Writing, Language, and Literature
Mission Statement
The mission of the Writing, Language, and Literature Department is to foster students' intellectual growth and engagement in writing and rhetoric, information literacy, and the world's literature, languages, and cultures. By offering several distinct programs, the Department supports the University of Wisconsin-Superior's liberal arts mission by enhancing students' understanding of writing processes and practices (Writing); developing knowledge of language, literatures, and cultures from national and international perspective (English and World Languages); improving proficiency in language use and literacies (English as a Second Language and Library Science); and the teaching of English Language Arts in K-12 schools (English Secondary Education and Broad Field Language Arts). In these programs, the Department's curriculum aims to develop students' skills and preparation for a variety of academic, professional, creative, and community-oriented pursuits. These skills include reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, critical and creative thinking, analysis, critique, evidence-based argument, and information literacy for both native and non-native speakers of English. The Department offers students the extraordinary possibilities of exploring and producing a diverse array of languages, literatures, genres of writing, and rhetorical texts, in both historic and contemporary contexts.
Additional Offerings
University Studies Core Requirement: Academic and Professional Writing
Contact Information
Writing, Language, and Literature Department
University of Wisconsin - Superior
Swenson Hall 3134
Belknap and Catlin Ave.
P.O. Box 2000
Superior, WI 54880
Phone: 715-394-8195
Email: admissions@uwsuper.edu
Course Descriptions
English
- Must Declare English/English Education as major/minor
- On-campus: Spring;
- Humanities - Literature
- Fall Term Only
- Humanities - Literature
- Spring Term Only
- Humanities - Literature
- On-campus: Spring, Even Years
- Online: Spring, Odd Years
- Humanities - Literature
- On-Campus: Fall
- Online: Select Semesters
- Humanities - Literature
- On-campus: Spring
- Online: Select Semesters
- Diversity
- Humanities - Literature
- On-Campus: Fall
- Online: Fall & Spring
- Diversity
- Humanities - Literature
- On-campus: Spring
- Online: Fall & Spring
- Global Awareness
- Humanities - Literature
- Fall Term Only
- Global Awareness
- Humanities - Literature
- On-campus: Spring
- Online: Spring
- Natural Sciences - Environmental
- Global Awareness
- Humanities - WLCP
- Every Fall and Odd Spring Term
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Fall Term Only
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Spring Term Only
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Spring Term Every Other Year
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- On-campus: Select Semesters
- Online: Select Semesters
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Diversity
- On-campus: Select Semesters
- Online: Select Semesters
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Occasional by Demand
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Online: Select Semesters
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- On-campus: Select Semesters
- Online: Select Semesters
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Occasional by Demand
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- On-campus: Select Semesters
- Online: Select Semesters
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Spring Term Every Other Year
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- On-campus: Select Semesters
- Online: Select Semesters
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- On-campus: Select Semesters
- Online: Select Semesters
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- On-campus: Select Semesters
- Online: Select Semesters
- Completion of 3 credits of ENGL courses.
- Occasional by Demand
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Occasional by Demand
- Completion of 3 credits of ENGL courses.
- Occasional by Demand
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Occasional by Demand
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Occasional by Demand
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Occasional by Demand
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Fall Term Every Other Year
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Occasional by Demand
- Completion of 3 credits of English Literature or consent of the instructor.
- Spring Term Only
- Natural Sciences - Environmental
- Global Awareness
- Humanities - WLCP
- Prerequisite for taking this course is having completed 3 credits of 300 or 400 level English course.
- Spring Term Only
- Fall and Spring Terms
English Education
- Admission to Teacher Education Program or consent of instructor, completion of 12 credits of English courses, cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. Teacher Education Non-Academic Test (TB and Criminal Background Check)
- Spring Term Odd Years Only
- Teacher Education Non-Academic Test (TB and Criminal Background Check)
- Spring Term Even Years Only
- Occasional by Demand
- Fall and Spring Terms
English as a Second Language
First Nation Studies
- Diversity
- On-campus: Spring, Odd Years;
Foreign Language
French
- Humanities - WLCP
- Fall and Spring Terms
- Spring Term Only
- Fall Term Only
- Fall and Spring Terms
Japanese
- Fall Term Only
- Spring Term Only
Spanish
- Humanities - WLCP
- Fall and Spring Terms
- Prerequisite for taking this course is completion of SPAN 101, or appropriate placement test score, or consent of instructor.
- Humanities - WLCP
- Spring Term Only
- Prerequisite for taking this course is completion of SPAN 102, appropriate placement test score, or consent of instructor.
- Humanities - WLCP
- Fall Term Only
- Prerequisite for taking this course is completion of SPAN 201, appropriate placement test score, or consent of instructor.
- Humanities - WLCP
- Spring Term Only
- Global Awareness
- Humanities - History
- Humanities - Literature
- Prerequisite for taking this course is completion of SPAN 202, appropriate placement test score, or consent of instructor.
- Fall Term Every Other Year
- Prerequisite for taking this course is completion of SPAN 202, appropriate placement test score, or consent of instructor.
- Occasional by Demand
- Prerequisite for taking this course is completion of SPAN 202, appropriate placement test score, or consent of instructor.
- Global Awareness
- Fall Term Every Other Year
- Prerequisite for taking this course is completion of SPAN 201, appropriate placement test score, or consent of instructor.
- Occasional by Demand
- Prerequisite for taking this course is completion of SPAN 202, appropriate placement test score, or consent of instructor.
- Diversity
- Occasional by Demand
- Prerequisite for taking this course is completion of SPAN 202, appropriate placement test score, or consent of instructor.
- Diversity
- Occasional by Demand
- Prerequisite for taking this course is completion of SPAN 202, appropriate placement test score, or consent of instructor.
- Occasional by Demand
- Fall and Spring Terms
- Global Awareness
- Humanities - History
- Humanities - Literature
- Completion of 3 credits of a 300- or 400- level Spanish course
- Fall and Spring Terms
- Fall and Spring Terms
World Languages, Literatures, and Culture
- Fall and Spring Terms
- WLLC 101, placement exam, or instructor’s approval.
- Fall and Spring Terms
- Humanities - WLCP
- Occasional by Demand
- Humanities - WLCP
- Humanities - WLCP
- On-campus: Fall & Spring
- Online: Fall & Spring
World Languages, Literatures and Culture Education
- Prerequisite:admission to the Teacher Education Program.
- Occasional by Demand
Writing
- A qualifying score on ACT English or SAT Verbal or WEPT or AP Language and Comp test or AP Literature and Comp test; or permission of Writing Coordinator for students taking ESL 132.
- College Writing
- Fall, Spring, and Summer Terms
- College Writing
- Completion of WRIT 102 with a grade of C- or better and completion of 30 college credits or instructor permission.
- Professional Writing
- Fall and Spring Terms
- Fine Arts - Aesthetic Experience
- Fall and Spring Terms
- Occasional by Demand
- Fall and Spring Terms
- Successful completion of WRIT 250 or instructor consent.
- Spring Term Every Other Year
- Successful completion of WRIT 102 or instructor consent.
- Fall Term Only
- Successful completion of WRIT 102 or instructor consent.
- Fall Term Every Other Year
- Successful completion of WRIT 102 or instructor consent.
- Fall Term Every Other Year
- WRIT 102 or Instructor Consent
- Spring Term Every Other Year
- Fall Term Even Years Only
- Successful completion of WRIT 250 or instructor consent.
- Fall Term Every Other Year
- Successful completion of WRIT 250.
- Spring Term Only
- Successful completion of WRIT 250 or instructor consent.
- Fall Term Every Other Year
- Spring Term Only
- Successful completion of WRIT 303 or instructor consent.
- Spring Term Only
- Fall Term Odd Years Only
- WRIT 102 or Instructor Consent
- Spring Term Every Other Year
- Successful completion of WRIT 102 or instructor consent.
- Spring Term Odd Years Only
- Successful completion of WRIT 102 or instructor consent.
- Occasional by Demand
- Successful completion of WRIT 102 or instructor consent.
- Occasional by Demand
- Successful completion of WRIT 102 or instructor consent.
- Spring Term Every Other Year
- If taken to fulfill Senior Year Experience, successful completion of at least 18 credits in the major or 12 credits in the minor is required.
- Spring Term Only
- If taken to fulfill Senior Year Experience, successful completion of at least 18 credits in the major or 12 credits in the minor is required.
- Fall and Spring Terms
- Fall and Spring Terms
Faculty
Dr. Stacey Amo - Assistant Teaching Professor, English
Ms. Deborah Faul - Senior Lecturer, Writing/ESL
Dr. Hilary Fezzey - Professor, English
Ms. Julie Gard, Professor - Writing
Ms. Elizabeth Grbavcich - Assistant Teaching Professor, Writing/English
Dr. Emilee Howland - Assistant Teaching Professor, English/Writing
Dr. Jayson Iwen - Professor, Writing, Department Chair
Ms. Laura Jacobs - Professor, Library Science
Dr. Daniel Lawrence - Assistant Professor, Writing
Mr. John McCormick - Assistant Teaching Professor, Writing
Ms. Heather McGrew - Assistant Teaching Professor, Writing
Dr. Megan Muthupandiyan - Assistant Professor, Writing
Ms. Kate Nolin-Smith - Senior Lecturer, Writing/ESL
Ms. Anne-Marie Pilon - Senior Lecturer
Dr. Jeanette Pucheu - Associate Professor, Spanish
Ms. Elina Reinke - Lecturer, ESL
Dr. Nicholas Sloboda - Professor, English
Dr. Jamie White-Farnham - Professor, Writing
Staff
Carmen Britton - Administrative Assistant III