| English |
42 units |
ENG 271: Literary Criticism This course is an introduction to the major critical schools and controversies of the 20th century, including New Criticism, Deconstruction, New Historicism, Psychological, and Feminist Criticisms. Lectures, readings, and workshops will focus on the critical writing process and developing a strong written command of the variety of papers appropriate for an English major. |
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ENG 341: American Literature 1 A survey of American literature from its beginning to 1850, this course will include journals, diaries, sermons, and pamphlets, with an emphasis on the writings of Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202. |
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ENG 342: American Literature 2 A survey of American literature from 1850 to 1945, this course will emphasize the literary movements of Realism, Naturalism, as well as the roots of modern American literature. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202. |
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ENG 361: English Literature 1 A survey of representative English prose, poetry, and drama from the Anglo-Saxon period to 1800, this course will look at the readings from such writers as the Beowulf poet, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Pope, and Johnson. Students will also become acquainted with the literary heritage of the English-speaking world. Prerequisite: Eng 201 or CEng 201 or 202. |
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ENG 362: English Literature 2 This survey course will look at British literature from the late 18th through the 19th century, considering the Romantic and Victorian approaches to life through the study and critical discussion of such writers as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Robert Browning. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202. |
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ENG 451: Senior Seminar in English This course will take an intensive look at a literary topic or writer with attention to intellectual and literary milieu through which students refine techniques of literary research and scholarship. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202, ENG 271, senior status or permission of instructor or division chair. |
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ENG 466: Shakespeare Critical reading and analysis of selected examples of Shakespeare's histories, comedies, and tragedies is the focus of this course. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202, ENG 271. |
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ENG 471: Literary Theory As an advanced study of primary texts from the history of literary criticism and the major critical schools of the 20th century, this course will include formalism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, new historicism, and post-colonialism. Readings will focus on essays and criticism from Plato to Plotinus to Foucault and Stanley Fish. Prerequisites: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202, ENG 271. |
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ENG 477: History and Development of the English Language An overview of the history of English and an examination of the development of the language through its linguistic elements, this course will include traditional and contemporary grammar, phonetics, syntax, semantics, patterns of language change, dialects, orthography, etymology, representative oral and written communication, and other related issues. Prerequisites: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202, and ENG 271. |
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WRT 333: Topics in Literature and Creative Writing A focused exploration of genre and subject matter in a workshop setting, this course will include nature, travel, and experimental writing. This course may include travel. Class may be repeated for elective credit. Prerequisites: WRT 102 or 201. |
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ENG 383: Modern and Contemporary Poetry A survey course of 20th and 21st century poetry, poets, and literary movements. Prerequisite: Eng 201 or CEng 201 or 202. |
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ENG 385: Modern and Contemporary Novel An advanced survey course that will look at the development of literary modernism as represented in major European and American novels, including such novelists as Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Ellison. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202. |
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ENG 387: Modern and Contemporary Drama This course will read, critically analyze, discuss, and evaluate selected plays from 1890 through the 21st century, including such dramatists as Ibsen, O'Neill, Pirandello, Lorca, Miller, Williams, and Albee. Attending a performance may be required. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202. |
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ENG 389: Film as Literature A survey of American film and International Cinema, this course will emphasize the elements of film technique, film theory, adaptation, screenplays, history and culture of World Film, auteurism and genre studies. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202. |
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ENG 441: Major American Writers Extensive reading and in-depth study of one or more significant American authors with special attention to their themes, literary techniques, and traditions is the focus of this course. Prerequisites: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202, ENG 271, 341, or 342. |
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ENG 461: Major English Writers Extensive reading and in-depth study of significant longer works by several English authors with special attention to their themes and literary techniques. Prerequisites: ENG 201, 271, 281 and 361 or 362 or consent of instructor. |
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ENG 380: Women’s Literature An intensive study of literature written by women, emphasizing representations of gender in different cultural and aesthetic contexts and exploring the unique contributions and genres particular to women’s writing. Prerequisite: ENG 201. |
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ENG 382: Postcolonial Literature This course provides for in-depth study of postcolonial theory and literature from South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Readings and discussions will focus on postcolonial theory, common themes, literary technique, the role of religion, and the question of personal and national identity. Prerequisite: ENG 201. |
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