Courses

ENG 103 (3 credits)
Introduction to Poetry
Introduction to the basic forms of poetry, surveying primarily British and American poets of the last three centuries.

ENG 106 (3 credits)
Short Story
Introduction to the short story genre through a critical and analytical interpretation of selected stories from world literature.

ENG 202 (3 credits)
Critical Approaches to Literature
Basic study of literature using a variety of critical approaches to interpret major works in world literature.

ENG 203 (3 credits)
Early American Poetry
Study of early American poetry from Colonial period through 19th century. Poets include Taylor, Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, Crane and others.

ENG 204 (3 credits)
Modern American Poetry
Study of selected American poets of 20th Century, including Frost, Eliot, Stevens, Cummings, Wilbur, among others.

ENG 205 (3 credits)
Early British Literature
Study of early British literature before the eighteenth century, including Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare (poetry), Jonson, Donne and Milton.

ENG 206 (3 credits)
Modern British Poetry
Select British poets of Modern period.

ENG 207 (3 credits)
Contemporary Fiction and Drama
Study of selected short novels, stories and plays drawn from world literature of the last 30 years. This course fulfills the human diversity graduation requirement.

ENG 213 (3 credits)
Modern Drama
Study of the major trends in the 19th and 20th centuries with a concentration upon representative American, British, and continental dramatists.

ENG 216 (3 credits)
Women in Literature
Study of the varying images of women as portrayed in writing by and about women. Topics vary from semester to semester. May be repeated under different topics. This course fulfills the human diversity graduation requirement.

ENG 302 (3 credits)
Shakespeare: Histories and Comedies
Study of Shakespeare’s development as a writer of historical dramas and comedies.

ENG 303 (3 credits)
Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances
Study of Shakespeare’s development as a writer of tragedies and romances.

ENG 305 (3 credits)
Early American Fiction
Analysis of trends in American prose literature with emphasis on significant novelists and short story writers from early 19th century to 1900.

ENG 306 (3 credits)
Modern American Fiction
Study of significant American novelists and short story writers from 1920s to the present, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Salinger, Heller and others.

ENG 307 (3 credits)
The English Novel
Development of the novel as a genre, with emphasis on selected British novelists of the 18th and 19th Centuries.

ENG 309 (3 credits)
World Literature
Study of world literature in translation, excluding American and British works. This course fulfills the human diversity graduation requirement.

ENG 310 (3 credits)
Modern Novel
Study of selected novels from world literature to illustrate techniques and developments in the genre in the modern period.

ENG 321 (3 credits)
Ethics and Tragedy
Study of ethics in context of tragic literature. Focus on Aristotle’s understanding of the ethical content of tragedy by examining connections between his works on moral psychology (Ethics, Rhetoric) and his analysis of tragedy in the Poetics. Readings also include plays of Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Racine and others.

ENG 355 (3 credits)
Theatre History
A comprehensive study of the history of theatre from its origins through the post WWII era.

ENG 401 (3 credits)
Romantic and Victorian Writers
Study of major poets and prose writers of the British Romantic and Victorian periods.

ENG 404 (3 credits)
History of the English Language
Study of English language with emphasis on exploring its historical and structural development, including grammar and semantics. Students also study basic linguistics. This course includes the study of early English literature and counts as a literature elective for the core requirement.

ENG 406 (3 credits)
Research Seminar
Concentration on a research area selected by consultation with the academic adviser. Required of English majors.

ENG 411 3 (credits)
Restoration and Eighteenth- Century Literature
Study of the prose and poetry of Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Dr. Johnson, and of representative plays of the era.

Updated: December 19, 2005

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