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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of major English, Victorian, and modern novels. This course will include novels by such authors as Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, the Brontes, Eliot, Hardy, Butler, Carroll, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Forster, Cary, and Waugh.
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3.00 Credits
Representative works in English literature dating from 450 to 1500. Texts may include, but are not limited to, Beowulf; Piers Plowman; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Canterbury Tales; Morte d'Arthur; Everyman; Second Shepherds' Play; and mystery, miracle, and morality plays.
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3.00 Credits
A study of major English novels of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Readings will be drawn from the works of novelists such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Goldsmith, Mackenzie, Radcliffe, Austen, Scott, Peacock, and Mary Shelley.
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6.00 Credits
This course focuses on various genres and themes in literature and language as well as individual authors. Topics may include, but are not limited to, black literature, Native American literature, Asian or Asian-American literature, Spanish or Hispanic literature, contemporary American poetry, American drama, Chaucer, Milton, Faulkner, or any other topic the department deems suitable. Because course content will vary, students may take this course twice for six hours of credit. Prerequisites: Junior standing or consent of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of prose and poetry of the Victorian era focusing upon Macaulay, Carlyle, Newman, Mill, Huxley, Arnold, Tennyson, Ruskin, Browning, Rossetti, and Swinburne.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the tenets of Romanticism in English literature and a survey of representative writers of the English Romantic Period.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the evolution of English. An examination of the structure of the language, its position in the world and its relation to other tongues, the wealth of its vocabulary, and the sources from which that vocabulary has been and is being enriched.
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3.00 Credits
A study of major American novelists from 1820 to the present. The course will cover such representative authors as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Crane, James, Twain, Dreiser, Norris, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Bellow.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the development of Southern literature from the colonial beginnings to the present. Principal works of various Southern writers are studied to determine the nature and techniques of this regional literature and to view its prominent station in national literature.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of poetry and prose (no novels or drama) of the period, beginning with some outstanding Restoration writers and extending through the preRomantics.
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