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Next: Environmental Studies (ENV) Up: Courses of Instruction Previous: Education (EDU)
English (ENG)
David Evans (chair), Leslie Hankins,
Angela Jones, Stephen Lacey,
Richard Martin
Adjunct Faculty/Academic Staff: Ann Reckling
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.
Minor: A minimum of six course credits which include two courses selected from among ENG 210, 211, and 212; and four courses selected from at least two of the following groups: ENG 321-326, 328-336, 343-351, and 361-372.
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 its beginnings to the twentieth 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 or JONES
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)
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)
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. Offered subject to availability of staff. (Fine Arts) RECKLING
240. Theatre, Music, 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 EVANS
290/390. Individual Project: see Courses 290/390.
311. Grammar and the Politics of English
An examination of the structures and forms which currently govern
standard usage of the English language. Encompasses a broad view of
grammar as a subject by a wide-ranging investigation of the history and
development of the language, considering everything from the
Indo-European roots of English to current debates over Ebonics and other
nonstandard uses of English. Prerequisite: ENG 111.
Alternate years. (Humanities) JONES
316. Advanced Writing Workshop
Advanced course in the art of poetry and prose. Wide and current reading
knowledge of contemporary writers assumed. Emphasis on writing poetry
and/or prose as well as criticism of student work. Poetry and prose will
be workshopped on separate days (students may attend either or both).
Manuscript of passable fiction or poetry, 10 pages in length, is
requisite to admission and should be submitted to the English department
secretary, during the week of registration. May be repeated once for
credit. Prerequisites: ENG 213 or 214 and
permission of instructor. Alternate years. (Fine Arts)
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. Offered every third year. (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.
Alternate years. (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 seventeenth 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 satire, the drama, gender and
literature, or a selected theme. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (Humanities) EVANS
329. Eighteenth Century Fiction
A study of the ``rise of the novel,'' including such authors as Behn,
Defoe, the Fieldings, Richardson, Burney, Sterne, Edgeworth, and Austen,
in the context of the social changes that promoted this generic
innovation. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (Humanities)
EVANS
331. English Literature: The Romantics
An examination of the intellectual, political, and aesthetic movements
of the English Romantic period 1789-1832. First and second generation
canonical writers and lesser known writers of the period. Prerequisite:
ENG 111. Alternate years. (Humanities)
JONES
333. Victorian English
Literature
Poetry, novels, essays, and plays written
between 1837 and 1901. Emphasis on visual art and literary criticism.
Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (Humanities) JONES
334. Nineteenth Century English Novel
A study of forms: the domestic novel, epistolary novel, novel of social
critique. Authors may include Shelley, the Brontës, Gaskell, Dickens,
Eliot. Emphasis on literary criticism. Prerequisite: ENG
111. Alternate years. (Humanities)
JONES
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. (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. Alternate years. (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. Alternate years. (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, and Fitzgerald. Prerequisite:
ENG 111. Alternate years. (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. Alternate years. (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. Alternate years. (Humanities)
362. Modern Theatre
Works in
translation from traditions worldwide, ranging from the early twentieth
century to the present. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Offered
subject to availability of staff. (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. Alternate years. (Humanities)
364. Contemporary Poetry
Poets
whose work has come to prominence since 1950 and an overview of poetic
trends in America. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years.
(Humanities)
365. Comparative Literature and Cinema
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)
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 or JONES
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.) May be repeated for credit,
with permission of instructor, when course content is different.
Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities) HANKINS
374. Topics in Literature
A topic that integrates literature and material from other disciplines. Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities)
380. 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 standing, acceptance by a sponsoring agency,
and Departmental approval. No more than four terms of Internship may be
counted toward the minimum 32 course credits required for graduation; no
more than two credits toward an English major; and no more than two
credits toward the B.A. requirement of nine course credits at the 300
or 400 level. See Courses 280/380. (CR)
399. 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 standing, acceptance by a sponsoring agency or
individual, and Departmental approval. No more than four terms of
Internship may be counted toward the minimum 32 course credits required
for graduation; no more than two credits toward an English major; and no
more than two credits toward the B.A. requirement of nine course
credits at the 300 or 400 level. See Courses 299/399. (CR)
411. Senior Seminar
Various critical approaches to literature and of general literary problems. Open only to senior English majors. (Humanities)
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