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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the mythological and historical aspects of the legends surrounding King Arthur and the Round Table, concentrating on the chief British and continental works involving such subjects as Arthur, Merlin, and the Lady of the Lake, Lancelot and Guenevere, Tristan and Isolde, Gawain, Perceval, and the Grail.
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3.00 Credits
Workshop in which students read and discuss
one another’s material and develop skills as
both writers and readers. Students may read
selected contemporary American works of
fiction, but the main texts will be those
produced by members of the class. Beginning
writers welcome, but thorough grounding in
the conventions of grammar, spelling, and
punctuation essential.
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3.00 Credits
A study of major plays of Shakespeare, usually chosen from among the comedies, tragedies, and histories. Teaches appropriate principles of literary analysis, with some attention to social and intellectual background and Elizabethan stage techniques. May focus primarily on the plays as literature, or may study them as performed texts.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of American literature from the colonial and federalist periods and the New England renaissance of the mid-19th century in its historical and social settings. Emphasizes close textual analysis along with broad literary and cultural themes. Literary forms include diaries, letters, sermons, poetry, fiction, travel narratives, and historical chronicles. Authors such as Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, Wheatley, Freneau, Irving, Bryant, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, and Emily Dickinson. Note: Required for all English majors. Should be taken before most upper-level courses.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of American literature from the late 19th century to the present in its historical and social settings. Emphasizes close textual analysis along with broad literary and cultural themes. Broad literary movements, such as Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism; historical and cultural contexts, e.g., the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, the Vietnam War; issues of gender construction, racial and ethnic consciousness, the growth of cities, and technology. Authors may include: Chopin, Wharton, James, Twain, Norris; Du Bois, Dunbar, Hughes, Hurston; Frost, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Pound, Eliot, Millay, Loy; Ginsberg, Baraka, Sanchez; Roth, Mukherjee, Alexie. Note: Required for all English majors. Should be taken before most upper-level courses.
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3.00 Credits
A study of American playwrights from O’Neill to the present. Principles of dramatic analysis, the distinctively American qualities of the plays and their debt to modern European drama. Writers may include Williams, Miller, Hellman, Hansberry, Baraka, Fuller, Wilson, Mamet, Rabe, Fornes, Shepard.
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3.00 Credits
Workshop in which students read and discuss
one another’s material and develop skills as
both writers and readers. Students may
consider dramatic and stylistic problems in
selected contemporary American plays, but
the main texts will be those produced by
members of the class.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of African-American literature from its beginnings to the early 20th century--poetry, prose, slave narratives, and fiction--including the works of authors such as Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, W. W. Brown, Harriet Wilson, Frances E. W. Harper, Charles Chesnutt, B.T. Washington, J.W. Johnson, and W.E.B. DuBois. An examination of racial consciousness as a theme rooted in social and historical developments, with special emphasis on national, cultural, and racial identity, color, caste, oppression, resistance, and other concepts related to race and racism emerging in key texts of the period. Note: This course can be used to satisfy the university Core Studies in Race (RS) requirement. Although it may be usable towards graduation as a major requirement or university elective, it cannot be used to satisfy any of the university GenEd requirements. See your advisor for further information.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of African-American literature from 1915 to the present, including poetry, prose, fiction, and drama. Analysis of developments in racial consciousness, from “race pride” to the Black Aesthetic and the influences on literature brought about by interracial conflicts, social and historical concepts such as assimilation and integration, and changing notions of culture. Authors such as Toomer, Hughes, McKay, Hurston, Brown, Larsen, Wright, Baldwin, Hansberry, Ellison, Baraka, Morrison, and others. Note: This course can be used to satisfy the university Core Studies in Race (RS) requirement. Although it may be usable towards graduation as a major requirement or university elective, it cannot be used to satisfy any of the university GenEd requirements. See your advisor for further information.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the demands of writing articles and stories drawn from observation, reflection, and analysis for a public audience. Genres highlighted in the course may include travel writing, character portraits, public argument, and memoir.
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