Timeroom: Spring 2025

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ENG 420 (01) - The Writing Process

The Writing Process

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 3 (01/21/2025 - 03/14/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   60  
CRN: 54301
This course introduces students to the foundational concepts and skills needed to communicate effectively in writing for academic study and professional development. Students will learn how to use the four stages of the writing process - prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing - to create written communication that meets its intended purpose for its intended audience. Students will also be introduced to rhetorical styles and the role of outside sources in academic writing. Constructing and implementing effectively-designed search strategies for information to answer a critical inquiry or research question are also addressed in this course.
Equivalent(s): ENG 500G
Mutual Exclusion : ENGL 401
Campuses not allowed in section: Durham, Manchester
Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, English (Gen Ed)
Instructors: Galateia Demetriou
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/21/2025 3/14/2025 Hours Arranged ONLINE
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ENG 420 (04) - The Writing Process

The Writing Process

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 4 (03/24/2025 - 05/16/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   60  
CRN: 54302
This course introduces students to the foundational concepts and skills needed to communicate effectively in writing for academic study and professional development. Students will learn how to use the four stages of the writing process - prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing - to create written communication that meets its intended purpose for its intended audience. Students will also be introduced to rhetorical styles and the role of outside sources in academic writing. Constructing and implementing effectively-designed search strategies for information to answer a critical inquiry or research question are also addressed in this course.
Equivalent(s): ENG 500G
Mutual Exclusion : ENGL 401
Campuses not allowed in section: Durham, Manchester
Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, English (Gen Ed)
Instructors: Galateia Demetriou
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
3/24/2025 5/16/2025 Hours Arranged ONLINE
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ENG 450 (01) - Introduction to Literature

Introduction to Literature

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 4 (03/24/2025 - 05/16/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   30  
CRN: 54303
This writing and reading intensive course is foremost intended to increase students' exposure to and appreciation of literature in its many forms. Students will therefore read and discuss the primary genres of poetry, the short story, drama, and the novel. The second goal of the course is to hone students' abilities to read, write, and think critically about the ways in which human experience itself is shaped by language in literary texts. Through the development of literary analysis skills and the practice of writing about literature, students will learn to communicate meaningfully about literature as an art form with aesthetic, social, cultural, and political significance.
Prerequisite(s): (CRIT 501 or CRIT 501G) and (ENG 420 or ENG 500G or ENGL 401)
Equivalent(s): ENG 504G
Campuses not allowed in section: Durham
Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, Humanities(Disc), Human Thought & Exp (Gen Ed)
Instructors: Claude Caswell
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
3/24/2025 5/16/2025 Hours Arranged ONLINE
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ENG 505 (01) - Introduction to Language and Linguistics

Intro Language and Linguistics

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 3 (01/21/2025 - 03/14/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   30  
CRN: 54304
This course promotes meaningful literacy instruction through the study of language, language acquisition, the study of sounds and sound formation, word formation, and how words combine into larger meaningful units. The prescriptive standardization of such language forms as spelling, semantics, pronunciation, style, and register are addressed in this course. Basic components of descriptive grammar, to include syntax, semantics, phonology, and morphology are applied. Students will have the opportunity to develop an appreciation for regional and ethnic dialects and examine how language changes and develops over time.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 420 or ENG 500G
Equivalent(s): ENG 505G
Campuses not allowed in section: Durham
Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, Human Thought & Exp (Gen Ed)
Instructors: Galateia Demetriou
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/21/2025 3/14/2025 Hours Arranged ONLINE
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ENG 545 (01) - The Media and Its Messages

The Media and Its Messages

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 3 (01/21/2025 - 03/14/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   30  
CRN: 54305
Grounded within the context of media studies, this course engages students in a critical and analytical exploration of the media and its influences on American culture and society. The course examines the various ways that the media functions as both a lens for interpreting culture and a tool through which culture is shaped. Through critical engagement with various forms of media, students explore the roles of film, visual art, television, music, mass media, and web- based media in shaping their understanding of literature, writing, and culture.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 420 or ENG 500G
Equivalent(s): ENG 508G
Campuses not allowed in section: Durham
Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, Human Thought & Exp (Gen Ed), Environment,Tech&Society(Disc)
Instructors: Susan Nagelsen
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/21/2025 3/14/2025 Hours Arranged ONLINE
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ENG 585 (01) - Short Fiction

Short Fiction

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 4 (03/24/2025 - 05/16/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   30  
CRN: 54306
This class focuses on late 19th through early 21st century short fiction, including both the short story and the novella. Readings and discussion of primary works by selected authors combine with study of secondary commentaries that outline the evolution of and theories about the genre. Students develop a basis for interpreting complex texts and for analyzing the techniques and characteristics that give short fiction its distinctive literary flavor.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 420 or ENG 500G
Equivalent(s): ENG 633G
Campuses not allowed in section: Durham
Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, Human Thought & Exp (Gen Ed)
Instructors: Susan Nagelsen
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
3/24/2025 5/16/2025 Hours Arranged ONLINE
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ENG 590 (01) - Expository Writing

Expository Writing

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 3 (01/21/2025 - 03/14/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   30  
CRN: 55992
This course extends and refines writing, reading, and critical thinking skills. Through analysis of texts, study of language as a symbol system, and exploration of advanced expository and persuasive techniques, students identify and apply effective strategies for creating and communicating meaning in their own essays. Writing within the course integrates research and citation in ways that are appropriate to the individual learner's chosen field of study. The workshop format of the course includes class discussion, individual conferences with the instructor, and peer critique of work in progress.
Prerequisite(s): (CRIT 501 or CRIT 501G) and (ENG 420 or ENG 500G)
Equivalent(s): ENG 600G
Campuses not allowed in section: Durham
Attributes: Writing Intensive Course
Instructors: Susan Nagelsen
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/21/2025 3/14/2025 Hours Arranged ONLINE
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ENG 604 (01) - Creative Writing

Creative Writing

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 4 (03/24/2025 - 05/16/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   30  
CRN: 54308
The goal of this course is for students to develop their own capacity for creative expression by writing in fiction, poetry, and other genres using the major craft forms and elements of the genre. They will also generate strategies for reading and interpreting contemporary published writing in the same genres. A workshop format will be used for students to learn how discussing works in progress with other writers can advance their own creative expression and support the creative expression of others. The workshop format will also introduce students to the unique challenges posed by the revision process in reworking an original creative work for an external audience.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 420 or ENG 500G
Equivalent(s): ENG 604G
Campuses not allowed in section: Durham
Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, Human Thought & Exp (Gen Ed), Fine&PerformingArts(Discovery)
Instructors: Jenny Masana
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
3/24/2025 5/16/2025 Hours Arranged ONLINE
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ENG 615 (01) - Young Adult Literature

Young Adult Literature

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 3 (01/21/2025 - 03/14/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   30  
CRN: 54309
This course explores a wide range of literature for young adults, along with social and literary criticism that help to illuminate the impact of this literature. Through readings and discussion of both current and classic literature, students identify why literature is a powerful tool and how it can help young adults shape their lives. Learners respond to young adult literature through written analyses and critiques.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 420 or ENG 500G or ENGL 401
Equivalent(s): ENG 560G
Campuses not allowed in section: Durham
Attributes: Humanities(Disc), Human Thought & Exp (Gen Ed)
Instructors: Barbara Krol-Sinclair
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/21/2025 3/14/2025 Hours Arranged ONLINE
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ENG 730 (01) - The Graphic Novel

The Graphic Novel

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Term 3 (01/21/2025 - 03/14/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   30  
CRN: 54310
This course will explore several different kinds of graphic novellas, memoir, fantasy, social critiques, adaptations, etc. in an effort to understand how writers and illustrators weave words and images together to create meaning in unique ways that transcend traditional genres and harness new modes of expression. The students will have an opportunity to broaden their knowledge and appreciation of graphic novels as they apply critical concepts to their study and produce their own comics. Recommended: ART 401 and CRIT 501.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 420 or ENG 500G
Equivalent(s): ENG 630G
Campuses not allowed in section: Durham
Attributes: Human Thought & Exp (Gen Ed)
Instructors: James St Pierre
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/21/2025 3/14/2025 Hours Arranged ONLINE