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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Identical to GER 329.
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3.00 Credits
A study of England's two greatest epics, The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost. Subjects for discussion include the epic tradition, Christian theology, Renaissance humanism, the nature of masculinity and femininity, armed combat with dragons, forbidden picnics, and many others in two of the Western tradition's most varied, inclusive, and interesting works of art. Prerequisite: junior status or consent. Offered spring of even-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
A course in expository writing and composition theory which combines opportunities to improve skills in designing, drafting, and revising prose with an examination of ways of teaching writing and discussions of composition theory and practice. Students explore academic writing, journalism, technical writing, and creative nonfiction. Prerequisites: English 105 and one 200-level literature course. Offered each semester.
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1.00 Credits
Peer writing tutors help other students understand their writing problems and improve their skills. They work three hours per week on an arranged schedule and are trained, supervised, and evaluated by the Director of the Writing Center. Prerequisites: junior status, B or above in ENG 105, recommendation of an English faculty member and consent of the Writing Center director. Offered each semester.
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2.00 Credits
Selected students work closely with faculty members in the teaching of ENG 105 and other courses. Students gain experience in the various aspects of teaching grammar, composition, and literature. Prerequisite: consent. Offered on demand.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the principal works of Shakespeare. The first part of the course concentrates on plays in which love, femininity and the family are particularly important, while those of the second emphasize history, masculinity and the state. Either course can satisfy the English or theatre requirement. Prerequisite: sophomore status or consent. With prior consent may fulfill the sophomore literature requirement. Identical to TH 346-347. Shakespeare I offered each fall; Shakespeare II offered each spring.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major plays from what would be England's finest period of drama, even without Shakespeare. Among the kinds of plays are heroic history, humours comedy, domestic melodrama, and revenge tragedy; the authors include such major figures as Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster. Prerequisite: junior status or consent. Offered spring of odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
A chronological and thematic survey of British Restoration and 18th century writing. Major figures, such as Dryden, Swift, Pope, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Johnson, are studied alongside important women writers, including Behn, Cavendish, Astell, Haywood, Lennox, Fielding, and Burney. Setting literary texts into their historical contexts, focus is given to genre, print culture, natural philosophy, empire, nationalism, and the emergence of a polite, commercial society. Prerequisite: English 105 with a grade of C or better. Offered intermittently.
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3.00 Credits
Explores British Romanticism as a literary movement of the years 1784-1832, and situates writers and their writing in relation to issues of industrial transformation, slavery and abolition, the rights of man and woman, revolution, and the condition of the working classes. Prerequisite: ENG 105 with a grade of C or better. Offered fall of oddnumbered years.
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3.00 Credits
See description under ENG 261. Taught at the same time as ENG 261 but with increased reading and writing requirements. Prerequisite: junior status or consent. Offered intermittently.
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