478 Course Descriptions 6230 Wasatch Range Writing Project Summer Institutes (3) be taken prior to MENG 5210/6210. MENG 5210 and MENG 6210 must be taken concurrently. MENG 5510 - World Literature (3) Students in this course read texts from a variety of eras and of authors and regions outside the United States and Great Britain. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. MENG 5520 - American Literature: Early and Romantic (3) Students in this course read texts from the late eighteenth century to the decades just before the Civil War. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. MENG 5530 - American Literature: Realism and Naturalism (3) Students in this course read texts from the Civil War through World War I. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same time period was applied towards undergraduate degree. MENG 5540 - American Literature: Modern (3) Students in this course read texts from the first half of the twentieth century. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same time period was applied towards an undergraduate degree. MENG 5550 - American Literature: Contemporary (3) Students in this course read texts from the 1950s to the present. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same time period was applied towards undergraduate degree. MENG 5610 - British Literature: Medieval (3) Students in this course read texts from the eighth century to the end of the fifteenth century. Works written in Anglo- Saxon English and northern medieval dialects will be read in modern translations. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same time period was applied towards undergraduate degree. MENG 5620 - British Literature: Renaissance (3) Students in this course read texts from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same time period was applied towards undergraduate degree. MENG 5630 - British Literature: Neoclassical and Romantic (3) Students in this course read texts from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same time period was applied towards undergraduate degree. MENG 5640 - British Literature: Victorian (3) Students in this course read texts from 1830 until roughly World War I. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same time period was applied towards undergraduate degree. MENG 5650 - British Literature: Modern (3) Students in this course read texts from the first half of the twentieth century. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same time period was applied towards undergraduate degree. MENG 5660 - British Literature: Contemporary (3) Students in this course read British and Anglo-Irish literature since 1950. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same time period was applied towards undergraduate degree. MENG 5730 - Literature of Cultures and Places (3) Students in this course read texts focusing on a single national culture or works from various cultures. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same time period was applied towards undergraduate degree. MENG 5750 - Classical Literature (3) Students in this course read texts from the Golden Age of Greece to the fall of the Roman Empire. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same time period was applied towards undergraduate degree. MENG 5840 - Methods and Practice in Tutoring Writers (3) Faculty supervised experience in tutoring student writers in all disciplines. This course is limited to teaching assistants in the MENG program. MENG 5920 - Short Courses, Workshops, Institutes and Special Programs (1-4) In order to provide flexibility and to meet many different needs, a number of specific offerings are possible using this catalog number. When the number is used it will be accompanied by a brief and specific descriptive title. The specific title with the credit authorized for the particular offering will appear on the student transcript. MENG 6005 - Intercultural Classroom Discourse (3) Students will read, discuss and experience interactive learning tools from the fields of sociolinguistics, intercultural communication, and TESOL pedagogy. Students will analyze dialects and personal/social conversational styles. Examples from literature and film will help provide a contextualized means of observing and understanding cultural identities. MENG 6010 - Bibliography and Research Methods (3) Students will learn research methods and methodologies that will allow them to produce publishable, sophisticated pieces of academic prose of the kind expected of professional academics. Students will compose abstracts, conference paper proposals, annotated bibliographies, and surveys of scholarship. Students will explore academic databases extensively and learn to evaluate rigorously other scholars' work. Students will be encouraged to submit their work in the class to journals, conferences, or collections of essays. Students should take this course within their first year of study and focus their research on topics that may support future work on a thesis or project. MENG 6030 - Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism (3) Variable Title Students will study influential works in literary theory—potentially ranging from Plato's REPUBLIC to Gayatri Spivak's groundbreaking feminist studies to Stephen Greenblatt's New Historicist studies to Homi Bhabha's postcolonial Weber State University 2012-2013 Catalog