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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division period requirements. The course covers major writers from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century, generally focusing on writers such as Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and Boswell. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2317. On demand.
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3.00 Credits
For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division period requirements. The course includes American literature from its beginnings to 1830, generally focusing on writers such as Bradstreet, Taylor, Mather, Edwards, Franklin, Wheatley, Brockden Brown, Irving, and Cooper. The course identifies the major strains of English puritanism, European gothic writing, political pamphleteering, Native American storytelling, colonial and pre-colonial writing that form American literature to 1830. The European, provincial, feminine, and political visions that constitute various national voices are analyzed for ideology and content. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2312. On demand.
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3.00 Credits
For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division period requirements. Students will read major works in American Romanticism and Realism, 1830-1900, generally focusing on writing by Hawthorne, Thoreau, Poe, Howells, Crane, James, Twain, and Wharton. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2313. On demand.
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3.00 Credits
For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division genre or elective requirements. The course focuses on American poetry of the twentieth century by such writers as Frost, Pound, Williams, Stevens, Hughes, Lowell, Bishop. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2313.? On demand.
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3.00 Credits
For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division period requirements. Readings will focus on major Romantic writers of prose and poetry generally treating such writers as on Blake, Wordsworth, Scott, Coleridge, Lamb, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Landor, and Hazlitt. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2317. On demand.
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3.00 Credits
For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division period requirements. Readings will include poetry and prose of major English writers from the 1830s to the end of the century, generally focusing on writers such as Browning, Tennyson, Ruskin, Carlyle, and Arnold. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequiste: ENGL 2318. On demand.
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3.00 Credits
For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division figure and genre requirements. The course can be taken in series with Shakespeare II. It includes historical, linguistic, and critical study of representative comedies, tragedies, and history plays. The course examines a wide variety of approaches to Shakespeare's texts including performative analysis, historical interpretations, psychological and cultural readings of the plays. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2316. On demand.
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3.00 Credits
For English majors and minors to satisfy figure and genre requirements. The course can be taken in series with Shakespeare I (see 4330 Shakespeare I). Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2316. On demand.
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3.00 Credits
Required capstone course for English majors in their senior year that may also satisfy upper-division genre or elective requirements. Others may enroll with permission of instructor. This?variable-topics course crosses cultural, period, or genre lines. Students assemble a portfolio that demonstrates mastery of the course topic and reflection on the progress and culmination of their undergraduate literary studies. Lecture, discussion, writing. Fall, spring.
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3.00 Credits
For English majors and minors to satisfy upper-division figure requirement. The course includes Chaucer's major works, the Parliament of Fowls and The Canterbury Tales, viewed against the background of medieval life and thought. It examines Chaucer's writings from perspectives of Chaucer's depiction of women, Chaucer's sources, and Chaucer as Christian moralist, as allegorist, as fable writer, as humorist. Lecture, discussion, writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2316. On demand.
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