English & Theatre Arts 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. Spring, even years 250-3 Survey of American Literature A survey of major figures such as Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Dickinson, Twain, James, Hemingway, Faulkner, Frost, and Eliot. Prerequisite: Engl 102 or permission. Fall, even years 305-3 Studies in the British Novel Study of selected British novels from Defoe to Woolf. Prerequisite: Engl 102 or permission. 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. 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. Spring, odd years 312-3 Business and Professional Communication Study and practice of writing techniques and forms commonly used in business and the professions. Prerequisites: Engl 102 or permission. Same as Comm 312. Spring, even years 313-3 Creative Writing Study and practice in writing original short fiction. Prerequisites: Engl 102 or permission. Fall 314-3 Advanced Expository Writing Study and practice of expository writing across the curriculum, including rhetorical modes and formal writing strategies for various audiences. Study and practice research strategies. Prerequisite: Engl 102 or instructor’s permission. Please note English Education majors: Engl 314 and Engl 414 do not have to be taken sequentially. Spring, odd years 114
318-3 Development of American Drama Study of the development of principal styles and forms of American drama from colonial times to the present; application of research strategies and critical principles to American dramatic literature. Prerequisite: Engl 102. Same as Thea 318. Spring, even years 319-3 Modern British Drama Survey of 12th century drama in Britain from Shaw to Stoppard. Prerequisite: Engl 102. Same as Thea 319. Spring, even years 320-3 British Romantics A study of the principal writers of the Romantic Period (1798-1832), including Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Fall, even years 330-3 Victorian England A study of the principal writers of the Victorian Age (1837-1901), including Carlyle, Mill, Newman, Ruskin, Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold. Fall, odd years 331-3 Shakespeare Study of selected comedies, histories, and tragedies. Prerequisite: Engl 102 or permission. Spring 340-3 Advanced Creative Writing — Poetry Study and practice of the diverse forms and patterns poetry employs, with a portfolio of new poems due at the course’s completion. Prerequisite: Engl 313 or permission. 341-3 Advanced Creative Writing — Fiction Advanced techniques and practices in creating the aesthetically satisfying short story, with at least three finished stories required. Prerequisite: Engl 313 or permission. 342-3 Advanced Creative Writing — Non-fiction Advanced practice in creative non-fiction, with alternating emphasis on one of the three genres: the creative short, the memoir, the creative opinion piece. Prerequisites: Engl 313 or permission.