Upper-Division Elective
Upper-division Elective courses allow students to choose (or “elect”) courses or faculty specific to their own developing interests, enabling them thereby to shape their own educational experience.
12130
ENG 399 Writing Associates Development is a variable-credit, hybrid, companion course designed to support tutors in ENG 404 ... (read more)
12140
In this interdisciplinary course, we will read creative nonfiction about first-hand experiences of mental and emotional suffering,... (read more)
16021
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional, and technical writing; weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions, instructions, summaries. Use of documentation in publication.
Prerequisites: completion of university writing... (read more)
16022
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional, and technical writing; weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions, instructions, summaries. Use of documentation in publication.
Prerequisites: completion of university writing... (read more)
16023
Practice in writing and analyzing internal and external messages common to business, industry, and professions. Suggested for business and management students.
Prerequisites: completion of university writing requirement; junior standing.
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16092
This course explores Medieval Manuscript Culture, examining some digitally-preserved British manuscripts, like the Aberdeen Beastiary,... (read more)
16475
This course will give a survey of American poetry in English from 1900 to 1950. In a historical time of enormous social and political upheaval, poets struggled... (read more)
17027
Practice in writing and analyzing internal and external messages common to business, industry, and professions. Suggested for business and management students.
Prerequisites: completion of university writing requirement; junior standing.
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31998
ENG 399 Writing Associates Development is a variable-credit, hybrid, companion course designed to support tutors in ENG 404 Internship for Writing... (read more)
32010
ENG 427 invites students to engage selections from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Texts will include the more familiar comedic tales, like the Miller’s... (read more)
35685
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional and technical writing: weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions,... (read more)
35686
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional and technical writing: weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions,... (read more)
35689
An assumption persists in writing courses that academic and literary essays are distinct: critical writers formulate arguments and manage subjective experiences with facts for... (read more)
36168
Spenser claims the goal of his epic, The Faerie Queene, is “to fashion a gentleman”—that is, to make a person from a poem. What would it mean to think... (read more)
36210
As a capstone to the minor in Digital Humanities (DH), in this course you’ll create a digital research project of your own. Class discussions will consider how... (read more)
36711
Contemporary Literary Theory: Four Paradigms
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36860
WR 321 offers practice in writing and analyzing communication common to business, industry, and related professions. It is suggested for students... (read more)
22811
ENG 399 Writing Associates Development is a variable-credit, hybrid, companion course designed to support tutors in ENG 404 Internship for Writing... (read more)
22825
This second course in the Old English sequence will cover short texts and poems about wisdom and battles, supplemented by cultural background about the ways of... (read more)
26626
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional and technical writing: weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions,... (read more)
26627
Practice in writing and analyzing internal and external messages common to business, industry, and professions. Suggested for business and management students... (read more)
27786
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional and technical writing: weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions,... (read more)
12195
We are going to look very closely at sentences to see how they work, how the individual parts of speech draw together into syntax, and what effect (artistic and otherwise) these patterns of syntax create. The course will mix technical study of sentence structure and reflection upon the artful... (read more)
15979
WR 312 Principles of Tutoring Writing is the gateway course into the Writing Associates Program, in which selected English majors and minors with demonstrated excellence as writers serve as writing tutors for students enrolled in lower-division English, Composition, and possibly Honors... (read more)
15980
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional, and technical writing; weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions, instructions, summaries. Use of documentation in publication.
Prereq: completion of university writing requirement; junior standing... (read more)
15981
Practice in writing and analyzing internal and external messages common to business, industry, and professions. Suggested for business and management students.
Prereq: completion of university writing requirement; junior standing.
(read more)
17063
ENG 399 Writing Associates Development is a variable-credit, hybrid, companion class to ENG 404 Internship for Writing Associates. As such,... (read more)
42420
Aliens, monsters, killer androids, mutants.... Such metaphors may express cultural fears of the “other” that underlie social prejudice, intolerance, and discrimination. But viewers and fans may also read against the grain of normative cinematic images, finding identity and affirmation in the... (read more)
42456
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional, and technical writing; weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions, instructions, summaries. Use of documentation in publication.
Prereq: completion of university writing requirement; junior standing... (read more)
32042
This course will use the tools and knowledge acquired in previous terms of Old English to read the monsters section of Beowulf in Old English with critical and philological skill. We will pay attention to language, literary, and scholarly issues, and assignments will especially focus on... (read more)
35704
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional and technical writing: weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions, instructions, summaries. Use of documentation in publication. Junior standing required. Prerequisite: completion of UO writing requirement... (read more)
35708
An assumption persists in writing courses that academic and literary essays are distinct - critical writers formulate arguments and manage subjective experiences with facts for the sake of accuracy or correctness, while literary writers endeavor to capture the idiosyncrasies of their... (read more)
35976
In this course, we will study the works of contemporary fiction writers and then meet with the writers to directly engage them in ideas about their work. Visiting writers to ENG 399 in Spring 18 include Danielle Evans, Andre Dubus III, Laila Lalami and Peter Hoffmeister. Students will... (read more)
36290
In this seminar, professional comics writer Jen Van Meter (Hopeless Savages, The Death Defying Doctor Mirage) will help students explore the function and demands of the script as a technical tool in the process of making contemporary comics. Readings will include professional... (read more)
36809
ENG 399 Special Studies: Writing Associates is a variable-credit, hybrid, companion course designed to support tutors in ENG 404 Internship for Writing Associates. The course focuses on the professional development of the Writing Associates and their continuing study of the practice and ethics... (read more)
22762
OEII builds on the grammatical foundations learned in OEI and adds to students’ knowledge of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture through reading a varied selection of shorter poems and prose in Old English and performing a version of Bede’s story of Cædmon. In addition, OEII continues to... (read more)
26480
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional and technical writing: weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions, instructions, summaries. Use of documentation in publication. Junior standing required. Prerequisite: completion of UO... (read more)
26481
Practice in writing and analyzing internal and external messages common to business, industry, and professions. Suggested for business and management students.
WR 321 offers practice in writing and analyzing communication common to business, industry, and related professions. Students will... (read more)
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In a quiet corner of the Natural History Museum’s instrument gallery you find an unassuming object, graphite grey, small enough to fit in the hand, on a small pedestal. The placard reads: “Musical Instrument? Date: Unknown. Provenance: Unknown.” The placard directs you to hold it up to your ear... (read more)
