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New Brunswick Undergraduate Catalog 2022-2024 Programs of Study and Courses for Liberal Arts and Sciences Students Programs, Faculty, and Courses English English Literature Courses (358)  

English Literature Courses (358)

01:358:200 Once Upon a Time: Why We Tell Stories (4) Focusing on stories from Genesis and Homer to 21st-century best sellers, Once Upon A Time considers why we need stories and how we tell them.
01:358:201 Introduction to Literature (3) Development of skills in close reading and interpretive writing; texts in various genres. Designed primarily for nonmajors.
01:358:202 Shakespeare (3) One-semester introduction to Shakespeare, with readings in selected comedies, tragedies, and histories.
01:358:203 Shakespeare and Film (3) Interpretation of Shakespeare's plays through a close reading of literary texts and films.
01:358:204 Biblical Backgrounds of Literature in English (3) The Bible as Literature (3)The Bible, its literary variety, and the evolution of its text. Religious themes in literature, with attention to matters of rhetoric, style, and structure.
01:358:205 The Coming Apocalypse (4) An interdisciplinary introduction to narrative using novels, films, and other contemporary representations of the world's imminent destruction.
01:358:206 Introduction to Literary Studies (1.5) Fundamentals of literary interpretation, focusing on a particular period, genre, or author.
01:350:207 Writing After the End of the World (3) An introduction to stories about the end of the world.
01:358:210 British Literature from the Middle Ages to 1800 (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the Middle Ages through the 18th century.
01:358:211 British Literature from 1800 to the Present (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the romantic period to the present.
01:358:212 Introduction to American Literature (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the colonial period to the Civil War.
01:358:213 Major Topics and Authors in American Literature (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the Civil War to the present.
01:358:214 Introduction to 20th-Century Literature (3) Introduction to major works of 20th-century literature in English.
01:358:215 Introduction to 21st-Century Literatures (3) Literary works and emergent forms of the current century.
01:358:216 Introduction to World Literatures in English (3) Survey of English language literatures including Asian, African, and Caribbean in a global context. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:216.
01:358:217 Black Literature from the Colonial Period to 1930 (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the 18th century through the Harlem Renaissance.
01:358:218 Black Literature from 1930 to the Present (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from 1930 to the present.
01:358:222 Introduction to South Asian Literature (3) Overview of South Asian literatures of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including literatures representing historical events such as the independence struggle, partition, women's rights, religious conflicts, and caste politics.
01:358:230 Major Topics and Authors in British Literature (3) Introduces major topics and authors in British literature.
01:358:240 Introduction to Dramatic Literature   (3) Major plays from several periods, chiefly British and American, with some attention to form, theory, and the development of the genre.
01:358:241 Introduction to Poetry (3) Major poems from several periods, chiefly British and American, with some attention to form, theory, and the development of the genre.
01:358:242 Introduction to the Novel (3) Major novels from several periods, chiefly British and American, with some attention to form, theory, and the development of the genre.
01:358:243 Introduction to the Short Story (3) Major short stories from several periods, chiefly British and American, with some attention to form, theory, and the development of the genre.
01:358:244 Introduction to Myth (3) Myths of various cultures; their structures and functions in social and especially literary contexts.
01:358:245 Introduction to Folklore (3) Major genres of folklore, including folktale, folk song, and legend, with attention to the methods of collecting and analyzing these materials. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:245.
01:358:246 Introduction to the Gothic (3) Genre of the Gothic from its beginnings in the 18th century to the present.
01:358:247 Introduction to Comic Literature (3) Theory and practice of comedy organized around the topics of satire, farce, nonsense, parody, jokes, and the humor of daily life.
01:358:248 Introduction to Tragic Literature (3) Literature and theory of tragedy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the 20th century; chiefly plays, supplemented by some poetry and fiction.
01:358:249 Introduction to Satiric Literature (3) Satire's variety of postures and games, across an array of such forms as novel, epigram, film, and cartoon, ranging from the Renaissance to the present. 
01:358:250 Introduction to Autobiography (3) Historical and formal development of autobiography in English, with special attention to theories of identity and narrative.
01:358:251 Introduction to Travel Literature (3) Readings of works, mainly in English, concerning geographical exploration and speculation; relation to literary and nonliterary genres; and attention to imperial dimensions.
01:358:252 Introduction to Children's Literature (3) Introduction to children's literature. Fairy tales, classics, and contemporary examples of literature for children and young adults.
01:358:253 Introduction to Crime Fiction (3) Introduction to crime fiction. Works by such authors as Chandler, Highsmith, Himes, and Mankell.
01:358:254 Introduction to Science Fiction (3) Introduction to science fiction. Works by such authors as Butler, Dick, Delany, and Gibson.
01:358:255 Introduction to Modern Literary Fantasy (3) Literary conventions and distinctions between the surreal and the unreal, nonsense and the sublime in different forms of modern literary fantasy written in English.
01:358:256 Introduction to the Graphic Novel (3) The history, techniques, structure, verbal-visual form, and thematic range of graphic narratives.
01:358:260 Introduction to Multiethnic Literatures of the United States (3) Survey of multiethnic literatures of the United States through a comparative framework. Fiction, poetry, autobiography, graphic narrative, film, and personal essays by and about African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos/as.
01:358:261 Introduction to the Study of Women Writers (3) Range of literature in English by women writers, analyzed in relation to the impact of authorial gender.
01:358:262 Introduction to Literature and the Environment (3) General introduction to environmental writing, focusing on nonfiction, novels, and poems from the mid-19th century to the present day.
01:358:263 Civilization and Its Discontents (3) Introduction to texts of fundamental importance for the imagination of the individual in society, focusing on the forms through which a culture understands itself including dialogue, tragedy, parable, and public address.
01:358:275 The Cultural History of Now (3) Analysis of an issue of pressing global concern from a multidisciplinary perspective, but especially from that of literary and cultural history. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.
01:358:301 History of the English Language (3) Growth and structure of the English language from its origins to the present with some attention to methods of linguistic description.
Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:302 Classical Backgrounds of Literature in English (3) Influence on literature in English of classical Greek and Roman epic, tragedy, comedy, and other literary forms. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:346. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:303 Literature of Medieval Courts (3) Concepts of nobility, rule, courtship, and faith in works such as Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:304 Medieval Literature of Dissent (3) Traditions of dissent in later medieval England. Texts  may include writings by Wulfstan and Ælfric, Chronicle poems, Piers Plowman, Lollard writings, macro-plays, the Wakefield cycle, and The Book of Margery Kempe. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:305 Medieval Romance (3) Medieval romances and their origins in the British Isles and on the continent, with emphasis on English versions of Arthurian material, especially Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:306 Chaucer (3) Selected works of Chaucer, with an emphasis on The Canterbury Tales. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:307 Medieval and Early Modern Women Writers (3) Selections from significant women writers of the medieval and early modern period, including Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Aemelia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Mary Wroth, Katherine Philips, and others. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:308 Cultures of the Middle Ages (3) Detailed introduction to a particular aspect of the rich cultural diversity of the European Middle Ages. Topics vary. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:388 or 01:667:388. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:309 Issues and Problems in Medieval Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in medieval literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:310 Medieval Drama (3) Surveys works of medieval drama, investigating relationships between history and religion, world and stage, work and play, and actors and audience.
01:358:311 Renaissance Literature: The 16th Century (3) Poetry, plays, and prose from the Henrician to the Elizabethan periods. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:312 Renaissance Literature: The 17th Century (3) Poetry, plays, and prose from the Jacobean to Restoration periods. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:313 Drama in the Age of Shakespeare (3) Early modern drama, with emphasis on Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher, Webster, and others. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:314 Shakespeare: The Elizabethan Plays (3) Selected comedies, tragedies, and English history plays written between the beginning of Shakespeare's career and the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:315 Shakespeare: The Jacobean Plays (3) Selected comedies, tragedies, and tragicomedies written after the succession of James I in 1603. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:316 Milton (3) Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, the shorter poems, and selected prose. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:317 Major Renaissance Writers (3) Selected writings of Milton studied in relation to other 16th- or 17th-century writers, such as Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Cavendish, or Dryden. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:318 Sixteenth-Century Poetry (3) Forms, styles, and development of poetry from Skelton to Spenser. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:319 Seventeenth-Century Poetry (3) Forms, styles, and development of poetry from Jonson and Donne to Milton and Marvell. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:320 Issues and Problems in Renaissance Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in Renaissance literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:321 Renaissance Women Writers (3) Selections from significant women writers of the Renaissance including Mary Sidney, Emelia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn.
01:358:322 Restoration and Early 18th-Century Literature (3) Poetry, prose, and drama by writers such as Dryden, Rochester, Behn, Pope, Haywood, Swift, and their contemporaries. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:323 Later 18th-Century Literature (3) Poetry, prose, and drama by writers such as Johnson, Sterne, Burney, Cowper, Sheridan, Equiano, Wollstonecraft and their contemporaries. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:324 Restoration and 18th-Century Poetry (3) Poems by authors such as Philips, Dryden, Behn, Swift, Pope, Gray, Cowper, and Wheatley. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:325 Restoration and 18th-Century Theater and Drama (3) Comedies and tragedies from the British modern age, by Congreve, Behn, Wycherly, Etheridge, Centlivre, Gay, Lillo, Sheridan, and others. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:326 Eighteenth-Century Novel (3) The early novel to Jane Austen, including authors such as Behn, Defoe, Haywood, Fielding, Richardson, Lennox, Sterne, and Burney. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:327 Restoration and 18th Century Women Writiers (3) Writing by women between the Restoration and the Romantic period, including authors such as Behn, Haywood, Montagu, Burney, Wheatley, and Austen. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:328 Issues and Problems in 18th-Century Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in Restoration and 18th-century literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:330 Early Romantic Literature (3) Works of poetry and prose by Austen, Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and their contemporaries. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:331 Later Romantic Literature (3) Works of poetry and prose by Keats, P.B. Shelley, M. Shelley, Byron, Hemans, De Quincey, and their contemporaries. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:332 Victorian Literature (3) Poetry and prose from the 1830s to 1900, by Barrett Browning, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Arnold, Christina Rossetti, the Brontës, Dickens, George Eliot, and Hardy. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:333 Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature (3) Poetry and prose of the transition to modernism by such authors as Pater, Wilde, the Decadents, the New Women  novelists, Olive Shriner, Yeats, Hardy, Lawrence, and Woolf. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:334 Victorian Poetry (3) Major poetry of Tennyson, Barrett Browning, Browning, Arnold, the Pre-Raphaelites, Christina Rossetti, Hopkins, Yeats, and others. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:335 Nineteenth-Century Theater and Drama (3) Drama from 1800 to the 1880s in England and America. Melodrama, the development of social realism, and the rise of modern drama. Plays by Holcroft, Jerrold, Boucicault, Taylor, Lewis, and others. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:336 Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (3) Development of the novel into the major popular literary genre in England. Writers include Scott, Dickens, the Brontës, Thackeray, Gaskell, Eliot, Hardy, and others. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:337 Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (3) Appearance of women writers as major public voices in British literature. Writers include Wollstonecraft, Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, Gaskell, George Eliot, and Christina Rossetti. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:338 Issues and Problems in 19th-Century Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in 19th-century literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:340 Literature and Culture of the Colonial Americas (3) English writing of the New World, from exploration through colonization, on both sides of the Atlantic. Puritanism, the Enlightenment, empire, and the development of nationalism. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:341 Antebellum American Literature (3) American writing from Romanticism to the Civil War.  Works by Equiano, Irving, Apess, Cooper, Sedgwick, Poe, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Thoreau, Whitman, Wilson, Jacobs, and others. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:342 Nineteenth-Century American Poetry (3) Primary focus on Whitman and Dickinson, with additional readings in  Wheatley, Bryant, Sigourney, Longfellow, Emerson, Fuller,  Poe, Whittier, Horton, Melville, Harper, Dunbar Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:343 Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (3) Novels, stories, and sketches by Irving, Cooper, Poe, Fern, Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, Alcott, Twain, James, Wharton, Chesnutt, and others. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:344 American Realism and Naturalism (3) American writing from the Civil War to modernism. Works by Dickinson, Alcott, Twain, James, Howells, Jewett, Chopin,  Sui Sin Far, Zitkala-Sa, Crane, Wharton, Dreiser, Du Bois, Johnson, Cather. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:345 Early 20th-Century American Literature (3) Writing by American authors from 1900 to 1945. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:346 Later 20th-Century American Literature (3) Writing by American authors from 1945 to the end of the century. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:347 American Theater and Drama (3) American theatrical traditions from the 18th century to the present, with emphasis on such 20th-century playwrights as O'Neill, Hellman, Williams, Miller, Albee, Hansberry, Wilson, Mamet, and Baraka. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:348 American Women Writers (3) Writing by American women including  Bradstreet, Wheatley, Sedgwick, Wilson, Stowe, Jacobs, Child, Dickinson, Stoddard, Harper, Hopkins, Chopin, Wharton, Cather, Hurston, O'Connor, Le Guin, Angelou and Morrison Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:349 American Autobiography (3) Changing representations of self in narrative form. Readings range from conversion, captivity, and slave narratives, to modern autobiographies and memoirs. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:351 Literatures of the Americas (3) Literatures of the Western Hemisphere from the 19th century to the present.
Prerequisite:  01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:352 Early 20th-Century Literature (3) Writing from 1900 to 1945, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:353 Later 20th-Century Literature (3) Writing from 1945 to the end of the century, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:354 Early 20th-Century Poetry (3) Poetry from 1900 to 1945, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:355 Later 20th-Century Poetry (3) Poetry from 1945 to the end of the century, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:356 Early 20th-Century Theater and Drama (3) Drama from the 1880s to the 1920s in relation to modernism and contemporary social movements. Plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Wilde, Jarry, Glaspell, and others. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:357 Later 20th-Century Theater and Drama (3) Expressionism through the Absurd (1920s through 1960s), in artistic and social contexts. Plays by Pirandello, O'Neill, Brecht, Genet, Beckett, Pinter, Williams, Hansberry, and others. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:358 Early 20th-Century Fiction (3) Fiction from 1900 to 1945, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:360 Later 20th-Century Fiction (3) Fiction from 1945 to the end of the century, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:361 Twentieth-Century Literature in a Global Context (3) Twentieth-century writing in English other than British and American. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:324. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:362 Twentieth-Century Women Writers (3) Twentieth-century writing by women, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:363 Issues and Problems in 20th-Century Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in 20th-century literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:365 Twenty-First-Century Literature (3) Writing from the last 20 years, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:370 Black Narrative (3) Historical and stylistic range of prose forms; slave narratives, folklore, biography and autobiography, short fiction; social, literary, and cultural criticism; Douglass, Du Bois, Toomer, Hurston, and Walker. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:371 Black Poetry (3) History of black American poetry, including the influence of oral traditions; poems by such writers as Wheatley, Dunbar, Hughes, and Brooks. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:372 Black Theater and Drama (3) Work of modern black American playwrights, including Hansberry, Baraka, Baldwin, Bullins, Gordone, Fuller, and Shange. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:373 Black Novel (3) Thematic and structural development of the black novel as a voice for social and political change, including works by Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Marshall, Walker, and Morrison. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:374 Black Autobiography (3) Examination of self-representation by major black autobiographers, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup, Booker T. Washington, Maya Angelou, and Malcolm X. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:375 Nineteenth-Century Black Literature (3) Prominent African-American writers of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and essays of the 19th century, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Wilson, Pauline Hopkins, Charles Chesnutt, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:376 Harlem Renaissance (3) Black literature during the 1920s and 1930s in the context of African-American social and cultural history; essays, poems, and novels by such authors as Cullen, Hughes, Hurston, McKay, and Toomer. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:377 Black Writers and the 1960s (3) Innovations in black literature of the 1960s in light of the tumultuous social, cultural, and political movements of the decade. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:378 Black Music and Literature (3) Thematic and structural influences of black music on American poetry, fiction, and drama; writers may include Sterling Brown, Hughes, Baraka, Cortez, Bambara, Kerouac, Shepard, and August Wilson. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:379 Black Women Writers (3) Fiction and poetry by African-American women such as Brooks, Hurston, Marshall, Morrison, and Alice Walker; discussion of issues of literary influence and comparable traditions. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:380 Literature of the Black World (3) Comparative study of writing in English by African-American, Caribbean, and African authors, including Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Paule Marshall, and Chinua Achebe. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:381 Issues and Problems in Black Literature (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in black literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:383 Issues and Problems in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (3) Study of literature and criticism that explore facets of Western imperial expansion. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:384 Literatures of Migration, Immigration, and Diaspora (3) Writings that feature representations of place, community, and identity in relation to national and international movement and displacement. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:336.  Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:385 Literatures of Africa in English (3) Study of selected literary works from Africa written in English. Topics vary; consult departmental announcement. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:386 Literatures of Asia in English (3) Study of selected literary works from Asia written in English. Topics vary; consult departmental announcement. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:387 Ethnic Literature in the United States (3) Selected literary works by Asian-American, black, Chicano/Chicana, and Native American writers. Topics vary; consult departmental information. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:388 Native American Literatures in English (3) Fiction, poetry, and autobiography by such writers as Apes, Momaday, Welch, Silko, and Erdrich. Attention to issues of Native American representation. Credit not given for both this course and 01:050:376. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:389 Asian-American Literatures in English (3) Theme or genre-based study of selected Asian-American writing in English. Topics chosen by individual instructors; consult departmental announcement. Credit not given for both this course and 01:050:377. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:390 Chicano/Chicana Literature (3) Theme or genre-based study of selected Chicano/Chicana literature; attention to comparative contexts (Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican). Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:391 Irish Writing in English (3) Works of Irish writers in English from 1800 to the present. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:393 Independent Study (3) Individual work on a topic designed by the student in conference with an instructor who directs the project. Prerequisite: Permission of department.
01:358:394 Theater and Drama by Women (3) Selected plays in English by women writers, with emphasis on the study of forms, conventions, and cultural contexts. Topics vary; consult departmental announcement. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:395  Fiction by Women (3) Selected works of fiction in English by women writers, with emphasis on the study of forms, conventions, and cultural contexts. Topics vary; consult departmental announcement. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:396 Poetry by Women (3) Selected poetry in English by women writers, with emphasis on the study of forms, conventions, and cultural contexts. Topics vary; consult departmental announcement. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:398 The English Bible (3) The English Bible, its literary variety, and the evolution of its text. Special attention will be given to problems of interpretation and translation and their Hebrew and Greek origins.
Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent. Credit not given for this course and 01:563:326 or 01:840:387.
01:358:411 Old English Language and Literature (3) Intensive study of the English language and an introduction to its literature. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:412 Seminar: Old English Language and Literature (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of Old English poems, such as Beowulf, and prose writings studied in their original language. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information. Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
01:358:420 Seminar: Chaucer (3) Intensive study of The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and other selected works. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:422 Seminar: Topics in Medieval Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of medieval literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:424 Seminar: Spenser (3) The Faerie Queene, The Shepherd's Calendar, Amoretti, Epithalamion, and selected minor works. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:426 Seminar: Shakespeare (3) Special studies in selected plays and poems. Consult departmental announcement. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:428 Seminar: Milton (3) Special studies in Milton's poetry and prose. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:434 Seminar: Topics in Renaissance Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of Renaissance literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:435 Seminar: Topics in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of 18th-century literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:436 Seminar: Topics in 19th-Century Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of 19th-century literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:437 Seminar: Topics in 20th-Century Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of 20th-century literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:438 Seminar: Topics in 21st-Century Literature (3) Focuses on topics and issues in 21st-century literature of all genres. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:440 Seminar: Topics in Genre (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a particular genre (e.g., pastoral, epic, comedy, and lyric) or relationship among genres. Topics vary; consult departmental information. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:440. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:441 Seminar: Topics in American Literature and Culture to 1800 (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of American literature and culture to 1800. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:442 Seminar: Topics in 19th-Century American Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of 19th-century American literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:445 Seminar: Topics in Black Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of black literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:452 Seminar: Special Topics in American Literature (3) Special studies in particular ideas, themes, forms, and historical units in American literature. Sections designed by individual instructors; consult departmental announcement. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:460 Seminar: Topics in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of colonial and postcolonial literature. Topics vary; consult departmental information. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:491 Seminar: Special Topics in Literature (3) Special studies in particular ideas, themes, forms, and historical units in literature. Sections designed by individual instructors; consult departmental announcement. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:493 Independent Study (3) Individual work on a topic designed by the student in conference with an instructor who directs the project. Prerequisites: Permission of department; 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
01:358:495 Independent Study (BA) Individual work on a topic designed by the student with an instructor who directs the project. Prerequisites: 01:359:201 or 202; English major.
 
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