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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will explore the Bible as a text of sacred literature. Emphasis will fall on the conventions for reading its various genres. With respect to the Hebrew Bible, it will begin with history, move back to myth, and then move forward to prophecy. The lyrics of the Psalms will be a major emphasis, as will the wisdom literature of Ecclesiastes. This portion of the course will conclude with Job. With respect to the New Testament, the major focus will be the synoptic gospels and the Gospel of John. The course will conclude with a consideration of apocalyptic literature, as represented by the Book of Revelation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The course introduces lyric poetry from inside and out. Considering matters such as imagery, metaphor, sound, rhythm, and form, students will analyze lyric poems. Putting this knowledge to work, they will also write lyrics that reflect what they have learned from their academic study. Prerequisite: ENG 1013, Composition I.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces students to a range of classic and contemporary fiction and poetry written for or about young adults. Although literary analysis and appreciation will be the principal focus of the course, an important secondary emphasis will be selecting and teaching literature to young adults, taking into account their development and needs. Prerequisite: ENG 2003, Introduction to Literature: ENG 2013, Themes in Literature; or instructor permission.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will trace the development of British literature from the French Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. A major focus will be the poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. The course will also trace the development of the novel through Austen, Shelley, and Scott. Prerequisite: ENG 2003, Introduction to Literature; ENG 2013, Themes in Literature; or instructor permission.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will trace the development of British literature from the Industrial Revolution through the 1890s. A major focus will be the novels of writers such as Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, and Conrad. The course will also trace the development of the poetic tradition through Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, and Hopkins. Prerequisite: ENG 2003, Introduction to Literature; ENG 2013, Themes in Literature; or instructor permission.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will trace the development of British literature during the Modernist movement, from its origins in the 1890s through the Second World War. A major focus will be the novels of writers such as Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, and Forster. The course will also trace the development of the poetic tradition from the poets of the 1890s through the High Modernists, particularly in the work of Yeats. The dramas of Wilde and Shaw will also be considered. Prerequisite: ENG 2003, Introduction to Literature; ENG 2013, Themes in Literature; or instructor permission.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will trace the development of American literature from the emergence of a distinctly American literary culture, in the work of Irving and Cooper, through the end of Civil War. Major writers featured include Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. Prerequisite: ENG 2003, Introduction to Literature; ENG 2013, Themes in Literature; or instructor permission.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will trace the development of American literature from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution through the 1890s. A major focus will be the novels of writers such as Howells, Twain, Dreiser, Norris, Wharton, and James. The course will also trace the development of the poetic tradition from popular and experimental poets of the 1870s through the "genteel" poets of the 1890s.Prerequisite: ENG 2003, Introduction to Literature; ENG 2013, Themes in Literature; or instructor permission.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will trace the development of American literature from turn of the century through the Second World War. A major focus will be the novels of writers such as Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck. The course will also trace the development of the poetic tradition in the work of writers such as Frost, Pound, Eliot, Stevens, and Williams. Prerequisite: ENG 2003, Introduction to Literature; ENG 2013, Themes in Literature; or instructor permission.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will treat representative writers and literary movements in Britain and America since the Second World War. A major focus will be the idea of canonicity and the various forces that contribute to canonical status. Special attention will be paid to postcolonial British literature and ethnic American literature. Prerequisite: ENG 2003, Introduction to Literature; ENG 2013, Themes in Literature; or instructor permission.
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