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English (ENG)
College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature
ENG 100 Expository Writing (3) Practice in
writing clear, effective university-level prose. Attention to all stages
of the process-- generating ideas, drafting, revising, and editing. Pre:
placement exam. WR
ENG 101 Expository Writing (3) Practice in
writing clear, effective university-level prose. Attention to all stages
of process--generating ideas, drafting, revising, and editing.
Supple-mental tutorial laboratory required. Pre: placement exam.
Co-requisite: 101L. WR
ENG 101L Expository Writing Laboratory (0) Laboratory
to accompany 101. Intensive individualized instruction in
university-level writing skills. Pre: placement exam. Co-requisite: 101.
WR
ENG 109 Expository Writing II (3) Continuation
of 100 for students who need further practice at the introductory level.
Emphasis on analysis and revision. Pre: 100 and consent.
ENG 200, 209, and 225 are courses in intermediate
expository writing.
ENG 200 Intermediate Expository Writing (3) Continued
work in prose writing. Practice in inventing, organizing, and
communicating more complex theses and analyses. Pre: 100 or 109 with a
grade of C or better.
ENG 209 Business Writing (3) Practice in
informative, analytical, persuasive writing. Pre: 100.
ENG 225 Technical Writing (3) Combined
lecture/lab course preparing students to write about technical subjects
for specialists and laypersons. Introduces theory of technical
communication and document design and teaches students to make use of
relevant technology. A-F only. Pre: 100.
Courses ENG 250-257 are applicable toward the
“arts and humanities” core requirements. Credits are not considered
“beyond the introductory level.”
ENG 250 American Literature (3) Major American
authors from beginnings to present. Requires a minimum of 3,000 words of
writing. Pre: 100.
AH3 ENG 251 British Literature to 1800 (3) Major authors from Old
English, Medieval, Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Requires a
minimum of 3,000 words of writing. Pre: 100. AH3
ENG 252 British Literature after 1800 (3) Major
authors from Romantic, Victorian, Modern periods. Requires a minimum of
3,000 words of writing. Pre: 100. AH3
ENG 253 World Literature to 1600 (3) Major
Eastern and Western authors from Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance
periods. Requires a minimum of 3,000 words of writing. Pre: 100. AH3
ENG 254 World Literature after 1600 (3) Major
Eastern and Western authors from the time of the European Enlightenment
to the modern period. Requires a minimum of 3,000 words of writing. Pre:
100. AH3
ENG 255 Short Story and Novel (3) Introduction
to prose fiction through major texts. Requires a minimum of 3,000 words
of writing. Pre: 100. AH3
ENG 256 Poetry and Drama (3) Introduction to
poetry and drama through major texts. Requires a minimum of 3,000 words
of writing. Pre: 100. AH3
ENG 257 (Alpha) Themes in Literature (3) Selected
themes in major works of various types, cultures, periods. Requires a
minimum of 3,000 words of writing. Repeatable once only. (257Y
cross-listed as WS 257) AH3
ENG 257A (Alpha) Themes in Literature (3) Selected
themes in major works of various types, cultures, periods. Requires a
minimum of 3,000 words of writing. Co-requisite: 100 and Honors
standing. AH3
ENG 311 Autobiographical Writing (3) Writing
clear, effective prose based on the writer’s own experiences and
ideas. Pre: 100 and one of 250-257.
ENG 313 Types of Creative Writing (3) Basic
principles applied through writing in two major genres (short story and
poetry, short story and drama, or poetry and drama). Pre: 100 and one of
250-257. AH1
ENG 315 Advanced Expository Writing (3) Writing
essays emphasizing logical and rhetorical principles: organization,
clarity, coherence, style. Pre: grade of B or better in 100, 109, or
200.
Fulfillment of the college’s written
communication requirement and two semesters of 250-257 are prerequisite
to upper division English courses numbered 320 or above. A few courses
have different or additional prerequisites as listed below.
ENG 320 Introduction to the English Language (3) Uses
of language in speech and in writing; diversity of modern English.
Problems of dialects, style, usage, “correctness”; nature of
standard English. AH3
ENG 325 Rhetoric, Composition and Computers (3) Introduction
to computerbased writing and reading technologies. Study of principles
of traditional and online composition. Writing traditional and
multimedia essays. Pre: 100 and one course from 250- 257, or consent.
ENG 331 Understanding Poetry (3) Analysis of
imagery, sound, language, form, and structure of poems, for increased
appreciation of poetry. AH3
ENG 335 Backgrounds of Western Literature (3) Sources
of European and American literary themes and allusions; myth, legend,
and folklore of Western cultures; e.g., Classical texts, Arthurian
romances, King James Bible. AH3
ENG 336 Critical Approaches to Literature (3) Analysis
of poetry, prose, and drama from a variety of perspectives; e.g.,
romantic, new critical, structuralist, Marxist, feminist.
ENG 351 English Literary History to 1660 (3) Readings
in representative authors and works; development of literary ideas and
forms.
ENG 352 English Literary History 1660- 1900 (3) Readings
in representative authors and works; development of literary ideas and
forms.
ENG 361 (Alpha) Literature and Other Arts and
Humanities (3) Not applicable to college or major requirements. Pre:
one of 250-257.
ENG 362 (Alpha) Literature and Professions and
Sciences (3) Not applicable to college or major requirements. Pre:
one of 250-257.
ENG 363 (Alpha) Literature and Popular Culture (3) Not
applicable to college or major requirements. Pre: one of 250-257.
ENG 364 (Alpha) Topics, Genres and Authors (3) Not
applicable to college or major requirements. Pre: one of 250-257.
ENG 370 Ethnic Literature of Hawai‘i (3) Writings
of various ethnic groups in Hawai‘i, ancient to contemporary. Songs,
stories, poetry, fiction, essays that illustrate the social history of
Hawai‘i. Pre: one social science core course. (Cross-listed as ES 370)
ENG 371 American Literature to 1865 (3) Prose
and poetry to the Civil War; e.g., Bradstreet, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe,
Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson. Pre: one of 250-257 or consent.
ENG 372 American Literature, 1865 to Present (3) Prose,
poetry, and drama after the Civil War; e.g., Whitman, James, Wharton,
Frost, Stevens, O’Neill, Faulkner, Baldwin. Pre: one of 250-257; or
consent.
ENG 393 Junior Honors Program in English (3) Tutorials
in English and American literature. Consult departmental honors adviser
for particulars. Repeatable. Pre: enrollment in Honors Program or
consent.
ENG 394 Junior Honors Program in English (3) Continuation
of 393. Repeatable. Pre: enrollment in Honors Program or consent.
ENG 401 Modern English Grammar (3) Structure
of contemporary English; current theories of grammar; relation between
grammar and style.
ENG 402 History of the English Language (3) Origin
and evolution of English language to c.1800, particularly as manifested
in literary texts.
ENG 403 English in Hawai‘i (3) English
language in Hawai‘i, viewed historically and in a multicultural
context, with attention to politics, religion, race, and education, from
1820 to the present. Pre: two courses from 250-257 or consent.
ENG 410 Form and Theory of Poetry (3) Poetic
theories and techniques for students interested in writing poetry. Pre:
313 or consent.
ENG 411 Poetry Workshop (3) Writing, evaluating
poems. Repeatable once. Pre: 410 or consent.
ENG 412 Nonfiction Writing (3) Workshop
analysis of nonfiction as a literary form. Repeatable. Pre: 313 or 315,
or consent.
ENG 413 Form and Theory of Fiction (3) Narrative
techniques for students interested in writing fiction. Pre: 313 or
consent.
ENG 414 Fiction Workshop (3) Writing,
evaluating fiction. Repeatable once. Pre: 413 or consent.
ENG 415 Professional Editing (3) Discussion and
practice in the professional editing of articles, reports, books; logic,
clarity, coherence, consistency of tone and style, grammar and
punctuation. Pre: 315 or consent.
ENG 416 (Alpha) Studies in Creative Writing (3) Workshop
on special topics in creative writing. (B) creative writing and other
arts; (C) genres of creative writing. Repeatable once only. Pre: 313 or
315; and 413, 412, or 410; or consent.
ENG 417 Argumentative Writing (3) Advanced
work in the theory and practice of argument; emphasis on the role of
invention in argumentative discourse and on the nature of rhetorical
proof. Pre: 315.
ENG 421 English Drama to 1642 (3) From Medieval
through Renaissance, excluding Shakespeare; e.g., Marlowe, Webster,
Jonson.
ENG 425 Writing for Electronic Media (3) Combined
lecture/lab course on writing and rhetoric in computer-mediated
communication. May include online technical writing, courseware
development, hypertext fiction. A-F only. Pre: two of 250-257 and 325;
or consent.
ENG 431 The Rise of the British Novel (3) The
18th- and early 19th-century novelists; e.g., Richardson, Fielding,
Sterne, Austen, Scott.
ENG 432 The Victorian Novel (3) Nine-teenth-century
novelists; e.g., Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy.
ENG 433 The Modern British Novel (3) Twentieth-century
novelists; e.g., Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf.
ENG 435 Literary Studies in the Bible (3) Narrative,
generic, and stylistic forms in the Bible in English. Related writings
may be considered in comparative analysis.
ENG 436 The Rhetorical Tradition (3) History
of theory and practices of rhetoric from Classical to contemporary
period; e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Augustine, Sidney,
K. Burke, DeMan. Pre: 335 or 336.
ENG 437 Classics of Literary Criticism (3) Survey
of chief critical writings from Greek to modern times; e.g., Plato,
Aristotle, Sidney, Johnson, Arnold, Eliot, Barthes, Derrida, Foucault,
Kristeva.
ENG 438 Prosody (3) Reading and writing in
traditional poetic forms--sonnet, villanelle, sestina, roundel, pantoum,
etc.--for theoretical and practical appreciation of formal poetry. Pre:
331 or 410, or consent.
ENG 439 (Alpha) Topics in Film (3) Specific
topics in such areas as major filmmakers, genres, themes, film theory
and criticism. (B) film genres; (C) film theory and criticism; (D) film
and literature; (E) major filmmakers. Repeatable once only.
ENG 442 Chaucer (3) Chaucer’s art from early
poems to Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales.
ENG 445 Early Shakespeare (3) Critical study of
selected plays: early comedies and histories through major comedies.
ENG 446 Later Shakespeare (3) Critical study of
selected plays: Hamlet and other major tragedies through late
romances.
ENG 447 Milton (3) Selected poetry and prose,
including Paradise Lost.
ENG 451 Medieval English Literature (3) Representative
Old and Middle English poetry, prose, exclusive of Chaucer, chiefly in
translation; e.g., Beowulf, Pearl, Morte d’Arthur.
Continental backgrounds.
ENG 453 16th-Century English Literature (3) Tudor
poetry and prose, exclusive of drama; e.g., More, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney,
Shakespeare, Spenser.
ENG 454 Early 17th-Century English Literature (3) Poetry
and prose to 1660, exclusive of drama; e.g., Donne, Jonson, Herbert,
Marvell, Bacon, Browne.
ENG 457 Restoration and Early 18th- Century
Literature (3) Drama, poetry, and prose, 1660-1744, exclusive of
Milton; e.g., Dryden, Pope, Swift, the satiric mode.
ENG 458 Later 18th-Century English Literature (3) Drama,
poetry, and prose, exclusive of novel; e.g., Johnson, Boswell,
Goldsmith.
ENG 461 English Literature of the Romantic Period
(3) Poetry and prose from 1780 to 1832, exclusive of novel; e.g.,
Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Hazlitt, Lamb.
ENG 463 Victorian Literature (3) British poetry
and prose, 1832-1914, exclusive of novel; e.g., Tennyson, Arnold,
Browning, Swinburne, Hardy, Hopkins.
ENG 469 (Alpha) Studies in British Literature (3) One
or two major authors, an individual genre, or a special topic.
Repeatable once only.
ENG 475 The American Novel to 1900 (3) Development
of prose fiction from early Republic through end of 19th century; e.g.,
Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James.
ENG 476 20th-Century American Novel (3) The
achievement of American prose fiction from Dreiser to contemporaries
such as Pynchon, Bellow, Morrison.
ENG 478 Asian American Literature (3) Prose,
poetry, and drama by Asian American writers from a variety of
backgrounds, e.g. Japanese American, Chinese American, Korean American,
Filipino American. Pre: two courses from ENG 250-257 (or concurrent) or
consent.
ENG 479 (Alpha) Studies in American Literature (3) One
or two major authors, an individual genre, or a special topic.
Repeatable once only.
ENG 480 Literature of the Pacific (3) Literature
of the Pacific and Pacific voyagers with special reference to
contemporary writings in English by Pacific Islanders. Pre: two of 250-
257, or consent. (Cross-listed with PACS 480)
ENG 481 World Literature in English (3) Colonial,
post-colonial, and commonwealth literatures in English, from regions
such as Africa, India, the Pacific, and the Caribbean.
ENG 482 Narratives of Oral Tradition (3) Prose
folktale; ballad and related poetry; epic; folklore-literary
relationships.
ENG 483 Modern Drama (3) Major European and
American dramatists from 1880 to present; e.g., Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw,
O’Neill, Brecht, Beckett.
ENG 485 Children’s Classics (3) Children’s
literature from 17th-century folk and fairy tales to contemporary poetry
and fiction; history of children’s book illustration.
ENG 487 20th-Century British and American Poetry
(3) Major poets from the moderns through the contemporaries; e.g.,
Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Lowell, Bishop, Roethke, Merwin.
ENG 488 Contemporary British and American
Literature (3) American and British drama, poetry, and prose since
1945.
ENG 489 (Alpha) Studies in Comparative Literature
(3) A genre, theme, tradition, etc., in two or more literatures.
Repeatable once only. (ENG 489F cross-listed as WS 489; ENG 489U
cross-listed as EALL 472)
ENG 490 Theory of Teaching Composition (3) Theory,
observation, and practice in teaching writing, especially the use of
one-on-one and small group instruction. Recommended: 315.
ENG 491 Senior Honors Tutorial (3) Studies in
history of ideas, periods, or themes in English and American literature.
Repeatable. Pre: enrollment in Honors Program or consent.
ENG 492 Senior Honors Tutorial (3) Continuation
of 491. Repeatable.
ENG 495 Internship (3) Faculty supervised
participation in the operations of an organization. A-F only. Pre: two
of 250-257; junior standing.
ENG 496 Senior Seminar (3) Intensive study in a
major period, genre, or movement. Emphasis in field of special interest.
Major research paper. Repeatable once only. Pre: 335 or 336, 351, 352,
and one area course; or consent.
ENG 499 Directed Reading (V) Repeatable once.
A-F only. Pre: two of 250-257 or consent.
ENG 500 Master’s Plan B/C Studies (1) Enrollment
for degree completion. Pre: master’s Plan B or C candidate and
consent.
ENG 560 HWP Summer Writing Institute (V)
ENG 561 HWP Summer Institute WAC (V) Practicum
in the current best approaches to teaching writing across the
curriculum. Participants write, read published theory and research in
composition, and demonstrate effective writing lessons. Repeatable.
ENG 611 (Alpha) Graduate Writing Workshop (3) Advanced
practice and critical evaluation of the writing of poetry, fiction, or
creative nonfiction. (B) poetry; (C) fiction; (D) nonfiction.
Repeatable. Pre: 411 for (B); 414 for (C); 412 for (D).
ENG 620 The Profession of English (3) Introduction
to the professional study of English and the four concentrations in the
MA program. Required of all candidates for the MA in English. Fall only.
ENG 633 (Alpha) Theories and Methods (3) Required
course in the MA student’s area of concentration: (B) theories and
methods of literary study; (C) introduction to composition and rhetoric;
(D) foundations of creative writing; (E) theories in cultural studies.
Repeatable in different alphas. Pre: 620 or equivalent, or consent.
Spring only.
ENG 637 (Alpha) Literary Theory and Criticism (3) (B)
classical period through 18th century; (C) Romantic and post-Romantic.
ENG 639 Film Theory and Criticism (3) Classic
theories of representation and aesthetics; modern and contemporary
cultural, psychoanalytic, and aesthetic theories as they apply to film.
A-F only. Pre: graduate standing or consent.
ENG 640 Old English (3) Structure of the
language, relation to present English; reading of selected prose and
poetry. Pre: consent.
ENG 660 (Alpha) Major Authors (3) Study of one
or more authors, English or American. Repeatable. Pre: 620 and graduate
standing; or consent.
ENG 675 (Alpha) Literary Genres and Problems (3) Study
of one area of English or American literature. Repeatable. Pre: 620 or
consent.
ENG 680 Theory and Practice of Teaching Composition
(3) Major contemporary theorists and classroom practices that evolve
from their theories; observation and applications. Pre: 315 or 412; or
consent.
ENG 691 MA Final Project (V) Individual reading
and research towards preparation of MA project. 3 credit hours required.
Repeatable. Pre: 620, 633 (or concurrent), or consent.
ENG 699 Directed Reading (V) Individual reading
or research. Pre: consent.
ENG 700 Thesis Research (V) Pre: consent.
ENG 711 Seminar in Creative Writing (3) Advanced
study in creative writing focused on thesis and dissertation projects.
Repeatable once. Pre: 611 or consent.
ENG 716 (Alpha) Techniques in Contemporary
Literature (3) The study, from the point of view of the creative
writer, of works written within the last 25 years. (B) techniques in
fiction; (C) techniques in poetry; (D) techniques in creative
nonfiction. Repeatable. Pre: 611 (or concurrent) or consent.
ENG 730 Advanced Literary Research (3) Assumptions,
methods, and definition of a literary field. Required of all doctoral
candidates writing a critical/scholarly dissertation or a dissertation
with a creative emphasis. Pre: 633 or equivalent and PhD candidacy.
ENG 735 (Alpha) Seminar in Comparative Literature
(3) Introduction to comparative literature; relationship of English
to other literatures; sources and influences. Repeatable. Pre: 620 (or
concurrent) or consent.
ENG 737 Problems in Literary Criticism (3) Intensive
study of selected topics in literary theory and its practical
application; topics to be announced. Repeatable. Pre: 620 or consent.
ENG 740 Seminar in Composition Studies (3) Intensive
study of selected issues in composition studies. Repeatable. Pre: 633C
(or concurrent), or consent.
ENG 745 Seminar in English Language (3) Intensive
study of one topic in English linguistics. Pre: consent.
ENG 751 Seminar in Life Writing (3) Intensive
study of critical and theoretical issues raised by various forms of life
writing (biography, autobiography, oral history, diaries, etc.) and of
their history and methodology. A-F only. Repeatable once. Pre: 620 or
consent.
ENG 757 Seminar in Shakespeare (3) Intensive
study of Shakespeare. Pre: consent.
ENG 760 Seminar in Rhetoric (3) Intensive study
of selected topics in the history of rhetoric, rhetorical theory, or
rhetorical criticism; topic to be announced. Repeatable. Pre: 633C or
consent.
ENG 765 Seminar in Cultural Studies in Asia/Pacific
(3) Intensive study of selected issues in cultural studies in Asia
and the Pacific; topics to be announced. A-F only. Repeatable once. Pre:
620 or consent.
ENG 766 Issues in Cultural Studies (3) Intensive
study of selected issues in cultural studies and cultural and social
theory; topics to be announced. A-F only. Repeatable once. Pre: 633E or
consent.
ENG 775 (Alpha) Seminar in English Literature (3) Study
of authors or a period. Pre: consent.
ENG 780 (Alpha) Seminar in American Literature (3) Study
of authors or a period. Repeatable. Pre: 620 (or concurrent), and a
400-level course in American literature; or consent.
ENG 785 Special Topics in Literature (3) Content
to be announced. Repeatable. Pre: 620 or consent.
ENG 800 Dissertation Research (V) Pre: consent.
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