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3.00 Credits
ENGL 2185 Classical Mythology (3L,3CR) Focuses on Greek myth and legend. Included as background are geography, history, excerpts from literature, and theories of interpretation. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010. ENGL 1020 recommended.
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3.00 Credits
ENGL 2210 English Literature I (3L,3CR) [E] [CH] A survey of British literature from the Anglo-Saxons to the 18th century. Emphasis is on reading, discussing, and writing about important works in our literary heritage. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010. ENGL 1020 recommended.
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3.00 Credits
ENGL 2220 English Literature II (3L,3CR) A survey of British literature from the early 19th century to the modern period. Emphasis is on reading, discussing, and writing about important works in our literary heritage. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010. ENGL 1020 recommended.
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4.00 Credits
ENGL 2225 Playing With Shakespeare: Literature in Performance (4L,4CR) A fresh look at Shakespeare, aimed at engaging students' interests and increasing their appreciation and enjoyment of his works. Study will includea variety of different performances, examining and responding to the interpretations of actors, directors, and literary critics in order to arrive at a more complete understanding of Shakespeare's plays, both as literature and performance. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010. ENGL 1020 recommended.
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3.00 Credits
ENGL 2230 Introduction to Shakespeare (3L,3CR) Students are introduced to the works of Shakespeare through careful reading (and re-reading) of representative major plays and/or sonnets in order to become acquainted with Shakespeare's dramatic and poetical art. Both formal lecture and discussion will cover each reading. From time to time the class will watch tapes of scenes from the plays in order to understand how the plays might be staged and actors interpret roles. In addition to reading between eight and 12 plays and a dozen or so sonnets, students will take mid-term and final objective and essay examinations, report on the interpretation by a major critic (Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Bradley, Harrison, and so on), and write one short and one extended (possibly research) essay. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010. ENGL 1020 recommended.
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3.00 Credits
ENGL 2235 Literature of Horror (3L,3CR)[E] A study of the development and traditions of the supernatural in American literature. Class readings will consist mostly of prose fiction, although there will be a few assigned readings of nonfiction. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010. ENGL 1020 recommended.
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3.00 Credits
ENGL 2270 Modern Women Writers (3L,3CR) An introductory level course, which will focus on women writers of the late 19th century and of the 20th century. Works by earlier writers demonstrate the traditional roles of women in society as well as questions about and challenges to those roles, while works written since the middle of the 20th century image women in a changing society. These works are the background to contemporary literature which presents positive and powerful images of women as recent writers revision traditional roles and envision new realities for women and for society. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010. ENGL 1020 recommended.
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3.00 Credits
ENGL 2310 American Literature I (3L,3CR) [CH] A survey of major American writers and their significant contributions from the Colonial Era to the Civil War. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010. ENGL 1020 recommended.
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3.00 Credits
ENGL 2320 American Literature II (3L,3CR) A continuation of ENGL 2310: American writers from the Civil War to the mid 20th Century. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010. ENGL 1020 recommended.
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3.00 Credits
ENGL 2350 African American Literature (3L,3CR) A chronological and thematic survey of black American writers and their works, from the earliest slave narratives to contemporary writings. This course will explore one specific sector of the diversity of American literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010. ENGL 1020 recommended.
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