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Next: Environmental Studies (ENV) Up: Courses of Instruction Previous: Education (EDU)
English (ENG)
Leslie K. Hankins (chair),
Richard Martin,
Michelle Mouton
Adjunct Faculty/Academic Staff: Barbara Lau, 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)
212. English Survey II
Development of English literature from the Romantics to the present.
Prerequisite: ENG 111. (Humanities)
HANKINS or MOUTON
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. Critical texts and
produced television scripts 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 faculty. (Fine Arts) RECKLING
240. Theatre, Architecture, and the Arts in
England
English art and culture, particularly theatre
and architecture, through visiting sites and regions significant in English
history, attending a number of theatrical events, and visiting galleries and museums.
Team-taught in England. Registration entails additional costs. Alternate
years. (Humanities)
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) MOUTON
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 professor 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
331. English Literature: The Romantics
An examination of intellectual, political, and aesthetic movements of
the English Romantic period 1789-1832. Topics may include Romantic
poetics, the Gothic impulse, the city and the country, or constructions
of childhood. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years.
(Humanities) MOUTON
333. Victorian English Literature
Poetry, novels, essays, and plays written between 1837 and 1901. May
focus on a topic, such as English colonialism, political reform
movements, or turn-of-the-century decadence. Prerequisite: ENG
111. Alternate years. (Humanities)
MOUTON
334. Nineteenth Century English Novel
A study of forms: the domestic novel, the Gothic novel, the serial
novel, the novel of social critique. Authors may include Austen,
Shelley, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and Wilde. Emphasis on social,
cultural, and political context. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Alternate years. (Humanities) MOUTON
335. Virginia Woolf
Various texts, such as A Room of One's Own, Jacob's Room, 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
Modernism(s). 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, and
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
Study of African-American literature and/or film. Topics may include African-American women writers and directors. Prerequisite: ENG 111. Offered every third year. (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 faculty. (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
Study of connections between literature and film, including topics such as 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. Alternate years. (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. Offered every third year.
(Humanities) HANKINS or MOUTON
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, 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 Index. 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,
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
Study of various critical approaches to literature and of general literary problems. Prerequisite: English major and senior standing. (Humanities)
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