Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities 181 MENG 5650 - British 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 undergraduate degree. MENG 5660 - British Literature: Contemporary Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] 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 Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] 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 Credits: (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 Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] 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 Credits: (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. May be repeated 5 times with a maximum of 6 credit hours. MENG 6005 - Intercultural Classroom Discourse Credits: (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 - Introduction to Graduate Studies Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] 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. Required in first or second semester. MENG 6030 - Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism Credits: (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 Ho mi Bhabha's postcolonial analyses—paying specific attention to the influence of these theories on English studies. May be repeated 10 times for credit hours with different content. MENG 6110 - Writing for Teachers Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Designed primarily for in-service teachers, this course explores the most current research and theory concerning the teaching of writing and applies it to issues in the secondary classroom. Permission of instructor required to register. MENG 6120 - Teaching Traditional and Contemporary Young Adult Literature Credits: (4) Typically taught: Spring [Full Sem] This course provides a broad, practical background in young adult literature, both traditional and contemporary, with emphasis on current theories and methods in literature pedagogy. Selection and evaluation of texts that appeal to young adults, reading strategies, censorship, themes and genres will be given special 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 Weber State University 2015-2016 Catalog