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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys major literary works in poetry, prose and drama of the Jacobean period through the English Civil War and Restoration. Authors may include Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell, Philips, Milton, Dryden, Wycherley and Behn. Emphasis is placed on cultural and historical contexts, as well as the texts themselves. Prerequisites: ENG 111 & ENG 112. Alternate years, Fall '10.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys major literary works in poetry, fiction, and drama of the Eighteenth Century and examines topics such as satire and the rise of the novel. Authors may include Swift, Pope, Defoe, Johnson, Richardson, Fielding, Sheridan and Sterne, among others. Emphasis is placed on cultural and historical contexts, as well as the texts themselves. Prerequisites: ENG 111 & ENG 112. Alternate years, Spring '11.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys literature of the English Romantic Period (1790-1832) in the major genres, of poetry, non-fiction prose, and prose fiction. Authors may include Wollstonecraft, Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, DeQuincey, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, Keats, Austen, and the Brontes, among others. Emphasis is placed upon cultural and historical contexts as well as on the texts themselves. Prerequisites: ENG 111 & ENG 112. Alternate years, Spring '11.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys literature of the English Victorian Age (1832-1901) in the major genres of poetry, non-fiction prose, drama, and prose fiction. Authors may include Carlyle, Dickens, J.S. Mill, Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arnold, Dante and Christina Rossetti, Swinburne, Morris, Wilde, George Eliot, and Hardy, among others. Emphasis is placed upon cultural and historical contexts as well as on the texts themselves. Prerequisites: ENG 111 & ENG 112. Alternate years, Spring, '10.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys selections of English and Irish literature from 1900 to the present. Authors include, but are not limited to, Yeats, Joyce, Eliot, Lawrence, and Woolf. Emphasis is placed on cultural and historical contexts as well as on texts. Prerequisites: ENG 111 & ENG 112. Alternate years, Spring, '10.
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3.00 Credits
These theoretically-informed courses examine a particular subject not ordinarily treated in detail in other writing or language courses offered regularly by the department. Course topics might include areas such as the construction of gender in writing, pedagogical theory and writing, or classical or contemporary rhetorical theory. Prerequisites: ENG 111 & ENG 112. As needed.
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3.00 Credits
Emphasizes the strategies and formats required for effective written communication in professional and technical fields. The course requires clear, concise writing in various formats (memos, reports, etc.) geared to appropriate audiences as well as the use of graphics. Prerequisites: ENG 111 & ENG 112. Each semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to writing pedagogy from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Students will trace historical changes in writing pedagogy from classical to contemporary and will develop a teaching philosophy grounded in pedagogical theory and individual tutoring experience. Students will practice responding to student writing, and designing effective assignments for a writing course. Required for English/Secondary Education track. Prerequisites: ENG 111 & ENG 112. Alternate Years, Spring '11, as needed.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines a particular theme, genre or subject in literature, not ordinarily treated in detail in other literature courses offered regularly by the department. Courses offered include such topics as Women in Literature, Gothic and Mystery Literature and Film, Science Fiction, and The Comic Tradition. Prerequisites: ENG 111 & ENG 112. As needed.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an intensive study of one major author (or in some cases two closely connected authors). Students will examine a substantial body of the work of the author selected and may examine biographical and critical materials as well. A literary research paper is required. Because the author varies from year to year, ENG 390 may be taken more than once for credit. Students who are not English majors, English minors, or Elementary Education majors (with English concentration) must obtain permission of the instructor to take English 390 Major Authors. Annually, Spring, as needed.
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