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Courses in English (designated ENGL) may be applied as appropriate, for example, toward:
- the general education requirement in communications or in the arts and humanities (literature courses);
- a major or minor in English or in humanities; and
- electives.
Please see the summary of General Education Requirements (GER) for details on the Communication, and Arts and Humanities Requirements.
Return to subject area index.Designed to help students enhance their research and writing skills. Instruction and practice in the fundamentals of the research and writing process: planning and beginning a paper, composing the paper, citing sources, and presenting the paper in manuscript form. Both the MLA and APA styles of documentation are used.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 101X, WRTG 101, or WRTG 101X. A survey of classic writings from Greek, biblical, Roman, and medieval civilizations. Discussion covers literary forms and the ways the works reflect the values of their cultures. Readings may include selections from the Bible and the writings of Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, and Chaucer. Selections may vary each semester.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 101X, WRTG 101, or WRTG 101X. A survey of European classic writings from the Renaissance to the modern age. Discussion covers literary form and the way the works reflect the changing ideas and values of European civilization. Readings may include works by Shakespeare, Molière, Voltaire, Goethe, Dostoyevsky, and Camus. Selections may vary each semester.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 101X, WRTG 101, or WRTG 101X. An examination of representative Shakespearean plays from each genre (comedy, history, tragedy, and romance).
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 101X, WRTG 101, or WRTG 101X. An introduction to significant works of English literature, surveying earlier works to the Romantic period. Readings include Beowulf and works by Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, and Milton.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 101X, WRTG 101, or WRTG 101X. A survey of the major literary movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods. Authors studied may include Wordsworth, Keats, the Brontës, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Joyce, and Woolf.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 101X, WRTG 101, or WRTG 101X. A close study of some masterpieces of American literature, covering the period from the beginning of American literature to 1865.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 101X, WRTG 101, or WRTG 101X. A study of the development of American literature since the Civil War, emphasizing representative authors and works. Genres investigated include stories and poems as well as novels and plays. Significant films may be viewed.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 101X, WRTG 101, or WRTG 101X. An introduction to fiction, poetry, drama, film, and the literary essay, with an emphasis on developing critical reading and writing skills. Study may be organized either by genre or by theme. Writers covered vary from semester to semester. Films may be included. Students may receive credit for only one of the following courses: ENGL 240 or ENGL 340.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 101X, WRTG 101, or WRTG 101X. A survey of the development of the genre, with emphasis on the techniques and styles of representative novelists. Six to eight novels (depending on length) are studied, in English or in English translation.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 101X, WRTG 101, or WRTG 101X. An analysis of the attributes of the well-written short story. Emphasis is on aspects such as theme, plot, characterization, point of view, tone, imagery, irony, and symbolism, as exemplified in representative works of the 19th and 20th centuries. Only minimal biographical and historical background is provided; focus is on the selected writings.
(Fulfills the general education requirements in communications.) Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 101X, WRTG 101, or WRTG 101X. An introductory survey and practical course covering key areas of creative writing: formal poetry, free verse, creative nonfiction, short story, and drama/screenplay. Emphasizes critical and analytical reading and critical thinking from a writer‘s perspective as a means to better understanding the craft. May include peer review, as well as an exploration of publishing.
(Fulfills the general education requirement in communications. Designed as a foundation for other upper-level literature courses.) Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 101X, WRTG 101, or WRTG 101X. A study of the techniques of literary analysis, emphasizing close reading of texts. The goal is to better understand and appreciate literature and to be able to formulate concepts and express them in well-written, coherent prose. Assignments include composing a total of 6,000 words (approximately 25 pages).
Prerequisite: WRTG 101/101X or ENGL 101/101X. An intensive study of Shakespeare‘s dramatic masterpieces as illustrations of the concepts of power and justice both in a historically specific social and cultural context and as timeless concerns reflecting the human condition. Students may receive credit for only one of the following courses: ENGL 406 or HUMN 440.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 101X, WRTG 101, or WRTG 101X. An examination of twentieth-century plays with an emphasis on the social, cultural and historical context of drama. Special attention paid to drama around is the globe. Plays include works from major playwrights, such as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, O‘Neill, Miller, Williams, Brecht, Pirandello, Hansberry, Orton, Ionesco, Beckett, Pinter, Fugard, Albee, Stoppard, or Shepard.
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 101X, WRTG 101, or WRTG 101X. An examination of the development of the novel from the late 19th century to the present, with emphasis on British and American works. Authors studied vary but may include Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Tim O‘Brien.
Return to subject area index.Last updated: 21 July 2008