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English (ENGL)

29 graduate courses in the Spring 2026 Graduate Calendar.

ENGL 700 Rhetorical Studies0.50 units

A course in rhetorical theory and criticism for graduate-level students.

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ENGL 701 Critical Design Methods0.50 units

This course introduces students to both the theory and practice of Critical Design, broadly construed. Critical Design is not a field of its own, but a mode of design thinking that is informed by critical theories and research methods from the arts and humanities. Critical Design can intersect with and draw on established fields of design from graphic and UX design to industrial and urban design. The course begins with an overview of the history of design as critique, before examining the recent emergence of research-creation practices such as speculative design, critical making, discursive design, and applied media theory. The positionality of designers and audiences will be considered in readings and assignments that focus on gender, disability, race, and class. Special attention will be paid to the design of media technologies and the infrastructures that support them, which involves methods in UX design, sustainable hardware design, and digital urban design. Students will demonstrate their knowledge of course materials through writing, design, and light fabrication.

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SYDE 663

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ENGL 702 Rhetorical Research Methods0.50 units

This course is an introduction to research methods used in rhetoric, communication design, and writing studies. Emphasis is placed on research ethics, the fit of method to research design, the interdisciplinary scope of research methods, the emergence of new research methods, and the development of research proposals. Students will become familiar with a range of methods, including methods in technical and professional communication, mixed methods, and rhetorical field methods, among others. This course suggests method as a practice as well as an object of study, connecting well-known traditional methods in rhetoric, communication design, and writing studies to those that are emergent, new, and mixed. This course allows students to map a variety of methods while understanding the relationship between practices (methods) and theoretical frameworks (methodologies), allowing students to pair appropriate methods to their own research questions. Outcomes of this course are an understanding of how to design a research project and how to support it with methods that are appropriate, feasible, flexible, and ethical.

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ENGL 705 Studies in Old and Middle English Literature0.50 units

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ENGL 710 Studies in Renaissance Drama0.50 units

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ENGL 715 Studies in Renaissance Prose and Poetry0.50 units

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ENGL 720 Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature0.50 units

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ENGL 725 Studies in Romanticism0.50 units

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ENGL 730 Studies in Victorian Literature0.50 units

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ENGL 735 Studies in Modern British Literature0.50 units

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ENGL 750 Studies in Early American Literature0.50 units

Studies in Early American Literature

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ENGL 755 Studies in 19th Century American Literature0.50 units

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ENGL 760 Studies in 20th-Century American Literature0.50 units

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ENGL 770 Studies in Canadian Literature0.50 units

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ENGL 775 Studies in Commonwealth Literature0.50 units

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ENGL 780 Studies in Genre0.50 units

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ENGL 785 Studies in Literary Criticism0.50 units

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ENGL 788 Topics in Rhetorical Theory and Criticism0.50 units

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ENGL 789 Writing Studies0.50 units

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ENGL 790 Discourse Analysis0.50 units

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ENGL 791 Professional Writing0.50 units

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ENGL 792 Semiotics0.50 units

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ENGL 793 History of Rhetoric0.50 units

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ENGL 794 Digital Culture0.50 units

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ENGL 795 Studies in Selected Topics0.50 units

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ENGL 796 Propaganda and Ideology0.50 units

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ENGL 797 Digital Media and Literature0.50 units

Digital Media and Literature

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ENGL 798 Digital Design0.50 units

Digital Design

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ENGL 799 Media Theory and Critique0.50 units

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