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ENGLISH to their contribution to American literary and cultural development. Authors include Franklin, Emerson, Dickinson, Hawthorne, Twain, Frost, Hemingway, and others. Prerequisite: Engl 140 or 144. 3 credits. Eng 160. DRAMA OF THE WESTERN WORLD A survey of selected dramatic works in the Western tradition from the ancient to the contemporary eras. Focusing primarily on the literary aspects of dramatic literature, the class includes analysis of drama as a genre and aesthetic expression, as well as a reflection of the values of Western civilization. Prerequisite: Eng140 or 144. 3 credits. Eng 220. MEDIEVAL LITERATURE A study of representative prose and poetry of Old and Middle English from Beowulf to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Included are Old English heroic poems, elegies, gnomic verses and riddles, and works of the Middle Ages such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Langland’s Piers the Ploughman. 3 credits. Eng 224. ENGLISH RENAISSANCE A study of the social and literary milieu in England from the early 1500s to 1600 through such authors as Wyatt, Surrey, Shakespeare, and Milton. Offered in 2010-2011. 3 credits. Eng 228. RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY A comparative study of the historical, cultural, and literary movements underpinning the development and influences of the Neoclassical Age in England, focusing on the works of such authors as Dryden, Congreve, Pope, Eliza Haywood, and Johnson. 3 credits. Eng 230. ROMANTICISM A close examination of some of the major ideas and influences in British and continental Romanticism, with special emphasis on the development of Romantic literary theory through the works of such writers as Goethe, Hoffmann, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats. Offered in 2010-2011. 3 credits. Eng 234. VICTORIAN LITERATURE A comparative examination of the historical and literary movements of the British Victorian period. The study covers a range of poetry and prose by such authors as Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, and Christina Rossetti. 3 credits. Eng 238. British/Irish Modernism This course examines modernist poetry, fiction, and drama written in England, Wales,, Ireland, and Scotland through the works of such writers as Hardy, Joyce, Woolf, Yeats, Synge, Auden, Shaw, Forster, as well as through a more recent group that includes Greene, Murdock, Durrell, Stoppard, Larkin, O’Brien, and Beckett. 3 credits.
Eng 251. Early American Literature A study designed to broaden the student’s sense of the roots of the literary tradition of the U.S. Works including those of 16th C. Spanish explorers, Catholic missionaries, and Native American tales of origins, as well as writings of Puritan New England and the literature of the American Revolution. 3 credits. Eng 253. AMERICAN RENAISSANCE Between 1800 and 1865, American literature came of age. A study of such famous writers as Poe, Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson, along with some neglected writers, all of whom found their distinctively American form and substance during this period. 3 credits. Eng 261. American Realism A study of the regional voices and the literary movements of realism and naturalism that marked the years following the Civil War through the works of such women writers as Davis, Jewett, Chopin, Gilman, as well as of Chesnutt, Howells, James, Twain, and Stephen Crane. 3 credits. Eng 263. American Modernism A study of the modernists, writing between 1910 and 1945, along with the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and of the 1930’s Depression. Poets include Frost, Eliot, Pound, Williams, H.D. Stevens, Moore, Hughes, and fiction writers include Hemingway, Cather, Porter, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Stein, Dos Passos, Toomer, Hurston. 3 credits.
ENGLISH ENG 292/COMM 292 Film Narrative and Theory An intermediate course in film studies, grounding students in major approaches to film theory and criticism (e.g., psychoanalysis, gender studies, cultural studies) and emphasizing the structure of film as narrative art. The class will reinforce the language of cinematography, editing, sound, performance, and genre. 3 credits. Eng 310. ADVANCED COMPOSITION A close examination of and experience in the theory and practice of the essay and other forms of nonfiction prose writing. Major emphasis is on student production of original, in-depth examples of the writing forms studied. 3 credits. Eng 312. PROFESSIONAL WRITING SEMINAR An in-depth study of writing practices applicable to a variety of professional writing situations. Students evaluate and create strategies for adjusting to writing requirements in various work environments. Study includes rhetorical theory, audience analysis, and the process of writing professional documents. 3 credits. Eng 314. TEACHING WRITING: PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE An examination of the theories and methods of writing instruction. Major emphasis is on current composition research and pedagogy, including theories of language. 3 credits.
Eng 270. 20th CENTURY FICTION A study of 20th Century existentialism in the fiction of major American and European figures such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Kafka, Camus, Sartre and Beauvoir with emphasis on novels. . 3 credits.
Eng 316. ORAL INTERPRETATION An intensive study in the theory and practice of producing oral interpretation of texts. Emphasis is placed on student experiences in analysis and oral performance of various genres. 3 credits.
Eng 274. 20th CENTURY POETRY Intensive study of some of the major poets and movements involved in the modern poetic world. Seminar involves oral readings and participation through poets such as Frost, Stevens, Yeats, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Gwendolyn Brooks. 3 credits.
Eng 318. APPLIED LINGUISTICS A close examination of current theories of language, including language acquisition, second language learning, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. Emphasis is on applying theories to English and/or foreign language classrooms. 3 credits.
Eng 278. POSTMODERN LITERATURE A study of the critical ideas and trends in literary postmodernism, including such movements as ecofeminism, cyberpunk, and L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poetics. Attention is given to the problematics of definition in postmodern theory, focusing on the works of such authors as William Gibson, Gary Snyder, Ursula Le Guin, Edward Dorn. Offered in 2010-2011. 3 credits.
Eng 328. Special Topics in Literature The special topics seminars invite students to engage in an intensive study of a particular theme, historical moment, author, or interdisciplinary topic. Drawn from American, British, or European traditions, courses might include Writing and the Environment or Existentialism and Literature. Students may take multiple seminar topics under this course number. 3 credits.
Eng 280. INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING Examination of the fundamentals essential in the art of fiction and poetry writing through the reading and discussion of work by contemporary writers and through the development and critiquing of students’ own writing in a workshop setting. Offered in 20102011. 3 credits.
Eng 330. THE ENGLISH DRAMA A seminar on the development of English drama as a unique literary experience. A study of dramatic texts from the medieval to contemporary eras, the course examines drama as a reflection of literary and cultural expressions both within and beyond mainstream British tradition. 3 credits.
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