ENG 5300 Language Problems in a Multicultural Environment
An introduction to the study of multicultural language and linguistics with descriptive, psychological, social, and semantic emphases.

ENG 5310 Studies in English Language and Linguistics.
A study of the English language, with special attention to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, normal language acquisition, and/or writing and spelling systems. Repeatable with different emphases for up to nine hours of English credit.

ENG 5313 Studies in Principles of Technical Communication.
A group of courses (see topic descriptions below) that provide students theoretical and practical information useful to any position in technical communication.  Repeatable with different emphases for up to nine hours of English credit.

• Required Topic/Core Course: Research Methods: This course introduces students to qualitative and quantitative research practices in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication. Students learn to critically evaluate existing research, develop workable research questions, and choose the best methods to address the questions they ask. See sample syllabus.

• Approved Elective Topic: Computers and Writing: This course explores the impact of computers on writing theory and  writing pedagogy, as well as the social and political implications of teaching writing in a networked environment. 
  

• Approved Elective Topic: Visual Rhetoric: This course is about using visual design as a practical communication tool in a wide range of forms such as paragraphs, tables, pictures, charts, maps, and icons. The course covers a variety of medium  such as paper documents, hypertext, and websites. Students will explore how the rhetorical contexts of a communication act determine what and which visuals are most effective.

ENG 5314 Specializations in Technical Communication.
A group of courses (see topic descriptions below) that provide student theoretical and practical information for specialized types of technical communicating. Repeatable with different emphases for up to nine hours of English credit.

• Approved Elective Topic: Teaching Technical Communication: This course provides students a theoretical and pedagogical foundation for teaching technical communication in an academic or workplace environment.

ENG 5316 Foundations in Rhetoric and Composition.
A group of courses (see topic descriptions below) providing theoretical, pedagogical, and methodological foundations in the field of  rhetoric and composition.  Emphases vary.  Repeatable with different emphases for up to nine hours of English credit.

• Required Topic/Core Course: Composition Theory: This course surveys contemporary theories of composition, providing students with a theoretical framework for the teaching of writing at the college level. See sample syllabus.
  

• Required Topic/Core Course: Composition Pedagogy: This course introduces students to a range of issues in contemporary composition pedagogy, from the practice and politics of teaching basic writing to pedagogies of literacy and social justice. The goal of the course is to provide students with a scaffold for teaching their own courses, while also fostering a deeper understanding of what is at stake in teaching writing.  See sample syllabus.
  

ENG 5317 Specializations in Rhetoric and Composition. 
A group of courses (see topic descriptions below) providing theoretical, pedagogical, methodological, and/or administrative grounding in specialized areas of rhetoric and composition.  Emphases vary.  Repeatable with different emphases for up to nine hours of English credit.

• Topic: Chicano/a Rhetorics

• Topic: Writing Center Theory, Practice, and Administration: This course provides an historical, theoretical, and pedagogical foundation in writing center studies. See sample syllabus.
  

• Topic: Writing for Presentation and Publication: This course provides a theoretical and applied foundation for publishing in scholarly forums. Students will conduct forum analyses to turn previously written work (seminar or conference papers, as examples) into a journal manuscript, conference proposal, and an oral presentation.
  

ENG 5383 Studies in Rhetorical Theory.
An introduction to classical and rhetorical theory in various areas of English studies. Repeatable with different emphases for up to nine hours of English credit.

• Required Topic/Core Course: Rhetorical Theory for Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication  Students: This course examines the development and evolution of rhetorical theory from the classical era to postmodernism. The goal of the course is to provide students with an historical perspective on rhetorical theory that encompasses how rhetoric has been defined and practiced, how its definitions and practices have been challenged and changed, and how it has influenced the fields of rhetoric and composition and technical communication. See sample syllabus.
  

ENG 5390 Special Problems: Independent study under supervision of a graduate faculty member in English, with in-depth readings and research focused on a special problem in literature and/or language. May be taken with permission from the assigned professor, the graduate director, and the department chair.

ENG 5399A Thesis: First semester of thesis enrollment. No thesis credit awarded until students has completed the thesis in English 5399B. Departmental approval required. Graded on a credit (CR), progress (PR), no credit (F) basis.

ENG 5399B Thesis: Continuing thesis enrollment until the thesis is submitted for binding. Departmental approval required. Graded on a credit (CR), progress (PR), no credit (F) basis. Prerequisite: Graduate College approval of thesis proposal.