ENG 101 ENGLISH COMPOSITION I / 3 credits

Basic college expository writing, emphasizing mastery of purpose, focus, organization, development,

and mechanics.

ENG 102 ENGLISH COMPOSITION II / 3 credits

Essay-writing emphasizing stylistic development through more difficult expository tasks: argumentation,

persuasion, textual analysis, and a research paper. Prerequisite: ENG 101.

ENG 110 INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN LITERATURE / 3 credits

This course introduces students to literary analysis through the study of literature drawn from

the Western tradition. Students explore the nature of literary discourse, focusing on how language,

images, characters, and action produce meaning and affect readers. Prerequisite: ENG

101.

ENG 203 MASTERPIECES OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE / 3 credits

This course examines literary works from ancient Greece and Rome, emphasizing the development

of the Western literary tradition. It includes readings in classical mythology, and possibly

readings of later authors who reinterpret the classical tradition. Prerequisite: ENG 102 or

permission of instructor.

ENG 210 STUDIES IN FICTION / 3 credits

An introductory course designed to teach students how to interpret and analyze the novel

and/or the short story.

ENG 211 INTRODUCTION TO POETRY / 3 credits

An introductory course designed to teach first- and second- year students how to read and

respond to poetry.

ENG 212 TOPICS IN LITERATURE / 3 credits

An introductory course designed to teach students how to read and analyze literature through

the study of a particular theme. Readings may include a variety of genres such as poetry, fiction,

drama, and the essay.

ENG 215 INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE / 3 credits

An introductory course designed to teach students how to read and interpret Shakespeare.

ENG 255 HISTORY OF THEATRE IN LONDON / 3 credits

Students will learn the importance of London as a theatre center for Western culture both historically

and currently by studying London theatre and history. Prerequisite: THE 101 or ENG

110. (Same as THE 255).

ENG 262 U.S. LATINO LITERATURE / 3 credits

This course will examine the literary works written by major authors from the three main

Hispanic communities in the USA. Prerequisite: ENG 102.

ENG 263 LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS / 3 credits

This course will focus exclusively on the literary contributions of women in Latin America in

the 20th Century, and will include a study of major authors, works, and genres. Prerequisite:

ENG 102.

ENG 290 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE I / 3 credits

This course surveys major British literary works from Beowulf through the Augustan age of the

18th century, with emphasis on the British interpretation and appropriation of the Western

literary tradition. The reading includes Beowulf, Chaucer, medieval romance, Renaissance

epic, drama, and poetry, and Restoration and 18th century satire. Offered once a year (Fall).

ENG 291 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE II / 3 credits

The sequel to ENG 290. Major works of Romantic, Victorian, and twentieth-century British

literature, including poetry, fiction, and the essay. Offered once a year (Spring).

ENG 323 NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH POETRY / 3 credits

A survey of either Romantic or Victorian poetry adding more detail and depth to the basic

coverage of these periods provided in the general British Survey (ENG 291). Romantic poets

will include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Shelley. The Victorian offering

will cover major poets from Tennyson through Hardy and Hopkins.

ENG 330 AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1900 / 3 credits

This course surveys major American writers selected from the Puritan forefathers, the transcendentalists,

the writers of the American Renaissance, and the late 19th century, with particular

emphasis on the Puritan roots of the evolving American tradition. Offered in alternate

years (Fall, even years).

ENG 331 AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM 1900 / 3 credits

This course surveys American writers of the 20th century, including those of the Lost

Generation, the Fugitive Movement, the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression era, modernism,

and the contemporary scene.

ENG 333 MODERN POETRY / 3 credits

Twentieth-Century poetry in English. Usually focusing on poetry written since World War II,

the course varies in its approach, sometimes surveying the works of influential poets, sometimes

looking in depth at a few of these poets and their contributions to the art and craft of

poetry.

ENG 334 MODERN AMERICAN FICTION / 3 credits

A study of selected 20th-century American novels and short stories. The focus of the course

varies from a historical survey of 20th-century American fiction writers to in-depth study of a

theme or themes. Prerequisite or corequisite: ENG 290 or 291. Offered in alternate years.

ENG 335 BRITISH FICTION / 3 credits

Varying studies of the 18th, 19th, or 20th Century.

ENG 336 SURVEY OF ENGLISH RENAISSANCE / 3 credits

This course surveys English poetry, drama, and prose from the early 16th to the late 17th

Century.

ENG 337 ADVANCED GRAMMAR / 3 credits

A study of both traditional and modern grammar, with some emphasis on philology and the

teaching of English in multi-cultural schools. Offered in alternate years.

ENG 340 FILM STUDIES / 3 credits

Students will acquire the basic vocabulary necessary to analyze film as a visual medium and

narrative discourse. Various classic and noncanonical films will be examined through close

visual and diegetic analysis. Major critical approaches to film will be examined through readings

in secondary scholarship. Attendance at weekly evening screenings is required.

Prerequisites: ART 101, ENG 110, or THE 101, and junior status or permission of the instructor.

(Same as ART 340).

ENG 360 CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN POETRY / 3 credits

An intensive workshop in the art and discipline of writing poetry, concentrating on the

process of writing poems from perception and inspiration through the rigors and satisfaction

of revision. Experience in writing poetry expected. Prerequisite: ENG 211 and permission of

the instructor.

ENG 361 CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN FICTION / 3 credits

Development of creative perception, thinking and imagination in the writing of fiction.

Experience in writing creatively expected. Prerequisites: ENG 102 and departmental consent.

ENG 363 ADVANCED COMPOSITION / 3 credits

For students from any major planning to attend graduate and professional schools. Extended

writing in the students’ own fields of study. Open only to students with a "B" or "A" in English

102; others should seek permission from the instructor.

ENG 365 INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY / 3 credits

This course introduces students to the theory and practice of several vital critical approaches

to literature, including cultural-historical, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, and feminist

methodologies. Readings will include selections from primary theoretical texts by such figures

as Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, Irigaray, Barthes, Derrida, Saussure, and Foucault, as well as selected

literary texts to be interpreted through the various critical methods. This course is highly

recommended for students interested in attending graduate school in literature, arts, and

humanities. Prerequisites: ENG 290 or 291 OR any 300-level foreign-language literature

course. Students in other disciplines who are interested in critical theory may enroll through

permission of the instructor.

ENG 399 ENGLISH INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL COURSE: Variable topics / 1 credit

Studies of varying topics in English, including a 2-week Nichols trip. Prerequisites will vary

depending upon course topic.

ENG 433 NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE / 3 credits

Varying studies of the Romantic or Victorian periods or of selected topics. This course may

explore comparisons between British and continental works, or between literature and the

visual arts.

ENG 440 CHAUCER / 3 credits

This course surveys a number of Chaucer’s major and minor works, with emphasis on the

writer’s development and maturation. The reading includes selected dream-vision poems,

Troilus and Criseyde, and a good portion of The Canterbury Tales, plus excerpts from various

classical and medieval authors who influenced Chaucer.

ENG 441 SHAKESPEARE / 3 credits

This course surveys Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies, using a variety of critical

approaches to develop rich and cohesive understandings of the texts. Theatre majors who

have completed THE 232 are exempt from the ENG 290 prerequisite.

ENG 442 FAULKNER / 3 credits

This seminar involves reading and discussing the novels and short fiction of William Faulkner,

using several critical approaches to enrich discussion. Students have the opportunity to take a

short excursion to Mississippi to visit sites used in the fiction and tour Faulkner’s home.

ENG 443 MAJOR WRITERS / 3 credits

Concentrated reading and study of the works of one or two of the great writers of European,

English and American literature.

ENG 445 FLANNERY O’CONNOR / 3 credits

In a seminar setting, a close reading and discussion of all of O’Connor’s published works: novels,

short stories, essays, and letters. Additionally, students will become familiar with increasingly

diverse critical approaches to O’Connor’s life and work.

ENG 448 ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING INTENSIVE / 3 credits

ENG 450 INDEPENDENT STUDY / 3 credits

Concentrated study in selected fields.

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