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  • HEN 419: Modern Fiction (W)

    3.00 Credits
    Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

    (Writing Intensive Course) This course is a study of contemporary American fiction through writing strategies selected by each author. The class will focus on writers whose work reflects America of the new millennium. Pre-Requisite: HEN113. OR The distance Learning version of HEN419 Modern Fiction to be offered as an "On-line" course in which more than 80% of the instruction will be completed outside of the classroom. Pre-Requisite: HEN113
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  • HEN 420: Literary Criticism

    3.00 Credits
    Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

    This course is designed for English and Communication majors and is necessary for those who wish to pursue further literary study as post-graduates or professionals. Through intensive reading, presenting, and writing, students will learn how to analyze literature using several contemporary theories. These theories are commonplace and expected tools of analysis among literary scholars. Students will gain fundamental understanding of contemporary literary movements and theories as well as an understanding how these theories relate, merge and compliment one another. In short, students will learn how to understand and use literary theory and will learn how to write literary criticism. Pre-Requisite:HEN 113; one 300- or 400-level literature course. Prerequisite:    HEN 113
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  • HEN 421: Creative Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

    This course explores the myriad choices and devices employed by writers in the creation of their works. Critical readings are used to promote a greater appreciation of the arts in general and literature in particular. Students are asked to write a series of poems, stories, and plays in order to experience the processes they study. Workshops and peer reviews of student work will be conducted throughout the course to provide students with critical feedback on their writing and to emphasize revision. Pre-Requisite: HEN113.
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  • HEN 422: Chaucer

    3.00 Credits
    Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

    In this course students will read The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyede, and selected short poems from Geoffrey Chaucer. Students will learn about political, social, and cultural contexts during Chaucer's time. An original research paper is required.Pre-Requisite: HEN113
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  • HEN 424: History Of English

    3.00 Credits
    Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

    This course is an introduction to the major periods in the history of English. Each period is placed in a socio-historical context with the important linquistic chages in each period noted. For each period the student will analyze literary texts and will recognize that English is a changing language. The course challenges the student to do high level research and oral reporting both on the history of English and on sociolinquistic processes. Pre-Requisite: HEN113.
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  • HEN 426: Major 20th Cent Authors (W)

    3.00 Credits
    Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

    (Writing-Intensive course) This course is an intensive reading, writing, thinking experience designed to analyze the work and explore the themes of major writers of the twentieth century, thereby improving our own abilities to read closely and thoroughly, write and think. Course objectives are to expand our knowledge and appreciation of the style and structure of literary works, and to examine their didactic, aesthetic and entertainment values in terms of the cultural relativity of world literature. Pre-Requisite: HEN113. OR The distance Learning version of HEN426 Major 20th Century Authors to be offered as an "On-line" course in which more than 80% of the instruction will be completed outside of the class room. Pre-Requisite: HEN113
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  • HEN 428: Modern English Grammar

    3.00 Credits
    Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

    Study of history and limitations of traditional and structural grammar and an examination of transformational generative grammar. Emphasis on the application of techniques to the teaching of English. Pre-Requisite: HEN113.
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  • HEN 429: Short Story (W)

    3.00 Credits
    Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

    (Writing Intensive Course) Students will read a wide range of short stories and novellas from different periods and cultures. Students will examine how each story is structured, but will also look at the story's cultural context: when it was written, where it was written, and, surmise why it was written. Pre-Requisite: HEN113.
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  • HEN 430: African American Literature I (A,W)

    3.00 Credits
    Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

    (Writing Intensive Course, African-American Heritage Intensive Course). The works of major African American authors such as Dunbar, Douglas, DuBois, Washington, Johnson, Hughes and others) will be analyzed with special consideration of the effect of the American milieu upon the art and tenor of their work. From Juniper Hammon and Phillis Wheatley to approximately 1939 - 1940 and World War ll, autobiographies, speeches, poems and novels will be explored. A research paper is required. The distance Learning version of HEN 430 to be offered as an "On-line" course in which more than 80% of the instruction will be completed outside of the classroom. Prerequisite:    HEN 113
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  • HEN 431: African American Literature II (A,W)

    3.00 Credits
    Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

    (African-American Heritage Intensive Course & Writing Intensive Course), The works of African American authors since 1940 will be covered. The relatively newer genre of drama, the novel, and the essay will be analyzed. Such contemporary writers as Baldwin, Hughes, Hurston, Walker, Morrison and others will be explored. A research paper is required. Pre-Requisite : HEN113 Prerequisite:    HEN 113
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