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English (ENG)
Stephen Lacey (chair), Catherine Burroughs, David Evans, Leslie Hankins, Timothy Liu, Richard Martin
Major: A minimum of 9 course credits in English beyond 111, which include 210, 211, 212, 411, and one course selected from each of the following groups: 321-326, 328-336, 343-351, and 361-371.
Teaching Major: The same as above, to include 311 and either 323 or 324; EDU 322 (Secondary Arts, Languages, and Adolescent Literature); and COM 121 (Speech Communication). In addition to the foregoing requirements, prospective teachers must also apply for admission to the Teacher Education Program and complete a second major in Secondary Education described under Education.
Concentration: In addition to the major programs, the Department offers a concentration in English, a flexible program leading to the B.S.S. or B.Ph. degree or to an interdisciplinary major. Such a program may involve extensive work in other departments as well as in English literature and language: e.g., American studies, comparative literature, contemporary culture, period studies.
111. Composition and Literature
Seminar, recommended for all first-year students, designed to cultivate, through intensive study of a limited body of subject matter, the ability to understand and write about literature. A variety of subjects is offered each year. Students should complete English 111 in their first year.
210. American Survey
Development of American literature from the beginnings to the 20th century. Emphasis is both textual and historical. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) MARTIN
211. English Survey I
Development of English literature from Chaucer to Johnson. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) EVANS or LACEY
212. English Survey II
Development of English literature from the Romantics to the present. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) BURROUGHS or HANKINS
213. Writing Fiction I
Beginning course in the art of fiction, emphasizing form and language in the work of specific writers, along with some writing of fiction and criticism of student work. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (Fine Arts) LIU
214. Writing Poetry I
Beginning course in the art of poetry, emphasizing form and language in the work of specific poets, along with some writing of poetry and criticism of student work. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (Fine Arts) LIU
240. Theatre and the Arts in England
English art and culture, particularly theatre and music, through visiting sites and regions significant in English history, and attending a number of theatrical and musical events. Team-taught in England. Registration entails additional costs. Alternate years. (Humanities) LACEY and BURROUGHS
311. English Grammar
Structure of the English sentence, primarily through conventional diagramming but also through various types of ``new grammar.'' History of the English language. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities)
313. Writing Fiction II
Advanced course in the art of fiction. Wide and current reading knowledge of modern writers assumed. Emphasis on writing fiction and criticism of student work. Manuscript of passable fiction, ten pages in length, is requisite to admission. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (Fine Arts) LIU
314. Writing Poetry II
Advanced course in the art of poetry. Wide and current reading knowledge of modern poets assumed. Emphasis on writing poetry and criticism of student work. Manuscript of half-a-dozen passable poems is requisite to admission. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (Fine Arts) LIU
315. The Art of the Essay: The Pleasure of Writing Well
The contemporary essay: the development of the form from Montaigne to Joan Didion. Emphasis on informed and lively student writing. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Fine Arts) LIU
321. Mediaeval English Literature
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and other works of mediaeval literature, studied from a textual and historical perspective. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) EVANS
322. Mediaeval and Renaissance Drama (Excluding Shakespeare)
Rise of English drama from its roots in the liturgy, to its emergence as religious restatement for the high Middle Ages, to its flowering as the secular, humanistic theatre of Marlowe, Kyd, Jonson, Tourneur, Webster, and Ford. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) LACEY
323. Shakespeare I: Poems and Comedies
Critical and dramatic approach to Shakespeare. Discussion of selected plays and poems from Shakespeare's early period. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) LACEY
324. Shakespeare II: Tragedies and Romances
Critical analysis of the development of Shakespeare's tragedies and romances, with attention paid to their religious, ritual, and historical contexts. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) LACEY
325. Renaissance Non-Dramatic Literature
English and Continental literature of the period 1500-1660. Topics may include the sonnet sequence, metaphysical poetry, intellectual prose, or an intensive examination of a particular theme across generic boundaries. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) EVANS or LACEY
326. Milton
The works of John Milton. Intensive reading of Paradise Lost in the context of the political, social and religious conflict of 17th century England. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) EVANS
328. Eighteenth Century English Literature
Works of major and minor authors of the period 1660-1798. Topics may include the rise of the novel, satire, or the drama. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) EVANS
331. English Literature: The Romantics
Works written between 1789 and 1832. First and second generation canonical writers and lesser known writers of the period. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) BURROUGHS
333. Victorian English Literature
Poetry, novels, essays, and plays written between 1837 and 1901. Emphasis on visual art and literary criticism. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) BURROUGHS
334. Nineteenth Century English Novel
Some of the best English novels of the period: Eliot's Middlemarch and Dickens' Bleak House. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (Humanities) EVANS
335. Virginia Woolf
Various works, such as A Room of One's Own, To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves, Orlando, Between the Acts, and excerpts from essays, letters, and diaries. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (Humanities) HANKINS
336. Twentieth Century English Literature
A mapping of modernism(s) through attention to works and movements or to a major modern writer such as Woolf, Joyce, or Lawrence. Also cinema and visual arts. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (Humanities) HANKINS
343. The American Renaissance
One of the major writers of the mid 19th century. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (Humanities) MARTIN
345. Late Nineteenth Century American Literature
Dickinson, Twain, James, Crane, Whitman, Jewett, and others. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) MARTIN
347. Twentieth Century American Literature
Literary and cultural trends in the early 20th century, concentrating on the works of two or three major authors. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) MARTIN
349. Topics in American Literature and Culture
A topic that integrates literature and material from other disciplines. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) MARTIN
350. American Nature Writers
Study of writers concerned with our relation to nature and our environment; such authors as John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Annie Dillard, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) MARTIN
351. African-American Literature
Major African-American writers from the Colonial period to the present. Emphasis on period will vary. Literary theory. Contemporary films. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) BURROUGHS
361. Modern Poetry
Modern poetry in English: Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Williams, Crane, Moore, H.D. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) LIU
362. Modern Theatre
Works in translation from traditions worldwide, ranging from the early 20th century to the present. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) BURROUGHS
363. Contemporary Fiction
Intensive look at recent and experimental developments in fiction as represented by writers like Raymond Carver, Lydia Davis, and Barry Hannah. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) LIU
364. Contemporary Poetry
Poets whose work has come to prominence since 1950 and an overview of poetic trends in America. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) LIU
365. Comparative Literature
Culture and literary study of a period or movement, across language divisions. May include film and other cultural studies. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) HANKINS
366. Third World Literature
Major authors of Third World countries: e.g., Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka from Africa; V.S. Naipaul and Bharati Mukherjee from India; Gabriel Marquez and Pablo Neruda from Latin America. Genres, works, and writers vary from year to year. Prerequisite: ENG 111 (Humanities) LIU
371. Critical Theory
Studies of theories in their own rights as well as theories as methods for probing texts and cultural contexts. Survey from New Criticism to contemporary approaches, with a focus on narratology, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, new historicism, Reader-response, and Feminist and Marxist theories. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) HANKINS
374. Topics in Literature
A topic that integrates literature and material from other disciplines. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities)
375. The Body as Social Text
Same as ANT 375 (See Anthropology for complete course description). Alternate years. (Humanities) BURROUGHS and EHRENREICH
376. Topics in Film Studies
Film as a medium for creating and conveying meaning. Topics may include treatment of specific problems or issues, the works of individual directors, or adaptations of literary works. (This is not a film production course.) Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities)
411. Senior Seminar
Various critical approaches to literature and of general literary problems. Open only to senior English majors. (Humanities)
480. Internship in Writing
Writing and editing in the commercial world such as working for a newspaper, a magazine, or a publishing house. Prerequisites: ENG 111, junior or senior standing, and departmental approval. No more than four terms of ENG 480 and/or 490 may be counted toward the minimum 32 course credits required for graduation; no more than two terms toward an English major. (CR)
490. Summer Internship in Writing
Writing and editing in the commercial world such as working for a newspaper, a magazine, a publishing house, or another communications medium. Prerequisites: ENG 111, junior or senior standing, acceptance by a sponsoring agency or individual, and departmental approval. No more than four terms of ENG 480 and/or 490 may be counted toward the minimum 32 course credits required for graduation; no more than two terms toward an English major. (See ``Courses, 490.'') (CR)
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