ENG 535 - Linguistics, Literature, and TESOL

Description:
Linguistic perspectives on and approaches to literature, with an emphasis on poetry and prose. ENG 435 and ENG 535 are layered courses; a student may not receive credit for both.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: admission to the TESOL Graduate Program.

Credits:
(5)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Distinguish linguistic form from literary form and characterize their complementary nature;
Articulate linguistic foundation of literary theory and its significance in TESOL;
Use linguistic approaches to analyzing poetic meters and poems and their significance in TESOL;
Conduct computational linguistic analyses of narrativity, syntactic complexity, word concreteness, referential cohesion, and deep cohesion;
Understand statistical methods of analyzing quantitative data involved in computational linguistic analyses;
Apply knowledge of linguistics and literature to literary textual criticism;
Apply knowledge of linguistics and literature to literary textual criticism and TESOL.

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
6/4/19

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:
Spring Locations Ellensburg