Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts and Humanities 169 MENG 5050 - Grammar, Style, and Usage for Advanced Writing Credits: (3) This course presents the concepts and nomenclature of traditional grammar as a context for students wishing to increase their control of punctuation, style, and usage to become more proficient writers. Its offers practical guidance in how grammatical concepts can be applied to revising and editing one's own or others' writing to more effectively express one's intended meaning. The course is designed for students with bachelor's degrees who have no upper-division undergraduate coursework in linguistics. MENG 5080 - Critical Approaches to Literature Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] Summer [lst Blk, 2nd Blk] Students will study and practice critical approaches to literature. The course will begin with New Criticism and proceed to study more resistant reading strategies such as feminism, Marxism, and deconstruction. Students will not only learn the theoretical premises behind these theories, but also practice explicating various texts from a particular critical perspective. MENG 5210 - Practicum in Teaching English Credits: (2) Typically taught: Spring [Full Sem] This course provides abroad, practical background in teaching young adult (YA) literature for MENG students seeking secondary school licensure. Selection, evaluation, curriculum planning, and assessment in teaching literature will receive primary emphasis. Issues concerning community values and censorship will also receive our attention. Prerequisite: MED 6050 Curriculum Design, Evaluation, Assessment (3) must be taken prior to MENG 5210/6120. We strongly recommend that MENG 6110 Writing for Teachers (3) or MENG 6230 Wasatch Range Writing Project Summer Institutes (3) be taken prior to MENG 5210/6120. MENG 5210 and MENG 6120 must be taken concurrently. MENG 5510 - World Literature Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] 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 Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] 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 Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] 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 Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] 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 Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] 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 Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] 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 Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] 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. Weber State University 2013-2014 Catalog