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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly ENG 1346) 3 credits, 3 hours Pre-requisite: ENG 111 or Department permission In this course students will read, discuss, and closely analyze works by playwrights such as Ibsen, García Lorca, Williams, Brecht, Miller, Hansberry, Wilson, and Deveare Smith. Whenever possible, the class will see selected plays in live performance or by viewing videos. Students will demonstrate their ability to analyze and interpret drama through a variety of writing assignments, including a research paper using both print and on-line resources. By the end of the semester, students will have gained an understanding of different performance styles, dramatic structures, and theatre movements.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly ENG 1352) 3 credits, 3 hours Pre-requisite: ENG 111 or Department permission In this course students will examine Shakespeare's life within the cultural and political influences of his age and trace the evolution of the playwright's career through close study of selected Shakespearean histories, comedies, and tragedies. Students will be encouraged to attend performances and/or view videotapes of his plays. Development of the students' ability to read and understand the Shakespearean play within the genre of drama is a primary objective of the course. Students will write short papers and complete one research project using print and on-line resources. Upon completion of this course, students will have gained an in-depth understanding of the playwright, his works, and the time and place in which he lived and wrote.
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3.00 Credits
(ENG 1365) 3 credits, 3 hours Pre-requisite: ENG 111 or Department permission An introduction to the genre of poetry, this course will expose students to a selection of poems that are generally regarded as classics. Students will learn to summarize, discuss, and interpret these poems, thus increasing their familiarity with ways that various poets use image, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, pun, verse, and rhythm. To demonstrate their control of the course materials, students will write explications and critical commentary about selected texts, at times using print and on-line sources as well as conventions for citation. By the end of the semester, students will be able to use the critical terms taught in class to analyze a range of poetry, spanning several centuries, cultures, and representing different forms.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits, 3 hours Pre-requisite: ENG 111 This course introduces students to the literary meaning and use of the central religious text of Western literature, the Judeo-Christian Bible, and will examine the textual history and exegesis of a selection of Biblical texts, for example: Genesis, the Book of Job, the Book of Jonah, the Song of Songs, the Psalms, the Gospel according to Matthew, and Revelations- and consider their use in contemporary literary texts. Students will acquire the mastery of the Modern Language Association (MLA) system of parenthetical citation and will work at incorporating quotations and paraphrases into their analysis of literary texts. Students will be required to complete a research paper using refereed literary sources. A consistent and correct use of university-level English is required to pass this class.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly ENG 1348) 3 credits, 3 hours Pre-requisite: ENG 111 or Department permission This course will introduce students to the culturally diverse body of children's literature as a field of literary study. After a brief historical introduction in which the development of writing for children is presented within a socio-cultural context, students will read and respond, orally and in writing, to outstanding selections reflecting the multicultural heritage of this literature. Through lectures, class discussion, and supplemental textbook and journal article readings, students will be exposed to folklore, fairy tales, fantasy, poetry, and realistic fiction. As a final project, students will conduct an in-depth genre, author, or cultural study by using print and on-line resources. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate literature written for readers from preschool through young adult.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly ENG 1350) 3 credits, 3 hours Pre-requisite: ENG 111 or Department permission This course will introduce students to Latin American literature in translation, covering fiction, poetry, and the novel from the perspective of multiculturalism and pluralism. Using literary and cultural analysis, students will examine texts for social, racial, and gender issues and explore problems in translation through discussion and papers. Students will also complete one research project using print and on-line resources. Upon completion of this course, students will not only have sharpened their textual analysis skills, but will also have gained a better understanding of Latin American literature and culture, and the problems of translation.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly ENG 1356) 3 credits, 3 hours Pre-requisite: ENG 111 or Department permission In this course, students will examine representations of women in literature from several historical periods and cultures, reading works by well-known and little-known women writers. Analyzing literature from the perspective of feminist studies, students will consider why women writers have been excluded from the canon, how patriarchal culture and gender stereotyping have influenced women's lives, and women's imaginativewriting. This course requires students to complete a research paper using conventions for citation and both print and on-line sources. By the end of the semester, students will be able to identify important differences and similarities among diverse women writers and will have gained knowledge of contributions that women writers have made over time. Credit will be awarded in either English or Women's studies.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly ENG 1351) 3 credits, 3 hours Pre-requisites: ENG 111, PSY 1032 or Department permission In this course students will analyze works of literature by using psychological concepts to illuminate symbol, motivation, themes, and narrative strategy. Assigned literary texts will focus students' attention on subjects such as psychoanalytic theory, adolescent development, group processes, scapegoating, madness, and moral decision-making. Students will demonstrate their grasp of course materials by writing interdisciplinary essays, including one researched essay in which they use conventions for citation and both print and on-line sources. At the end of the course, students will have acquired an ability to interpret literary works through the various psychological perspectives studied in class.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly ENG 1358) 3 credits, 3 hours Pre-requisite: ENG 111 or Department permission Students will study autobiography, fiction, poetry, and drama of African Americans by examining the works of writers such as Douglass, Jacobs, Wright, Baldwin, Hurston, and Hansberry. In this course students will demonstrate their understanding of the development of African American literature by completing several short essays and one research paper using print and on-line sources. By the semester's end, students will be able to analyze and compare different works with special attention to the dynamics of history, culture, and the production of literary texts in the African American community of writers.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly ENG 1360) 3 credits, 3 hours Pre-requisite: ENG 111 or Department permission This course will introduce students to alternate visions of society. It will move from Plato's Republic to works by Shelley, Bellamy, Clarke, Atwood, Huxley, and Bradbury. Students will explore the role of science, the technological explosion, world famine, gender roles, human relationships, and the location of power sites in visions of possible futures. Where available, films will be shown. There will be four to six short papers and a long research project using print and on-line resources. Upon completion of this course, students will have gained a sharper insight into the relationship between time present and time future and the role of literature in imaginatively examining philosophical, scientific, and cultural issues.
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