ENGLISH 365WI      Contemporary Novel
This course focuses on selected novelists since 1945 and is organized around particular literary themes, sub-genres, or contemporary issues.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 375      Colonial Literature
An exploration of colonialism through the study of a variety of texts, which may include literary, historical, and theoretical texts. These texts should represent the formation and elaboration of discourses surrounding colonialism. Texts will be drawn from more than one genre and from the metropole as well as multiple colonial contexts. The course will consider several definitions of colonialism and related terms such as empire, imperialism, and nationalism. Prerequisite: None
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 376      Ancient Concepts of the Hero
This course traces the ancient concept of the hero by reading selected ancient works by authors such as Homer, Thucycides, Livy, Plutarch, Ceasar, Tacitus, and Sallust. Students will also examine the impact of the ancient concept of the hero on modern literature and art. Also listed as CLASSICS 376.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 378      Asian American Literature
This course examines literary and cultural texts produced by Asian Americans from the nineteenth century to the present. Texts will be drawn from a variety of genres and from several Asian American groups in order to examine how Asian American literature engages, challenges, revises, and reinvents American literary traditions. The course will identify and explore specific cultural and political issues that have shaped the writings, including transnationalism, immigration, racial identity, group identity, and community. Authors may include Carlos Bulosan, Maxine Hong Kingston, John Okada, Bienvendo Santos, and Hisaye Yamamoto.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 400CA      Cluster Course:Images Of The Human Body In Renaissance
Focusing on Renaissance conceptions of the human body, this cluster treats the following topics as they are reflected in Renaissance literature, art, astrology, astronomy, biology, anatomy, medicine and politics: A) The dignity of the human body B) Microcosm and macrocosm C) The human body and the heavens D) Stranger manifestations: freaks and beasts E) The humors F) Disorders of the human body G) The body politic H) The human body as an object of study.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 400CB      England King's And Shakespeare's:Literature, History, Film
The aim of this cluster course is to study the historical and dramatic personae of selected English kings: John, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III, and Henry VIII. In common sessions History and English will alternate lectures. The English focus will be on Shakespeare's two tetralogies and individual histories, discussing significant themes, characters and performance elements. Students will also be asked to familiarize themselves with the critical commentaries on these plays, especially recent theoretical studies about politics and gender construction. Film versions of the plays will be shown to demonstrate how directorial interpretation influences an audience's perception of these kings and their worlds. In addition to two exams and shorter written exercises, students will be required to write an interdisciplinary essay. Graduate students will be expected to write longer, more extensively researched papers.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 400CF      Cluster Course: Courts And Culture In The Middle Ages
This cluster course offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Middle Ages, focusing on medieval cultures in Europe. Arranged around a series of themes, the cluster will read a variety of documentary and literary texts to investigate not only the ""high culture"" of the courts but also the interactions of people from various social backgrounds in Western Europe. Cross listed with FRN-LNG 400CF and HISTORY 400CF.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 400CQ      Cluster Course: Sinai And Olympus: Two Views Of Man And God
An examination of the two distinct views of the universe and the place of man and God in it as reflected in the literature of the Hebrews and the Greeks. A comparison of the various types of creative expression such as philosophy, historical writing, drama, rhetoric, and law. Readings are in English.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 404      Old English
This course is a study of Old English, its grammar, its poetic style, and its literature, both poetry and prose.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 405      Magazine Editing
A course combining academic study of editorial management, publishing operations and language skills, with ""hands on"" experience in article evaluation, editing, magazine production, and legal matters such as copyright and libel. Class work concentrates on authentic and effective language use, with attention given to copy editing, grammar, typography, printing processes, financing and distribution for commercial and small-press publications.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 406CD      CC: Film Adaptation
The class will explore the process of adapting both fiction and non-fiction literary works into motion pictures. Students will examine the original literary source, then the interim screenplay and finally the completed motion picture. Offered: On Demand.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 408      Harlem Renaissance
This course examines the period from 1920 to 1940, known as the Harlem Renaissance, a time of unprecedented literary and cultural creativity by Black artists. This course explores a variety of cultural productions, not only traditional forms of literature such as novels, short stories, plays and poetry, but also nonliterary objects of study such as painting, sculpture, and music.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 410      Black Women Writers
This course explores the writings of African American Women Writers. The course examines how these writers have interacted with and often revised stereotypical representations of African American womanhood typically found within canonical and African American male literatures. The course will examine literature (which might include fiction, poetry, autobiography, and drama) of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the majority of the works will be by modern and contemporary authors such as Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Terry McMillan. By placing the works in this sort of cultural and historical context, it will be possible to examine the unique tradition of African American women's writing as well as individual texts. Prerequisite: None.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 412      Chaucer
Readings from Chaucer's most important works, especially ""The Canterbury Tales"" and ""Troilus and Criseyde"" with emphasis on them as types of medieval genres and on the Middle English language. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 317 or permission of the instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 413      Renaissance Literature I
English literature from the time of Wyatt and Surrey to the beginning of the 17th century, including the works of Spenser, Marlowe, Sidney, Shakespeare and others. Prerequisite: English 317 or permission of the instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 414      Milton
A study of Milton's prose and poetry, with special attention to ""Paradise Lost"". Prerequisite: English 317 or permission of the instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students. Offered: On demand.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 415      Restoration And Early 18th-Century British Literature
British literature from the late 17th century to the mid 18th century. Selected writers may include Addison and Steele, Behn, Congreve, Defoe, Dryden, Finch, Milton, Pope, Rochester, Swift, and Wortley Montagu. Prerequisites: ENGLISH 317 or permission of instructor. Offered: On demand
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 416      The Romantic Period
An extensive study of selected writers (such as Austen, Barbauld, Byron, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Hemans, Keats, Gilpin, the Shelleys, Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth) organized around literary themes and/or cultural issues important to the Romantic period. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 327 or permission of the instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 417      Modern Poetry
Study of works by modernist poets such as Hopkins, Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Moore, Pound, H.D., Eliot, Millay, Hughes. Offered: On demand.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 418      19th-Century American Literature
An intensive study of either selected major American writers in the 19th century or of 19th -century literary movements. Prerequisite: English 311 or permission of instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students.
Credits: 3 hours
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