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  • ENGLISH 3001: History of Criticism

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    A survey of literary criticism from Plato to the mid-20th century. Key questions in literary theory: What is literature compared to other forms of discourse? Does literature mimic or create? Does literary value adhere to or challenge standards of philosophical or empirical truth? What is the source of literary creation? How does literary value shape social change? These and other questions are addressed through readings in literary and theoretical texts. Prerequisite:    ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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  • ENGLISH 3002: Contemporary Criticism

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Comparative study of literary theories from the 1960s to the present. Survey of several contemporary critical schools, including deconstructionist, neo-psychological, neo-Marxist, new historical, feminist, sociological, and aesthetic criticism. Prerequisite:    ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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  • ENGLISH 3010: Special Topics I

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Advanced study in a specific area, usually concentrating on pre-1900 works.

    Note: Variable content; consult undergraduate office or English web page for details. Prerequisite:    ENGLISH 2097 (W100)

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  • ENGLISH 3020: Special Topics II

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Advanced study in a specific area, usually concentrating on post-1900 works.

    Note: Variable content; consult Undergraduate Office or English web page for details. Prerequisite:    ENGLISH 2097 (W100)

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  • ENGLISH 3082: Independent Study

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Allows students in their junior and senior year to pursue serious independent research in a subject too specialized or too advanced to appear as a regular course offering. Prerequisite:    ENGLISH 2097 (W100). Proposals must be worked out with a supervisor and submitted to the Undergraduate Committee by November 20 for spring semester registration and April 15 for summer or fall registration
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  • ENGLISH 3085: Career Internship

    1.00 - 12.00 Credits
    Temple University

    On-the-job training in positions in business, publishing, communications, or cultural institutions for juniors and seniors.

    Note: One semester may be counted toward the English major. For additional information consult Prof. P. Robison, 215E, TUCC, prob@temple.edu. Prerequisite:    ENGLISH 2097 (W100); Permission of instructor; G.P.A. of at least 3.0

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  • ENGLISH 3097: Feminist Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Readings in contemporary theorists who describe how the values of a culture are encoded in its language and who analyze the difficulty of escaping the prison house of language. How gender roles are created in and enforced by our symbol systems; how specific discourses change, how those changes can be facilitated, and how a new discourse is then read. Along with theoretical readings, some consideration of feminist applications of these strategies in politics, literature, music, and film. Prerequisite:    ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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  • ENGLISH 3111: Italian Renaissance

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course covers major writers and works of the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and Ariosto. Focus is placed on the rebirth of classical values and ideas, and their new forms of expression, which shall be known as the Renaissance. Due attention is given to such themes as the new concept of art and the new image of the artist through the study of Michelangelo’s poetry and Cellini’s Autobiography, as well as the concept of a united Italy, idealized from Dante through Machiavelli, but never historically achieved.
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  • ENGLISH 3112: Masterpieces of European Drama

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    A reading and analysis of a wide range of continental European drama. Representative works from such great ages of drama as classical Greek and Roman, French neoclassic, and modern. Readings may include plays by Aeschylus, Euripides, Terence, Calderon, Racine, Moliere, Goethe, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, and Beckett. Prerequisite:    ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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  • ENGLISH 3196: Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Workshop intended to help advanced writers produce, revise, and critique poetry. The premise is that in order to learn to make poems, one needs to learn to read like a poet; in addition to producing original work, therefore, students may read and discuss work by certain contemporary poets. Prerequisite:    Successful completion of one 2000-level creative writing course--preferably 2196 (Creative Wrting: Poetry), but 2296, 2396, 2496 are acceptable; and one upper-level literature course. Admission by special authorization only
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