ENGL 465 – Adv Study of Critical Theory & Lit
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses on a range of critical theories or on areas or issues in literature with emphasis on critical methods of inquiry. This course is strongly recommended for majors planning on graduate studies.
ENGL 447 – Advanced Study in American Lit
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses on major American writers, groups of writers, a genre, or a theme (e.g., Faulkner, Dickinson, drama). May be taken twice for academic credit with departmental approval.
ENGL 448 – Advanced Study/African-American Lit
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses on major African-American writers, groups of writers, a genre, or a theme (e.g., Toni Morrison, the Harlem Renaissance). May be taken twice for academic credit with departmental approval.
ENGL 444 – American Poetry
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Familiarizes students with American poetry from colonization to the present day. Lecture and discussion will emphasize the historical and sociocultural context of the poems. Potential poets of focus include Bradstreet, Wheatley, Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot, Pound, Hughes, Stein, Williams, Stevens, Brooks, Bishop, Lowell, Plath, Ammons, […]
ENGL 427 – Adv Study British Lit Before 1785
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses on major British writers, groups of writers, a genre, or a theme (e.g., Chaucer, Milton, Satire). May be taken twice for academic credit with departmental approval.
ENGL 426 – Rise of the British Novel
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses exclusively on the development of prose fiction from 1660 through 1832. Covers a representative sample of novels and explores various explanations for the “sudden” development of the novel as a distinct genre.
ENGL 384 – African-American Film History
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Explores the history of African Americans in North American film and the specific contributions of African Americans to visual forms in narrative films. Chronologically follows the involvement of African Americans in film production, acting, directing, and distribution.
ENGL 352 – History of American Drama
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Surveys American dramatic literature from the colonial period to the modern, including developments in form, technology, aesthetics and dramatic theory in the context of American culture and politics.
ENGL 350N – American Women Writers
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Familiarizes students with women’s literature in the United States, focusing on women as creators of, and characters within, American literature. Covers novels, essays, short stories, poems, and plays with special emphasis on their social and historical contexts. Draws from texts stretching […]
ENGL 347 – Contemporary American Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Emphasizes post-World War II American literature. Readings may include a focus on individual genres or schools or a survey of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Emphasizes close readings of primary texts and puts works in larger historical, cultural, and theoretical […]
ENGL 349 – Literature of the South
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Studies the literature and culture of the U.S. South. Emphasizes writers and works from the 20th century Southern Literary Renascence (e.g., Faulkner, Williams, Tate, Warren) to contemporary times, with attention to how these writers engage questions of region.
ENGL 343 – American Romanticism
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Covers philosophical and literary changes associated with a turn toward the imagination and the intuitive. Includes texts by writers such as Melville, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Douglass, Emerson, Dickinson, and Whitman, and others, notably women, who were also writing popular texts of […]