Department of English

Professor McLamore, Department Chair
Professors: Bonds, Lopez, Thompson
Instructors: Baker, Laurence
Visiting Instructors: Parker, Wren

Mission and Goals:

Students successfully completing English department requirements at McMurry University will be able to:

• Write essays and media projects using appropriate conceptual methods and researched information.
• Use upper-level reading techniques and critical thinking skills to investigate and understand literary and cultural traditions and innovations.
• Understand and apply theories of literature and composition and rhetoric to traditional and emerging media.
• Participate in the English Club and Sigma Tau Delta, Internships, and Conferences.
• Pursue further graduate, professional, or legal education or careers in fields requiring skilled critical thinking and written communication.

English Placement

A student whose academic placement results indicates a need for precollege development in writing must register for and continually enroll in the corresponding developmental course(s) until it is passed with a grade of C- or better. Once student has met this requirement, s/he must enroll in the corresponding academic course(s). Developmental courses begin with a 1, have a 0 as the second digit and a designator of “D” at the end of the course number. These courses are not college level and do not count towards hours used for graduation. They are calculated in the GPA and are used for semester creditload.

Special Programs and Opportunities

Sigma Tau Delta. A professional and national honor society for students of literature and language.

The Galleon. The literary magazine of McMurry University.

Departmental Honors. Please see the description of the Honors Program under the Special Program section earlier in the catalog.

Programs

• English and Writing, BA
• English Language Arts & Reading Grades 4-8, BA
• English Language Arts & Reading Grades 7-12, BA
• English, BA

• English Minor
• Film Studies Minor

• Writing Certificate

Courses

• ENGL XX99 - Special Topics
• ENGL 4X95 - Independent Studies
• ENGL 4X96H - Honors Tutorial
• ENGL 4X97H - Senior Thesis
• ENGL 4X98 - Senior Opus
• ENGL 1013D - Introduction To Composition I
• ENGL 1023D - Introduction To Composition II
• ENGL 1033D - Integrated Reading and Writing
• ENGL 1041D - Writing Mechanics
• ENGL 1310 - Composition and Rhetoric
• ENGL 1320 - Composition and Literature
• ENGL 2300 - Advanced Composition
• ENGL 2310 - Masterpieces of British Literature
• ENGL 2320 - Masterpieces of American Literature
• ENGL 2330 - Masterpieces of World Literature
• ENGL 2345 - Introduction to Film
• ENGL 2350 - Topics in Literary Study
• ENGL 3310 - Medieval English Literature
• ENGL 3313 - World Literature
• ENGL 3320 - English Renaissance
• ENGL 3330 - Restoration and 18th Century English Literature
• ENGL 3341 - English Romanticism
• ENGL 3342 - The Victorian Period
• ENGL 3345 - Cinema Studies
• ENGL 3355 - Writing, Shooting, and Editing a Short Film
• ENGL 3371 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century American Literature
• ENGL 3372 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
• ENGL 3373 - Studies in Modern Literature
• ENGL 3374 - Studies in Contemporary Literature
• ENGL 3380 - Film and Literary Classics
• ENGL 3383 - Theories of Composition
• ENGL 3384 - Grammatical Structure
• ENGL 3385 - Professional and Technical Writing
• ENGL 4345 - Film Analysis
• ENGL 4355 - Writing for Film
• ENGL 4360 - Literary Theory
• ENGL 4365 - Film Seminar
• ENGL 4371 - Poetry Workshop
• ENGL 4372 - Fiction Workshop
• ENGL 4374 - Writing for Newspapers and Magazines
• ENGL 4375 - Writing for Television and Radio
• ENGL 4385 - Seminar in Literary Studies