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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Designed for students in all majors, the workshop will develop skills in rhetorical techniques and provide practice in specific types of expository writing appropriate to many disciplines.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Designed for non-English majors, this course will focus on one great work of literature for each third of the semester (4-5 weeks) , with a total of three works covered, one in each of three self-contained units. Students may sign up for one to three credits depending upon how long they intend to remain in the course. Prerequisite: ENGL 0102.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of British classics prior to the seventeenth century, including Beowulf, Chaucer and Shakespeare, in their social and historical contexts. This course emphasizes identifying the connections between literature and history, philosophy and the arts. Literary and intellectual currents of Medieval feudalism and Renaissance humanism are examined closely. Essential for the serious student of literature and required of all English majors, except those concentrating in Theatre. Prerequisites: ENGL 0101 and ENGL 0102.
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3.00 Credits
Students read British classics from the seventeenth century through the period of the Pre-Romantics, by authors such as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, and Swift. This course emphasizes identifying the connections between literature and history, philosophy, and the arts. Literary and intellectual currents of the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Age of Sensibility are closely examined. Essential for the serious student of literature, and required of all English majors except those concentrating in Theatre. Prerequisites: ENGL 0101 and ENGL 0102.
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3.00 Credits
Students read British classics from the late eighteenth century to the present, by authors such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Lawrence, and Woolf. This course emphasizes identifying the connections between literature and history, philosophy, and the arts. Literary and intellectual currents of the Romantic, Victorian, and post-war periods are examined closely. Essential for the serious student of literature and required of all English majors, except those concentrating in Theatre. Prerequisites: ENGL 0101 and ENGL 0102.
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3.00 Credits
A close reading of significant writers of English literature from the time of Beowulf to the present, such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, the Romantics, Dickens, Woolf, and Auden. Students develop skills that will enable them to read the classics of English literature with greater pleasure and understanding. The interrelations of literature, the arts and social history receive considerable attention. Medieval feudalism, Renaissance Humanism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the Victorian era, and Modernism are some of the movements that may be examined in this course. Not open to English majors. Prerequisites: ENGL 0101 and ENGL 0102.
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3.00 Credits
A close reading of significant American writers from early America through the twentieth century. The course will include authors such as Edward Taylor, Anne Bradstreet, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison. Students develop skills that enable them to read the classics of American literature with greater pleasure and understanding. The interrelations of literature, the arts and social history receive considerable attention. New England Puritanism, Unitarianism, Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism are some of the movements that may be examined in this course. Not open to English majors. Prerequisites: ENGL 0101 and ENGL 0102.
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3.00 Credits
This survey course introduces students to writings from the time of exploration to the Civil War. Students explore the diversity of literary expression in the early period, through readings of genres such as travel journals, captivity narratives, Puritan poetry, Native American oral narratives, sermons and slave narratives; students then study the development of the novel and the emergence of distinctive poetic voices in the nineteenth century. The course considers literature in relation to such artistic, historical, and cultural topics as contracts between diverse cultures, social reform movements, transcendentalism, and sentimentalism. Intended for serious students of literature, and required of all English majors, except those concentrating in Theatre. Prerequisite: ENGL 0102.
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3.00 Credits
This survey course introduces students to the expansive range of works comprising American literature from 1865 to the present. Students explore diverse voices, genres, and themes that offer a vision of America's complex plurality. The course considers literature in relation to such artistic, historical, and cultural topics as regionalism, naturalism, realism, feminism, the Harlem Renaissance, developments in poetry, modernism, postmodernism, experimentation, civil rights movements, ethnic identity, and multiculturalism. Intended for serious students of literature, and required of all English majors except those concentrating in Theatre. Prerequisite: ENGL 0102.
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3.00 Credits
A comparative study of non-western and western literary works from at least three disparate regions of the world, ranging from antiquity to the 18th century. Readings will include prose fiction, plays, poems, and selections from epics. Prerequisites: ENGL 0101 and ENGL 0102.
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