ENG 502 ADVANCED TECHNICAL WRITING (3 Credits) (#5877)

Courses offered Spring 2014:

Graduate Level:

ENG 502 ADVANCED TECHNICAL WRITING (3 credits) (#5877)

Online

Erika Konrad

Development of advanced skills in technical writing for teachers as well as professionals in technical fields.Letter grade only.

Area: Professional Writing

Prerequisites: Admission into MA in Professional Writing or the Certificate in Professional Writing programs. This course also counts toward the Master of Administration.

ENG 504 INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (3 credits)

(#4600) MW 12:45-2:00 pm

(#4604) MW 4:00-5:15 pm

Julieta Fernandez

Surveys the field of linguistics including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and related fields of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, and applied linguistics.Letter grade only.Course fee required.

ENG517 PROFESSIONAL EDITING (3 credits) (#5880)

Online

Erika Konrad

Theory and practice of editing business and professional documents in several media: print, electronic, and Internet documents.Letter grade only.

ENG517 PROFESSIONAL EDITING (3 credits) (#6722)

Online

Michael Collins

Theory and practice of editing business and professional documents in several media: print, electronic, and Internet documents.Letter grade only.

ENG518 SOCIOLINGUISTICS (3 credits)

(#1249) TTh 9:35-10:50 am

(#4606) TTh 2:20-3:35

Mary McGroarty

This course, required for all MA/TESL students, offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of language in society, emphasizing the ways linguistic choices are associated with social and situational characteristics. Covers key research issues in social and register variation, language attitudes, language and gender, and cross-cultural communication.

Area: Applied Linguistics

Prerequisite: graduate standing; required for MA/TESL students. Completion of Eng. 528 prior to 518 will be very helpful.

ENG520 LITERACY AND TEACHING WRITING (3 credits) (#5881)

Online 1st 7 wk

Laura Gray-Rosendale

This is a graduate course for those who are interested in studying about and/or teaching writing. It teaches students about the history of literacy studies—examining basic writing, writing across the curriculum, literacy autobiographies, and politics of race, class, and gender in the classroom. We read texts by Shaughnessy, Bartholmae, Bizzell, Hays, Kogen, Horner, Lu, and many more. Students produce close rhetorical analyses in response to the course texts. No books need be purchased for this class. All course readings can be found in the course shell.

Area: Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing

Prerequisites: Graduate level status in English; Priority given to LTPW graduate students

ENG522 RHETORIC AND WRITING IN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES (3 credits) (#5882)

Online

John Rothfork

Intensive study of written discourse typical of professional communities in education, business, industry, and government.Letter grade only.

ENG526 ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL WRITING (3 credits) (#5892)

Online

Erika Konrad

Techniques and standards for advanced research and writing, as practiced in business, industry, government, and academic settings.By the end of the course, students will be able to design and carry out research projects, data gathering and analysis, and writing of final studies at a publishable level.Letter grade only.

Area: Professional Writing

Prerequisites: Admission into MA in Professional Writing or the Certificate in Professional Writing programs. This course also counts toward the Master of Administration.

ENG526 ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL WRITING (3 credits) (#5891)

Online

Michael Collins

ENG526 ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL WRITING (3 credits) (#5890)

Online

Damian Koshnick

In this course you will conceptualize a research study and develop a realistic research project proposal. You will learn about how and why research is often a critical part of successful participation in the professional setting. While developing a personal research agenda and a proposal that will be of value to you after the course is finished, you will also be introduced to a range of theories on research and on writing in professional settings. Your work in this course will include addressing, for example, the following objectives:

· preliminary development of a personal research agenda with an eye to current, or future participating in a professional setting

· an understanding of the components of a research report

· the ability to conceive, plan, & develop a research report or capstone project

· rhetorical analysis to understand the purpose of research and research documents for specific audiences

· an understanding of document design and the structures of writing for better readability & navigation

Area: Professional Writing Counts toward either the MA in LTPW, MA in Professional Writing or the Certificate in Professional Writing

Prerequisite: Admission into either the MA in LTPW, MA in Professional Writing, or the Certificate in Professional Writing programs.This course also counts toward the Master of Administration.

Texts: Booth, Wayne C., Colomb, Gregory G., & Williams, Joseph M. The Craft of Research. University of Chicago Press. isbn 0226065669 . Amazon: retail list $17, Amazon new $12, used $7.These prices are approximate & may change.

Zinsser, William. Writing to Learn. HarperCollins. isbn 0062720406 . Amazon: retail list $30,Amazon new $27, used $1. These prices are approximate & maychange.
Netzley, Michael & Snow, Craig. Guide to Report Writing. Pearson.isbn 0130417718. Amazon retail list $30,Amazon new $27, used $1. These prices are approximate & may change

ENG526 ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL WRITING (3 credits) (#5893)

Online

Greg Larkin

At higher levels in both the academic & business worlds, an important form of writing is the published research study. These studies may take many different forms, in accordance with the demands and accepted conventions of each particular discipline & the meticulous "guidelines for submissions" found in most professional journals. Students taking their first graduate course in the area of professional & technical writing often have mistaken notions of what is involved. Students motivated to be become better writers often think that they need a class in grammar. While studying grammar will probably make you a better grammarian, it will not necessarily make you a better writer. Ditto with editing. The writing skills we will study in this class are beyond grammar and editing. This course will include some tutorials--as well as some basic exercises on certain key elements of the writing of a publishable research report. But mainly, in this class we will concentrate on these objectives:

· an understanding of the components of a research report

· the ability to conceive, plan, & develop a research report or capstone project

· rhetorical analysis to understand the purpose of a research document & who the audience is

· document design for better readability & navigation

· principles of visual rhetoric

· skills to integrate visuals

Area: Professional Writing Counts toward either the MA in LTPW, MA in Professional Writing or the Certificate in Professional Writing

Prerequisite: Admission into either the MA in LTPW, MA in Professional Writing, or the Certificate in Professional Writing programs. This course also counts toward the Master of Administration.

Zinsser, William. Writing to Learn. HarperCollins. isbn 0062720406 . Amazon: retail list $30,Amazon new $27, used $1. These prices are approximate & may change.

Netzley, Michael & Snow, Craig. Guide to Report Writing. Pearson.isbn 0130417718. Amazon retail list $30,Amazon new $27, used $1. These prices are approximate & may change.

ENG 547 AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3 credits) (#5895)

Online

Monica Brown

A study of African American literature with emphasis on works that reflect major historical and literary eras and cultural trends.This course uses cultural studies as a theoretical framework.Letter grade only.

ENG549 INFORMATION DESIGN AND USABILITY TESTING (3 credits) (#5896)

Online

Damian Koshnick

Analysis of discourse communities and appropriate communication strategies for dealing with each individual community.Letter grade only.

ENG553 SHAKESPEARE (3 credits) (#6048)

Online

Eleni Pilla

ENG 553 SHAKESPEAREis a graduate course which offers an in-depth study of a wide range of topics (selfhood, sexuality, gender,parental relations,authority, justice, war, the environment)in a variety of Shakespearean plays. We will sample from all of the Shakespearean genres: comedy, history, tragedy, and romance. Students will have the rare opportunity ofexploring Shakespearean plays that are less frequently taught, such as Titus Andronicus and Pericles. We will also engage with theoretical approaches to the plays. Students will be encouragedto contextualize the plays in the historical, social and cultural milieu in which they were produced but also to think critically about how these early modern texts may be of relevance to us today.

ENG558 ESL METHODS AND MATERIALS: LISTENING & SPEAKING (3 credits) (#1024)

TTh 11:10-12:25 pm

Okim Kang

This course, a core requirement for the MA/TESL degree, provides an overview of ESL/EFL methodology focusing on aural/oral skills (that is, listening comprehension and speaking). It gives students some knowledge of current methods and materials used for listening and speaking instruction in ESL/EFL teaching, introduces new technologies and computer software that support oral language development, and also covers related topics such as pronunciation and group formation for language practice. English 558 builds on the material in Eng. 548 and complements English 559, which addresses reading and writing instruction. It is assumed that all students know the material presented in ENG 548, the required prerequisite for Eng. 558, and can draw on it as needed.

Area: Applied Linguistics

Prerequisite: ENG 548

ENG560 LITERARY CRITICISM (3 credits) (#5898)

Online

Lisa Hager

Critical perspectives and methods in literary study.Letter grade only.

ENG568 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN LINGUISTICS (3 credits) (#1025)

TTh 2:20-3:35

Joan Jamieson

Variable-content course focusing on either computer techniques for computer-assisted language learning or programming techniques for corpus linguistics.Letter grade only.May be repeated for up to 6 units of credit. Prerequisite: ENG 504

ENG569 PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND DOCUMENTATION DESIGN (3 credits) (#5900)

Online

Greg Larkin

Project management in the business sense is a professional specialization often associated with commercial construction projects. Our course focuses on the management of publications projects. Most writing courses focus on a single writer producing a document that is under her control. It is her document. Here the focus is on developing documents that are team produced & responsive to product development (e.g., software manuals).

There are 3 levels to our topic of document management production:

· Hackos offers a long conceptual walk-through of the project management process applied to document production & control.

· DeMarco offers a description of the climate, background, & values that nurture the kind of teams that Hackos talks about managing.

· The third level is missing from our course because it is too detailed. Those who are especially attracted to the job of document project management may wish to learn to use Microsoft's Project Management software.

English majors are not the only ones to discover what they mean or how they want to organize a document or project through the process of developing & writing the project. By the end of development, product managers are often ready to go back & do the project again the right way by reorganizing, rewriting, etc. Project management was developed to curb this expensive process that requires doing the project twice. English majors are familiar with the process of narrative development. We often literally do not know what we think about an issue until we have to write an essay about it. Technical writing in general, & document project managers in particular, forbid professional writers to use narrative development. This course is about how to use planning techniques, instead of narrative methods, to write technical documents.

Texts: Hackos, Joann T. Managing Your Documentation Projects. John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471590991. List $55, Amazon $35.

Demarco, Tom & Timothy Lister. Peopleware: Productive Projects & Teams, 2nd ed. Amazon $34; used $15. Dorset House; ISBN: 0932633439. This is something of a cult book. Consequently, you may be able to find it in a used bookstore.

ENG576 LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS (3 credits) (#3854)

TTh 12:45-2:00

Jean Boreen

This course focuses on Young Adult Literature and how you, as a future teacher, conceptualize how to use YA lit in the classroom by itself and with classic texts, how YA Lit can be used as a bridge to help students understand a variety of issues and literary concepts in both literature written for them as well as in the classic texts most school curricula expect students to master. To accomplish this, we will consider the thought-processes behind the development of the classroom teacher's philosophy for teaching literature and how this, in turn, determines the choices s/he makes for facilitating students' learning. Another feature of the course is to conduct a survey of young adult literature. The class will make critical evaluations of the literature as well as investigate strategies for encouraging student reading. Finally, we will explore the use of Nancie Atwell's reading workshops in secondary classrooms, and you will all take part in an Atwell-modeled workshop that I will facilitate with you during the months of February and March. NOTE: This course also contains one of the signature assignments you must complete to graduate from the English Education program at NAU.

Note to undergraduates: You must have permission from Dr. Boreen to take this course

Prerequisite: (if applicable) ENG 105 and ENG 301W.

ENG578 ESL CURRICULUM AND ADMINISTRATION (3 credits) (#1329)

MW 9:00-10:15 am

Fredricka Stoller

(ESL Curriculum and Program Administration) provides a survey and analysis of L2 curriculum and syllabus models as well as an examination of language program administration issues. More specifically, the course will cover theoretical and practical issues related to the selection of ESL/EFL course content and the development of corresponding instructional materials. Students will have the opportunity to design an L2 course with corresponding syllabi and materials for a target student population. Students will also explore real-life case studies highlighting language program administration issues that they are likely to encounter in the professional world of TESL/TEFL.

Letter grade only.Course fee required.

Prerequisite: ENG 548 and ENG 558

ENG580 METHODS OF TEACHING LITERATURE IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM (3 credits) (#3853)

TTh 11:10-12:25 pm

Angela Hansen

This course will focus on a balance between the theoretical and practical approaches necessary to teach literature at the secondary