ENGL LITERAT – Literature Elective
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description:
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 433 – The Nineteenth Century Novel
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses on the development of the novel as an art form in 19th-century Britain, examining the history of the book, readership, serialization, publishing practices, and lending libraries. Also explores the manner in which novels represent several historical and cultural themes, such as class boundaries […]
ENGL 467 – Adv Study/Lang, Rhetoric Or Theory
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Focuses on an area of contemporary rhetorical theory (e.g. Serial Narratology). May be taken twice for academic credit with departmental approval.
ENGL 361 – Shakespeare
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Examines in detail selected histories, comedies, and tragedies. Requires outside reading and individual research to broaden the student’s comprehension and appreciation of Shakespeare’s works.
ENGL 362 – Mythology & Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Studies worldwide mythologies (with emphasis on the Greek) and their relation to selected literary works, leading to an understanding of universal mythic themes and their application to literature.
ENGL 348 – African-American Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Presents an overview of literature produced by African Americans from the mid-19th century to the present. Explores how African-American writers address issues surrounding gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and identity. Using poetry, novels, essays, autobiographies, short stories, and speeches, examines themes, […]
ENGL 342 – Writing in Early America
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Covers the philosophical, historical, and literary beginnings of American literature through 1820. Examines literary purpose, audience, and genre for a variety of texts authored by Native Americans, Puritans, African Americans, visitors to America, and Revolutionary thinkers. Texts will include sermons, diaries, […]
ENGL 346 – Modern America Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Covers the literature of the United States from roughly World War I to the end and aftermath of World War II. Particular emphasis on literary Modernism and some attention to its underpinnings in intellectual history and postwar cultural shifts. Additional topics […]
ENGL 326 – Medieval British Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Surveys the literature produced in England during the Old and Middle English periods, with special attention to the epic, lyric poetry, visionary literature, admonitory prose, histories, and drama. Readings from earlier periods or contemporaneous European sources may also be included.
ENGL 332 – The Romantics
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Explores and analyzes in depth various British Romantic authors and texts, covering a range of genres. Includes some consideration of European Romanticism and the Romantic Movement as expressed in visual and musical arts.
ENGL 333 – The Victorians
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Explores the intersection between imaginative writing and cultural issues during this period (1830 to 1900) of intensive change regarding gender roles, economic and social inequality, individual liberty versus traditional values, the rise of science (including evolution), religious difference, the role of […]