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Main Departmental Office
Auditorium Building, Room 112

Mailing address:
1155 Union Circle #311307
Denton, TX 76203-5017
940-565-2050
Fax: 940-565-4355

Web site: www.english.unt.edu

Undergraduate Advising Office
Auditorium Building, Room 114

Jacqueline Vanhoutte, Chair

Faculty  

The study of English language and literature provides students with an intellectual foundation that will permanently enrich their lives and prepare them for a wide variety of professional paths. Our department features courses in British, American, and anglophone literature; in the art of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction; and in rhetoric and composition. All of these classes foster intellectual independence and help students to develop the skills of thinking critically, reading deeply, and writing clearly.

The English major is widely recognized as a core liberal arts degree, preparing students not only for graduate study in literature or creative writing, but for a range of careers – including teaching, the law, publishing, and business – in which the skills of analytical thinking and effective communication are at a premium. Whatever path they choose, English majors (and minors) will also have gained something invaluable: a fuller sense of the possibilities of life, expanded intellectual and imaginative horizons, and greater insight into the workings of human nature.

At all levels, our class sizes are restricted in order to provide opportunities for collaboration with other students and close interaction with professors. Our faculty specialize in a variety of literary traditions, critical methodologies, and genres of creative writing, and are devoted to training students in the most effective strategies for reading and writing.

Programs of study

Programs offered by the department, including concentrations under the English major, are listed below.

Endorsement in English as a Second Language

See the certification advisor in the College of Education for details.

Programs

• English with a concentration in Creative Writing, BA
• English with a concentration in Language Arts, BA
• English with a concentration in Literature, BA
• English with a concentration in Writing and Rhetoric, BA

• English, BA with a concentration in Literature with grad track option leading to English, MA

• American Studies minor
• English minor

• English Language Arts and Reading teacher certification

• American Studies certificate
• Medieval and Renaissance Studies certificate

Courses

• ENGL 1310 - College Writing I
• ENGL 1311 - Honors Composition I
• ENGL 1315 - Writing About Literature I
• ENGL 1320 - College Writing II
• ENGL 1321 - Honors Composition II
• ENGL 1325 - Writing About Literature II
• ENGL 2100 - Introduction to Creative Writing
• ENGL 2210 - Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700
• ENGL 2211 - Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700
• ENGL 2220 - Survey of World Literatures from 1700 to the Present
• ENGL 2221 - Survey of World Literatures from 1700 to the Present
• ENGL 2322 - British Literature to 1780
• ENGL 2323 - British Literature 1780 to Present
• ENGL 2327 - American Literature to 1870
• ENGL 2328 - American Literature from 1870 to Present
• ENGL 2352 - Readings in the Short Story and Novel, Especially Modern American Literature and Culture
• ENGL 2362 - Readings in Poetry and Drama, Especially Modern American Works
• ENGL 2400 - Literature, Media and Popular Culture
• ENGL 2420 - Gender and Sexuality in Literature
• ENGL 2440 - Banned Books and Literary Scandals
• ENGL 2600 - Introduction to American Studies
• ENGL 2900 - Special Problems
• ENGL 2910 - Special Problems
• ENGL 2996 - Honors College Mentored Research Experience
• ENGL 3000 - Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation Skills
• ENGL 3110 - Academic Writing in the Humanities
• ENGL 3140 - Intermediate Creative Writing: Fiction
• ENGL 3150 - Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry
• ENGL 3160 - Intermediate Creative Writing: Non-Fiction
• ENGL 3200 - Rhetorical History and Historiography
• ENGL 3210 - Studies in Writing
• ENGL 3360 - Survey of Classical Literature
• ENGL 3430 - British Literature to 1780
• ENGL 3431 - Introduction to Early Medieval Literature
• ENGL 3432 - Introduction to Late Medieval Literature
• ENGL 3433 - Medieval Women Writers
• ENGL 3434 - British Renaissance Drama
• ENGL 3435 - British Renaissance Poetry
• ENGL 3436 - Introduction to Eighteenth-Century British Literature
• ENGL 3440 - British Anglophone Literature 1780 to the Present
• ENGL 3441 - Introduction to Romantic Literature
• ENGL 3442 - Introduction to Victorian Literature
• ENGL 3450 - Short Story
• ENGL 3830 - American Literature to 1870
• ENGL 3831 - Introduction to the Literature of the Colonial Americas
• ENGL 3832 - Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
• ENGL 3833 - The American Renaissance
• ENGL 3840 - American Literature 1870 to the Present
• ENGL 3843 - Twentieth- and Twenty-first–Century American Poetry
• ENGL 3844 - Contemporary North American Indigenous Literature
• ENGL 3845 - Nineteenth-Century Literature of the U.S.-American West
• ENGL 3846 - Mexican American Non-Fiction and Criticism
• ENGL 3847 - American Realism
• ENGL 3850 - The Literature of Texas and the Southwest
• ENGL 3910 - Special Studies in Literature
• ENGL 3911 - Topics in British Literature
• ENGL 3912 - Topics in American Literature
• ENGL 3913 - Topics in World Literature
• ENGL 3920 - Survey of Ethnic Literatures
• ENGL 3921 - African American Literature
• ENGL 3922 - Chicano Literature
• ENGL 3923 - American Jewish Literature
• ENGL 3924 - Women’s Literature
• ENGL 3996 - Honors College Mentored Research Experience
• ENGL 4100 - Advanced Fiction Writing
• ENGL 4110 - Advanced Poetry Writing
• ENGL 4120 - Advanced Creative Writing: Non-Fiction
• ENGL 4150 - Literary Criticism
• ENGL 4185 - Advanced Academic Writing
• ENGL 4195 - Advanced Grammar and Usage
• ENGL 4200 - Studies in Modern Rhetoric
• ENGL 4210 - Advanced Studies in Writing
• ENGL 4230 - Special Topics in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
• ENGL 4240 - Writing Center Theory and Practice
• ENGL 4290 - World Drama
• ENGL 4300 - Modern Drama
• ENGL 4310 - Contemporary Drama
• ENGL 4400 - American Fiction
• ENGL 4410 - Chaucer
• ENGL 4420 - Poetry
• ENGL 4430 - Shakespeare
• ENGL 4431 - Studies in Medieval Literature
• ENGL 4432 - Studies in Renaissance Literature
• ENGL 4433 - Studies in Restoration and 18th Century British Literature
• ENGL 4434 - Studies in Romantic Literature
• ENGL 4435 - Studies in Victorian Literature
• ENGL 4440 - Milton
• ENGL 4450 - Special Studies in a Single or Dual Author(s)
• ENGL 4470 - British Drama
• ENGL 4480 - American Drama
• ENGL 4500 - British Fiction
• ENGL 4600 - Continental European Fiction
• ENGL 4620 - Studies in Literature and Film
• ENGL 4630 - Studies in Literature and Medicine
• ENGL 4640 - Studies in Literature and Science
• ENGL 4650 - Literature and the Environment
• ENGL 4660 - Literature and the Holocaust
• ENGL 4700 - Instruction and Assessment in English Language Arts
• ENGL 4760 - Specialized Expository Writing
• ENGL 4800 - Special Seminar in Literature or Language
• ENGL 4831 - Studies in the Literature of the Eighteenth-Century Americas

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