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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of writing by American women, from the colonial period to the present, with particular attention to issues of identity and literary authority. The course will consider writers such as Bradstreet, Wheatley, Rowlandson, Fuller, Jacobs, Dickinson, Chopin, Gilman, Wharton, Hurston, Moore, Stein, H.D., Morrison, Walker, and Angelou. Prerequisites: ENGL 2131 and ENGL 2132 or consent of the instructor
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3.00 Credits
A study of the development of African-American theater from minstrels to modern theater workshops and the plays of such writers as Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Ntozake Shange, and August Wilson. Prerequisites: ENGL 1102
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3.00 Credits
A critical survey focusing on leading themes and techniques in the short stories and novels of such authors as Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, and Gloria Naylor. Prerequisites: ENGL 1102
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3.00 Credits
A survey of African-American nonfiction from the early slave narratives to the present, including W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Alice Walker, and others. Prerequisites: ENGL 1102
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3.00 Credits
A study of fiction and poetry of the Romantic and Realist periods in the United States.
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3.00 Credits
A focus on the Realist and Naturalist movements in the United States, including local color writers. Includes such writers as Twain, Crane, James, Norris, Chesnutt, Chopin, and Dreiser. Prerequisites: ENGL 2131 and ENGL 2132
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the development of the short story as a literary form from Poe to the present. Includes such writers as Harte, Henry, Anderson, Faulkner, Hemingway, O'Connor, Updike, Carver, and Barthelme. Prerequisites: ENGL 1102
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3.00 Credits
A study of poetry written in America, with an emphasis on significant themes, techniques, and movements. Prerequisites: ENGL 2131 or consent of the instructor
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth exploration of a literary topic. The topic changes each time the course is offered. Examples of topics include The Gullah Culture, Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature, Islamic Literature (in translation), Latin American Fiction (in translation), and Japanese Literature (in translation). Can be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisites: ENGL 2104 and ENGL 2105 or consent of instructor
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of such concerns as race, gender, nationality, and postcolonial subjectivity. Texts studied will include such writers as Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Grace Nichols, and Okot p'Bitek, along with such theorists and critics as Homi Bhabha and Frantz Fanon. Prerequisites: ENGL 2104 and ENGL 2105 or consent of instructor
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