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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. ( Each course may be taken twice for credit.) Studies in the works of various authors or periods. Topics vary from semester to semester.
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4.00 Credits
5 hours, 4 credits. Training of students as tutors and writers. Students will be both encouraged to write in a variety of modes (including creative writing) and trained in effective techniques for tutoring others in writing. The course will be divided between the classroom and the Writing Center. Permission of the instructor is required for admission. PREREQ: A passing grade in English 120 (unless exempted). NOTE: All 300-level courses in advanced English language and literature, except for ENG 303, carry the following PREREQ: Satisfactory completion of 60 college credits, or of two 200-level ENG courses, or Departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. English literature to 1660, emphasizing major writers. Readings will include selections from Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton. Text: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. I.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. English literature from 1660 to 1830, emphasizing major writers. Readings will include selections from Dryden, Swift ( Gulliver's Travels), Pope, Johnson, Austen, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats. Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vols. I-II; Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. English literature from 1830 to 1940, emphasizing major writers. Readings will include selections from Dickens, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Yeats, Joyce, and Shaw. Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. II; Dickens, Great Expectations.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours, 4 credits. Reading and writing about works of literature of different kinds: poetry, drama, and fiction. Study of problems in criticism and interpretation; advanced exposition, with emphasis on the development of those writing skills that are most useful in literary studies. Individual conferences. PREREQ: ENG 120 (unless exempted).
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Grammatical theory and linguistic descriptions of modern English (such as traditional, descriptive, and transformational grammars), with emphasis on the formal properties of grammar and the formal characterization of language. Samples of modern English to be studied will be drawn from literary works from the early modern English period to the present.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Historical linguistics and the study of English, including analysis of selected texts from Old English through early modern English to illustrate the development of the English language. Attention will be paid to the phonology and grammar of the English language and to ways language is used for expressive ends in the selected literary examples.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Traditional and modern ways of understanding literature; varieties and history of criticism. Among the approaches to be explored are psychological, historical, formalist, Marxist, mythic, post-structuralist, and feminist.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Study of one major novel of the eighteenth century, one of the nineteenth century, and one of the twentieth century. Readings will include at least five novels, with special attention to the evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present.
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