literary and related texts. Typically, the seminar will focus on a particular historical, social, or artistic idea. Meets Core credit for humanities.
ENG340 Readings in Jewish Literature This course involves reading and discussion of a number of major works in Jewish literature. Students will read short stories, novels, and a memoir; themes include religious faith, silence, the father-son relationship, gender issues, grief, wisdom, a...
ENG343 American Studies An examination of a particular topic, event, or theme that finds expression in American literature, film, history, religion, and/or culture from the 19th century to the present. Meets Core credit for humanities.
ENG351 Advanced Composition This is an advanced course in compositional form and expression emphasizing development of effective rhetorical and stylistic techniques. Students will analyze the work of representative authors. Writing assignments emphasize stylistic control and co...
ENG365 Greek Literature This course will address the question of the Greek view of men and women in relation both to each other and to the gods as revealed in literature. Meets Core credit for humanities.
ENG370 Russian Novel This course involves reading Russian novels in English translation. Meets Core credit for humanities.
ENG371 Literature and Film This course emphasizes film aesthetics and visual narrative as it compares to written literary narrative.
ENG401 The Literature of Early England This course is a high-level study of the literature of England from the Anglo-Saxon period through the time of Chaucer with particular emphasis on the rhetorical features of Old and Middle English.
ENG404 The English Renaissance A high level study of England's literature of the Elizabethan period, this course focuses on poetry and drama.
ENG406 17th Century English Literature This course is a high-level study of material written in England and some of its colonies during the 17th century. Class discussions are set within the context of the political and religious strife during a century building up to the English Civil Wa...
ENG408 18th Century English Literature This course is a high-level study of both traditional and emergent literary traditions, from neoclassicism to sentimentalism and from satire to sensibility.
ENG410 Romantic Movement This course is a high-level study of major texts and critical background of the Romantic movement
ENG411 Victorian Period This course is a high-level study of major texts and critical background of the Victorian period.
ENG413 Modern Anglophone Literature This course is a high-level study of the literature of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Anglophone world other than America in the 20th and 21st centuries.
ENG414 Global Literature This course is a high-level study of literature outside the predominant British or American traditions, with focus on the social and cultural contexts of that literature together with critical commentary.
ENG415 Capstone Course in Creative Writing This course is concerned with the editing and presentation of the student's literary output. The principal work of the class will be the revision and presentation of the student's writing over his or her college writing career.
ENG417 English Grammar and Usage This course will provide students with knowledge of grammar, syntax, and mechanics. It is designed for those preparing to be teachers of English and Language Arts as well as for those who wish to extend their knowledge of the language.
ENG418 History of English Language This course focuses on the history of the English language, its many dialects, and vocabulary development from root words and derivational affixes. The course is designed for English majors and minors wishing to improve their knowledge of the history...
ENG425 American Literature I: Beginnings to 1845 This course is a high-level study of American writing from its beginnings to 1845 with focus on the social and cultural contexts of that literature together with critical commentary.
ENG426 American Literature II: 1845 to 1890 This course is a high-level study of American writing from 1845 to 1890 with focus on the social and cultural contexts of that literature together with critical commentary.
ENG427 American Literature II: 1890-1945 This course is a high-level study of American writing from 1890 to 1945 with focus on the social and cultural contexts of that literature together with critical commentary.
ENG428 American Literature IV: 1945 to Present This course is a high-level study of American writing from 1945 to present with focus on the social and cultural contexts of that literature together with critical commentary.
ENG450 Senior Portfolio in Literary Studies This course provides the structure for examining the Creative Writing, English, or Integrated Language Arts major's fulfillment of the English Department Student Learning Outcomes near the end of the student's time in the major. Required for all Crea...
ENG498 Independent Study No Description Set
ENG501 Summer Residency I There will be three major components to the course: 1) Writers' Workshop/Mentor Tutorial Sessions 2) Craft, Style, and Publishing Seminars 3) Evening/Weekend Readings and Discussions. In addition, students will meet individually with their mentors to...
ENG502 Summer Residency II There will be three major components to the course: 1) Writers' Workshop/Mentor Tutorial Sessions 2) Craft, Style and Publishing Seminars 3) Evening/Weekend Readings and Discussions. In addition, students will meet individually with their mentors to...
ENG503 Summer Residency III This exit residency will emphasize post-thesis concerns. Each student will defend his or her thesis before a faculty committee, participate in a thesis reading, and develop a deepening awareness of the publication industry through advisement from fac...
ENG504 The Craft Talk This course offers students the opportunity to revise their critical essay in ENG 633: Mentorship III into the genre of the craft talk or seminar. Students work with a mentor and peers as they develop the essay into a presentation that they will then...
ENG600 Variable Unit Mentorship ?Variable unit mentorship to allow students to work with faculty directly on a particular project, idea, or exploration. Not to be used except by special application to program director.
ENG601 Literature of Early England A study of the literature of England from the Anglo-Saxon period and the time of Chaucer. Particular emphasis on the rhetorical features of Old and Middle English. Reading and analysis of representative works, including Beowulf and The Canterbury Tal...
ENG604 The English Renaissance A survey of the literature of England during the Elizabethan period. Particular attention to the emergence of literary genre and to the development of literary theory and philosophy. Reading and analysis of representative writers, including Spenser,...
ENG605 Creative Writing Workshop A seminar course in the writing of fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, or poetry. Emphasis on developing various writing projects. The workshop is conducted by professors with extensive publication experience.
ENG606 The Literature of Baroque A study of the Baroque literature in England during the 17th century, with particular emphasis on parallel developments of form and expression in art and music. Reading and analysis of representative writers including Donne and Jonson and their schoo...
ENG608 The Literature of the Enlighenment A study of the neoclassical literature of England during the 18th century. Particular emphasis on the emergence of scientific and philosophical expression and on the parallel developments of form and pattern in art and music. Reading and analysis of...
ENG610 Romantic Movement and Victorian Period A survey of literary expression in 19th-century England, beginning with the emergence of the Romantic poets and continuing through the social and political writings of the Victorian period. Reading and analysis of representative writers including Wor...
ENG625 Major Writers Seminar A course designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of one or more major writers. Class assignments will include extensive reading of the works of the particular writers, supplemented by critical, biographical, and historical materials. Select...
ENG628 American Literature This course is a graduate-level study of a theme or topic in American literature with a focus on social and cultural contexts together with critical commentary.
ENG631 Mentorship I Emphasis in this course will be on the generation of new writing, revision practices and procedures, and the development of a foundation in writing craft. Students will work as part of an online cohort and under the direction of their faculty mentor....
ENG632 Mentorship II Emphasis in this course will be on the generation of new writing, revision practices and procedures, and the continuing development of writing craft. In particular, students will conceptualize and build toward the creation of their thesis. Students w...
ENG633 Mentorship III Emphasis in this course will be on the generation of new writing, revision practices and procedures, and the development of a foundation in writing craft. In particular, students will complete a first draft of their thesis. Students will work as part...
ENG651 Composition and Rhetoric Pedagogy This course focuses on the theory and practice of undergraduate reading and writing instruction, with an emphasis on the teaching of writing.
ENG652 Supervised Teaching This course offers students support during their first semester teaching composition to Ashland University undergraduates. The course focuses on effective and efficient teaching strategies, particularly in the online environment, including best pract...
ENG701 MFA Thesis This course represents the fourth and culminating step in a program-long process of working toward the completion of a book of poems, essays, short stories, or a novella or memoir. Via the internet, students will develop further the craft of shaping...
ENG791 Thesis in English This course will be conducted by conference during which students will write their MA theses in consultation with their faculty advisors.
ENG7IP Thesis in Progress No Description Set
ENGALUM MFA Alumni Residency No Description Set
ENGELCT English Elective No Description Set
ENGLIT English Literature Elective No Description Set
HUMCORE Humanities Core No Description Set