ENGLISH 5555B      Graduate Seminar Renaissance Literature II
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5555C      Graduate Seminar Neo-Classical Literature I
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5555D      Graduate Seminar In 19th-Century Literature II
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5555E      Graduate Seminar American Literature II
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5555F      Graduate Seminar In Modern Literature II
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5555G      Graduate Seminar Literary Criticism
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5555H      Graduate Seminar Studies In Fiction II
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5555I      Graduate Seminar In Dramatic Literature II
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5555J      Graduate Seminar English Language
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5555K      Graduate Seminar In Creative Writing:Poetry
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5555M      Graduate Seminar: Composition
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5555N      Graduate Seminar: Prose Fiction
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5556      Studies In The Novel 1740-1900
An intensive study of no more than three major novelists of the eighteenth or nineteenth century. The content of the course will change, depending on the instructor. Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5560      Special Topics
The professor who gives this course determines what its content shall be. All aspects of English studies are within its possible range.
Credits: 1-4 hours
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ENGLISH 5561      Shakespeare:Tragedies And Romances
A study of Shakespeare's major tragedies and late romances with special emphasis on his dramatic literature after 1600. Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5562      Restoration And 18th- Century Drama
The drama after the restoration of the monarchy and the reopening of the theatres through the 18th century. Special emphasis is placed on the comedy of manners and the heroic drama in the Restoration and the sentimental comedy in the 18th-century. Includes such playwrights as Dryden, Congreve, Etherege, Wycherley, Steele, Lillo, Cumberland, Sheridan, and Goldsmith. Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5563      Contemporary Drama
A study of contemporary drama: Continental, British, and American, including history and development, critical theory and literary evaluation. This course will focus on the more recent writers, including the absurdists, with special attention to experimental drama. This course is a continuation of ENGLISH 5553. Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5564      Medieval Methods & Paleography
This course examines the methodology and historiography of Medieval Studies. Through an introduction to paleography, the study of medieval handwritings, it prepares students for advanced work in Medieval and Renaissance studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course will examine the historical and cultural settings for medieval texts, their physical form and production, as well as the tradition of textural transmission in the medieval world. In addition to gaining familiarity with the many different types of primary sources, such as literary, artistic, legal, and notarial sources, students will be exposed to methods for practical archival work in various European nations. Cross-listed with HISTORY 5583. Prerequisite: First Year Latin or permission of instructor. Offered: On Demand
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5565      Studies In Modern Novel
An intensive study of no more than three major 20th- century novelists. The content of the course will change depending on the instructor. Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5566CA      Cluster Course: Images Of The Human Body In The 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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