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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An independent, student-designed writing project culminating in a significant and complete body of creative or expository writing. May be repeated for additional credit with a different project. Prerequisite: departmental acceptance of application (forms available in department office). Two to Four Credits Both Semesters
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3.00 Credits
A topic in literature, writing, or language not covered in the regular course listings and intended particularly for the general liberal arts student. May be repeated for additional credit in a different field of study. Two to Four Credits Offered Occasionally
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3.00 Credits
Designed to fill in gaps in knowledge of important authors and works and of major trends and patterns. Readings under tutorial supervision of an instructor assigned by department chairperson. May be repeated for additional credit in a different field of study. Prerequisite: departmental acceptance of application (forms available in department office). Two to Four Credits Both Semesters
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4.00 Credits
A historical and cultural study of British literature from the Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century. Focuses on major works and authors (e.g., Beowulf, Chaucer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Marie de France, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, Milton, Behn, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Austen) and major genres, forms, and literary movements (e.g., epic, romance, the sonnet, devotional poetry, drama, prose, fiction, satire). Four Credits Both Semesters
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4.00 Credits
A historical and cultural study of British and Commonwealth literature from the Romantic Period to the present. Focuses on major works and authors (e.g., Blake, Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, Keats, Browning, E. Bronte, Shaw, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Beckett, Lessing, Achebe, Heaney, Coetzee, Rushdie) and major genres, forms, and literary movements (e.g., poetry, drama, fiction, Romanticism, Victorian Age, Modernism, Post-Colonial Literature). Four Credits Both Semesters
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4.00 Credits
A historical and cultural study of American literature from colonization through the Civil War. Focuses on major works and authors (e.g., Cabeza de Vaca, Bradstreet, Wheatley, Franklin, Irving, Douglass, Poe, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman, Dickinson, Stowe) and major genres, forms, and literary periods (e.g., autobiography, poetry, short stories, the Enlightenment, Transcendentalism, Sentimentalism). Four Credits Both Semesters
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4.00 Credits
A historical and cultural study of American literature from the Civil War to the present. Focuses on major works and authors (e.g., Twain, Chopin, S. Crane, Cather, W.C. Williams, Stevens, O'Neill, Faulkner, T. Williams, Morrison, Kingston, Brooks, Ginsberg, Rich, Erdrich, Cisneros) and major genres, forms, and literary movements (e.g., essays, poetry, short stories, Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism). Four Credits Both Semesters
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4.00 Credits
Intensive study of and practice with the techniques of fiction. Includes extensive reading in contemporary fiction. Students revise and complete a series of short works or one longer work. Prerequisite: English 254 or equivalent. Permission of instructor required. Four Credits Both Semesters
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4.00 Credits
Intensive study of and practice with the techniques of poetry. Students write and critique poems, discuss poems in light of current issues, and practice selection and preparation of poems for publication. Prerequisite: English 255 or equivalent. Permission of instructor required. Four Credits Both Semesters
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4.00 Credits
Intensive study of and practice with the techniques of the personal narrative essay. Includes attention to style, structure, audience, and critical thinking. Students complete three to four narrative essays and prepare them for publication when appropriate. Prerequisite: English 258 or 254 or equivalent. Permission of instructor required. Four Credits Fall Semester
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