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English (ENG)
David Evans (chair), Leslie Hankins, Stephen Lacey, Timothy Liu, Richard Martin
Major: A minimum of nine course credits in English beyond 111, which include ENG 210, 211, 212, 411, and one course selected from each of the following groups: ENG 321-326, 328-336, 343-351, and 361-372.
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 (preferably at the start of their sophomore year) and complete a second major in Secondary Education described under Education.
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 ENG 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) 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
217. Writing for Television
Techniques of, and practice in, writing spec scripts. Produced scripts of current productions provide the context for students' own writing. Additional topics include the collaborative nature of television, freelancing vs. staff writing, exigencies of structure and time frame, the roles of the agent and the Writer's Guild. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Fine Arts) RECKLING
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. Same as MUS 240. (Humanities) LACEY and HAMLIN
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. Alternate years. (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. Alternate years. (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, the drama, or gender and literature. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (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)
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)
334. Nineteenth Century English Novel
Dickens' Bleak House, Eliot's Middlemarch, and other selected novels of the period. 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 Fiction
Modern fiction in English chosen from Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Richardson, H.D., Kincaid, and/or others. May focus on a topic such as the Gender of Modernism or the Künstlerroman. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (Humanities) HANKINS
343. The American Renaissance
Literary and cultural trends in the early nineteenth century, a formative period of American literature, concentrating on the works of two or three major authors - such as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) MARTIN
345. Late Nineteenth Century American Literature
Literary and cultural trends which followed the Civil War and gave birth to the modern age, concentrating on the works of several major authors - such as Twain, Jewett, James, Wharton, Dickinson, Whitman, Crane,and Chopin. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) MARTIN
347. Modern American Literature
Literary and cultural trends following the First World War, concentrating on two or three of the writers whose work defined modern literature - such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, O'Connor, Welty, and McCullers. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) MARTIN
349. Jazz: Fact, Film, and Fiction
Jazz, the unique American art form, has posed a problem and a challenge for artists in other media. This course studies the ways other artistic media have tried to deal with, incorporate, or imitate this music and its environment. Course focuses on jazz itself and explores several jazz-based or jazz-influenced novels and short stories and various kinds of jazz-based or jazz-influenced films. 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, and Edward Abbey. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) Martin
351. African-American Literature
Focus on major African-American writers. Emphasis on period may vary; films may be represented. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) HANKINS
361. Modern Poetry
Modern poetry in English: Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Williams, Crane, Moore, and 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)
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
Studies of international literature and film, such as European avant-garde film and Modernist literature of the 1920s and 1930s, or women writers, directors, and film theorists of the 1920s and 1930s. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) HANKINS
367. Multicultural Literature
Major authors across cultures. Critical analysis of texts by national and international writers of ``minority'' status. May include groups marginalized by ethnicity (non-Anglo-American), sexual orientation, and socioeconomic class. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (Humanities) LIU
371. Critical Theory
Survey of critical theories or an in-depth focus on one theory. Possibilities include Narratology, feminist theories, Reader-Response Theory, New Historicism, or Cultural Studies. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) HANKINS
372. Film and Film Criticism
Critical analysis of films as artistic and cultural texts. Focus may be on an individual director, such as Hitchcock, or a topic, such as Women Directors. (This is not a film production course.) Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) HANKINS
374. Topics in Literature
A topic that integrates literature and material from other disciplines. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities)
390. Individual Project: see Courses 390.
411. Senior Seminar
Various critical approaches to literature and of general literary problems. Open only to senior English majors. (Humanities)
480. Internship
Diverse internship options may include 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, 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
Diverse internship options may include 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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