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Prerequisite: ENG 101. 3 credits formerly EN 150 Literature by Women This course will focus on the works of female writers. Its purpose is to allow students to develop a sense of the range, variety, and quality of the writing of those women whose voices are not always included in literary canons. Authors are considered from both historical and feminist perspectives.
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Prerequisite: ENG 101. 3 credits formerly EN 120 Introduction to Creative Writing This is a first course in the creative expression of ideas, principally in fiction and poetry, although other forms of writing are considered. The class typically includes writing, reading and discussion of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
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Prerequisites: ENG 101 and ENG 102. 3 credits formerly EN 204 Expository Writing This course emphasizes writing that explains, informs, analyzes and persuades. Students write extensively, both in and out of class, and build upon the skills mastered in ENG 101 and ENG 102. Students also engage in rhetorical, stylistic and thematic analyses of their own writing and the writing of others and further develop revision strategies.
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Prerequisites: ENG 102. 3 credits This course focuses on the development of the short story, primarily from the 19th century to the present. It includes an investigation into the roots of the short story (narrative poems, fables, tales, parables), and close reading of classic short stories by acknowledged masters of the form, complemented by a wide-ranging examination of contemporary short stories that emphasizes the rich diversity of experiences, voices, and forms available to us through this literary genre.
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Prerequisite: ENG 102; 3 credits formerly EN 205 American Literature I ENG221 offers a study of the main currents of American literary thought against the background of historical and social developments from the Puritan period to the Civil War. The course focuses on the works writers such as Franklin, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman.
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Prerequisite: ENG 102. 3 credits formerly EN 206 American Literature II ENG 222 offers a study of American literature covering the period from the Civil War to the present. The course focuses on the works of major writers such as Dickinson, James, Twain, Hemingway, Eliot, Fitzgerald, O'Neill, Faulkner, Cather, Ellison, Baldwin, Vonnegut, and Morrison.
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Prerequisite: ENG 102. 3 credits formerly EN 201 British Literature I This course surveys British literature from its Old English and Middle English origins to its flowering in the Renaissance and through the Age of Enlightenment. The works and authors studied include those such as Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the GreenKnight, the English Bible, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Milton, Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Samuel Johnson.
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Prerequisite: ENG 102. 3 credits formerly EN 202 British Literature II This survey of British literature engages the various social and cultural upheavals of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as shown in the Romantic, Victorian, and early Modern literary movements. Authors to be covered may include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, the Brontes, Dickens, Tennyson, Arnold, Browning, Woolf, and Joyce.
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Prerequisite: ENG 102. 3 credits formerly EN 212 Topics in Shakespeare This course will examine selected themes and issues in Shakespeare's major plays from a number of critical perspectives. Topics for each semester might focus on a single aspect of the playwright's work such as Shakespeare's tragicperspective from an examination of his Tragedies and Histories; the playwright's comic universe from a study of Shakespeare's Comedies; the playwright as poet, a study of his sonnets; or an examination of several themes such as love, and evaluate that theme as it suggests itself throughout Shakespeare's canon. The class might also focus on Shakespeare in performance or Shakespeare on film. This course may be taken only once for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENG 102. 3 credits formerly EN 207 Masterpieces of World Literature I This course offers a critical survey of the masterpieces of world literature through the eighteenth century. The authors studied may include Homer, Aeschylus, Virgil, Dante, Cervantes, and Voltaire. Selections from non- Western classics such as the Bhagavad Gita, Gilgamesh, and Dream of the Red Chamber will supplement the survey's coverage.
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