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3.00 Credits
This course provides a survey of the development of the English language through Old English, Middle English, and Modern English, with emphasis on growth of vocabulary and grammatical changes. In addition, the International Phonetic Alphabet will be used to show historical changes, as well as dialectal variations, in pronunciation. Prerequisite: Grade of "C-" or better in EN 200.
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This course is a study of literary achievement in the South from 1610 to the present, with attention to local color, the Southern Renaissance, and more recent Southern writers. Study may include writers such as Poe, Clemens, Warren, Faulkner, O'Conner, and Welty, among others. Prerequisite: Grade of "C-" or better in EN 200
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3.00 Credits
EN 395 surveys the systems of and provides a historical introduction to the major schools of critical theory which have influenced the development of literary interpretation as a scholarly, academic discipline of study. Engaging the historical and contemporary schools of critical theory will provide the student-in the context of an integration of faith and learning and with an eye to individual prospects for graduate or other scholarly studies-with an understanding of the concepts which have served as intellectual underpinnings for the interpretation of literature throughout the modern era. Prerequisite: Grade of "C-" or better in EN 20
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This course concentrates on poetry and fiction of the period from 1798 to 1832, with special emphasis on Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Prerequisite: Grade of "C-" or better in EN 200.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive survey of major British authors from the Middle Ages through the eighteenth century (450-1798) with reference to historical, biographical, and social backgrounds. Prerequisite: Grade of "C-" or better in EN 200.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive survey of major British authors beginning with the Romantic Period (1798) and continuing to the present with reference to historical, biographical, and social backgrounds. Prerequisite: Grade of "C-" or better in EN 200.
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Intensive survey of major Western world authors, from the ancient period to the Renaissance. This course takes as its emphasis man's search for meaning and for his place in the universe. In it are examined the best of the human endeavor and its inherent limitations, as viewed through the literature of our Western cultural heritage. Included are the origins and development of the epic, the drama, and the lyric. Prerequisite: Grade of "C-" or better in EN 200
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3.00 Credits
Intensive survey of major Western world authors beginning with the Neoclassic period continuing through the Romantic, Realistic, Naturalistic and Modern periods, and continuing to the present. Prerequisite: Grade of "C-" or better in EN 200. 125
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide examination of subjects not otherwise offered in the English program. Instructors and subject matter will vary from semester to semester. Only one such course may be counted toward the Major in English (as three of the six hours of general electives). Sample topics: The Bible as Literature, Folklore Studies, African-American Literature, Studies in Faulkner, Christ Figures in Film, and Milton. Prerequisite: Grade of "C-" or better in EN 200.
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1.00 Credits
Option 1: Senior BA In English majors who do not plan to attend graduate school will learn the value of revision and expansion of papers by submitting a senior portfolio during the fall semester of their senior year. Departmental approval must be given for this option. Option 2: Senior BA in English majors will begin working by-weekly with a major professor on a 20-25 page paper on a topic authorized by the entire department. The project must be approved by the English Department in the second semester of the student's junior year. This paper should demonstrate the student's ability to think and write analytically, critically, and creatively and to do an acceptable caliber of research using a variety of credible sources.
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