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.
ENG 399 Writing Associates Development 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... (read more)
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)
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)
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)
Old English III will use the tools and knowledge acquired in previous terms of Old English to read the monsters section of Beowulf with critical and philological skill. We will pay attention to language, literary, and scholarly issues, including more in-depth study of Old English poetic... (read more)
OEII: The Adventure Continues! In OEII we’ll read a varied selection of shorter poems and prose in Old English and perform a (virtual) reenactment of The Battle of Maldon. You’ll get some of the finer points of OE grammar and we’ll review other grammatical concepts as needed. The course... (read more)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 their artful... (read more)
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ENG 399 Writing Associates Development is a variable-credit, hybrid, companion course designed to support tutors in ENG 404 ... (read more)
ENG 399 Writing Associates Development is a variable-credit, hybrid, companion course designed to support tutors in ENG 404 ... (read more)
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional and technical writing: weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports,... (read more)
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional and technical writing: weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports,... (read more)
Practice in writing and analyzing internal and external messages common to business, industry, and professions. Suggested for business and... (read more)
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)
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... (read more)
Old English III will use the tools and knowledge acquired in previous terms of Old English to read the monsters section of Beowulf with critical and philological skill. We will pay attention to language, literary, and scholarly issues, including more in-depth study of... (read more)
ENG 399 Writing Associates Development is a variable-credit, hybrid, companion course designed to support tutors in ENG 404 ... (read more)
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.
(read more)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.
(read more)Practice in writing and analyzing internal and external messages common to business, industry, and professions. Suggested for business... (read more)
OEII reviews and builds on the grammatical foundations learned in OEI and adds to students’ knowledge of early English literature and... (read more)
Business Communication provides practice in writing and analyzing the major genres of internal and external ... (read more)
Practice in writing and analyzing internal and external messages common to business, industry, and professions. Suggested for business... (read more)
ENG 399 Writing Associates Development is a variable-credit, hybrid, companion course designed to support tutors in ENG 404 ... (read more)
In this interdisciplinary course, we will read creative nonfiction about first-hand experiences of mental and emotional suffering,... (read more)
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)
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)
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.
(read more)This course explores Medieval Manuscript Culture, examining some digitally-preserved British manuscripts, like the Aberdeen Beastiary,... (read more)
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)
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.
(read more)ENG 399 Writing Associates Development is a variable-credit, hybrid, companion course designed to support tutors in ENG 404 Internship for Writing... (read more)
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)
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional and technical writing: weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions,... (read more)
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional and technical writing: weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions,... (read more)
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)
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)