ENGLISH 77 Creative Writing Emphasis Emphasis Creative Writing Literature Emphasis—34 —6 hours ENG 318 and 410—6 hours ENG 450 or 460—3 hours ENG 300 and 490—4 hours ENG 340 or 342 ENG 334 or 335 ENG 318 and 410—6 hours ENG 450 or 460—3 hours ENG 300 and 490—4 hours 433; PSY 213, 318; SE 225. The student must earn a 3.0 major GPA. Completion of applicable portions of the Praxis II. For additional information, see the Assistant Dean Education and Accreditation. for Teacher Genre Studies: Select 2 from 305, 310, 311, 320, Genre Studies: Select 2 from 305, 310, 336, 337­ 320, 325,Select 6 hours from ENG 305, 310, 311, 423, 427,334, 335, 336, 337, 340, 342, 400, 422, 495-6-7. 430, 431, 432, 433, 450 or 460, 395-6-7, Core requirements for all majors—13 hours 1. 2. 3. Advanced Literature Studies—6 hours 1. 2. 311, 320, Genre studies: Select 1 from 305, 310, 336, 337—3 hours Select 12 hours from ENG 305, 310, 311, 320, 325, 334, 335, 336, 337, 340, 342, 400, 422, 423, 425, 426, 427, 430, 431, 432, 433, 435, 450, 460, 395-6-7, 495-6-7. Major requirements as shown above for either concentration to include in the Creative Writing Emphasis ENG 334 or 335 and ENG 340 or 342, replacing choices under I.D. above. Additional requirement: CSC 105 Professional Education: EDU 150, 250, 326, 420, Core requirements for all majors—13 hours 1. 2. 3. Core: ENG 312, 425, and 426—9 hours Writing

D. E. F. English Minor Requirements Building on the 12 hours of ENG required in the General Core, the minor requires 15 ENG hours>299. C. D. Major in English with hours A. B. C. D. A. B. C. To provide student-centered attention which facilitates attention which provide student-centered To effective communication. require analytical offer courses in composition which To writing. reading, thinking, and and analyze multicultural offer courses that explore To world views. literature to broaden courses emphasizing genres, offer a range of English To periods, history and structure of the major writers, research, and critical analysis. language, composition, Major in English With —34 hours A. B. Licensure for English (Grades 7-12) Teacher

IV. II. III. Mission Statement Mission • • • • Curriculum I. ENGLISH (2001). Professor of English. B.A., (2002). Professor of English and of English and (2002). Professor (1998). Professor of English. B.A., B.A., English. of Professor (1998). (2006). Director of Composition (2006). Director of Composition (1990). Assistant Professor of English. (2013). Visiting Instructor of English. (2013). Visiting (2011). Assistant Professor of English. (2011). Assistant (1999). Acting Department Chair and (1999). Acting Department Chair and (2008). Professor of English and Dean of (2008). Professor of English and Dean (1989). Professor of English and Writer in Professor of English and Writer (1989). (2007) Assistant Professor of English. B.A., English. of Professor Assistant (2007) (2009). Associate Professor of English and (2009). Associate Professor of English (1998). Professor of English. B.A., SouthernB.A., English. of Professor (1998). J. Andrew Gray University of Montana. B.A., Union University; M.F.A., Arkansas University; M.A. and Ed.S., Arkansas State Arkansas University; M.A. and Ed.S., Arkansas State A&M University–Commerce. University; Ed.D., Texas Christine Bailey University; M.A., Belmont Tech Support. B.S., Tennessee Murray State University. University; M.F.A., M.F.A., University of Virginia. M.F.A., Roger S. Stanley B.A., Appalachian State University; M.A., East Tennessee Murray State University. State University; M.F.A., University of Mississippi. Additional study, Pam Sutton Gavin Richardson and Ph.D., University of University; M.A. Vanderbilt Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Bobby Rogers at Knoxville; Residence. B.A., University of Tennessee M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton; Ph.D., M.A., State University of New York Northern Illinois University. John Netland Biola University; the College of Arts and Sciences. B.A., Ph.D., M.A., California State Polytechnic University; University of California, Los Angeles. Scott Huelin M.A., and B.A. Community. Honors the of Director of Chicago. University of North Carolina; Ph.D., University David Malone College;Associate Professor of English. B.A., Wheaton University; M.Div., New Orleans Baptist Theological New Orleans Baptist Theological University; M.Div., and Ph.D., University of Southern Seminary; M.Ed., University. Harvard study, Mississippi; Additional Hamilton L. Patricia University, Biola University M.A., California State Fullerton; Ph.D., University of Georgia. Jason Crawford Ph.D., and A.M. University; State Louisiana B.A., Harvard University. Gene C. Fant, Jr. Administration. President for Academic Executive Vice University; M.A., Old Dominion B.S., James Madison COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND OF ARTS COLLEGE Faculty Janna Chance Rice University. M.A. and Ph.D., A&M University; Texas DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT

2013-2014 Major in English with Discipline-Specific Honors Project/Thesis Honors The honors thesis serves as the culmination of the The Honors Program in the English Department is student’s honors work in the English Department. Building intended to offer outstanding students the opportunity on previous work, the honors thesis represents a mature, to engage in certain kinds of advanced, academically- independent work of original scholarship or creative challenging projects that they might not have the writing. All projects must be approved by the English occasion to encounter in the standard English curriculum. Department prior to the beginning of the semester in The program involves two elements: a) English honors which the work will be undertaken. students will contract to perform honors work in four 1. Literature-track students will write a work of upper level English courses; and b) they will write an literary or linguistic analysis of approximately honors thesis in lieu of the standard senior thesis. The 35-40 pages that draws upon at least 15-20 honors thesis will build upon previous work undertaken works of secondary criticism. These students will in upper-level English courses, including work done for also submit an annotated bibliography of their honors contracts. research. 2. Writing-track students will write a work or Application Process collection of works in their preferred genre(s) Students who meet the minimal requirements should totaling approximately 35-40 pages. These submit an application to the Chair of the English students will also prepare a short (3-4 page) Department. Admission is at the discretion of the English reflective essay on five major literary influences on Department faculty. Applications must be approved by their writing. a majority vote of the English Department at the next 3. All thesis writers will give a formal presentation departmental meeting. of their findings or a reading of their finished creative work in a colloquium setting. All students Admission Requirements in the English discipline-specific program will be The following students are eligible for admission to the expected to attend. discipline-specific honors program All students will work with a thesis director, who will • English majors who have been admitted to the take the lead in guiding the project and responding to General Honors Program and who have attained a early drafts, and with a second reader, who will provide cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher for one academic some feedback later in the process (after a first draft has year been completed). 78 • English majors who have completed at least one academic year of coursework at Union, including at least one upper-level English course, and who Assessment of Majors have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher Majors are required to take ENG 490 which is the culmination of the major in the completion and defense English majors who do not meet the minimal GPA or of a thesis. residency requirements, but who have completed at least one full year of course work and have completed at least two upper-level English courses at Union, may submit a Student Organization portfolio of their creative or critical work and appeal to Sigma Tau Delta, a national English Honor Society, be admitted to the program. recognizes students who have realized accomplishments in Upon admission to the English DSH program, the the English language and literature. The motto is “Sincerity, student will be assigned a faculty advisor who will oversee Truth, Design.” Union University’s chapter was organized the student’s progress in the course of study and who will in 1979. Officially declared English majors/minors who direct the senior honors thesis. have completed at least 36 semester hours of college study, with 6 hours in literature, meet the minimum eligibility Progression requirements. Furthermore, the student must have at least To remain in the program a student must a 3.0 GPA in English Department courses for membership. • Maintain a 3.50 GPA in the major • Earn at least a B in each honors contract course Student Award • Complete each item in the Honors Project/Thesis The Helen Blythe Creative Writing Award is given timeline on time and to the satisfaction of the to the graduating senior who is deemed by the English department chair or thesis director Department faculty to be the best creative writer. ENGLISH Students who fail to meet any of these three criteria may be placed on probation; students on probation who General Regulations fail to rectify their shortcomings within one semester may Students are required to complete the core curriculum be dismissed from the program. Probation and dismissal requirements in composition and literature before decisions will be made by the department chair in enrolling in an upper-level English course. consultation with the Director of the Honors Community. Course Offerings in English (ENG) 318. Advanced Composition (3) S; As Needed ( ) Hours Credit; F–Fall, W–Winter; S–Spring; Su–Summer Prerequisite: ENG 201 or 202 with alternate as the Corequisite. 111. Written Composition I (3) F, S, Su Reciprocal credit: COM 318. Includes a study of the principles of grammar, usage, and Techniques of writing effective expository, argumentative, rhetoric, emphasizing the writing of clear, effective exposition. descriptive, and narrative nonfiction prose. 111L. Writing Lab (1) F 320. The Short Story (3) Every Third Year Corequisite: ENG 111—sections K. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or 202 with alternate as the In this lab setting, this one-hour supplement to ENG 111 Corequisite. for the Keystone sections focuses on the skills necessary A study of representative short stories selected from to enhance student success in ENG 111. literary, historic, or thematic types. Includes such writers as Maupassant, Chekhov, Poe, Joyce, Lawrence, Hurston, 112. Written Composition II (3) F, W, S O’Connor, Gordimer, Mahfouz, and Garcia Marquez. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Includes library orientation and instruction in research 325. Literature and Faith (3) Every Third Year methods. Students will write critical themes and a research Prerequisite: ENG 201 or 202 with alternate as the paper. Corequisite. A close literary, theological and historical analysis 201. World Literature I (3) F, W, S, Su of writers of faith such as Augustine, Dante, Donne, Prerequisites: ENG 111, 112. Herbert, Hardy, Tennyson. C.Rossetti, Dostoyevsky, T.S. Selected writers beginning with the Greeks and continuing Eliot, Lewis, Solzhenitsyn, Wiesel, Endo, Potok, Dillard, through the 17th century. Robinson and Berry. 202. World Literature II (3) F, W, S, Su 334. Survey of American I (3) S–Even Years Prerequisites: ENG 111, 112. A study of literature from the Colonial, Early National, Selected world writers from the 18th through the 20th century. and Romantic Periods. Completion of ENG 111, 112, 201 and 202 is 335. Survey of American II (3) S–Odd Years prerequisite to the following unless otherwise noted: A study of literature from the Realistic Period through 300. Literary Criticism and Analysis (3) F, S Post Modernism. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or 202 with alternate as the 79 Corequisite. 336. The Epic (3) Every Third Year Overview of methodologies and various schools of theory Comparative study of oral/formulaic tales from around used in literary analyses with special attention to close reading the world which have been recorded and of the literate techniques, coupled with mastery of MLA style guidelines. creations intended to imitate those tales in some traditions. Includes such authors and works as Gilgamesh, 305. Drama (3) F–Odd Years Homeric epics, Virgil, Icelandic saga, Ariosto, Milton, the Reciprocal credit: COM 305. Ramayana, the Mwindo Epic, and Amos Tutuola. Representative dramas selected from literary, historic, or thematic types. Includes such writers as Ibsen, Chekhov, 337. The Novel (3) Every Third Year Shaw, Brecht, O’Neill, Ionesco, and Soyinka. Representative novels from literary, historic, or thematic types. Includes such writers as Cervantes, Balzac, Dostoevsky, 310. Poetry (3) Every Third Year Hawthorne, Joyce, Faulkner, Soseki, and Achebe. Representative poetry selected from literary, historic, or thematic types. Includes the works of such writers as Sappho, 340. Survey of British Literature I (3) F—Odd Years Catullus, Petrarch, Goethe, Pushkin, Eliot, and Frost. Survey of major works authors and themes of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the Renaissance. 311. Literature and Film (3) Every Third Year Prerequisite: ENG 201 or 202 with alternate as the 342. Survey of British Literature II (3) F—Even Years Corequisite. Survey of major works authors and themes of British literature An examination of the intersection of film and literary from the Restoration through the Post-Colonial period. texts and the scholarly analyses of each narrative format. 400. Race and Ethnicity in American Literature (3) Discussion includes cultural and historical aspects, Every Third Year philosophical approaches to adaptation, and the technical A close literary, cultural and historical study of traditions analysis of film. of ethnic literature in America, such as African American, ENGLISH 312. Creative Writing (3) F, S Asian American, Latino/a, Native American, and Jewish Prerequisite: ENG 201 or 202 with alternate as the American literature. Corequisite. 410. Representative Plays of Shakespeare (3) F Reciprocal credit: COM 312. An in-depth study of approximately twelve selected Emphasis is on the production of original writings, particularly comedies, tragedies, and histories of Shakespeare, with in the genres of poetry, short story, drama, and essay. an emphasis on the Elizabethan Age. 422. Eighteenth Century British Literature (3) 431. The Middle Ages (3) Every Third Year Every Third Year A close literary and historical analysis of one or more such A close literary and historical analysis of one or more such authors as Chaucer, Malory, Marie de France, Boccaccio, authors from the Long 18th Century, such as Dryden, Petrarch, and Dante. Pope, Behn, Defoe, Fielding, Richarson, Johnson, Swift, and Gray. 432. The Renaissance (3) Every Third Year A close literary and historical analysis of one or more 423. Nineteenth Century American Literature (3) such authors as Marlowe, Milton, Rabelais, Machiavelli, Every Third Year Calderon, and Cervantes. Advanced literary, cultural and historical study of 19th century American literature. Topics may include 433. Romanticism (3) Every Third Year A close literary and historical analysis of one or more Transcendentalism, Realism, and Naturalism, and such authors as Goethe, Rousseau, Hugo, Wordsworth, representative authors may include Emerson, Thoreau, Pushkin, Hawthorne, and Melville. Hawthorne, Dickinson, Twain, Whitman, Jewett, Stowe, Cather, and Wharton. 435. Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature (3) Every Third Year. 425. Fiction Writing (3) F A close literary and historical analysis of world authors Prerequisite: ENG 312. across genre from World War I-era High Modernism, A writing workshop in which advanced techniques of World War II-era postmodernism, post-colonialism, and fiction writing are practiced, culminating in a manuscript contemporary literature. of original work. 450. The History of the English Language (3) S 426. Poetry Writing (3) S Study of the development of current forms of the English Prerequisite: ENG 312. language, surveying issues of historical linguistics with A writing workshop in which advanced techniques of attention to the roles of Old English and Middle English in poetry writing are practiced, culminating in a manuscript the development of Anglophone language and literature. of original work. 460. Advanced Grammar (3) Fall 427. Victorian Literature (3) Every Third Year Study of the grammar of the English language, including A close literary, cultural and historical analysis of the study of the various approaches to grammar and its literature of the English Victorian period, featuring one pedagogy. 80 or more such authors as Arnold, C.Bronte, E. Bronte, R. Browning, E.B. Browning, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Hopkins, 490. Senior Thesis (1) S and Tennyson. Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Chair To complete the major, the student will complete a 430. Classical Antiquity (3) Every Third Year thesis demonstrating an understanding of the principles A close literary and historical analysis of one or more such of literary theory and criticism. The student will present authors as Homer, Plato, Thucydides, Sophocles, Virgil, and defend the work before a faculty panel. and Horace.

179-279-379-479. External Domestic Study Programs 395-6-7. Special Studies (1-4) (1-3) As Needed Upper-level group studies which do not appear in the All courses and their applications must be defined and regular departmental offerings. approved prior to registering. 495-6-7. Independent Study (1-4) 180-280-380-480. Study Abroad Programs (1-4) Individual research under the guidance of a faculty All courses and their applications must be defined and member(s). approved prior to travel. 498-499. Seminar (1-3) On Demand 195-6-7. Special Studies (1-4) To be used at the discretion of the department for majors 295-6-7. Special Studies (1-4) only. Lower-level group studies which do not appear in the *Consult the English Department for details. regular departmental offerings. ENGLISH