Handbook

SUGGESTED FORMAT FOR COURSE PROPOSALS - Graduate Program

Variable topics courses include:

E505A Major Authors: English

E505B Major Authors: American

E505C Major Authors: World

E630A Literature Topics: Area Studies

E630B Literature Topics: Genre Studies

E630C Literature Topics: Theory and Technique

E630C Literature Topics: Gender Studies

E631 Crossing Boundaries

E641 Nonfiction Writing

Proposals need not take the form of a day-to-day syllabus. Rather, they should describe important characteristics of the proposed course, including the following:

Focus and area of study. Provide a brief description of the issues the course will address and the kinds of texts it will consider.

Audience. Indicate the relevance of the course to one or more of our graduate programs. If the proposed course might be useful to students in more than one graduate program, briefly indicate why.

Probable reading list.

Probable course requirements.