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  • ENGLISH 2211: Arthurian Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    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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  • ENGLISH 2296: Creative Writing: Fiction

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    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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  • ENGLISH 2297: Shakespeare

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    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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  • ENGLISH 2301: Survey of American Literature I

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    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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  • ENGLISH 2302: Survey of American Literature II

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    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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  • ENGLISH 2341: American Playwrights

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    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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  • ENGLISH 2396: Creative Writing: Plays

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    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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  • ENGLISH 2401: African-American Literature I

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    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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  • ENGLISH 2402: African-American Literature II

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    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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  • ENGLISH 2496: Introduction to Writing Non-Fiction

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    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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