English & Theatre Arts Course Descriptions ENGLISH (Engl) 101-3 Freshman Composition I Should be taken in the first semester of the freshman year. A course introducing students to writing, rhetoric, and critical thinking. Fall 102-3 Freshman Composition II with Literature Should be taken during the freshman year. Continues aims of English 101, particularly synthesis and argument, and introduces research writing and documentation. Prerequisite: Engl 101 with grade of C- or higher. Spring Note: Course grades of C- or higher are required for completion of Engl 101 and Engl 102. 201-3 Introduction to Literary Study and Analysis Introduces a range of literary genres (poetry, fiction, and drama), a technical vocabulary related to the study of works of those genres, and traditional and contemporary critical approaches to such works. English majors should complete English 201 as early as possible, especially prior to undertaking 300- and 400-level literature courses. Prerequisite: Engl 102 or permission of instructor. Fall, odd years 210-3 World Literature to 1500 Survey of literature exclusive of the British Isles from the ancient world to 1500. Prerequisite: Engl 1 0 2 o r p e r m i ss io n o f in s tru c to r. Fall, even years 211-3 World Literature since 1500 Survey of literature exclusive of the British Isles and the U. S. from 1500 to the present. Prerequisite: Engl 102 or permission of instructor. Spring, odd years 230-3 English Literature to 1785 A survey of major figures such as Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Milton, Dryden, Pope, and Swift. Prerequisite: Engl 102 or permission of instructor. Fall, odd years
231-3 English Literature since 1785 A survey of major figures such as Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Conrad, Woolf, and Lawrence. Prerequisite: Engl 102 or permission of instructor. Spring, even years 250-3 American Literature to 1865 Survey of major periods, works, and writers in American literature through the Civil War. Emphasis on the development of a genuine American literature from Colonial through American Romantic periods. Prerequisite: Engl 102 or permission of instructor. Fall, even years 251-3 American Literature since 1865 Survey of major works and writers in American literature from the Civil War to the present. Emphasis on Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism. Prerequisite: Engl 102 or permission of instructor. Spring, odd years 305-3 Studies in the British Novel Study of selected British novels from Defoe to Woolf. Prerequisite: Engl 102 or permission of instructor. Fall, even years 308-3 Studies in the American Short Story Study of representative works of such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Twain, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Welty, O’Connor, and Updike. Prerequisite: Engl 102 or permission of instructor. Fall, odd years 310-3 Modern Poetry Study of selected works by such modern poets as Hardy, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Frost, Williams, and Stevens. Prerequisite: Engl 102 or permission of instructor. Spring, odd years 312-3 Writing in the Profession Study and practice of writing techniques and forms commonly used in business and the professions. Prerequisites: Engl 102 or permission of instructor. Same as Comm 312. Spring, even years 313-3 Creative Writing Study and practice in writing original short fiction. Prerequisites: Engl 102 or permission of instructor. Fall 117