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  • ENG 220: Literary Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core ConcentrationPrerequisites: ENG 100 (or CW 210 and CW 220) and enrollment in orcompletion of a 200-level WTNG course"Literary competence" includes an understanding of the conventionsthat govern professional literary criticism, lifelong habits ofanalysis, judgment, and the development of critical acumen (i.e.,an understanding of genre, an awareness of literary history as acontext, an understanding of critical theory and the interpretationof literature in concept and in practice, and the development ofadvanced research skills). To develop these competencies, this coursepractices close reading across a range of critical theories, includingFeminism, Deconstructionism, Post Colonialism, Marxism, Lesbian,Gay and Queer Theory, African American Criticism and CulturalStudies. Students will also discuss the impact of cultural diversity(e.g., race, class, and gender) on literary criticism while developing anunderstanding of the way that literary texts both reflect and projectcultural ideologies. The final paper in this course will model theprocesses and standards used in Senior Thesis I & II.
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  • ENG 240: Early American Literature: Pre-Columbus Through the Civil War

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: WTNG 102This survey course begins with Native American literary expressionsand concludes with the literature of the Civil War. The course coversexploration narratives of the 15th and 16th centuries, Americancolonial writing, the literature of the new American republic, and theliterary efforts of the 19th century romantics. The course concludeswith abolitionist writing and the literature of the Civil War. Thereading list includes Christopher Columbus, Anne Bradstreet, MaryRowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Henry David Thoreau, NathanielHawthorne, Frederick Douglass, and What Whitman.
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  • ENG 260: American Realism, Naturalism and Modernism

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: WTNG 102This survey course begins with the American realists and naturalistsof the post-Civil War era and continues through 1950. The courseincludes writers of the Lost Generation, the Harlem Renaissance,and the Southern Literary Renaissance. Authors covered include:Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Kate Chopin, StephenCrane, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, and WilliamFaulkner.
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  • ENG 270: British Literature I: From Beowulf to Gothic Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: WTNG 102This course surveys British literature from Beowulf to the late18th century. It provides a sense of literary history, as well as anunderstanding of socio-cultural ideologies (e.g., religion, gender, class,human relationships) and historical events that are both reflected andprojected by texts read within canonical "periods" (e.g., the world ofOld English, Restoration Drama, the Enlightenment, and the Gothic.) It covers a variety of genres, but (for obvious reasons) the focus isweighted toward poetry. This course requires a heavy reading load inboth primary texts and cultural backgrounds. Authors will includethe Beowulf poet, Chaucer, Sidney, Donne, Milton, Pope, Johnson,selected Romantic poets, and a Gothic novelist.
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  • ENG 290: British Literature II: From Romanticism to Modernism

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: WTNG 102This course surveys "British" literature from the late 18th centuryto WWII. It provides a sense of literary history, as well as anunderstanding of socio-cultural ideologies and historical eventsthat these texts both reflect and project (e.g., an increasinglycommercialized literary marketplace, urbanization, the competingideologies of gender equality and separate spheres, Darwinianscience, British imperialism, and the emergence of the post-colonialconsciousness). Students gain an overview of the various canonical"periods" and movements that shape the study of British literature(e.g., the rise of the novel, Victorian, and Modern literature). Thiscourse carries a heavy reading load in both primary texts and culturalbackgrounds. Authors include Goldsmith, Austen, Gaskell, both Eliots,Joyce, Woolf, and Wilde.
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  • ENG 299: Special Topics in English Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration.Prerequisites: Enrollment in or successful completion of WTNG 102 (C- or higher)In this course, students explore special literary topics in seminarfashion. Although the course focuses on primary texts, students areexposed to literary criticism by reading critical articles and composingannotated bibliographies. Topics may include Shakespeare Recycled,the Detective Novel, the Romance Novel, Sports and Literature, andNon-Western Classics This is a variable topics course. The course, butnot the topic, may be repeated for credit.
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  • ENG 300: "British" Literature III: From Empire to Post-Colonialism

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: ENG 100 (or CW 210 and CW 220) and 200 or 300 levelWTNG courseThis course surveys later 20th- and 21st- century- "British" literaturewith a focus on "literatures of empire" that both shaped andsubverted the notion of the British Empire. It introduces a senseof literary history, as well as an understanding of socio-culturalideologies and historical events that these texts both reflect andproject (e.g., the rise of British imperialism, the growing awarenessand subversion by British colonial subjects). This course carries aheavy reading load in both primary texts and cultural backgrounds. Itincludes a variety of genres, but the focus is on the novel. The coursewill pair texts that derive complexity from conjunction (e.g., JosephConrad's Heart of Darkness and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart;E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and Salmon Rushdie's Midnight'sChildren).
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  • ENG 301: Contemporary American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: ENG 100 (or CW 210 and CW 220) and 200 or 300 levelWTNG courseExamines American fiction, poetry, drama, and creativenonfiction of the last half of the twentieth and the twentyfirstcenturies. This course devotes considerable attention tothe literary contributions of contemporary women, AfricanAmericans, Native Americans, and other groups outside theAmerican literary mainstream.
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  • ENG 320: Shakespeare

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: ENG 100 and 200 or 300 level WTNG courseThis course is not for passive readers. Shakespeare wrote for thestage, for live performance. Each week, while students concentrateon reading closely the playwright's written word, they alsotransform their classroom into his stage, collectively bringing hiswords to life. But Shakespeare's art, catholic in nature and scope,is also a historic reservoir, providing students a rich opportunityto explore the social, political, religious, scientific, and historicalconditions that underpin his works. Students investigateRenaissance England's daily life-from bearbaiting to feastingto sumptuary laws-and its political machinations and religiousteachings--from rancorous kings and "tavern diplomacy" to man'snew relationship with God.
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  • ENG 351: Shakespeare on Film

    3.00 Credits
    Roger Williams University

    Prerequisite: ENG 100 and 200 or 300 level WTNG course. This coursemay not substitute for ENG 350This course focuses on film adaptations of William Shakespeare's playsthat "translate" the dramas into cinematic language. Because this isa Shakespeare course, students read a selection of plays, study theirlanguage and structures, and discuss them as dramatic literature.Because this is a film course, students study Shakespeare filmicadaptations from different historical periods and cultures in termsof camera technique, directorial choices, film history, and the timesand places in which they were produced. Students read a history play,a comedy, one or two tragedies, and a romance and then study thefilmic interpretations of those works by some of the most famous (andnot so famous) directors (e.g., Zeffirelli, Wells, Kurosawa, Luhrmann,Branagh). This intertextual study helps students to appreciate therichness of Shakespeare's texts and how they present multiplepossibilities to those who interpret them.
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